Howdy, I've been lurking for quite awhile and figured I should introduce myself.
I bought my first ever tractor, a '46 (I believe) John Deere A, SN 574050. I plan to use it for some field work on a farm I don't have, and simply to have a tractor, because hey, tractors are awesome. It might not make much sense, I know...
So far the most important job it's done is decorate my house for a neighborhood lantern festival. Next year I hope to use it to plant some popcorn, feed corn (corn maze), and pumpkins, and cultivation of the same.
I've been having a blast working on, and learning about, the tractor. I killed it as soon as I got home and the neighbors came out to take a look, and of course I killed the battery trying to start it again. Popped off the cover to jump it and a birds next including eggs was there to welcome me to tractor ownership! The next weekend another neighbor wanted to hear it run, and embarrassingly I flooded the bejesus out of it and never got it started. Found an operators manual and I'm good now. Yeah, I'm more green than the tractor!
I've changed the crankcase oil, which was well over a gallon overfilled, and stank of gasoline. The wife did not appreciate that chemical aroma wafting into the house. Changed the tranny oil (took a long time to find GL4 fluid, ended up ordering online) and it had some water in it. Drained the radiator fluid to find rust chunks and quite oddly what looked like clumps of grass. Added oil to the steering pedestal and it immediately leaked out, so I packed it with some grease. Put probably a total of hundreds of squirts of grease in all the zerks. And I put a new seat spring on it which I want to take right back off because man is that stiff compared to what I assume was the custom job spring that was on it.
I still need to figure out how to clock the rockshafts as one is about an hour higher than the other. Not a big deal but would like them equal all the same (if possible). It has a 3-point and the power-trol. I'd like to hook up a 12v generator or alternator for the 12v battery, or I might simply put a solar panel on it. And I still have to find a trailer and move it to the farm.
I'd like to get a planter and an ABG front mounted cultivator, as my zero experience farming tells me a front mounted cultivator would be easier to use and not decimate a variety crops if I can see what I'm doing.
Sorry if this is a long intro, but I'm excited to have this, and excited to share with those having a similar interest.
I bought my first ever tractor, a '46 (I believe) John Deere A, SN 574050. I plan to use it for some field work on a farm I don't have, and simply to have a tractor, because hey, tractors are awesome. It might not make much sense, I know...
So far the most important job it's done is decorate my house for a neighborhood lantern festival. Next year I hope to use it to plant some popcorn, feed corn (corn maze), and pumpkins, and cultivation of the same.
I've been having a blast working on, and learning about, the tractor. I killed it as soon as I got home and the neighbors came out to take a look, and of course I killed the battery trying to start it again. Popped off the cover to jump it and a birds next including eggs was there to welcome me to tractor ownership! The next weekend another neighbor wanted to hear it run, and embarrassingly I flooded the bejesus out of it and never got it started. Found an operators manual and I'm good now. Yeah, I'm more green than the tractor!
I've changed the crankcase oil, which was well over a gallon overfilled, and stank of gasoline. The wife did not appreciate that chemical aroma wafting into the house. Changed the tranny oil (took a long time to find GL4 fluid, ended up ordering online) and it had some water in it. Drained the radiator fluid to find rust chunks and quite oddly what looked like clumps of grass. Added oil to the steering pedestal and it immediately leaked out, so I packed it with some grease. Put probably a total of hundreds of squirts of grease in all the zerks. And I put a new seat spring on it which I want to take right back off because man is that stiff compared to what I assume was the custom job spring that was on it.
I still need to figure out how to clock the rockshafts as one is about an hour higher than the other. Not a big deal but would like them equal all the same (if possible). It has a 3-point and the power-trol. I'd like to hook up a 12v generator or alternator for the 12v battery, or I might simply put a solar panel on it. And I still have to find a trailer and move it to the farm.
I'd like to get a planter and an ABG front mounted cultivator, as my zero experience farming tells me a front mounted cultivator would be easier to use and not decimate a variety crops if I can see what I'm doing.
Sorry if this is a long intro, but I'm excited to have this, and excited to share with those having a similar interest.