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rrlund

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I blew the hydraulic pump out of the 1850 Oliver Sunday when I was grinding feed. I ordered a new one Monday,it came Tuesday. I had planned to have things caught up by tomorrow so I could change it. By 3 o'clock yesterday I was done for the day,so I backed it in the shop and got started. By 5:30 the whole top of the rearend was upside down on a pallet on the floor. I went back out after supper and put the pump in and by 8 I had the top back on.
I hauled 104 bales home today then got back at it by 4. By supper time it was done. I didn't have to lay in bed tonight doing that job over and over in my head before I even started it.
Seems like thinking about it is always ten times worse than the actual job.
 
Cherry picker,hoist,whatever you want to call it. It's a whole lot easier to be accurate putting things back together that way. A lot easier on gaskets.
 
Sometimes the jo bs you put off because of the difficulty factor turn out to be easier than you thought. Not sayin that was an easy job, and other times when you dive into something and figure to be done in a couple hours you just can't seem to find a bottom in the oit!
 
I'm sure not looking forward to the next one. I have to get the over/under out of the 2-135 so I can get that fixed. I'd rather change 10 of these pumps than pull that motor once.
Gonna have to just dive in to it though.
 
I never had a cherry picker hoist, always used a manure loader or a come along from the rafters. Finally got one when IO put my JD D head back on the last time--what a difference! So easy to put heavy things precisely where you want them. One of my better investments.
 
Ya,I spent the long dollar and got the folding one. Doesn't take up a lot of space. The arm slides in and drops all the way down and the legs fold up against the frame.
 
I thought I was the only one that would lay awake at night thinking how I am going to something, worrying all for nothing because the job was easier than expected.
 
When I was younger we didn't have anything but a come along from a rafter. Then we got big time with a chainfalls which was a bunch better. I finally got smart and bought a cherry picker. Then dad bought one. Then I finally got smart and bought a 3000 lb propane White forklift for the farm. Then dad bought a big 873 Bobcat skidloader. Now we are two worn out old men that have 10 ways of lifting things and we're both too worn out to worry about it anymore! I had to pull the engine out of my White tractor and the forklift did the job. A big A frame would probably be even easier but I had dad there to steady the engine while I finagled it into place. Got to love forklifts!
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i know that you all farm for a living and you have more respect from me then you would ever know. im not, but it's in my DNA, i have 8 acres that im gonna farm come hail or high water. something inside of me says, "go out and grow something with that land", even if i don't break even, im gonna do it till i do, or grow what money allows. i am a city raised farm girl, and you better be able to dodge bullets if ya thinks your gonna drag me back to some city. :[
 
(quoted from post at 23:14:47 07/17/14) My Dad always said that when you get started, you were half finished... He was right.
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Yup, but these days getting up the gumption to get started takes some doing!
 
Just speaking on my own behalf, Jennifer, but any one that does something productive with what they have has my respect. Lots of folks would take that 8 acres and sit back and say, "Looky what I got.
 
Now hold on just a second. There's been quite a few projects I've needed to do that kept me awake at night. Seems to me, the longer I stewed on them, I'd find a different approach or come up with a better idea altogether.
 
I've had enough of those apart to be able to take out every bolt in my mind over and over.
Now the next project? I've only done that once before. I just know enough to know it's gonna be a PITA. Been trying my darndest not to even think about that one. Been putting it off too to be honest.
 
My Dad has found the forklift works great for a engine hoist-yes its better as a two man opperation, but he's been know to pull it off alone.

Worst is when the forklift is the one neading attention. By far the hardest machine to live with out.
 
i've laid in bed at night and came up with a solution. what i think rrlund is talking about is doing it in your sleep (dreaming that you are doing it) i've done it many times, one time at work i was doing a project that was the same old thing day in day out, my boss came up to me and asked how it was going, i told him i was doing it in my sleep, by the way, do i get paid for working in my sleep ? :)
my dreams are always about trying to finish or solve something, every once in awhile i will wake up feeling good because i either finished or solved something.
 
Naw,pretty much I meant overthinking it over and over in my head.

I did do just what you said once though. I got my first computer in 1991,installed an accounting program in it and couldn't get the program up to run it for nuthin. I didn't know computers from a bale of hay.
Somehow in the night though,a screen came to me. Next morning,I got right out of bed,went to that screen that I knew nothing about and had never seen and fixed the problem. No idea in the world how that happened?
 
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