Recent content by rootytoot

Thanks, @jeff9366 . Yes, I do have a 5' PTO rototiller. I was thinking of the disc primarily because I was impressed with what my neighbor down the road was able to accomplish with his pull-behind disc. However, he has a stronger tractor, and his soil is better than mine. So, I should...

It's four wheel drive. Thank you for your responses. Do you think that pull-behind versus three point mount makes any difference, assuming similar weight per disc, number of discs, and angle of gangs? I'm guessing not.

I have a 1989 Ford model 1920, reasonably good shape, about 550 hours on the proof meter. The tractor is diesel, 4x4, 32hp at PTO, 25hp at drawbar, currently does not have fluid in the tires (though I could put fluid in if it was recommended for the task of discing). I'm thinking of buying a...

I have flipped my BCS 852 with the Honda GX390 engine on it. I was pulling the BCS trailer with a spray tank on board, spraying on a slope, hit a pocket and the whole thing went over on its side (that BCS trailer has way too high a center of gravity in my opinion). I got the engine killed...

I just bought a beautiful little Honda 3813 from an older gentleman on Craigslist. It appears to have been maintained well, and it runs like a top. The previous owner did say that he had never seen a maintenance schedule on the timing belt, and thus it is probably original. The unit was...

This is one of those crazy but true stories from the farm. My friend Mercedes John has been helping me put new siding on the shop building. When John took all the rotten siding off the south side of the building, we noticed that the south wall was hanging a couple inches off the foundation at...

Hi, I've settled on buying a Cub Cadet for general mowing and spraying duties at a rental house that I have on some acreage (crazy, I know, but that's a topic for a different day...). Here's the situation: For mowing, there are some fencelines that I only get to a couple times a year, so when I...

Hi, I've decided to finally get started on restoring the Allis-Chalmers Model G that I bought a few years back. There's enough rust on it that I plan to take it apart down to individual bits, and have it sandblasted to remove rust and the remnants of the original paint. After that... take it...

Hi, my old Murray riding mower, which was never very impressive to start with, developed a fatal failure where one of the mower blade axles attaches to the deck. Although I could conceivably weld it back in place with some additional bracketry, I'm not keen on it. So, I'm in the market for a...

Hi, I've been cleaning out a lot of old fencing from blackberry bushes on my property. A lot of it just got thrown on a pile and burned (to get rid of posts that were attached to it). This wasn't thought out well by my partner, and so now we have a tangled mass of fencing that is too big to...

Hi, I have a Woods Groundbreaker 8' backhoe on my Ford Model 1920. It is getting its hydraulic feed from a rear remote port on the tractor; when I'm using the backhoe I have to lock the rear remote control in the open position to operate the backhoe controls. This was the recommended setup...

Cruising through the threads in this sub-forum, I see that a lot of folks have built barns and pole barns, or had them built. I'm in the situation where I'm considering building/having built one new building to consolidate all the functions of the failing outbuildings on my property. I've got...

Anybody have suggestions on where to buy those kind of crow-feet cultivator parts or right-angle sweeps? My Allis-Chalmers Model G didn't come with much in the way of cultivating parts (mostly used for mowing), and I want to be able to use it for row-crop production. I'm willing to do some...

Hey, if anyone is interested I have scanned the manuals that came with my 1949 Allis-Chalmers Model G tractor... I'd be happy to make them available to anyone in PDF format on request. They're kind of grease-stained, but that's authentic, right? Here is the list of what I've got: Model G...

I was getting ready to do some mowing with my old John Deere 516 rotary cutter last month, and I checked the oil level before starting... only to find it less than obvious how much oil to put in. Here's a photo of what the dip stick looks like: I was expecting to find a fairly obvious "FULL"...