[Farmall] Winter sounds - ramble

[E. John Puckett]

A little further south than you (east central Mo.) but Friday I needed 
to fill the wood room, so I fired up one cub for that and let the other 
cub and h run for a while.  of course they had to go for a little ride 
while i was at it.

birddog wrote:
> I am still trying to catch up with all of the batteries for winter 
> storage.  Some are left in with maintenance chargers and some are 
> removed to be kept charged in the shop.  A few are left to fend for 
> themselves with only a startup each month.  Last week I got to the cub.  
> That battery has been off and on since the tractor followed me home last 
> summer.  There is no date punched, but the last possible on the label 
> was 99, so it is a given ti is probably ten years old.  I took the 
> strong battery from the JD 316 for the cub.  The 316 will not see any 
> winter running so the battery should be out of it. The cub has always 
> had a hit and miss connection.  Occasionally the button may need two or 
> three tries to get any result.  In looking things over, the G (stands 
> for Farmer's G-word which is currently banned from ATIS lists)  G- cable 
> only attaches to the battery case on the south end, under the battery.  
> Well now, it would never rust under there, would it??  Took it off and 
> did a good clean up.  Put in the JD battery and walla, the starter spins 
> it like it is already running.  Naturally all this work required a 1/2 
> hour ride around before putting it back to bed. Purrs like a kitten.
>
> Next issues were last Friday.  I started the 560 for ten minutes or so 
> of running charge.   The muffler rusted  off at the base last summer.  
> Having just put a new one on the M, I decided not to buy another one 
> right away.  I cut the outlet pipe from the old 560 muffler and mounted 
> it on the manifold stack pipe to get the exhaust outlet up a ways.  This 
> still gave the ability to keep on the rain hat and put a coffee can over 
> that when standing.  For a straight pipe, it is not terribly loud, but 
> it sure has a nice voice.  Sounds good to me.
>
> I thought the battery in the M was about shot so removed battery and 
> case.  The floor of the case is about gone so it is time for a rebuild 
> anyway.  Before chucking the battery to the scrap battery stack, I put 
> it on charge to see how it would do.  Good news.  It seems to have taken 
> a good charge and is holding at 12V so far.
>
> Today I needed to retie the front of the tarp on the 10-20.  I have had 
> an itch to set the spark and throttle, give it a handshake and give the 
> crank a turn for about a week now.  I guess it hasn't run in at least a 
> couple of months.  A nice cloudy 35 degree day seemed like the time for 
> that..  Pulled the tart 1/2 way back and did the drill.  The second 1/2 
> turn of the crank did the trick.  To be fair, it was necessary to run 
> the 10-20 as long as the battery machines.  Nothing like listening to 
> that for a cure of the winter blahs. 
>
> Charlie V  --  not too far from the Rochester snow fleet.
>
>   

-- 
 John
another one of them
*.?-!.* cub owners