Any stories on some thing your tractor did that left you holding the bag? here are a few: Local guy was selling a JD 2 cylinder The buyer really liked it untill it threw the clutch pulley off te crank shaft!!! A local puller was set for a big win and in the lead when the engine threw a couple rods = last place. Dealer was demostrating a new hay mower look good until it bound up and the gear box "fragmented" He did not sell any to the crowd of onlookers.
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a.rothermel
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haha those are pretty funny.
Well, I think I probably told the story on here, but the 560D I just posted a pic of gave me a coming-to-jesus meeting at 20mph in road gear when the power steering failed, the tractor went off the road and down a ditch about 20 feet deep, up out of the ditch, over a couple saplings and out across somebody's field. Tractor has brakes that work now.
Everybody that saw where it happened said I had protection, if I didn't I would have been pushing up daisies. I think thats kinda embarrassing!
Tractor got towed rest of the way home from the sale lot.
Everybody that saw where it happened said I had protection, if I didn't I would have been pushing up daisies. I think thats kinda embarrassing!
Tractor got towed rest of the way home from the sale lot.
Where I work (large plant) we have our own fire dept. Last year they got a new fire truck, $325,000. Shortly after the rep came to conduct an all day training session. A hyd hose apparently was leaking deep inside the unit. It started smoking terribly and nearly burned up.
old popper
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A little over forty years ago I was working at Lundell Manufacturing Co. in Cherokee Ia. We were building 4 row stalk shredders for New Idea at the time, and they (New Idea) took issue with the durability of the input gearboxes on the shredders. They sent a 706 Farmall over, and we were to run the tractor pto on a shredder randomly chosen by them, 24 hrs a day till the gearbox went out. Guess what? Yep, thats right, the pto went out in the tractor first. That one always tickled me as I am quite a Deere fan.
ScottyHOMeY
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Nothing dented but my pride.
I'd got back from a tractor show late one night, and popped a soup can over the stack. Next morning I'd tipped up the trailer and hopped into the seat to back the tractor off, forgetting all about the can.
Don't know why it is that there seems to be a photographer around just when I'm looking my best.
I'd got back from a tractor show late one night, and popped a soup can over the stack. Next morning I'd tipped up the trailer and hopped into the seat to back the tractor off, forgetting all about the can.
Don't know why it is that there seems to be a photographer around just when I'm looking my best.
I was going to pull my daughters Girl Scout troop on a trailer with my Farmall M. The day before I cleaned it front to back and did the tires with Armour-All. The next morning I came out and one of the rears was flat. I tried filling it, but air just came blowing out of a bad spot by the valve. Tried some of the metal epoxy but no luck. Had to pull them with my dirty pickup truck. I was in a foul mood for 3 days. Don't think I bothered with the tractor for a month, just left it where it was.
That is a great photo.
I have a rain cap made from a stub of PCV water pipe, a lot heaver than a tin can. When she gets going, it really flies.
I forgot about it one day while starting my D in the driveway here in town. Shot that cap up, over the house, and dropped right onto the neighbor"s deck. The wife went over and picked it up for me.
I have a rain cap made from a stub of PCV water pipe, a lot heaver than a tin can. When she gets going, it really flies.
I forgot about it one day while starting my D in the driveway here in town. Shot that cap up, over the house, and dropped right onto the neighbor"s deck. The wife went over and picked it up for me.
ScottyHOMeY
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8^)
Credit for the photo goes to a friend, MaryE Yeomans, a very talented (and pesky) photographer and writer.
The SuperC in those days moved in and out of the shed, so I had one can (Progresso Chicken and Rice Soup) that lived in the toolbox under the seat to keep it handy for when I had to leave the tractor outside. Normally, I start it from the ground and will leave the can on, so as to play Catch the Can. Until that day, I was fieldin' about .650. At that moment I was actually ponderin' whether I had a fightin' chance of keepin up my average but, between the incline and the foot on the clutch, there was no hope. I was weeks recovering.
Had a mishap a few weeks back. Fired the same tractor up outside and missed the can, but I got distracted with the mission at hand of backing up to a plow to hitch on and move. Forgot all about the can on the ground and ran over it. It's the same can. The label is long gone, it's rusty and has a couple of kinks in it now, but I was able to save it.
Whew!
Credit for the photo goes to a friend, MaryE Yeomans, a very talented (and pesky) photographer and writer.
The SuperC in those days moved in and out of the shed, so I had one can (Progresso Chicken and Rice Soup) that lived in the toolbox under the seat to keep it handy for when I had to leave the tractor outside. Normally, I start it from the ground and will leave the can on, so as to play Catch the Can. Until that day, I was fieldin' about .650. At that moment I was actually ponderin' whether I had a fightin' chance of keepin up my average but, between the incline and the foot on the clutch, there was no hope. I was weeks recovering.
Had a mishap a few weeks back. Fired the same tractor up outside and missed the can, but I got distracted with the mission at hand of backing up to a plow to hitch on and move. Forgot all about the can on the ground and ran over it. It's the same can. The label is long gone, it's rusty and has a couple of kinks in it now, but I was able to save it.
Whew!
Richard G.
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Guys from the local University were moving a very expensive combine to an Experiment station. The combine had a fortune in special electronics on it.
Stopped to eat breakfast and started on their normal route, but forgot about the very low railroad bridge. Took a large forklift to pick up the pieces and put back on the truck.
Richard
Stopped to eat breakfast and started on their normal route, but forgot about the very low railroad bridge. Took a large forklift to pick up the pieces and put back on the truck.
Richard
Anonymous-0
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Was at a sale last yr. and a guy bought a JD 4010 diesel.I was hooking up a disc that I had got and this guy was on the 4010 cussing cause it wouldn't start.I goes over to help and he said it had no fire and he had choked it .I pushed the fuel shut off in and it fired right up
James Howell
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Photo is priceless!
Really like your tilt trailer.
My father's first tractor was a Farmall Super C narrow front.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Really like your tilt trailer.
My father's first tractor was a Farmall Super C narrow front.
Thanks for sharing with us.
James Howell
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The end of this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbQ54j8HuY">video</a> says it all.
Last weekend I was discing up the plow demonstration field at a tractor show pulling an old 8 ft IH drag disc with my H. I figured the H would pull it fine in 4 gear so off I went and was soon downshifting to 3rd and then to second. On the return pass I started hearing a loud squeal and the tractor was really loading up. I thought Oh great, something broke. I get back up to where the crowd was when I noticed the brake was on. Some people had already left probly thinking not much to see here and the few that remained got a chuckle when I let them know about the brake and put it back in 4th and off I went with everything working like it should have.
I went out several months ago to look at a light tower. The guy fires up the generator and says it runs but the bulbs are burned out and shuts it down. I dug my meter out of the truck, and had him start it back up again. Less into a minute of metering the voltage (i was getting 120 on one leg and nothing on the other) so something was already telling me this thing has problems smoke started rolling out of the generator. He shuts it off and says oh ya there is a bearing that needs to be greased. The smell smelt like wiring burning big time. YA, i'll call you.............
ScottyHOMeY
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Thanks, James.
MaryE is quite the photographer, with a knack for being there at the right (or the most inopportune!) moments.
My uncle found that trailer for me and I LOVE it. Buiilt by a small shop in central Ohio. Simplicity itself. Basically a three, maybe four-ton floor jack with a roller instead of a pad on the lift end, that rides up a piece of 3" wide piece of steel to lift it. SO much simpler and less fuss than the electric over hydraulic rigs. I can be ready to unload while another guy digs out and rigs his cord.
It was pretty stripped down when I bought it, and I've since redone the lighting. I've dragged that thing all over the place with tractors, cars and everything in between, and it pulls like a dream.
As far as the SuperC, I've since done some bartering, and it has the narrow front I prefer under it. It's hillier here than the ground I grew up driving on, but not a problem, and I find myself doin' a lot less backin' and fillin' the way I use it.
MaryE is quite the photographer, with a knack for being there at the right (or the most inopportune!) moments.
My uncle found that trailer for me and I LOVE it. Buiilt by a small shop in central Ohio. Simplicity itself. Basically a three, maybe four-ton floor jack with a roller instead of a pad on the lift end, that rides up a piece of 3" wide piece of steel to lift it. SO much simpler and less fuss than the electric over hydraulic rigs. I can be ready to unload while another guy digs out and rigs his cord.
It was pretty stripped down when I bought it, and I've since redone the lighting. I've dragged that thing all over the place with tractors, cars and everything in between, and it pulls like a dream.
As far as the SuperC, I've since done some bartering, and it has the narrow front I prefer under it. It's hillier here than the ground I grew up driving on, but not a problem, and I find myself doin' a lot less backin' and fillin' the way I use it.
ScottyHOMeY
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Indeed, I got caught!
blinwmiaol.com
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Who the heck put that tree there? lol
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