Gary Fowler
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2008
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- Location
- Bismarck Arkansas
- Tractor
- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
You just werent tapping hard enough. It sometimes takes a pretty good hit to open that seat if the pressure is high. My preferred method is to just slam them down on a board with the top of the hose slanted toward my body, then all the oil squishes out away from me. I hooked up hose couplings thousands of times during my time on the farm and never found a hose that couldnt be bled off by hitting the end on a hard object.
Especially frustrating was when you were discing and broke or lost the pull pin. We had emergency disconnects on all our couplings on the tractor so it would automatically uncouple when this happened but it usually meant that the cylinder was fully retracted under max pressure (we carried the wheels completely raised for extra weight on the disc) so one then had to bleed oil off till the wheels hit the ground which could be 1/2 gallon of oil or more depending on the cylinder size. We didnt worry about soil oil contamination back then either and it never seemed to hurt the crops although around the shops it keep the grass down.
A guy told me once back in the 60s they had a big crude oil spill on their land from a ruptured pipeline. They let it set for a few weeks till some of the volatiles evaporated then just turned it under and mixed it thoroughly with the soil. He said the following year, it was like they fertilized the grass, everywhere the oil was it was greener and taller that the rest of the pasture. I cant attest to the truth of this not having seen it though.
Especially frustrating was when you were discing and broke or lost the pull pin. We had emergency disconnects on all our couplings on the tractor so it would automatically uncouple when this happened but it usually meant that the cylinder was fully retracted under max pressure (we carried the wheels completely raised for extra weight on the disc) so one then had to bleed oil off till the wheels hit the ground which could be 1/2 gallon of oil or more depending on the cylinder size. We didnt worry about soil oil contamination back then either and it never seemed to hurt the crops although around the shops it keep the grass down.
A guy told me once back in the 60s they had a big crude oil spill on their land from a ruptured pipeline. They let it set for a few weeks till some of the volatiles evaporated then just turned it under and mixed it thoroughly with the soil. He said the following year, it was like they fertilized the grass, everywhere the oil was it was greener and taller that the rest of the pasture. I cant attest to the truth of this not having seen it though.
