Posted by Hugh Mackay on May 01, 2008 at 19:30:09 from (209.226.106.143):
In Reply to: Re: Bad fuel or what? posted by ScottyHOMEy on May 01, 2008 at 18:10:35:
Scotty: I've travelled Maine quite a bit, when I lived in Nova Scotia. I rather liked the area up around Limestone and Presque Isle. I remember once driving into a place south of I-95, not far from the Canada border. A pulp mill town that could bring tears to your eye just being on main street. Might have been Lincolin. I remember Belfast, can't place it geographically, is that down on the old Airline Route No. 9?
Do Maine and Nova Scotia still have the International Ox Pull. Last I heard that event was in trouble taking Ox teams across the border. I saw that event a few times, those guys were better actors than wrestlers. I remember one team taking a pull, almost faltered. While the workers were adding 400#, the teamster got down eyeball to eyeball with with each ox, gave them a lecture, you'd swear was coming out af a law professor at law school. After that was over the oxen pulled the drag with ease, with 400# added. Maybe some of these tractor pullers could learn a lesson from this.
I think if you get the B some work exercise, you'll see an improvment. I know a good workout helps my tractors, and I work them quite hard and often. My 140 had much the same winter as your B. I syphoned most of the gas to my 1/2 full truck then added the fresh to tractor. That first day I was pulling my S tine cultivator with an I beam levelling plank. Quite regularly I was lugging it hard enough in 2nd gear to cut RPMs by 40%. After about two days it came around. The mussle of these old tractors are much like ours, "use it or loose it."
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