Pulled a Homer.

wedge40 · Jun 16, 2008

I work 11 hours days, so if I wanna get anything done after work I have to get home and get started. Tonight I wanted to get the box scraper on and see if I could touch up the driveway a little. The generator on the tractor isn't working so every 8 or 10 starts I have pull the battery and charge it. For some reason this usually involves doing a recondition first.
Tonight I get home, get the little ladder so I can put the battery back in. Get that done put the tools away and jump on the tractor, fire it up and start to pull forward. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. It was my little wooden ladder being eating buy the tire. I gave a little Doh and continued. I'll miss that ladder.

Wedge

teg · Jun 16, 2008

I like your title... Laid a six foot step latter on the shreader to go prune the apple trees. Got up to the apple trees and didn't like where I parked so I backed up... DUH, on top of the ladder. Got an 8' latter now

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Tig · Jun 16, 2008

I call it making kindling with the tractor.

Shmudda · Jun 16, 2008

Wooden ladders are overrated and dangerous anyways.....

Good firewood......

Craig

Redbug · Jun 16, 2008

Now you have an excuse to get a fiberglass one.

With the 11 hour days...do you get 3 or 4 day weekends? I'm stuck having to work 8 hour days and only 2 days off... 2 days off just ain't enough days off in a row to get much accomplished...

Soundguy · Jun 16, 2008

Wanna work on that generator issue? Since yours is a 67, it is a lucas system.. B circuit, and will be 12v. In many cases, a polerization will get the genny going.

Get a jumper wire and jumper bat to field.. then start her up.. see what that gets you.

If nothing, then jump bat to field with her running at 1000 rpm.. if that gets you charge, then replace the reg as it has a baf field circuit. ( about 25$ ).. if still nothing, then jumper bat and arm, while leaving fld jumped to bat.. if that gets you charge.. again.. replace reg.. as you have a bad cutout, in addition to the possibility of a bad field. On the off change it is the gen, slip the belt off and do a motor test... jump bat to field, and armature... genny should spin.. if it does.. that's good.. most gennies that spin ( motor ) will charge.. most gennies that charge.. will motor.

soundguy

wedge40 · Jun 17, 2008

Redbug - I work 9 1/2hrs (1/2hr lunch), but with a one hour drive each way, that makes an 11 1/2 hour day. Usually closer to 12. We work 80 hour pay periods, M-Th I work 9 hours, alternating Fridays I work 8, and every other Friday I have off. Make for long weekend twice a week. Oh and tractor shops are always open on Fridays.

Soundguy - I asked about this months ago in YT just haven't gotten around to checking it out yet. Too many projects I guess. How do I know which is the armature and which it the field terminal. Also, to jumper this, what size wire to I need, how much current are we talking. It really sounds like the easiest would be to remove the gen and see if it works as a dc motor?
If I do find it's the gen, I'm thinking of just going to an alternator and getting rid of the external regulator. Or would there be places to fix the gen?

Shmudda - I'm gonna miss that ladder, I had it for over 20 years. One of the first things I purchased when I go out on my own. I'm hoping to find another one to replace it.

Wedge

Soundguy · Jun 17, 2008

If you asked on YT.. i probably answered you over there too.

Small 14awg wire is fine for a jumper.. typically field current is lower than 6a.. and more like 3a.. same witht he polerization... small wire is fine for this quick jumper..

No.. don't remove the genny to motor test it.. leave it bolted up.. just slip the belt off.. no need to make more work for yourself than needed???

Armature will be the larger screw/post stud ont he rear.. field will generally be a spade lug on the lucas.. in any case.. it will be a smaller wire than the armature wire.

To change to an alternator you will need to get a set of brackets ( cnh and tisco sell them ), and then an alternator.. like a delco 10si, 3 wire job. then you will need to wire it up.. if your old gen has the tach drive on the back.. you will loose it.. unless you buy the alternator conversion that has it.. which is a few hundred bucks.. or you can get an older externally regulated delco 10DN that has a drive and conver it over.. but all that is WAY harder than just getting the stock genny rebuilt ( usually less than 80$ ).. and perhaps a new reg.. ( usually 25$ or so ).. I find it easier to fix what i've got than to rip out the entire system and start retrofitting parts..

soundguy

wedge40 said:
Soundguy - I asked about this months ago in YT just haven't gotten around to checking it out yet. Too many projects I guess. How do I know which is the armature and which it the field terminal. Also, to jumper this, what size wire to I need, how much current are we talking. It really sounds like the easiest would be to remove the gen and see if it works as a dc motor?
If I do find it's the gen, I'm thinking of just going to an alternator and getting rid of the external regulator. Or would there be places to fix the gen?

Wedge

Ridgewalker · Jun 21, 2008

My most recent Homer moment...I put my Husky in the front bucket to transport it back from a worksite in the woods at the back of my place. On the way back I noticed a pile of gravel from when the road was built that would nicely fill a low spot puddle in my road.

So I got a nice scoop and dumped it in the puddle only to watch my nearly new Husky tumble out into the puddle covered in gravel.

And did I tell you about the time I filled the saws gas tank with bar oil?

I blame it on my ADD, luckily nothing was damaged other than my pride in both instances. My arm did get a little sore cranking the saw after I removed the oil and re-gassed it.