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Bill(Wis)

03-18-2007 11:54:43

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tor.....anyone have any stories to tell?

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Dave Anderson

03-19-2007 16:53:12

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Had a neighbor that liked to get drunk at lunch. He got on the tractor seat backwards and before anybody could stop him, he unplowed a 5 acre field!

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David Snipes

03-19-2007 11:57:49

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

A neighbor of mine got drunk and drove his tractor into a creek.

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beperson83

03-19-2007 09:17:34

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

My dad and I had to load a truck, that didnt run, onto a trailer. We had come alongs, but just our luck, they broke. So we put some wheel chalks in front of the trailer wheels and hooked a rope on the bumber of the truck and unhooked the trailer from the tractor. We pulled the tractor ahead some and hooked the rope on the hitch of the tractor. We started pulling and it was quite the site. The rear wheels got on the trailer first and the trailer went straight up in the air. Finally got the whole thing loaded. Wish I took pictures.

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Bill(Wis)

03-19-2007 07:53:43

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Fordson F's were famous for doing back flips. They also could be hard to start when warm. Farmers used to just let them idle when doing something else. They also had a habit of jumping into gear on their own and, having no brakes, farmers would have to chase them down to get them stopped. Nothing unusual so far. The unusual thing was that my old bachelor uncle got all of these things to come together in the space of about a minute one day when he had the old F idling in the yard. It jumped into gear and headed straight for the silo. It climbed the silo as far as it could and then did its famous back flip caught on fire and burned, which was unusual too, because it was made of steel. They said every part was burned, melted or twisted so that it was barely recognizable.

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Kent in KC

03-19-2007 07:31:42

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Old fella near me claims he re-rigged his radiator fan and belt to a horizontal pitch and FLEW his old 8N to St. Joe and back one night to get his wife to the maternity ward for their fourth kid. Not sure if I believe him, though. In fact, his wife claims it was their third.

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buickanddeere

03-19-2007 06:09:55

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

I drove a 50 JD in high gear down the main isle of a shopping mall on a Sunday afternoon. Stone Road Mall in Guelph Ontario.

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kyplowoby

03-19-2007 01:14:44

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

All I am gonna say is where do you think the song "She thinks my tractor's sexxy" came from?

Dave

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Allan In NE

03-19-2007 04:14:44

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to kyplowoby, 03-19-2007 01:14:44

Well yeah,

But, those skeeters are the pits! :>)

Allan

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old art

03-19-2007 19:58:48

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Re: Fuel economy in reply to rrlund, 03-19-2007 12:57:29

when i talk milage i do best with a little vocal BS i can get about 25% more any time.

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4010guy

03-18-2007 20:51:20

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Back in the 80s a dear friend who has passed away now rigged up a g jd on a pumping unit on an oil well for an engine. He hooked it up so it ran on sweet gas and had it blocked up with old rail road ties, ran night and day for years but then started using to much oil and finally ruined the engine. We have talked about it many a time and seem nobody ever took a pitcher of it. :o(

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JPatton

03-18-2007 20:41:53

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

When my tractor pullin" buddy"s father died last fall, his last tractor ride was to his final resting place. His casket was placed on a hay wagon at the church and pulled by the John Deere G that his dad bought new in 1938. It was quite a procession. He was a WW 2 vet, a member of the local volunteer fire department and a tractor puller himself. It was quite a site seeing all the uniforms and colors walking, guarding, and supporting him on his last ride. I didn"t take pictures because I thought that would be a bit tacky (but others did).

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Bill(Wis)

03-19-2007 07:39:22

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to JPatton, 03-18-2007 20:41:53

If that's the one in PA, I read about it at the time. I think I heard Paul Harvey tell about it as well.

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Moline_guy

03-18-2007 19:32:10

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

My grandparents butchered there own beef and processed it like most peoples grandparents did, but dad hated running the hand cranked meat grinder so he fabricated a longer shaft and put a wide belt pully on the grinder run the belt out the porch door to the A john deere belt pulley and ground beef like no one had ever seen. sorry don't have pictures of it.

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omahagreg

03-18-2007 18:39:20

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

My dad tells me that in the 50s they wanted to expand the milking area of the barn. Found a garage that would fit the bill. Drove the WD into the garage, got it lifted up and supported by the tractor, drove it home that way. That is one thing I wish I could have seen! Greg

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fixerupper

03-18-2007 19:57:33

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to omahagreg, 03-18-2007 18:39:20

I did that with my loader tractor twice. Bale forks on the 3PT lifted the back of the garage and the loader lifted the front. The second time I drove two miles down the blacktop to the neighbor's place. Worked really neat. Jim

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Jim in NC

03-18-2007 18:23:20

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

I know of 2 Farmall Hs being used near Atlantic Beach, NC to pull in fishing nets from the surf. The nets are usually out from 1-3 days at a time. The beach is not usually where one would find a Farmall!

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Clint Youse MO

03-18-2007 18:17:48

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Whan my dad was in high school they were moving a player piano and got it wedged in a door so he thought he would hook the WD on it and pulled the piano in 2 instead of getting through the door

Clint

today we used one to pull railroad track for the local old threshers association.

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CLTX

03-18-2007 18:09:51

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

When my brother was in high school, he had two-a-day football practice before school started for the fall semester. One day, his car would not start, so he took the LA Case to football practice. All the other players thought that was so cool and wanted a ride on the tractor after practice.

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`Bernie in MA

03-18-2007 17:52:01

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Back in the 50s we had a Massy-Harris Pony. We had a guy dig a ditch for a new waterline and it filled with water before we got the pipe laid. I borrowed a big hand-operated pump from the town to pump it out but pumping that handle up and down got old real fast. I found a short piece of pipe that would slide over the pump handle, welded a bolt to it and after removing the tractor rear rim bolted it to the wheel. As the wheel turned the handle went up and down. All I had to do was keep the handle greased.

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RLH

03-18-2007 17:24:19

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

A ferry at merom In had a B JD with paddles instead of tires . I wonder if there any pictures around Late 50s or so

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rrlund

03-18-2007 15:07:30

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

There were a few guys around here over the years that used them for transportation after they lost their drivers license. I can still see Mort,he had a stem wind JD B the ring was gone off the steering wheel,only had the spokes. He drove in to a parking spot behind the IGA and had to back out. Well,he came out with 2 bags of groceries and a watermellon. Got on with a bag in each hand,watermellon between his knees,trying to back up with the hand clutch,barely a steering wheel..... you can only imagine.

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monomechanical

03-18-2007 14:06:38

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Well, just about every farmer I know talks about "so and so" who was buried, according to his strict instructions, sitting on his j.d. Can anyone confirm, without resorting to hearsay, any single person ever buried, like a pharoah and his barge and chariot, on a j.d.?

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Bluepaint

03-18-2007 14:03:45

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

I once had to haul a wedding party from the church to the party ,all seated on straw bales on a 30ft trailer pulled by a MF 3120 .

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paul

03-18-2007 23:20:05

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bluepaint , 03-18-2007 14:03:45

Matron of Honor had a tractor & hayrack waiting for us after our wedding. Took a tour through town.

--->Paul

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Michael Soldan

03-18-2007 13:54:18

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Welp,I took the B Chalmers to the bush to cut wood and I found a tree that suited me. Before I cut it I looked things over and decided I better move the B down the trail a ways so nothing would happen...when the tree hit the back of it the front end of the B went about 6 feet off the ground, I figured it would be broke in half..well I bent the back of the seat and it bent the steering wheel just slightly on one third of it. When I got back to the farm I spent about 40 minutes straightening things..was amazed that that was all the damage that happened..I don't usually tell this story...One looks stupid when one does something like that!

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Ozarker

03-18-2007 13:13:31

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Dad had the intake manifold on the H farmalls drilled and tapped for 1/2 inch pipe thread. When the power was out he would pull the tractor up beside the barn and run a hose to the manifold to provide vacuum for the milking machine. Running the H wide open, he had enough vacuum to run one milking unit at a time. It got the job done, but probably wasn't too good for the tractor. Still have both H's.

Ozarker

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low budget

03-19-2007 00:17:24

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Ozarker, 03-18-2007 13:13:31

I've done this with a diesel by restricting the intake, ran two units on a pipeline milking system. Tractor didn't like it, but had to get the cows milked.

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RAW in IA

03-18-2007 14:38:59

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Ozarker, 03-18-2007 13:13:31

Dad did the same with the C, but you get more vaccuum with the tractor idling.

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Nebraska Cowman

03-18-2007 17:41:32

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to RAW in IA, 03-18-2007 14:38:59

Yup, I remember dad milking with the Fergie, never ran it very fast, just above idle. He always ran 2 units. When I was farming in PA years ago I would take cheeze sandwiches and heat them on top of the engine. Used a Farmall H at Timberlake Camp to launch the motorboat.

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Don LC

03-18-2007 17:26:39

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to RAW in IA, 03-18-2007 14:38:59

.....We also ran 3 IHC milkers with our Farmall C at fast idling,helped add oil pressure.....

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Billy NY

03-18-2007 13:00:26

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

The all purpose vehicle lift remover. This mohawk lift was very heavy, quite a bit more than the 2 others in the background which I also removed on this job. Nice thing about it, it's on the back of my F-600 waiting for a slab to be poured, ought to be a handy thing to have once installed. I sold the other 2, kept this one, got em all for nothing more than doing the removal, not a bad deal and having this old ford was all I needed to do the job.

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Dave from MN

03-18-2007 12:47:22

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Dont know how unusual it is but, my dad, my uncle, and 2 neighbors. Relocated what was an old aircraft hanger from the st cloud airport to my dads place with a jd 730 deisel. Would be about 10 miles. I dont know how they REALLY did it, but they claim they they used power line poles for skids and pulled it like that. This was back around 1968 or so. Been a garage ever since. Seen an guy fashion a rig to drive a large barn fan off the pto of a tractor one summer when the power was out, no generator, he needed to get air moving through the barn.

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flying belgian

03-18-2007 12:46:58

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

When my Dad started farming he ran some of his mothers land about six miles from where we lived. He had to haul the earcorn home with a 36 B JD. It had no road gear so he rigged up an old car rearend as a go between running the driveshaft with the pto and trans in neutral. They tell me he could pull the two empty wagons 25 mph. He could not pull them loaded as tractor didn't have enough power to start from dead stop and no way to slip into neutral and start pto on the go. But at least he could make good time with the empties. Anyway car rear would bounce to much so he attached an old wheelbarrow box and threw some cement blocks in to hold it down and give it traction. He had a dog "Betsy" that would jump in box and ride back and forth all day. One time Betsy saw rabbit run across road and jumped out front of box to chase it. Was run over by car rear end and all four axles of wagons and tumbled dead into ditch. When Pa finally got that contraption stopped he went and picked up his dead dog from ditch and layed her back in weight box. He was going to continue on to fill wagons and haul dog home and bury it. To his surprise when he got to field the dead dog jumped out of box and followed him around hooking up wagons as usual. Turns out the dog wasn't dead but just knocked out. For many years after Pa and my uncles always laughed about my dads dead dog coming back to life.

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Ludwig

03-18-2007 18:35:50

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to flying belgian, 03-18-2007 12:46:58

My great uncles did this with their Farmall Regular. Top speed would have been like 4mph for the tractor but they did something like 25mph with the rear end like you said, apparently it was quite a ride...

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DCM

03-18-2007 12:31:35

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

Likely a common use in the day,but our DC4 Case which belonged to wife"s Grandfather had an attached platform,they would drive 18 miles to town for supplies in the late "40s, would be an all day affair.MIL told us about that.Dan AB

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Brian in Ohio

03-18-2007 13:34:16

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to DCM, 03-18-2007 12:31:35

My father, as a kid, would drive his '41 Farmall "A" about 4 miles every day to school. His Dad bought it new, and I have it now. A lot of history (and miles) on her.

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Jimmy King

03-18-2007 12:26:52

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Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t in reply to Bill(Wis), 03-18-2007 11:54:43

When my Dad and I were building my house we built a scaffel that we could just slip the bale fingers on the loader in and he fixed a place in the center of it for brick and morter at arm level and he stood on it and laid brick when he needed to move he would yell at me and I would move it. We were renting a farm that had a cherry tree and it was loaded that year. My MOM, Wife, Kids, and I would get on the scaffel and Dad would hoist us up and we picked the tree clean, we got loke 20 gal from it, and the next year the tree died.

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