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.....The Northburn Station......one of several iconic South Island Stations....I don't have a spare 33 to 35 Million Dollars , or I would be tempted to buy it....although the Homestead / HQ area is not included in the sale..... 13, 177 Hectares in total ...around 35 thousand acres....running Merino Sheep and Cattle... Pinched these pics off Real Estate Brochure.....My favourite sort of country.....!!!!! ..imagine the feral deer numbers on there .... Mike

I pull a levee disk to form the levees. They come in several forms. Below's a pic of one of mine when I bought it. The tarp is part of a flow control structure. You use it to control the water level. They are also called spills (the water spills over). I pump water from abandoned underground coal mines. This is very unusual. I'm probably the only farmer who grows rice with mine water. Most rice is irrigated with surface well water. Thx-Ace

Here are more photos: our cub with cultivator (has plows also) Farmall A Farmall B with exhaust lift, and plows. I need to fix the exhaust lift cylinder, as I think that would be cool. no it’s not a Super C like the logo says. 200 but is taller then normal, was originally purchased to swath peas with a bar mower on the Palouse (front spindles are longer then standard). Farmall H Farmall Super H (I think) Farmall M (narrow) Farmall M (wide front, but I believe the axle is from an H or something else, as I had to replace a spindle) Farmall 400 these are all running tractors, but future projects. Several are used more then parade tractors.

I've never run out but it's gotten low. At my main pump it's 55 feet to the bottom of the shaft. My pump is set 3 ft off the bottom to avoid sucking up shale. This is a 12 inch turbine pump set in an 18 inch casing. It is capable of pumping 2500 gpm but that would really stress my 12 inch underground pipeline. I have another backup pump station (at another location) that is over 100 feet to the bottom. However the hole is only 8 inch so I can't pump as much. The pump is about 3/8 mile away but the layer of coal is tilted significantly compared to the surface. This pump is actually not functional at the moment. Before I start pumping it is slightly artisan because I'm at the bottom of a deep valley. It drops as I pump. When I quit pumping it slowly rises. It typically drops to around 15 to 20 feet by the end of the summer. When the leaves fall and we start getting wet the water rises rapidly. Thx-Ace

Working on wood with red tractors.

FIL painted this one for a neighbor. Now it looks AND sounds good.

2 tons of wall and ceiling material and outdoor lighting....

Finished up the tire changing on the H and took the 856 back to the power washer. Snuck in a couple Alley Cats too. The 14.9's look good on the H, I'm concerned how much weight they are going to add. The 15.5's were mounted tubeless, somehow, either I assume. Had to put tubes in these and their night light.

Not quite that much but - one day he phoned in an order that included a ball joint for where a blade cylinder connected to the blade. To which the bloke on the other end said "But you don't need it" He questioned that until he found the price and decided he didn't need it

Well little update with work. Ended up putting the old park lever back in that 5288. Couldn't get the newer lever to work. Ordered a second lever in to verify that we didn't get a defective part. Like maybe I've said before it looks like to me that some one is cutting the teeth to far down on the newer levers where it's not grabbing the gear properly. But any ways. Spent some time helping out another tech on a 1245 planter. Took it out on our back lot and did some mock planting while checking out some hydraulic pressures and what not. Got it straightened out. Went out on a 245 Magnum and replaced cartridges on 1 and 2 remotes. Also got some new tools I ordered in. Bluetooth transducers from transducers direct. For 0-5000 psi. Just have to download an app and your good to go. Pretty neat vs carrying a bunch of gauges a hoses. Hope everyone has a good Independence day!

We’ve planted Garst and then Syngenta for years and they no longer give out packets of sweet corn. It’s nice to see that Pioneer still does.

...yeah...it chokes you up allright, Kurt.......be it cat or hound.... ...great picture of "Rodent " ....condolences...we get so attached to these animals....Guess thats why its hurts so...... Mike ..

Bought this over memorial day weekend, Just had to have it for the collection. Went and picked it up today It's got what I'd consider a very odd combination of features. Best guess off serial number and WI historical society numbers is it was built within the last 100 806's for 1964. 806 gas, factory TA delete, factory 3 point delete, HD drawbar. HD 34" rears. As far as I can tell it's a factory fender delete, OR it had clamshells being a 64. It does have factory wiring to the 2 wire rear plug, and the rear light. Someone's been in the PTO, appears to have always had a PTO. Dual rear only hydraulics, no hoses ever ran to the steering column outlets. Plan is the same for all my gas tractors, open station with a narrow front and period correct fenders. I'll upload more pics later. Won't be able to tear it apart till Tuesday. Pics are from the listing and when I loaded it up today.

I've noticed most of you like these buggers. And being the 4th..... didnt zoom in. She is picking at a dead calf just out of pic. As I type she is eyeing me on scrap tractor 20' away.

Think we need a good American sound for the 4th. Seeing how no one knows what country AND Western music is (yes, we have both here!) How about some non electric resonator music with ram pump accompaniment..... blues?? Hopefully.... our Mr. Newman can find such twangyness & rhythmic clatter to be unoffensive to his aural senses. Though this wee bit of excitement may do his head in. The poor feller! And.... no, I don't buy for a minute that the blues was a Russian invention. If anything, they invented disco! And plaid! Yuck!!!! Mike

Yes I'm aware or the serial number split where they changed from 25 degrees to 26.5.. Or vice versa.. I replaced all three gears and the park lever but I kept the original pitch. I've also been with tech support and got the drawings for both style levers and confirmed I have the correct pitch lever. (I know the gears are correct as well)

Same passion for adventure. Different methods of achieving it

You do realize there are two different pawls. They changed tooth angle.

☹️ My dealer throws a big party every year, gives us hats and T-shirts,sweetcorn seed, delivers the field corn seed and offers a discount if you pay before January first. But so do all the other dealers in this area.

Worked on it !! Like usual...

HardTail, my matter turned gray a long time ago, now it is just missing.☹️

Here she is after receiving some TLC.

Peaches and Cream Yummy Cheers Al

Found the first one today, just a in time for the holiday .

That is the plungers, 6 cylinder engines had 2 4 cylinder had 1, there were early Bosch injection pumps and IH had A and B pumps, they look quite different and the IH pumps all had the kidney shaped crankcase side cover. One other critical thing I remember on the primary pump rebuild was the gasket thicknesses, this is used to set the gear clearance to the end plate, you see rebuild kits on eBay for pretty high $$$ but those gaskets look wrong, I remember some guys were using wax paper for one of the gaskets but not sure how it would hold up for longevity, I remember another guy micd manilla folder paper which was close to what was needed and was cheap and readily available Good luck Qball that's about all that's still floating around in the ole gray matter these days

Here’s a couple of pictures of my Colombian while I wait for my tire to air up.

Bought new in '69, that picture is January '84 after we put undercarriage, clutches, brakes and paint, turbo was put on in '72, in-frame and undercarriage going on right now, still is a daily worker for us.

That's two of us, though mine was running good when I put it away. I had spent most of the day changing tires on that H. Knew it wasn't going to be easy but holy cow! It's like the tires and rims fused together over the years! New bead-breaker got the job done though I had to use two cold chisels to get started on the left tire. Took a few pictures along the way, finally had to quit when I was putting the tube in the last one. Stem ripped off, didn't like that tube anyway but wanted to get it back together. Off to the local tire shop this morning.

Stuck a radio on the old 300 today. Found this (Lord forgive me) JD radio at a local pawn shop for $25. Guy didn't know anything about it, but it works well! I made the bracket out of scrap I had laying around, powered it off the hot post on the solenoid and grounded it to a hood bolt. I can pick up several local stations even in my metal shop building, and they are sure enough loud! Mac

Was moving a few things around, had the cub, A, B, C and M out today (H and 200 were at other places). so, several of these are future projects. The B I need to fix the exhaust lift, change trans fluid and build some brackets for the plow and fix the plow shear. The C needs the trans oil changed (currently runing atf and diesel) as the transmission was siezed . Have a few other issues, but those are the bigger ones. (Another project is fixing another cub).

Spent the day yesterday putting the sheet-metal back on the 856. Moved the step-toolbox forward and put a regular step on. Aaron stopped by on his way home and helped a bit. Cleaned up some ugly looking wiring. Good day. Bead-breaker showed up, so will be working on changing tires on the H today.

Re pulling some rice levees ahead of flooding.

I have a whole complete motor that rolls we just pulled out of a td9 if interested pm me

Done. I'm going to put the flat top fenders on it this weekend.

I'm not even sure a mother could love that one.

...driving from Queenstown to the West Coast (South Island ...) this is Lake Wanaka...(or part thereof...) Mike

A smaller update as I'm slowly working on more pieces to weld to the rockshaft. Got the plates on for the top link and guessets for the rockshaft support. Going to be replacing siding on my house so im going to be pretty busy for a while 😑

Finally getting back to this. I ran it around this spring with no sheet metal pulling the bean wagon for planting and it developed a miss. 2 plugs are black and top of pistons are carboned and black which is odd for a propane. I'm assuming it just needs a good workout. Pto always spins so that needs rebuilt, tappet cover leaks, 3 point won't stop at full lift, so I've got some things to fix. I put the sheet metal back on for a 4th of July display I want to do, then I'll take it all back off for paint and fix oil leaks over summer/fall.

Last Saturday morning (June 10) the fog coming off the Ottawa river

Here’s the morning sun when we were having a lot of smoke from the fires

...three pics of the ''Milky Way '' ...rather neat !!...all over NZ Mike

I see you….

Come on down,Aaron, we have a few bass and bluegill and an occasional eagle. I’ll only charge you a truckload of 1256 parts from work for a weekend stay!! lol 😂

FYI...that tractor is BLUE instead of RED

It's been many years since Pioneer gave out sweet corn at least where I was concerned.

Heartbroken. Not a dog, but our family cat passed away yesterday unexpectedly. She was an abandoned, injured and infested stray when she miraculously found my wife. When I say miracle, something possessed my wife to look behind the propane tank that day. There had never been a reason to do that before, and there hasn't been since. There she was, passing away what by rights should have been her final hours, weak, miserable and alone. But she found us and we weren't going to let her go without a fight. Not only at the beginning, but shortly thereafter, she was close to dying again. We couldn't bring ourselves to let her go. So, with the help of great vets, we got her back again. For five years, she's been the weird, standoffish but sweet little cat that we grew so attached to. This was Rodent. She was a great cat. We miss her terribly.

Started out with the 806. Rear tire went flat about 2 1/2 miles from home. Hauled it back home and took the 756 out to bush hog.