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New year, new projects. What is on your radar?

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Royse

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Brent's post made me think of all the projects I have lined up.
The biggest one for me is to take an actual inventory of all
the parts I have out here and organize them so I can more
easily find them and keep the inventory up to date. I used to be
able to keep it in my head, but that's not working so well anymore.
I hope to be finished by the end of the year.
The year 2020 that is. :roll:

A smaller project is to get this little Farmall Cub back together.
It has been apart for 5 years. Spent the last two days digging
up bolts and other small pieces. Every seal in the rear end leaked.
It got water in it and froze, cracking the final drive castings.
What's on your plate for the new year?

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Once I get MH44 back together, clean shop and work on upgrading hydraulics.

I might take the Cub Cadet 123 apart and work on the vibration issue in the engine.
 
I'd sure like to get that Oliver 500 finished up and get it out of the shop. I told the guy at the body shop to just go ahead and finish the hood and grille. If Peter can get the cost of shipping down,I'm just going to go with new fenders and battery boxes to get it done.
Anything else depends on the price of cattle. I'd like to either add on to the shop of build a new one,but we'll have to see how things go.
 
clean out the milk house so i can really use the work bench as it is now i can't see the top of it then start on the milk house itself i have 2 paths thru it if you don't trip over something then start on the room behind it.
put the 333 massey back together if i can find all of the parts
 
Rebuilding a 1939 Allis B, hand start. Final drives and front axle are finished, but lots of sand blasting and cleanup to do in Jan. and Feb. before painting in March. Also will build a firewood shed, because the plastic tarps don't last.
 
Get the overdrive working on the Hudson, and get the '66 Cutlass convertible running in time for Mrs.'s 50th class reunion in August. There's plenty of tractor stuff to do, too, but at the pace I work, I think my plate's pretty full with the first two projects.
 
That Cub is not such a bad project. I tore down a '57 Loboy a couple years ago, painted it, and put it back together. Only took me about 9 months in my "spare" time...LOL!

First thing on my list is to correct all the damage done by the idiot I hired to repair the combine. Should have found the time and just done it myself in the first place. Then I have to finish the barn foundation. Three sides are done and the footings are in for the fourth...but patching all the combine issues kept me from finishing. I just ran out of time. Probably do a little cement work in the shed as time permits. There is a good solid footing for an old barn on the property I added to the place last summer. Would like to start rebuilding that barn...not likely to get to it, but one can hope. Also would like to take down the rest of those widder-maker ash trees. Only about 50 or 60 of them left. I actually made a saw buck and bought a splitter last year. Logs disappear fast with the right equipment.

Those are the big jobs, but you probably meant tractors. That would be the Farmall B, SAV and the IH TD-6. Also the Dorf 2N needs help. Would be fun to get to one of those!
 
Since retiring I have turned to selling farm machinery. So far things are going quite well as I have sold, Two trucks, two trailers, seven wagons, combine with header, one tractor, planter, cultipacker, a sail
boat and my wifes car. Still have two ultra low houred tractors and some tillage equipment to sell yet. I will attach a couple of pictures of the tractors. 2300 hours on the 8100 and 2600 hours on the 4850.
Selling a sail boat gives a person a lot of confidence, if you can sell a sail boat you can sell anything. As far as this next year goes I am going to try to find a nice museum for my old restored collection. I can
tell anyone that I will not live long enough to get everything done on the bucket list but I am going to get started just as quick as I can and give it my best effort. Tom
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I'd like to rebuild on of my hay wagons, rack is good
the the beams and shot. Well see if I get to it.
 
Going to try and paint and reassemble the
Harvey Red Head corn sheller. Also work on
the JD 490 planter that used to be grandpas.
Higher up on the list is fix the kids go
kart so I have room for the other projects.
 
This will be a year of mainly keeping up with the flow. The F20 project is not a priority and will be used as a diversion only.
 
Well lets see here
(1) build a engine for one of them OFF color mfg. I have to rebuild a two cylinder for a J D 440 crawler
(2) do a rebuild on Eugene's 706
(3) do a rebuild on Vernon's 706
(4) install a 5.9 Cummins in a 1950 Oil All Over
(5) pull the crimping rolls out of a 1219 J D haybine and repair the bottom roll shaft .
(6) make a skid steer mounted brush hog out of a old five foot three point brush hog (7) rebuild my car garage here at the house
(8) remodel the kitchen .
(9)Rebuild the drive line in the War Dept's 03 Dodge durango. .
And tomorrow will start in the first one .
 
The cub needs to get in before spring/summer garden work, its got a knock/rattle and little power. The B should get looked at, leaking and smoking oil, might send it out for paint and stickers (pending how I feel when it gets in). After those two tractor projects it will be on to buildings(organize/fix......). Would like to get a few other tractor projects in, but other more important things (field work) steal the time.
 
Finish the wheel bearing replacement in the 920 discbine, so I can move it in far enough for the plow truck to get into the pole barn. (today, I hope).

Then recommence putting the 5500N cab tractor back together and get it running again- at least as an open station for sure, cab install as secondary need.

Re-design and build a multi-row weed spray setup for under the grape trellis- no sense using steel pipe anymore, too rusty.

New pole barn/shop ideas are swirling in my head, but five more years of college tuitions loom, priorities need to be set!
 
Finish remodeling our master bathroom. (A new, larger shower was installed where a whirlpool tub used to be). Everything is done except finishing the area where the shower used to be into a closet. And I'm working on that since the weather changed, precluding serious outdoors work.

Reorganize the interior of my new 30X48 building and continue finishing the interior.

Find out what broke in the transmission on one of my H Farmalls causing the driveline to lock up, and fix it. It's too straight of an old H to consider not fixing it.

Continue the war on trees that have been invading our acreage.

There's more, but that's enough to put down for now.
 
Nah, the cub's a small project Dave, just took me time to find
all the required parts after I discovered they were cracked.
Of course it got shuffled to the bottom as other projects arose.

I sold all of my Farmall B/BN parts last summer. One guy bought
them all including the parts tractors. I only kept the "two-seater".
But, if you need parts for the Ford, I probably have those around.

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"Finish remodeling our master bathroom. (A new, larger shower
was installed where a whirlpool tub used to be). Everything is
done except finishing the area where the shower used to be into
a closet."

I did this exact same project three years ago Goose.
Right down to building a closet where the old shower was!
It turned out nice and it is a much more effective use of space.
Good luck with yours!
 
Reminds me of the guy who was rattling off all the things he did on the average day. When he stopped,somebody said "Then what?". He said "Eat breakfast". LOL
 
I want to finish up the F20 and go through and repaint the JD-L.I have to build some weigh brackets for WD45. I will likely have a lot of other things pop up that I will have to do.
 
2015 was my BIG year for projects so I plan to back off significantly this year.

I plan to retire (again) in Jan 2017. This year I plan to begin divesting myself of most of my vintage Ford tractors, implements, etc., keeping one and some of my collection of parts and accessories for a retirement project.

I need a full BR on the first floor of my 2 story wood frame farm house, built in 1927, to enable me to remain here longer than would be possible otherwise. Being neither carpenter nor plumber, I'll contract this project out.

I also need to outfit the shop and install shelves in my new pole barn completed this past fall. I've planned this project but will likely contract out the shelving work as time will be limited this year while still working.

The other "projects" on the agenda are selling my last MF in the spring and becomming familiar with the two new Kubotas that I recently bought to replace two MFs that I have been using.

Things look promising but only time will tell.

Dean
 
Thats right Randy, I have had real good luck with them. Very inexpensive and a lot of coverage. It surprises me how many people read those adds although much that I have sold has gone to neighbors that knew I was retiring.
 
Well thats the game plan before we get into the fields . Figure i'll have that two lunger back in by next weekend IF i can find all the parts as this is a jig saw puzzle . The owner took this apart like five years ago and now does not know how to put it back together , says he has all the parts all machine work is done and i know it is done correctly as he had it done where i get my work done.
 
Going to build up and install a replacement engine in this little paperweight... it has spun main bearings.

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Great question! I have two tractors, a Bobcat, a golf cart, and a Ford F 150 4x4 I finally decided I want to sell. Nice stuff, just want to upgrade to a newer JD tractor w/loader. Getting older, just don't use/need as much anymore. Goal is to downsize & upgrade.
 
Since harvest I hired a bunch of tile put in. I kept busy full time back filling and hauling off rocks. I hired a shed put up, mostly to get my little old tractors out of a bigger building.(My building days are over). I fixed the two speed shifter in my farm dump truck. It works so nice, I just pulled the truck back in the shop to go after the transmission. (Can't hold it in low gear). Just got done little maintenance issues on the WD45 and D15II(adjust clutch, and electrical items). I have a front wheel seal to fix on the Maxxum 5230 MFWD. I want to add an oil cooler to the corn planter, and maybe an open center kit to the drill.
 
Oh, if only I had any money to spend. Depending on what commodity prices do this year there might be a small project out there. There are certainly buildings that need attention and fields that could use more tile than what they have. My health has been off the past few months and there are rocks that have come up in the last couple years. I might have to think about a rock picker for this year as I doubt I can get it all done by spring via hand pick up.
 
JD, saw a show on the "REV" channel where something similar (maybe Challenger convertibles) where only 6 were made that year. Fully restored, worth 600k.
 
- Buy stage two compressor and set up air system for my new paint booth
- Finish restoration of my 1949 Oliver 77 RC
- Pull clutch on 1958 John Deere 630 & replace bearings and overhaul worn clutch parts
- Refurbish live PTO system on above tractor
- Rebuild carb on 1966 IH Loadstar grain truck, rebuild entire brake system, reseal hoist pump, paint truck and bed
- Add portable shaded shooting stalls for shooting range
- Rebuild steering valve, hydraulic pump, and steering motor on JD 3020 RC
- Restore four John Deere plows, 44A, 314, 310, and one not sure of number.
- Start restoration on 1980 IH 3588
- Enclose large garden with 10 ft tall deer proof fencing
- Move, combine, and upgrade 8 horse shelters into one area
- Build pole barn for round bale storage
- Contract new security gate for adjoining ranch

Have three pages of small projects and honey do's that get prioritized and some will likely get carried forward to next year as we will be taking some trips out west with our 5th wheel and I reserve every Tues for golf. Although I'm retired I do run a small square bale horse hay operation which takes about a week every month. Can't stand to be in the house, even when it is 100 degrees outside.
 


I'd like to get some more work done on a 41 MM ZTN that's been setting in the shop for about four years. I haven't made a list, cause it'd make me dizzy.
 
That sailboat had a really nice, low hour, Merc on the back if I remember correctly. I needed it like a hole in the head but the outboard made me think about it for a minute or two.
 
Well let's see,
Install outdoor boiler
Fix 2004 Saturn my mother hit a deer with.
Fix 96 F250 Died last spring. I got it running after the dealer tried to screw me out of 5000 in un-needed repairs. Still pops thru the intake now.
4430 has a knock in the engine. Might be a bad rod bearing or just a valve.
MF265 needs a clutch
MF175 needs a pto clutch. Maybe just adjusted?
New bearings on the cultimulcher.
Blades on the disk
cut firewood

I'm sure this is missing three times as much stuff but I sure more will crop up too. Fix one break two
 
Finish an IH 656 mechanical
restoration for a buddy
(hydro input shaft, hydro
reseal, engine, brakes, all
seals, front end rebuild,
tighten up all loose "stuff".
Engine rebuild on 8n Ford for
a family friend, mechanical
restoration on a '51 JD B
(engine, trans/differential,
all seals/gaskets. Then I
need to do load shaft
bushings and T/A in our 1086,
and inner/outer axle bearings
in our 1486. What the hey,
might as well do the brakes
while I'm in there. Winter is
getting shorter! I need to
get going to have it all done
before spring! Least with the
mild beginning to winter we
have had, I haven't had to
work a lot of OT. Kind if a
blessing that the body shop
is not done with the log
truck I drive, or I'd kill my
weekends doing that too. This
is the year I get done
working on others stuff and
start doing my own.

Ross
 
Not being smart alecky here. The answer would be all the stuff I didn't get done in 2015.

Seriously, I have enough on my to do list to last me till I kick the bucket. And then there is all of the stuff on my sons to do lists that I will help with. Retired? Huh, wha..........????????????

Working on the new wiring in the bathroom right now.
 
That looks very nice . What kind of money would that bring? { in some areas of the country my question may be considered rude ,if so , I apologize].
 
My 2yr old son reads it cover to cover every month. I hope he gets a job soon. I can't afford both of our wants.

Seriously though, a local tractor painter told me that magazine has made him more money than every other type of advertising he's ever done.
 
It did Dave, It wasn't my sail boat as I stored it for an elderly friend of mine and I put that motor on it for him and he died the season after it was installed. It was a four stroke and it had an electric start. I have learned a lot about sailing and yacht clubs from him. There seems like a whole lot of socializing and a little boating involved. I would put it in the water for him in the spring and he would sit on that boat and visit with everybody in the marina all summer long. Maybe put the sails up three or four times but it was his whole life as he knew everybody and their brother-in-law in that marina. Really a nice old fellow and I was glad he was able to enjoy it as much and for as long as he did.
 
Build wood shed, pour concrete for new green house, grain bin floor, slab on north and east side of
machine shed, put up a 16x40 open front shed, double the size of the cement patio, put a roof over
the 12 of the patio that is here now, put a ring gear on dads AC-B along with a new muffler and a
coat of paint, add 40 or 50 more bee hives to the ones I have now, and last go to some more tractor
shows,including 1or2 grandsons in all this. And I thought I was going to be retired this summer,
along with all the other stuff the other 12 has planned for me.
 
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