Repair/mechanic tricks and or tips?

[NormL]

Here is a tip given by JerryG, requested to be moved here by woodchuckie. It concerns driving tractor with loader and a flat front tire.

How to get back to the house with a front flat?
If you have a loader you won't need to take the tire off out in the sticks.
Raise the front of the tractor off of the ground.
Push the tire that IS NOT flat down.
Put a piece of wood between the axle and the frame. Some tractors have a pad at the right place for an axle stop.
When you let the front down, the flat tire should still be off of the ground. If it isn't, it will at least have taken the pressure off of the flat tire so that you can drive it home. I don't recommend driving fast because you are now essentially driving a three wheel tractor but it will get you home.
My farm is a mile from my house. I have driven different tractors home this way several times.

My method for bringing a tractor with a FEL home when there's trouble with the front tire/wheel is to raise the bucket just high enough to back the truck under - we have a one ton - and then raise the wheels off the ground. Chain the tractor to the truck frame and I'm ready to tow it home. Last time I had to do this was when the spindle busted on one of the front wheels.

 

[Garybake]

I have not read this whole thread yet but working on it. I suggest a set of bolts for each size required for job at hand that have the heads cut off and notched in end for flathead screw driver. Use pilot studs all the time on assembly to keep from smearing sealant or misalign gaskets. After one or two bolts are started I back the pilot studs out and put them in their own drawer of metric & SAE pilots. Great for exhaust/intake manifolds bellhousings and transmissions etc.

 

[PILOON]

That is great never thought of that but simple and should work fine if you have the time and freezer space.... I can see my wife's face with me putting boots in the freezer

Guess you are down south.
Heck where I live my feet get cold enough that water is not needed! L>O>L>

 

[xtn]

Hi
Putting Chemicals in a freezer with food could be hazardous to your health if you eat the food.

Charlie

I'm reasonably certain that all the foods we eat are made of chemicals anyway.

xtn

 

[Gary Fowler]

For you guys in snow country, just fill the plastic bag with water and set boots outside overnite-no way for wife to complain that way.

 

[chucko]

I might be able to boil the water on some days outside

 

[pjbci]

Anytime I get a new fuel transfer tank I drop a magnet down in it to catch any iron contaminants. If its a steel transfer tank I drop small magnets down a piece of pvc pipe to be sure they get to bottom instead of sticking to the side.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I'm reasonably certain that all the foods we eat are made of chemicals anyway.

xtn

Well technically any substance that has mass is a chemical. Therefore water is a chemical, and starch and protein, etc. So I guess you're right.

 

[holt50]

hi there this may not be a problem for some but greasing my 256 newholland hay rake used to be and if your havong troble lining the alimits up to grease then here a cure , pull rake to fuel up , I grease while fueling ,put the rake in GEAR ,rotate the rake and the grease zurks will all line right up grease and pull back out of gear go rake some people i talked to had even jacked up the rake in order to line up alimits

 

[holt50]

hi there this may not be a problem for some but greasing my 256 newholland hay rake used to be and if your havong troble lining the alimits up to grease then here a cure , pull rake to fuel up , I grease while fueling ,put the rake in GEAR ,rotate the rake and the grease zurks will all line right up grease and pull back out of gear go rake some people i talked to had even jacked up the rake in order to line up alimits holt50