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[Anonymous Poster]

Now Robbie... that was funny...

My mother-in-law is staying over from having some surgery, doesn't understand English too well {She's Russian}, but heard me laughing and she started laughing...

Yes Rob...that was funny.

 

[Sailorcrew]

The clevis/cleft makes good sense. My wife suggested one of those flower vases like you see in the new VW beetles but that may be her way easing me off the tractor seat even before it arrives. How many manuals are there? A parts manual, a service manual, anything else? David

 

[RPM]

David - you have this one figured out already - but I tell my friends that they need a PC and an internet connection before they buy a tractor!!

Some other discussions on this forum have included the following, which would be standard equipment in many garages, but not all:

- Grinder for sharpening mower blades
- Impact wrench (possibly air powered) for getting the $%!@ blades off first
- Torque wrench for when you're really not sure what that extra turn will do
- Some large wrenches for the big stuff that you find on a tractor but not on a car (like on the 3pt hitch)
- Extra large drain pans for the gallons of UDT that you will be wondering what to do with when you service the tractor
- Gas/Stick/Mig/Tig welder and asbestos pants for doing your TractorByNet homework projects

FYI - a straight clevis would be marginally stronger than a twisted one of the same material and section. But that's mostly theoretical - probably a better indicator of strength is how long they've each been left out in the rain!

Hope this helps ...

 

[Anderson]

Twisted vs. strait

the answer is that some older farming equipment (there's a lot of pre 3 point hitch stuff out there) won't fit on the drawbar, the strait clevis - and that's where the twisted comes to save the day. My dad has an old plow and disc that hooked up via the twisted clevis.

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

They make asbestos pants?

SHF

 

[RPM]

Sure they do ...

 

[patton]

> 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

Actually that should be 9.8 Fig Newtons.

On a more serious note, if you want to attach a clevis where it want come off, they are available with a bolt and castile nut. Thats what I use on my drawbar since I don't have any drawbar mounted implements, at least not until I get a hay bailer. All of my other clevises are screwpin, I never liked the pin and cotter pin style.

Pat

 

[RPM]

There's at least a couple more in there ...

<font color=blue>2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton</font color=blue>

This is fine for a short ton - but in the metric system, a closer approximation would be

2204 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

and

<font color=blue>8 nickels: 2 paradigms</font color=blue>

that should be

4 nickels: 2 paradigms

I guess - that's the right side of my brain (****) fighting with the left side of my brain (humor)!!!

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Way cool! But if I get seen running around in an asbestos suit like that people are gonna think I'm crazier than I am! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Or, Michael Jackson! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

SHF

 

[RJohnson]

2 paradigms (two pair of dimes) = 4 dimes or 8 nickels
I guess its like when your playing poker and have two pair, it equals 4 cards/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. But then again I may be wrong as I never play pokerp/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Randy