sequoyah101
Silver Member
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2009
- Messages
- 157
- Location
- East Central Oklahoma
- Tractor
- CaseIH 50A, CaseIH JX95, CaseIH JX80, Allis 190XT, Daewoo DD80L Dozer, Schaeff SKL831 Loader, Komatsu PC40-7 Trackhoe, JCB 210S TLB, JD750, JD820, Kubota FR3680, Kioti Mechron
I'm posting here since we run Case-IH now days and Allis does not belong in other. Returned to reality from the farm last night. Back to business.
This old girl has been in the barn for nearly 7 years. We cleaned her up, checked and changed fluids and filters, purged the fuel system, cleaned out the air intake really well and she fired off in about 20 seconds. She needs some work to do but we don't have any jobs big enough for her around the palce now days.
There is a hydraulic steering hose I need to fix and maybe some wheel corrosion but wheels from SW Wheel are not that terrible to buy. She has the usual gear problem and you need to run her with your leg slung over the shift lever. New bushings in the shift ilnkage or some weld filling and new bores would make things a lot better.
Other than those things she seems fit for duty.
It has been a beautiful spring at the farm and I wanted to get her out and celebrate memories of better days than these when we were both young and full of fire. We knew change would always come but we didn't feel like it would probably be bad like it is now. The most terrible words I hear now are "I am from the government" or "Today the Administration announced...."
If only for just a moment though, how can anything in the world be wrong with grass that green and a tractor that Orange? I sit on the back porch of the barn, look across the mile of waving grass to the dark green tree clad mountain and listen to the wind gently rattle the tin on the barn and whistle low through the pines of the wind break and dream the rest of the world to just disappear.
In other news, we seem to have our gopher infestation in the NW pasture on the run if not under control, great job and bonus to Ronny. It takes an old Nissan 4WD pickup, a shop vac hose and news paper. Carefully open an hole in a mound, insert hose. Locate another nearby mound and carefully open a hole. Place news paper over exit hole and start pickup. Run engine until paper on exit hole blows off. Gophers appear dead. The neighbor used a diesel truck and the diesel exhaust will actually blow dirt out of the exit holes! We are vastly encouraged by this effort and will continue. The two junk yard tom cats have also done a great deal of good around the barn and house in eradicating gophers. They and Freddie the Rat snake seem to keep the vermin at bay in the barns as well.
This old girl has been in the barn for nearly 7 years. We cleaned her up, checked and changed fluids and filters, purged the fuel system, cleaned out the air intake really well and she fired off in about 20 seconds. She needs some work to do but we don't have any jobs big enough for her around the palce now days.
There is a hydraulic steering hose I need to fix and maybe some wheel corrosion but wheels from SW Wheel are not that terrible to buy. She has the usual gear problem and you need to run her with your leg slung over the shift lever. New bushings in the shift ilnkage or some weld filling and new bores would make things a lot better.
Other than those things she seems fit for duty.
It has been a beautiful spring at the farm and I wanted to get her out and celebrate memories of better days than these when we were both young and full of fire. We knew change would always come but we didn't feel like it would probably be bad like it is now. The most terrible words I hear now are "I am from the government" or "Today the Administration announced...."
If only for just a moment though, how can anything in the world be wrong with grass that green and a tractor that Orange? I sit on the back porch of the barn, look across the mile of waving grass to the dark green tree clad mountain and listen to the wind gently rattle the tin on the barn and whistle low through the pines of the wind break and dream the rest of the world to just disappear.
In other news, we seem to have our gopher infestation in the NW pasture on the run if not under control, great job and bonus to Ronny. It takes an old Nissan 4WD pickup, a shop vac hose and news paper. Carefully open an hole in a mound, insert hose. Locate another nearby mound and carefully open a hole. Place news paper over exit hole and start pickup. Run engine until paper on exit hole blows off. Gophers appear dead. The neighbor used a diesel truck and the diesel exhaust will actually blow dirt out of the exit holes! We are vastly encouraged by this effort and will continue. The two junk yard tom cats have also done a great deal of good around the barn and house in eradicating gophers. They and Freddie the Rat snake seem to keep the vermin at bay in the barns as well.
