Just a slight cut on the back of my hand, from reaching under the shielding on a small engine to adjust something. The edges of the sheilding are usually pretty benign, but those corners will get ya!
Took the loader tractor over to a friend's place to lift rotten timbers out so he can rebuild a bridge over a small creek. No injuries there, although there were plenty of opportunities! Funny to watch a guy who isn't used to having a loader tractor to do the heavy work- He's trying to pull the chain out from under a heavy timber after lowering it onto the ground- "No, Fred- we've got a tractor- We just lift the loader, and the chain comes out!" Then he's trying to push the timbers together to bunch up the pile- "Fred, let me just push them together with this handy loader thingee we have here."
I had volunteered for the job (took all of a half hour), but he didn't want to "put me out", so he had called some contractors- got a real education there! One wanted to make sure we had all the permits in place (Fisheries, Army Corp, Ecology, on and on), and would have to install a net over the creek so no debris would fall in. Another would do it for $125 per hour, 4 hour minimum. I charged him breakfast.
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Today's Featured Article - A 1937 John Deere Unstuck - by Gary Hickman. Here is my story of how I got the pistons out of a 1937 JD B that the engine had been stuck for about 14 years: About 12 years ago my Dad gave me one of the tractors I ran as I was growing up on our farm in central Nebraska. The engine on this tractor, a 1937 John Deere "B", had been stuck for 2 years before he gave it to me. This last spring (1999) I hauled the tractor to our 2 acre lot in St. Libory Nebraska where it joined my antique machinery collection, at that time a 1929 Caterpillar T
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