Tractor & Lawn Mower Review

The John Deere LX176 was built out in Horicon, Wisconsin over an 8 year period, throughout the nineties from 1990 until production ceased in 1998. It is one of John Deere’s smaller models with 0.4 liter engine designed and built by Kawasaki. It’s their FC420V model that takes gasoline and was just a 1 cylinder, […]

The John Deere 410 is a backhoe loader tractor that has been brought back to life in recent years. It originally appeared in 1971, when it was manufactured in a production run that lasted 12 years until 1983. However there is now a newer version, the John Deere 410J that is in current production that […]

The John Deere 950 enjoyed a very long production run of 11 years berween 1978 and 1989. It was part of a series of tractors that included the John Deere 1050. It is a compact tractor powered by a 3 cylinder, 1.7 liter, Yanmar, natural aspiration diesel engine that gives it 27 hp. This power […]

The John Deere LT133 is a ride on lawnmower designed and built in Horicon, Wisconsin during the late nineties and early noughties. It’s production run lasted 3 years before ending in 2001. It’s 1 cylinder, Kohler, gasoline engine is air cooled and pumps out 13hp. This then transmitted it’s power into it’s 4×2 2WD chassis […]

The John Deere 4430 is a large agricultural tractor manufactured by JD during the seventies for 4 years from 1973 until 1977. It is part of the 4030 series of tractors that included the smaller John Deere 4230 and the larger John Deere 4630. This powerful tractor isn’ t normally seen on smaller farms, but […]

The John Deere 4310 is a compact tractor manufactured by John Deere for 2 years from 2002 until it was discontinued in 2004. It was the new version of the 4300. This interesting compact has a Yanmar 3TNE84 3 cylinder, diesel engine with natural aspiration and a displacement of 1.5 liters giving it a maximum […]

The John Deere 3130 is yet another much loved tractor from John Deere manufactured in the sixties from 1961 for just 2 years until production stopped in 1963. It was part of the ‘New Generation’ series of tractors and over 43,000 rolled out of it’s production line in Waterloo, Iowa. Like just about every other […]

Like so many John Deere tractors these days, the John Deere 6030 is the model number for both a new and old JD tractor. Let’s start with the slightly older version first…The first JD 6030 first entered production in 1972 with just over 4000 being produced before it’s manufacture ceased in 1977. It had a […]

The John Deere H was designed and built for small to medium sized farmers. It had a production run that lasted from 1939 right up until well after the Second World War in 1947. Like just about all the popular John Deere models back then, there were quite a few variations of the JD Model […]

The John Deere 112 is a small but robust lawnmower that JD manufactured from 1966 until they stopped producing it in 1974 and changed over to the John Deere 212. This lawn mower was manufactured in Wisconsin in their production facility in Horicon. It actually has a smaller version as well, the John Deere 110. […]