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Read articles →An owner doing early-hours maintenance on a new Branson 3515H with about seven hours on the clock. The video walks through greasing loader fittings with a battery-powered grease gun, torquing lug nuts and loader bolts, checking engine oil and hydraulic fluid, and inspecting lynch pins, all shown hands-on but at a beginner pace with some admitted gaps (tire pressure conversion, missing sockets). Best for new compact-tractor owners building a basic maintenance routine.
An owner-operator sharing first-hand impressions from early use of their own tractor, posted on the Redneck off the Range channel.
The manual says to grease the loader every eight to ten hours, and the owner greases it at about seven hours to stay ahead of that interval.
Using the chart conversion, the owner figures it comes out to about 130 foot-pounds, though he notes he isn't fully certain the conversion is correct.
Grease the loader fittings, torque lug nuts and loader bolts, check engine oil and hydraulic fluid, and inspect lynch pins on the loader and three-point linkage.
The manual did not specify, so the owner set the torque wrench to 100 foot-pounds as a baseline to make sure the bolts were at least that tight.
