[AT] Ralph

[Alan Nadeau]

It has been below zero every morning for most of the past week now here in 
NW Vermont, usually accompanied by some fairly nasty W or NW winds to put a 
little bite in it..

I didn't used to mind winter all that much but over the past ten years or so 
I am finding it way less tolerable.

I hope it warms up before we get any huge amount of snow.  We have a New 
Holland 3930 at the shooting club I belong to.  I has an Alo loader on it, 
wicked heavy built, it carries an 8' snow bucket during the winter. Right 
now it also suffers from a frozen control cable on the loader spool which 
serves to curl/dump the bucket.  The cables were new right around a year ago 
and that one seems to have gotten moisture in it and is now frozen.  I can't 
see any way water could have gotten in there as the control ends are inside 
the cab and the valve ends are under the valve body and attached with what I 
think should be very well enclosed connections.  There are a bunch of small 
fasteners that have to be removed to get the cable off, not something I want 
to fuss with at the current temperatures.  With the wind we get up there 
there isn't any obvious way to wrap a tarp around the work area and set a 
kerosene fired warm wind blowing under it.

Not an antique tractor, somewhere around 1997 manufacture, by any means but 
it did replace an early 70s Ford 4000. It also suffers from the same puny 
hydraulic system the 4000 had, 7 GPM.  Deeres from that era were 12-15 GPM 
on that size (52 hp) tractor.  The loader has plenty of muscle but it seems 
to take forever to run a load up to full height.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph


> On 1/1/2018 6:57 AM, John Hall wrote:
>> I'll second that request! Its 13 here this morning and thats going to be
>> typical low temps for most of the week.
>>
>> Happy New Year everyone!
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/1/2018 2:27 AM, Mike M wrote:
>>> Ralph, if you are listening, please shut the door, I believe you left it
>>> open again !!!  ;)
> Blame that polar vortex that is in the weather news lately. It covers a
> big area.
> In case you missed it, a video of my trip to town in the old GMC on
> Saturday.
> https://youtu.be/sOpkE8ySmJs
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>>>
>
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