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Just not going the repair route. Its really hard to work in that small space thru the access panel yet. Its getting cold soon and I have no heated shop. I can do repairs but this aint one of em. I was going to go to the same stuff Im using in my 784 which is a J20 46 to 68 vi as opposed to the 32 AWG Ive been using AND use the Stop Leak which they say to put in first. I had been using a Hy Tran clone like that before. Yes it does go full 360+ thats the purpose of the "manifold" which is a kind of ring collector on a silo unloader. Lots of special O rings in there. It took me a long time to figure out it wasnt a hose fitting. Its just oozing out the seams in this cylinder-like collector.

I can see that yes. But I really cant use it the way it is and fixing it properly just seems like a bridge too far given all the issues with the truck its on. I just need it to last a little longer before it hits the scrap heap. If that gets me there then a cheap fix might be worth it. Thats my reasoning anyway. If it does anything at all which Im a little skeptical of.

I have an 80s era Hi Ranger/Terex 4E bucket lift. It works but has a leak such that if I let it sit for more than a couple weeks the fluid drains out of it. It appears to be a slow oozing leak in the rotary manifold in the center of the pedestal. I expect it needs rebuilding but frankly after watching a video on it I think its beyond my ability to get it out and do all that touchy work. I dont use this thing much anymore so unless Id drain it over a couple months the whole thing regularly drains out. Its been suggested that I try Lucas Hydraulic Fluid Booster and Stop Leak. Ill probably give it a shot but Id like to hear what you guys think first. Also, Im using factory recommended AWG 32. Will higher viscosity help even a little? What can I get away with? I never use it in cold weather. https://www.lucasoil.com/product/hydraulic-oil-booster-stop-leak/

Sometimes you dont know whether to laugh or be horrified...

Have you ever seen any of the Kick A$$ movies with Nicholas Cage?

And it is still there! Too bad the pics are still not working.

thats only one field and then not al of it. Most of the flood zone is now in the CRP and previous tenants were paying the higher rate for the all of it including the worst areas which are not out of it. My beef has been that he waited until it was too late to find a new tenant to make the demand and then there was the secondary SNAFU with the county over the bad property lines that could not be corrected before the signup period ended - again because of the late notice. Now he comes running wanting me to sign a new lease the night before he wants to spread manure on it. Sorry! I was already shopping it around by then. Now Im just waiting for him to get his wrecked wagon out of the marsh grass field. Not that it matters. The new prospective tenant does not even want it.

Maybe all is well. Found a dairy farmer willing to take it and even plant alfalfa on it! Imagine that!

I think it has something to do with taxes. Im completely out of the loop on this.

UPDATE: Tenant emailed me yesterday in a rush to get a new lease signed NOW so he can apply purchased manure. This after I only gave him a one year renewal last year after delaying until April and then demanding a cut in rent. I told him NO and I told him why. If hehad given me fair notice about that in fall 2024 I could have shopped it around and/or gotten it into the CRP. But as I already related the field he demanded concessions on had GIS mapping errors and FSA refused it and the county refused to admit their errors but there wasnt enough time to get a surveyor in to refute that. So, no alternate renter and no options for 27 as well I took his offer under protest. NOW, I have plenty of time to find a different renter and can probably get full prise or more. CRP is dead in the water at least for 27 now with no new farm bill but again if he had given me decent notice I could have gotten it in for this fall even with a survey. Just tired of getting jerked around. Toying with the idea of quickly planting it to winter wheat but we have not officially been farming it and my wife is balking at all the paper work we have to do for that. This amazes me more than just a little. Any comments on that?

PTO work was what they were good at but plowing in our heavy clay soils put them in the shop for rear end trouble. If they hadnt come out with the newer series it would have ended them right there. Finding a used working 190 is a rare thing today.

AC was kept alive by Gleaner. The 190xt really hurt them. Jack Daun in Chilton WI was a huge Gleaner dealer but sold really few tractors. Ironically he and his new partner took over the IH dealer in the early 80s. Today they are gone too. I can count, Chief in Oshkosh, Miller in St. Nazianz, Hingis and Chilton, C.J. Klienhans in Cablesport and Fond du Lac. Theresa Implement and Weyers in Kaukauna. Today Weyers is the only one left standing.

This seems a bit late to me. I quit at the end of 86 and I still remember test driving a 1086. Something I doubt I would have done that year given that I had my auction in November. I could be wrong but Id put it 83 or 84 when I first saw one.

Oh we have a lease and he did not break it but it was up for renewal last year. We had discussed renewal and I thought we had a deal to let it ride as is. But he delayed and in April(?) he said he wanted that field for $50/acre less. We really didnt have a lot of choice by then so we agreed on a one year deal only figuring wed just get it into the CRP. Thats when we found out about the acreage boondoggle. Not sure if the program is open for enrollment now yet but wont have the paper work and filings done for a couple weeks yet. Im currently considering putting all the rest of it in and just not dealing with renters anymore.

I see that all the images I uploaded here have been disabled. I dont know why. They are all publicly available on government sites.

Just an update.. Spoke to the surveyor and while the paperwork and drawings are not complete Im actually getting my land back! The surveyor thought that the county's interpretation of the deed was kind of comical. Yeah, he can afford to laugh cause Im paying him to fix it. It has taken 5 months from the time we first were told by the FSA that the strip wasnt ours and 2 months in the hands of the surveyor. The problem started when in 1935 the State put in a new highway south of the old gravel county road and that abandoned acreage was never officially claimed by the original owner. But the government still recognized is as part of our field as late as a 1998 conservation plan which was probably when the owner at that time put it into the set aside (or what ever the program was at that time). Then came the State GIS mapping system and counties had to load all the property descriptions into it converting it from english to real geometry. Whoever read that deed or by what ever means they ignored the added acreage along the highway and took the original 40 and floated it to the new highway which sucked my eastern border to the west. Nobody checked to see what that did to the neighbor's property either. Ive also discovered that the GIS lines are not tied to the tax parcels either so effectively 3.15 acres disappeared off the tax roles which as an added reward Ill get to pay now in addition to all the survey and legal fees. But at least Ill get to put it in the CRP now. One last note: Last year the tenant demanded a rent reduction due to low yields on that area. Not surprising as its all low land and it flooded on him. This year with the rent cut by 1/3 its been really dry and everything looks great down there! Maybe he will be so happy that he pays me the extra $50 now? Not holding my breath. But I do know that he doesnt want me to take it away from him now. Go figure.

Id really rather not deal with any of this. When I bought the place it was all just sitting fallow. The old guy owner just stopped cropping it. It was great! Deer and pheasants and ducks all over. You can see some of the CRP land in this last photo which is getting back to that. I wanted to put the rest of it in this last year but was prevented by some bogus property lines drawn by the knot heads at County Planning causing it to be rejected because I supposedly didnt own it all. Now thousands of dollars into a survey and legal fees Im getting it back. I dont even know if that program is still available but Id do it just to not have to deal with all of this.

This just keeps getting better and better!

It has been a very hot and dry summer in easter Wisconsin. We are something like 8 or 9 inhes below normal rain fall. Despite that the corn is really tall here. The only thing I can figure is that the nights have been very humid with a lot of dew. I was listening to a WPBS radio program with a couple of climatologists yesterday who were talking about how there is so much corn out there and that corn is really terrible for regulating its water intake that "corn sweat" has actually become a factor in predicting dew points and humidity. It appears that all that moisture has ironically been enough to sustain the crop this year. Normally with that little rain you would expect to see short stunted burned plants but Im only seeing that aaournd the outside edges of the fields. These are really strange times indeed.

Hey at 73 what have I got to lose? Im already a film star! The film Im in is showing in Dallas this week at the theater that Lee Harvey Oswald was captured in. How bizarre is that? I doubt Id go blind.

I think we should buy and old school bus, paint it like a Farmall and go down there like a bunch of old hippies! Might be the last wild thing Id ever get to do! Oh to be young again!

Wel let me konw if you are gonna go. Id need some encouragement.

OK why dont you tell us how you found out about this? A little recreational googling maybe? For my part Ill admit to being curious and if given the chance Id go as a bucket list act of defiance to old age but Id never convince the wife to go. Im told its like $400 admission. Lots of big shots like Elon Musk hand out there.

Yeah and back in the day I used to read Playboy for the articles...

thats where I ran my IH 45 at. Seemed to be a sweet spot there where everything worked right.