Jim Heilkemper ?

Haven't heard from you in a long time, hope everything's ok with you and the family.? Drop us a line letting us know things are ok, if not we are here for support.

Mike
 
Mike , his handle has changed to O1gentdc. He is still on here, and posting on my e-mail addy, regularly. He was having problens with the Perkins Diesel on his MF combine. Hope he diddn't take a tumble off of it..
Loren
 
Yes ,MERRY CHRISMAS ,,, Everyone ,Thank You, for your concern ,Mike I have got to figure out how to thank you for the wonderful gifts ,Sorry , just got around to opening it bringing it in from the truck,( guess the post man thought it would be best out of the weather )...seemed sort of heavy ,, ohh boy !..a double order of Lorens wonderful family syrup,,,,not only that, but a calendar from Dutchman and a precious CASE KeepSake Glass block .. WOW .. I am still out there ,but seldom post,,.i had to change handle after the guest purge in august ,,. My Sara is in Sicily for 6 weeks ,Her 1st Christmas there since leaving in 1979 stayin with her ailing Mom and Dad ,sadly from breast cancer , and her dad has terminal lung cancer ..she reports a Wonderful time All the Same ///.. my brother finished my beans yesterday with his case /ih 1660 just in the nik of time ,, RAIN TODAY /That durn Massey perkins is still down , waiting on a rebuild injector pump ,had a bad turbo too !,.and waiting also is 18 acres of corn my brother has over 50 acres ,,very wet fall , corn is still standin well, at 17 percent moisture ... // Kinda had some crazy luck .. LOL , but I get by with a little help from my friends and family ,. my daughter fixt this computer so It would allow me to type and send messages ,.Lost my cellphone on sunday , , but found it chrismas eve, after I got another , //// Christmas morning,I Had a TRACTOR Accident!.. took out hay and feed to the cows on the Liberty 430, cows are up in cedar thicket , very good for this nasty weather, on way back , tractor frontend slid over, then tailend did too on slik slope , rear tire caught a forked down tree in such a silly manner that the fork of the tree caught my clutch legand throwed my foot up under the seat and affectively pinning my knee into the fender , THANK GOD , I was going slow and was able to pull the kill switch ,the limb though no bigger than my leg , had me pinned with onefork on my ankle and another fork in the small (back side ) of my knee , kinda stretching my shin ,and wretching my knee at the same time .. Now I was really in a mess , and in SEVERE PAIN ..didn't think nuthin was broke , YET,, ,, but the Liberty 430 has a trick reverse , Ya never know where or when you are gonna find reverse , but it is there ,, and all the tractor weight pressure seemed to be on my left lower leg !,, Lucky for me, I was able to find reverse perfectly with out a doubt ,,since the neutral safety switch has long been abandoned , with fuel off , I was able to crank the 430 back ,freeing my leg , and get some relief ,,.But I was still Stuck ,Hated to bother anyone for help on Christmas morning ,My clutch ankle hurt like the Dikens , could not use the foot clutch ,.but I could operate the hand clutch ,after some studying and much effort I was able to spring wedge one fork of the tree on the outside of the left tire , with more reverse motion the wheel effectively held the 430 from side slippin further , I was able to rite lock the brake and get enuf traction to spin around .. and with positive traclok was able after about 5 minutes to waggle the 430 enuf to git on out of that mess ,I was lucky .my knee has a bruise and the fender has my knee indention , a bad scrape on my far left ankle bone,and a scraped shin , I came in and put some TEI FUe cream on it ( witch DR hoss linament ), but that stuff worx good y, Wrapped the leg with a double size ace bandage ,and cut me a nice lookin sassafrass cane ,.,, Gotta go feed,stopped rainin
 
Yes , You KNOW IT ,, and so does Chris and John from the finger lakes region ,I told Chris , thAT..SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN THERE IS A MOTHER SUPERIOR SMILING DOWN ON SARA ,while saying "Thats My SARA , I Taught Her Well " Without my Moral support Sara ,, I just aint got much under the hood,, LOL ..She was schooled in a stern convent in Sicily , and yet Practices forgiveness like Jesus taught us , .Thank God,, that massey just about wreckt my religion ..Lol ...
 
Guess I missed a lot when I was off for surgery this spring n summer. Thanks Jim and Loren for the name change. Sounds like some tough times for sure, wish the best to you and Sara with her folks, and good luck with finishing your crops. Wonder how many others aren't done yet.

Mike
 

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