[AT] OT Sowing wheat and Aircraft Tires for trailer

Sun Sep 15 13:16:41 PDT 2013

Wow Cecil like my Dad use to say.  It is hell to get old but it beats 
the alternatives. ;-}  I am beginning to know
what he meant.

Hopefully with fall arriving the stress level will go down and you can 
get caught up.

PS: Non of my tractors are running just now so I had to use my F250 to 
pull stumps last weekend.

On 9/17/2013 11:09 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> List:
> I realize now that my post subject line could be misunderstood. Much
> like the city slicker that planted the baby chicks and had a crop
> failure!!!!   I had worked 4 days on my No-till drill to get it ready
> for planting.  I di not know that is was in such bad shape.  I had lost
> 2 coulters off the front last year and had found both of them I think,
> however I could not find one of the ones I had found.  My 2-105 White
> that I use for the heavy work around here has a problem with the PTO.
> It is really a turbo'ed 1850 Oliver with a hydraulic clutch PTO.  The
> old Oliver had a lever with a button on it to engage the PTO.  They
> never had a problem with that design.  Later when the White management
> decided that it was too much trouble to push a  lever, they made a hyd
> PTO with a little lever at the back of the lift levers where you have a
> hell of a time getting to it if you have Arthritis.  There were 5
> upgrades (redesigns) of the sealing rings on that HYD clutch. The
> sealing rings were about $125, but it is a 2 day job for me to install
> them.  So, I have had to use my TS110 New Holland for everything.  The
> Belarus has a bad top radiator tank so ti gets hot if I load it.  The
> other Belarus has a flat front tire, and I have the new one, but again,
> it is a job for me to get the new tire installed.  I must note here that
> due to a nerve constriction in my back, I have limited use of my right
> foot and my left knee has begun to fail due to the stress of
> compensating for the right leg.  If I am on my feet longer than 5
> minutes, I have a terrible burning in both legs from my hips down.
> There fore, I have to take care of the most important things and let the
> others go.  My New Holland was having problems with the fuel pump I
> thought.  It turned out to be a plugged fuel line.  It plugs from the
> plastic shards that break off of the seams of the plastic fuel tank.  I
> woke up the Caterpillar parts guy Labor day morning and put a Cat pump
> on it because the New Holland dealer could not be bothered to stay a
> couple of hours late on Saturday...  I will soon be using another New
> Holland dealer.    After making a 60 mile round trip to the dealer who
> sold me the Hesston 1340 I had so much trouble with, I got some of the
> parts for the drill.  I substituted a plow coulter for one of the lost
> coulters, and then took a complete opener assembly off of a Great Plains
> drill to fix another lost disc opener.  I used to pull this drill with
> my old 930 Case.  In fact it was still hooked up to the Case and had not
> been moved in 9 months.  The Case started on the first try.  However,
> the steering will only turn left.  I found this problem at the end of
> sowing last year.   I went to get seed Sat morning with a large shipping
> container sack inside a carboy cage.  This would hold about 50 bushels.
> The outlet of the grain bin was too high for the sack to work.  I
> returned home and hooked up to the Grain wagon, checked the tires, and
> got the seed loaded.  A half mile from the grainery, I noticed  the
> grain wagon was tilted.  I had to drive another 1/4 mile to find a place
> to get off the road. Now you understand why I was so mad at the GENSCO
> Tire Company when I found another tire without the sealant I had paid
> for. After I got home, with my wife's help, I filled the drill 2 times
> with the grain wagon and then Sunday morning, the bottom auger bearing
> failed on the grain wagon and the auger tried to come out of the bin.
> We filled the drill with a 5 gallon bucket.  You can imagine how fun
> that is with the sloping sides of that grain wagon.  I tried to find
> another grain auger and the one I found had a bad start capacitor in the
> 1/2 hp motor.  I could not find another motor in the dozens I have
> collected that did not have frozen bearings.   We finished the sowing by
> filling the drill with a bucket.  When we used to get grain in the truck
> with a dump bed, I would drive the loader and Dad would operate the
> grain door on the truck and we filled the drill with the loader
> bucket...   I bought this grain wagon to make things easier, and it only
> got worse.
>
> The land I was sowing had a thick stand of tickle grass in it. (oldfield
> three awn) that choked out the crabgrass and the ryegrass I had
> before.   I did not know what this grass was until too late to spray
> Roundup.  Hopefully the frost will get it.   My wife drove the New
> Holland with the Bat Wing mower while I worked on the drill.  She also
> learned to sow wheat while I tried to find an auger to fill the drill.
> The trouble with grain wagons is they must be under a shed or have  a
> cover on them to keep water out.  There is no door on the bottom to
> drain water or grain out.  You can never get all of the grain out either.
> During all this, I had to load 3 semi trucks with hay, and after that,
> the next morning the New Holland had a flat on the front tire.
>
> So, that is the way my last 3 weeks have gone, I was not looking at the
> post as it appeared.  I have found a company in Baldwin City KS, that
> has aircraft tires and also has a decent price on wheels.  My wife wants
> to go to a specialty Spice place in Kansas City, so I need to get the
> old van ready for a trip.
>
> I hope whatever you guys try to do, you do not have the problems I have
> had.  It is starting all over when the weather clears this week, as I
> have another hay cutting and about 160 acres to cut with the Bat wing,
> and then another farm 60 miles away to bush hog in order to keep the
> fire hazard down.
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9/16/2013 9:10 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Cecil,  Since yours was the first post I've seen from this forum in about a
>> week
>> I think you should be commended for posting it.  At least it brought some
>> life back
>> to this apparently almost dead group.   I enjoyed reading your post and
>> learned something
>> I didn't know.
>>
>> Charlie
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike
>> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 7:43 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Sowing wheat and Aircraft Tires for trailer
>>
>> Why would you want to be removed from ATIS for that? I've seen a lot
>> worse over the years. I enjoy reading your posts whether they are on
>> topic or not.
>>
>> Mike M
>>
>> On 9/16/2013 4:07 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
>>> My apologies for sending this to the list.  I just thought that if
>>> anyone wanted to try their recapped front tires made from aircraft 16
>>> ply tires, they should not bother paying the extra $20 for the stop leak
>>> because it will not be installed.  It appears that my  post was not
>>> understood. Please remove it and probably me from your list.
>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/16/2013 10:46 AM, Doug Tallman wrote:
>>>> Richard, it might be worth joining facebook to find out how to sow new
>>>> aircraft tires for the trailer. I wonder if it works for the pick-up and
>>>> motorhome too?  :-)  Doug T
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Richard Fink Sr wrote:
>>>>> Why that is great must join face bull s=&t to see it.
>>>>> R Fink
>>>>> PA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Cecil R Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
>>>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 11:40 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Sowing wheat and Aircraft Tires for trailer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I started to sow my wheat field today. However, when I went to get seed
>>>>>> with my grain cart, I checked the 16 ply Gensco tires before leaving
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> they were well inflated. These are Gensco aircraft tires that I ordered
>>>>>> as a complete assembly with tire, wheel, and Gensco stop leak.
>>>>>> However,
>>>>>> of the 8 tires and wheels w/ stop leak I have ordered over the past 3
>>>>>> years, I have found 4 to not have stop leak installed.  The moment I
>>>>>> found this our has never been at an opportune time.  This time it cost
>>>>>> me 2 hours and a request for help from my wife!  She had to wait with
>>>>>> the truck and grain cart while I went back home,  and found one of the
>>>>>> old wheels and tires that was cracked, weathered, and looked like it
>>>>>> would not make 300 ft.but still holding air. It made the 5 miles back
>>>>>> home with no problem.  I could have chewed nails to relax when this
>>>>>> happened!!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you order tires from Gensco, don't bother with the stop leak, just
>>>>>> add your own at home.  It seems that Mediocrity is the norm for
>>>>>> business
>>>>>> these days.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aircraft tires are vented at the bead.  I was told by a friend who had
>>>>>> used a lot of aircraft tires that you had to use tubes or stop leak or
>>>>>> they would leak down.   I attached a couple of shots of the loaded
>>>>>> trailer it had 67 bushels of wheat on board.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A couple of shots of the trailer and flat are at:
>>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/cecil.bearden/posts/10200958092978140
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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