Little work around the kingdom

jon f mn · Jun 17, 2019

Got a few things done recently. Got my cultivator out and converted from 6 narrow to 4 wide. That took quite a while because there are a lot of adjustments on this cultivator, more than any other I've seen, and it looks like it's never been greased so all the pivots needed to be taken apart and the zerks cleaned.

Ran it over a few acres and it works good, but pull harder than I'm used to cultivator pulling.

Then I did some rearanging in the sheds. I wanted the pull type combine in the quanset so I pulled the grinder/mixer and chopper out and put the combine in, then put them back.

I also hauled some sand fill in in front of the sheds to try and keep the water from running through them when it rains. Hope this helps.

Sunday all I did was wash the planter and put it and the grain drill away. I did was the 400 a little, but I don't have a pressure washer, so only the hoods got very clean

Hopefully this week I'll have time to clean the shop, it needs it badly.

coshoo · Jun 17, 2019

I enjoy your posts and pics, and am glad you "bought the farm", so to speak- you keep busy improving it, and maintaining and upgrading equipment.

Your nested equipment in the shed reminds me of a situation when I was at PCA in about 1983 or so. Another guy and I went out to repo a guy's equipment- marital difficulties, no payments made, pretty good set of part-time farm equipment. We got there, and everything was parked in the machine shed in such a way that the only thing you could get out was the tractor, and it was missing a front wheel. We were about to call the JD dealer and have him bring us out a wheel when the lady of the house came out- very attractive, dressed to the nines, ready to go to her job. "Boy, am I glad to see you guys- I was sure my ex was going to haul all of this stuff away and I would be stuck with paying you. It took my neighbor and me about half the day yesterday to get all this stuff in here so he couldn't take it. Could you come in the house and get the wheel? I don't want to break a nail."

redtom · Jun 17, 2019

What number combine is that?

jon f mn · Jun 17, 2019

That's a 77. I also have an 1160 in the other shed.

CCer · Jun 17, 2019

Jon, Do you only have Case equipment? Are You unique in that? Was/is there a lot of Case in your area? Our neighbors had Case DC and SCs and one later, larger model, But I never saw many Case implements in our area of South central Pennsylvania.

47fivewindow · Jun 17, 2019

Thanks for inviting us to the Kingdom. I truly enjoy seeing your progress.

larry@stinescorner · Jun 17, 2019

looks great!!Nice place for sure!!!!

jon f mn · Jun 17, 2019

Most everything is case, I have a demco sprayer and the loader on the DC is Paulson, altho I do have a case loader for the 830. My intention is to farm with all case equipment which is pretty rare, I only know of one other guy who does that. There were some good case dealers around my area so there is a fair amount of case equipment, but JD and IH still have more.

Scott 730 · Jun 17, 2019

Where were the dealers around here Jon? I know Cambridge for sure. How about Timmers?

jon f mn · Jun 17, 2019

Used to be one in braham,
Johnson imp, dad bought his
870 there. There was also one
on the east side of St cloud
and Pierz which either was or
was related to Gotvalds. As
well as Timmers and Anderson's
in Cambridge.

DoubleR · Jun 17, 2019

My uncle and Grandfather had a 300 acer Dairy Farm that backed up to our Farm. They sold out in the mid sixties. I still remember there auction well. The only thing that I remember that was not Case was the New Holland baler and a couple of New Holland wagon gears. They had 3 Case DC's and a full line of Case equipment. Chopper. blower, drags, disc, planter, trailer plows, combine,convair, rake, mower, are things that come to mind. Looking at your pictures it sure brings back memories growing up in the fifties and sixties.

RBnWA · Jun 17, 2019

Love your equipment jon. Wish I could do what your doing. Keep up the good work. Love your pics. RB

JD Seller · Jun 17, 2019

Jon I really like your line of Case equipment. I could look it over all day as it is unusual. Heck I have used or owned the majority of the different models of JD and IH equipment. So yours is more interesting just because it is different. Almost zero JI Case equipment around here. Just not many dealerships here.

Another question. Is gravel expensive around you??? Here I can get it delivered for $7-8 per ton. That is good hard limestone too. The reason I am asking is when we hauled feed we delivered into Minnesota a fair ways. When you get up into where it flattens out into the prairie areas it seemed like the farms rarely where graveled very well. Driveways just about pure mud. Buildings/sheds with dirt/mud floors that appeared to be at ground level too. Here even if the shed has a dirt floor the building site is made higher than the ground around it. This is true even for buildings 100 plus years old. Saw a lot of machine sheds in MN that looked like roofed lakes in the spring. LOL

jon f mn · Jun 18, 2019

A tandem load of gravel is about $300.00 here. I wish I could get about 3 loads, but just can't afford it now. This sand is what is above a gravel pit on Jeff's farm just down the road and works pretty good for this.

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