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After 3 attempts I finally pulled her back together. Alot of sweating and beer mind you

Tried out the newly restored and upgraded M for the first time on the grain drill this week. Tractor worked flawlessly! Didn't notice the grain drill was back there pulling it in 1st Hi gear! When I bought it there was more water in the rear end than oil and the entire rear end and transmission were trashed...

2nd year with rtk auto steer. Today I'm cultivating corn that has 3 leaves at 4.8_5.0 mph. I could never hand steer this good. And a few other spring pictures.

Earlier this week I got the hydraulics working on my Great-Great Grandpa’s 1953 Super C. The seal in the pump was bad. Mowed with it and it works great. Hoping to get the IH #9 rake on it soon to rake some hay.

I sprayed the only field I am spraying myself. Good old 1951 M and a 250 gallon sprayer.

Shop dogs

Bought another truck last night. 390, 4 speed. My brother told me it should be named Moss-berg. The bed is incredibly clean and, surprisingly, the floor pans are solid. I'm going to try and get it running where it sits next week.

The things we do for pets . Three of these loads today.

In another thread it was asked to see pictures of my Turbo 2 precleaner sales brochure.

Had new Firestone radials installed on the front of the 7130 yesterday and parked it in the shed today. With the price of new tires I want to protect them from the weather as much as possible. Sure have some deep lugs on those Firestones.

Corn feeding time. Uan 28% mixed with ATS. Corn is behind schedule with the cooler weather and my planter did not get enough nitrogen on. Playing catchup now.

Well, I am a father but I have been called a mother before.

Well it’s sitting in the garage. He messed with the battery terminals and it all worked, the starter and PTO worked. So a new battery and some new battery cables, make a couple front draft links and check all the fluids and she should be mowing pictures in a day or two.

Got it out of the garage/shop so the LP supplier’s tech could get to the gas lines to check for a leak. Plus, the shop was overdue for spring cleaning. Now that the renewing process is about done, I plan to bring it to a show the weekend after this coming one, meeting up with some other members of IHCC Chapter 8, Southeast PA. I guess I should wash the tires off.🧐

Picked this up last year, thinking it'd be a good "project". (I think I posted some about this back at the time, actually) I longed to own one of these for years and, honestly, never really thought I probably would. It came out of the collection of a man who had passed and whose neighbor had purchased the farm, including the equipment. Seller couldn't say for sure how long it'd been sitting (inside) but knew it hadn't moved in at least 17 years. She wasn't stuck so a deal was struck and I ended up bringing it home. My friend Dave & I set to tinkering with it and had it starting on gas, switching over, and running in not more than an hour or two. It had a miss while running on diesel and I was pretty concerned but later discovered that it was just a stuck starting valve, which I was able to get freed up with a little time and effort. A little time test driving it demonstrated that even the TA seems to be good and solid so that was a nice bonus. As can be seen in pics, it was outfitted with the optional short, fat rubber, which was an option I'd never seen before but which is shown in the parts book. (FWIW - I've also since replaced the broken exhaust pipe.) The irony here is that the days of me longing to land this relatively hard-to-find model have kinda' passed by and I'm mainly into a little later stuff now so, while it's cool to have finally owned one, it'll likely be sold or traded for something more in line with my current interests. -FT

I posted the parts book page for the Super W6ta and the 24 inch hubs a while ago Keep in mind the 26 inch rims have a 24 inch ID So for further proof they were available on the W400 and W450 as well

I will take some of you deliver and stack them in the barn.

Seemed to work just fine last fall plowing with the 856. I'm sure I was following 14" plows sometimes too.

Around 1 am Thursday morning I took this just before quitting as my eyelids were getting very hard to keep open . I had found this antler after planting over it without getting a popped tire

Yes...Well I doubt that this information will bring neither fame ....nor fortune.....and worse , although I believe the evidence is conclusive, it is only, no doubt, going to be of interest to a very few ''IH tragic's ''.. You see, FT, because WD6 #1066 is resting in the back of the shed...it was an exercise of Octogenarian strength and stamina to fight thru cobwebs like Rata Vines, a recently deceased Rat...and and ever growing spread of gear oil, because of a rear tyre giving up...(axle seal....).and a very dark corner of the shed...but I triumphed...thinking , obviously of the 'service to mankind'....as my reward for this endeavour....and besides, today I have been pulling the piston (one only..) from a TD6 engine...and this contortionist act under the WD6 made a welcome change.... So ..The Conclusions :.Yes..the WD axle is bigger...I have determined this by measuring stud to stud on the end "Caps' that take the axle outer bearing...The WD has a about 7/16th spread greater than the W4...The end cap on the axle is bigger on the WD6....,but the cast center seems exactly the same...apart from a greater spline diameter on the WD . I trust this will satisfy your curiosity... Three of us imported five tractors out of Edmonton, back in 2008.....One was a W6T/A Diesel..not that many built....Yours looks great..Our purchasing power back then could only buy a distressed example....and ..(a bit more useless information...)....and the battle with the TD 6 engine here , today, is a quest to come up with 12 good liners to go into three different tractors...(WD6 /MD and the W6T/A D )...I have several TD6 engines ....lots of them came to New Zealand...but no MD's and just a few WD's ... Personally, I far prefer the look of the regular 30inch wheel centers... All good fun !!! Mike

Been spraying flea beetles still here and started some incrop herbicide spraying as well. Canola at home still looks horrible. The one small field I rent looks not bad and the rest is hot and miss. Was going to hold off spraying the wheat till next week but unfortunately the crop is saying otherwise. It’s going into flag leaf already so I don’t have much choice. It’s still only 8-10 inches tall at the tallest so not sure how that’s going to work out come harvest. Don’t think I’ll be swathing. Be combining the end of July at this rate lol. Had the tandem down getting the a/c fixed so I can comfortably haul grain again. Winston our dog was getting pretty toasty on the cab lol. Needed a new compressor, expansion valve and receiver driver. Ron “fixed” the a/c when he sold it to us last fall. Unfortunately the fix was a can of stop leak. Worst stuff you can use. Should be good now again though hopefully. Beem working on the lowbed in between everything else. Very slowly getting it painted. Siting in the sprayer as I type mow(10:00) rinsing the tank out so it’s ready for morning hopefully. Saying a chance of rain so hard to say what tomorrow will bring.

Levers should pull fairly easy if boosters are working properly. I think hydraulic pump/valve assy might be Hydreco.

Control burns can work. Even the kooks here Kalifornia have rediscovered it. In times when it take real work to keep a fire going. If you clean the forest floor with fire and it never gets in the conifer crowns your in good shape for years, until enough dead stuff accumulates on the floor again. In my part of California lots of low growing brush and oak trees of 3 distinct type. The brush here was born to burn, about ever 20 to 30 years. Wildlife and the whole ecosystem benefits from timely burns. In 2016 one of the biggest in the state that year was within 3 to 5 miles of me. Today it is hard to tell what burned and what did not.

Putting a Quadrajet back together tonight

I have done it a little & had neighbors doing it a lot, never even thought about it, just did it. Seemed to be fine

Actually, I have lighting on our 464 to mow or do other work after dark. I have truck before LED headlights and stock tractor lights in the front, and truck bed flood lights on the top rear aimed across and behind the bush-hog cutter. 15 years ago, I set it up so I could mow without heat stroke in the 115F heat we can get in this Texas area. Also had a 2-gallon water jug mounted on the out-house. Discovered that the Texas sun kills plastic water jugs, so in 2020 I got a SS jug, only the plastic parts are bad in 2025. Did it so I could sleep during the heat of the day and work outside after the temp gets the cool 80's. .

The Super MTA-D sticker on the side of the hood should increase its value somewhat! 🤣

I don’t doubt that what you say is a good analogy, but the question that most people would have is who on earth would rely on a strategy like that? I think the honest answer is that it’s remote and the people in charge and the leaders don’t care. That’s how it is in every rural area around me. Nobody cares until a place like L.A. burns down, then when people start asking serious questions, you find out how incompetent the people in charge really are.

Pulled some rice levees with 1066.

The H tedding and raking hay and the 105U square bailing some hay.

Well, not really.. but might as well be. Been busy and rainy here, which is why I found myself mowing the hay field/lawn at 10:00 this evening. Luckily I don’t have any close neighbors, the Kohler is mighty loud. a part of me says I ought to fertilize it, the other part says I don’t want to mow any more than I already am!

June 2 we had a pretty good hailstorm come through here. Marble size hail and 30 MPH plus winds. Kind of messed up some of the soybeans. There are a lot of planters rolling this week and planting into what's left. The soybeans were at about V1 or 2 when they got hit. One of my fields had 60000 plants an acre left and the other at about 105000. I borrowed a 144 hole soybean drum for my 800 6 row, 240 hole won't plant under 94000, the 144 can go down to 56000. At lowest sprocket settings. I did the first field set at about 79000. So should have about 140000. The other field is better but some of the gaps I don't think are hail damage, it was really dry when planted, just didn't germinate. I'm trying to plant about 6 inches off the existing row, but sometimes I get too close (contour rows) and the gauge wheel or openers get into the row. That probably doesn't do the plants any good. Just wonder if I have 100000 or better to just quit. I'm more concerned about loss of canopy allowing weed escapes later on. This kind of eliminates any hope of cultivating later if needed.

81 years ago. The Longest Day. Let us not forget.

We are exceptionally dry here this spring. First rain we had was last weekend. Things have cooled down a bit but most of the fires are still not contained. There’s been serval factors that have caused these fires to blow up. If they’d got on them immediately and stayed the course they could’ve had them knocked down to nothing I think. Friend was in the area when the first fire got going. They had crews there fighting it and they thought they were safe. They packed up and left. Few hours later the whole sky was all smoke and it just never quit after that. Winds picked up and then stayed up. They changed throughout the day making it unpredictable too. It wasn’t until candle lake got threatened that things really got noticed. Fires had been going for nearly 3 weeks already by that point. It’s like they just forgot about the corner of the bush and let it burn. There was crews working on it but nothing like the last 10 days or so.

You're beating a dead horse. He has no TA. So nothing hydraulic in his driveline. Also your TA is still out. Sprag clutch should drive with no oil at all.

Took a drag to cover the broadcast seed on a deer food plot with my 784. Nothing fancy.

Fuel filler neck on my little Aveo auction car. I saw a puddle before it threw an evap code. I had to replace the temp sensor too, so did that while it was in my shop

ya could be a short crop for sure was out picking rocks today just incase seen a few boulders when spraying, kinda caught up here for a day or 2, keep saying showers in the forecast but i have yet to see and raindrops sucks about the A/C its lots of time the problems are never diagnosed properly, you dont haul with your semi anymore? don't mind hauling with tandem either but don't get a lot done hauling that way

Month flies by.... Dad still cleaning up field edges and stuff with the 464 Youngest had decent fastpitch season. Got a triple here! So... this is woods behind our place. Old lake peat bog. Our low fields been terrible and may was actually dry. Water is higher then oilpan drain. Lane is prob 4' deep of broken concrete and pit run gravel. It kept disappearing. The berry farmer who put it in (he owns next door and across ditch fields) wanted access vs a 2 mile drive around with tractors. We pushed 2 silos and 100 yards of broken cowyards and building foundations in there. Wanted to see why drainage was so poor. Constant beaver battle. Well had a idiot moment..... thought I could make it a little farther. Sunk to belly in 1 sec. Thankfully it was more firm 80' away so got some chains. Soup! Out ditch actually had collapsed. Get it cleaned. Took 3 weeks to get where we cut the not junk grass. Made marshmallows for dry cows. Took youngest to local horse plowing match. Kinda neat, so quiet. Pull along mower #1 lost cutterbar bearing. Got 4000 in parts....havnt got back together yet. Bad deal with all shavings in there. Hope last few more seasons. Got some corn planted. 80 acres less than last year b/c of Coop mess. Nice and warm for May now. Spuds going in too FFA ceremony. My oldest is short one in center, Treasure now. Also a district officer. Kids buddies new rig. Told the boy I was proud of him. Its American Got 2nd in smoothly... But lost a plantary in big mower. So frustrating. Have 3 an all are down today. Parts alone are more than custom guy bill would be for season. Cherries on my 60yo trees are coming on hot! Best part of summer is grabbing a shirt full of these.

Understand. Different climates. I have heard of some guys hay out west getting too dry and they bale at night to try to get some dew into the bale.

Yes. They turn counter clockwise like 1/2”. Sort of like a radiator cap.

The DT466 parts book gives two options, I suspect in a TD-15C like yours it's the Delco 40MT. Does it have a solenoid on the starter that look like this? If so it should be the Delco 40MT which is a Delco part number 1114884. Of course that is obsolete new, but should be rebuildable by any competent auto electric shop. You can get a new modern version, the Delco MT42 part number 10461050 if your pockets are deep enough. If your solenoid looks like this(below) its the Delco 35MT. I doubt it is this one, but if so I'll get you the info.

Thats a Lotta information to digest... We a 5610 and a 5640 and I *thought* they were the same engine but I've not had to do anything or buy any parts for either engine, so I dunno. 5610's have an excellent reputation in our part of the world.

Never a bad time to ride the lawn. 😎

My grandfather viewed the Germans much differently than the Japanese. He had absolutely no sympathy for dropping the bombs that ended the war. He had a higher opinion of Germans than Russians. It’s all water under the bridge at this point. I just hope my kids never have to do what they did.

most of these fires are not naturally occurring fires. no rain around here no lightening that i have seen, so how are they starting?.... by humans of course. i am beginning to think its a planned thing already. years ago there was never fires this bad. part of the big future plan. kill the animals saying its the flue, burn the country down, control the weather , control the people ,and so on. its definitly not natural. something more stinky going on than the smoke smell.

nothing to new to report here, couple tenth of rain the other day but the wind dried that up in a hurry crop spraying is underway, peas look real good and durum is good to ok, crop growth has defiantly slowed down so sprayer will sit for a couple days ended up purchasing a newer semi truck, nice unit was a local truck one owner never winter driven excited to have it, hope we have a good harvest to put it to use

I need to work on the 400 a little more and pull the md inside and pop the head off.

My wife had a friend in college, she was from RI and somewhere she used to go routinely wasn’t so safe, she was required to bring the German Shepherd, Rosie, with her….if I were her father I probably would have sent a crocodile along..