Archive through August 25, 2011

[kweaver]

Roy - It depends on what type of soil you have. Being you're in RI I have no idea what your soil is. If it's like the black stuff up north were the topsoil is 8 feet deep a Cub and tiller would be all you'd need. If it's clay like we have here it'd take a big tractor and a tiller or turning plow.

Being that the soil has been undisturbed for so long I'd recommend a turning plow first to get it turned over. That needs to be done this fall.
Next spring when the ground is dry you could use a Cub and tiller or a big tractor and disc or tiller.

Just be sure the ground is dry when you work it. Wet soil has a tendency to make hard clods , or at least here it does. It can get so bad that sometimes they wont break up at all the whole year.

Have I cornfuzed ya enuff ?

 

[kweaver]

 

[nhasson]

Nice tattoo Ken. It almost looks like its on his arm.

 

[kweaver]

Fixed it

And my profile pic

 

[tpennell]

Ken,
That was the first thing I did when I got home was cover the carb. Not sure if the old thing is salvageable or not. I do not even know where to begin with it. I suppose see if it will turn over freely would be a beginning. I will dig deeper into it but unfortunately it has been raining here ever since I picked it up. Have a great day everyone. Tim

 

[dfrisk]

GLEN - Actually, most of Dad's tractor's were gas. Just the miserable jd R and the 4010 were diesel. Good thing too on the 4010, if it would have been a gas I'd have burned 7-8 gallons of gas per hour, but with the diesel it was more like 5 GPH. It was a bit of a disappointment for power the first year or two, prior owner had already installed the 4020 kit bumping CID from 380 to 404 and messed with the pump, which made it pull on three cylinders and loaf on the other three, so I was pulling the same implements at about the same speeds as our 55 H P 450 Farmall did. Once we got that fixed it was fun to run.

Your 149/21466 should pull that disc loaded up with weight just fine. I've seen hydro's over-heat @ PS #2 and that was REALLY hard ground.

SCOTT N. - There was a hyd. oil cooler in front of the radiators on large IH hydro's but it was more to keep the Hy-Tran cool for the hyd system than the Hydro. IH did the same thing with them as with CC's, they just used LOTS of Hy-Tran, I think the large frame hydro's, 826,1026,966,1066,H100,H186,3488 used between 50 and 55 gal of Hy-Tran. The 656H,H70,H86 used 30-35 gal. if I remember right.

I've seen those bi-directional Versatile 256's but never been around one. With 3-pt hitches & PTO's on both ends they were a really useful tractor.

 

[jmills]

thanks for the info kentuck i did that hydro fan had no blades left and fins were all full of crap rear end will be next would you use cub hytran or tsc thanks again

 

[kweaver]

JJ - Use HyTran !
I have to hit the interstate to go get mine , but I go !

 

[kweaver]

Hey did'ja know that Charlie took over the forum 5 years ago + a couple of weeks

 

[kmcconaughey]

Wow, where does the time go?

Charlie,

 

[digger]

Man! Has it been that long!

Of course if it wasn't for all the GREAT people we have, it wouldn't be what it is!

THANKS EVERYONE!

 

[dross]

I remember when Charlie first started comeing around. Rough start but seems like it's workin out okay, time will tell.

 

[kweaver]

Dave - I tried to run his sorry butt off but he's to stubborn to take the hint !

Well it's been somewhere around that long cause I was looking through old emails and on 08-17-06 he asked me to fix him a link button since he had just taken over the forum ...

 

[dtanner]

KENtuckyKEN

(here is where I catch up on your sand box comment ) lol (08-17-06 he asked me to fix him a link button since he had just taken over the forum ... )

Ken and you still bring it up . That would never happen here.To easy to find fault,harder to find good help. Charlie must have thick skin .

on a lite note ,wife is back working and now I have an engine that was rebuilt for my 125 ,that needs to go back in the tractor. I will hire out the blasting. To old and to many pains to do it all myself.Have a few projects in mind for the fall.the 125 just needs paint because all the other parts of the tractor has be brought up to working speck. I Will have a grin when its finished. Later Don T

Ken (125`s rule ) I think there are cute looking .

 

[kweaver]

Charlie's first post that I could find and I went back a month from this one.

 

[thoffman]

Kraig,
Then there is the IH built 63" version.

 

[dross]

Kentucky, Charlie, Seems like Charlie posted on here for a while before taking over. Mabye I'm old (relatively) but at least I've got being overwieght and balding going for me.

 

[dtanner]

Dave Ross

I see Charlie has 10252 post ! wow I would like to know when he got started. must have been some time ago . Even for a grump he does post less now than he did. That is a good thing cause that means he can`t have much to B about ! lol
And he loves this he told me!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Don, I think he cheated. Remember, he owns the forum and can tweak that number. Mine would be way higher except that my profile was accidentally deleted by Charlie some time back. My date of registering is way off due to that as well. HEY, I bet he did that accidental delete on purpose to cut my post count...

 

[dtanner]

Kraig McConaughey "Keeper of the Photos"

Yep , I have read some earlier posts and see he had a bigger number back in 2007 i think it was. But your profile picture to me only shows a guy with a pointer for a few months now lol. But then again it just could be my confuser