Probable shift pattern

R 2

1 3

or

2 R

1 3

My Massey-Ferguson has the first one; it and the Ford are basically clones. You will figure it out easily enough. The max speed in 3rd is around 10 mph. First gear is more like 2 mph with the throttle wide open. It isn't anything like a car.

No shift-on-the-fly, but you can start out in any gear. Just try not to pop the clutch. The other thing to be careful about is starting out up a hill. If the angle is just right and you pop the clutch you could wind up with the tractor front end coming up and over instead of the wheels turning. That would be bad.

#19....+1

Newholland Rocks!

I moved a load of hay with the TN65 yesterday.

Mine has a 40oz holder!

So you're home?

00Camper (#21), thanks for the info. You'd think the pattern would be stamped in the metal near the stick, but I don't recall seeing it. Thanks for the headsup on the front end coming up...never would've crossed my mind. I'll take it slow...real slow. I'd rather stall (or bog) the thing before trying to race it off the line. I'll keep it on flat ground as much as possible....keep the rubberside down.

Dave,

I learned from experience. I was using my tractor to pull fence posts. The lift did a great job for all but one. So, I decided to try and loosen it up by pulling the tractor forward. No go. The rear wheels dug into the ground and the front end was almost 2 feet off the ground before I could hit the clutch. Friends had warned me, but you know how that goes. Scared the @#$% out of me. Lesson learned.

Try taking a scrub brush to the transmission housing around the shift lever. The pattern is there. On my tractor it is molded into the steel around the shifter, but very low relief.

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Will do. As you can see, there is quite a bit of grease/grime on there. 🙂

You can't hurt it. The steel there is about 3/4 of an inch thick. Of course, it is the tractor's frame.

be sure to get a padded seat cover

I didn't get a chance to take the tractor out yesterday. Instead, me and my bro-in-law spent 3 - 3.5 hours cutting grass and trimming...O-M-G...that's a lot of yardwork. After that we decided to take it easy, smoke a cigar, and shoot some guns. Of course, I had to start the day off on a good note by pulling out my garage...with the hatch open on my Grand Cherokee, thereby damaging the garage door, and royally screwing over the garage door rails/tracks, rendering it useless. The good news is that my Jeep came out relatively unscathed, as it just cracked a little piece off the rear wiper. Stupid me...I'd already pulled out of the garage another time and remembered to close the hatch. The 2nd time I had to move so the wife could back out of the garage.

Maybe that was fate. Now you have time and a good reason to stay at farm longer and grill and smoke cigars. 🙂

Charlie, bluedevil and myself will be there soon. LOL

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You're more than welcome to come out sometime...

just toss a weed whacker, hedge trimmer, or push mower in your vehicle before heading out. LOL ...lotta work to do. 🙂

Battery was dead so I couldn't take it out on Saturday. Might be selling this tractor for something a little newer/modern (read "safer").

00camper, in this pic you can see one of the "fill plugs," just left of the shifter and the starter button (which is no longer functional). There are 2 more fill plugs like this. One under the seat (not seen in this pic) and one behind the seat, over the axle. This fill plug was easy to open. The other two were impossible with just an adjustable wrench (we did not have any sockets or open/box end wrenches with us).

Regarding a hydraulic connector, if you look real close, just under the seat where your right leg would be, there is the part I was referring to that the neighbor said could be for hooking up a hydraulic line...I'll look for other pics I posted that may show it better.

Yeah. The hyd connections are under the seat. That the second and third plugs were impossible to open with an adjustible wrench while the one in front was easy says a lot.

I still think the trans and hyd are using a common pool of oil. You can check easily after you get one of the other plugs open by shining a flashlight into the front opening and watching the other one.

You could also leave the front drain open to see how much oil comes out. I would do that anyway to be sure there isn't any water, or other contaminants, in the system. If it is a common pool you should get about 8 gallons.

The fact that there is only one dipstick also suggests that there is a common pool. You mentioned that it appeared to be "overfilled". Unlike an engine crankcase, as long as there is room for the oil to expand when it warms up, there is no problem with the level being above the dipstick "full" mark. Your I&T shop manual will tell you what the tolerances are. Mine says I have a +/- of about 3 gallons so that hydrolic add-ons will not drain the system below what is needed for the transmission.

9n brake pedals are on both sides in front of the back wheels