Fwd: FW: Never put a tractor bucket down while in Road Gear
(This is one of those forwarded things out of my e-mail)
This next is from the blog of a farmer's wife:
SOMEDAY ... I want to join these guys on their Fall Color Ride in the U.P., north of here, probably an hour & a half. But ... I see that they raised their entry fee to $100 this year.
My latest-greatest way to fritter away time is
Click here: YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. This is an index of my little videos.
There are some videos I've uploaded that show (with sound) how my John Deere is doing here.
click here: OUR D17 ALLIS CHALMERS AT OUR SUAMICO MARINA
click here: FRIENDS' ALLIS HD7 CRAWLER PARKED HERE
click here: FRIENDS' ALLIS HD7 CRAWLER PARKED HERE
HD 7 ALLIS CHALMERS CRAWLER (dozer), about 1946. Will start/move. As-is-where-is. Would like to sell the two as a pair; one is for parts to use in the other. PRICE IS FOR BOTH. Blade available. PHOTOS AVAILABLE.
1-906-265-2367Ben Brickman
185 Hanmer Road
Iron River, MI 49935
YA ... IT'S IN HERE SOMEWHERE! Some friends of mine working on their Allis.
THESE ARE PARKED BY MY PLACE ... THEY HAD BEEN DOING SOME LOGGING IN MY AREA LAST YEAR WHEN THEY GOT THESE.
THERE'S A PAIR OF THESE ... ONE JUST FOR PARTS.
I told them I'd see if I could find some places to list these for sale on the INTERNET. I knew about TODAYS TRACTORS; there, they have free classifieds & free photo ads & will run for 30 days.
My son had told me about another place to put ads; it might not be in for several days?:
HERE'S THE AD I PUT IN THESE TWO PLACES:
HD 7 ALLIS CHALMERS CRAWLER (dozer), about 1946. Will start/move. As-is-where-is. Would like to sell the two as a pair; one is for parts to use in the other. PRICE IS FOR BOTH. Blade available. PHOTOS AVAILABLE.
1-906-265-2367
Ben Brickman
185 Hanmer Road
Iron River, MI 49935
Here's one of their old tractors that they are playing with to restore & use.
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET SOME MORE SNOW THIS WEEK. When it's not snowing, it will be cold & at least rainy.
I MUST REMEMBER TO ADD THESE GUYS TO MY LIST OF LINKS, NOW THAT THEY HAVE A WEBSITE. They are near Green Bay, WI ... run a route to pick up & deliver engines & parts of that need work. They do superlative work!
Baril Engine Rebuilding Inc.
996 Centennial Street
Green Bay, WI 54304
1-920-336-4600
Click here: Baril Engine Rebuilding Inc. - Home
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my website: Crystal Falls, MI
WELL, ONE OF THE GUYS STOPPED BY ... I told him of the problems shifting the tractor. Of course, when we started the tractor up ... the gears didn't lock up for him! But, he could see that it was not going into the various gears easily. He kept putting it into each gear, over & over again ... eventually the problem seemed to go away. His prescription was to avoid first gear & just do the running thru the gear positions to get the one that I wanted to work! THIS IDEA IS NOT NEW TO ME ... I JUST WAS WORRIED TO RUIN SOMETHING AFTER THE BIG REPAIR BILL & LONG WAIT.
I'm going to use the tractor, CAREFULLY, to see if it does this again. ALSO, I'm going to keep asking around to get opinions about this shifting problem. Since I have the shop manual, the parts book, & the owner's manual, I think I'll make copies of some of those pages... my sons are very knowledgeable mechanics. (Too bad they're so far away.)
OUR TRACTORS IN WISCONSIN WERE ALLIS CHALMERS (2) D17's. The one I used to launch boats with at our Marina didn't want to go into gear. I'd be hanging onto the brakes for all I could ... not wanting to have the tractor, trailer, & big boat roll backwards into the DEEP river. I kept a hammer by my feet on the tractor & tap the shift lever into the gear I wanted!
ALSO ... SHIFTING GEARS ON OTHER MACHINERY ... LIKE MY SEMI ... I'd have to poke it into another gear or two before I could get it into the one that I really wanted. I was so used to it, I didn't even really think about it as I was doing it. Maybe it helped get the RPM's down so it would shift easier?
HERE'S AN INTERESTING VIDEO ABOUT A FAMILY TRACTOR.
CLICK HERE-YouTube - 1941 B John Deere Tractor
HERE'S WHAT I'M LISTENING TO ON THE RADIO:
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my journal: Upper Peninsula, MI and beyond
my website: Crystal Falls, MI
JUST NOW, I POSTED THIS QUESTION ON THE JOHN DEERE FORUM ... HOPING FOR A REPLY.
Click here: Yesterday's Tractors - Discussion Forum
I had posted the questions on the sad problems that we had about the bill on our tractor overhaul.
http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=jd&th=229966
After paying the labor bill that was twice what was quoted, I have run the tractor twice. First was plowing snow for about two hours. Then, it wouldn't start ... TOO COLD?
Today, I ran the tractor for about half an hour, again plowing snow.
Then, after pushing snow in REVERSE, I shifted back into first gear. Engaging the hand-clutch ... the RPM'S went way down & I heard this sick little clunk ahead of me ... in the area of the engine. The tractor never made any attempt to move forward.
I put it into reverse again; the tractor would move in reverse ( maybe it never came out of reverse?)
I put it into second gear this time ... again ... the RPM's came way down & the tractor did not move ... again that sickly little clunk in the forward area.
At the idle, or with the hand clutch disengaged ... everything was fine
I shut the tractor down ... checked all the fluids ... went into denial.
The nearest tractor mechanic is nearly a hundred miles away. The guy who did the work on the tractor said that he wouldn't warrenty his job "because we used some after-market parts".
Should he be, nevertheless, required to see (at no extra charge) if something wasn't put back together right?
It is just not in the budget to do it the right way this time & have the tractor hauled a hundred miles to the REAL tractor mechanics.
| LOOKING THRU THE STACKS ON THE JOHN DEERE AGAIN! YEAH! THANKFULLY, the tractor was finally returned after its overhaul...  Hoping you have a fast connection ... some of these little movies on YouTube take a long time to load ... but, once loaded, you can repeat the movie instantly. This one is of our prodigal tractor coming into the yard.
Since these pictures below were taken ... we've had more feet of snow ...looking out the sunroom window here. YOU CAN SEE THE CAR, PICK-UP, & TRACTOR IN THE SNOW & SORTA YOU CAN SEE MY DECK CHAIRS.   I did some plowing that day (Wednesday) ... sorta waiting for the stormS to get all over before I tidied up the yard. You know, up here, even if the groundhog sees his shadow, we're going to have at least more than six weeks of winter anyways! I was snowed in for many days before the tractor got here ... plowed out ... uncovered my car ... made a trip into town to get some more deer corn, etc. I usually have a good supply of everything on hand. It was predicted that we'd have several more big snow storms ... we did! Nothing like in NEW YORK (or up on Lake Superior, north of here) though.  The John Deere being delivered between snowstorms ... just the back grader blade on so far. This is a welcome sight on this dead-end road, 3 1/2 miles in off the main road! Some of my daily visitors. Not a good place to stand.This first one is of our prodigal tractor coming into the yard.
Did you see the short movie that I did of my sister,Florence, & her truck?
MORE OF MY MOVIES:   THESE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE JOHNNIE PHOTOS HERE'S JOHNNIE FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE ... youTUBE. I took this video as he came into the snow-filled driveway with the back blade: Click here: YouTube - Our John Deere Tractor Plowing Snow It's been so long since I used the Johnnie ... I have to get used to it all over again. I was so used to our Allis Chalmers that I keep going to the front of the tire to get on the tractor.
HERE'S SOME GOOD TRACTOR LINKS TO FOLLOW: JDHeritage for John Deere memorabilia & antique tractor collector Deerely Departed John Deere parts and Antique Tractor parts Antique Tractors - Yesterday's Tractors Antique Tractor Headquarters John Deere Agricultural Equipment Dealers Yahoo! Groups John-Deere-Tractors John Deere Tractors Discussion Board
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We've got the loader for the tractor ... & new hydraulics.... but, it's not put back on yet. This is from two winters ago.