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Go for it. That is about when I decided I didn't need that much work any more. Granddaughter went with me the last the years of the local county fair with her tractor. Then she got involved in other activities and they quit the Antique Days at the fair so figured it was a good time to bow out. Still have a Bolen G16XT with the sleeve hitch, self power tiller, plow and few other tillage items. Still have the granddaughters Ride-A-Matic with a cultivator. 99% original including the tires.
No such thing as plow days out here. Close as a person can get is tractor pulls for vintage machines and there are only 3 that I know of during the summer, and all are at least an hour from here, except the Sturgis one.
It's been too dang hot to do anything with tractors or any kind of outside work this week. Too hot to work out in the main bay of the shop even.
I have been putting together a bio for a long passed local dirt track racer that got inducted to the local Hall of Fame I am on the board of. It's a lot easier to get the info together for the ones that are still alive than it is for one that had been gone over 30 years!
DAC
It's been too dang hot to do anything with tractors or any kind of outside work this week. Too hot to work out in the main bay of the shop even.
I have been putting together a bio for a long passed local dirt track racer that got inducted to the local Hall of Fame I am on the board of. It's a lot easier to get the info together for the ones that are still alive than it is for one that had been gone over 30 years!
DAC
Plowing in this part of the country is unheard of and most plows have gone for scrap at auctions. Everything is no till any more. With the rolling hills not so sure that is the way to go. When we planted on the contour and cultivated the row crops there was a mini terrace about every 3 feet. Not they want on big terrace every 250 feet or so.
I got bad news from my Dr. today it will be 6 months before I can drive again. but the haven't taken my license. This year has been one big shit sandwich.
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played hookie from work today. I dunno why but that's always been something hard to do for me.... I was actually driving and about halfway there when I called to see "how busy" we were/weren't gonna be today. I was gonna take off at noon regardless, that's not so hard for me to do (in my mind).... Yesterday I finally got my neighbor's trailer (because mine has the wheel wells inside the rails, way too narrow) and someone willing to actually go help me for once (I have a hard time of that too for some reason) and loaded up my truck bed plus my best pair of fenders, 2 core supports, and 2 tailgates for my truck project, its all going to the blaster guy today...
Then came home and loaded the cab and hood on my trailer and dug for other parts that need to go too like inner wheel wells etc..... still have one I cant find. I left the ones I have in storage because I knew I have 2 sets here, wound up the only driver side one I can find here isnt quite as "nice" as I thought so had to make a run back to the barn for one of the ones I left yesterday "knowing" what I had here.... I don't yet have room here for the leftovers still out at the barn/ but Im working on that.
The bad part is the other inner wheel well thats MIA has the only battery tray I know of among my stash still bolted to it... (weird/ its a pretty big piece not to be in plain sight, at least a corner of under other stuff) Taking stock of what additional parts I have I realized I have a BUNCH of passenger side sheet metal but "just enough" driver side sheet metal.... I dunno why I don't have the same number of doors and fenders for each side.... got a couple of Phillips screws to grind slots for a flathead screwdriver so I can get the handle out of one of my tailgates and get that off before it goes for blast... haven't I said before that I HATE PHILLIPS SCREWS!? taking 2 of a few parts for blast "just in case".... cheaper to get them done as a "bundle" than having to go back with just 1 part by itself later....
Then came home and loaded the cab and hood on my trailer and dug for other parts that need to go too like inner wheel wells etc..... still have one I cant find. I left the ones I have in storage because I knew I have 2 sets here, wound up the only driver side one I can find here isnt quite as "nice" as I thought so had to make a run back to the barn for one of the ones I left yesterday "knowing" what I had here.... I don't yet have room here for the leftovers still out at the barn/ but Im working on that.
The bad part is the other inner wheel well thats MIA has the only battery tray I know of among my stash still bolted to it... (weird/ its a pretty big piece not to be in plain sight, at least a corner of under other stuff) Taking stock of what additional parts I have I realized I have a BUNCH of passenger side sheet metal but "just enough" driver side sheet metal.... I dunno why I don't have the same number of doors and fenders for each side.... got a couple of Phillips screws to grind slots for a flathead screwdriver so I can get the handle out of one of my tailgates and get that off before it goes for blast... haven't I said before that I HATE PHILLIPS SCREWS!? taking 2 of a few parts for blast "just in case".... cheaper to get them done as a "bundle" than having to go back with just 1 part by itself later....
sometimes you have to do that. We beat ourselves to death working, eventually it catches up to you.
I’m off for another week or so. I’m burnt out.
I got the new A/C cover on the motorhome today. Although I was 99% sure I ordered the right one I still had a small amount of doubt. It fit but one hole was punched about 1/2" off. Drilled it and they all lined up fine.
It seals tight against the foam inside so it should be good to go.
The UHF TV antenna coax is junk. I did a temporary splice, but I will have to buy some fittings and try to replace it from inside the crank assembly out to the head. Seems to work ok for now but it won't last long. Hopefully it will last for out trip to Denver next week if I don't get time to fix it this week.
DAC
It seals tight against the foam inside so it should be good to go.
The UHF TV antenna coax is junk. I did a temporary splice, but I will have to buy some fittings and try to replace it from inside the crank assembly out to the head. Seems to work ok for now but it won't last long. Hopefully it will last for out trip to Denver next week if I don't get time to fix it this week.
DAC
I know I've mentioned what I have going on a few times, didn't think most here would be interested because of the brand I choose....
I know I had pix of when I was welding on the cab... I thought I put them here...
I have spent time the last few days an hour or two at a time standing in front of my sandblasting cabinet cleaning door and hood hinges .. I have extras of those too... So the means I can pick the best of what I have...
All the small parts I've been blasting are headed to the powder coater
Today I worked on 2 Ford's
A2011 F250 (gas engine) for a miss and an 06 ranger that I rebuilt the front end on... Just realized I'm out of grease in my gun so gotta pick some up when I pick up my wife from work so I can finish that job . Tomorrow will be helping another neighbor pull a trans out of a mid 90s Chevy 4wd... He's gotta wait for the new torque converter to arrive to put the replacement trans back in.. I redid all y steel brake lines on this same truck last fall for the guy
A2011 F250 (gas engine) for a miss and an 06 ranger that I rebuilt the front end on... Just realized I'm out of grease in my gun so gotta pick some up when I pick up my wife from work so I can finish that job . Tomorrow will be helping another neighbor pull a trans out of a mid 90s Chevy 4wd... He's gotta wait for the new torque converter to arrive to put the replacement trans back in.. I redid all y steel brake lines on this same truck last fall for the guy
My metal band saw quit on me. I could hear it cutting away like always. Then it kept going slower. Before I could get across the shop to it the magic smoke escaped from the motor!!!.
Saw was purchased in the late eighties. Decided to buy another one. Harbor freight special. Other than color it was practically the same as the old one. Just red instead of white.
Recently acquired a plastic 55 gal barrel for $5. Finished turning it into a composting barrel today and used the old saw base to support it.
Saw was purchased in the late eighties. Decided to buy another one. Harbor freight special. Other than color it was practically the same as the old one. Just red instead of white.
Recently acquired a plastic 55 gal barrel for $5. Finished turning it into a composting barrel today and used the old saw base to support it.
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A while back I brought home two old Masse Ferguson garden tractors. They were junk, but the came with a Massey snow blade. This afternoon I started putting it onto my Massey Executive. The blade is designed for the newer and much larger Massey 10, 12, 14 and such. So I knew there would be some figment problems. Plus when I refurbished this tractor I never reinstalled the lift arm. PIA to do solo.
The frame mounts at the rear hitch. I already had an extension on the hitch and bolting to it left good clearance at the front.
Needed to drop the hitch extension to get clearance under the tractor. After mounting the lift arm and positioning the blade it was evident that the arm for changing the blade angle would be in the way of the lift arm. Thankfully it won’t be difficult to swap to the other side. Maybe do that tomorrow.
The yellow plate with the x on it will get replaced with a wider and longer plate that will attach to both holes in the plows bracket.
After I rig the lift linkage I will know if I need to adjust the rear hitch up or down.
Then I will have to figure out the brackets on the front that keeps the blade/framework aligned.
The frame mounts at the rear hitch. I already had an extension on the hitch and bolting to it left good clearance at the front.
Needed to drop the hitch extension to get clearance under the tractor. After mounting the lift arm and positioning the blade it was evident that the arm for changing the blade angle would be in the way of the lift arm. Thankfully it won’t be difficult to swap to the other side. Maybe do that tomorrow.
The yellow plate with the x on it will get replaced with a wider and longer plate that will attach to both holes in the plows bracket.
After I rig the lift linkage I will know if I need to adjust the rear hitch up or down.
Then I will have to figure out the brackets on the front that keeps the blade/framework aligned.
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Yeah you have been posting in this thread DT, just thought maybe a dedicated thread in the rides and rods forum would help us follow along better. I don't think anyone here cares that you are building a Dodge, I for one like all builds! It is another mechanical project for us all to learn from and cheer you on from time to time.
Looks like you have a good plan Rick! I had thought about taking the homemade hydraulic Cub Cadet blade off of my 8E so I could get a blade that could angle from the seat. The biggest issue I thought was where you are at trying to come up with a way to keep the blade centered. They don't have a front bumper to bolt the alignment bracket to and it would also interfere with opening the hood/iron grill assembly to work on the engine.
My lift lever was off the tractor when I got it 30 some years ago and it and had been laying in the dirt outside. A few years ago I broke axle splines trying to pull a hub to put new seals in, so the transaxle had to come out. Freed up the lift lever and put it on thinking that I would build a sleeve hitch. My tractor has the mount for the sleeve hitch but the rest of it was long gone. Nope never got "roundtuit" yet.
I will be watching what you come up with!
DAC
I dunno your computer trick where you gray'd out half your post without completely deleting what's shown in gray nor how to put a different colored word in a post that people can hit and get linked to someone else, as there's a guy in the slant 6 forum I frequent does that all the time (sample, something like there's this one, where the "this" shows up red among otherwise black print, and us readers hit on the red word and get taken to someplace selling a related part to what's being talked about) (part of why I hate technical electronics crap) but I know where there's a horizontal bandsaw I've been offered a couple of times (that I have no place to put) and the offerer is practically begging me as now he's moving ans putting his house up for sale.... And knowing him and where it came from I doubt it's chinesium....
And DAC, everyone knows I rarely post pix ( that electronics crap again rearing it's head) and I know "build threads" usually have lots of pix
I guess like skimming a book and saying you read it when all you really did was look at the pix throughout and didn't read much if anything between them...
Much the reason I'm building an 80s truck in the first place.... They did the job quite well without umpteen control modules, were instead more mechanical in nature... K I S S....
If it ain't there it can't break, let the magic smoke out, strand you in the middle of nowhere, etc
And DAC, everyone knows I rarely post pix ( that electronics crap again rearing it's head) and I know "build threads" usually have lots of pix
I guess like skimming a book and saying you read it when all you really did was look at the pix throughout and didn't read much if anything between them...
Much the reason I'm building an 80s truck in the first place.... They did the job quite well without umpteen control modules, were instead more mechanical in nature... K I S S....
If it ain't there it can't break, let the magic smoke out, strand you in the middle of nowhere, etc
Was just an idea, DT. Pics are easy and to do what I did above I clicked on "Reply" next to the like button. When it comes to renaming links, I don't know how to do that either.
DAC
Still nothing going on with tractors. Was out of town yesterday, and today Loree and I did some more work on the motorhome. We will be driving it to Arvada CO on Friday. Put together a couple tool boxes, one mainly for the Dewalt cordless stuff if I need to change a tire, but my sister had some projects for me too. Put the cordless pole chainsaw in the gas chain saw box and loaded it too as she wants me to cut some tree branches. Cordless one leaks chain oil so that's why I wanted it in the gas saw box. Other box is hand tools that might be handy. Loaded the bottle jacks and a 3 ton electric scissor jack. All this crap should mean I won't have to use them!
Pulled out the awning for the first time too. Seems to work well.
Will do a mow before we leave, later this week. Even though it is very green for this time of year the grass has slowed a lot growing. Couple hours less sunlight already with fall coming.
DAC
Pulled out the awning for the first time too. Seems to work well.
Will do a mow before we leave, later this week. Even though it is very green for this time of year the grass has slowed a lot growing. Couple hours less sunlight already with fall coming.
DAC