Scratchin' my head

Anybody got a scan of a large chassis final drive out of an IT manual (not the tranny or rear end, but the final drive)?

Thanks,

Allan

Wish I could help ya, but I haven't got the foggest idea. Just never been around one.

Allan

That's what they tell me.....

First I'm told that it is okay for a 310 to smoke and now this!! Don't know how much more of this bad news I can stand 'cause I've been carrying these red guys in pretty high esteem 'til now.

I think I'm gonna have to go green! 'Course if I did that, someone would probably come along and tell me that they now have more than two cylinders!

Geeze! When will it ever end?! :>)

Thanks for your help,

Allan

Oliver? Oliver?? Did you say Oliver???

You don't understand. I live in an area where people can see what kind of tractors I have. A guy has gotta keep somewhat of an air of sensibility about him. :>)

Later

On the 06, 56 and 66 tractors 7 to 14, I have seen the inside, guys aren't pulling your leg.

No, I know that they aren't yankin' me around. I was just plain mistaken on that little bit of verbalization.

Like Cowman says, don't believe what ya hear, believe what ya see.

No doubt the Olivers are good tractors; just never been around 'em is all.

I've just got two more to go, this 966 I'm workin' on and a 766D and then that will get me back to where I left off in March of 1983 in the tractor department. :>)

(Well, I might sneak in a JD 60 under a F-10 if the wife doesn't take notice)

Onwards and upwards, I say,

Allan

Now you’ve got me scratchin’ my head!

Seems to me you just fixed up your H with live hydraulics and said it was too much fun. Did some space alien get a hold of you and you suddenly grew an extra arm to run all those hand controls, or are you going to put in foot pedals for the loader hydraulics? I bleed nothing but red, so I guess I’m just dense as to why someone would put a hand clutch under a loader.

We were just as bad at home, my dad started with loader on the H back in 51, then 300. I later put a 2000 loader on the 560. In 1972 I needed a second loader. I bought a Case 1737 Uniloader, two years later I bought a second Case Uniloader. Within 6 months the 2000 loader was removed from 560 forever, and 560 returned to what it did best drawbar work. Those little 40 hp skid loaders will run circles around a farm tractor loader, I don't care how big the tractor is.

Good point about the skid loaders, they definitely are a handy machine and I wish I had enough work to do with one to justify owning one.

Anyway, when I was growing up my dad had an F-12, a B and an M. The loader was on the F-12. As soon as he got the 560, he put a loader (and the power steering) on the M. I guess he was just trying to utilize the tractors he had as much as possible and keep investment to a minimum. I think it comes from having to live through the “dirty 30’s” and having to get by with as little as possible.

My dad always preached save the skid loader, do what you can with the 560. I always responded save the 560. In 1975 a new skid loader was $8,000. A new 50 hp tractor with loader would have been pushing $16,000. Repairs on those little loaders were a fraction of the cost of a loader tractor. I see guys doing loader work in livestock operations and that IPTO and 3 point haven't been used in years. I'll bet you can buy a skid steer for little more than the price of a IPTO and 3 point.

I really do like all those Johns, but there is just something about those old red things....

I'm beyond trying to recapture my youth; must be that I'm trying to recapture my midlife years. :>)

The absolute worst I ever had was marvelous....(old tractors, I'm a talkin' about) :>)

Well, in thinking back, when the guy told me this they were fairly new models. He probably had never been inside one his own self.

Who knows,

Allan

Thanks Casey.

The reason I'm all fired up about this is that the guy who told me about those pinions in the final drives of the larger chassis is just a "killer" IH mech.

I just can't imagine him lying to me about something so trivial.

Allan

You got any hair left? seems yo always scratchin yo head about sumpin.

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