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Equipment Hub: Keeping compact tractors in top shape

May 6, 2020
Angie Ryan
Compact tractors are do-it-all workhorses on the farm. They load material, grade roads, prepare the soil for planting, help in the barn and more.
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Equipment Hub: Actuator stalling

April 17, 2020
Mike Seckinger
Note: This information applies specifically to the New Holland BR Series balers. Actuator stalling can occur when inserting the duckbill or on retraction of the duckbill.
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Test your farm machinery knowledge with this toolbox test

March 31, 2020
Ray Bohacz

Are you mechanically inclined? Most farmers know how to fix their equipment, but do you know how to diagnose why things break down? Everyone at the coffee shop will offer you an opinion. But who is right?


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Equipment Hub: Failure to cut the net

March 11, 2020
Mike Seckinger
Note: This information applies specifically to the New Holland BR Series balers. Most net issues are mechanical in nature. The two most common causes are dull knives and insufficient brake tension against the roll of net.
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Equipment Hub: Looking for trouble

February 24, 2020
Andy Overbay
Looking for trouble can be a bad thing. Actually, it can be a terrible thing if you are out looking for trouble and actually find it.
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Equipment Hub: The Great Jacket Pocket Fire (and other welding issues)

February 7, 2020
Andy Overbay
They say experience is the best teacher, but is it? How many of you would recognize a rattlesnake if you encountered one? If experience is the best teacher, the only way you would know to leave that rascal alone would be to let it bite you, but that isn’t too wise, is it?
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Equipment Hub: The pickup toolbox

October 18, 2019
Brad Nelson
At one end of the scale there’s the gargantuan service truck. It has more neat stuff on board than most people have in their shop.
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Equipment Hub: Leverage the latest in late cutting

September 11, 2019
Jim Franceschetti
One of the top storylines for the 2019 crop season is the weather-related delays that have impacted much of the country.
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Equipment Hub: Physical mixer inspection

August 23, 2019
Ed Jackman
One of the jobs I enjoyed most as I traveled throughout eastern North America was visiting customers. These visits helped me to understand better how they were using their mixers, and on almost every visit I left with new knowledge I could share with others down the road.
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Equipment Hub: The lowly (but oh so necessary) hand tool

July 19, 2019
Andy Overbay
Often when we think about putting time into proper operation, maintenance and tool safety, our thoughts turn to the expensive power tools at our disposal.
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