acem Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Nice night. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Well, wasn't Red, it was Orange. here's my stupid story for the day. I was hauling some old crappy silver maple brush/logs down to the new brush-pile location with the 6080. I've been working on this as conditions allow for awhile now. Fuel gauge hasn't worked on this one since I don't know when! I get almost all the way to the pile. AKA as far from the house as I can get. The engine speeds up a bit, like you bumped the throttle a bit. I knew I hadn't but actually looked at my hand! Right where it was, nowhere near the throttle. It happened again, oh crap! I remember what causes that. Got her shut down quick. Hoofed it back to the shop, got about four gallons of diesel and threw it in the red truck. Really lucky, started right up, ran a little funky for just a short while. Wow, dodged a bullet there! Going to do a little research about fixing that fuel gauge. This stupid thing is really easy on fuel and only does loader work so you kind of loose track. Not the first time this has happened. Last time I was about three times as far from the fuel and had to bleed the injectors to get her to light. Supposed to be above freezing here for the foreseeable future so we might be able to get some of these things out and play soon? @billonthefarm is already churning dirt and I'm a little jealous! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billonthefarm Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 2 hours ago, DT Fan said: Well, wasn't Red, it was Orange. here's my stupid story for the day. I was hauling some old crappy silver maple brush/logs down to the new brush-pile location with the 6080. I've been working on this as conditions allow for awhile now. Fuel gauge hasn't worked on this one since I don't know when! I get almost all the way to the pile. AKA as far from the house as I can get. The engine speeds up a bit, like you bumped the throttle a bit. I knew I hadn't but actually looked at my hand! Right where it was, nowhere near the throttle. It happened again, oh crap! I remember what causes that. Got her shut down quick. Hoofed it back to the shop, got about four gallons of diesel and threw it in the red truck. Really lucky, started right up, ran a little funky for just a short while. Wow, dodged a bullet there! Going to do a little research about fixing that fuel gauge. This stupid thing is really easy on fuel and only does loader work so you kind of loose track. Not the first time this has happened. Last time I was about three times as far from the fuel and had to bleed the injectors to get her to light. Supposed to be above freezing here for the foreseeable future so we might be able to get some of these things out and play soon? @billonthefarm is already churning dirt and I'm a little jealous! We got 2” of rain the next day and it’s been cold since then. We are idle again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Didn't get any pics of the girls feeding while I was gone... Back from the woods and feeding hay with the 886. Then got stuck hauling off a dead cow... Forgot to take pics. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHandJDman Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Hay for the goats with the 1456 and an oil change for it also. I power washed the 1086 as it had manure all over from feeding hay this winter. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtfireman85 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Nothing very exciting, but it started readily at 15F shoulda had a bigger machine, was a near miss with a bus load of nuns and school children but she got it done. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billonthefarm Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Just moving stuff around. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 On 2/25/2023 at 6:50 PM, FarmerFixEmUp said: Like 86 series tractors and Cyclo planters. I like both of those products. We have a 1066 H and a 186 with a hair dryer currently. Had a 656 H from new until 81, since had two other 186 at the same time, one with the hair dryer and one without. They both left 6 years ago and I got my late uncle's 186 now 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 I was in the shop today most of the day. Neighbor @taylor1566 came over and put the decals on the 1566. I have a few things to get to finish up. Tomorrow Napa is supposed to have ends for me to make new battery cables and I have to finish the hood bolts up top. Was really hoping to get it out before but ..... 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafarm49 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Raking oat hayledge today and some more tilling 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 22 hours ago, bitty said: I was in the shop today most of the day. Neighbor @taylor1566 came over and put the decals on the 1566. I have a few things to get to finish up. Tomorrow Napa is supposed to have ends for me to make new battery cables and I have to finish the hood bolts up top. Was really hoping to get it out before but ..... I got the batteries on and made new cables and fired up the 15 but didn't get it outside yet. I have to mount seat armrest yet and wire the rear light. Wanted to drive in the snow and clean the tires off well the easy way 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafarm49 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 39 minutes ago, bitty said: I got the batteries on and made new cables and fired up the 15 but didn't get it outside yet. I have to mount seat armrest yet and wire the rear light. Wanted to drive in the snow and clean the tires off well the easy way Wow!!! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_Farmer Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 It's maple sap time ,so one of the 140's we have is busy hauling all the tapping supplies on the trails in the woods. Nick named "Woody" has a front blade,two side carry boxes for chains,saws,fuel and oil . Rear 4x4 ft. carry box for lines,fittings,taps ,tools etc. The tractor even stays in the woods in a small shed where the sap barrels are stored in the off season. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_Farmer Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, gafarm49 said: Wow!!! I got to pre- delivery these when new. Always the best part of my dealership years. This 15 is nice. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Fed cattle again... Yesterday I got the 886 stuck carrying a dead cow off. I wouldn't take a pic. Sorry. Sunny and 85F today. I sweated some. Thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Cam is currently on firewood duty with the 504. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 @bitty that sweet 15 needs a set of my reproduction battery decals! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKS Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Put a couple hours on my 1256 enlarging the snowpiles as I cleaned out my yard and driveway this afternoon. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepoweshiekfarmalls Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Took the Christmas lights off the 656 and moved it from in front of the house into the blue sky shed with the Hydro 100. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKS Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 I had to work on the throttle on my 434,it wouldn't stay any place other than idle so with good fight I managed to get the old bolt out and replace it. One of the fibre friction washers had crumbled so the spring was loose.My son has better mobility in his fingers to help get it back together Then this wasn't my Red Tractor but my cousin came with one of his 620 Quads and a huge pull dozer he made a few years ago and cleaned my road back including emptying the ditch on the windy side and peeling the snow pack down to within an inch of the gravel. He pulled all that snow out into the field adjacent to my yard and created lots of ridges so I shouldn't get much more snow for this winter in places that are hard to deal with. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_Farmer Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Switched tractors to collect sap. Now using the Kentucky 100 out in the trails. It's set up with two poly tanks. One length wise to the engine in front of the steering wheel. The other cross the rear with the transfer pump. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
460 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Put new Pioneer couples on the 656. Started it with fresh gas first time since December. Anyone know the difference between the 8 ball and 12 ball couplers? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
766 Man Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 39 minutes ago, 460 said: Put new Pioneer couples on the 656. Started it with fresh gas first time since December. Anyone know the difference between the 8 ball and 12 ball couplers? Not a lot of head room in that shed for that tractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkandcattle Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Not my pretty red one but my old ugly red one unloaded it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 3 hours ago, 460 said: Put new Pioneer couples on the 656. Started it with fresh gas first time since December. Anyone know the difference between the 8 ball and 12 ball couplers? 4 balls? 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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