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Mowed some oats this spring and little old school

My 766 pulling the 400 4-38” runner planter. Was planting corn for harvest days a few years ago. Sweet rig!

On one of my trips to La Mans for the 24 Hour race i booked a bed and breakfast about 15 miles from town. The owner of B&B picked me up at the track the first night and we went to dinner and to the B&B for a few hours of sleep. Previously i just stayed up for the whole race with no place to rest so finding this place was awesome. When he found out i own a GT40 he said tomorrow i will pick you up in my Rally car. I didnt think about it much but sure enough he shows up in a full blown race version of a Rally car based around a Subaru turbo WRX with a full roll cage and five point harness for both driver and passenger. He tossed me a helmet , i didnt hesitate one second. I crawled in through the window and strapped in. He looked over at me and in an english accent he said, “ Do you mind if i drive a bit angry?” I said give it all you got!! He took me on a ride through the back roads of France full throttle sliding sideways through every corner . It was exactly.like the video link you posted. With out a doubt the highlite of that trip. His B&B was great, the 24 hour of La-Mans was great but that ride was something i will never forget.

From a few years ago. A little fall plowing video.

Oh my it did!! okay I'm officially clever 🤣

In 2004, I was busy farming, too busy for routine doctor checkups. 125 milking cows, crops to feed same, kids were in college, farm organization involvement etc etc. I finally had to see local doc in the spring for something else and agreed to a physical. PSA was high, but no baseline, PSA rechecked 3 weeks later, even higher. Absolutely no symptoms. Short version, prostate cancer. Prostate removed in August 2004 at age 55. Checkups @ 6 month since. Routine now. Still good. Thank you Drs Dygert and Fisher. Friend who had been feeling poorly but hated docs and hospitals, died that same year from prostate cancer. GET YOUR PSA TESTED. 22 bonus years of farming, tractors, and life. Thank the Lord.

I can loan you my niece, she’s mean enough they usually just wave the white flag and surrender when they see her with a shovel.

Pitch dark, a flashlight and a gasoline can

Voodoo???

We still have the county jailbirds picking up trash along I-15 in Idaho, from Pocatello, south about 30 miles.

No pics for me either. Sure takes the fun out of things.

I've done gasoline and a match. Most recently I got stung while unknowingly standing on the entrance hole. I went back 2 hours later with a new can of good wasp spray in each hand and went in blazing. Killed the entire nest all at once and not one got away. By the next day some critter had dug up the nest. They aren't heavy enough to set off land mines. Dynamite is really hard to get. Lava isn't readily transportable. It's getting harder and harder to have fun now a days...

Of course your truck handles funny —. The steering wheel is on the wrong side. 😇

Sorry for not letting everyone know, but it worked good. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be installing Maywes Auger tube liner and Auger shoe plastic

I have a dog who can blow right through the invisible fence

Hold on. Is that yours?

Yeah , I hold the lifters up and pull the cam Been using the Kubota gray sealant on those -- seems to hold up well yeah no gasket -- same for the front tin cover

Look at the valve -- could be one of two types -- valve will be flat (closed) on the side -- or have a cover plate To add a second valve , if the current valve is closed -- you need a valve that is open on both sides -- if the current valve is closed, but has the cover plate -- you can use a single sided valve Seen a guy that is making 3 valve handle kits (long handle style), fairly reasonable -- you will need the second handle and brackets

I don’t think the liability minimums were calculated to include airplane crashes..

I'd try to set up a big pile of tannerite above the hole ....

If you equip a sickle mower with the right guards and blades I'd think that would be the easiest to run. Lightest hanging off the side. Throw the least amount of debris. Uncle George used to cut small branches along the field edge with the 110 balanced head mid mount upright on the M with no special attachments

But is it a turbo off a 560??? It matters ya know.

Since I am allergic I would wait until dusk or at least until they settled down. That is if i wasn't down from stings. Get a one gallon gas can full of gas and put in the pickup cab with me. Once I was satisfied with the cab door over the hole I would Crack the door open and give them a good drink. I had to do that 3 or 4 times a year while I was pulling a mower conditioner. I think the disk mower screws them up. I haven't been stung mowing since i got it.

I use a shop vacuum.

Which is who I want to sell to. If you sold a 70lb bale in the east, you’d get paid for 45. I actually have guys asking me to make them “look” bigger, but be lighter. If I could make a (solid) longer bale that weighed 35lbs, I would.

With our low humidity sometimes we have trouble getting enough moisture/dew to bale hay once it’s cut and dried down. It’s not unheard of to go out 3:00 in the middle of night to bale before the sun comes up. Only guys I know that make 40 lbs bales are the ones with wives with horses

Definitely a lot of loose ones in there for sure. A product of trying to rush things no doubt. Yeah, I know your baler will run at any RPM and never miss. Not my experience. The NH 316 was the best but even that got squirrelly at PTO speed. Even the IH balers worked (marginally) better at lower RPMs. Couple of years ago they were baling the 1st cutting off our pasture for their horses. They left one of the (20-something) kids there with no instruction, just "bale." I happened along on the 4 wheeler to see him running their 886 at 2600RPM and that Deere 336 baler tossing wads of loose hay everywhere. I had him slow down to 1500 and all of a sudden the thing started pounding out perfect bales one after the other.

YouTube to the rescue!!!

Rewriting thermo Tuesday… over 100pages doubled sided of practice problems since the last exam…

You can always mix propane and oxygen then add a spark.

Well took all the advice, so today I took a 3/8ths flat bar about 15 inches long. drilled a 1 inch hole in it, fit it over the pin, welded it, left drove around for a while, came back and started tapping the bar, little by ltiile it started to come loose, put a pipe on it and got more leverage and out it came, was going to do a 1 inch nut but for me to reach in and weld it, thought the flat bar would work, thanks

Inland WA a alf is 90 or nothing. But they have not hand bucked a bale since the early 70s.

So the good news photo's are back...

Hay moisture and type make a big difference. Still run a pretty worn 24t and it will make some pretty heavy tight bales depending on condition and type of hay. Always run it at pto speed as did dad when I was growing up with the 66 or maybe it was a 68 new holland?

I was just saying that’s what a modern baler will do. You can travel fast enough to make a bale in 4-6 seconds, at pto speed, without over working anything, and that speed relates to this topic, where guys assumed the wagon was traveling fast in the above accident. My balers will also do a 70+ pound bale in the same amount of time, but I am not interested in doing that. Lots of members on this forum are remembering the old NH 273 style Baler that their grandfathers had in the 70s, and lots of guys still use them and they definitely work. But they don’t cover the ground modern equipment can. Just like I know that I cannot cover the ground that a big square, Baler can. But that is the different market. how does a “oh my, my bales are 70+ pounds” relate to this topic exactly? Sounds like bragging to me

I've had luck setting up a hot incandescent work light (500W halogen does the trick) after dark near the entrance then flooding the nest with a garden hose. You'll get a swarm which will flock to the nearest hot thing, the light, then you'll have a nice pile of cooked yellow jackets and a wet hole in the ground. Best to watch from a distance with a folding chair and a fermented beverage of some sort.

I wasn’t going to say it out loud but bragging about punching out a bale every 6 seconds but only weighs 40 lbs is not that impressive

..the ''finger wave'' is still routine , down under....in our area anyway...along with PSA etc ...actually, I am off tomorrow for prostate check....so always polish the ol' freckle before heading into the Dr.... ...last time this happened....a very attractive South African(female ) Dr did the ''finger wave"'.....so as one is hunched up in the required position for this indignity, and with a woman crouched over one ...with her finger ...etc etc...she said .. ""Michael...you are very tense.."" Normally...I usually have plenty to say...but couldn't think of an immediate response...so she went on to say...''if you want another opinion, I can stick another finger up there..."" That time ..although momentarily stunned...(again.!!!).. I managed to croak out that I trusted her initial judgement and one finger was quite enough, thankyou.... Ah ..the joys of getting old.... Mike .....and a great outcome, Bill...I well remember you entreating ''us out there'' to get the prostate checked....and I heeded that good advice...

40 lbs would be on the light side for an alfalfa or alfalfa-grass bale but certainly not unheard of here. Some days with the high humidity it was wise not to make an extremely dense bale especially if hay moisture was marginal (15 percent or higher).

modern N.H. balers will eat hay faster than most of you guys would think. Older bigger ones would too, like a 282 or 320, but the 320 had the hi-speed feeder that wasn’t super robust. A 40-50lb bale ever 6 sec is comfortable. 4-5 is pushing. 7-8 is slow. 1066, 38’s, 4lo TA ahead. Pto speed.

Sling blade and county prisoners.

The safety factor that existed with older equipment is gone. The NH 270 baler dad had would shear pins readily in those kind of conditions. The thrower racks were on JD 963 wagons which would be airborne and all over the field. If pins did not shear then the PTO U joints would experience failure. The baler was well made but not meant for extreme conditions. And we baled reed canary grass smooth as butter.

Haste makes waste

Are those actual bales? Looks like loose hay

Atlas tractor in Minnesota.

Lone I did for the second time, after staking and sleeve retainer loctite, it came out again and caused a huge mess, I tacked a rod to the end of the dowel, got the cover all on and torqued then pulled the dowel, have had zero issues since, this one is a P pump with the lower support bracket so not like the dowel does really anything but ease of installation in this case. I can see the need for it where the cover is carrying the entire pump for sure. I honestly thought the staking and the sleeve retainer would do it it but nope! That one dange bolt above the oil is almost as bad, I've seen everything from some missing teeth on the oil pump gears to the pump housing being split all but in two!

Well, I just got a text on the engine. That deal is done and it even comes surrounded by a Rogator 854. Now to get the tractor to go with it.

@Chester5732 Not sure of an 806 but on the 756 we did I believe we used the original gas radiator, just had to get a little hose creative, if keeping the turbo get a manifold off like a 5140 and the elbow, have to shorten fuel tank but nbd, with a little turbo housing adjustment you go out the factor exhaust hole and a little fancy pipe work you can use the original air filter int the stock location. one of the tricky parts for us was throttle and tach drive stuff, also getting th fan spaced out right was a bit touchy, think we ended up using an 1896 fan hub bracket/assembly. I can't recall where you are from, Im in central iowa, tractor is up near Collins Iowa and I know you would be welcome to come have a peak and do some snooping

A nice 1972 Cargostar For Sale Former fire truck. Custom flatbed (not a dump bed). 9L IHC diesel, auto, under dash AC blew cold / needs recharge. LED lights. New tires. Picture of light drip rail rust. Mileage exempt- true mileage unknown. View and inspection by appointment . Please - no trades, no finance, cash only. No time wasters or endless questions. Seller will not ship but can assist with loading. Bring a tag and drive it home. If the ad is up, it is “available” so there will be no reply to that inquiry. Location is 35 miles south of Sebring FL off US Hwy 27.