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What I Used my Farmall A For !!!

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scotty

10-07-2003 11:54:53




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I needed to get my old wood stove out of the cellar, and help is hard to find when your lookin for it! The stove weighed about 450/500 lbs, I got it over to the bilco doors and layed 2 2x10 planks on the stairs, got some 5/8" rope and tied her up to the drawbar and away I went. The old girl never even grunted! Now to figure how to get the new wood/coal stove downstairs! Hey maybe my kids will showup at just the right time!

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Hugh MacKay

10-08-2003 02:56:40




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 Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to scotty, 10-07-2003 11:54:53  
Scotty: I had to use my Super A and trailer to haul in the first crop of pumpkins, this year so I have found another use. In all these years of gardening I have never grown pumpkins. My 12 foot trailer was fully loaded.

A few years back, my son Sandy was working for a Christmas tree grower. My brother Frank asked him to find him a real broad Christmas tree. I was going to be in the area with my trailer so agreed to haul this home to Frank. It hung over both sides of my trailer, had limbs on it 1-1/4" in diameter. I couldn't understand how Frank would ever get this tree in the house. Sure enough at Christmas it was in the house and nicely decorated. When asked how he got this tree in Frank would only say he ran a rope right through the house and out the bedroom window and hooked his Farmall 230 on to pull it through the door. We did ask him how many times the rope broke and where Marion (his wife) was when the rope broke. I still think he was pulling our leg, but Frank is an electrician and always was the member of the family to mastermind ingenius ideas.

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scotty

10-08-2003 13:03:44




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 Re: Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to Hugh MacKay, 10-08-2003 02:56:40  
Hugh, Ill be willin to bet he used a saw to cut it up after Christmas!!! He must have had a high ceiling also. Definitely an ingenious way to get it in the house!

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Hugh MacKay

10-08-2003 17:19:45




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 Re: Re: Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to scotty, 10-08-2003 13:03:44  
Scotty: The tree was actually as wide as it was high. I don't really understand this balsam Christmas tree business, but apparently some trees will just not shape up. It's in the genetic make up. As far as the industry goes this would have been a junk tree. In the tree lot they normally cut them down and cut them up for organic matter. They shear them every year to give the precise shape they want.

I still think Frank was pulling our leg. I personally think he took out his bow window in their living room. It would be about 8' wide by 5' high. He would go to that much work. I don't think Sandy ever believed he would try and get it in the house, but rather use it as an outdoor tree. The particular tree was actually sent to him as a bit of a joke, but he turned it arround on us. He built this house piece by piece in 1975, himself. That window is probably designed to come out in about 5 minutes.

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TimV

10-07-2003 15:58:04




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 Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to scotty, 10-07-2003 11:54:53  
Scotty: sounds familiar--I had to use my Cub to pull the old oil/wood combo unit out of the garage last fall. I didn't get as luck as you, however--I did a serious amount of spinning once I got it outside and into some soft ground on the way to its new home in my back hedgerow. Still, it's good to give them a workout every now and then--mowing lawn isn't much of a challenge for the old gal.



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scotty

10-08-2003 04:05:33




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 Re: Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to TimV, 10-07-2003 15:58:04  
Tim, I kind of cheated, I had 500 lbs on the drawbar in addition to the rear weights.

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Peabody

10-07-2003 12:12:29




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 Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to scotty, 10-07-2003 11:54:53  
"After removal of the old unit, reinstallation of the new unit may be accomplished simply by reversing the procedure."



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My favorite...

10-07-2003 13:05:03




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 Re: Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to Peabody, 10-07-2003 12:12:29  
From the book for my F14: "Disassembly of the unit (governor) will become obvious upon inspection."

If you say so...



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Chris B.

10-07-2003 16:31:30




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 Re: Re: Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to My favorite..., 10-07-2003 13:05:03  
What I think it is trying to say is that you obviously can't disassemble it so don't try.

Chris B.



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Been there

10-07-2003 18:48:45




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: What I Used my Farmall A For !!! in reply to Chris B., 10-07-2003 16:31:30  
And you always read this when you've actually looked up the procedure in the manual because "disassembly" doesn't look obvious.



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