Pictures of recent doings

First picture is when I was mowing hay with the 'new' haybine. I got busy checking the mechanisms and forgot to look at the wheels before I ran it, and one fell off. I got it back on and went on my merry way after a while having learned an exciting new lesson. Couldn't figure out how to get a jack under it so I ended up picking it up with the loader on the Massey. The Farmall H ran fine baling with the wagon behind except when the little doober on the front of the carburetor fell off. It had done that once before and I had wired it in place but not well enough. I was happily surprised to find out that a broken shear bolt fitted in the hole very well and the tractor would run again with that wired in place. I don't know how the original part was supposed to be attached or what it was. Next to last picture is the two hay wagons with an old 20'x40' pool cover that I got for $15 at an auction last fall. I'm going to unload them on Monday since I don't need them till then. Last picture is some of the hay that we did unload. The hay dried a lot better than it used to when I cut it with the sicklebar.
Zach

nice hay

I'd jerk that black tarp off that fresh baled hay. Sun and heat is going to be like a steam bath under that tarp. Going to mildew the entire stack and it won't take but a day or so to do it. You can get by just covering the top, but don't drape it all the way to the ground.

I'll bet it is wet under the tarp right now...

A stack of hay can be covered after it has gone thru its cure.

Can you believe that H is running with the load mixture needle out of there? He must have broken part of the needle off up in there.
You could be running very lean and burn some valves or hole s piston.
I wouldn't operate the tractor until you get that replaced. You're doing a "Lanse" on us.

Gordo

Thanks for the thought. Do you know where I can get a new needle? The part that fell off before was just a cap shaped sort of thing, so I assume that the other part had been broken off previously. It had been glued into the hole at some point and one day in the spring it fell off and then I wired it back in place. I've only had this H since December, but I have run it quite a lot hauling wagons and such. How hard might it be to get the broken off part out of there?
Zach

Thanks for the advice. I checked it and it didn't seem damp, but
the side you can't see in the picture was partially open anyway. I've
opened both sides since we're not expecting rain, and I can cover it
if it does rain. I never had a tarp before that was big enough to
cover the whole thing. This hay was drier and lighter than anything
I've had before, maybe because of the haybine.
Zach

That little "doober" on the carburetor is the main metering stem clamp nut. The main metering stem threads into it, and that is what holds the metering stem in place. It is a wonder that the tractor runs at all. Good luck in finding one. That part is obsolete from a Case-IH dealer.

Thanks, I'll have to look around. The tractor runs great, and no different now with the temporary plug than before with the real thing. The part that fell out had a slot for a screwdriver but there were no threads at all on it so I am thinking that the threaded part is still in there and presumably doing its job. I will see if I can find a spare one somehow, but even if I could I don't know if I can get the old one out. I assume that someone was trying to remove it at some point and it was stuck firmly enough that the nut broke off before it unscrewed. Maybe I should look for a whole carb instead.
Zach