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Posted by Ken McWilliams on November 02, 2001 at 05:47:45 from (205.188.200.157):
I put my Massey Ferguson model 50 industrial loader tractor with CASE backhoe mounted on it to the test yesterday. It worked great and was much more maneuverable than the old CASE 420B If any of you followed my postings last year when I rebuilt the Massey, it didn't go smoothly. The tractor had 9000+ hours on it and the font axle was worn out. All the bushings were worn though and had worn out the pivot pin and spindles. The shuttle shift had parts missing from it, the clutch had been botched with a Chevy truck pressure plate, the rear planetary axle stubs were worn out, and the Perkins engine had been started with ether so many times that there was not one compresion ring still in one piece on any of the 4 pistons. The backhoe came off my CASE 420B, and I made some adaptors to fit it to the loader frame stubs on the Massey. I have some springs on the back of my farm that I've been wanting to make some water collection basins for watering livestock and maybe to pump over the hill for late summer pasture irrigation. The whole area is on a hill side, marshy, and difficult to navigate a tractor. I started 2 years ago with the CASE, but it was underpowered and powersteering was too weak. The Massey's front pump has more volume than what was on the CASE 420B. When I used it yesterday, I had to run the Massey just above idle to keep from smacking the backhoe around too much. The differential lock was a big help in climbing over some of the previously made mounds in order to move them around. I'm rebuilding a CASE 310D crawler/loader to finish the work around the dams someday. The progress on it has come to a screeching halt, however, since I was laid off 4 weeks ago. Now that I'm fifty-something, I can't seem to keep a steady job. Makes me wonder why I ever went to night school for 12 years, while raising a family to get a Bachelor's and Master's degree only to be unemployable today. "Over qualified" - they say. Gotta make money somehow to buy groceries and pay $2000/year property taxes. Unemployment benefits are not enough to keep going. Ken McWilliams
Dayton, OH
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