[AT] Dean Vinson's Tractor Puzzles

Thu Mar 28 07:20:16 PDT 2024

Runs good, good tires and sheet metal, live pump... in your shoes I'd sure
want more than $800 out of it.   For a private sale like that, especially if
you're not in a hurry to sell, I'd be thinking $2000.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it's possible your potential buyer has
seen Ms go cheap at auction--which they certainly sometimes do.   But of
course he has the option of going to the next auction and picking one up, if
he thinks it's that easy.

I had to chuckle at the subject line of this thread... had totally forgotten
it.  :)

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio

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Thank you for help and your opinion. thats what I thought that this guy was
trying to pull one off on me.
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I have my '49 with the same for sale at $2750 with the same attachments
and had a offer for $2000 and didn't take it, new rear tires too

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Do you know anything about a 1949 Farmall M tractor. I have someone that
wants it but they only want to give me $800. It runs good has live
hydraulics belt pull attachments good rear tirs good tin hood and grill.--
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Dean! I
know next to nothing about the 620, but could that wire go to a kill
switch? I
know even less about that Ford 3600, but I tend to think you are right in
thinking that starting the tractor with the PTO in gear is going to add
effort to the starter and ring gear, either multiplied or divided by the
drive gears (I&#39;ll leave that question to an engineer), and it
probably not a good plan except for the rare emergency. I wish you the best as you tinker--I hear you about
needing motivation ;-) Mine comes from reviewing my file of Green Mags
:-d 
The
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Good story, Steve. It?s been a long time since I?ve made the effort and
gotten my hands dirty on a job like that, but your description makes me
want to go tinker with something. Especially the part where you?re
victorious at the end of the story. :) 
I do have a couple of long-simmering things I could mess with. The JD 620
has a wire disconnected from the coil, been like that for years and the
tractor runs fine and I haven?t noticed anything not working, but obviously
the wire is there for some purpose so it?s on my list of stuff to get around
to at some point. And I need to take the Super M clutch pedal off and have
a bushing inserted to rebuild the out-of-round hole where the pedal rotates
about the shaft. The local Case/IH dealer put a new shaft in for me
several months ago while the tractor was in their shop for another issue
anyway, and that fixed a lot but not all of the side-to-side play in the
clutch pedal. Either of those would presumably be pretty straightforward
tasks, well suited to patient application of basic investigation and simple
tools and without requiring much serious mechanic skill. 
The Ford 3600 also just popped up with another issue, this time with the
two-stage clutch. I just recently got the tractor back from the shop after
it had developed a fuel line leak, and it runs like a top, but after some
hours of heavy brush-hogging last Saturday it now won?t let me engage the
PTO. With the two-stage clutch you push partway down to shift the
transmission and all the way down to engage the PTO, and it?s always worked
fine before, but now when I push the clutch all the way in I can?t engage
the PTO? it just grinds. I don?t have a good mental picture of exactly how
a two-stage clutch works but I assume something stuck together while I was
doing all that mowing the other day, or maybe got worn to the point where it
needs readjustment or replacement, but either way I think the diagnosis and
repair would be beyond my ?simple tools and without much serious skill?
rule. So it?ll be back to the shop for this little beast. <br /&g
 t;
As a workaround in the meantime I can still use the PTO if I just shut the
engine off before engaging it and then start back up, and I did that once
already, but as I think about it I suspect it?s not a good idea for regular
use. Starting the engine with the PTO engaged and a brush hog attached to
the PTO would mean the starter and ring gear have to overcome the inertia of
the mower blades, correct? The tractor starts almost instantly upon
cranking it, but still, seems like I?d be asking for trouble if I use that
procedure very much. 
Dean Vinson 
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