Too Dumb To Own A Tractor?

Allan in NE · May 22, 2009

Note to self: Yer an idiot!!!

Came to the end of the field and the hydraulics wouldn't lift the disc. Looked back and the hose had popped out.......yeah it is too short and sometimes catches on the hitch shock spring.

I've popped it out about 20 times so far this spring; really should lengthen it out......................................................................

Hooked her all back up and it still wouldn't lift!

Long story short; after a wasted day, draining of the 20 gallons of rear end oil and a new $400 pump, new o-ring and gasket, it still wouldn't lift the darned disc!

Then started retracing my steps.....................................

Replaced that hydraulic hose and now all is well. Guess I must have collapsed the thing internally?

Good news is that the 400 acres of summer fallow is behind us for a month or so. :>)

Allan

Billpa · May 22, 2009

Allen
The hurryder you go , the behinder you get
Bill

Allan in NE · May 22, 2009

Think there should be a law against Allan trying to "think".

It just never seems to work out. :>)

Allan

bradk · May 22, 2009

If that's the worst thing you did in a day,you'll be alright.

Let's cut that hose open to see what happened.I guess it can happen to a vehicle brake hose,so why not a hydraulic hose.....

Glad you got 'er working again.

Allan in NE · May 22, 2009

The weird part was that the system didn't "dead-head". Just acted like there was no pressure anywhere. Lever wouldn't return from latch; nothin'.

What clued me in was that I noticed a spot on the hose that looked like the oil was trying to seep out right thru the side.

Oh well, live and learn I guess. Anyhoo, now have the big 17 gallon pump on that old dog.

Allan

Mike (WA) · May 22, 2009

Hidden defects don't count on the "I'm too dumb to live" scale. . .

Mike M · May 22, 2009

Get yourself a cheap gauge ( TSC,Rural King ) that goes up to 3500 psi and an extra hyd. tip and next time unhook your hoses and plug the gauge in and then pull the levers and see if any pressure builds.

steveormary · May 22, 2009

Alan, mabe you better stick to pickin and grinnin.

steveormary

Lanse · May 22, 2009

You could call that a Lanse moment

jbp · May 22, 2009

Just wondering. Nebraska is very different from Kentucky, but why do you folks work fallow ground with a disc or field cultivator etc ?

I know its to kill weeds and save moisture,but here we tend to use Roundup to kill vegetation and then follow with notill drills or planters. Most farmers farm with a sprayer and use very little ground engaging equipment. Breaking plows have gone like the dinosaurs. Just gardens and a few tobacco patches. Tobacco is going notill too. Thanks , Joe

kyplowboy · May 22, 2009

Allan,

If thats the worst thing you ever do you'll live to be 100!

Glad your going again, least you know you have a good used pump lay'n around to use next time something goes hay wire.

Dave

LenND · May 22, 2009

I don't know why you think that makes ya dumb. Jeez! I'd be way on the bottom of that list. LOL

redtom · May 22, 2009

I've heard of it but never seen it. An instructor I had for Det Diesels once told me of a luxury boat he worked on. Was heating up but the owner did not want to let him drive it. Finally relented and the inst/mech took out in open water and and opened her up. Sure enough, after a fashion the heat went up. A fairly big hose running to the raw water heat exchanger had begun collapsing inside and was unoticeable from the outside. A story almost entirely off topic but I felt like talking

wolfman · May 22, 2009

Geeeze, and I thought such luck just happened to me. Hooked the 8 to the discbine, went to the field and the hydraulic swing would not budge-couldn't swing it wide to mow. Hoses would get rigid but that cylinder wouldn't work. Three factorial re-arranging of the hoses and all worked. It was only just a few years back that I labeled those hoses!

skip33652 · May 22, 2009

long story short with conventional tillage winter wheat is about the only crop that can be raised out here.

other crops can be rotated especially with no till but when it only rains maybe 3" in May June and July combined and nothing in august it is pretty tough on the corn beans or flowers.

all crops need rotation and wheat fallow is one and when you start to fallow with chemicals,disease and weeds will get to the point where you may as well go continuous wheat which doesn't work. so in short most disc once or twice then chisel or sweeps then field cultivate or rod weed.4-7 operations total Paul

Andy Motteberg · May 22, 2009

That's a real nice looking tractor!!

bruster · May 23, 2009

That's OK Lance! You're still learning the ropes. There are a lot of us that are smart from years of just being around. Sometimes we can get ahead of ourselves and overlook obvious things, but a collapse of a steel braided hose is a tough one and most people don't ever come across it.

a.rothermel · May 23, 2009

nice tractor. its ok we all make mistakes, and that really isnt that bad of one to make.

Zachary Hoyt · May 23, 2009

I believe in the adage "the sooner you start to fall behind the longer you have to catch up".

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