Tractor wanted to flex it's muscles today

Adirondack case guy · Feb 7, 2016

Well I looked out the woodshed window after lunch today and the Case 440 wanted to get some mud on it's tires and the dump trailer wanted to tag along. HeHe. We took a ride up to the sugarbush and checked things out. As you can see, there is no snow in the bush. Temp rose to 43F this afternoon. The Maple syrup season looks doomed for 2016, but perhaps there is hope on the horizon.Temps are supposed to drop steadily all this comming week with a forcast high of 5F next Sat. That will drive some frost into the ground, especially with no snow cover. We have our fingers crossed and hopeing the cold temps and a bit of snow that is forcast will normalize things a bit.
Hope you enjoyed the pic ride. I sure had a good time out with the tractor today.
Loren

David G · Feb 7, 2016

Beautiful farm.

How many acres of you tap?

Bruce from Can. · Feb 7, 2016

From the picture you would think tapping was over and your uncles could be out planting oats. Looks the same here too.

lee little · Feb 7, 2016

Good luck! Thanks for sharing the pics. I like the whole rig but I love the trailer.

Adirondack case guy · Feb 7, 2016

Dave, The sugar bush covers 60A We used to tap it all and hung 3600 buckets. We now are content with 2500 buckets. That equates to 5-600 gal of syrup in normal years.
Loren

David G · Feb 7, 2016

That is a lot of work, good luck this year.

Dick2 · Feb 7, 2016

Are you going to get any of the snow that is supposed to follow along the east coastline tomorrow?

greg oliver · Feb 7, 2016

ACG, We were in Richfield Springs a couple weekends ago when there was still some snow. We were on a mission or I would of give you a holler! The wife and I were looking at the new houses. I did get a couple pics of farms on the way home.

JD Seller · Feb 7, 2016

THANK YOU for your great pictures!!!! I envy your ability to finish your "projects". It seems like I start them and then get waylaid by life and they get put on the back burner too often. Your a very skilled man and I enjoy you letting us into your everyday life.

37chief · Feb 7, 2016

Looks like it may be a little cold yet. I have a question on the bar over the front to your tractor. What's there for? I am thinking of something like that for my mowing tractors. I am always going under low hanging branches. I am surprised I haven't broke my exhaust manifold off. I have been slapped by some nasty branches also. Something like that would put the branches up and over the tractor. Just a thought. Stan

01gentdc · Feb 7, 2016

Thanx for the pix visit ,,.I too, admire you, Loren ,for doing your projects so well and completing them ,..without letting life s problems stare you down..Loren YOU SHOULD blueprint and manufacture .or at the very least offer for sale those prints and plans to others for the 430 cab,. today I drove the Marquis convertible and stretched the legs on the 429 ,..felt good in 55 degree temps ..but alas ,, I think the power brake booster needs replacing,now .SHEESH,. Louisville area going back into deep freeze Monday nite, just in time for NATIONAL FARM MACHINERY SHOW starting wed-thru Saturday,,.You Will probably end up with our worn out leftover weather in upstate New York in a few Days . better make hay while ya can ,,.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 8, 2016

beautiful farm and tractor! Do you and Jon f man and all the case guys,and Eldon and all the AC guys want to make Monday night Orange night?

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

Works for me Larry.

f2355j · Feb 8, 2016

WOW Everything in those pictures is awsome !! Where is this at?

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

Greg,
The farm with the leg and Harvestors is directly across the road from me. If you looked the other way (north) you would have seen my house and the farm. I'm first house in on the cross road.
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

You can Google 13333zip.
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

JD,
I make it a point to read your posts and replies. You have wisdom and commonsense, and traditional values that seem to be missing in todays world. I admire that.
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

That is exactly why I built the brush sweeps. It protects the cab and the muffler when I am in the woods. They also help to discuise the sort of boxey look of the cab and pull the overall look of the tractor together.
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

I build from what I have in my bone pile. My builds just evolve as I go. I guess that I am fortunate that I can envision something and form metal and wood to fulfill my vision.
Loren

Donald Lehman · Feb 8, 2016

Never far Loren,

The weather forecast for later this week is for between 0 and -15 for three or four nights, high twenties-low thirty's for day temps. Don't know as the season could get much worse than last year. Of course sugaring is a bit like politics; about the time you think it can't get any worse, it does. Lol!

Doug-Iowa · Feb 8, 2016

Enjoy the pictures, thanks. Can you explain that quick-attach looking device you have on the front of your Case? Something you designed or ?

Adirondack case guy · Feb 8, 2016

Doug, That is a std CatI 3pt hitch that I built. It utilizes the Myers snow plow lift cyl. when the plow is not on the tractor.
Loren

Married2Allis · Feb 8, 2016

Are those woods haunted? lol

Doug - Iowa · Feb 9, 2016

I'm building something similar, but I can't come up with a pin latch design that I like. Can you post a pic of your latch?

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