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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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Friend called asking if I could haul a tractor for him. About 140 miles round-trip. I picked him up this morning and away we went. I didn't know a farmall 560 was that big! Oh well glad that it is college football season and the police were all busy watching Bama play! Lol. Nice straight diesel tractor. Looks nice in his collection.
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Bottom Line,

You tied it in about the worst way you could.

OK, you got straps, will not go there.
 
Clemson had one of those when I went to work there in the early 80's. That was one powerful pulling machine. I wish I had bought it when they sold it. It would have made my sawmill hum.
Richard in NW SC
 
What model AC is that in the background? I worked for a fellow years ago and used a D-12, I loved that little tractor.
 
Page 12891 paragraph 3. Line 6......as long as there is college football on TV the dot will be watching that instead of you! Lol. Also states that straps are fine in Alabama....
 
Why dont you just Be safe,,and just post pictures of Grandmas cooking ,arts and crafts,carpenter work,and her tractor work.Grandma has never ever gotten a bad review!! Now go show Grandma this post,,I dare you !!!!(lol),,
 
I had a 5x10 homemade trailer back in the nineties and a s-10 blazer went to the quarry and don't remember how high the sides were loaded it full of gravel got stopped by DMV officer who asked me how many gravel I was hauling I told him I didn't count all of them he didn't thimk it was funny but told me to get the h%&* on the way.
 
Hey Larry, Grandma and I got a good laugh out of that! She didn't go on the tractor adventure yesterday. The tractor wouldn't go past the trailer fenders so we left the sellers house. Within a mile I realized that the back of the truck was sitting way too high and every bump in the road made the gooseneck hitch slam down onto the bed. We had to find a good flat spot and figure out how to move the tractor forward. Luckily I had a bunch of cutoffs from Friday's deck in the truck and we could get the tractor up on those. The tires would squeeze in enough but the rims wouldn't! Lot safer to move it up and forward.......
 
In Virginia the quarry will not over load a truck/trailer,if the driver gets an overweight ticket the DOT man can and will go back to the quarry and write the dispatcher a ticket
for sending it out overloaded.DOT even writes overweight tickets for pickups with firewood if overweight.
 
Glad I live in Alabama! Dot , police,ect will pull you over to ask if you got any firewood for sale. Or to get a better look at your old tractors.
 
good thing to do on a football Saturday.
fwiw, my 560D with wide front end and loaded 16.9x38 back tires, weighs just under 10k#. that surprised me the first (and only) time it went over the scales at a pull.
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This one has rear wheel weights. Seller had no idea if tires were loaded. Any way you look it was heavy!! We figured at least 9000.
 
Could use a little of that mentality here in Ohio as I am sure just about every load is overloaded. Years back was getteng some gravel and told them how much I wanted, Loader guy started dumpin and did not stop when he could have seen the truck was getting overloaded with way more than I wanted. 1970 half ton GMC pickup, think I ended up trying to get 3 ton home. Waving and doing everything I could to get him to stop just kept on dumping. When I was finally able to get him stoped the springs were bottomed out and the tires were only a third their normal height. Could not get them to remove the exxecs so had a terible time getting home. Anouther time I did manage to get some shoveled off.
 
Most quarries here have a very high pressure water hose so they can wash the excess gravel out of a truck or trailer that won't dump,also the loaders have scales so they get pretty close on weight.
 
I hired a guy to haul the 4020 once he through a 3 inch strap over the front axle and a 3 inch strap over the drawbar and away he went
 
Thanks again, for your help, Kevin. This thing was far more massive than I expected. The wheel weights are doubled on each side AND there is water in the tires. That became evident on the test drive. In the good news department, the T/A decided to start working. The seller told me this tractor sat up for years before he got his hands on it so maybe it just needs limbering up some. Now begins the task of cleaning years of caked-on grease and sludge and fixing the scabs and other temporary field-fixes. This thing has at least a box of wire nuts all over the wiring harness and speaker wire patches in places!
 
Farmerjohn, that's my good friends 1966 Series II D-12. Its a fine tractor and it belonged to his Dad. These two tractors ( my 240) farmed side by side when we were kids. Its a proud feeling to see them all prettied-up and sitting side by side again. He and I have restored these two and another Cub this year.
 
interesting that the headlights are in the front by the grille. on both of my Farmall 560s and the parts 460, they are on the back end of the hood.
 
Yes, sir, they have been moved. They took the lights off the back and welded them to a small piece of plate, drilled a couple of holes an re-mounted them. I think I like them like that, the more I look at it.
 
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