Greetings All and a M8950DT question

[Tim Steele]

Greetings to all and thank Y'All for having me on the forum. I have a Kubota M8950 DT that Daddy bought new with a loader, bucket, hay spear and a v blade setup for the loader for plowing snow. Daddy even though he was a John Deere man through and through bought the Kubota and a Deutz D7807C which I also still have. We use the Deutz mostly for raking hay.
The Kubota is the strongest tractor on the place and I use it daily to keep the hours off of the John Deeres. (6400 and 2755 models) as we use them to cut and bale hay for my beef cattle farm.
The Kubota serves me well and I use it more than the other 3 by a large margin. It runs perfect, starts no matter how cold it is and pulls whatever you put behind it.
One problem. When bushogging or hay cutting it pukes hydraulic fluid out of the fill tube. Not a lot just enough to make a mess. I have verified the vent on top of the housing is open and replaced the vented cap per the dealer. Still doing it?

 

[mickeyd]

Welcome to the OTT forum Tim. We are very happy that you joined with us.
Is your JD6400 the 94Hp or the 100Hp?
Did your father ever say why he got the Orange?

Sorry, I can't help with your problem but I bet someone will be able to.

 

[Tim Steele]

Hey Mike thanks for the welcome. I think the 6400 is rated at 85 if memory serves. Daddy was a lime and fertilizer vendor here in the Shenandoah Valley for 30 years and farmed as well. I think at the time he bought the Kubota because it was a little cheaper than a John Deere. In his later years he used it very little. When I came home in 08 to help him on the farm it was parked in the field with a dead battery. He would shoot it with ether and drift it off a hillside to start it when they used it to unload hay from our converted school bus. I put a new battery and water pump in it and serviced it and have been using it since. It is louder and.not as comfortable as the John Deeres or the Deutz ( they all have full cabs and AC) I also have been slowly changing out all the loader hoses as they were rotten and kept plugging up the $36 a pop hydraulic filter...But like I said it is the strongest tractor on the place and I use it every day. It doesnt use any oil and unlike the 6400 it will start no matter how cold it is outside. I see from your signature you are retired USAF. So am I. 1976 to 2001, 24 years, 8 months and 17 days. I started out as an F4 and then F15 crew chief, then cross-trained at 17 years in service to C-130E Flight Engineer and then laterally retrained to Spec Ops MC-130P Flight Engineer until I retired....

 

[mickeyd]

Well, I am glad that you saved it from being ignored. Yes, if it sat outside all that time, then all the hoses would have to be replaced.

I started out as a Crew Chief on C-130's, "B" models mostly. While in Vietnam, our bird was selected to fly Bob Hope and the cast of his Christmas tour in 1969. We had to paint the bird Black, inside and out. We picked him up in Taiwan and made nine stops in Nam before dropping him off at Clark AFB in the Philippines. Being the Crew Chief and having to make sure that the bird was ready to go for the next stop, I did not get to see any of his shows until they sent us an uncut copy of all the film that they had recorded during the tour. After Vietnam, I cross trained into the computer field and worked on many special assignment, like the Russian shoot down of KAL 007, since we had to defend the USA in court.

Thanks for your service. You got me beat on total service since I only got 22 years 8 months.