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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 21, 2018 12:42:17 GMT -5
Would anyone be interested in a near 70 year old tractor restoration?
poll yes or no.
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Post by horsea on Apr 21, 2018 23:45:03 GMT -5
Sorry but I do not quite understand your question. Did you mean would we like to partake in supporting such a project?
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 22, 2018 0:12:12 GMT -5
Sorry but I do not quite understand your question. Did you mean would we like to partake in supporting such a project? I was thinking of documenting the process. Me & nephew are going to try and bring it back to life. Nephew will be doing most of the work. I'm a sit down supervisor for the project.
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Post by horsea on Apr 22, 2018 0:54:00 GMT -5
I'm a sit down supervisor for the project. LOL
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Post by farmerjack41 on Apr 22, 2018 4:32:38 GMT -5
Is it green? LOL. Partial to the elder green ones.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 22, 2018 8:04:44 GMT -5
Is it green? LOL. Partial to the elder green ones. No Sir. It's Red. 51 Farmall Super C. I like all the old Tractors though. I'll start a thread in the next few days.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Apr 22, 2018 16:14:12 GMT -5
Oh, it would be so fun to follow this! Please do keep a thread going. We can cheer you on!
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Post by horsea on Apr 22, 2018 20:07:38 GMT -5
@hmk. Have you ever been to a display of antique tractors? They are fun to watch. There's usually some truly ancient ones, such as Case steam engines. Are you planning to some day take yours to a show?
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 22, 2018 20:47:23 GMT -5
horsea, I've been to one, but just by accident. In 2007, we went to Branson. They had a big one going on, so we went to it. We have a ton of pictures somewhere. It was the same trip that we stopped at Baker Creek. It was one of our better Vacations too. I doubt I'll ever show it, but you never know. It was a good working tractor, but just set up too long without cranking. It has good sheet metal, but like most tractors that age, it has no fenders. I'm not sure why people took the fenders off those tractors, but darn near everyone I've seen is missing.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Apr 22, 2018 21:52:19 GMT -5
When you get the restore project completed, you will be proud of your accomplishment. There is nothing like these older tractors. The ones being sold today will not hold up like yesterday's. When you finish, find a "tractor ride" in your area to join in. Have been on a number of them, even one over nighter, two day. You will meet some of the finest people. Good luck and let us know how things proceed.
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Post by reubent on Nov 16, 2019 22:01:36 GMT -5
I had 2 super C's wore them out and then sold them to scrap yard. That was near 30 years ago. Also had a case D with rusted out rims and stuck engine. sold it for scrap too. Almost wish I hadn't, but at the time I decided it would be so much work to get it fixed it wasn't worth doing. It was so heavy I got $500 for it scrap price.
But I like old stuff. Much better than new stuff. But I like to go way on back with my old stuff, back to when they had big flywheels and puffed steam and wood smoke. Those things now are generally not sold except occasionally for inflated antique rates. So that inspires me to set up my own manufacturing facility and custom make my own new antiques. It's really not hard to do. Just takes a little innovation and research to figure out all the in's and out's of it. The actual doing of it takes plenty of work time, but very little money.
I welded up my own boiler, a water tube style. Found a westinghouse engine for not too much cash. put the two together on an old dodge 4x4 truck and had me a steam powered truck. But in moving it around some I find the westinghouse engine not well suited for mobile use. So I'm planning a custom engine project for it. Probably a 2 cylinder V twin double acting. From scratch, or scrap. Good foundry/machine shop project.
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Post by Tim Horton on Nov 17, 2019 4:04:54 GMT -5
YES....YES...
VERY interested in a documentary of a restore.
Every year at the exposition (fair) some kid restores an old tractor of some sort for a 4H project. Some times I nearly have to leave the building with memories from long ago.
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Post by reubent on Nov 25, 2019 5:23:01 GMT -5
Restorations are always interesting. Now I could restore a tractor, if I had one I felt was worth doing. And I could rebuild just about anything that needs rebuilding, even down to recasting cast parts. But I have to be practical. Don't need to waste time on something just because it feels good to do it. I do like the old style JD tractors with their 2 cylinders. Never had one. I did have a JD 2010 for several years. But it was the modern style inline 4 gas engine. It spun a bearing and so I adapted a buick car front end to it. Then pulled that off and put a subaru engine on it for awhile. But it got where it wouldn't shift, and the PTO got messed up, so finally sold it to the scrap yard after I bought a ford 3000 to replace it. And put the subaru engine back in the subaru wagon and drove it awhile. But certain feel good restorations might be worth doing, as long as they have some practical application. I'd love doing a really old tractor, like an oil pull or some such machine. But more likely I'd build my own custom version of one, but put it on a modern 4x4 truck frame just so it's practical to climb around on my mountainside.
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Post by rdback on Dec 1, 2021 11:23:53 GMT -5
So hairymooseknuckles, did this project get completed or is it still in the "contemplation" stage? lol
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Dec 1, 2021 12:37:57 GMT -5
So hairymooseknuckles , did this project get completed or is it still in the "contemplation" stage? lol Said tractor is still out there in the yard. I kick the tires every now and then. It had a head gasket leak that I didn’t address as I should have. I let it set a couple of years and the motor froze up. If I was a young man again, I’d skin a few knuckles and get it running, but these days I no longer have the want to. These old farmalls have to be “split” and that’s too much for me anymore. Nephew lost interest real quick when the work started. LAUGHING!!! He managed to remove the head, we saw that two cylinders were locked up tight. That’s about as far as we got. I kept a new tarp over the engine for a couple of years, then just sort of forgot about it.
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Post by rdback on Dec 1, 2021 21:35:36 GMT -5
I let it set a couple of years and the motor froze up.
I heard all ya do is pull the plugs and fill the cylinders with diesel and let it set for a bit. I have no idea if that would work lol. Maybe one of these days y'all will get back after it.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Dec 2, 2021 1:28:01 GMT -5
I let it set a couple of years and the motor froze up. I heard all ya do is pull the plugs and fill the cylinders with diesel and let it set for a bit. I have no idea if that would work lol. Maybe one of these days y'all will get back after it.
That’s one of the things we tried first. Also poured marvel mystery oil on top of the pistons after the head was removed. She was locked up tight. She was a good ol’ tractor, I neglected to take care of that head gasket and it bit me in the rear.
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Post by rdback on Dec 2, 2021 10:23:12 GMT -5
... and it bit me in the rear.
Haha, you're not alone in that department my friend, and I have the scars to prove it lol.
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