Dad was gonna start hauling manure today and didn't even get one load out. He was in the field but not running yet, and he went through a trench I dug with the loader back in the spring to drain a hole.
The drawbar on the 285 just plain snapped off. No warning, no fatigue marks, just snapped off at a hole before the drop.
He wasted the rest of the day tracking down a new (used) one, only to discover that our loacal dealer had about 30 on a skid that they scrapped out not too long ago. He went to the bone yard and got one with a 2" drop (ours was a 4" drop) out of a 1085. They took it off the tractor while it was there, and it had MF written on it in paint marker so it was purchased from a junk yard before. Makes it the 3rd tractor this drawbar is going on...
Just glad the drawbar didn't decide to snap on the road while hauling loads of corn silage...
Donovan from Wisconsin
The drawbar on the 285 just plain snapped off. No warning, no fatigue marks, just snapped off at a hole before the drop.
He wasted the rest of the day tracking down a new (used) one, only to discover that our loacal dealer had about 30 on a skid that they scrapped out not too long ago. He went to the bone yard and got one with a 2" drop (ours was a 4" drop) out of a 1085. They took it off the tractor while it was there, and it had MF written on it in paint marker so it was purchased from a junk yard before. Makes it the 3rd tractor this drawbar is going on...
Just glad the drawbar didn't decide to snap on the road while hauling loads of corn silage...
Donovan from Wisconsin