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notjustair

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I was reading another post about an odd acting tractor and it got me thinking. How many of you have a "Bermuda Triangle" on your land? You know, someplace where everything breaks down.

There is a spot by the north brush pile that I avoid at all cost when I am on the Ford tractor. No other machinery has issues there, but 95% of the time that Ford is in that spot it dies for no reason. I can always get it going but the battery is nearly dead when I do. The land isn't sloped much or rough or anything. That tractor has NEVER stalled anywhere else - places with big hills, etc. One time dad was here hauling brush and I heard the tractor shut off. Went around the corner and it was that spot. There's something there but I don't know what.
 
'Farmuda'
I like it.
Mine doesn't kill my tractor or cause mechanical problems.
But I've got this one tiny little swamp - about 200' in diameter right on the edge of my field.
That darned swamp has beguiled me into driving into it more times than I can count. Like there's an invisible hand that takes control of the wheel and pulls it right in till I'm sunk to the axles.

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Last winter though we didn't get much snow so I had my chance while it was frozen. I went in there in February and bush hogged all the cat tails down.

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Can't say that I have a triangle anywhere on the farm, but I have been known to joke to people that my tractors are able to think and reason. LOL! Seems like every time a tractor leaves this farm it has a minor agrivating breakdown. The farther away from my shop and tools it is, the more likely it is to give trouble. Can't be my imagination, can it? Jim
 
I have a spot on the edge of the woods in an area that has too many trees to hay but is very sparse to be called woods. I have had two or three unexplained breakdowns in that spot over the years but the last couple of times I visited the malign forces did not seem to be at work.
Zach
 
I guess the whole farm! My farmall H dies all over the place, I put on a new coil, thought that would fix it, but after about 20 minutes it dies. I wait. 5 minutes and it starts up and runs, I checked gas cap, gas flow, carb screen, ect, all seems good, but it won't run for more than 15-20 minutes! Maybe condenser,?
 
I don't have a spot where tractors break down, but I have one that eats tools.
I generally refer to it as my shop.
It usually spits them back out as soon as I buy a new one. :evil:
 
I think mine is about 30 yards from the barn door. I was hauling wood with my 1937 JD B this afternoon. After several loads, spreading bark and ashes, etc. I was heading to the barn for the day. Naturally that's where I ran out of gas(never mind why I didn't check it first). Got more gas, float stuck and flooded everything. After bunch of hand cranking, cleaning spark plugs, etc.I got started again. Only took me 1/2 hour to drive the last 30 yards. nThat's my Farmuda Triangle today.
 
The sewer lagoon, if I get within ten feet of it mowing, I am stuck with three wheels in it.
 
I guess that explains it. I thought it was just the cold. I parked my tractor in the parking lot with the cars and this will be the third day trying to get it started again.
 
Not a place as such but,

Dad once had a 1941 Farmall M with a mag on it. THREE SATURDAY mornings in a row between 11:30 and 12 noon it cut off and had to be towed in. Would run fine all week but Saturday. Don't ask me why I HATE mags.
 
Anywhere where the tires of our International 1977 (bought new)674 stood. That tractor won first prize easily for breakdowns.Apparently earlier models were almost bullet proof but by the late 70's the Donny built tractors got an awful reputation.
 
Luckily the machinery always runs pretty well around the property.

My poor mans gator (golf cart) does seems to always quit at one of the four corners of the property as far away from the barn as you can get.

1/2 the time the kids would run it out of gas, easy rescue. The last three times the gas cap vent would plug from dirt.

No complaints though, it has been a great hauler and as saved me tons of hours.

Rick
 
Had a spot like that on a piece of ground we once rented about 15 years ago. Every breakdown we had was in that corner. All expensive. Flats that couldn't be repaired, hydraulic hoses, one hydraulic motor, etc. That place ate me alive. I remember actually calling it the Bermuda triangle.
 
yup got one of them

an acre of prime bottom ground on a peninsula where the river (creek in my book) comes through the farm.
just about every thing that i drive in there for the first few time dies including my pickup.

paul
 
I have an area in one of my fields that must have a spring under it. If you try to drive a tractor in that area anytime before about mid-June, you WILL get stuck up to the axles in just a moment or two. The wet spot is not apparent from the top of the ground. It took me getting stuck bad there TWICE to convince me to just stay away from there until it is really dry. Oh well, live and learn what works and what doesn"t!
 
Got a really bad case of air worms that eat the air out of all my tires. Got a batch of grease worms too.
 
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