Proud of the old 611B!

I bought this machine barely running early Spring '17, just been slowly fixing it up. It's about to the point where it's a useful tool rather than a hole to throw time & money into. So this spring I started losing my vision, and it got parked for a month and a half with no preparation besides my usual habit of running the carb dry on shutdown. Well, I have a brand new $3000 plastic disk in my right eye now, and I'm getting back on my feet, so I decided it's time to get the old girl running. Checked all the fluids, only needed fuel (was very low when parked). Aired up the tires. Climbed on, turned the key and it fired right off like it had been run yesterday. Moved a few buckets of dirt, scraped some sand/gravel off the road (it's our rainy season), I swear I've driven brand new tractors that weren't this smooth, it never hit 200 degrees, didn't leak a drop of anything. I think I'm a happy camper.
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(quoted from post at 17:41:31 07/14/18) Wonderful , Kevin , Can You tell Us more about Your Eye debacle?
roblem is usually to get me to shut up! They tell me everybody gets cataracts after 50 or so, just some get 'em worse than others. I hit the jackpot. I've always had a lazy eye, depth perception sucks, but of course the strong one got the cataract. "Advanced" they called it. Like someone smeared the inside of my glasses with dielectric grease. The cure these days is to remove the natural lens with the cataract on it and replace it with an artificial one. They have many types but my budget dictated the cheapest, just single-vision. So my good eye now works like an old Brownie camera; excellent from 3-4' on out, but I need cheaters to read or run a computer. At work I've been using bifocal safety glasses with a tint, allows me to function half-normally. Plan to get auto-darkening bifocals that will correct each eye individually but they won't even try to evaluate them for a couple more weeks at least. Anyway I'm glad to have the surgery over with. Sorry you asked now?

Larry, I'd rather have a standard but this does the job. There aren't a whole lot of used tractors floating around the Arizona desert, so this is what I found. It's actually way more tractor than I need for the one acre I actually keep up (I have three-plus more in native desert. It's very quiet around here and I like it that way).
 
(quoted from post at 06:09:17 07/15/18) I've heard that happens once in a while to folks a long way from me.......
eems it's been happening a whole lot close to me. Some shirt-tail relations in Texas. The wife of a co-worker. A checker at the local Safeway. One of my customers. AFAIK it's not contagious but...
 
Larry, I'd rather have a standard but this does the job. There aren't a whole lot of used tractors floating around the Arizona desert, so this is what I found. It's actually way more tractor than I need for the one acre I actually keep up (I have three-plus more in native desert. It's very quiet around here and I like it that way).[/quote]

Kevin,
If we were closer I'd trade my 530 for your 611B. Only you'd have to start patching leaks on the 530, and I'd insist on keeping my snow bucket. :D
 
(quoted from post at 11:12:30 Kevin,
If we were closer I'd trade my 530 for your 611B. Only you'd have to start patching leaks on the 530, and I'd insist on keeping my snow bucket. :D
ou can keep the snow bucket, and the snow too! I do wish the previous owner hadn't narrowed my bucket. Even if I narrow the wheels all the way, I can't run along a fence with the bucket. So there is still one cholla cactus I can't remove from inside the fence because I don't want to destroy an ocotillo that's right in front of it.
 
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(quoted from post at 11:12:30 Kevin,
If we were closer I'd trade my 530 for your 611B. Only you'd have to start patching leaks on the 530, and I'd insist on keeping my snow bucket. :D
ou can keep the snow bucket, and the snow too! I do wish the previous owner hadn't narrowed my bucket. Even if I narrow the wheels all the way, I can't run along a fence with the bucket. So there is still one cholla cactus I can't remove from inside the fence because I don't want to destroy an ocotillo that's right in front of it.

You could run along a fence with a snow bucket. But I doubt you could fill it with sand and lift it.


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Maybe manure, if it's dry. Hydraulics aren't all that. Nothing wrong with them (anymore), just an old tractor. But with my 2/3-size bucket wet sand is no problem, just have to make more trips down to the hollow where I get my fill dirt.
 
(quoted from post at 23:47:19 07/15/18) Maybe manure, if it's dry. Hydraulics aren't all that. Nothing wrong with them (anymore), just an old tractor. But with my 2/3-size bucket wet sand is no problem, just have to make more trips down to the hollow where I get my fill dirt.

The wide front axle is the weak link on these Case tractors. I scooped up some black dirt with my snow bucket, and drove across the field real slow so I didn't bounce top much. I don't think I'll do that again.
 
That sure is nice, and I bet nice to have around to give that extra lift. Great post
 

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