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Charlie this getting old is real fun [yes]
R Fink
PA

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 7:54 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

If you've still got that Allis I can pretty well assure you that there is
someone over on AllisChalmers.com that can tell you how to fix it.
There are folks over there that are retired AC dealers and mechanics and
a few folks that still work on them plus a bunch of owners that farm with
them.

Wow, corn seed is awfully expensive to keep putting it in the ground
with no return!  I'm not at all familiar with your climate or soils.  You
wouldn't think OK was much different climate wise from NC and Virginia
based on the latitude but obviously it is much drier and harsher.

Sorry you are having so much problem with your back.  I wish I could say
I have no experience with that but I'm headed down that same road.  So
far my back is holding up ok but my knees and legs are starting to go down 
hill.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 8:54 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

I think the problem with  the 7030 hydraulic boiling is that this
tractor has a filter on both sides of the pump.   However, one of the 2
filter numbers has been obsoleted by Wix and getting one from a dealer
is out of the question.  I think the suction filter is too fine of a
mesh and causes the fluid to boil.  The 7030 is so simple there cannot
be much to go wrong with the hydraulics.   Not like the old 1155 Massey
I had that had 3 different pressure hydraulic systems.  My Dad was too
busy to go into town and get the proper oil for that tractor so he
opened up a barrel of oil I had in the shop and used it.  We had some
leaks on the lift cylinders and it would leak about 3 gallons a day.
This was before I retired.  He put the entire barrel through it before I
found out.   The barrel was way oil for lathes and milling machines.  It
was not designed for high temperatures.  It stuck up every valve in
it.   The barrel of oil was worth about $1250!!!!   I gave $300 for it
from this old machinist.    Then later someone told him that a quart of
brake fluid would fix the seals so he poured a quart into it..    That
just caused the seals to disintegrate.   A year later the tractor went
to Mexico for $2500 and a couple of years later I bought this 7030 from
a "horse trader".  Turns out that the tractor was originally delivered
to the farm I was baling hay on!!!   The biggest problem is getting into
the cab.  It tapers from the middle to the top and to the bottom.  It
needs a racing steering wheel that can be removed to get into the cab...

Around here the only machines you find in the fence rows is something
connected with small grains.  Mainly wheat.   There is alolt of corn
planted around here but there is never any harvested.  It burns up.   I
went to no till on my small wheat pasture here about 4 years ago, and
have never had any wheat pasture after the first year.  The soil is just
too cool to germinate and grow fast enough in the fall.  This year I am
going to try out the 2470 Case with the 7 shank Big OX,  apply 1 ton per
acre of chicken litter and then moldboard plow it and disc to level.   I
may spend all summer working the ground, but I am going to level that
field and get a crop on it.    The best crop I ever had on that field
was in 2010 with Chicken litter as fertilizer, but the hail got every
inch of it!  First time since we started farming in 1961 I ever got
hailed out!!

I never ran a snow blower, so I could not comment on whether wings would
work to funnel the snow in.    I have an old 560 Cockshutt here, that
has a heavy front end on it that might allow a 3 pt hitch to be
installed, then Surplus Center or Baileys hydraulics has PTO drive pumps
and motors that have a PTO spline shaft to drive the blower.  I have
thought about building  front 3 pt on my tractors before...   I have an
Owatonna swather that the header is just rusted out and twisted.  I am
going to try to put a JD header from a hydro swing on it and make a self
propelled swather.

My problem is trying to get things done in a reasonable amount of time.
My back is so bad that I cannot stand for more than a few minutes and I
can only walk about 50 ft before the pain is just too much without
leaning on everything around.    Getting up and down is another story.
I need to find a young guy who wants to learn mechanics.

Oh well, that is what the winter is for, to think about all those projects.

Cecil in oKla


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