Exhaust stuff

# Exhaust question

the purpose of my post is twofold.
1. we need to replace the muffler on our Jube (it's cracked), and Dad (who pays the bills) wants to go with the traditional set-up. I, on the other hand, want to convert to a stack. We use our jube for raking hay, brush hogging, and other things. One time Dad hit a stump while brush hogging, and it took out the pipe. Good thing he had another one in reserve (It was an impulse buy. 20 years ago).
I think the stack would hopefully prevent windrows from catching on fire. we were averaging 5 tons/acre/cutting last year on some parts of the property, so it's thick stuff. I also think that it would prevent future issues while brush hogging.
Dad doesn't want to do that because he "doesn't want that noise in my face." I think he's been influenced by our Deere 3020 diesel, which is "my" tractor and I run with a chrome straight pipe.
Dad won't let me park the deere in the barn with the stack facing the hay because he read a story in a farm paper about how somebody's barn burned down when a skid steer created a spark.
So... does anybody have a good tractor-starting-windrow story? It could help my case a lot.

2. How do you think this muffler would look, vertically, on our Jube? I'm thinking about ordering it.

We raked a lot of hay with our horizontal exhaust Ford 640 and never had a fire. I've seen but never liked a vertical exhaust on the older Fords. Just cheaper to do than original. Really not in favor of chrome stacks either, black looks better to me. I purchased a straight chrome stack for the JD 830 on a whim and painted it black for the infrequent tractor pull. Couldn't find a straight black stack. For general use the black muffler goes back on.

There's some crotchety old folks who frequent these forums; I'm one of 'em. I'd say when you start paying the bills, buy what you like........regardless of what it does to your hearing.

Grrr! I meant to post a link.

how do you think this muffler would look? ---> http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1?=WLK-24210&N=700+302015+4294922711+115&autoview=sku

No, what I mean by "dad pays the bills" is that dad buys the essential stuff (new shifter knob, carb repair kit) and I buy the non-essential stuff (sander, primer, and spray paint, "whoopie lights," etc.)
They're both his tractors, it's just that he doesn't like to drive the Deere.

Speaking of chrome exhaust pipes, have you ever seen black chrome used for this application? I have never seen it used on tractor exhaust but a friend of mine custom built a Harley and instead of using the conventional chrome, used black chrome on certain metal parts. I think he sent the metal pieces to an electro-plating company to have it done. It lent a unique and nice touch, noticably different than any kind of black paint.

dwb

No, I haven't. It would certainly look better than regular chrome for some tractor applications, however. Something to look into.