We are all very grateful that his family has kept all his videos for us all to refer to. He loved his John Deere tractors and always have great advice and wonderful ideas
It will be interesting to see this in action. I will be looking forward to it. By the way we just cane off of 3 days of generator life. Made me start looking at a cummins whole house unit lol
That looks like a Cat 0 3 point, or is it just the camera. I thought the 455 is when JD went to the Cat 1/ I have a 430 Diesel that I think is physically heavier than the 455 and I get really frustrated looking for Implements. I just restored the tractor and I almost fabricated a Cat 1 3 point. Now I'm glad I didnt! I'm only going to use a box blade and a rake on the back and looking at this rake I think I am going to buy a Cat 0 receiver, cut off all the cat one attachment pieces on the implements and weld a 2" square tube on them. I'm still deciding on Fabbing a FEL or buying the Little Buck and running a brace from the top mounts down to the frame and welding 90 degree sides on the bucket. I have blueprints and a detailed parts list to build a full blown FEL for less money and I cant do anything till the fall now dirt work wise, I'm just tired of working on the tractor! lol I am really glad you posted this, you may have saved me on my 3 point! Thank you!
Yes, that is a cat 0. It can handle a cat 1 and all my implements are cat 1. I have often thought of switching the lift arms to cat to save re-pinning the implements. However, I just found some great cat 1 to cat 0 pins which are a big help (I show them in my first boom pole vid). Nice if you can build your own FEL, otherwise the LBL is the way to go for price/performance...
I actually do have a video showing it in use. It was posted 4 months ago - "Plowing with John Deere 445 with Middle Buster and Rake..." It works well, check it out.
