bad omens?

I got the new-to-us Allis 160 off the trailer, and noticed a huge split in the front tire tread that wasn't there before the journey home, perhaps from bouncing down our questionable northern highways for so long. I then proceeded to lift an 8ft cultivator over the firewood pile so I could mount it on the hitch: as soon as I began to lower the loader the hydraulic hose linking the cylinders exploded. Had to set the cultivator down awfully quickly before all the fluid gushed across the yard.
I think this machine might be trying to tell me something...

Nah,Ol'Murphy paid you a visit,normal occurance around here.

After that if you notice the buzzards circling your yard I would be wary of tackling any projects for a while.

The split tire made her angry so she blew a hose in frustration. Who hasn't?

not too worry,just like most of us,if it werent for bad luck we would have no luck at all!!!

when ever you buy a used piece of eqipment not to often its going to be perfect. As far as tires and hoses that is just regular maintenance. Motors and trans can be a little different :shock:

larry you deffinitally got that right. everyother day jets leave big x's over our farm. and alittle while later something goes wrong. the day i singed papers for our farm 2 heffers got hit by lightning. the day we moved in we had a jet cloud x above the house and it has been downhill ever since. no good luck around here at all.

I saw a movie way back when called "The Orange Oman". I think it was Charles Bronson that starred in it, but not sure. Bought an Allis that had been bit in one of its tires by a rabid skunk from some old farmers wife at an auction after her husband had "died mysteriously" while planting corn in the middle of the night in a field that had never been plowed, ever. Anyway, Bronson or whoever got the tractor home, an in the middle of the night while he'd be sleeping, it would always start itself up and chase the cows around through the melon fields, crushing the melons and the cows would never give any milk. The movie ended when he was in the barn one day and it started up and chased him around the barn trying to stab him with a pitchfork stuck to its loader, and it got him corned and just as he was about finished, his fathers pistol that he was playing with up in the hay loft as a kid and lost, fell down after the tractor bumped into a supporting beam, and he picked it up and shot the fuel line, killing it, sort of. Bronson, or whoever regained his composure and walked over to the tractor and looked at the radiator, and there they were...skunk teeth buried in the cooling fins in the shape of 666.

Now here's the part where you might need to start worrying. Bronson, or whoever went outside to get his very scared dog that was hiding behind a pile of crushed melons and dragged it into the barn to show it that the tractor was dead, it was all over, nothing to worry about. But when he got the dog into the barn and pointed, the tractor was gone. Just gone. He took off his hat, scratching his head, asking "Hey, wait a minute?", but the dog seeing that the tractor was gone and on the loose started howling, squatted in fear and pee'd on Bronson, or whoever's boot. The movie ended with "The End", but that faded away and was replaced with "Or Is it?".

Your tractor? Have you looked at the cooling fins in the radiator? Do they have skunk teeth lined up to form "666"? If they do, drag it down to the Deere guy and buy something...green.

Good luck,

Mark

Shux,Aint no Big Deal . LOL .. Dad Bought a neglcted DC CASE out of a fence row in 1969 for a 125 bucks , stuck a beattery on it , 5 gallon of gas, fired him up and drove it 10 miles home,, all the while, worrying the back tire was gonna blow, DC made it home , we were looking it over when i saw the tube bulging out the front tire , biggere and bigger , KA -POW,,.! POWW! , Both Front tire blowed ...simultanously >>>> , Pop Lafed and LAFFED ...

Grab the shotgun, take her out back of the barn and put her down before something really bad happens.

Because it's an Allis, I naturally named it Susan...
I've been dreaming for years about riding and driving a Susan.shock:

People can call me all sorts of bad names, and -adjectives? But when someone says "oh, the price is firm, there's not one thing wrong, good as new, so the price is firm"... that's when you hear me drive away. I hope you atleast chiseled this guy a a couple bills. This list of issues ain't funny.

Problem is the dealer is too far to drive back with a baseball bat in hand. But if anyone wants to know the Ag Dealer, I won't hesitate to blast away. It won't affect too many on here though - they're too far away from most everyone else too.
The front tire is only a truck tire, so any old one will do, but the hose and pail of Hytrans fluid was $120.

That sounds like an interesting movie. Googled with no results however ????

Bought an old TO-30 from the scrapper with a split in the rear tire and a bubble of innertube sticking out the size of a football. Drug it up to the trailer, winched it on, hauled it about 30 miles, tilted the trailer and drug it off and out of the way, off the driveway. Standing there braggin' to a buddy about the good deal I got when the tube let go and dumped most of the tire's fluid on the ground. Probably won't need to worry about growing grass there for a while...

It washes away/dissipates quicker than you might think!