Posted by Harold hubbard on April 17, 2009 at 14:31:15 from (216.114.166.41):
I haven't used my Farmall 560 diesel since I got done bush hogging last fall. Today it was nice and sunny, and the weather is supposed to turn to rain and nasty tomorrow, so I got it out of hibernation. The batteries were down, beyond the reach of a charger, and I have never had a lot of luck boosting it from the truck. No problem, it's parked on a hill, right? No it sunk in enough over the winter so it wouldn't roll. I pulled it back up the hill a few feet with the C, smelled a little clutch before I got it moving. I rolled it off the hill, it fired off the second time I let the clutch out, let it run a while, checked all the fluids and took it out to play.
Three years ago I tuned up some ground in the fall, it sat until the next fall, started to disk it up, but got sidetracked on other things, last year I did nothing with it, so it's about time. My disk is an ancient eight foot IH drag disk, don't know what model, it was about right for the M, but the 560 just trundled along in third gear like it wasn't there. That is as fast as I wanted to go on that rough ground, I'm sure it would have pulled fourth.
I worked it for about three hours, and by then I had had enough. I did the whole piece twice over, except at the bottom of the hill where there was standing water, I'm chicken, and I know the tractor won't float.
I found a new use for the fast hitch drawbar. The weights on the disk are made of five three foot pieces of light rail, welded into a bundle. One of them fell off, and the only way to put it back was to balance it on the drawbar and use that to lift it. It was still quite a fight to slide it back onto the disk.
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