[AJD] 1650

Fri Nov 4 07:19:56 PST 2005

I certainly have been called worse Greg..lol.  Well I just bought 14 acres
in a nice area of small farms.. It's the best I could do at the time..
However.. The old restored JD 70 Gas spent the whole day out there with a
bush hog mowing down old growth briars.(Some of the vines were bigger than
my forearm). All those small estate orange tractors were certainly green
with envy.. Most of the neighbors said their tractor could not do that job
at all... Just wait till I bring out the 10 foot KBA Disk and show them how
the front yard is going to be turned and then seeded with a FB-A Grain drill
with grass.. Then smoothed over with the 3 panel spike harrows I have.. 

I suspect it would be the beginning of some tractor wars.. Me with my old
stuff and Yuppies with Orange tractors... 

Let the fun begin..Just wait till I bring the 30 combine up there to harvest
grass seed... It will be a riot..

Dennis

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Subject: RE: [AJD] 1650

Now I think Dennis is a mystic on top of everything else! His prediction is
uncannily close to 
becoming reality.
Close to the place where the 1250 is, massive legions of yellow metal
monsters have been 
scraping dirt all summer. Where a small modest bridge once provided access
across a mostly non-
existent creek a massive four lane superspan of bridge is rising. Methinks
that this latest 
growth threat is going to be somewhat larger than I had first anticipated. A
happenstance 
conversation with the local fire chief revealed how much larger, he had been
told that up to 
3000 homes will eventually occupy this once vacant, and to the developers,
useless pasture. Not 
surprising really in view of the tremendous growth in Denver, our area, and
the entire Front 
Range corridor in general.
The interesting thing is that it's about one mile from the dealership!

Progress? You tell me.

Greg

Greg Stephen
The Old Tractor Company
Stephen Equipment Company
PO Box 709
Franktown, CO 80116
303-663-5246
303-468-0377 FAX<<--GREAT WAY TO REACH ME!

On Thu Nov  3 17:35 , 'Cotton Family' <dcotton at coosahs.net> sent:

>If you don't get it soon greg, it will be in a neighborhood or upscale
>subdivision..Then lordy the yuppies will buy it for decoration...  Hope
>everything is well..
>
>Dennis
>
>
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>[antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com','','','')">antique-jo
hndeere-
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>greg at theoldtractorcompany.com
>Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:52 PM
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>Subject: [AJD] 1650
>
>Steve
>1650's are good tractors. We sold a few and never had any problems. There
is
>a 1250 
>still running around just a few miles up the road from the dealership that
>I'm 
>keeping my eye on
>Greg
>
>
>Greg Stephen
>The Old Tractor Company
>Stephen Equipment Company
>PO Box 709
>Franktown, CO 80116
>303-663-5246
>303-468-0377 FAX
>
>On Thu Nov  3 10:05 , Steve Treimer steelerhawk at yahoo.com> sent:
>
>>Great, just great.  I know for a fact Midwest Cylinder Head in Nevada will
>NOT, 
>under ANY circumstances, "take back" their $495 welded head to fix a bad
>weld after 
>their 90 day warantee.  I'll just pray it holds (so far so good) long
enough
>for me 
>to part with it so I can get me a little mid 80's 1650.  I love those
>tractors but 
>they are so hard to find!
>>Steve
>>
>>Gary Epps garyepps at fidnet.com> wrote:
>>I couldn't get anyone to repair the head on the 35 D by welding it. 
>>Everyone said they had too many of them "come back". I finally found a 
>>guy that repaired it by 'pinning'. I have not run it much since the 
>>repair, but so far it seems to be fine.
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>Chris C wrote:
>>> I have little experience with cast iron welding, or
>>> cracked heads, but I am now the proud owner of 3 JD A
>>> heads with 'heat cracks' in them. 
>>> 
>>> I also have 3 Caterpillar D7's, 3T models, (late
>>> 40's to early 50's) Notorious for cracking heads if
>>> they were run low on water. Some old timers say
>>> sometimes the small heat cracks 'won't even leak'
>>> 
>>> So my question I guess, is could these heads have
>>> been running just fine? (The JD A ones) All of the
>>> cracks are in the 'face' of the head. Two have cracks
>>> in the valve seats of both cylinders, one has a crack
>>> in the metal above the valve seats of the #2 cylinder.
>>> (this one was also "tested" by the guy that sold it
>>> to me first.. hmm.. :( wonder if his eyes were open) 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I am off the see mr. local head welder
>>> tomorrow. My question, has anyone run a 'cracked'
>>> head and had no problems?
>>> 
>>> I would guess that first of all, a crack is
>>> going to expand and contract with the rest of the head
>>> as it heats so that crack certainly isn't going to get
>>> smaller if you keep running it.. 
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>at a leisurely pace.
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