Posted by wisbaker on December 25, 2012 at 10:26:18 from (207.118.181.101):
In Reply to: A tractor Story posted by RBnSC on December 25, 2012 at 05:52:21:
The Country Club I worked at while in College had a Ford 2000 LCG Diesel SOS with an industrial loader on it (yes I know bad idea,the LCG front end really wasn't heavy enough for a loader). It always smoked a lot, used oil and was a bear to get cranked if it was the least bit cold out. There was only one guy on the crew that was carried over from the previous Greenskeeper and he hinted the tractor was a piece of junk, always was and always would be. One summer we were in the middle of fairway aeration and got a couple of days of rain putting us behind. The Greenskeeper put us on 12 hour days trying to get caught up so the course was shipshape for the weekend. Somehow I got stuck on the loader with a PTO powered blower blowing the aeration cores off the fairways, basically running it wide open. After about a day and a half running it wide open things started happening, it smoothed out, smoke went down, didn't have to add motor oil at each break, temperature started running normal instead of hot and fuel consumption dropped. After three days it was probably running better than it had for 15 years. Even mechanical horses need their exercise and on some of the older iron you're not doing it favors by running it easy.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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