Bending and Breaking Attachments.??

[JoelD]

No matter what anyone does, the more a tool is used the more likely some damage will occur or even break. I have had craftsman sockets and even ratchets break. The point is if you take care of things and use them as they are intended they will last a long time..... a long time ago... when I used a ford Jubilee tractor with a loader you were not an operator you were a part of that tractor, just to approach a pile of dirt and come away with a full bucket of dirt depended on tractor speed, angle of the bucket, the precise time to curl the bucket and then raise the boom all before you just sat there with the wheels spinning! Also what about all the implements that are still around from the 40's and 50's? Is it because they are built better or because of the way they were used? There will always be people that just operate and beat the you know what out of their equipment and people that can drive and use things as they should be used! And that's the way I feel

This is a very good point. The average tractor today is much stronger than the average tractor of yesterday (as a general rule of thumb). Which you'd expect would lead to breaking stuff a lot more easily.

Joel

 

[Dead Horse]

Early on when I acquired my farm, tractors and assorted implements an old timer told me:

"Fastest way to move a big rock, is slowly"...........

I cannot tell you how that lesson is so correct for virtually EVERY job I do with a tractor.

Go fast and at a minimum, it will probably take you longer to finish the job, and more than likely you will break something. That is what I have come to know after after only 13 years of "learning" how to be an operator.

 

[Soundguy]

This is a very good point. The average tractor today is much stronger than the average tractor of yesterday (as a general rule of thumb). Which you'd expect would lead to breaking stuff a lot more easily.

Joel

uhyeahright..er.. naw..... I'll pit my old beater antiques up head to head with a similar hp machine.. give them the same abuse for the same # of years.. and these new wound out recycled 'fridgerator thin metal webbing and casting machines I think will have a hard time keeping up...

soundguy

 

[jinman]

A 250 lb man can use a 6 lb test line on a lightweight rod to catch a 5 lb fish. However, a 250 man cannot use that same rig to go deep-sea fishing and drag in a marlin. For that he needs the proper rig.

With tractors, you do fine with that lightweight implement until one day you accidently snag a "marlin."

 

[nickel plate]

What does cold weld refer to???

Hello Logan,
Go back and look at my second photo. Where the weld shows bright, there was some sort of metal to metal fusion but where the weld is rusty, I call that a non-contact cold joint.

 

[buck12]

uhyeahright..er.. naw..... I'll pit my old beater antiques up head to head with a similar hp machine.. give them the same abuse for the same # of years.. and these new wound out recycled 'fridgerator thin metal webbing and casting machines I think will have a hard time keeping up...

soundguy

Soundguy you forgot the plastic on many of today's tractors.

 

[Soundguy]

that too... the plastic and fiberglass stuff will be a ghost in 50ys..

soundguy

 

[pitt_md]

uhyeahright..er.. naw..... I'll pit my old beater antiques up head to head with a similar hp machine.. give them the same abuse for the same # of years.. and these new wound out recycled 'fridgerator thin metal webbing and casting machines I think will have a hard time keeping up...

soundguy

You sound like my neighbor. He has an old IH not sure about the model but he hates the way I rev my tractor when doing heavy work. Keeps muttering something about coddamn Jap chit...

they sure do drive easier than the old super M that I grew up on.

 

[Soundguy]

Drive easier? that's an awfully vauge term? my 50's era rowcrop gear tranny trikes 'drive easier' than my 'new' wide front end gear tranny tractor.... both got clutches, gear shifts, brakes, throttle controls, sun shades.. etc.. except one of them will turn around in it's own tracks and can swerve around a telephone pole hugging it...

'drive easier'.... hmm hard to quantify that....


soundguy