Ooof, off to a great start...

JRSutton · Oct 15, 2011

So I got the garage all cleaned out today and had the 4H kids come over to start in on the tractor project.

Backed the tractor in so we could get going...

... kids yelling "wait! Stop!"

Muffler was too tall for the garage door! Bent it right over.

I NEVER in a million YEARS thought that *I* would make that stupid mistake!!!!!!

I've laughed at many others for doing it. So I guess it's all that bad karma coming back on me.

And I of course had to do it with an audience.

Oh the shame...

snoop-nc · Oct 15, 2011

....and not just ANY audience at that!! However...your little incident will ALWAYS be a good lesson to those kids and they WILL remember it for the rest of their lives.

Have fun with the kids. How many are gonna be involved with the project? Please keep us up to date...with photos if at all possible...starting with some "before" pics showing bent exhaust stack.

Rick

Anonymous-0 · Oct 15, 2011

A muffler not that bad, but when it breaks the manifold, that is bad. Been there, done that.

JRSutton · Oct 15, 2011

Actually I had posted "before" pictures - maybe a week or two back. It's a super A.

I'll have to get some pictures with the new bend...

Thankfully the tube coming out of the manifold was pretty corroded, so it just ripped apart and folded over.

But yes, a good lesson for all.

Right now 4 kids, one of them being my son. (not to mention a few interested dads). I'm sure I could get more kids if I put the word out, but not sure I want too big of a crowd.
I think this group will work out well.

This is the first time we've done this as part of the club, up till now it's just been animals and gardening.

I'm hoping to let the older kids use this tractor to plow and cultivate the 4h garden.

snoop-nc · Oct 15, 2011

Now that you mentioned it, I kinda/sorta remember a picture. Had a glass pack muffler??

"...a few interested dads" sounds like more kids...just a mite larger in size!! Even at 4 kids, you'll have your hands full I expect.

Again...please keep us posted on progress. I have under my shed a '46 A that I learned to drive with. Don't have any sons, but one of the daughters says it is "hers" and when she is through with it, it will go to her nephew (my only grandchild...just turned 6yo in June). This daughter and I will be doing the "honors" on fixing up the A. I can say "It ran WHEN parked" 8-9-10 years ago!! BTW...I am 66yo.

Rick

JRSutton · Oct 15, 2011

That's the one!

Though it had the brand new muffler on it today... (luckily that's ok too -it was just the pipe that gave out)

Great to hear your keeping the tradition alive in your family.

My son is 13, he learned to drive pulling hay wagons with an M. This is pretty much "his" tractor. I have a daughter too, she's 11. She's driven the SA, but is still a little too short for the pedals.

She keeps telling me she wants a cub for christmas. (I keep telling her to get a job)

I'd actually love to get her one, but, hard to justify the high price everybody wants for them.

CNKS · Oct 15, 2011

I've done it twice in the last year, and I've been around tractors for 61 years -- both were brain malfunctions, no audience though.

Tom Fleming · Oct 16, 2011

Anyone who has spent any time at on on a tractor has done something resulting from a "brain cramp". It happens. All we can hope is that they are minor incidents and do not involve personal injury.

I posted a story a while ago about pulling small stumps with our SM. One stump decided to be cantankerous, and the front end went up. got the front wheels about 4' off the ground, I got scared and shut the tractor off with the front end off the ground. So, I sit there for 3-4 mins filling my britches. I still don't know what posessed me, but I pushed the clutch in. Front end came down and blew out both front tires. Didn't break anything else, but scared the livin' bejebers out of me.

If Dad were alive he would still be givin' me heck about that bone head move..........I can't tell you how much pleasure it gave him telling that story over and over and over again.........

ps: I was 14 at the time

Solid Labor · Oct 16, 2011

Thank god it happens at the beginning and not when you where taken it out after they finish it.

Jim Paterson · Oct 16, 2011

"Kids, I did that for a very important reason....."

agonair · Oct 16, 2011

They will never forget and will be telling that story for years to come!

Cue P. · Oct 17, 2011

At least it was the muffler and not a knock to the noggin !! Good luck on the remainder of the project.

Ooof, off to a great start...

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