[AT] Tractor Hydraulics

[charlie hill]

Farmer,  I've observed that about combines and always wanted to tear one 
apart and use the undercarriage, motor, drive and hydraulics to build 
something else.  Like maybe a machine to clear underbrush and small trees 
with a front mounted, heavy duty, hydraulic cutter.

Charlie
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From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Hydraulics


>
> Hi Mark:
>
> I usually post this a couple of times a year. Don't overlook old SP
> combines for a source of high capacity, high quality hydraulic components.
> Combines wear out in the separator and heads but almost never in the
> hydraulics or even the engine for that matter. When I got rid of a huge
> batch of old stuff this last summer I gritted my teeth and looked the 
> other
> way when they cut up and hauled two Deere 45 combines, one with a very 
> good
> engine and both with good hydraulics. I have almost the same situation
> coming up with my Gleaner "F" combine. It has a few fairly minor problems
> like one bearing needs replaced on the corn head, it could used a bushing
> in the main variable speed drive pulley and two turn brake master 
> cylinders
> need rebuilding but it is still a fairly decent old combine but it is 
> worth
> about as much for scrap as it is as a combine... It also has a lot of good
> hydraulics. It is a little too big for the guys with a few acres (the guy
> that bought my one good Deere 45 raised 15 acres of grain each year) and
> too small for about anyone in my neighborhood since most around here now
> farm between 600 to 1500 acres... It is about right for someone with 50 to
> 200 acres but there just are not many of those guys left. I have three
> choices, none of them real good. Fix it up and try to sell it to some 
> small
> farmer. Try to sell it "as is" to someone that would fix it up and use it.
> Or sell it as scrap and look the other way as it goes out the drive.
> It came here on a low-boy semi. It is too big (and tall) to haul on most
> trailers not made for that purpose. While my dealer friend delivered it to
> me for free, such hauling can be pricy which tends to limit me to someone
> close enough to drive it home.
> The depressing part of retirement...
>
>
>
>
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> "farmer"
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> Robinson at svs.net
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