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I’ve been eyeing this one, but its a lot more spendy. ($36,000) Mercedes 450/1700. Allison 4000. Air to rear, pintle hitch for pup. 311K...

Back at it today. I lucked out last night and the usual nightly traunch of thunderstorms missed us. I was able to do some morning hay...

Its still possible, but fading with each day. He left me a message last week that someone was looking at the truck on July-12. Have no...

It is haying season for him. He is probably working sun up to sun down, then maintenance in the evenings. Jon

Its a long saga. Seller didn't want to put truck title in his name until I promised to buy it. Probably didn't want to pay the tax until...

@Hay Dude Whatever happened with the truck you were looking to buy...

Did you bale on it? 🙄 Sorry, sorry, couldn't help it.

2014 ~25,000 It has a lot more years on it than bales through it 2000 bales/yr is low

Yeah, I did that in step 5. I have a buddy that works on these, and he told me he knew this machine and it sat a lot, and he has seen...

Exactly my point. 50 years later and Ford can’t make an engine with more torque than a 1969, 50 year old, smaller displacement 426 hemi...

Definitely slower. An empty or lightly loaded V-8 will win a race over a straight 6 pretty much nearly every time. But hook max weight...

Oh the 5.9L was much stronger. Not rated higher in HP/TQ, but able to be modified for 1,000HP fairly easily. The conn rods, pistons...

Same down here. Pop up thunderstorms are the norm every day. Last year it was ZERO rain late summer. What doesn’t kill you makes you...

Last weekend 50 acres of dry hay we baled. This weekend all last minute decisions and uncertainty. Doing a whopping 5 acres.

By “hype” I’m talking about the guys who hype them up to be so unbelievably powerful. The “godzilla” is a 444 cubic inch engine that...