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Hi, Yeah, it's always been that way. We had a good, large farm, customer back in the 70's that was an IH guy but loved the Deere 4020 (and follow-ons) line. So, every year he'd order a new Deere painted IH red and white. We'd have a truck letter painter re-do that part in whatever the current IH sty...

Hi, Andrew, I like the way that the snowplows keep changing style, color and even go from tracks to wheels and back again! Must be magic. Have you been reading Harry Potter and taking things a little too literally???? :P Enjoy the snow. I'm hoping for some down here in Carolina so I can show the nei...

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Only 95k Euros. Cheap!

I think I'll stick with my ancient Naked Goldwings, though I'd love to have a diesel bike.

As I can pick up all the Old Gold I want for under $1k dollars each, I can go thru a lot of them for the price of one of these.

Stan

Hi, Happy Solstice to all! Heck, I just had to use the holiday that's least used this time of year. :P No White Christmas around here, altough it rained 1/2 inch yesterday. It's so dry that little bit seemed like a lot. My mother ususlly comes down from the North Country of the Adirondacks, but didn...

Hi, Here's some links to another old tractor site with some pix posted showing an ether-induced heart-attack: http://www.tractorshed.com/cgi-bin/gallery/trouble_pic.cgi?pic=http;//www.tractorshed.com/gallery/trouble/r3267.jpg&firstrec=1&lastrec=15&Parameter=&mode=All&what=trouble http://www.tractors...

Hi, You are *so* right! Yellow Deere dealers seem to care not about one guy looking for one machine. I went to my local Yellow dealer looking to get a JD350 C or D out of Deere's 'Re-Life' program. The guy didn't know what I was talking about, although I was able to show him on the JD website. He sa...

Hi, My 1950 'M' wheel tractor still has a white-faced oil pressure gauge that I believe it came with, which reads correctly without pegging. It also still has the original white-faced ammeter, too. The water temp gauge is an auto parts store replacement since the original's line got parted when the ...

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Excellent! I love it when a plan comes together like this!

BTW, there's a similar screen that's part of the inlet fitting on the old gasser carbs, too. Causes the same grief, too!

Stan

Hi, The problem that manifests itself with these little fuel filtering screens is that the engine runs great for a minute or so, and then slowly dies out. The reason is that the filters and screens pass a little fuel thru and wind up filling the lines and pumps and whatnot when the engine is off, wh...

Hi, I remember an old Cat Sixty that sat in a shed at the edge of a farm on top of a sizable hill back where I grew up. The county highway dept. owned it and it had a Vee plow on it. The road was cut thru a pass with cornfields on both sides, so the snow would drift into the cut and block the road. ...

Hi, I have an original Magnatrac, made by Struck, that looks almost identical. Mine has a blade rather than a bucket, and the thing is useless. It digs in OK, and the tracks grip, but the blade then knuckles under and that's as far as it goes. It is useful for puching snow around, as long as it's no...

Hi, Yeah, we're all pretty much in the same boat with you in this respect. Just last week, I spyed a set of decent looking JD combine tracks and frames on eBay for $300 and just had to ask if they might fit anything crawler from the Lindemann to the 450. The answer was 'no' but if it had been 'yes' ...

Hi, It seems to me that if left alone, the water vapor and oxygen in the air will have a harder time getting to the mating surfaces of the fiber and steel discs and screwing them up. If one props the levers back, that just opens up the space between the discs and would allow the offending gases grea...

Hi, My dad, the machinist/toolmaker always referred to these final drive castings as 'cast steel', for what that's worth. He was quite the welder, though, working in his brother's tractor dealership as the machinist/parts maker fixing all manner of busted things with the welder and machine tools. I ...

Hi, I still have some cans that held the alky-based anti-freeze that I use for oddball nut and bolt storage in the shop. It was DuPont Zerone brand, and it was really pure methanol in a fancy can. Some years back, I had this 1933 Ford 5-window coupe that I tended to commute to work in. It had a shro...