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SE MN | I can not answer all your questions. I purchased a T4.105 with the loader last fall, I have around 100 hours on it now, no problems. I am putting more hours on it now being spring time Much nicer than the tractor it replaced, which was a 6080 Allis. Really like the cab on it, nice to operate. The radio speakers are awful on it and the cab entrance steps took me some getting used too. The heating and A/C system is very nice. The buddy seat is awesome to have, my kids love to ride with me and it is so much nicer to have them buckled in. It always started really well over the winter even in the cold. I use it for feeding cows over the winter, cut hay with a discbine, ran a round baler and hauled lots of manure this spring. I pulled a 20' Krause disc with it last fall and a little this spring, that is about all she wants but pulls it surprisingly well for the tractor size. I will not use it for that much unless I have too. I have been very impressed with the fuel consumption, especially when I was running the discbine, it exceeded my expectations, I had it calculated last fall, I do not remember exactly what it was, but it was under 2 gals an hour.
When I did the 50 hour service I found out how much of a pain in the rear it is to change oil on, just to get to the oil filter is a pain. Part of the problem is the loader, but it does not seem like it was thought out very well to actually change the filters on. The second time I change oil on will go better since I know what to expect. The fuel filters appear to be a bear also, I did not change them at the 50 hour because it was winter and did not want to remove the loader at that time. They will be changed as soon as the loader comes off in the coming weeks.
It does have tier IV emissions, but does not use DEF. Basically between 40-50 hours it did its first regen, there is a beep and a icon on the dash pops up showing the regen symbol saying "ON", it does this every 5 minutes for as long as it regens. I have not had it go for longer than 10 minutes, usually around 7-8 minutes it runs. I do not notice a difference in engine performance at all, this spring I had the windows cracked open and I could hear a difference in the engine tone until the regen cycle stopped. Since the first regen, it seems to have regened 3 or 4 more times since. It has been very unintrusive so far; fingers crossed on that front. The book says something like at 3,000 hours the exhaust filter needs to be serviced or exchanged.
Overall I would purchase the tractor again, the tractor size seems to fit my operation well. | |
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