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Driving loader/scraper across S end of Silicon Valley yearly was a trip. Learned to keep loader bucket windshield height. Made the car drivers more aware of me poking along 10/12.

PS --> Double clutching with a power shift is not ez. Match revs to next gear and the grind, lol. Find a place to learn the art of driving a way too old tractor. Our 580C extendahoe, places and angles where the bucket is low and over there to keep things balanced. Plan your approach to trench...

Always keep in mind you are pushing +/-15,000 lbs of steel. Once warmed up and on relatively flat put in high range. Try starting in 2, grind it into 3rd and keep your revs low until your body knows how it is about to react. Have watched 2 guys die under tractors. 1st was discing an orchard in...

Decided to bite the bullet and build a new crossover with armored flex pipe using multiple hold down spacers as needed. The Massey-Ferguson I parked oddly we sold for 500usd. Family in town should have mentioned the Gannon scraper with scarifies and angle rams was not included. The guy got a...

Walked into Sears, went to tools, handed gentleman 1" drive socket wrench that was missing the large end mostly. Bolt was stubborn so I added 6' long 2" diameter thick wall steel pipe. Ok, that didn't work. Fired up JD 300 Industrial loader/scraper and used loader front cutting edge to apply...

Stuck bendix (throws gear forward to crank flywheel) gear could do it. Or hidden corrosion generally on ground side is more common. Hot side grounds out there are usually signs like smoke, crackle, fire, and finally starter brushes. Stranded cable the corrosion works in both directions so it can...

Gannon on MF in picture and box blade with rotating rippers/scarifiers have a spring steel V shape to them. Hammer usually involved. Now if I could only find the 2 lost while road scraping, contouring, tearing up underground hornets nest and clearing drainage 8 to 10 years ago.

I get so lost on hydraulics, MF in picture is closed, JD is open, case 580 extendahoe is closed(?), Cat D6 will flash fire directly under fuel tank but only when 50 gallons just went in, Cat RD2 no hydraulics and got a flat on it one day. No feeling in the world like cranking a turn and one...

40' Holy Schnitzel!

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8" is too big for loader to force into ground most likely. I've used loader to put 4" treated posts in and tried once to use it on RR ties. Not at all with the ties. It made no difference after ruining a chainsaw blade and bar putting a point on. Still looking for name of manufacturer of factory...

Did you check fluid level after it warmed up? Adding the splitter and hoses would draw down reservoir maybe so low the machine won't let the loader work. Dad bought an IMT built in one of the FSR countries, Belarus. It had a 90 degree ball valve inline towards the front loader bucket. To use any...

Rust on button that I usually find on side of starter with a connector bolted to it. Bypass it with a fresh battery and battery jumper cables. Put Negative somewhere w/o paint on splitter metal and put positive to the connector. Generally the negative side doesn't have a solid full wire...

It may be as simple as fouled cable on the drum. Hook cable on a sturdy tree. Back up real slow and easy until you feel resistance. Get out and look for the issue. As to they hydraulic controls I'm clueless. Any powered winch has a way to freewheel. It may be a setting or a notch that fits into...

Flew over it on way to Juneau, AK and it was lightly smoking. On the way back we couldn't see it because of cloud, ash, smoke but had seen a news clip before leaving Juneau after sisters wedding.