[Farmall] still earning their keep

[Roberto Rivero]

Seems you are having problem with water running .

here  we had a too rainnig summer  people harvesting rice are beguining
with their tasks, i am mounting a steam power plant (I shuold    if it
stops raining) any way    rainning is kind a bless   if donot  look Afrika.

God bless us     lets keep  doing our best..


2014-03-17 9:46 GMT-03:00 Michael Schmudlach <mschmudlach at charter.net>:

> Sounds like you are having fun.
> We still have to keep water running 24/7 to keep the water lines from
> freezing.  Frost is 8' deep at the driveway.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 17, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Saturday was the first one we've had in I-don't-know-when where we had
> both good weather, and ground dry enough to really do anything.  I used
> "Old Ugly," my late '50 Super A just about all afternoon.  I worked my
> parents' garden, my in-laws' garden, the FFA garden at school, and finally
> my personal garden--I disked my parents' and at school, and disked, plowed,
> and disked my garden, and plowed my in-laws'.  I also used the plow and my
> little #100 IH blade to build a water furrow across the back yard at our
> new house.  A lot of water comes off the back of the house and even though
> we are on a hill it gets wet back there if we have much rain.  I was right
> proud of how it came out, but I'll see how good I did once the sun comes
> up.....anyway I have decided that Fast Hitch really is the greatest thing
> on earth.  It was so nice to swap implements in just seconds instead of
> 5-10 minutes!
> >
> > Old Ugly originally came out of MD, a tractor friend in VA bought it and
> I bought it from him.  It really is ugly in terms of paint but it's solid.
>  It smokes just a little bit at startup, but it cranks good, is still 6
> volt, and has the quietest transmission I have ever heard on a Super A.  I
> added the Fast Hitch a couple years ago (I've had it about 3 years) and
> accumulated the disk, plow, and blade. I also got a nice Mechanical one row
> tobacco setter, complete with barrel.  I want to paint it but it won't be a
> restored tractor per se.....I have added some stuff to it to try to
> replicate what my granddaddy's Super A (now restored like "factory") looked
> like from 1961 until 2005----sealed beam lights, a "deluxe" seat from a
> 140, and some other goodies.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
> >> Sent: Mar 16, 2014 9:53 PM
> >> To: farmall <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> Subject: [Farmall] still earning their keep
> >>
> >> Been very quiet here lately, too cold to go to the shop?
> >>
> >> It was time for the M to earn its keep this past week. We used it to
> topdress wheat with liquid nitrogen. It’s been doing it since the 50’s. I
> don’t know how it hasn’t rusted into a heap of brown scrap metal, must be a
> lot of lead in that old paint. It has a mounted John Blue sprayer with a
> ground drive pump. Something a bit nostalgic about sending that tractor to
> the field, got to love the sound of its exhaust.
> >>
> >> I think one of the Super A’s is trying to tell me something. It decided
> to die while towing the 500 gallon trailer I haul nitrogen in. I had just
> got  the tank in place so I could fill the M. I checked to see if I had
> fire to the distributor, was it getting gas etc. Sometimes it would hit,
> other times it would run for a few seconds,eventually it wouldn’t do
> anything. Fuel and fire seemed OK, nothing was making sense, or was it the
> really cold wind making me not care. The next day I found the problem, the
> contact point on the moveable piece of the points had fallen off. Installed
> a new set, problem solved. Getting close to spring so time to pull both A’s
> in the shop for an oil change.
> >>
> >> John Hall
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