[neblawncare23]

So I just bought my 1025r this winter and have approximately 65 hours on machine now.
45 of the hours are on the 52 inch sweeper and 20 hours are on the snow blower. This past week while using snow blower, I could start feeling a vibration, it keep getting worse and worse, shaking the whole tractor. So I go to my local deere dealer, and the driveshaft the goes from mid mount PTO to the snow blower had a bearing going out, in the knuckle right before it connects to front PTO.
After doing some research on internet, it appears this is happening a lot, almost every 50 hours of operation. Any one else a having these issues? And is there something that can be done so this don't keep happening?
Mark O, are you having these problems on your 1025r's?

 

[Triple L]

Too much grease..... Left in the grease gun....

I spray the bearings with fluid film all the time... Usually get 200 hrs out of a bearing... They are only $10 may as well replace bi annually

 

[rick W]

I know we now live in a disposable world but its always so disappointing to see what garbage manufactures hand us as "commercial" or "heavy duty" but its just race to the bottom..who sell us the dream and hands us a lemon...but we just take it.

My 6 month old 80K truck is showing serious rust on the chrome bumper. Just garbage. My 66 mustang bumper looked like new when i sold it a few years ago. Progress...my ass. Everything is built so crappy now.

You telling me JD or their offshore sub factory really cant use a bearing that has a life of +200 hours? That is shameful.

 

[neblawncare23]

I grease my entire machine after every snow event. Usually takes 10 hours to get over all my accounts. So machine is greased every 10 hours!

 

[John_DeereGreen]

We've got over 100 hours on our broom alone and haven't had any driveline issues. And it's defiantly not greased that frequently.

 

[Mr.Markus]

Wait, is it the bearing or the u joint knuckle you’re referring to, or both?

 

[John_DeereGreen]

Reading his post it appears to be the u joint just behind the carrier bearing is failing.

 

[SDLandscapes VT]

Running it in the full up position?

We have over 100 hours each on two new blowers and have had issues but not this one

 

[Triple L]

I know we now live in a disposable world but its always so disappointing to see what garbage manufactures hand us as "commercial" or "heavy duty" but its just race to the bottom..who sell us the dream and hands us a lemon...but we just take it.

My 6 month old 80K truck is showing serious rust on the chrome bumper. Just garbage. My 66 mustang bumper looked like new when i sold it a few years ago. Progress...my ass. Everything is built so crappy now.

You telling me JD or their offshore sub factory really cant use a bearing that has a life of +200 hours? That is shameful.

I agree with this but a 1 series compact from Deere is far from commercial and has never been advertised as such, it's estate / homeowner use at best but that being said I am very happy with myn

 

[John_DeereGreen]

I agree with this but a 1 series compact from Deere is far from commercial and has never been advertised as such, it's estate / homeowner use at best but that being said I am very happy with myn

Agreed. They aren't meant for heavy duty commercial use like we're doing. 6-8-10 hours of nearly constant brooming or blowing probably isn't what the engineers had in mind.

I bet some of us put more hours on these tractors in a week or two of decent winter than most buyers put on them in a year.

 

[SDLandscapes VT]

I disagree the tractors are well done it's the attachments that are homeowner

 

[Triple L]

I disagree the tractors are well done it's the attachments that are homeowner

The attachment system is the same that's been around since the 90's so I can imagine at that time it was engineered for residential use and they just decided to keep going with it

 

[Mark Oomkes]

We've replaced 1 but it had well over 200 hours on it...possibly closer to 400, I can't remember.

50 hours is BS. Unfortunately ours don't get greased that often either.

 

[neblawncare23]

Sorry, it is the knuckle right behind the carrier bearing. It started vibrating so hard that I dropped the drive shaft nearly to the ground! And made the short PTO shaft to blower come apart! When it dropped the drive shaft the carrier bearing of course moved.

 

[neblawncare23]

Why cant someone make equipment like this, that will stand up to commercial use?!

 

[Aerospace Eng]

Why cant someone make equipment like this, that will stand up to commercial use?!

They do, but are you willing to spend the $70K or so it takes to get it?

 

[Triple L]

The cheapest commercial duty machine in this size would be a Wacker wl38 with loader arm delete and front plow quick hitch, decent road speed, and hp but still every penny of 75k Canadian... From there is goes into trackless mt and holder machines at 150k+ and trust me they might even break down more then the 1025r

 

[DeVries]

Is there no way to get an aftermarket bearing that has a better build quality?
I know we have done this with belts on some summer equipment.

 

[neblawncare23]

I would like to know that answer, let me know if there is!

 

[DeVries]

Take the part in to a supplier that carries that sort of thing and see if they can match, most times its possible