[AT] Weekend

Sun May 24 20:45:03 PDT 2020

My MTZ/Belarus 1220 broke the pin that held the power steering cylinder 
a couple of weeks ago when I put the front mounted post auger on it..  
The pin is shown in the top right of the picture. I welded it in the 
bracket the threaded section was broke off.  It looks like it was over 
torqued at the factory.   They are going to warranty it even though the 
tractor is out of warranty.  It broke out next to the weld yesterday 
when I wanted to grade some ditches I had cut with the dozer.  I spent 
most of this afternoon measuring the old one and drawing it on a cad 
program so I could send it to a machinist.  I got so many questions and 
crap about it when I posted it to 3 different sites that I will just fix 
the belt on my old lathe and make it.  By the time these self taught 
engineers get it analyzed I will have the one that is stuck in customs 
out of Canada.  I happen to have 20 hours of college level metallurgy 
when I was going for a technical degree before I transferred to 
engineering.  I get very impatient when a machinist starts to tell me 
about metallurgy!!!  Just one of my shortcomings I guess.
I went out to check the cows a couple of hours ago and one of our first 
calf heifers was acting really nuts.  I could not find her calf and she 
kept going to the south end of the pasture.   On the second round I 
found a calf that had got its head caught in between  the cross members 
of an old tank trailer that was parked.  We tried for a while to pull 
her head out but I guess she had been in there so long her head had 
swelled.  I went back to the shop and loaded the cutting torch and 
bottles on the bale forks of the tractor and headed back.   I put a 
piece of sheet metal to divert the sparks and soaked her head with 
water.  She was so thirsty she was drinking the water off the ground.  
Got the cross member cut and had to pick her head up to get out.  A very 
tired out calf.  Hopefully she will be ok....    A big storm is headed 
here tonight, so stress and  weather is a perfect prescription for 
pneumonia..
Life on the farm..................

Cecil

On 5/24/2020 9:43 PM, ustonThomas Mehrkam wrote:
> Looks like we are going to have a week of rain.  It rained almost 
> three inches today. I got my garden in a couple weeks ago after 
> rebuilding the transmission in my 1074 Gibson tiller. I found the 
> parts on line at the Gibson Snow Blower Repair shop in Maine. The man 
> who runs it is a engineering Manager by day but runs this service in 
> his spare time. Rapairs and supplies parts for Gilson snow blowers and 
> tillers.
>
> Took 5 days of soaking and hammering to get it apart.  After that 
> except for having to finish the wiring to my lathe to make a seal 
> installation tool.  All things went well.  The 8HP Briggs started on 
> the second pull as normal. The tiller worked fine except for being a 
> pain to operate.  Weights way too much for this 65 year old.
>
> No potatoes this year but corn, water melon, zucchini squash, 
> Jalapeno, tomato and Okra.  The next door neighbor gave us a bunch of 
> green beans and Potatoes from their garden.  Our garden still has a 
> way to go before harvest.  This is a small new 20ft x 50ft garden in 
> the middle of what was a pasture last year.
>
> If I can get the Farmall H running again I might try a couple of acres 
> next year. I have 50 acres to work with so who knows.  The Farmall was 
> running when parked 20 years ago so should not take too long. ;-}
>
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> On Sunday, May 24, 2020, 9:07:40 PM CDT, Indiana Robinson 
> <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Planted a batch of potatoes this last week between the rains every 15 
> minutes.  :-)
>   Went from here (Central Indiana) to Eastern Kentucky (About 
> Lexington) with son Scott (masking and distancing) so I could help him 
> look at a flatbed roll-off with a wheel lift. Diana went too. It met 
> needs and he put his ton dually on it and we drove it back. OK, he 
> drove it back, I only drive when I can't get out of it. I used to sell 
> wholesale on the road years ago and drove enough to get my fill of it.
> I didn't get those spud rows far enough apart for a full tractor to 
> fit so I decided to pull out a Gravely LI walk behind to cultivate 
> them (if it ever gets dry again). I had driven that little tractor 
> under a building that sat about 3' off of the ground back sometime 
> before my 2013 quad bypass and it had sank in about 4 inches and both 
> tires were flat. I tried to pull it back out from under there (like I 
> used to) but apparently somebody glued it to the ground... I finally 
> drove my little VAC Case over by the building and put a chain and 
> come-a-long on it to pull it out without breaking something. Did I 
> mention that it had gotten %$#& hot this weekend? Got it out and 
> looked it over and sat the portable air tank on the golf cart and 
> started to fill the flat tires. The left one filled fine and looked 
> good. The right one didn't do as well. It aired up but then I heard a 
> sound like stitches letting go. Then all of the air left that little 
> tire in a split second and pretty loudly. I could maybe patch the tube 
> but I don't think I have any 12" patches.  :-) I do have maybe 8 
> Gravely's from complete to parts hulks so I'm pretty well supplied 
> with parts, tires etc. I have a couple of Gravely L - 8 speed tractors 
> but I don't have time for that kind of project right now. I have a 
> couple of Garden-Aid two wheel tractors that I bought at a Portland 
> auction a number of years ago. I need to look and see if I have 
> cultivators for one of them. It doesn't take much to rig something up. 
> I also have a McLean two wheel tractor (made in Indianapolis) but it 
> is in a building in the next county and I can't remember how the back 
> of it is made.
>  I also have a couple of Troy-bilt Horse models I could use. I have to 
> decide quickly, the weeds are germinating very well.
>
> Went to 2 cemeteries today to check and see if everybody is still 
> there and that none of their graves have been vandalized. It would 
> have been easier if the cemeteries were not 50 miles apart but it was 
> a nice ride. We have a few more to check.
>
> Is anybody else here getting tired of having to look stuff up for jobs 
> you learned to do years ago but now have to fight to  make your mind 
> cough stuff back up out of the dark back corners? Even at one of the 
> cemeteries today I had to fight to recall blocks of the family tree 
> that I used to just recite off of the top of my head. It will usually 
> come back with some effort but sometimes it seems like a cat trying to 
> hack up a hairball...
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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