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Yes fella's I went and got myself married. The bike is nice, But Gina Mae is a Keeper for sure.
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Now it's red. Still have other parts like seat, tank, hood and grill to prep and paint. Work continues.
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Wow! I'll stay out out of the derailed part of the discussion. As previously stated on here, everything varies so much state to state and can be up to interpretation of the individual and/or officer and a whole lot of grey area. I try to keep a clean, well maintained truck/trailer, use "NOT FOR HIRE" magnets(personal use only), and don't do anything to draw attention to myself. Has worked well thus far, knock on wood... As far as choosing a gooseneck trailer, here is what I chose and why... On my last tour in Iraq in 2016 I saved my pennies and custom ordered a new 32' Lamar gooseneck. I came home to and picked up my new trailer and I'm very happy with it. I had it narrowed down to a PJ or a Lamar. Both are excellent choices, I went with the Lamar for two reasons. PJ used powder coating and I'm not a fan of doing touch ups on powder coat as it never looks right. Second reason was PJ uses tube steel instead of Lamar using C channel which encloses the wiring for protection, but makes it perfect for rodents to move in and eat the wiring. Here is the options I chose. *12,000 lb axle upgrade. Minimal cost increase, only difference is thicker axle tube. Oil bath bearings too. *Rhino Ramps(or Monster Ramps) are half width spring loaded ramps that when folded up become a full level trailer deck. These are excellent for tricycle tractors, and eliminate the need to move ramps side to side on a bar that is damage prone on most trailers. *Higher profile option. They offered a pieced beam option that had a 5" lower deck. This sounded good for hauling tall stuff but it also lowers the rear bumper 5" making it a better road grader than a trailer in some uneven ground situations. *13,500 lb electric winch, mount, roller fairlead, and battery. I wanted a WARN but they would only install a SuperWinch. Not really happy with the SuperWinch but beats a come-along. It will be replaced with a WARN when it quits. I also upgraded the group 24 winch battery to a group 31 that is MUCH better! *Electric over hydraulic disc brakes. This was a $2,500 option and I LOVE it! The brakes are amazing! Down side is the module is expensive $1,200 and has been stolen once on the dealers lot, and failed once on the trip in the photo. *Torque Tube. This is a heavy pipe that runs from the front to the axle area between the frame rails to reduce frame twist. Less tilt going around corners and makes for a more stable load. No regrets here. *6" taller gooseneck. Mainly targeted for lifted truck clearance, it was a cheap option and you never know what you may need to pull with someday. *Rough cut oak decking. This was a $500 option but since I have crawlers it holds up MUCH better than the standard pine decking. *Front tool box with chain bar for hanging chains. Great for keeping the 3/8" Grade 70 chain organized, and binders. *Two speed manual crank spring loaded jacks. They offered power ones but with my luck the battery would always be dead. *32' length. That's 27" of flat deck, with a 5' self cleaning dove tail. This becomes a full 32' flat deck with the ramps folded closed. *26,000 GVW. Although capable of more, GVW under the magic 26,001 rating keeps me out of some scrutiny. Standard features: spare tire/wheel, LED lights, Bridged frame(standard over a certain length), 10 Ply 235/80R16 tires, Rub rail and pipe tie down points, Slipper spring suspension, Front step and grab handle on both sides, 7 pin RV style plug. Regrets? 10 ply trailer tires in general are hot garbage! Upgraded to 14 plys with 81 mph speed rating and never had another problem. Wish I had spent the extra $500 to upgrade to 2 speed "Yost" semi trailer jacks. SuperWinch winches are cheap crap, but get the job done, eventually upgrading to a WARN. Not really a regret but this thing is heavy! Weighs about 7,500 lbs empty. Cost with all my options was $14,000 in 2016, probably around $20,000 today. Yea, that's a lot but it should last me my lifetime with proper care and maintenance as long as I don't abuse it or loan it out(except to Mike (below) who always brings it back better than he found it(and goes to get stuff for me. lol)). I hope this was helpful to someone.
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We will never get back what we once had. Bigger is not better.4 points
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Took the Farmall C and the Fordson over to the Great Geauga County to be in the antique tractor exhibit. Had to shoehorn the C into the tent ,axles were sliding past the tent poles. I had to take the outside shovel rails off the front cultivator . Rolled one of the pulling tractors a bit so it would turn and backed it in to the my spot. Supposedly we have 60 tractors signed up. So it’s tight in there. Very happy I had help to mount the cultivator's from my son and grandson . They are very heavy. And very thankful to have help to get it in the tent from two exhibition members.3 points
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Not related to this statute but years ago when we had a case grain drill, the neighbor stooped by and told me this, Case stands for cant afford something else,3 points
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The engine is all together and has been run. Had to retorque head and adjust the valves hot. Fixed some oil leaks. I think I'm ready for some tractor pulling!!
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We had two ducks,and they were funny to watch,but i swear, every 10 steps they crap. I'll admit cow pies are larger, but my cows don't usually graze in the yard,but when they do,i would trade an angry wife for some ducks!3 points
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You ever met a cow? My pest control force on the job. I would hate to be a bug..
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A neighbor had a big red oak blow over , so I had a chance to try a little log loader for big rounds. This was the leftovers from a manure fork off an old tumble bug loader. I had used the center section for little Cary deck on a compact tractor and these two ends were left over. The winch was up there full time already for my wood gathering. 1500# ers easy.
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I got chased by one all day. Very low yield, and it’s going to get worse
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Time for last cutting of hay. My 1086 is back from getting the pto rebuilt. My son will start mowing today.
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We went to a small local fair today, I love wooden toys, this guy had a booth set up with the most intricate wooden toys I have ever seen. They ranged from basic robust toys for little kids to play with to some real show pieces for display, his prices were very very reasonable. I bought this crane and fleet of construction equipment for Christmas presents, but he had some really nice stuff I wouldn’t mind getting myself! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15efsTtX2K/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Just witnessed a 8020 heading west on US hiway 2 through our little town. With only 99 being made this is a rare sight. Paint looked faded but not a basket case. It was on a step deck trailer with another item up front. Somebody out west maybe got a new toy. This isn’t the tractor below but one like it.
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She has to check out every hole she finds.
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Uncensored photo dump. BK
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Raising the largest American flag on Thursday morning. Military display. Looked Korean War vintage to me. Trucks!! Harvest action: Tractor pull time! The sea of side by sides and golf carts!
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Sorry I couldn’t resist
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Last time that I went there, one of the guys we talked to said that by the time you made a pass or two with the plow, the field was totally worked due to everyone else plowing too. So adjusting to get it right probably isn;t going to happen there. Those plots are alos pretty compacted and various plow pan depths. You might have a 5 bottom 16inch but the guy before you has a DMI var-width 20 inch, and the guy behind you may have a 6 bottom 18 inch. So those plows might be set right for the operator's own farm but for a place like that, you may not be set correct for the whole show.2 points
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Exactly. That’s why we get all of these weird diseases. We didn't have a terrible problem with mites in honeybees until they started trucking them all over the country.2 points
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Buddy on the ship is messing around with chatGTP. Think I’ll have to have a few of these shirts made up 🤣
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The high official count of the 1206's at H.C.O.P was 263. Sales of my new 06 series tractor photo archive book from 1831press.com were great!! Sold out in 1 day!!2 points
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Worked up some wheat ground on Friday with the 450. Sure is dry around here, lots of dust! Cut a small test plot of hay on Saturday with the 300. I wanted to use the 450, but either the PTO shaft is too short or the drawbar extension is too long. I have a shorter one I may try next time. I baled it after church today. I switched the old 37 baler to plastic twine, upped my pto speed, and crammed the hay to it. It missed the one knot on the second bale, then punched out 40 of the most perfect bales I've ever seen. Wish I'd have tried that sooner! This was the first run of my hay equipment since the flood back in April. I have to say, it did great! Much better than I anticipated. If the weather holds out, I may cut more on Friday to bale on Labor day. No pictures, too busy trying to get things done!2 points
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I had a 76 that looked just like that except the rims were stock. Had the thing repainted three times and he could never get it right. It bubbled each time. He even had a paint rep out. So since I moved 1600 miles away, I got it as was. Fun little car but shortly after I got married it went down the road. I didn’t miss it much. Salt in Missouri did a number on it. It had a 350 and four speed.2 points
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If you liked them and $ was reasonable,buy more to support the guy. As I have posted before They can range from $10 -$2000 QUITE a difference in $$$$ from child toys in pine to Adult dust collectors ,from exotic woods and 200 hours of intricate cuts. Fastest way to make $300 in 1 x 8 cocobola into TOOTHPICKS !!! and 200gal of sawdust. Father made 1000's Add in $1500-20K for tools $30-150 (ea) for patterns/instruction $30-150 (ea) for "smalls " kit (rounds or shapes you need,but take commercial tooling to make in qty.) $20-600 for the wood 1-200 hours of labor Net from stealer/trade show $1 hour - costs. Sold these card holders until 1-15 ppl had at least 1
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...great pics, thanks !! ..visited the RAF museum in the UK (Hendon ..) about 35 yrs gone.....there were a bunch of elderly US Air Force veterans there, from Bomber Command.....I respectfully asked a few questions re the heroic endeavours these men went thru... It was very interesting to say the least...and became very emotional as those old men recalled the huge number of their Mates , that got taken apart in a foreign land....never to see loved ones or home..again... Mike2 points
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Made it home a few minutes ago ago around a 2500 mile trip from Sunday to Sunday. We had a great time I will definitely be back to one of the shows in the future. Todd thanks for the pictures and the hospitality it was nice meeting you again and if you or family is in western Mass give us a shout or let us know if you need anything thank you so much for the offer of help if we needed it. This is the community that makes this great thank you. Pete nice to meet you and glad to talk to you about my dyno and getting everything in top running order2 points
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Duck eats worm,then duck redeposits worm, for you to step in.2 points
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I'm just poking fun here: "PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR CLIMB ON TRACTOR. Why? Because I'm just a big old meanie that is being mean for the sake of being mean. It has nothing to do with not wanting your out of control little heathens damaging the tractor, or worse, getting hurt while climbing all over my tractor unsupervised. Nope, I'm just a big old meanie. After all, we know that kids climbing on tractors is how they get inspired to become farmers, right?"2 points
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Congratulations to you both.1 point
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Noticed the PM, not sure if I can do pictures on it. Looked around for a MD sleeve today but no luck. Did find a new 119166A1 gasket I forgot about having. It doesn't have metal on both sides like the Victor 7501 gasket 53436E. Found a McCord pretty much a clone to 53436DE. Holes in all 3 the same place. Putting picture of a sleeve with step on top. Does you sleeve look like that or flat? Picturing a 277098R1 head holes. Will work on A late MD block at least. Some holes could have size changed or eliminated because IH was making changes trying to make live longer. Don't think the 277098R1 came out until 450 tractors. 260869 had changes up to R5 and think there was a R6. R5 was first installed on F-400D engine serial number 21346. You can use any of those if good. R-5 was beefed up with more metal added at places. Let me know about top of sleeve. Had late model MD once serial 385597 with engine 21606 it had a 58 date code head 277869R1. It was stuck with 4 inch bore but can't remember gasket or top of sleeve. 277869R1 was the last replacement head made that I know of. Found them with date code at least to N in the sixties.
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Most of the 448's around here were 6 bottom.1 point
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Good to meet you also. I got home about 1 this afternoon. Nice quiet house so I should be able to take a nap, not so lucky wide awake now.1 point
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Now to wash the 10 million bugs off the front of the girlfriend’s buggy. Wasn’t bad around 26-27 mpg with 4 of us comfortably and all of out stuff but no weights coming home this trip if I’d had found a set of IH frame weight I had already talked about putting them on the floor between the two rear seats maybe next trip
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Thought of something I don't think anyone has posted. A 10 bottom Oliver plow, a 448, maybe? Supposed to be on auction this fall in Indiana. Buyer beware, wear parts are shot!
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Spent the day there yesterday, good time. Wondered what had the steam engine loaded up and pulling so hard in the shelling area.....then drove over and saw them feeding a Cook's Special sheller to near max capacity.......man that thing was eating ear corn!
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Wow....kudos to the team that put that all together. They should get an academy award for accuracy of how it is on the custom cutter run. Sure brings back a lot of memories. I never went on the CC run, but I had a front-row seat to it for the first 20 years of my life. I lived about a mile off of US Highway 83 just east of Perre, SD growing up. From my farm, you could see a 2-mile stretch of the highway....used to watch anywhere from 100-200 SP combines being hauled down the road everyday from the job they had just finished up, going to their next job down the road. If you were going to cut wheat east of the Missouri River in either South or North Dakota, there are only about 3 or 4 bridges you could haul a large SP combine across to cross the Mighty Mo at that time, with Highway 83 being among the busiest. Most operations at that time had 2 or 3 machines; not very many that were bigger than that. 1976 would probably be about the pinnacle of the 760 Massey being the #1 combine on the CC run.....they were big, relatively cheap, and Massey had a good reputation up until then. The only real competition they had at that time on the CC run would have been 66/7700 Deeres and L series Gleaners.....never saw any IHs, a few New Hollands, no Whites/Olivers/MMs. They did a good job of explaining how they went from straight-cutting wheat in the Southern states to windrowing/picking up small grain in the Northern states/Canadian provinces. Our area here in SD is where that change took place many years....my dad was a firm believer in windrowing wheat up until his passing in 1987. Until we had better weed control, many years windrowing small grain was your only option. Another transition in my area is that we are on the northern end of winter wheat production, and the southern end of spring wheat production. That's still true today, many wheat producers are about 50/50 between spring/winter wheat production here. Many wheat producers like the fact that doing it that way spreads out your harvest window....the spring wheat is ready for harvest at about the same time the winter wheat harvest is getting finished up. Watching those Perkins engines in those Masseys having that wisp of smoke coming out their exhausts reminded me of about the only good thing on the 750/760/850/860s....the Perkins engines were pretty reliable in them, the rest of the combine was a little suspect. Watching the Gleaner turn its unloader out for unloading reminded me of one thing I never understood why Gleaner kept that setup all these years....they were bound determined to keep that instead of using the overhead turret setup that everybody else has used for nearly 50 years. The guy that picked up a rock in the 760 feeder house made me remember how Massey used that series of paddles in their feeder house instead of a conventional feeder chain setup. That wasn't exactly one of MF's better features, either. My hat is off to all of you "wheat whackers".....past and present company included. Good memories.....1 point
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Been baling silage.
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