MC is done
- mapaduke@yahoo.com
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MC is done
http://rs877.pbsrc.com/albums/ab331/MAP ... p&fit=clip
When in photobucket scroll to the left to see the other two pictures.
That's your drawbar Lavoy.
When in photobucket scroll to the left to see the other two pictures.
That's your drawbar Lavoy.
nothing crawles like a deere
- Stan Disbrow
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Looks great!
Lavoy
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Parts and restoration for antique and late model John Deere crawlers.
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- mapaduke@yahoo.com
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- mapaduke@yahoo.com
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- Joined: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:27 pm
- Location: Rochester N.H.
- Stan Disbrow
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- mapaduke@yahoo.com
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- CuttingEdge
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I saw that the other day and was looking at your conversion pictures. You did a nice job and yes it is an interesting feature of the website. I don't normally dig about too much looking for what others have done, but yours was unique and you did a really great job with that garden tractor.mapaduke@yahoo.com wrote:I didn't realize that if you scroll to the right you will see my my 440 diesel build and my 140 garden tractor conversion.
BTW: I had 100 feet of 3 foot rubber conveyor belt I was given and had it out in an old sheep barn. When I rented a JD 850C to do some stumping here I thought I would knock over that barn. So anyway what would be tracks for my own garden tractor to crawler build is buried somewhere in that 12 acre field!
The moral of the story is, never knock over a building without making sure of what is inside first.
I have no intention of traveling to my grave in a well manicured body; instead I am going to slide into heaven with a big power turn, totally wore out with busted knuckles, jump off my dozer loudly yelling, Woo Hoo, another Shepard has just arrived!
- mapaduke@yahoo.com
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- CuttingEdge
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At Tractor Supply sometimes I buy those Farm Show Magazines and they had one where it was nothing but upgrades and there was a lot of bulldozer conversions in them. Still I am in awe of you for doing what I would like to try an do.
I have a lot of ambitions, but honestly between my farm, my full-time job as a welder at a shipyard, and being a husband and father to 4 young daughters, I am pretty busy. I am not complaining, nor making excuses; we all get 24 hours in the day and I know that. Mine are just filled with sheep, ships and children. And every once and awhile, I sprinkle in some wife-time.
Someday though, I would like to build more. If I can make a battleship float, I suppose I could weld a bulldozer together!
I have a lot of ambitions, but honestly between my farm, my full-time job as a welder at a shipyard, and being a husband and father to 4 young daughters, I am pretty busy. I am not complaining, nor making excuses; we all get 24 hours in the day and I know that. Mine are just filled with sheep, ships and children. And every once and awhile, I sprinkle in some wife-time.
Someday though, I would like to build more. If I can make a battleship float, I suppose I could weld a bulldozer together!
I have no intention of traveling to my grave in a well manicured body; instead I am going to slide into heaven with a big power turn, totally wore out with busted knuckles, jump off my dozer loudly yelling, Woo Hoo, another Shepard has just arrived!
- mapaduke@yahoo.com
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- CuttingEdge
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Up near Belfast, but I built US Navy Destroyers down in Bath (Bath Iron Works). We have got a lot of recognition lately from that latest Destroyer that went out, the USS Zumwalt, though it is more Battleship then Destroyer. I would not want to be on the wrath end of that ship that is for sure.
I have been out of work since December due to a knee operation, but I see the surgeon Wednesday and should be cleared to go back pretty soon. That is why I have been on here a lot; at home and bored.
I see you are from New Hampshire. It is a long story as to why, but my wife is from there and we have a house up above the notch near Littleton NH, but closer to the VT border. Still half her family will be here with US this Easter. It is all good though.
I have been out of work since December due to a knee operation, but I see the surgeon Wednesday and should be cleared to go back pretty soon. That is why I have been on here a lot; at home and bored.
I see you are from New Hampshire. It is a long story as to why, but my wife is from there and we have a house up above the notch near Littleton NH, but closer to the VT border. Still half her family will be here with US this Easter. It is all good though.
I have no intention of traveling to my grave in a well manicured body; instead I am going to slide into heaven with a big power turn, totally wore out with busted knuckles, jump off my dozer loudly yelling, Woo Hoo, another Shepard has just arrived!
CuttingEdge, back in the early sixtys I spent 33 months on a tin can that came out of Bath in 1944. The USS Southerland DDR743, It was a Gearing Class with over double the electronics of a standard destroyer. Fun times. It was an experience that I do not need to repeat. LOL
Bryce
Bryce
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But, many electrons were terribly bothered.
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But, many electrons were terribly bothered.
440IC/602, 2-440ICD/831 MM UBU-LP, 445N-LP, 445E-LP, BIG MO 400-M, 4 Star-LP M5-D, M5-LP, M602-LP, M670-LP, G900-LP, G900-D, G1000 Vista-LP Case 580CK
- CuttingEdge
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I don't doubt it was a tin can. Back in 1944 BIW was building Destroyers every 10 days. Hardly a record; the shipyard in Washington State was building them in 7 days. They had some quality issues I am sure. Now we build 1.5 per year and the Navy claims we are the most productive shipyard in the country. (I did not say the cheapest however).
We have a solid reputation for building ships now. We had one hit a mine in the Med back in 1988 and it never sank. I was not there then, but they said the quality of the welds was what held it all together. I think a lot about that when I weld. On a day to day basis it is very boring, but you must also sit back and think that 300 sailors are aboard this ship and that it could see battle or 50 foot seas; it MUST be welded right. There is a lot to it because the shape of your weld is what determines if it can survive the reverberations of an ordnance exploding against the hull.
I used to weld a lot of hull seams, but now weld up the main assemblies to the missile silos.
We have a solid reputation for building ships now. We had one hit a mine in the Med back in 1988 and it never sank. I was not there then, but they said the quality of the welds was what held it all together. I think a lot about that when I weld. On a day to day basis it is very boring, but you must also sit back and think that 300 sailors are aboard this ship and that it could see battle or 50 foot seas; it MUST be welded right. There is a lot to it because the shape of your weld is what determines if it can survive the reverberations of an ordnance exploding against the hull.
I used to weld a lot of hull seams, but now weld up the main assemblies to the missile silos.
I have no intention of traveling to my grave in a well manicured body; instead I am going to slide into heaven with a big power turn, totally wore out with busted knuckles, jump off my dozer loudly yelling, Woo Hoo, another Shepard has just arrived!
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