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jtrichard wrote:Richard here in southern California What is this "SNOW" of which you speak?

Frozen rain. What are these mud slides and earth quakes you folks talk about?

Rick

The other thing about batteries is that their ability to hold and provide a charge is greatly affected by temperature- anything you can do to keep them warmer at all from the surrounding environment (i.e. garage, shelter, blanket) will ultimately help with that issue. LOL if I only had shelter for ...

My main tractor is a 1206 Farmall diesel (362 CI engine). I feed cows and blow snow with it the winter. It normally starts OK in cold, right down to about -10. This year it's been giving me trouble which I blamed the weather for. I live about 90 miles south east of Lavoy so you should know from his ...

I thought this small crawler was interesting as it has PTO/3 point hitch and the ID tag says it was manufactured in Romania-it appears to be fairly stout and not a toy like a Struck Magnatrac: http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNIVERSAL-445-CRAWLER-TRACTOR-SAME-AS-LONG-TRACTOR-/171045487105?pt=Crawler_Dozers...

Terry, we had a local kid who I know for a fact was dumber than a box or rocks about anything mechanical. He graduated HS and took a 2 year degree in sales and marketing. Then went right into auto sales at a new car dealership right in Lavoy's back yard (Fargo). Did he know anything about what he wa...

Sounds like a decent income, but factor in the time away from family and friends that has no price tag and that time cannot ever be replaced. Many people can make an income that will provide them a comfortable life and not be gone all the time. When you work it out a guy working an 8 hour shift plu...

One of our local kids went to work out there fresh from trade school as a welder. He's going to take home about 110,000K this year with company provided housing. My nephew lives in his truck too as does Lavoy's buddy. The "office" has a bathroom with showers that's open 24/7. He has a Coleman stove ...

My nephew by marriage is working out in the oil patch driving a water tanker. He expects to make real close to 100K this year. On the other side of ND close or on top of Lavoy, Fargo/West Fargo, was there just last week. Signs all over the place "help wanted, immediate openings" and the wife an I sa...

How much work can these little guys do? I've been assesing the crawler and trying to see how far I will go with the repairs. I bought this machine with the intentions of basically landscaping around the farm. Things like grading the slope off the ditch so I can more easily mow the grass, level out ...

I think you are looking at this the wrong way. You think you will save money by building your own. Well buying new steel to build a flatbed, plus your time....price a factor built unit. Think you will be the same way here with a saw rig. By the time you pay for steel, machine work for arbors or buyi...

Being mechanically inclined and spending just a few years in the Army (74-96) put me in contact with many parts people through the years. I've delt with real pros and some clowns. One of the worst was a JD guy. At the time he was my age (about 20-21 at the time). My dad took a part off a JD baler (2...

The one in the pic is 3 hours from me, the other two came from TExas and Colorado. Never was many of these around here, just too small. Some East of me in MN, but many of them lived their whole life in the woods, so not much left of them. Lavoy LOL gotta be careful of those MN ones.......these darn...

That is probably about right on price, but if you buy one that needs a lot of work, substantially more expensive to fix than a tractor. You will also often find they have lived a much harder life than a wheel tractor. Lavoy Hi and welcome..... Lovoy......you ain't never seen my brother in law's whe...

I posted this over to the Antiquetractorforum and thought it was worth it here. 6 volt turns slow, 12 volt she will start right up 6 volt is original and correct. 12 volt is aftermarket 6 volt you can get lights and parts on line. 12 volt you can get anywhere. 6 volt may not have the umph to start ...

Try here for 520 info.

http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractor ... e-520.html

Rick