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More Tractor Work
« on: July 20, 2021, 12:50:09 PM »
  This is the time of year that I do quite a bit of tractor work, like the 30 yards of crushed concrete I spread for a guy a couple days ago,



  I was about half done when I took the pict...

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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2021, 03:37:39 PM »
  Im  curious , are those Agco s   air or water cooled ?

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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2021, 04:58:58 PM »
  Air/oil...

  They are really good diesels that will go high hours, have very good low end torque, plus they aren't too thirsty...

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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2021, 10:44:36 PM »
I was out Hobby Farming last week on 20 acres when the 3-pt hitch broke on a 1975 MF 275 while pulling a 6-ft bush hog.  It is always something.  I turned around to see "how it was going" and noticed cutting had became a drag, on one side.  The original non-adjustable link of the hitch had parted.  With no threads left on the clevis, there was no other specific reason it parted.  Just old and hidden thread erosion even though the zerc-fitting was routinely greased.  A new one, and the fully adjustable (other) side (not broken but it is time), are in shipping.  In three weeks, so long as the fields are not inundated or waterlogged and another foot of weed growth, as it's raining every day now, I might be able to complete Phase 1 of 3 Phases for 2021 Wildlife Food Plots.

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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2021, 02:21:49 AM »
I used my little Kubota some yesterday afternoon. My big riding lawnmower decided it didn't want to move either way. That meant it was time for a new drive belt which isn't a simple chore to change. I took it's 54" deck loose which involved quite a bit of work laying flat of my back on the ground. Then you have to get the deck out from under the lawn tractor. I just picked up the front of the tractor with the Kabota's bucket and a nylon lifting strap and rolled it backward off the deck and set it down. Then I picked up the deck, carried it out in the pasture, removed all the stuck on crud from it, and then carried it around and put it where I keep the lawnmower. I would have had to take it to a shop if not for the tractor. The starter also decided to give up the ghost at the same time the belt did so I am waiting on a starter to do the assembly process. Good thing for the break because I am a stiff, sore, old geezer this morning.

The Kubota is fixing to get a workout. I wanted to wait until fall to hog the place but with all the rain we have had I'm going to do it now. I have weeds that are up almost up to my armpits in places and the grass is over knee high. What a mess.

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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2021, 03:43:20 AM »
  Air/oil...

  They are really good diesels that will go high hours, have very good low end torque, plus they aren't too thirsty...

  DM
  ? are they the same   air  cooled as in the Deutz Allis .

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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2021, 04:02:14 AM »
? are they the same   air  cooled as in the Deutz Allis .
  No, the Agco's are SLH made, not Deutz...

  The SLH diesels have proven to be just as long lasting as the air/oil cooled Deutz though...

  I also have a Deutz,



  It's been a GREAT tractor...

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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2021, 01:35:35 PM »
? are they the same   air  cooled as in the Deutz Allis .
  No, the Agco's are SLH made, not Deutz...

  The SLH diesels have proven to be just as long lasting as the air/oil cooled Deutz though...

  I also have a Deutz,



  It's been a GREAT tractor...

  DM
I have the same model in 6006 , Dad bought it in 1971 , I tell people the only mistake we made buying a Deutz is we didnt buy three  of them .

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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2021, 02:31:34 AM »
  06 and 07 series of Deutz tractors were just simple, reliable tractors...

  I've owned two others, I doubt I'll ever sell the one I have now, I've owned it since the early 80's.

  It spends most of it's life running my wood splitter,



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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2021, 05:46:14 AM »


  Geee, I use to drive through there!!  lol

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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2021, 03:54:21 PM »


  Geee, I use to drive through there!!  lol

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Those cattails should a been a red flag .

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« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2021, 04:51:13 PM »
  Yup, but I normally drive right through them......just NOT with that tractor...  lol

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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2021, 11:37:13 PM »
Yeah, I slid a tractor off along a pond edge a long time ago.  Fortunately, the pond did not have steep banks.  My neighbor brought his backhoe over and in a jiffy I was back to bush hogging and staying well clear of the pond side banks.

On another occasion, after several inches of rain and local flooding, I got the PU truck stuck.  So I drove the tractor with 20 blade implement on it through the mud and it bogged down to the axles.  Again comes the neighbor with his backhoe and viola' I am not stuck anymore. 

I am thinking I need a backhoe...

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« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2021, 03:42:35 AM »
  Wait until you get a backhoe stuck, then the REAL fun begins!!  lol

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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2021, 04:26:20 PM »
  I had some rocks/boulders to move, so today I got after it, stacking them up,



  The ones that look pretty neat, like this one,



  I put at the top, as everyone that sees them thinks they are pretty cool too.

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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2021, 10:50:58 PM »
Be interesting if you had a way to "cut it in half" to see if it is a Geode or if there is something else equally interesting inside.  Unique shape and materials though, like quick dried sedimentary layering, interspersed with harder material, "thrust up" in the middle, and unlike the granite and real hard shapes on the bank.  That's a pretty interesting one, twisted rectangle, in the claw on the tractor!  How do you farm with those boulders in your fields?  They HAVE TO be hard on your equipment...sand here, no rocks, and sandspurs (the bane of a wildlife food plotter's existence).

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« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2021, 03:43:14 AM »
  The glaciers came through here and left plenty of stones behind, some big and zillions of them are smaller.  Folks been picking rocks from their fields since this land was settled, but they never got the big ones out of the ground.

  I've been driving my pallet forks under them, grapple them, pull them out and bringing them up to the house.  Some are so big I have to get something bigger to get the job done!



  That baby will lift/move some BIG rock!  lol

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« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2021, 02:38:47 AM »
  I thought I'd add onto this thread...

  Tractor work is still going on, I've been on and off, rotary cutting for a customer/friend at his cabin about 50 miles from here, clearing fields,



  and around the thousands of tree's he has planted,



  Opening up the "view" from his cabin,



  It does look really nice, sitting out on the porch, looking out over the fields...

  Here's the cabin,



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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2021, 03:01:41 AM »
You made that look nice.

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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2021, 03:13:30 AM »
  I thought I'd add onto this thread...

  Tractor work is still going on, I've been on and off, rotary cutting for a customer/friend at his cabin about 50 miles from here, clearing fields,



  and around the thousands of tree's he has planted,



  Opening up the "view" from his cabin,



  It does look really nice, sitting out on the porch, looking out over the fields...

  Here's the cabin,



  DM

That's a cabin?
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« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2021, 04:00:00 AM »
  That's what HE calls it...  lol

  I call it the "big house", because there's another house ? near the road, that was the original "cabin".

  The porch on the big house, is over 150' long and I milled all the 6x10-20' beams, 3x8-16' rafters and a couple thousand feet of random 5/4 boards, for the roof.

  It's REALLY nice, all finished up in place!

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« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2021, 05:47:49 AM »
  I'm also getting a few logs milled, in fact someone once told me Sycamore was worthless, not even worth cutting...

  I thought I would show you what the one I milled yesterday, looked like inside,



  This is far from worthless!



  Grain like this, makes some REALLY good lumber,



  this spalding doesn't hurt the look either!



  Well, it's all milled and on stickers now, and in time I will be making something very nice out of it!



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Re: More Tractor Work
« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2021, 09:34:44 AM »
You do beautiful work DM.
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« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2021, 11:39:02 AM »
  Thanks Byron!  It's kinda fun....when everything goes right!  lol

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« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2021, 03:40:30 PM »
Sycamore makes good shotgun stocks.  Not as hard or heavy as walnut, maple, or cherry but the interlocking grain makes it split resistant.  Could also be good for light recoil rifles.

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« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2021, 03:47:55 PM »
  I no longer make gunstocks, it's too much work and I never enjoyed it anyway...

  IF you quarter saw Sycamore, it really shows the rays, I like the look.

  DM