Irregular planter performance results in inaccurate seed depth, seeds at the soil surface, open seed slots, compacted soil on top of the seeds, hair pinning, sidewall compaction, etc. To avoid planting problems, you need to regularly check that your equipment is working correctly and make adjustments accordingly.
To help keep your tractor running properly, we've compiled a list of some tips to keep your tractor working longer.
Proper maintenance of farming equipment ensures maximum productivity while minimizing downtime and unforeseen incidents.
But safety and productivity do not come as a stroke of luck. A keen understanding of each piece of equipment, plus proper and timely maintenance, are of utmost importance if you wish to achieve the goals of productivity and safety.
If you own a disc harrow, here are a few important things to remember.
Routine maintenance will save money and time and ensure your combine will run well now and in future harvest seasons. Check out our maintenance checklist to keep your combine in excellent running order.
You’ve come to rely on your tractor and being without it is a great inconvenience. You’d all like to avoid losing the use of your tractor and can do so by performing essential maintenance.
Avoid unexpected downtime by following these steps to help keep your baler running smoothly all season.
By sticking to a consistent maintenance schedule and using your skid steer equipment as intended, you can extend its life and avoid unwanted downtime and the associated costs.
Like most farm equipment, you should assess several components of a skid steer before and after using it. A checklist can help you create a defined process for examining your machine. Follow this checklist for effective skid steer maintenance.
Buried somewhere beneath the sheetmetal, under the gas tank, or stuffed in front of the radiator is the battery. This elusive and neglected component of the tractor is the hardest to get to when it is dead and in need of a jump. But usually, the storage battery is a storehouse of electrical energy waiting to be released a the flick of a switch. A few maintenance tips and periodic cleaning will keep it charged for the duration of its life span.
Our tractor is coming right along. The old oil and filter has been taken to the recycler and the air filter replacement has breathed new life into our motor. Let's take a closer look, now, at the cooling system since it has to work so hard in the summer heat.
In the preceding articles we discussed some of the various aspects of doing a comprehensive tune up. Hopefully some light was shed on why we do or don't do certain things pertaining to inspections and order of events when doing a tune up. Perhaps some useful reasons were given for why parts fail and what to do about preventing part failure in the future. All these tips will help us think and reason out a problem in order to make our tune up last and, hopefully, keep us from spending extra money.
