[AT] 430V update

Mon Oct 2 04:56:28 PDT 2017

By the time the 40-C came to the farm I already had several years on the
M-C that it replaced. There were several big improvements to the 40-C. One
huge one was changes to the gearing. The M-C was so slow in reverse that
you about had to drive a marker stake see if it had moved backward any in
the last several minutes. :-)  I'm talking serious slowness here. I was
told that it was slow in first for pulling a trans-planter for forestry
work and in tobacco plots and that reverse shared the drive with first
gear. I just knew it was silly slow in reverse. We did a lot of drainage
work in the early 1950's and used the crawler for back-filling. We
developed a pattern of pushing dirt in at about a 45 degree angle to the
ditch (Its blade did not angle) and then doing a hard pivot one way then a
hard pivot the other then push again and repeat. It saved us from having to
use reverse and suffer that unbelievable boredom waiting for the thing to
get backed away from the ditch. High gear on the other had was very fast on
the road for a crawler. It was geared so high in high gear that it was too
weak for even pulling wagons because of the torque needed to get started
and I'm here to tell you that you do not shift up a gear while moving when
driving a crawler.  :-)
The 40-C had a very good gearing. The M-C also would not lift the blade on
the "integral tool carrier" very high off of the ground, maybe about 8"...
I can't tell you how many times I had to back across some ditch or dip
because it you drove forward the blade would dig into the ground and stop
the crawler. It was also bad about getting hung up on some log or rock. The
40-C would raise the blade about 2' off of the ground. After those years on
that M-C the 40-C was a real pleasure to use. It wasn't that the M-C was a
bad outfit generally, it was just that those two things were so super
annoying. There was a 2-14" mounted plow and a sub-soiler for the tool
carrier in addition to the dozer blade. It wasn't a bad system, almost a
quick hitch. Most years we didn't use the plow much, too slow but it would
probably have pulled it through concrete, just slowly.
Both were good at tree work. If you wanted to take out a tree that was
about 8" through the trunk at 4' up you sat up a ladder and hooked a long
cable around it at about 10' up and slowly pulled it over. If it was
stubborn or larger you just unhooked and drove to the back side of the tree
and cut a few roots with the blade and it usually came out. The 40-C was
also better at this since it had a lot more track on it and was heavier
overall.
I must admit to enjoying occasionally getting the crawler out of the barn
on a snowy morning and pulling the school bus packed with students up the
hill and around the corner at our place. I was in about the 5th or 6th
grade...
Our roads were just gravel in those days and I think the county had a
couple of road graders and one snow-plow then. I made some spending money
pulling out cars in the winters but it didn't take me long to learn to
collect first then unhook the cable... Got stung a couple of times. How big
of an a$$ do you have to be to cheat a kid out of a couple of bucks?

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On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> I just had in image pop into my brain of a young Farmer on a 40C. He had a
> smile on his face and everyone in the county was running...  (-;
>
> I think the water bottle would work if the friction disks were not worn. I
> think that might be my problem.  If I don't see wear I'll try your dads
> great idea.  A little rust on the iron faces might help.  The charging deal
> is top priority right now.
>
> After about 10 hours of running I'll change the oil and filter and start
> changing the other fluids.
>
>
> Spencer Yost
>
> > On Sep 30, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The throttle lever will not hold    idle, nor will it hold wide-open. It
> >> quickly drifts off in both cases.  I had this problem with my John
> Deere B
> >> as well. One of these days I'm going to have to learn how to fix that.
> >>
> >> Spencer Yost
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > As a kid I put a half zillion hours on a new Deere 40-C. The throttle
> lever
> > on it got to creeping to where you could not run at full throttle unless
> > you held it down with a tarp strap. Not knowing what else to try my
> father
> > handed me a small medicine bottle of salt water with an eye-dropper in it
> > and had me occasionally drip a tiny amount of it in the crack at the base
> > of the throttle lever where it pivoted. I don't know what the proper fix
> is
> > but that cured that one and it didn't give any more trouble.  (shrug)
> :-)
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> > .
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