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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Ever do something stupid and hope no one finds out? Yeah, me neither. Lol. Anyway, I was working on fixing the bearings that went out in the combine header the last couple days. And of course everything is stuck together with rust and 50 years of grease and dirt. So things are not coming apart easy, and long pry bars and heavy hammers were used. Thought a little force on a cast iron piece wouldn't hurt, but I was wrong again. After some walking around and spending money on the cussing jar, I fixed the broken piece.



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It broke because I was going against the intended direction and the force while in use is against the main body. So the brazing should hold fine til next time I hit it with a hammer to get it apart. Lol
 
The pipe loader cracked the bell housing on Farmall H.
Dad split the tractor and brazed it together. It worked
 
The same thing happened to my Dad's H back in the 60s. He also brazed it together and we used it for several years, just not on the loader. When I saw it happen I thought it was the end of my favorite tractor.
 
Your secret is safe with me..... lol. BTW, I relate to the jar comment too, I affectionately refer to it as talking to the Lord.
 
Just to "Share my shame".
Decided a week ago to figure out why my '85 G30 Chevy van was pulling to the left when the brakes were applied. Has to be a caliper or a brake hose.
Took it all apart and lubed up the calipers and while it's apart I threw in new pads I had available ... I bought probably two decades ago. ( I use the van probably less than 100 miles per year ..... now has about 80K miles on it.)
Take her out for a test drive & no good .... plus a "new" noise.
Take the driver's side apart and find I had stuck the inboard pad in backwards ....... Yes ...... metal against rotor.
I stared at the situation in disbelief for quite awhile trying to understand how I could do something so stupid. ( The rotor only slightly marred. )
I went & bought two new calipers and brake hoses and now all is well.
 
I was cutting very tall thick grass with the discharge chute removed from my riding lawn mower. Some grass was stuck in the opening and I just slide my butt to the right on the seat and used my foot to dislodge it. Immediately afterward I looked at my shoe to see if it was all there. It was. I had forgotten how close to the edge of the mower deck that the blade runs. Bonehead stupid.
 
Kind of like the time I RUINED the carb on my pressure washer. (long story) I told myself it wasn't going to work but I did it anyway. It ended badly.
 
Kind of like when the cab door on the loader tractor blew up into a zillon pieces when I got too close to my trailer unloading it at 1030 at night a couple weeks ago. I had the ramps down and the bar that holds one of them up was sticking up and went through the side door which is all glass. Bad enough it cost me 800 bucks but my wife was standing there when it happened and has to tell everyone we know about it. If it wasn't for her it would have been one of those things you just don't say much about to anyone.
 
I think it's a function of getting old. I finished up a bit of ploughing with my Fordson Major yesterday,with a nice sweet heart 3 furrow Massey plough, rescued from oblivion in the back corner of a severed lot where I was working. Oiled it up and was placing it on a dolly in the pig pen, which has a low ceiling. My dolly isn't wide enough and it tipped twice, second time breaking two plough points.I have two other ploughs here, I know the one by looking the points won't fit I doubt the other will either. I did a bit of roof patching for a lady in her later years a few miles over, not great money but a few stories, coffee home made pie and ice cream. She was in her later 80's. She would say, I wake up, I know who I am and where I am at. I guess that's the drill as time passes.
 
Thank you. I wanna see it working now. You did do a few bales this year didn't you?
 
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