of coarse I'm sure. I own one and its apparent. And I'm sure its readily researched altho I have no real desire to wallow in it.
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What did you do in your shop today?
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I spent the day at my weekly art fair and came home to some materials to be turned into inventory.
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Don't say, is it xmas already?
On the TC series, axles, engine and transmissions are made by Shibaura in Japan and shipped separately to New Holland assembly plant in Georgia. There, the drive lines were assembled and US sourced wheels, tires, bodywork and wiring were installed.
The New Holland plant in China produced machines strictly for the Asian market.
I've owned that tractor for over 10 yrs and while its possible you are right, I am not sure about that. I do know it has titan tires and rims on it, which are supposedly US made. What I can say is if it isn't a China job it sure missed a good chance to be one. I have an older 955 JD I keep at the farm and that gets worked 4 times harder and has quite a few more hours on it, with absolutely no issues. No comparison in quality whatsoever.
sorry to hear you don't like your Boomer. They've been a very good machine for us, with a high customer satisfaction. If you were in our territory, I'd be making sure you liked it.
Oops Brink, I had no idea you were a dealer or I sure wouldn't be putting them down. But I'm glad I know now, so I can fire questions past you. The dealer I go to doesn't seem too knowledgable about them as they mainly sell big iron and not very many small tractors like this. Its one of the early ones from around 2000 and I'm sure that's half of why they don't seem to know a lot. Their dealership or sales force is good, but the techs keep rolling over. Their partsman is real good too, but I have to do the diagnostics...lol
I'm a Ford/ New Holland mechanic over 32 years. I'm shop foreman now, can cover the entire NH line, Kubota, Kawaski wheel loaders, Kobelco, Doosan, Fiat-Allis, and a ton of short lines.
Great Looking Lot there. What's that orange 4WD under the power poles? I have'nt seen any like that around here.
It's a Doosan. Formerly Daewoo
Spent my day working on some stamp casting, Still refining my process. Folks are looking at my output and perfectly happy with it but I know I can get closer to the ideal finished product I have in my head. Got three different things ready to cast on Friday so I can figure out which one will be the final process.
Been in this new space for a while. Finally got pretty much organized. Since the place was clean. Shot a few pictures. Made this table saw cabinet for the cheap little table saw, and it functions quite well. I had an old Incra Jig fence that I re-purposed as a table saw fence replacing the crappy one that came with saw and it is really spot on. Also built a sliding table for small panels.
http://i1161.Rule #2/albums/q509/neil33ny/saw%20cabinet%20638x800_zpsirxw5tym.jpg
Home made cyclone dust separator.
http://i1161.Rule #2/albums/q509/neil33ny/saw%20cabinet%204_zpsuiy3x18r.jpg
Also got my sticker wall started. If any of you guys have stickers PM me, would like to swap with you.
http://i1161.Rule #2/albums/q509/neil33ny/saw%20cabinet%202%20600x800_zpswbzkxeeh.jpg
http://i1161.Rule #2/albums/q509/neil33ny/saw%20cabinet%20638x800_zpsirxw5tym.jpg
Home made cyclone dust separator.
http://i1161.Rule #2/albums/q509/neil33ny/saw%20cabinet%204_zpsuiy3x18r.jpg
Also got my sticker wall started. If any of you guys have stickers PM me, would like to swap with you.
http://i1161.Rule #2/albums/q509/neil33ny/saw%20cabinet%202%20600x800_zpswbzkxeeh.jpg
I had lost 2 whole notebooks of stickers (hundreds of them) dating back from the early 70's when I started collecting them as a yute. There were nearly 400 in the 2 books. I used to remember exactly how many I had I believe the number was 389 but no longer certain on that. Many of them, at least half, were old racing and performance parts manufacturers stickers that were always super cool. They were stolen along with hundreds and hundreds of irreplaceable items such as my dughter's fisrt lock of hair from her first haircut which I gave her, a ring Terry gave me in high school, all kinds of stuff like old photos. There bad juju for the sum bitch that did that to me. All they did was break into someone's (mine) storage locker and threw boxes of stuff into their trucl/car/van and went through it later. They got a couple hundred minti condition LP's all in static sleeves and jacket protectors.
I guess the short answer is no, I don't have any stickers to trade unfortunately.
When I was a kid, my dad was a mechanic and I had all kinds of racing and auto parts stickers as well. He was the Fleet Supervisor for a beer company, so I had plenty of those too. Don't think I have any now though, sorry Neil! Tony
I actually got to work with wood for the first time in way too long. Worked on my wooden knife which I've been itching to do. Glued up 2 small laminated pieces to make wedding rings for some friends. They have hit some hard times and really can't afford rings and the wife to be really like other things Ive done. So Jamaican Dogwood on both side with a very thin strip of Cocobolo with grain running vert to the Jd's horizontal for strength at least in my mind. Worked on a small Chinaberry box I started eons ago. Then I discovered a Jamaican Dogwood log in my stash that I didn't know was there. Super nice even has some black line spalt in a couple pieces plus a little curl.... A couple are Peppermill size and then some boards dimensioned for me to do flatwork down the road. I feel good.... with JB's music!
I made a new mailbox for us. Still need to carve a horse head for the pull.
Are you going to do a self portrait of yourself for it?
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Never mind...wrong end....
I don't see where that box has been approved by the USPS....
Don that actually looks good. Nice....