I prefer to have things that are repaired correctly and that operate as they are designed. Having said that, I also get a thrill out of fixing things creatively to get by until there is enough down time to repair it. As an example, I had an idler spring break on a belt tensioning pulley once. Needing the machine to keep running, I hung a 20 ton bottle jack on the idler pulley bracket with a piece of wire so the belt would not slip. Certainly not an OSHA approved fix, but I was the only one who would suffer if it failed. Whether the silo is half full or you have three rounds left before a rain comes in, sometimes you do what you have to do to get by. But there are times when a machine's quirks get to be too much, and its safer and more enjoyable to have it fixed right. That's just my opinion... Lon
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Today's Featured Article - Talk of the Town: What's The "Stuckest" You've Ever Been? - by Edited by Kim Pratt. Another great discussion from the Tractor Talk Discussion Forum. The discussion started out with the following post: "I was about 14 (part of the problem) when I got stuck. I was disking with a cab equipped IH 966. The window was dirty and I was driving into the evening sun. It was hard to see and it was my first pass down the field. I got the tractor so stuck that the underside of the tractor was resting on the ground. My uncle wanted
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