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I sprayed foamed my shop and house. Both have 2x6 walls and metal siding. The contractor didn't recommend any vapor barrier. I would check with a local spray foam contractor. If you look on YT spray foam Jones has lots of videos on spray foaming. He's a contractor in Canada with strict codes so should know best. Different areas have different requirements due to humidity and temperature change. Some side points: we had hardly any flies or Asian beetles come in the house after foaming. Also, sound deadening is not as good. The house had almost no creaking after spray foaming. Mice were a problem in the shop walls- no more with foam. All in all I would do it again in a heartbeat even though its expensive.

I have this can of cream separator oil. I can’t get the cap off, but it seems to be a very light oil as some have indicated. Seems like there’s oil like this on eBay and other places for sale. I’m not surprised that IH branded a cream separator oil like other oils they sold.

Boxes like the brown Lawson's can be found at McMaster Carr or Grainger. I had about 15 of those for small parts.

Depending on how many you have, I used this setup for fasteners, hydraulic fittings, and plow parts. I bought the metal racks from Grainger but I don't think they carry them now. McMaster probably has them. The shelves are adjustable and 4' long, 1' deep about 7' tall. Particle board 1'x 4' is available any lumber store. The bins are from Grainger and come in different widths. As you can see some bins are plastic for heavy items. I like that I can store a lot in a small space. I hot glued the corners for strength, made labels from an Avery template, and then put wide tape around them to keep the labels clean and more strength. Make sure your tape ends at the back of the box otherwise it catches on the other boxes. 110 boxes fit on each shelf unit. I used over 10 of these for my business.

This is my personal experience with IH balers. Dad bought a 27 new in about 1966. The dealer was with it in the field the first day. (salesman, not mechanic) It seemed to take forever to get it to tie. For a new baler it never tied consistently. However, Dad was packing hay into it like it was a 57 wire tie and made bales about 3 1/2' long. Decades later, due to bleeding red, I bought a well-used 430 in the 1990's from a neighbor. Even after taking it to the dealer it too never tied well. Eventually I bought a well-used 440 all twine that came from a guy who went to big bales. The dealer never got it to tie more than 200 bales without missing. I bought 9000 twine for both. If IH had a kit to fix missed knots, the dealer should have known about it and installed it. All three balers were stored inside year round. A guy baled some hay off my field with a 445 that was a few years old but looked new and no problems with it tying. Regarding brand loyalty, there were few IH balers in my neighborhood despite IH dominating the market in most other equipment categories. I live in dairy country and even when haylage got popular most guys fed some dry hay. In fact, most of IH guys used JD. I had two neighbors who were mostly red, both had Deere. I watched them bale and those green machines rarely missed a bale. In the 1970's I bought some hay from a guy with a 24T which hardly missed a knot. Here's some other observations with these balers. Compared to other popular bales in my area from the 1960's on, (only ones where JD, NH) I feel the pickup on IH's was too narrow. Add to that they didn't seem to have much capacity. My neighbor would pound hay thru his 336 Deere. I would break shear pins pushing my 440. Of the three I feel JD had the best ejector/thrower. IH and NH along with most others launched the bale like a bullet from a gun. The problem I notice is when the wagon starts getting full, the launched bale would hit those on the load, and tumble then end up on the ground. So it was harder to get really full loads. A Deere baler gets under the baler and throws it up and back so has more of an ach coming in from above so there is less likelihood of tumbling. Those Deere balers were the first baler a lot of these guys bought. It went several hundred bales without missing. In conclusion, if I bought a small square baler, it would be green. I'm not one to give Deere credit for anything but around here they sold a lot of small square balers, and nobody complained about them that I'm aware. (I'm so anti-green, I wouldn't even marry a woman with green hair, red yes. LOL) By the way, another thing to check is the tractor drawbar. My 430 broke IIRC where the transport pin locks. Seems like drilling the hole weakened it there. Easy fix welding, but who needs down time.

I forgot to mention that you may want to put the t bolt clamps on it not regular hose clamps. that way you’ll be able to clamp it down tight and avoid it sucking air. Do not use heater hose or radiator hose. It will swell up as some suggested, also if it is suction side, it will collapse because it’ll get soft as suggested. That’s why you need a hose with the wire within it. And yes 1 3/4” is an odd size. I doubt if Paul would have it at new hydraulics – I sold him that business and I didn’t carry it .check anyway he may carry it from another supplier.

I used to work on automatic transmissions in cars. They had a similar snap ring to hold clutch packs together. I would use a snap on A173 radiator hose tool which is basically a Phillips screwdriver with a rounded tip set at an angle. You use it to get under radiator hoses to loosen them from the neck of radiators. It works really good getting those out because the end isn’t sharp so it doesn’t poke you so badly when it slips. Also, it’s great for peeling off rubber o rings or square cut or lip seals from the pistons.

It sounds like you have a suction return hose application here. It’s referred to as an R4 hose. This type of hose does not have wire layered like hydraulic pressure hose. Rather it has a wire spiral through it to keep it from collapsing under suction. It comes in quarter inch increments starting at three-quarter inch and goes up in quarter inch increments to 2 inch, and after that half inch increments, any hydraulic shop should have that could cut off what you need from bulk and you could simply just clamp it onto your tubes. I used to sell that hose that’s how I know.

I just noticed that Fleet Farm is caring IH merchandise. It seemed about they had before was JD. Maybe Case IH finally realized how important this stuff is to fans.

I'm new to the forum and grew up w/ red tractors. What a great question tractorshark! You got a lot of worthwhile replies. I think we all wanted to know that. And keithnea, if you're not a big IH fan, your questions merits consideration. Speaking as an ih fan let me share my personal view & reason why many others feel the same. First consider the color red. I sell snow plows and have guys that don't want a yellow(Fisher- Western's sister or Meyer ), orange (Curtiss), white (Blizzard, Western's other sister) on the front of their pride & joy. If I was an equipment manufacturer first order of business would be red color. People are impressed w/ red. In Wisconsin most 20th century barns are red. In a crowd of women who stands out? The Lady in red. Ask singer Chris DeBurgh (Lady in Red). What color of collector cars are worth the most, esp small sports cars? Red. (Prince sang about Little Red Corvette, not Little blue or green, doesn't even sound right) Then maybe white & black comes next technical are not colors. Next, consider some things IH did over the years. When new products came out they let everyone know. For example, Super MTA, 1206 Turbo, 656 Hydro. On the side of each of these new models up front were bold big letters telling the world about this product. In contrast, some JD tractors had the model hide back where you get on the tractor. (10 & 20 series) In addition, IH made gold demonstrators, black stripe models, the contrasting white on the new 1206, & the granddaddy of it all -- the 68 series w/ their dual chrome stacks & chrome shields. How could you not miss that. Better yet, today these models are sought after by collectors. Everyone else had turbos, hydros, V8's, but IH was market savvy in capitalizing on letting everyone know about their product. Furthermore, my experience w/ red fans is they want tractor & equipment that's simple, easy to work on. The tractors up to the 1980's were that. Many of you guys do you own major engine work, TA replacement, trans & rearend repairs. Or you have friends that do it. Recently I ran across a thread from a guy asking if he should stick several $1000's in a 706 for repairs. Overwhelming it was fix vs trade. I can't imagine anyone doing that to a nearly 40 year old tractor unless it was worth it. I grew up in the 60's & 70's and we had a few of ever manufacturer in the neighborhood. Today the red are about all that are left esp from the 1950's. Even JD from that era are not used much. I'm not saying they or others aren't being collected by enthusiasts, but what a testament to reliability when 60 year old tractors are still being used. Probably the biggest reason many aren't used more is they are not big enough (esp the trend here away from dairy to cash crops) and lack of options( LPTO, no 3 pt, ps, cabs, etc). Moreover, when you work on your own equipment, there becomes an attachment that isn't easily broken. Here's my take on part of the downfall of IH. Farming in the 60's & 70's was changing rapidly. Few farms, farmers, bigger tractors, equipment, etc. The number of dealers, and pieces of equipment was getting less. Add in the fact many parts of the country were practicing reduced & no tillage, Haylage replaced baling, Combining grain corn replaced picking. (The farmer renting my land does one past tillage in the spring- & does a better job then we did 40 years ago w/ multiple passes.) Everything is done faster w/ less labor. So tractors & equipment probably lasts longer. All the major tractor manufacturers were in trouble except JD. A tribute to them and the quality of their product. Will IH ever be back on top? I doubt it. It seems there are more short line manufacturers then ever- building quality tillage, planting or harvesting equipment. The competition is too great. So why is IH so popular? Maybe part of it is unjustified, but they built a lot of quality equipment that made farming easier. However, much of it has to do with the many comments found in this forum. I've found that no matter what you like in cars trucks, snow plows or tractors, some people will love a brand the next guy will curse. Much of it is perception. What a great forum. Thanks for letting me speak.