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PO put duals on one side of MH clipper combine, I need to burn off outer wheel and replace inner one today.

I want to get the outer hubs and rims sanded on MH44 so I can put final coat of paint on this week. I am out of hardener, so need to get more. I get the small cans so it does not go bad as quick.

Might mow some weeds.
 
David hows the 44 coming along? I have the chance to buy a 44 Diesel. . .not sure I know enough about them though lol. There was an unstyled JD B for sale east of Marshalltown on 30 the other day. Maybe I should buy that instead, I can handle those.
 
If you don't want to read OT topics, don't click on them. If only tractor posts were allowed, there wouldn't be much activity on here. There is a vast amount of knowledge available from the people on this forum who will freely share it and try to help you out. I enjoy most of it, if it doesn't interest me, I move on to another topic. I like it like it is. Chris
 
The MH44 is really about completed. I need to get the air cleaner hooked up, fabricate an attachment from the lift cylinder to the 3pt and add some hydraulic remotes. I have a leak on one rear wheel seal, and the rear main where I used permatex instead of side seals. I will work on those two this winter.

Next year is new tires for the H and start on the MH clipper combine restoration. I am just doing enough on the combine this year to get it moved into storage. The tires are SHOT and I need to pull it 4 miles.

I would not mind getting an unstyled B. My dad had a 36, but sold it, I had a 1951 with M&W pistons, sold that for college money. It will be a couple of years off.
 
Hi if there wasn"t off topic posts this place would be very boring, Tractor tales, and a few other boards just booted some of the more colorful members out, now it"s a job to find something interesting/ or funny to read, and all the funs gone!.
those guys always had some banter of some sort going on and it"s dead now , yes some was getting close to the mark but don"t read it if ya don"t like it.. Basically there is no free speech anywhere now a days.
I have found on forums before when the noose gets tightened you loose the fun, knowledgeable members and the forum becomes more cliquier than ever, and the good guys move off and it"s the same few own the show all the time. This happened with the U.K farm toy forum a few years ago, it ruined a good forum and very few are there now. i hear there are guys from here gone to face book discussions to that seems more common now as they can admit who they want not everybody can join.
Please be careful what you wish for with forums.
as all of a sudden they implode and go dead.
Regards Robert
 
I like tractors, but I like other things too. If you're sitting in a coffee shop, talking to another farmer, I bet you talk about more than just farming.
I think that this would be a pretty boring place without the OT stuff.
 
(quoted from post at 09:59:53 08/03/14) If you don't want to read OT topics, don't click on them. If only tractor posts were allowed, there wouldn't be much activity on here. There is a vast amount of knowledge available from the people on this forum who will freely share it and try to help you out. I enjoy most of it, if it doesn't interest me, I move on to another topic. I like it like it is. Chris
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hat he says ^^^
 
If you have to use one every day like some of us do and operate them all day over rough fields you get tired of talking about them after awhile. I just got done using one to rake hay all morning and I sure don't feel like talking about one right now. Rather here what the other guys around the country are cooking for dinner or what is going on with them. Just my 3 cents.
 
Just the reaction by others when this is suggested is entertaining, I think we need more posts suggesting less off topic posts, it does stir the pot doesn't it? LOL !

I can imagine way back when, or at some time since this forum has existed, conforming to the topic in a more orthodox manner may have been ok for awhile or at different times throughout but there is something to be said for variety too, lots of things associated with tractors, the land, the farms, the crops, the livestock, the shows, the parades and many of them change seasonally.

I think the mold is good for awhile, then needs to be broken, a new one made, repeat as needed, but what do I know anyway LOL !!!!!!
 
The average day will have three pages of posts. I only read the ones I am interested in. Of course half of the people here hide the topic with a title that does not give a person a clue what it is about. Read what you want to read and forget about the rest and of course:

"Who are you to impose your will upon others"
Denny WIlliams in 1988. Good advise then, just as good today.
SDE
 
I learn something everyday. Did not know Massey 44 TRACTOR had a diesel option. Is the TRACTOR engine a Continental.
 
A gun forum (that I used to frequent) became a stickler for staying "on subject", even in the general area. As of now, it has practically become an abandoned Detroit with limited posts and VERY dull and boring.

I don"t participate or create much of the off-topic stuff, but I would hate to lose a lot of the knowledgeable people on these forums by boring them to death with the same old questions and discussions. If I have to skip over the posts in which I have no interest or curiosity, so be it. (Since the dues are so low here, I certainly get my money"s worth of tractor information!)
 
I like it the way it is right now ! Lots of
interesting topics, and a fine assortment of
interesting replies.
 
I understand where you are coming from but I have to say that reading these off topic posts has honestly taught me a lot. I'm young as most know and honestly I value those discussions because it gives me insight into things I may come across in my future or others views of life. Those things cannot be picked up just in a causal passing conversation. Plus I work so much that I don't have time to talk but I can read while at work. So I am for the OT conversations.
 
I'm someone that started each day in 'tales' but now adays there are lots of cobwebs down there since many of the colorful people have been booted. Somedays there's even a echo from empty space instead of a noisy party.
 
There's a dozen different forums for tools, implements, IH tractors, crops, paint, restorint ect. Most choose one of those for their ag topic. Use this one for OT posts. Stick with the "Farmall and IHC " forum if all you want is to talk tractors. Don't bother opening this one up.
 
A couple of decades ago after not going to church for couple of decades, I decided to go back, and since it had been decades, go to confession to confess my sins. I went in and knelt down, the light went on in the priest's cubby hole, he slid the wondow open between us and asked me to confess. I started telling him jokes. "Did you hear the one about the priest and the lawyer that went fishing at the topless beach?", stuff like that. He wanted to stay on topic, but what the heck, we only live once, so I kept telling him jokes. That was a couple of decades ago, and I don't go to church much, mostly because I ran out of priest jokes to tell the guy.

Mark
 
For those of us old enough to remember the ot's here are just about like the nail keg with the checker board on top that sat in front of the pot bellied stove at the general store way back when. If you don't care for the topic or the poster just move along. That's the way it was done 50 years ago and it still works the same way now.
 

Ted, maybe you have a problem with your computer. Most of them allow you to read a title which tells you the topic so you can skip over it if it doesn't interest you. What I can't understand is why people put OT at the beginning of their titles as if the title didn't tell it.
 
Im kinda new here and I found the place while looking for antique tractor forums... but I find it to be a bit of a pain looking through 3+ pages of O/T topics per day if I want to follow a particular tractor/implement related thread... and as a result Im not as active here as I usually am on other forums. While I do enjoy some O/T activity on any given forum this place seems to have far more O/T than it should... imo.

BUT... being new here also means I dont know many ppl very well yet so Im focused on mainly machinery related topics and not what everyones day-to-day activities.

Not complaining... just a point of view from some new guy snooping around;)
 
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