Recent content by Willie B

Cast iron is a product full of challenges when you weld. Cast iron is porous, it isn't pure iron, there is a component of air, other impure gasses. Heat it to molten, there is a risk of poor fusion. Then! you have a metal with low tensile strength. ALL welds shrink in the cooling process. A weld...

If I recall there is 1/2 inch difference between your pitch & mine. The absolute authority of Dresser crawlers claims to have found a flaw in the parts system. First year warranty issue, he arrived with the wrong parts.

I visited you once several years ago. I was well impressed with your world. I could improve on your welder. I was surprised about the differences with your crawler & mine. If I recall something like 500 difference between your serial # and mine. As I remember these tractors were available with...

My first tractor at age 9 was a Cub. Dad & I built a homemade wooden snow plow. Push rods, hop hornbeam trunks, pivoted under the seat. Made a L shaped of square tube piece passed through the casting behind the front axle. A plank cross member there had a square hole to keep the push rods...

Mine is Bill, My perversion is anything made of iron. I grew up 1/2 mile from the IH dealer, so most of my iron is red. I apologize, IH stopped making bulldozers too soon, mine is Dresser, TD7G not far in serial number from Gordon Gould. My backhoe is Case 580 SuperN. At the antique tractor...

I got a lesson last week. Our volunteer fire chief has had a long range goal: In his life he wants the fire house, shared by two very small towns to be an emergency shelter for all of the townspeople. His vision included a giant generator big enough that everybody in town could bring any load...

A generator in good condition is about two components when it comes to starting motors. The generator component will have limited output capacity. Most will tolerate surge load very briefly. The concern is overheating a component. Engine & drivetrain os the other. Motor loads spike the current...

There is a lot can go wrong. A hint might be in the way it has been stored. Weather is a problem for these & even shed storage where some blowing rain & snow can blow on it is bad. Mice, insects, & even temperature changes are a concern. If Yours is of the variety I think it is the internals are...

I have a different opinion. I sold, installed & did service on Generac standby generators when yours was new. For reasons take too long to express, I stepped away from Generac, (then Guardian) 10 years ago, my son wanted to get back in. We are electricians, and hobby mechanics. These days we...

Try a pipe sliced to accept the cutting edge, might help. Shoes must be very large to help with your rig. Any way to lock your loader boom near the ground & float only the bucket curl?

I built a homemade rig with a Fisher snow plow. It took the place of the bucket. The pivot point of the float is forward of the steering wheel 5' above the ground. It was not a great success! It seemed the tractor had a lot in common with an 8000 LB pole vaulter. In a later rig, My son took same...

I've had numerous makeshift plows in my life. Currently I use a Case 580 Super N with no snow equipment, just a bucket. In my youth we had a different climate. 1970/1971 we had enough snow to ride snowmobiles onto the roof of a high elevation 1-1/2 story camp near here. Recent years not so much...

Mine on a 1950 Farmall Cub would occasionally break the bottom plank. Neighbor made me shoes of 14 gauge flat stock to weld up & bolt on helped a lot. Eventually replaced the bottom plank with American Elm. Never broke a plank again!

1965 I was 9 years old, Dad bought me a 1950 Farmall Cub. Wasn't a big tractor, but better than the crappy little snow blower. I soon was clearing six driveways in VT. It was a big job with the anemic blower. Plow had two push rods made of Hardhack (Hop Hornbeam). They bolted at front to 3" x...

You haven't said how big the trees are. I have pulled trees since 1987 when I bought a Power Wagon with two PTO powered winches. I set the truck far away from the tree, use a ladder to climb 20' up the tree trunk. A 20 foot tall tree trunk is a heck of a lever. Most trees 24" and smaller come...