[AT] Actual tractor content - New Holland TC33D

Stephen Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 05:39:58 PST 2015


Jim and I are both in the general Boston region although he's actually
quite a bit closer than me.  I'm roughly between Providence, Hartford, and
Worcester.  I live at a locally higher elevation and typically get
significantly more snow than Providence, not quite as much as Worcester.
This year, the city of Boston and immediate outskirts ended up in the
bullseye of a couple big storms by sheer chance, and thus their totals
racked up very quickly, and they are now only a few inches from an alltime
record.  I've measured/calculated/approximated over 80" at my house.  The
cold has also been exceptional (with apologies to Ralph in Sask!) at least
relative to our region.  This has meant the snow has hung around and piled
up, whereas in normal winters we typically get brief warmups that take away
some of the accumulation.  That simply hasn't happened this year, at least
up until a day or two ago.  Still a good 30" in my back yard.

Antique tractor content!  I've got a '58 JD440C bulldozer that's a pretty
decent runner.  One of these days I am facing the major project of
replacing steering clutches and brakes - the right side is still functional
but much worse than the left, so I try to do most of my steering with the
left in order to preserve the right (you can do this if you plan
carefully... you must use reverse and the left clutch/brake to rotate the
machine to the right).  Jim did this with his TD-9 if I remember
correctly.  Rather than wear, I think one  side of his machine was stuck
solid.

The 440C is a small machine, a member of the lineage that goes MC, 40C,
420C, 430C, 440C, and then to the 1010.  I think it has about 25HP,
vertical two-cylinder.  Weight with dozer blade is about 3.5 tons.  But it
can push some snow!  The blade has angle capability but I discovered this
winter that it really likes to push straight ahead.  WIth blade angled,
there's a sideways force trying to push the front end sideways, and the
grousers have little traction going sideways.  It becomes necessary to make
almost constant steering corrections to keep the front end going straight
ahead, but, that doesn't work because you're declutching one side which
cuts traction in half and the other track just spins.  But boy is it a lot
of fun to just push straight ahead and make big piles!

SO


On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> Jim
> Talking about snow; on the news a couple days ago someone in Rehoboth, MA
> had
> a large barn roof collapse from too much snow.   And Boston's accumulation
> this season exceeded the 100"number, nearing a new record.  You folks have
> had more than your share. We have had a few inches of snow, BUT one ice
> storm;  I will take the snow any day.  We will have at least forty hours
> cleaning up downed  branches and burning them in our pasture.  Fortunately,
> we lost only one nice bush from falling branches.  Many neighbors lost
> entire
> trees. Herb(GA)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Thomson
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 6:27 AM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: Re: [AT] Actual tractor content - New Holland TC33D
>
> I have had a couple snow plow rigs over the years. One of the best was a
> Farmall Super H that someone had adapted a Fast Hitch to. The tractor had
> live hydraulics too. I rigged up an old DPW plow to the rear and plowed in
> reverse. It was the best solution I had at the time and it kept my drive
> clear for a couple seasons. I sold this tractor after a couple years of use
> and didn't have a plow tractor. I had my pickup truck and my wife had a
> Subaru Outback so making it up the small hill was not a problem. We were
> hosting Christmas day one year when we had a large snowfall. I tried to get
> a snowplow over on Christmas morning with no takers. I told my wife I was
> firing up the TD9 crawler. This tractor had the start on gas then switch to
> diesel system. I was loud and blowing lots of white smoke at first. I
> backed
> the tractor to the end of the driveway and dropped the blade. The tractor
> didn't even work up a sweat. As a side benefit, it took all of the rocks
> out
> of the gravel driveway and left it very smooth. As soon as I got inside my
> neighbor called and drive the crawler down the street on plow their
> driveway!
>
> My current plow tractor is a Cub Cadet 122. It did surprisingly well with
> the large amounts of snow we have had. My technique was to angle the blade
> to either side and make a break through path. I would keep this up until I
> had a decent size pathway and then flip the blade over to the other side.
> This was a little bit of work but it beats shoveling the driveway. For only
> 12 HP it did OK and it is going to stay around for a while.
>
> Jim Thomson
> Rehoboth, MA 02769
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Spencer Yost
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 8:03 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Actual tractor content - New Holland TC33D
>
> Caution:   Southerner talking about plowing snow.  Take with a grain of
> salt:
>
> I start in the middle, throw to the right, and don't change plowing
> direction for the next lane.   In other words I dead-head back up to the
> top
> and repeat till I hit the edge of the road.  Then I start at the bottom and
> repeat.  Opening the first lane is the hardest.  After that I can keep the
> left tires in the cleared lanes.
>
> Having said that, after two passes in big storms the windrow of snow on the
> right can be too hard to move and often the left tires just don't have
> enough traction, even applying the right brake.  I have to go backwards
> then.  Fortunately that is rare here in NC.  Going backwards is handy for
> short runs too.
>
> BTW I have to clear a quarter mile of paved rd that has to be plowed wide
> enough to handle opposing traffic.
>
> Spencer
>
> > On Mar 4, 2015, at 18:35, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve
> > I have a back blade that I use to plow our drive way and I pull the snow
> > drive forward not reverse, works for me.
> >
> > Mike M
> >
> >> On 3/3/2015 9:27 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> >>
> >>   I have 1100' of driveway as of last summer when we bought an
> >> investment property next door, and I went straight to the local dealer
> for
> >> a Worksaver bucket-clamp snowplow since I was very sick of snowplowing
> in
> >> reverse with my old Woods 3-pt back blade.  I still use the Woods along
> >> with the new Worksaver up front.  Very handy setup.  Now, what I need is
> >> MORE POWER.  Trying to deal with snowfalls measured in feet, not inches,
> >> does not stop this machine but it most certainly slows it down.
> >>
> >> Oh and for the record, reliability has been flawless.  Purchased used 16
> >> years ago with 396 hours, it now is creeping up on 1200 hours and
> nothing,
> >> I mean nothing, has gone wrong.
> >>
> >> SO
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:27 PM, George Crawford
> <g.crawford1313 at yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Nice looking tractor.  Mines a bit older and smaller, 1982 Ford 1500.
> >>> I've had great luck on ebay looking for manuals and parts.  Just plug
> in
> >>> what you are looking for. Since yours is a newer tractor I would expect
> >>> manuals, parts and support to be readily available.  Also, if you have
> a
> >>> New Holland dealer in the area they more than likely can help you.
> Mine
> >>> came with a backhoe and I've collected a lot of implements I seldom
> use,
> >>> but are nice to have.  A landscape rake  seems to be the next priority
> for
> >>> my five acre "ranch".  Just wish I'd had all this earlier when energy
> was
> >>> more abundant on my part.good luck.  george
> >>>
> >>>      On Monday, March 2, 2015 6:48 PM, Dave Rotigel <rotigel at me.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  Hi David See:
> >>>
>
> https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q
> =new%20holland%20-%20tc33d%20manual
> >>> Google is your friend!
> >>>     Dave
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:15 PM, David Bruce wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> After a couple of years looking I found a subcompact frame tractor in
> >>>> the right size and for a price I could swallow.
> >>>> <
> >>>
>
> http://www.sinkfarmequipment.com/content/new-holland-tc33d-id-c4113-sale-pen
> ding
> >>>>
> >>>> Sale pending would be me as I will be returning tomorrow to seal the
> >>> deal.
> >>>> My question is a simple one - where should I look for manuals for this
> >>>> thing?
> >>>>
> >>>> David
> >>>> NW NC
> >>>>
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