Plowed snow this morning

DRussell · Feb 12, 2019

We got 5-6 inches overnight. The VAC is the best cold weather starting machine I've ever seen. No choke, just touch the starter button and it starts immediately. After it starts pull the choke till it warms up. I suppose that's not too bad for a 68 year old machine.

grandpa Love · Feb 12, 2019

Nice setup you got! Love to see old tractors working. But please keep the snow. We don't need it in Central AL.

DRussell · Feb 12, 2019

The snow isn't too bad where I live now. Up where I used to live in the Lake Erie snow belt it would start snowing about Thanksgiving and wouldn't stop till mid February. I did not enjoy going to spread manure with 4 feet of snow on the ground. I've got a niece who doesn't live too far from you, she always talks about how nice it is in the winter down there.

grandpa Love · Feb 12, 2019

It's been a mild winter here. Probably 6-7 nights below freezing. Not normal. It was 75-80 couple days last week. Where do y'all live?

farmer656 · Feb 12, 2019

Grandpa love , I emailed you a couple weeks ago about and 860 I have that I will let go cheap.

grandpa Love · Feb 12, 2019

Just hunted up the email. Don't know how I missed it.

coshoo · Feb 12, 2019

Hydraulic lift and angle, and a tractor that starts in the cold. It doesn't get much better than that.

Goose · Feb 12, 2019

My dad and I each had a VAC back in the day.

They were two tractors we could always count on to start in cold weather.

In fact, my dad used to belt his VAC up with his Oliver 70 to start the Oliver to run his feed grinder. I never did figure out why he didn't just belt the VAC onto the grinder. It would have easily handled it. But-he was a rather rigid creature of habit.

DRussell · Feb 12, 2019

We live near Harrisburg, PA.

DRussell · Feb 12, 2019

That's for sure. I converted it from eagle hitch to three point and added the three external remotes. It turned it into a very useful machine.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 12, 2019

Maybe he tried it once and it wasn't fast enough for him? When I was very young my father would belt the AC WD45 to the hammermill. The tractor was considerably more powerful than a VAC, and you could work the snot out of it if you really poured it to the hammermill.

Denny K · Feb 12, 2019

VAC, the little tractor that could. (remember the childs book "The Little Engine That Could")
I grew up on one. What a little work horse.

rusty6 · Feb 12, 2019

Thats a great starter. Much better than the DC4 in my shed. It was an unpredictable starter all it's life and the last few times I tried it there was no amount of pulling around the yard that would get it to fire up. I call it my "pull type tractor".

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