Broken Tractor...

[brin]

On my way to town this AM from the country I saw a large row crop tractor ..looked like an IH probably 100 HP or so with a disk harrow behind it disabled in the middle of a half plowed field. The left rear tire and hub had broken off - the tractor was just leaning over...had to be massive damage...I am curious how that will be serviced, I mean, it is a plowed field and there it sits...I can't see how the farmer will be able to work on it there or get a trailer to it...I feel for him.

 

[CharlieS]

That will probably end up being a dealer shop service call. Lots of timbers to support the tractor while repairs are being made.
Neighbor had a similar incident a few years ago on an old 560. Only in his case one of the axle clamp bolts on the axle/hub clamp broke and let the wheel slide off the axle.
We ended up locating 25 or so railroad tie blocks about 3 feet long, and just kept jacking and blocking until the tractor was high enough to slide the whole assembly back on the axle and replaced and tightened all bolts. It ended up being an all day job, but fortunately we were in a hay field, not worked ground.

 

[Opti-Mist]

I have an old screw type house jack that helps events of this type.

 

[jonyyuma]

I have an old screw type house jack that helps events of this type.

The type that would jack up a house,, I bet>?

 

[5030]

I do in-field welding all the time on disabled tractors and brokem implements. That's what I have a 4wd long bed diesel pickup for. The gas welder/genset, compressor and tools are in the back. I can get just about anywhere, anytime.

 

[D7E]

Our last one .

 

[cowski]

been there mine was just a 1440.

 

[Baby Grand]

Ouch!
Hope that wasn't as expensive as it looks.

 

[Verticaltrx]

Our neighbor had a late '80s C-IH tractor, about 120hp that suffered a similar fate. It sat broken in the field for months before they fixed it. On the flip side, out at my Uncles farm in IL, we were coming down a back road one evening and there was a huge tiling machine completely blocking the road with a snapped off rear wheel. This was about the biggest tiler I've ever seen, must have had about a 20' dia bucket wheel and used 66" terra tires (it was every bit as big as a Terra-Gator floater.) Anyways, came back the next morning and it was already gone! Not sure if they fixed it right there that night or somehow got it on a big lowboy and hauled it off, but I was amazed they got it out of there so quick.

For those who don't know what a tiling machine is, I've attached a pic of a small one. The one with the snapped axle was more than triple the size of this unit (and only had 4 wheels)

 

[D7E]

Ouch!
Hope that wasn't as expensive as it looks.

HaHa ..probably more expensive than it looks with new spreaders,shafts,axle , bent tin work ,chaff tray and tie rod !

 

[5030]

Our last one .

They aren't called 'Barnyard Buick's' for noth'in.

Actually, IH pioneered the rotary though a dyed in the wool JD fan would argue.......

 

[5030]

By the way, where the heck is the head at?

 

[ChuckinNH]

My dealer sells a lot of large equipment (for this area). He has a couple of trucks set up with hydraulic booms for servicing tractors where they sit. He brought one of them to do the 100 hr service on my little B Kubota, and it was nice to have them be able to do that right here in the yard. Very clean, neat, and handy with pumps, and bulk storage for used fluids, etc.

 

[D7E]

By the way, where the heck is the head at?

Just beside it in the picture, We took it off to drag the combine back to the yard to fix.

 

[D7E]

They aren't called 'Barnyard Buick's' for noth'in.

Actually, IH pioneered the rotary though a dyed in the wool JD fan would argue.......

New Holland made the first rotary in 1975 with the TR70

 

[5030]

New Holland made the first rotary in 1975 with the TR70

I always thought the NH only pioneered the Rollabar 'Roper' rake that everyone copied.

 

[Mace Canute]

.........

Actually, IH pioneered the rotary though a dyed in the wool JD fan would argue.......

Both of them would be wrong...
Here's a bit of history...scroll down to the part about "Western Roto Thresh Combine".
The old Roto Thresh factory site is only about a quarter mile or so from my home.
http://www.wdm.ca/skteacherguide/WDMResearch/HarvestingDvpt.pdf
From that site:

The results from early testing of the prototypes during the wet fall of 1968, near St. Denis,
Saskatchewan were promising. In a 1999 interview, Barney Habicht described the first run of the
rotary protoype: Commercial production of Roto Thresh combines began in the early 1970s at a production plant in Saskatoon. Customers who purchased the machines, which sold for around $30,000 a piece, were impressed with the new technology of the Roto Thresh. Clotaire Denis of St. Denis was the first farmer to purchase a Roto Thresh in April of 1973.

From CASE IH HISTORY:

1977
International Harvester introduces the Axial-Flow rotary harvesting concept, with its 1440 and 1460 model combines. Axial-Flow technology improved threshing and grain quality and used fewer parts for easy maintenance. The company spent $56 million and one million man-hours to design, build and test the concept. Eventually every other major equipment manufacturer developed some version of the rotary combine design pioneered by International Harvester.

 

[jake98]

For those who don't know what a tiling machine is, I've attached a pic of a small one.

I still don't know what one is, but it looks like there sure is a lot of stuff to break on one..