[AT] OT Sowing wheat and Aircraft Tires for trailer
Cecil R Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Tue Sep 17 09:09:22 PDT 2013
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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