Not a good day.

JayinNY

Well-known Member
After cleaning up a building lot for a guy, the contractor bulldozed all the trees into a pile. We picked threw it with a excavator. Got about 4-+ cords of firewood. Well I go to the farm to mow hay and the reel belt on my NH 489 breakes. I go to dealer get a new one, but my manual is at home so I don't know the belt routing. I drive home after driving in the hay field and I see a huge puddle of rear end oil leaking outta my Dakota! I think hay wrapped aroung the driveshaft and made it start leaking! What will tomarrow bring?
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Sorry to hear that, but at least you don't have a pack of funerals to go, I swear it comes in three's!

I would imagine that if something wrapped around the shaft and could violate the seal, likely it, seems to be common to a lot of similar components, somehow works its way in there.

All is not lost, 4 cord, nice score, and will be some relief once you know its split, always nice to know you have next winters firewood on hand.

I've got more to do, I'm close on whats split and stacked for next winter, but I will be going after as much as I can. This weather took a turn for the nice, but the black flies and gnats are as worse as I have ever seen them, just swarm you, don't seem to bite, yet !!! LOL !
 
Lol, I was gonna stop and take a pic of Seymour's hay wagons under i88 bridge! But in such a hurry I forgot to.
 
don't get your shorts in a knot. just buy pinion seals for front and rear and change them. i have a truck that I've changed DOZENS over the last ten years. Save the drama for when something serious.
 
This stuff was all small diameter 4 -5 inches. At least I won't have to split it! I should have said 2 cords as I split the loads with my brother.
 
Jay,
I always got a kick out of his wagon shed also. Who is running the farm now. I did some repaires to his wood/corn pellet stove in his retirement house down on Rt.7 about a year ago. The last I heard there was a "non-profit" organization that had bought his remaining property. They contacted me to donate some solar and wind equipment.
Loren
 
my 98 dodge ram (cummins motor) leaks like that on a good day...
every morning i check underneath, if no oil puddle add oil to:- engine,ps system, transfer case, rear axle, front axle...
 
I'm not sure who's running the place, I'd have to ask Jim maybe he knows. Got the belt on finally, all seems good so ill cut tomarrow.
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I had one of them too, hauling hay, got to the field and the front tire on the loader tractor was flat, no sooner got it off and loaded and I noticed a flat on the trailer too. Just keep plugging away, you'll get her done....oh and I wrapped up a drive shaft with green hay this year too....no fun.
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Yup, changed several myself, baler twine is the biggest problem. Cost me lots of seals. Just gotta deal with it. Ken
 
By the way, I read your post about Chevy Chase, I thought that was great you meeting him. I love the national lampoons Christmas movie, and the Wally World movie! That must have been neat seeing him, your like me I would respect his privacy and be glad to have seen him. I saw the owner of Bellevue builders in April, not long after his horse got injured and knocked out of the kentuckey derby, I wanted to ask him about the situation, but I just smiled and left him alone. But it was pretty neat!
 
Lol, ya I drove the tractor back to the barn, so I dident do the same to my 2nd truck! The third truck is hooked to a trailer, I don't wanna go threw more than 1 truck! Lol.
 
Jay,
When we drove potato truck thru the field,vines would get wrapped around the shaft something fierce. Solution was to hang a plank,8 or 10" wide,suspended from a chain,shielding the full length of the drive shaft,even then, had to cut the vines loose,the minute you hit the end of the field,with a full load.lots of fun.
LOU
 
Yeah, I did not blow his cover, it was funny seeing him blend right in. I liked him in "Fletch" I used to run into these people often it seemed, just by working there, michael imperioli-sopranos used to date someone in the building where I had an office, sara jessica parker and others from s#x in the city, they filmed scenes outside my office, you'd walk out and there is a concession table loaded with incredible food for them, film and equipment trucks everywhere. I let the director of spin city put lighting up on the 3rd floor deck of a job on W.22nd st, to get the scene, one of the production guys came in and dropped off a spin city sweatshirt. I have seen most of the actors from that show, including Heather LOL ! Always seemed you would run into film crews and scenes being shot, one movie they wanted me to shut down a gang of laborers hammering out rock in a big foundation and underpinning job, to get the scene without the noise. I ran into Mike Tyson, one afternoon, in traffic while I was going home, got an evil stare from him, LOL he was in this really nice BMW roadsteror coupe type car, rag top, incredible wheels, thats what I was looking at first, then this big guy turns around, stares at me and its him ! I've seen him before, local establishment back in the day, trolling for women. He too used to date someone near my office. After awhile, you just get used to it, Law and Order SVU, also used to shoot scenes near my office quite often, I many times walked across the street with the actors and their production people by hap chance, it was funny. First time I ever saw a driving scene, car on a trailer, actors inside, thats how they do that ! Even more ironic, I made good money but could not afford to live in Manhattan, so I lived nearby, Brooklyn, or NJ, and one of the places I stayed while in between apartments or houses, the Wayne Motor Inn, Wayne, NJ. They shot many of the gambling scenes in the Soprano's there, work all day, deal with it in the city, get home and well you can't get home as they're filming LOL ! I kid you not, I'd come home, look around, man at the desk was an actor portraying a hasidic jewish man, thats not the regular gal at the desk !, some call girl actors running around, and there they are filming in one of the rooms, Gandolfini and the others, while I stayed there, most times I'd go down to the local place good food, have dinner and a beer then go home after they were done and we were allowed in, fun times LOL, ( long long days back then ... I could have cared less about it, Sopranos, I needed the day to end, and to rest, sometimes it did not happen LOL !)
 

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