farmallb

I gather from your posts that you are a 'newby'. Thats OK. You seem to have little to no experience or knoledge about farming and equipment.Thats OK,we all had to start there too.We are glad to pass along our knoledge to assist. Now,I suggest that each time you buy a piece of equipment,as soon as you get it home,you immediately order the appropriate booksAll the manufacturers still offer books for their older equipment.JD and NH are especially good. E bay,and Jensales are two exelent scources,altho JenSales quality is as good as it should be. BinderBooks for your IH equipment is the place I go to for my IH equipment.Those books are the 'cheapest' thing and most useful thing you will ever buy for your equipment.That book will save you countless hours,and possibly hundreds of dollars,as well as letting you use the machine properly to do good quality work..I still(after 40+ years of farming) order a book each time I buy a new (unfamilar)piece of equipment. I'm always surprised that there is something I hadn't priviously known before. Knowledge is power.You gain that knowledge(and power) by reading the books. Order them,start a 'library' in your shop and refer to it often.So happy farming ,read and study.You will be richly rewarded. Steve in Western Colorado. Sorry for the long 'sermon'.

Steve so how far it the BIG FIRE form you have you been affected ? Just wondering looks like a mess to us eastern types .. LOL

Steve, that is very good advise.

We are in Southwest Colorado. The fires are in north northeastern Colorado. West of Fort Collins around Estes Park. The two fires are rapidly becoming one fire and they are having to evacuate several of the mountain towns. Estes Park, Granby, Grand Lake, Jamestown, and others. I would imagine that far will get to 200,000 Acres before it is finished.

Our son used to manage Grand Lake Lodge, on the southern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. The towns of Grandby & Grand Lake are on the opposite side of the Continental Divide from Estes Park. The communities are many miles apart. Trail ridge road connects the two through the park. The road goes over the Continental Divide at about 14,000 foot elevation. It is way above tree line. The last trip we made back to SD, wife and I were discussing all the bug kill trees on both sides of the divide. We decided that if a fire ever started in that mess, only mother nature would be able to contain it.

The fire has jumped the Continental Divide and as Raging several directions. Last I heard it was only 4% contained.

Steve; He has been on here since 1/01/08 He has made 3291 posts. as of a couple days back. you can draw your own conclusions!-------------------Loren

Yes, he should invest in manuals. I have some manuals & parts catalogs to equipment that I don't own. They were purchased when I was thinking seriously about buying a machine & it didn't pan out for whatever reason. The parts catalog has much to do with that. If there's only .01% of the parts available for a machine, even if it's in "showroom condition", I won't buy it. Brochures are purchased to tell me what the machine can do. Even if I get the gist of it. I know well enough to look past the sales hype. They can be a good supplement to the manual.

As for farmallb being a rookie.... no sir. If I recall right, from our emailings a few years back, he's been at it since about '70. It would seem that he's currently upgrading his equipment line. For example, he was using a Case 140 baler & moved up to the 268 he has now. That's quite a jump in technology & a big change in the workings.

Mike