I Still Hate My Tractor II

[The Fred]

Wife has a great memory.

A few years ago we got home from a night on the town and it had snowed about 15 inches. I parked the car and went out to the shop got in the 2500 Silverado and drove out the shop, dropped the plow and headed down the steep driveway.

Drove into the snowbank at the bottom and when I raised the plow and put her in reverse she was good and stuck. Ran up the driveway and grabbed the old Case 310 crawler with the winch and drove down the driveway and hooked it up to the hitch on the truck.

She hopped in the truck and I drew the slack out of the cable and told her to put it in reverse and gingerly step on the throttle. She sticks her head out the window and asks me if I had wanted her to put it in 4 wheel drive.

She backed out on her own. I was speechless, she brings this up occasionally when things aren't going her way. Sorry no pix.

I'll tell you this for free: R4s are downright dangerous on snow and ice without chains.

 

[roadhunter]

LOL. I love it. "Do you want me to put it in 4 wheel drive" .

 

[ovrszd]

That's humbling......

 

[CobyRupert]

LOL. I love it. "Do you want me to put it in 4 wheel drive" .

That's when you say: "No! No! It's broke! Don't touch it! You'll ruin it! Geech honey, don't you think I would of done that if it worked? I'm pretty sure the knipppler pin fell out of the input to the kanutin shaft on the way home; gonna have to fix it tomorrow."

 

[CobyRupert]

These days they call this "hoarding", my dad says it comes from growing up poor.

Yes, I think it does come:
1) From growing up poor
2) Being the type to fix things yourself and "Apollo 13" your own solutions from the extra parts on hand. (Which is easier the more part you have on hand)
and here's the creepy one:
3) Your fear of death.: (I heard this about people with book or magazine collection.) Having all that stuff is a denial that your days are numbered. It's holding on to a belief that "someday" I'm gong to have all that infinite time to read those books (again!), or work on a project that uses those parts, etc...

 

[Ford850]

He stills posts now and then, I saw a recent post on blowing snow. Sucked me into his Youtube videos.

I saw the recent post of his on here too, and was also sucked into his Youtube videos from there.

 

[2ndhalf]

Wife has a great memory.

A few years ago we got home from a night on the town and it had snowed about 15 inches. I parked the car and went out to the shop got in the 2500 Silverado and drove out the shop, dropped the plow and headed down the steep driveway.

Drove into the snowbank at the bottom and when I raised the plow and put her in reverse she was good and stuck. Ran up the driveway and grabbed the old Case 310 crawler with the winch and drove down the driveway and hooked it up to the hitch on the truck.

She hopped in the truck and I drew the slack out of the cable and told her to put it in reverse and gingerly step on the throttle. She sticks her head out the window and asks me if I had wanted her to put it in 4 wheel drive.

She backed out on her own. I was speechless, she brings this up occasionally when things aren't going her way. Sorry no pix.

I'll tell you this for free: R4s are downright dangerous on snow and ice without chains.

Reminds me of a time I bought an old XL 250 Honda from my B-I-L. I had it out in the garage.. went out to ride it and I litteraly kicked that thing for seemed like an hour. I was tired and sweating. My little sister comes out and sees me trying to start it.. she says "is the key on".. I look down having even forgot it had a key.. I never had a bike with a key. Key was off.. Started first kick. Geeeesh!

 

[The Fred]

389 hours, turbo still doing it's job nicely.

Popped a front knuckle seal. Everything is oringed these days so all you need are 2 seals and a cotter pin for the steering tie rod nut.

Lots of metal in each lower front end final drive, there is only one way to get it out and that's to remove the lower seal/plug and drain it out, maybe flush it and refill. Then replace the lower seal plug.

Pix below and NO MORE GD PHOTOBUCKET for me, everything got deleted because I refuse to pay Googles blackmail fee!!!

Regards, Fred

And I do STILL HATE MY TRACTOR! 7 payments left and she goes bye bye.

 

[KubotainNH]

So do you have a future tractor in mind?

 

[sd455dan]

Yeah- What model of Kubota are you going to buy?