I am gain projects faster than I get them done????

I have been picking up things for resale this summer.

I pickup a JD 920 Mo-Co about a month ago. I thought I would just clean it up and replace the knives. Well I got looking at it earlier today. It has an oil leak on the cutter bar that just showed up when I moved it to mow under it. So I now will have to pull all the turtles out and check the entire bar over they are a little looser than I like. So short project into a weeks work for me anymore.

I have a JD 4440 that I bought a year ago or so. It just had the engine rebuilt but the cab interior was totally shot. I started to replace the interior and found out the cab top has been broken. Something has been dropped on the cab at some point. They just replace the fiberglass top and "set" it on top of the cab post. So I am going to have to strip the cab down to the steel frame and repair it. Cab interior is a half days work. The complete tear down and rebuild is more like another weeks to week and a half work.

Then two tractors that need the cab wiring and AC systems fixed. Those are always just a barrel of monkeys of fun too. LOL

Then there is the stuff I have that I knew needed a lot of work. So I just figured it up today. If I did not do anything else I currently have about a year of work setting here right now. LOL That is working 40-50 hours each week too. Not the old man work week I do anymore.

So some of this stuff may be at my estate sale just like it is now. LOL

kind of thinking the same way,by the time I Get the farm buildings painted,its time to start over,at least at the sale they might say,this guy did try ,now whats my opening bid? Reminds me of a sale we went to,a guy had a beautiful workshop,probably spent years putting up boards,collecting glass jars,screwing the lids on so you could see what hardware ,screws etc,,,,at the auction,I bought the whole wall full for 5 dollars , Some auctions make you sad,you see a life of hard work flash by in a few bids, Maybe we could make a pact,whoever lasts longer can go to the sale and speak a few good words to the crowd?
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Yup, when I used to cross one off the top of the list a five more appeared at the bottom it used to bother me. Not any more. Now I just get to them when I get to them.

Letttssssssee now. I'm 64.............if stuff keeps piling up at the present rate and I live to 80 or so.............................. add the 6, multiply by 4, subract the 8,..............Methinks the lads are gonna have a bunch of work to do after I kick the bucket!

JD,
The older I get, the more of a profectionest I become !! When I was on the go 24-7 make it work and get the job done was a priority. Now a days I am like you, but most of the time, mother nature dictats the difference betweeen getting by with a makeshift quicky repair, or loseing a crop.Sometimes a not so perfect repair gets the crop in before the rain, and tomarrow you can make it wright.
Loren.

Maybe we need to tell your supervisor of 19 years she needs to crack the whip a little harder! LOL Happy anniversary!

You've got it Larry. I think there are probably many of us on here who would put in a good word for you anytime.

I notice myself starting to have the same thoughts. I might not think quite so much about it if I took over an operation. But I've pretty much built this farm from nothing. I'm not quite 60 years old, and my literal building days are over. I helped a friend on a building today. I wasn't much help, and I can hardly move tonight. The joints aren't aging well. That makes for a while different outlook on life.

I have a 1.75 litre of Vodka in my booze box. Left here 6 years ago by a pheasant hunter friend. He died. Every time I see it I think, how sad, his liquor outlived him. Someone come and get it.;I hate to pour it in the Tahoe gas tank. LOL

LOoks like you need to, as the high dollar business types say, "liquidate" a couple of those projects.

Me too. Got a H&S 235 spreader I picked up this summer that needs a new floor, an Electric running gear I'm trying to round up the parts from around the farm that I tore apart 7 years ago, a second Meyers chopper box to reverse the discharge side and go through it, and find an appropriate running gear to set it on.

I've also got our field cultivator to put a wheel lift assy back on, lawn to cut, wood pellets to buy, a sprayer pump to remove and look through, and I'm sure a whole bunch more I've either forgotten or Dad hasn't mentioned yet. I wouldn't have the chopper boxes or sprayer to worry about if I didn't go to a couple auctions, but the prices were too good to pass up. I'm wanting to fix the spreader, use it long enough to know it works decent, then unload it for a small profit.

Donovan from Wisconsin

And the older we get the slower the projects progress. I bought a 175 Massey as a project to get it going as a second loader tractor. The Diesel engine starts and runs fine but that's the only part of the tractor that works. It has no brakes. No working power steering, the steering is loose as a goose and the Clutch and PTO slips. Bought it two years ago and haven't touched it yet. That Dodge stub nosed truck just sits in the barn waiting to be restored and the 630 Deere is still split apart on the shop. (Sigh)

Donald, that reminds me of the cartoon I once saw. This little character was standing there with a perplexed look on his face and the caption read, "When I was born, God gave me a certain number of things to accomplish. Right now I'm so far behind, that I'll never die!"

(quoted from post at 18:04:44 09/21/14) JD,
The older I get, the more of a profectionest I become !! When I was on the go 24-7 make it work and get the job done was a priority. Now a days I am like you, but most of the time, mother nature dictats the difference betweeen getting by with a makeshift quicky repair, or loseing a crop.Sometimes a not so perfect repair gets the crop in before the rain, and tomarrow you can make it wright.
Loren.

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ou made me think of those guys that "can't stand a drop/seep of oil/coolant" on their fresh new paint job".
I worry if the sand in my tractors shed starts to blow around.....means I need to add oil or hydraulic fluid!