Posted by JD Seller on March 25, 2013 at 19:39:34 from (208.126.196.144):
I posted about the trouble clearing the road to haul the beans out. Well today we get the generator(no permanent electric at the farm) all setup and load the first truck. The driver pulls out on the road and stops to roll his tarp. He went to take off real easy. Something pops like a rifle shot. Shattered a drive shaft Yoke and cross. So he is setting in the middle of the road with the road now blocked. Two other trucks waiting to load BEHIND him. So they can load but can't get out the road.
I slip my pickup by in the ditch and go and get enough tools to pull the drive shaft and yoke. Take oldest son with me to bring back a tractor to move the truck out of the way.
I plug the JD 4960 in and go load tools. When I get everything I thought I would need loaded the tractor started right up. So I left my son to drive the tractor and I took off to start tearing things apart.
When my Son got there he had to drive in the ditch to get by the truck. He was just about by the truck when I hear another POP!!!! Here the county guys had mowed off a 2-3 inch tree about a foot tall. It poked a hole right through the right rear drive tire on the JD 4960. LOTS OF CUSSING over that. 90% Firestone 20.8 x 42 radial tire. Just two years old. New they are over $2000 each now. Pull the tractor around behind the bin real slow. I hope we can Boot the tire and move it out on one of the duals.
By this time both the other trucks are full of grain. So I have one of them pull behind the broken down truck and we use it to tow the broke down truck back past the drive way so the last truck can at least get out and go haul his load.
I then go home and get the JD 4450 MFWD. I do take all the tire chains this time. I get to the trucks and I am just barely about to pull the broken down truck back into the farm drive way. It took every ounce of traction I could get with all four tires digging and the chains flying.
So 2 of the 3 trucks are under way. So that leaves me and the driver of the truck to remove the drive shaft. The guy that is driving this truck is retired and just drives a few days each week for us. He is 75 years old. Might weight 120 lbs soaking wet. So I am doing most of the work. I finally get the entire drive line out. Then have some fun getting the broken yoke off the power divider/rear end. Find a bad carrier bearing too. More fun!!!
Load everything up and take the driver home and head out to Dubuque for parts. Find the carrier bearing I need and the cross. NO YOKE!!!! No one in Iowa has one. Closest one is on Madison. They say they can have one out of Chicago at 7:00 AM tomorrow morning.
So it is going to get down to 20 degrees tonight. So I am looking forward to having to finish the job in the cold morning air. Laying on packed snow even better. I need someone to remind me why I am still doing this stuff??? LMAO
My middle son offered to take the morning off an do the repair but I told him to go to work. He is making six figures at his day job. I told him to not waste a day on something I can take care of. Actually I would rather do it in the cold as the heat of summer. I can bundle up in more cloths but the heat just kills me anymore.
So hopefully by late morning I can have that truck back on the road. Then we have ten more loads to haul out of the bin. I hope it goes better as we go along. It has been fun so far.
Bet I will be popping the Ibuprofen pills hard tomorrow night!!!
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