[AT] OT Sowing wheat and Aircraft Tires for trailer

[Richard Fink Sr]

Cecil that sounds like my last two weeks. backhoe down -blocked drain 
line-man came to service furnace power Venter shot-electric cart quit but 
then there is tomorrow maybe worse maybe better
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: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Sowing wheat and Aircraft Tires for trailer


> 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.

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