Recent content by dixiedrifter

So I'm in the process of cleaning out my grandfathers barn and am thinking about trying to get his old hammermill back up and running. I don't have too much information on it other than it was made by Myers Sherman and has "FORDS" written on the sides, the business part is 12" wide, and made an...

Ok so my M9000 has been making these loud clicking grinding buzzing noises when I go to start it. Finally think I have figured it out the problem... it is a small diode enclosed in a yellow rubber boot behind the alternator. There is also another one up front that I have yet to get to but from...

This is the second baler I have to burn on me in two years. Fortunately I didn't own either one of them nor was I operating them at the time the caught on fire so I'm not on the hook, but still it is pretty odd for such a thing to happen two haying seasons in a row. Not for sure exactly what...

Ok here is the deal, my mother and I have entered into a farm lease agreement wherein she leases her property to me to farm in exchange for cash. The deal is that the lease is the minimum amount necessary to keep the property in TN's greenbelt wherein land taxes are devalued to 25% of the...

Been a while since I been on the forum... So anyhoos about a month ago I had someone baling my hay for me and wouldn't ya know it their New Holland 660 baler caught on fire and it pretty much burned the heck out of the inside of it. Luckily I am just on the edge of city limits and the local...

Ok so I decided to get a shipping container and convert it into a storage building. I know, not really a tractor project, but I did use it to put in the driveway. It started out really ugly red color which made the inside very hot so I decided it needed a new coat of paint. Rust Oleum was my...

This is my neighbor's nearly worn out disc mower he got on special for the low low price of $1200... but hey it still cuts! Anyways, class, can anyone tell me whats wrong with the pictures? The fact that the pics are dark or the fact that the rear drive pully is fubarred do not count.

I only left it running outside for a minute with the door open while getting ready to go put out a load of fertilizer. I come back to find the culprit sitting in the seat trying to figure out how to put it in gear. Thank goodness I don't have any secret baked bean recipes or else I'd really be...

There was a big brewhaha next door yesterday afternoon. The neighbor's 14yo daughter was playing on top of an abandoned hand dug well. Apparently the well had a concrete cap on it, and for whatever reason it gave way and she fell about 45 feet down into waist deep water. Rescue squad was on...

I was busting my tail trying to get some wheat planted before it put into raining last night. There was just enough light to get it around the field about 3 rounds before it got dark enough to require lights. Then about an hour later, it started lighting off in the distance, but I kept on...

Left the tractor in the field acroos the highway in front of the house for a few days.. it was parked maybe 75 yards from the house in plain sight. This morning I got on it to work up some deer food plots. Well I got to running, and when I pulled over for a break I noticed that I was not the...

Bout a month ago I decided to renovate a couple of my pastures... two of them have not been worked or limed in at least 15 years. It was starting to go primarly to broomsedge and weeds with a little bit of fescue in the spring time. The big first field's pH had gotten so low that fertilzing in...

I got an old spike tooth harrow made by King Plow company. It just so happens to have adjustible depth teeth by loosening a small "u clamp" similar to those used to clamp pipes to flat surfaces. Problem is that the threads on the clamps have pretty much long since rusted to where they cannot...

I'm needing a new fuel filter. Dealer has them for a ridiculous price not to mention it is a 40 mile drive. Is there any fuel filter out there that will cross with them that I might pick up local?

Well I got to run a disc mower for the first time Sunday it was a beat up new holland 463 with dull blades, but dang I was impressed! Those things blow sickle bar mowers out of the water... I'm spoiled now and from this point on refuse to use any more sickles. I think I will look over the...