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Mathew, I think that you are trolling your own topic. You came to us asking for help. Farmall Doctor took time out of his day to give you some very sound advice, including the specs for the flywheel step. Instead of being appreciative, you went out of your way to be antagonistic. It is like J-Mech reincarnated. Good luck on getting help on your future posts! PS: The way I see it, you have two choices. You can suck it up and apologize to the community and be welcomed back in good standing because this group is very forgiving, or you can double-down and attack me or others -- your choice. I honestly would like to see you continue on this forum because I am sure that you have knowledge which others of us can benefit from, and vice-versa. Have a great day! (I mean it sincerely) Red Tech

@DirtBoyz07 - Danny do you have a North Dakota branch also? snapped this pic tonight.

I finished my fall plowing this morning. Had a little headland strip that was blocked by 6 round bales. The bales shipped yesterday so I finished the field and moved the W-9 and McCormick model 70 home. It snowed just above our elevation last night, you can see it on top of Bald Mountain in the background. About 20 of this 30 acre field went under. I’ll plant orchard grass and alfalfa there next spring. The last ten acres will get broke up next fall. I used the SMTA and a Case 4 btm plow at a couple other fields over the weekend. This is a more comfortable combination and runs a little faster then the W-9. I plowed a little under 50 acres this year I spent some auction sale money today also. Bought a tandem New Holland rake setup. This will cut my rake time in half next summer! Its located in Ennis, MT so a bit of a ways away to pick up but the price was right for a hydro-drive unit. And finally, the A earned her keep a couple weeks ago digging taters. I dug four types and put almost six 5-gal buckets worth in the root cellar. So that’s my fall work wrap up of IH tractors on this Montana farm!

Either your flywheel is wrong, your clutch disc is wrong, or your pressure plate is wrong. Any which way it is, the way you put it together is wrong. But you already knew that. Not sure why it was easier to take it apart 4 times and then diddle around with homemade spacers then take the flywheel off and have it made right. Only to have to split it again prematurely to remove the spacers... No time to do it right but plenty of time to do it again. I know for a fact FarmallDoctor has plenty of better things to do then argue with someone online who isn't going to fix it properly no matter what he or any other mechanic tells them. I've got flywheels back ground incorrectly, isn't a big deal just messes the timeline you plan on up. Hopefully it lasts despite the unnecessary complicated repair

After a very long. Laborious process. The project has a new home. It's still a bit small. But I'll be moving all production of custom tings to the new 1800sq/ft shop. It took an act of God to purchase it. But it's finally in my hands. In about 2 months I'll have renovated the shop side and will be able to have production runs of guns and gear now. Shop side is cluttered and ugly. But it'll get there.

Wow, that is scary! Glad she didn't get hurt worse!! Makes you glad for airbags doesn't it!! That is why I want a dash cam in my new truck! The driver should not get away with that! He could easily have killed her!

A sheep research operation here was only about a mile out of town and were having losses - with no carcasses remaining. The next move was a series of "Warning. Radioactive Tracers in Use in these Animals" signs and losses fell to zero. There were actually no tracers in use but the logic was that the culprits were educated enough to know two things about radiation - 1. You can't see it, and 2. It sends you sterile

twostepn2001, your Spam items didn't excite me very much. But I've been eating REAL Spam since the early mid-1940s. I have four cans in the pantry right now! Every once in a while I get an urge for my world famous health food sandwich. Recipe: Two slices of multi grain bread, slather some Miracle whip on one side of one, and add this! I think some of the most appreciated Spam I ever ate was about 15 days after they removed the stage 4 malignant tumor from my skull, palate and my left upper jawbone, I was allowed to eat "semi solid food." That butterscotch pudding tasted great too. I had to do a selfie holding the spam at our little apartment where Sharon had slept while I was in the hospital for 11 days. My arm is where they got my "new palate" to suture into my upper mouth. And a patch came off of my left leg to cover my arm. And notice that 8-16 IHC Mogul on my shirt! But there's a crowd of Spam chef's here in the Helena area too. My dentist is the leader of the pack. He has all sorts of spam recipes. However, he was enviously jealous that I toured the factory's museum in Minnesota. Back in 2010, when I stayed at the "Byrne Bed & Breakfast," Roger took me there! (My dentist has a photo of me there too!) While I was touring the factory, Roger snapped this photo of me visiting with a couple of troops and General Eisenhower, discussing the blessing Spam was to our troops during WWII. And mostly women operated the plant during the war too. Ike said that US "flying boxcars" parachuted out thousands of cases of Spam over Russian cities during WWII. They had no source of protein there. And keeping this page on track, here is a little upright steam engine that had powered some kind of machinery in the factory that I'm inspecting. Gary😉 PS: I got this notice on Facebook:

That’s great , I am glad to have all of you representing Dirt Boyz Proving Grounds around the world 👍😎 I’m guessing Brady Boy must of signed him up so he must of passed the test , Billy is the Western Division representative 👍 Danny

Spam, or the various other 'potted meats" are something I never get tired of. During busy seasons when I'm in the tractor or combine all day I'll live on spam and pickle sandwiches. Or spam and tomato if they are ready to eat. I'll throw in a picture of a stook loader from Canada. Manitoba I think.

Wire stretcher for gripping and pulling wire.

I had posted pictures of this grainery last spring but can't find that thread, so, here's a new one. Yesterday I had the 856 out checking the anti-freeze. Beautiful day, spotted this old eye-sore, good time to get that on the burn pile. Got a chain and hooked up. Made it down the hill and across the grass. Had to cross one little corner of bean field. It sunk in and the bolt pulled out of the runner, crap! Of course, needed to get back to town, stuff to do before work. Thinking about it, decided to hook on with the 10, it weighs half again as much and twice as many traction tires. Drilled new hole for the bolt/chain. Hook up with the 10 after installing the quick hitch for higher hooking point, made it about six inches before the bolt pulled out again. Big surprise. What to do, back up the the yard, get truck, shovel and another chain. Wrapped chain around runner a couple of times. This time when I let out the clutch it followed. Slow process but it is by the burn pile now, will probably put the loader back on the 8 and hopefully push it in. Burn this winter after snow gets on. Few pics of the process.

Or how many women are involved!!! LOL! This is Runner after all!

Let's start off with the commercial side of things. Backup generac. Live air to power the whole shop. And a dust collector.

There are so many unqualified drivers on the road right now. I sure wouldn’t bet he even had sense enough to know he did it. Every time I go to Freightliner, there’s hardly any drivers who come in for parts that even speak English. The industry has been totally destroyed.

Pretty sure he was trying to help you bud. Take it easy.

Even if it collapses, the soil is still loose in that area, therefore, improved drainage. Can't really hurt.....

If it makes you feel better vt I had no clue.

I wasn't having much luck with the stock coulter on my 10" brinly plow and trash, especially bean trash as of late. I found a guy (Gary Blackman) who was selling notched coulters that help with trash. He lives about 45 min south of me so I went and got one yesterday. I can't wait to try it out.

Before my time but 1976 was a good year.

Looks a little rough, but listed pretty cheap on local classifieds. Looks like it still has it’s V8.

Found this picture of my great grandmother in October of 1955, thought I’d share. looks like it was taken outside of a dealership? And she’s sitting on a regular? Should’ve been taken around Steubenville, ohio

And if you missed it. We had to build a kitchen to make it legal.

I believe this is some sort of a bedroom...not much room for activities

Thankful that she’s OK. Scary stuff, and it can happen fast.

Dang that was a close one! So sorry it happened to her but glad she walked away. A now retired coworker had similar happened to him one early morning right in DesMoines. Spun his car completely around but not near the damage as your wife's. Same deal driver never stopped. He was able to drive away after he calmed down. We missed it by a few minutes drove by as he sat there.

Found this on the net Crescent Tool Co No 384-2 Cable Wire Grip Puller 1/4-7/16, 7,500LB USA

In this era of fast retreat to the primitive remember this for straining fences - You cut yourself a suitable sized tree fork with the stem about 3 inches diameter and trim the stem to about a foot long and the handles to suit, Then bore a hole through the stem. To strain a wire insert the wire through a hole through the post, then through the hole in the fork and twist tight with the fork. Then hammer a round tapered punch of suitable size into the hole in the fence post so it locks the tensioned wire. Unwind from fork and tie off. Then hammer the punch out of the hole and tackle the next wire. Makes a chain strainer seem high technology. Later And remember you'll be boring those holes with a man-powered brace and auger bit, so brush up on sharpening too

Its almost like J-Mech is back!!😳

Yes that is who they were. Surprising how something so revolutionary as modern skid steer was born out of necessity to clean turkey barns. It is amazing at what the modern skid steer evolved into. Way back in the day melroe claim to fame was a plow packer. Then they made harrows, drills another revolutionary product the spra coupe. This was modern fore father of all modern self propelled sprayers. They also made belt tooth combine pickup attachment and plows.

Sure hope you don’t need any help from here in the future, might have a little trouble getting help after that rant

Chain showed up. I’ll post more pics tomorrow but she’s on the mend.

Thanks for the well wishes. I combined some corn, and had rib steaks for lunch. Good day.

You guys are no fun.

I hate to be "That Guy", but it's my full-time job, and that's certainly not the way that I would go about it. You didn't measure the flywheel step? Hopefully your 'spacers' didn't put the pressure plate too close to the IPTO drive shaft and release bearing sleeve, and cause undue pressure on it and your crankshaft. You might be ok, but that's certainly not how it was intended to operate. Be attentive to how it operates, and I wish you luck.

Nice articles about him and the Year Around company in the Heritage Iron magazine recently.

Gramp talked about the Australians in WW2 frying donuts in mutton fat. Said they weren’t terrible hot but cold they looked glazed but it was waxy fat. This from the same people who think vegemite is edible, so consider their taste.

Don't forget to vote.....

IIRC Boris Becker managed in a janitor's broom cupboard

Depends upon how energetic the couple is.

Yeah I'm really looking forward to seeing how it does with trash. I had a heck of a time with the beans in the field I was at last month.

Wow indeed. So glad she is ok.

Yep, I understand things can go bad in a hurry. Went and got a new 3/8" chain out of the big trailer box for this job. That's the only job I've found for that quick hitch! None of my three point equipment is compatible with the top-link.

Remove seat, remove the lines on top of the valves. With the lines being steel, its hard to get much seperation between the valves. Do you have lines that go forward under the platform to the steering column support. If so alot guys throw them away if you not using a loader or cultivator. You just have to get shorter banjo fitting retainers from a tractor scrap dealer. Just my opinion. If you ever have to remove range cover, you will be glad those lines are gone. Just did one on a 806 bout a month ago. Cut the lines off and got the shorter banjo bolts.

Get the sleeve hitch, I've got a plow you can use. Todd Markle had an article in the magazine some time back about making a notched coulter. I always like his writing.

I don't have a ton of sheep knowledge. A few years ago I didn't know what a ewe was. Anyway, I break sheep into 2 categories. Hair sheep and wool sheep. Hair sheep shed out, wool sheep need to be sheared. There are pros and cons to all breeds just like with cattle, dogs, etc. We live within a reasonable distance to one of the largest sheep/goats auctions around. Allegedly they get trucked in from all over the place. Average farm size is very small compared to other states and many of the small dairies have quit dairy farming in the last few years. There is more interest in sheep then ever on these small farms and a bunch of these former dairies are building sheep herds. Run of the mill ewe lambs have been in the $600 range this year which is good money considering you should have a goal of weaning 2 lambs per ewe. Some intensively managed herds are getting 3 lamb crops per 2 years out of some of their ewes. There are tricks to this and not all ewes will rebreed for fall. Sheep do like to die. I feel that they hide their illness until they can't anymore. This is their natural instinct so they aren't the one picked off in the wild. I haven't had any predator issues yet but we bring them in every night and lambing takes place in the barn. I'm sure it is only a matter of time before a coyote gets one. Culling for parasite resistance and health issues is important. Strong record keeping is a necessity if you plan to do this. We have 4 seasons here so the parasites probably aren't near as bad as in the south. Sheep are very fertile seasonally and typically don't get preg checked. Those aiming for a fall lamb crop will preg check late summer and make appropriate decisions with their breeding program.

I believe the mole would follow the depth of the ripper? Theoretically you could set the mole higher if you had a way to attach it, but my assumption is it’s going to pull in a straight line from the attachment point.

l know this has been talked about before on here, but could somebody re-explain how one guy riding a mule could control the other 19? And what was the purpose of the guys riding on each wagon? BTW, l got this pic off a site that was discussing the old TV show "Death Valley Days" that was sponsored by "Twenty Mule Team Borax".

I stumbled into a storage unit that belonged to a toy dealer. Lots of treasures! I am sorting through them and securing some for myself. I am partners with another fella and he is selling the ones I don't want at flea markets and we are 50/50. Sold about 150 so far. I know some are Massey Ferguson toys, but I like those old ERTL tractors. Many were new in the boxes, but poor storage has ruined many. The 2+2 came out of a moldy box. The 5288 was in a water ruined box.