Posted by Harold Hubbard on June 16, 2012 at 05:11:56 from (205.209.16.24):
Been having a rough week, best weather forecast for June haying in about five years, but I can't seem to keep anything together. Added to this my younger son is graduating from high school today, so both he and his mother have been "distracted" = useless, all week.
So Wednesday afternoon I started mowing, made a round and a half, and the reel drive hub on my Hesston 1091 broke, AGAIN, no new one easily, or quickly available, borrowed a Kuhn discbine and tractor from a neighbor, the PTO shaft came off the mower, the rear half flew half way across the meadow, the front half grabbed the control rope for the swing tongue and tried to rip the seat off the tractor. I shut it down real quick. NOTE, I don't tie anything to the seats on my tractors.
Well I got everything back together and finished mowing, took the tractor back to my neighbor's and was waiting for a ride. The neighbor's young, (early twenties?) hired help gave me a ride back to the farm, as we pulled in at the shop, he looked at my fleet and asked "Will any of those tractors actually RUN??".
"YES, and we have put up between five and eight thousand bales of hay with them every year."
I am not sure he believed me.
The tractors are, in order of reliability:
1943 Farmall M (Went swimming in tropical storm Irene last fall, only three inches of the smokestack was above water}
1949 Farmall C (Dad's first tractor)
1952 Farmall Super C
International 404
1973?? MF 175D bought as a basket case, keeps trying to revert.
Farmall 560 D another swimmer, not recovered yet.
Farmall Super C, tire issues
International 330 broken, crankshaft.
Also JD 1010 crawler, not used for haying, although when we only had the one tractor I used to pull a hay wagon (slowly) with a JD 420 crawler.
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