[AT] Tractor play
Michael Miller
sweetcorn70 at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 19 18:54:52 PDT 2004
Kyle
I am glad I am not the only one who had a good tractor day. I spent
saturday and sunday getting the SMTA ready for the tractor pull and doing
maintanance on the other 2 tractors. Still need to get the oliver ready to
pull, plus possibly start stripping some things off the MTA cuz I'm 400 lbs
over where I should be...
Mike
>From: "Kyle Sands" <willys_46 at mail.com>
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>Subject: [AT] Tractor play
>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:32:21 -0600
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>Hi guys, just wanted to let everyone know how much fun I had last Friday
>playing with tractors. Some of you may remember vaguely the story of my
>grandfather's 1939 John Deere AW and how it had been sitting up in the
>remote northern MN wilderness for years, dormant, in disrepair until I
>decided it would be fun to resurrect it. We did so, then ice broke the
>block and head and we were forced to make a true "shade tree" repair with
>replacement parts. Then we lost a tire (age) and it took a couple years to
>locate a good used 36" tire and get that mounted on the tractor - it was an
>interesting run getting the tractor driveable - the story is documented
>here: http://oldtractors.homestead.com/home.html
>
>After all the fun we had in the wilderness, the JD was finally hauled out
>and transported to Gramps tree farm in central MN. There it has been
>sitting basically unused for the last couple of years. I have had very
>little time to get up there and do any kind of work on it until this last
>week. The one problem that has cropped up is that the other rear tire has
>deteriorated to the point where the sidewall is starting to crack. I
>noticed this last year and was fortunate enough to locate a good used 36"
>tire at the Lesueur, MN swap meet this spring. The rims are mismatched
>with two different widths. The first used tire we found a few years ago
>was not quite wide enough to seat up against the rim all the way around.
>This "new" used tire was wider and my intention was to take the "old" used
>tire off, mount this wider tire on the wider rim, and then take the
>narrower tire and put it on the other side. Well, I succeeded in getting
>part of the job done. I was able to demount
> the "old" used tire and put the "new" one on. However, I couldn't break
>the bead on the original tire to finish the tire swap. I really worked at
>it for awhile and almost decided to take a saw and cut the tire off. But
>with my time running down before I had to leave, I decided to leave it on
>and just air it up so I could drive the tractor around.
>
>That's where the real fun began - the tractor hasn't been running for at
>least a year. I checked oil, poured in fresh gas, and filled up the
>radiator. With full choke, I turned the flywheel over twice and she
>caught. Choke off (or so I thought), two more cranks and the A was putting
>away! What a great sound! Gramps "farm" is 120 acres of pine and popple
>woodland with a nice system of trails. I drove out to his sawmill, drove
>down to the lake, drove up and down the trails for an hour or so just
>having a great time. That is the most I have driven this tractor, and it
>never missed a beat (I later discovered I had left the choke half on, which
>explained the exta puff of exhaust I was seeing). It was pure joy just to
>"cruise" with this old iron - who else gets this kind of enjoyment just
>driving around aimlessly?
>
>Just wanted to share that story with you. Regards,
>
>Kyle Sands <>< Huntley, MN
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