Super expensive!

Got a tranny drive belt as well, mine is starting to go.

I was pretty surprised when the bill was $270. I was figuring closer to $400 for the pair of belts, based on past belt purchases.

Where are you located, Quicksilver? Combine bone yards are the place to get what you wanted, much savings. Agco sells very few of those sproket sets, people pick them off the old machines. Got a good one here at that dealer.

I think I have a set of the black header sprokets, but - I am considering going to a black head, so would be hard for me to sell them off - knowing what they cost & the search to find them.

I know Allen likely needs a set too. :)

--->Paul

Seems as though someone had just moved the engine mounting bolts back to one of the other sets of holes as the belt stretched.

Now, the new one won't even go on. :>(

Allan

On a Friday late afternoon, of course.

Today I was getting the paint sprayer out, (too much rain to combine for a few more days, puddles in the fields) and I see where a plug must go on the sprayer - can't find it with the tip & strainer. Mad at myself for losing that. So I go to town - wife leaves me alone again - and find a cap that might fit, tho not well. Get it on, & look up, & see - oh that is the spot the paint hose attaches to, no cap at all..... .

Sigh. Some days I'm just too dumb to even be a simple dirt farmer.

--->Paul

The, er brain fade, I can't think of the name, Janesville dealer, little town south of Mankato on 14, used to have a bunch of junkers, but they cut back on that to just a few. Worth a call tho if you can't find at the other places.

Smith's Mill, that's the name!

I'm in the triangle right between the Smith's Mill, Mountain Lake, & Redwood Falls dealers. Sux to have the dealers an hour away for a combine, but I do have 3 good ones available....

--->Paul

Lots of stuff has doubled and even tripled in price the past 2-3 years.

Not to mention that it saddens me to see all your knowledge of combines sitting idle next fall. Buy yourself another early 14 series and run the wheels off of it if the 1420 is stressing you and costing you money. I'd pay top dollar to have a quarter of your knowledge.

Its easy to get out with every one waving around high cash rent, but its much harder to get back in.

My machinery is getting old and worn out too.This has been a costly year for parts.The weather has only been good for 1 out of the past 10 years in this area.

My grain elevator used to be 4 miles away but closed and now is 12 miles away.Hauling is a real headache now.I have no grain bins.

I once had a neighbor that was always going to retire but kept on farming one more year.The week he and his wife were going to finally take off in the Winnebago he dropped dead in the cattle lot while tending to his draft horses.I dont want to end up like him.

I plan to attend more old tractor shows,tractor pulls,farm sales,gather up more old combines,plus work on my old combines,show my combines,and just plain relax.

One of the youngest farmers in the neighborhood has rented the ground.

Wouldn't that stuff work or is it "soft" iron?

Gettin' kind of tired of bending over and grabbin' my ankles all the time. :>(

Allan

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