Tractor & Lawn Mower Review

The John Deere 170 is a ride on lawn mower built by John Deere at their Horicon factory in Wisconsin. It had a production run of just 1 year from ’89 to ’90. The JD 170 came with a Kawasaki FC420V engine. This is a natural aspirated, 0.4 liter, gasoline engine with just 1 cylinder. […]

The John Deere 4230 is part of the ‘Generation 2’ series of tractors that John Deere produced many years ago. This tractor was rolling off the assembly line for 4 years from 1973 until 1977. It was designed as the replacement for the John Deere 4020. What is interesting about the JD 4230 is that […]

The John Deere LT166 is a lawn mower designed and built by JD over a 3 year period that spanned the late nineties and into the new millennium from 1998 until 2001. All production of this lawn tractor took place in the John Deere Horicon plant in Wisconsin. The lawn mower is equipped with a […]

The John Deere LX178 is a popular JD lawnmower that was built in it’s Horicon plant during the nineties in a production run that lasted 8 years from 1990 up until 1998. It has a Kawasaki FD440V engine as standard (also known as the John Deere K series of engine). This natural aspiration, gasoline fueled […]

The John Deere 4520 actually refers to 2 different John Deere tractors. The original is the first tractor model from John Deere that came with a turbocharger as standard. This was needed as the JD 4520 was (and still is) used primarily a workhorse, pulling tractor. The more modern model is the 4520 compact tractor. […]

The John Deere 4300 is a small compact utility tractor produced over 5 years from 1998 until it ceased production and was superseded by the John Deere 4310 in 2003. It is classed as a compact farm tractor, but it can also be used quite effectively in gardens too. This is thanks in part to […]

The John Deere 8430 refers to 2 specific John Deere’s. The first is the JD 8430, a powerful pulling tractor that was built by John Deere between the years of 1975 and 1978. The other refers to a new JD 8430 that is part of the 8030 series of extremely powerful pulling tractors from more […]

The John Deere 3350 had a good production run that lasted 7 years when it was manufactured in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This was from 1986 up until 1993. It came with a John Deere diesel engine as standard. The model number of this engine is 6350 DL008. It’s a 6 cylinder, 5.9 liter engine that pumps […]

There are two distinct John Deere 5020’s. The first is the ‘New Generation’ 5020 that JD produced at it’s Waterloo plant in Iowa from 1965 up until 1972. The other is the JD 5020 series that comprises of the 5620, 5720 and 5820 compact tractors. The first part of the article will cover the the […]

Possibly the most interesting visual aspect of the John Deere 320 is it’s paintwork. Rather than having the normal single horizontal yellow stripe running across the hood near the top of the tractor’s hood, the JD 320’s yellow stripe consists of wide horizontal yellow strip that suddenly changes and becomes vertical near the front of […]