[AT] chain sprocket update

Wed Sep 21 10:23:09 PDT 2016

Hi Greg and all,
 Have you ever asked your doctor about Massage therapy Greg?
 When I was in 10th grade I went to a chiropractor and found out I had
scoliosis. So they kept doing there little adjustments, etc. Sooner or
later it just didn't do me any good anymore. So they send me to this
spine doctor who did nothing but type on his computer and mumble. At
this point in time, the pain was so bad that I had to ask somebody to
put my shoes on. I couldn't start the John Deere a anymore on my own,
and it hurt to climb on it also. So I told that doctor that he wasn't
leaving the room until he gave me five things he could try. He could
only give me two.
 1. "Well I can opperate on you, but I doubt it'll help anyway."
 2. "You can continue what you're doing now."
 So at the end of the visit, I asked him what he thought about massage therapy.
 "Oh that's a great idea!" So he gave me a name of a guy. He is more
of a chiropractor but is all about the muscles as well. He doesn't do
x rays. He just feels.
 So I go there the following week. He feels and looks at my back. He
said, "Tyler I'm so glad you came here!" Then he said, "If you
wouldn't have come to me, three years and your curve and back would've
been so bad your ribs would've caved into your chest cavity." So he
starts working the muscles in my back. My legs starting moving on
their own, my feet started twiching, my arms moved and twiched. 30
minutes later, I walked out of his office like nothing ever happened.
I could put my shoes on the next morning, and I could start and climb
up on the tractor that weekend. I still go back to him each week to
make sure everything stays in line, and here I am now. I just recently
graduated from massage therapy school, now just waiting to take my
licensing exam. And that same guy I go to who made that miracle happen
with my back came and asked if I'd come and set up my practice in his
office, because he already has patients wanting massage therapy and
chiropractics.
 Just something you might want to look into.
 Take Care,
 Tyler Juranek
 IA

On 9/21/16, Bo Hinch <bohinch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our local president  (wife) of the La 2 Cyl tractor club had been having
> severe back problems for about 20 years . She went to  LSI's place in
> Florida , had the operation as day surgery , came back to Louisiana the
> next day and has had NO pain in her back since then . That made a believer
> out of me .
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:50 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greg,  when you get the MRI's done have copies of them sent to the Laser
>> Spine Institute.
>> All I know about them is that a friend of mine had severe whip lash
>> damage
>> to the point
>> that she was getting addicted to pain meds.  The local ortho guys (and we
>> have some good ones)
>> couldn't do much for her.  She went to LSI's place in Florida, had the
>> "surgery" done and sent me a
>> text message about 3 the same afternoon from the Dog Track.   Problem
>> solved.   Your insurance
>> will normally pay but not all of the bill.  That's all I know.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Hass
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 12:57 AM
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: Re: [AT] chain sprocket update
>>
>> Sorry I have taken so long to respond, but things have not gone quite as
>> planned. About 3 months ago the Dr. told me my back was shot and nothing
>> could really be done. I have not jumped all the hoops to get into pain
>> management nor had an MRI but the Dr. said when things likes spurs on
>> the vertebrae show on a standard X-ray things are bad. Thus the things I
>> can do are limited and so are the hours I can work at once.More on a
>> different day. Back to the combine sprocket. I read all of the replies
>> to my post and appreciate all of them. I found hundreds of roller chain
>> sprockets but few flat chain or as someone pointed out, and I thank
>> them, its called detachable steel chain. Those that did have elevator
>> chain sprockets are for the newer machines and they use a first cousin
>> to a roller chain. I had trouble with some of the sites as I am not good
>> with computers and my wife was gone for a few days. The one that gave me
>> the most trouble was the IH site. I don't know way but it did. As near
>> as I can tell, the two part numbers, one old one updated are 168683C1
>> and 1811K; if I read right, both not available. One company looks like
>> they can cut one out but I have a feeling time and money would be a
>> problem. Today I finally felt good enough to take it apart, some with
>> wrenches some with flame. The sprocket is 6 tooth and a 7/8 shaft and
>> keyway with a shoulder on one side. The teeth are worn short and the
>> sides are worn thin which keeps throwing the chain. I then decided to
>> look at my parts combine which was hard to get at. I took my loader
>> tractor and went out by the combine and put the bucket down and
>> everything in the way had to hold on as it was going for a ride. With
>> the path cleared, I looked and the sprocket on it seemed ok so I loaded
>> up the torch and cut the top 18 inches off the parts elevator and it is
>> now in front of the shop. Tomorrow I think I will torch everything away
>> and leave the shaft and sprocket together and put them in as a unit. I
>> hope it goes together OK as the beans are almost ready and I do 26 acres
>> with this small machine. I also have to find some bearing for it as the
>> originals I don't think are available and the last one I bought when
>> they were available was $100 for a 7/8 bearing.
>>            Greg Hass
>>      P.S. I posted earlier about chain, which someone sent me to a site
>> where I think I could get it, but after seeing how bad the sprocket was,
>> I'm going to try that first.
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