The Official Farming Thread...

[Only the Tony]

Not a tough job but it takes a moment or two to do. I did my 884, 886 and a Moline R in the last year. The R was surprisingly the worst for some reason.

Teddadore Roosevelt and I hung out today for a few hours making hay fields great again. If there are enough nickels in my piggy bank at the end of the year I think I’m gonna buy a four basket tedder.
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Yes, you need to do it.

 

[Mastermind]

I have a two basket tedder....but I use my brother in law's 4 basket most of the time.

 

[Bill G]

Not a tough job but it takes a moment or two to do. .....
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Things are always easier in nice clean concrete floored shops.

 

[Wilhelm]

A neighbor mulched a property line of two fields of mine.
Less for me to knock down with the weedeater.
Field lease holder can't/won't go that close under the trees when processing the fields as he has a bigger tractor.




I have been thinking all year about buying a PTO powered mulcher myself.
Tractor would knock down scores of weeds in minutes what I need hours for knocking down with my weedeater.

 

[LAWN BOY]

Square baling, it's a family affair.

 

[Mastermind]

 

[Mastermind]

Found a problem I'm not sure how to fix. One of the pins that the front axle pivots on is loose in the casting, and sliding out.

 

[Firewood Hoarder]

I'm tired of playing hobby farmer for the week. I'm at 155lbs extracted, bottled, and labeled by hand. Still have more honey filtering through the sieve, and the bottling bucket is more than half full. I'm estimating I have 60lbs to go. Haven't gotten into the lower hives yet, either, to see if the bees filled the brood boxes up with honey.

 

[Bill G]

I noticed Logan posted a pic of square baling. That got me to thinking about a video I saw on FB quite awhile ago. I am a techno moron and I have no idea how to take videos from FB and save them. This one struck a cord in my soul so I played it on my computer and recorded it with my dumb phone. I then saved it. When Logan mentioned square baling I dug it out and (hopefully) posted it to YouTube.

Let me know what you think. I will say I have some very strong opinions on it.

 

[jblnut]

Today the little people squad and I build a nifty little sweet corn stand out of some junk lumber and old tin I had laying around. Needs a bath as the lumber that’ll touch the corn used to be the brisket board in the old dairy barn. It still has some crumbs attached to it

 

[legdelimber]

Found a problem I'm not sure how to fix. One of the pins that the front axle pivots on is loose in the casting, and sliding out.

Any of the heavy equipment mechanics know if there's a line boring setup for rebuilding this?

edit: mmm "pins" heck, does use of that word mean it's blind holes with a pin from each side? If so, Is it practical to drill through and use a single longer pin?
Wondering what home brew repairs/mods have come from the necessity of running a farm? Pouring babbet/lead some how?

 

[Mastermind]

Any of the heavy equipment mechanics know if there's a line boring setup for rebuilding this?

edit: mmm "pins" heck, does use of that word mean it's blind holes with a pin from each side? If so, Is it practical to drill through and use a single longer pin?
Wondering what home brew repairs/mods have come from the necessity of running a farm? Pouring babbet/lead some how?

After getting it apart, it turned out that it wasn't a press fit pin. It was secured by snap rings....and they are missing.

 

[jblnut]

After getting it apart, it turned out that it wasn't a press fit pin. It was secured by snap rings....and they are missing.

Couple new snap rings and you're on your way !! Or some #9 wire wrapped real tight over the grooves.

 

[legdelimber]

One shop I worked for, had a customer who used wire "C" rings as retainers on a low speed pivot piece. We made them from "music wire".
I turned a mandrill with a retention hole to poke the wire into and set up a pinch block assy (phenolic drop cuts), on a clutch drive engine lathe. Set the feed rate as close to wire diameter, as the gears would set.
Think like winding the line on a string trimmer spool.
Roll a few boxes of the wire and then take the resultant "slinky" to the abrasive cutoff wheel and slice them into the rings. Deburr them and pack them off to heat treatment place.

 

[jakethesnake]

The one I’ve put back on bout as good as the one I took off. But it’s not got holes. Why I don’t throw out a tire that holds air That job done for now

 

[LAWN BOY]

 

[jblnut]

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View attachment 466281The one I’ve put back on bout as good as the one I took off. But it’s not got holes. Why I don’t throw out a tire that holds air That job done for now

Those DT710’s are so ugly they won’t ever give up

 

[jakethesnake]

Those DT710’s are so ugly they won’t ever give up

Yes they are. Worst tire I’ve ever owned. However. They’ll roll basically forever until the sidewall goes out of them. Wouldn’t buy again

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

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Those Deutz tractors are hard to beat. We have a Deutz-Allis 6265 that has spent a lot of hours doing field work and manure spreader duty.

 

[LAWN BOY]

Those Deutz tractors are hard to beat. We have a Deutz-Allis 6265 that has spent a lot of hours doing field work and manure spreader duty.

I really like them too.