[AT] Quiet

John Hall jtchall at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 13 20:15:04 PST 2018


TW, whats up with hydraulics on the Super A,  jumping?

John Hall


On 2/13/2018 5:49 PM, T.W. Cook wrote:
> Hi Phil, good to hear from you too. It's about like that around here, 
> the only thing that still runs is the Super A I use for mowing and 
> stuff. And the hydraulics have gone flaky on it. I saw Norris at the 
> Temple Show this fall but otherwise haven't been in touch with anyone 
> else.
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:13 PM, <pga2 at basicisp.net 
> <mailto:pga2 at basicisp.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, T.W. Glad to see that you're still around! Hard to believe
>     that Cory is 29.
>     Time seems to get away faster than it used to. Did you ever get
>     that M-D
>     up and running? Seems like all of my "projects"are on the back
>     burner as well.
>     My A-CB is locked up tighter than Dick's hatband, the A-C RC needs
>     a water
>     pump and the Farmalls (M and Cub) both need batteries and there's
>     not any
>     free money right now. :o(
>
>     Phil in TX
>
>     --- tw at farmall-h.com <mailto:tw at farmall-h.com> wrote:
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>     From: "T.W. Cook" <tw at farmall-h.com <mailto:tw at farmall-h.com>>
>     To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
>     <at at lists.antique-tractor.com <mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com>>
>     Subject: Re: [AT] Quiet
>     Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:10:18 -0600
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>     Farmer, hang in there. I think if you were to soak that recliner
>     in diesel for a few days it'd sort out the problems with it.
>
>     Nice to hear from all of y'all - it has been a while. Trying to
>     thin the herd a bit, too many projects that'll never get done. The
>     Regular I never got around to dealing with found a new home last
>     week. My son Cory, now 29, got his start doing mechanic work
>     helping me restore my grandfather's Farmall H back when he was 8.
>     He works for a construction materials company now, does mechanic
>     work on the side. A couple of weeks ago someone brought an H over
>     for him to fix up and get running. He had fun with it, got it
>     running great and sent it on its way.
>
>     T.W. Cook
>     Georgetown TX
>
>     On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Indiana Robinson
>     <robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         I've lost a lot of time this winter... I started feeling bad
>         about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving which was annoying because I
>         just had a physical in October.
>         Not real specific symptoms, just "unwell". Sometimes badly
>         short of breath sometimes not. Long periods of brain fog... I
>         would feel bad for a couple of weeks then feel better for a
>         few days then back to feeling bad. Gave up and made an
>         appointment with our GP a few weeks ago and started feeling
>         better the day before the appointment (funny how that works).
>         After another physical and an office EKG, a hospital nuclear
>         stress test and a 48 hour Holter EKG it appears that I may
>         have been feeling bad... (shrug)  I have an early March
>         appointment with my cardiologist, just a general thing...
>         On the upside I have felt better ever since I first made the
>         appointment.  :-)
>         I got thinking about it and I am suspicious of a new recliner
>         I bought about a week before I started feeling bad. Like two
>         thirds of what we buy now it was made in China. I started
>         looking on line and it seems that China is supposedly using a
>         lot of very strange concoctions  for fumigation at points of
>         export that nobody really knows for sure what is in them. I
>         saw claims that they apparently are among other things
>         inserting little packets of some toxic waste byproduct into
>         some leather upholstered furniture to prevent mold during
>         shipping. This chair isn't leather but a lot of folks are
>         claiming that their Chinese furniture is making them ill. I
>         also saw references to US customs often using methyl bromide
>         on this end to fumigate containers where they find bugs. I
>         take all of this with a grain of salt but I did recall this
>         chair having a strange smell when we opened the plastic bags.
>         We also had not taken the chair that was on display since it
>         seemed a bit "shop-worn" so we took one still sealed in bags
>         in the box. Maybe we should have opened it and hauled it
>         around in the back of the truck for a few days...  :-)
>
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>         Francis Robinson
>         aka "farmer"
>         Central Indiana USA
>         robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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