They don't make batterys like this in Ireland

pajero12 · 02-12-2010 05:14PM #1

After jump starting my uncle this moring after he ran down the battery trying to start the tractor, I was browsing youtube and came across this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCeIkfnVs4o
Over 45 seconds turning it over and no sign of the battery dying,Our tractors wouldnt last half that :rolleyes:

LimerickDan · 02-12-2010 05:52PM

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blue5000 · 02-12-2010 06:05PM

White as snow here too, but I'm guessing it was a john deere battery starting a tractor in Canada?

djmc · 02-12-2010 07:42PM

you can get whats called a deep cycle battery but they cost about 400 or 500 euros they hold a lot more power they would be used in a funeral herse
or maybe a boat stuff that you really need to start
not much point looking for a set of jump leads stuck out in the atlantic.
A good truck battery will even hold a good bit of power if it will fit in the tractor

royaler83 · 02-12-2010 08:52PM

This would do a lads heart good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NqzHq6-TE

vanderbadger · 02-12-2010 09:20PM

they dont make them like this anymore either..sorry totally unrelated to the thread but under water for nearly 60 years and still started apparently
http://www.vincelewis.net/t34.html

Muckit · 02-12-2010 11:08PM

djmc wrote: »

you can get whats called a deep cycle battery but they cost about 400 or 500 euros they hold a lot more power they would be used in a funeral herse
or maybe a boat stuff that you really need to start
not much point looking for a set of jump leads stuck out in the atlantic.
A good truck battery will even hold a good bit of power if it will fit in the tractor

Ya deep cycle batteries are the business;) Had an exide maximma DC900 in my last car, cost me €180 though. You haven't any wet cells to worry about in cold weather and good cranking power.

pajero12 · 02-12-2010 11:59PM

djmc wrote: »

you can get whats called a deep cycle battery but they cost about 400 or 500 euros they hold a lot more power they would be used in a funeral herse
or maybe a boat stuff that you really need to start
not much point looking for a set of jump leads stuck out in the atlantic.
A good truck battery will even hold a good bit of power if it will fit in the tractor

Does a hearse have a stronger battery? Why?

towzer2010 · 03-12-2010 10:27AM

pajero12 wrote: »

Does a hearse have a stronger battery? Why?

Because its the last battery to let you down....:D:D

djmc · 03-12-2010 10:55AM

pajero12 wrote: »

Does a hearse have a stronger battery? Why?

I suppose it wouldnt be good for buisness if the under taker was late for funerals because the herse wouldent start or if they couldnt leave the church

Ford4000 · 03-12-2010 08:47PM

royaler83 wrote: »

This would do a lads heart good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NqzHq6-TE

Never saw a 3cyl 35 as hard t start as that !!

denis086 · 04-12-2010 10:01PM

That first link of the mxu isnt all that bad none of those mxus are easy to start :rolleyes: I bless my self every day i hop into ours this weather

And she hasnt put up 100hrs since he last service and only 2000hrs on her :mad:
Then again what ever you wrap $**te in its still $**t id hate to have it when it has as much work done as the old mf 165 that kicks its ass every morning

pajero12 · 04-12-2010 11:04PM

denis086 wrote: »

That first link of the mxu isnt all that bad none of those mxus are easy to start :rolleyes: I bless my self every day i hop into ours this weather And she hasnt put up 100hrs since he last service and only 2000hrs on her :mad:
Then again what ever you wrap $**te in its still $**t id hate to have it when it has as much work done as the old mf 165 that kicks its ass every morning

They are nice tractors though,do you have the sle gearbox?

Stinicker · 06-12-2010 09:30PM

Those old 35's are great machines, My father had his fully restored 4 years ago and it is stored indoors. Anyway the other day we decided to try and start it despite the battery being half flat, it gave some dying groans as it was turning over and next thing fired to life, the tractor is nearly 50 years old and started first turn on a flat battery in -8c weather!! I reckon it will be still running in another 50 years time no problem.

Brilliant machine especially comparing it to a pos international we also have that the last time we tried to start it in very warm weather I set fire to the air filter by trying to feed warm air (gas torch) into the engine despite it being 25c, half a can of eazy start later and two batteries and three powerpacks flattened and it fired up, what a nightmare!!

denis086 · 06-12-2010 09:53PM

We have the mxu135 havent seen any with a manual gearbox so i presume your on about the powershift gearbox?
Nice tractor to drive when everything working as it should be which isnt often and theres always something to annoy you we could probably trace 50% of these problems back to a certain case mechanics work but the rest is just down to poor quality/design. And the cab suspension is rubbish the benefits of front suspension (but isnt isolated to case). If it hadnt been sat in the dealers yard we wouldnt have specced it we thought of getting it converted back to just rubber blocks but its has cost us enough just fixing what broken and im sure if we sent it to the dealers theyd spend long enough looking at it wondering how to do it and charge for it that it would justify a replacement like all their other repairs :mad:. When they told us after doing the brakes that "weve never seen that happen before" that really pi$$ed us off knowing full well there was a tractor form that dealers yard after having its brakes done twice at that stage and again since and is only a farmers machine.
Theres plenty of owners of them locally that weve spoken with that arent all too happy with their machines :mad: (all farmers who just keep work in house no contractors machines)
At least ursus or zetor when they were troublesome they cost nothing to fix and could be done onsite or by ourselves and maybe thats why you got a toolset with them

We were lucky to get acouple of overalls with the case

They don't make batterys like this in Ireland

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