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Yes the Buda 273 six cylinder was a smooth sounding engine. The Cockshutts were also sold by Co-op or CCIL with Co-op decals and their own unique orange paint job.

Thats the model 50 my dad bought used in 1960. Still got it but since I sold the cattle herd I don't need it to run the hammer mill anymore. The 40 Cockshutt had the same pulley as the 50. That fibre pulley never slipped but the steel ones on the hammer mill sure did. I kept belt dressing handy all the time on that job.

I've never known of an optional belt pulley size on the Cockshutt tractors I grew up with. All fibre pulley. The main things it ran was the Case hammer mill and the firewood saw. The saw didn't matter much on rpm as we never ran it full throttle on that job. The hammer mill stated a recommended rpm in the manual and the tractor manual also listed the belt pulley rpm. I'm not sure if they matched up to the correct speed but the hammer mill ground up the feed just fine.

Nice patch job. That looks like the same places I see holes in mine. Seems like they could have designed that spot better so that grain could not accumulate there.

The most noticeable rust holes I see on this one are in the tubes of the cross augers. That area where grain settles and never gets moved unless it is cleaned out by hand or air pressure. In this picture the blue arrows point to it.

Thanks for the idea. Defintely somethng to look at on mine.

I guess I did too good a job cleaning out the grain hopper on the "new to us" 1680. I've found some rust holes down near the base of the vertical auger. This combine has obviously spent some of it's life outside with rotting grain down in those corners. I'm thinking some thin sheet metal and pop rivets would fix it. Also got some drone video of the combine at work on the channel.

I've never dried grain. Yes, there will be some penalty at the elevator for tough grain most of the time but its better to have it in the bin tough than laying in the field taking a chance of getting it snowed on. That was my logic when it got to be October. As it turned out I could have waited a couple of days and then harvested the last field dry but thats quite a gamble this time of year.

Finished spring wheat harvest yesterday, October 20 and that was the only day the wheat got down to dry at 14.5%. The 1680 performed well and no problems. No surprise it burns a little more fuel than the 1660 but it has quite a bit more capacity. The 30.5x32s do have good floatation and traction in the mud and only got stuck once on the first field.

Guess you didn't get as far North as "Whoville". Home of the King of obsolete.

My exhaust temp gauge has been doing that for years on my 7130. When the fuel gauge starts to get low it will also flash every other bar.

Finished yesterday afternoon October 20. The wheat was finally dry that day. Prior to that I'd done most in the 15-16% range due to rain being forecast for the weekend. Now the big cleanup of machinery and other things that need to get done. Got some harvest video for the yt channel to edit including some great drone video that my truck driver shot.

I did see signs where somebody had tried drilling into the outside of the elbow with tiny drill bits but no sign that they finished the job.

I had posted a while back about a leaking input shaft seal on the final drive of the new to us 1680. We did get a new seal installed and put over a hundred hours on it with no more leakage. New question today is about the top elbow of the unload auger. I know the 1660 had a grease fitting in behind that removable panel that I greased. This 1680 has the same panel with a "100 hour" sticker on it but I can find no place to grease in there. Am I just not seeing it or did somebody modify this to not require grease?

That would have been a good way to keep warm today. Man that Northeast wind was cold here at barely 40 degrees. No precip yet but I'd guess its coming.