Not done showing you my old lady and I can only post one picture at a time apparently?
The Other Tractors
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Well, I thought I would add my old tractor to the thread. This is a picture I took the day my Kubota was delivered. The other tractor is a Ford 2000 gas. I took it to a friend's farm about a month ago to use during hay season. He went to use it the other day and now the clutch won't release. The clutch isn't more than three years old. Good things I have a new tractor.
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Got a late start on it today as I needed to firm up some detail on the Ferguson.
But here is after day 2
Gave it a minor cleanup and removed all the old loader frame.
But here is after day 2
Gave it a minor cleanup and removed all the old loader frame.
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I have a 1952 cockshutt 40. Great machine for piling snow and forking wood. The loader needs a rebuild and a few seals need to be renewed. A handy machine, but you need a lot of room to turn it around. No picture handy.
Man, those old 8N's and their kindred. Can't throw a rock without hitting one. That was one popular family of tractors.
I've posted pictures of my other tractor, 1958 Allis-Chalmers D17 Diesel (Buda 262 engine) that came from the factory with Wagner Iron Works front loader and backhoe on it. She runs fine but needs ether to start. Beat to heck but I have it in my head to bring her back up to full working condition and refit her to work even better. It's a tough machine...
I've posted pictures of my other tractor, 1958 Allis-Chalmers D17 Diesel (Buda 262 engine) that came from the factory with Wagner Iron Works front loader and backhoe on it. She runs fine but needs ether to start. Beat to heck but I have it in my head to bring her back up to full working condition and refit her to work even better. It's a tough machine...
That's a Ford 8N with a wide rear axle! Same Colour and everything , guess Fergusoen went out on his own with this one?Got a late start on it today as I needed to firm up some detail on the Ferguson.
But here is after day 2
Gave it a minor cleanup and removed all the old loader frame.
Funny you mentioned the loader and hoe, my loader is cockshutt/wagner. Flimys but does the job.Man, those old 8N's and their kindred. Can't throw a rock without hitting one. That was one popular family of tractors.
I've posted pictures of my other tractor, 1958 Allis-Chalmers D17 Diesel (Buda 262 engine) that came from the factory with Wagner Iron Works front loader and backhoe on it. She runs fine but needs ether to start. Beat to heck but I have it in my head to bring her back up to full working condition and refit her to work even better. It's a tough machine...
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On those series of tractors - including the fords 8n - there was about 8 different ways to set the tires!! IN - out - somewhere in between!
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Nope, no extensions, just rims and hubs set out, they are at 72" right now, can go one more step to make it even wider!
Nope, no extensions, just rims and hubs set out, they are at 72" right now, can go one more step to make it even wider!
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This is a gee whiz I've never seen that before, wish I had a camera, what are those tractors called?
They are building a new expanded Speedway near a business I go to about twice a week, and so have been watching the construction. The company doing the construction has an almost infinite stable of heavy and light pieces of equipment, and the ones in use change by the minute. Besides all the usual dozers, backhoes etc, there are ones that articulate in the middle and apparently both ends steer, and the biggest rototiller device I've ever seen, the guy drove over construction debris, clods, mud, lumps rock etc, and what came out was like flour. Then another big heavy roller device could compact it. Tiny micro track hoes, and today a giant one poised over a drainage swale hundreds of feet deep and wide, and I'd really like to see how he got back to the other side. The oddest so far was a device into which a cement mixer unloaded cement, and which went along very slowly and out the back end came a gutter curbing laid down perfectly shaped, just like you'd pipe frosting on a cake. No forms no nothing. Amazing!
They are building a new expanded Speedway near a business I go to about twice a week, and so have been watching the construction. The company doing the construction has an almost infinite stable of heavy and light pieces of equipment, and the ones in use change by the minute. Besides all the usual dozers, backhoes etc, there are ones that articulate in the middle and apparently both ends steer, and the biggest rototiller device I've ever seen, the guy drove over construction debris, clods, mud, lumps rock etc, and what came out was like flour. Then another big heavy roller device could compact it. Tiny micro track hoes, and today a giant one poised over a drainage swale hundreds of feet deep and wide, and I'd really like to see how he got back to the other side. The oddest so far was a device into which a cement mixer unloaded cement, and which went along very slowly and out the back end came a gutter curbing laid down perfectly shaped, just like you'd pipe frosting on a cake. No forms no nothing. Amazing!
The big mixer is called a roto mixer if I am reading your description right.
The other machine is a concrete slip former. Usually made by Gomaco so we call them Gomaco's in our industry. We use the to do curb and gutter, sidewalks with curb and gutter all in one pull. We have done up to 2 m (7') sidewalks. We also have a Gomaco that paves concrete roads at one lane at a time.
Gomaco's are made in the states and are an industry standard that has yet to be matched.
I have been in road building, asphalt and concrete paving for over 30 years.
I too love big iron!
The other machine is a concrete slip former. Usually made by Gomaco so we call them Gomaco's in our industry. We use the to do curb and gutter, sidewalks with curb and gutter all in one pull. We have done up to 2 m (7') sidewalks. We also have a Gomaco that paves concrete roads at one lane at a time.
Gomaco's are made in the states and are an industry standard that has yet to be matched.
I have been in road building, asphalt and concrete paving for over 30 years.
I too love big iron!
So does the cement mix that goes into the Gomaco have a plasticizer or something different about it so it doesn't run after the Gomaco puts it down?
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Most of the Wagner loaders were only light duty 'farm quality'. What's on the D-17 there is their largest loader/hoe combo they ever built (at least from my research) and it rated at medium duty. I still find Wagner's on 8n's and such.
What's interesting is they are still in business. They don't do loaders any more and haven't for many decades but they do have some of their old manuals on line and even some shots of their old logos so you can make replacement emblems and such.
Being generic units, you can pretty much repair them with a welder and off the shelf hydraulics.
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Did some more work to the Transformer Freguson TO-20
This is a few days ago, and I'll post more recent ones in the morning.
This is a few days ago, and I'll post more recent ones in the morning.
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Well I think just one more day and the TO-20 Ferguson will complete it's transformer act.
Here was the result of todays efforts.
Here was the result of todays efforts.
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North Idaho Wolfman, that looks like a different tractor! How much time did it take to get it ready for the paint?
When is the remainder of the 'transformer act" going to take place?
When is the remainder of the 'transformer act" going to take place?