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First clue would be it’s a Farmall A. Unless it’s a museum quality restoration why would anyone steal a Farmall A? (Just kidding. There’s a H in the stall right beside my Kubota.) Seriously, if you can find the serial number, law enforcement checking it against NCIC database is still about the...

You can use sites such as Spokeo, Intellius, etc. or even the pay to play part of White Pages or US Phone Book, and get most cell numbers and unlisted numbers (and enough other stuff that it’s kind of disconcerting). Downside is you’ll pay for it.

With a tractor if you have the serial number you can check UCC for liens (not likely in your case) and check with law enforcement to see if it’s listed stolen (also not likely in your case). Past that you have two paths: 1) a genealogy type search through the chain of custody back to the...

Thanks. That’s the most comprehensive explanation of dpf I’ve seen anywhere and considering the source is, as best I recall from other posts, a retired service tech very helpful. I don’t know near what lugbolt does, but I can attest while running a chipper stationary at 540 PTO rpm, which is...

Useful free sites in this category are a lot harder to find than they used to be and they’ll only give you listed phone lines. For that, I’ve found https://www.usphonebook.com/ to work most of the time. If you want unlisted or cell numbers you’ll be paying. If I’m wrong about that I’d love for...

A A few photos of my tractor. The V number is stamped on the transmission. That’s the serial number for the transmission, NOT the tractor. The thing with the bar codes is pretty easily faked and replaced if you know where to go to get it or spend the time to make replacements yourself which...

Checking UCC for liens (which you did) is great. That at least gives you some reasonable confidence there’s no outstanding lien and that’s very important. The other question, “Is it stolen?” You need the serial number. Every tractor or piece of equipment has a serial number unless it’s REALLY...

I think you made a good call regardless of price. I deal with stolen farm and construction equipment in my job. Not as a thief or buyer but in a different role. No way I would have considered buying it even if I lived next door to a dealer that stocked every part on it. As you know, there is no...

We’ve had similar experience with the flapper cap durability and jingling at low rpm on our vertical stack machines. For the occasional parking outside an old soup can on the stack will keep rain out. About half the time I forget to take it off before cranking, blow it about 8’ in the air, and...

That’s both true and a great example of the forces involved. If you look at a dozer, the attachment point for the blade is as low as practical to avoid this exact issue.

It’s just physics. Float is great for back dragging. However, going forward the bucket is lower than the loader mount on the tractor so if the bucket meets with resistance, the tendency of the tractor is to run over the top of the bucket. In float, the only force preventing that “run over”...

Glad your tractor is functional again with no real damage!

Pics are helpful even though they don’t show the stand / bucket end. You have a WAY different system than mine when it comes to comes to the stand arms, so ignore everything I said about stand arms. I did see a video on how yours works: Someone who has used this newer, fancier than mine style...

Agree with Gallows. If you want opinions on what went wrong and how to avoid, a few pics before you remove it would help a lot. Only two things come to mind without pics: 1) When you put the stand arms down they lock into a pin welded on the loader arm that you put a hairpin in to make sure it...

Long time ago I ran a commercial tow behind. Don’t recall the brand. Recall it was big, white, had a 110hp JD diesel and would chip a 12” log. Now have a Woodland Mills WC68. Only differences between them is size and one goes behind a CUT and the other behind a ton and a half dump truck (at...

Looking at pictures on Google it looks like your LA535 uses the same socket on the bottom, pin on top system my LA765 does. I’ve had mine off and on probably 8 to 10 times because I have to take it off to mow some places. First time, I read the instructions, watched about 5 different videos...

It does take a little time to get good enough with it to get its full capabilities out of it. I’m a lot better with mine than I was to begin with (if I rip up the ground now I probably meant to) but I had no experience with a real loader and it’s an incredibly useful implement immediately...

Thank you! That looks exactly like what I want on mine. Looks great. If the floor plate isn’t a total PITA to pul on my L I hope to have it done during the off season this winter.

Thanks for pointing out the 23 degree thing. I’ve been in the habit of waiting for the glow plug light to go out before cranking. If the engine is already hot sometimes that’s about 1 second but I’ve always waited. Although I’ve read the owner manual cover to cover at least a couple of times...

You might try seeing if you can get a Pat’s quick hitch or something similar for the lift arms. Whether you can do that or not would depend on the actual dimensions of the lift arms. That would give you the CAT 1 pin diameter and keep you from having to spread the arms past the pins for...