[AT] New Question

Wed Oct 30 14:47:20 PDT 2019

Like you said, guy once cry once--get known quality equipment from a 
dealer you can trust.

John Hall

On 10/30/2019 3:00 PM, magreer67 wrote:
> Wow! I run chain saws quite a bit and my experience is nothing like 
> that. I cut 8-10 cords of firewood a year plus another 3-5 full days 
> of cutting to maintain a 155 acre wood lot and some logging roads. 
> Some of that cutting ends up as logs I drag out to have sawed into 
> lumber and the rest just gets moved off the logging roads and nature 
> eventually reclaims it. I mostly use commercial grade Stihl saws and 
> they never let me down. Buy once, cry once. I have an 026 Stihl (18") 
> that was my Grandpa's firewood saw. Also have an 009L (14") that gets 
> used for trimming and days when I'm cutting grapevines all day, an 
> MS260 (18"), an 038 Super (24"), and an 046 Magnum (32") I 
> occasionally drag out if I need to cut something big. The MS260 is the 
> one I use most. Somewhere I still have an 028 Wood Boss that was my 
> first saw. I got it half worn out from a co-worker about 30 years ago 
> and ran it for a long time. A wrist pin retainer clip let loose about 
> 10 years ago and locked it up. I have another piston and big bore 
> cylinder for it but need to find a new ring set and put it back 
> together one day.
>
>
>
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>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com>
> Date: 10/30/19 1:05 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] New Question
>
> You got it half right with "chain".  My vote goes for chain saw. They are
> heavy, noisy, dangerous, the exhaust is usually blowing back on you, and
> they throw saw dust everywhere.  It was almost guaranteed they would have
> some sort of starting/running issue on every job.  Besides all that, they
> are impossible to run left-handed.  I know, some of you are going to 
> say "My
> Xyz brand saw is great."  Fine if you had good luck with one.  But 
> there has
> been somebody to say how great nearly every brand of miserable saw I have
> been around is.  Maybe some are just less terrible.
>
> I was glad we finally cut down every black locust tree on the farm and 
> had
> to start buying fence posts.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Yost
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:38 AM
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [AT] New Question
>
> Chain harrow.  Used it during reseeding a hay field and it was great.
> Intended to use it in established pastures based on advice from a good
> friend that raised cattle.  Turned out to be less than useful and that 
> chore
> seemed to be a fuel burner without benefits.
> Still have it though....
>
> Spencer
>
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>
> > On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:13 AM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> >
> > We don’t have a really large garden, but we never had an issue using
> > spring tooth harrows like you indicate.
> >
> > I have three sets that I would gang together, two side by side, and the
> > third one centered behind them. Pulled them with our 50 Cub. I got them
> > free, along with some other free implements when I purchased our Cub.
> >
> > I would set them for a shallow cut and make my first pass. Then I would
> > set them about half way and make a second pass. Then a third pass with
> > them set all the way down. I would drag them in multiple directions to
> > break up the clay as much as possible.
> >
> > I no longer use them since I started to amend the soil and went out and
> > brought a three point rototiller that I put on the 42 H.
> >
> > We have semi heavy to heavy clay in our area, but it never clogged the
> > rototiller to the point where I had to stop and clean it out. The
> > rototiller will have some clay packed in the housing, but I just 
> clean it
> > out when I’m done.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com>
> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Sent: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
> > Subject: [AT] New Question
> >
> > Have been tossing this around for quite a while and would like list
> > opinions from those who have farmed or been around the farm. What
> > machines or implements are you glad to see disappear or be used much
> > less than before? While I could list several the one that stands out in
> > my mind by far is the spring tooth harrow. While still being used some,
> > and while they do a real good job of leveling, they were also a real
> > pain in the a$$. Growing up into my 20's thats all we had and all they
> > did was plug.  We had probably the worst brand ever made, a Case
> > harrow.  It had 2 runners between every section and if it saw a
> > cornstalk 50 feet away it would start plugging before you got there.  In
> > either corn ground or sod the results were the same.  We always worked
> > our fields what we called double kitty corner. In a 20 acre field, we
> > would have to stop at all four corners and unplug the harrow by hand. We
> > used a IH Super C and 3 section harrow (8 foot) and if not plowing we
> > had a four section we pulled with an IH 350. In later years we bought an
> > IH 401 harrow and 3 section equaled 12 feet and pulled it with an IH
> > 504.  We though we had the world by the tail as it plugged much less but
> > that was soon to end.  That harrow did not have replaceable ends; the
> > next years model did, but my dad being stupidly cheap would not get new
> > teeth but cut an extra notch for the handle allowing it to dig deeper
> > but with the tooth being shorter, cut the clearance making it plug as
> > bad as the old Case harrow.  For the past many years we have used a
> > field cultivator which almost never plugs and I have no desire to go
> > back to a spring tooth harrow.
> >       Greg Hass
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