[AT] Just checking....

[Steve W.]

Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> I'll throw a few things out there.  I had to spray my wheat for army 
> worms as they had eaten about 2/3 of it.   I could not tell if the spray 
> really did any good.  I had used no-till this year as I needed what 
> pasture was left for my cows.  I was waiting on the price to go back up 
> a little before hauling some off.  I had a client who raised rye and had 
> saved me some.  I sowed another 2+ bushel per acre of rye on the wheat 
> ground with the no-till drill.  I turned the cows in on what wheat was 
> left to graze it and the weeds and crabgrass that was there. When I was 
> cleaning out the drill I ran it across the severely over grazed buffalo 
> grass pasture. It rained just enough last week to cause the rye to 
> sprout and the wheat that was not totally destroyed came back.   I sowed 
> each planting in a different direction in order to see where I had been, 
> and now it really shows up.  The rye is a reddish purple and the wheat 
> is green. With all the forage that appears to be coming up, I am going 
> to have to fertilize a LOT to keep it growing.  There is nearly 6 bushel 
> of grain per acre sowed!!
> 
>   It appears the no-till drill was set at just the proper depth this 
> time.  I had turned my drawbar over to raise it for the swather and 
> hooked on to the drill without changing it and accidentally it put the 
> coulters at the right depth!!!
> Where I sowed in the pasture while cleaning out the drill is coming up 
> also.  I wish I had cut the drill back and saved enough to plant the 
> entire pasture.  This is the 3rd wettest year on record, so I guess we 
> have been lucky.  The prediction is for a wetter and colder than normal 
> winter.  If we get any snow, I am going to spread fertilizer on top of 
> the snow.
> 
> The wet cycle appears to be starting and I still have over 100 acres 
> that need to be cut and baled.   It is very stemmy now and the weeds got 
> away from me due to my main tractor being out of service and me being 
> the only mechanic, driver, and veterinarian. I am looking at cutting it 
> with the bat wing mower and raking it up and then wrapping it for 
> haylage.  I have some microbes to spray on it to help in fermentation. 
> It will need it due to there not being a lot of green left in it.
> 
> My New Holland tractor now has to have a new windshield wiper motor 
> installed.  The NH dealership hooked up the linkage wrong and the switch 
> was turned on before I got it corrected and it burned out the motor.   
> During harvest I had a bad hydraulic leak on the NH baler.  I had 2 
> replacement hoses made at the NH/Case IH dealership.  One of the hoses 
> blew apart while I was working on the baler last week.  Luckily I was 
> not under the baler or I would not be typing this.  The other hose they 
> made was also starting to leak.  The outer layer of the hose just 
> stripped off.  I had been trying to stop the leak thinking that it was 
> the threaded connection.  It is in a nearly inaccessible area where it 
> cannot be seen and you have to work blind to tighten up the hoses.
> If any of you guys have to have hydraulic hoses made, be very wary of 
> Gates hydraulic hoses and fittings.  They have made their crimp fittings 
> so thick that the crimper does not get the collar swaged tight enough to 
> crimp into the wire, it only holds onto the covering.  I replaced the 
> Gates with my own home built fittings. I use the "bite to wire" fittings 
> and have an old Weather head crimper.
> 
> Well I hope I have stimulated some conversation, it is not all old 
> tractors.  The 7030 Allis is the old one I use to pull my Swather with, 
> as it is the only one with enough horses to really pull it.   It can 
> cut, crimp, and windrow 4 ft tall grass 12ft wide at 7mph.  Now that is 
> impressive!!
> My 2-105 White is still disabled with a tire that slips on the rim.  I 
> really hate to drill the rim for screws to lock the bead, but it looks 
> like that may be the only way to go.  The dealer is not going to stand 
> behind them.  I think I will start with #6 stainless screws on 6 inch 
> centers on each side of the rim to hold the tire.  The manufacturer's 
> rep said to wrap the rim with duct tape!!  I have seen deteriorated duct 
> tape too many times to do that... At my age the tires will outlast me, 
> so I will use screws...
> 
> That's about it in Oklahoma.  Still raining here, and we needed it..
> 
> Cecil in OKla


Cecil,

  How about getting a can of bead sealer and gluing the tire in place?

-- 
Steve W.