Hey guys - Thanks for the replies! I've been out of touch for the past week - been taking care of my two young daughters while my wife went on a well-deserved vacation - and let me tell you - THAT'S a REAL JOB - Holy Cow!
Anyway - Yeah - it's been tough to wait to mess with it and I have a few more months to go even... I had toyed around with having it brought down to my house in Maryland, but I already have too much stuff there, didn't want to transport it twice, and so I figured just getting it straight to my place in New York was the way to go and then I can mess with it this Spring and Summer...
Thanks for posting the info about how the scarifier works, because I'll be honest - I was wondering that myself! It's kind of a downer, though - I was hoping that it ran off some kind of hydralics back there that I could modify to carry my bush hog... Oh well - probably not the best idea to hok the bush hog up to a ozer anyway and then just start mowing rocks - I already have done too much of that with my Ford 8N...
I have these visions of painting the crawler all up nice in the JD green and yellow, but if the past is any indication of the future - I'll just barely have enough time to use it - let alone restore it! I'm kind of a "use them as they are" kind of guy until I retire and have more time - but that's like 30 years off!
The steering clutches are stuck. My friend said they got them unstuck last year by just ramming the bucket up against a wall - I'm hoping we can do that again. The tracks look like they are about negative 10% - I'd like to use them as-is this Summer to lanscape the yard a little, then pull them and the idlers and rollers and throw that stuff in the truck, and bring it down home and replace the pins and freshen it all up over next Winter.
This is a great site - wish there was more action on it. I'll keep you guys posted as to how things go once I get my hands on this and try to use it a little! - Chuck
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