Loadstar Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Different story this morning. You could ride that sled in South Sask. this morning. Its pretty shallow and very unwelcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, Loadstar said: Different story this morning. You could ride that sled in South Sask. this morning. Its pretty shallow and very unwelcome. Wow, that's a kick in the shorts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poor farmer/logger Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Looks about the same here too this morning. Not what I wanted to wake up to that's for sure. Close to 3 inches I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 Gents that just isn't right, but as long as you keep it down there..... On a side note, heard from an old friend today. While working back in 2009 on the pipeline I got paired with a gent up from Montana. Turns out he was born and raised the next town over from my parents house. Then we realized that I knew his son who was the year behind me in the same school. Small world anyway, we always talked tractors and farming and he would come up for the season each year and bring me some tractor house magazines and other tractor ad magazines. Tractor porn my wife calls it. He retired last year and isn't coming up again. He called me and left a message, he was plowing with his farmall B and had one tire in the furrow. I called him back and we had a nice chat. What a nice twist to the day, which had been mostly crap. He told me some of his onions were up, I told him I was down to 12 inches of snow in the front yard, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyDairy Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Neat story. Funny chat at church yesterday. Talked to guy who is BIG fisherman. Every extra day is spent on the Sound or a river with a pole in his hand. Said I knew a guy in AK whom wants me to fish. His eyes lite up. He's fished somewhere there in the past. I said you live in Fairbanks..... He was like, "thats the middle of no where!" He owns a decent sized logistics Co specializing in cross border, inventory mngt, and AK stuff. He said AK makes TX look like a postage stamp. And Fairbanks is 8 hrs to anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 8 hours ago, TroyDairy said: Neat story. Funny chat at church yesterday. Talked to guy who is BIG fisherman. Every extra day is spent on the Sound or a river with a pole in his hand. Said I knew a guy in AK whom wants me to fish. His eyes lite up. He's fished somewhere there in the past. I said you live in Fairbanks..... He was like, "thats the middle of no where!" He owns a decent sized logistics Co specializing in cross border, inventory mngt, and AK stuff. He said AK makes TX look like a postage stamp. And Fairbanks is 8 hrs to anything. Lol sounds like my type of guy, and he very right about the size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted April 30, 2017 Author Share Posted April 30, 2017 So before my last trip up North i was running home at lunch and saw that they had heating pellets back in at home Depot, so when i got home it was zero and i figured if the ole white flat bed that was running now would start i would grab some pellets, hey what could go wrong? turns out more than I thought, on the run down to the store i lost the front seal on the tranny, and then smoked the C6 tranny, got to love the cheap deal i got. So yesterday i pulled the transmission, in the drive way on a sheet of plywood, and for the wife to help. She was a good sport but I really like to keep her state of mind focused on this should be done in a shop. the local shop will bench it reasonable, and while its there I will run through the T-case. and on a happier note yesterday was the first morning we did not have snow on the roof, spring is coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 Dropped off the tranny this morning. They called back, converter had let loose and dumped metal thru the whole thing. About the only thing reusable was the case and the pan, so off to my buddies when I was new to Alaska I started working for the local junk yard, and the family that owned it became my Alaskan family, so I stopped by and got a good C6 core and brought it over to the tranny guy. Now here is a dilemma, he has a Case 930 with a pretty whole in the block, but brand new rear tires, ok. I was looking at them and though hey! Will they fit the 460? Nope, they are 18.6-34 and the 460 runs 13.6-38 who would have thought the 460 had a larger center Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mader656 Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 6 minutes ago, AKwelder said: Dropped off the tranny this morning. They called back, converter had let loose and dumped metal thru the whole thing. About the only thing reusable was the case and the pan, so off to my buddies when I was new to Alaska I started working for the local junk yard, and the family that owned it became my Alaskan family, so I stopped by and got a good C6 core and brought it over to the tranny guy. Now here is a dilemma, he has a Case 930 with a pretty whole in the block, but brand new rear tires, ok. I was looking at them and though hey! Will they fit the 460? Nope, they are 18.6-34 and the 460 runs 13.6-38 who would have thought the 460 had a larger center New 34 inch centers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 1 minute ago, mader656 said: New 34 inch centers? Maybe, cause my tires are getting bad. But these are HUGE, and new tires are a bit pricey up here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Sounds like me. You see the "good" in everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 23 hours ago, AKwelder said: Maybe, cause my tires are getting bad. But these are HUGE, and new tires are a bit pricey up here If you could only find someone to weld a plate inside of the double bevel rims with holes in it to line up with the holes where your current rims clamp, maybe it would work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 23 minutes ago, bitty said: If you could only find someone to weld a plate inside of the double bevel rims with holes in it to line up with the holes where your current rims clamp, maybe it would work? Yeah, that didnt run wild thru my head i wonder if I would even need to dismount the.. never mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Englander Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 26 minutes ago, bitty said: If you could only find someone to weld a plate inside of the double bevel rims with holes in it to line up with the holes where your current rims clamp, maybe it would work? Where would he find someone to weld it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 1 hour ago, New Englander said: Where would he find someone to weld it? Used to find him at the bottom of a stiff drink (or several) of Wild Turkey or crown royal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 7, 2017 Author Share Posted May 7, 2017 She lives, pictures tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 okay, so the last week was spent working on the tranny, and since the T-case was out, well you need to seal it , right? and then when i got the tranny back I went to flush the cooler, and it was blocked. well it really could use a radiator so I replaced that, and of course the tranny lines were seized at the radiator so that was replaced, and some new lines installed. Well it should be winterized so we installed pan heaters on both the engine and tranny then the U-Joint cap fell off, so lets change that, but it was running today had to reset the exhaust manifold due to a leak, and there are a few loose ends, but we hauled a load of trash. cleaned out the cab, tossed a bunch of crap away, and came up with a list of more things to fix If i get a couple more "Cheap' things like this i may need to get another job to pay for the repairs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 And I have been walking past the 460 for a bit, and looking at the cast center and wheels, hmm So the Case 930 at my buddies is mine for $500, the whole tractor, and the rears are NEW, but a different size, will they bolt onto the axle until I can import new centers? and do they make 34" centers for the 460? and what about new rims? or can i use the Case rims? I will stop and get some pictures tomorrow oh the dilemmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 earthquake small one, hmm lets see what it registered later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U-C Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Hows the weather up there in Alaska? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new guy Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Just buy the 930 and fix it up too...never enough projects!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 been nice, we had clear skis all weekend, a few rain sprinkles last week and it hasn't frosted in almost a week. most of the snow is melted, just piles left ( and the real shady areas) still sunny now, and I think we have about 3 hours till sundown and then its back up early Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 9 hours ago, new guy said: Just buy the 930 and fix it up too...never enough projects!! Don't tempt me. Hole in the block. Nearest block is a few thousand miles away. Shipping! Oh boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 9 hours ago, AKwelder said: earthquake small one, hmm lets see what it registered later 3.8 and the epicenter was less than 40 miles from the house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new guy Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 1 hour ago, AKwelder said: Don't tempt me. Hole in the block. Nearest block is a few thousand miles away. Shipping! Oh boy Kinda funny...i know where another 930 diesel is with a bad motor and near new 18.4x34s on it too...and it has a good motor waiting to go in...and i want nothing to do with it ...but the tires are perfect....and i have no use for them either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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