Posted by Don-Wi on June 16, 2012 at 19:16:14 from (75.207.206.125):
In Reply to: o/t Schlep Rock posted by JD2ACWD on June 16, 2012 at 16:53:35:
We've got a neighbor like that. One of his tractors is down, and his other had the power harrow on it so he wanted to borrow our tractor to pull his disk so he could get some barley in. We told him we'd run it for him, but we'd rather not have him use it.
My dad ran the disk for a couple hours, and a bearing went out. Dad went to a few places, and TSC had the right bearing. He took it apart, I put it back together, and I retorqued ALL of the gangs, as they were all VERY loose. (one gang I got another 3/4" out of the threads). I ran it a couple rounds to make sure it worked alright and pulled the pin and went home.
Dad got too busy with our own stuff to help so our neighbor reluctantly pulled the power harrow off his tractor (he's slow to do anything, so when we were ready to help the week before, he turned us down) and worked his field some more. Now the disk has a busted axle on one of the gangs and another bad bearing.
He's got a 200-250 gallon water tank on it for weight, FULL, and he just got done fixing the hitch on it because he tore that off last year. About 8-9 years ago we borrowed it to work down some spring plowed sod, and one of the square tubes (2 peices of channel welded together) running down from the rockshaft to the wheels broke, so I fixed that with heavier than standard channel.I should add he's using it for primary tillage on last years corn ground, and he has an offset disk in very good condition that he doesn't want to use.
He borrows our small haybine a lot lately (tore his own up a couple years ago) and just about every time I notice something else that needs attention on it. He borrowed our green chopper once, never brought it back and when Dad went and got it it needed repair. He borrowed our small disk a number of years ago, used it behind his 100-110+HP tractor (we use it on an 80 HP tractor) and never brought it back. When we went and got it, he had it tore up. Borrowed our manure spreader and forgot to reengage the beater, broke the shear bolts on the apron and had to pitch it out by the beater.
We borrow his chopper wagons once in a while because it's convienient to have a few more in use when filling the silo. One year we put a used front 1/2 of a PTO shaft on one of his wagons from our spare parts inventory because the cross was shot and so were the yokes. We've replaced 1 & 1/2 PTO sheilds (don't know how they get destroyed, because ours still have the original ones).
I cringe everytime he comes over. Thankfully, as we replace a few things here & there, Dad tells him it's "my" equipment and I don't even let him run it. Some of it he just doens't want to run. Others, it's true. I don't even like letting my dad run some of it, but I have no problem letting him if it needs to be done.
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