Super 55 steering

That was sure fun. We had another plow day Friday and I plowed with the wife's Super 55. There were two of us left plowing off the last dead furrow and were all done for all intent and purposes. I pulled out and waited for Tom to come out so I could go back and plow one little wide spot. I started easing up on the clutch pedal and turning it and something snapped. I didn't have any steering. I know right quick what had happened. My son had grafted the shaft in the steering box to the spiral off one with power steering and his weld broke.

I steered it with my feet and got it back up to the show grounds. The big thing was loading it on the trailer. It needed to be backed on so I could get the 500 on the trailer with it. Confidence I told myself, just act like you do this every day. I made it on the second attempt.

He should have cut the end of those shafts so he had a Z splice, but he just butted the ends together. I couldn't put a Z in it now or it would have been too short. I cut a groove about three quarters of an inch in to each end and put a piece of flat stock it them like a key. I got it back together this morning. I'm just glad it didn't break while the wife was making a corner on a tractor drive or something. That might not have ended so well.

Randy--It's too bad that he used the p/s steering worm gear as they are darn hard to find---I would have traded you a non p/s shaft for the p/s shaft--Oh well, I'm glad you got it back together & no bad happenings when the weld broke---Kent Gordon

It was the PS shaft that I got from you. I wish you'd had the other one.

My forgetter works well--I had forgotten that---Is this your 500 orchard that's on facebook ?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2759233207687340&set=pcb.10157960536632705&type=3&theater&ifg=1

I can't get that page to load. It had better be mine or I'll have to stop saying I have the only 500 orchard in the world. LOL

Sure looks like yours

Yep, somebody took that picture Friday or Saturday at the show.

While I was plowing somebody came up to my wife and started arguing with her saying that wasn't the only 500 orchard. She said he claimed he had seen one at a show over in Coopersville or somewhere other there. I'm not calling the guy a liar, but I suspect he saw a 550 with orchard fenders. There were a few of those around here that I knew of when they were being used. She found a card that he had left on the tractor saying he had seen a 500 gas orchard at Oakley. Well, again, not arguing with the guy, but as you know, I had the orchard diesel and my gasser sitting side by side over there two years ago. If there is another 500, I want to look at it.