Re: john deere 70 horsepower

Posted by rla on April 15, 2014 at 05:13:25 from (162.39.22.109):

In Reply to: john deere 70 horsepower posted by grandad.. on April 14, 2014 at 18:11:52:

When I seen the post that says John Deere 70
& Grandad I hafta reply..

When I was about 20 years old & had a friend/
neighbor who was trucker, He called me one
morning after chores, he was in Indiana & found
a John Deere 70 Gas sitting in a little
pasture beside a coop. Had 1/2 dozen turkeys
roosted on it, he could buy it for 600.00..
I said buy it, I"ll go 1/2 with ya.

He got it loaded, but said I would hafta
meet him of I 80 to haul it the rest of the
way home because he had a Wide load & wasn"t
aloud to leave I80. OK.. Met him at a place
& he wasn"t happy, got a fine for having this
tractor on his Load that wasn"t part of the
heavy haul.. When I seen the 70 wheel out as
far as they would go & I"m thinking how is
that going to haul on our 3 axle trailer that"s
2" under 8 feet wide with Low tires on the
tractor & I have 50 miles to drive at night with
a expired plates on the trailer. But we got it
loaded with 4" of tire hanging out both sides.
Then chained it down & aired the tires up
from the trucks air brakes. I made it home,
without trouble but had a couple cops look at me
kinda funny but let us go..

Well after clean"n the turkey poop off, 2 new
pistons, valve job boring the block 90
over. & repairing, rebuilding anything it
needed. Started right off like a new tractor.
Put 5 gallons of gas in it & went 3 miles up the
road to bring home a load of hay. Ran GREAT!
Got the hay off the wagon & went to park the
wagon & it quit. Looked in the gas tank & was
Dry? I thought well maybe that gas can wasn"t as
full...

I used it some, & GRANDAD thought I lost my mind
cause he thought we didn"t need a bigger tractor.
Come spring time he ( Grandad ) said I think I
might try to plow with the 70, Finally I thought
he was getting around to my thinking. Hooked the
3 bottoms on the tractor & he went to plowing.
At noon he came back & said the tractor runs
great, he always had plowed with a cyclone A
& at noon you had to be home or you"d run out
of gas. The 70 Tank was much bigger, he had it
full when he left. After lunch he filled the
tractor again with the hand pump, said he had to
rest pumping, I think I put 20 gallons in it?
After spring planting he said I had to figure
out a way to make run on water, cause he
couldn"t afford to use it everyday. I asked
what about Milk? He said If I could make run on
Milk, the Milk truck wouldn"t hafta stop anymore
& we would have a darn Dime coming in..

But it ran GREAT, Sold to guy up in New England
who wanted it for a Puller! I said man I have a
tractor for you!

Sorry Long winded..

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