@Just-Jeepin good on 'em

@i86hotdogs It’s pretty good, but the Milky Way keeps sucking me back in.

@Just-Jeepin I think we are going to go next weekend. Mrs. blacktruck loves demolition derbies, they have 2 next Saturday and Sunday.

The cars reminded me, I really want to go to the Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg museum in Auburn. The cars look awesome, but the museum itself is art deco which I really want to see.

https://automobilemuseum.org/

@ITA97 -- I need to re-read Deliverance some rainy weekend. James Dickey's throwaway observations could be better than the main points of a lot of authors, and I seem to recall that one of them was about the tendency of older farmers to have pieces missing.

Aside from equipment, and large pissed-off livestock, some of the chemicals can be exciting. Pressurized tanks of anhydrous ammonia were a seasonally ubiquitous part of farming where I spent some of my childhood, for instance. Then you've got silo gas, grain engulfment, getting overcome by fumes in a manure pit...

I have a physically easy and safe job and eat things made possible by people who decidedly do not!

@Roadkilled

@Just-Jeepin shows better without the spread front tires, but agreed, so clever!

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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly enjoy

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly not too bad

this has the workings of a pretty cool adventure. I'm coming long! (virtually)

@ITA97
Ahhh...yes. Well I suspect that might be a problem for another day. As far as I know, there are very few (if any) critical O rings in the injection system. The mechanical pump is another matter though the engine doesn't go north of 2000 rpm so it may not be the issue it was for car engines...he says hopefully!

@siennaman
Pretty much the same...it's just an open machinery bay attached to our shed.

I'm considering actually building a tractor shed due the to MF40 industrial tractor squeezed in next to the 65...and all the implements.

@drVanTraveler only if the circumstances are exactly right....

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly F- that. I nearly gave myself a hernia putting the spare back on the rear door of a Land Rover.

@StreetsofPerth
Ahh yes. Split rims. Like what the farm ute has....

@facw
Should do. The new bits are all 6mm thick chequerplate left over from a railway crossing approach ramp!

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in Tractor Wrestling...Round 3:Part A:

@Italia
I will not give in to such outrageous demands. The prosciutto is mine...

We do not negotiate with terrorists!

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better in real life though.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly good work!

@essextee
Ah yes...the Postie Bike. Currently, it's....another project.

@cé-hé-sin said in Oppo Teasing: The Reveal:

@silentbutnotreallydeadly
Are JCBs* without cabs a thing in Oz?
*Yes, I know it's a MF. We call them all JCBs regardless.

Yep. Though not so much these days...now that we've got soft. Pretty much any unit like this one has a sealed cabin.

It doesn't rain quite so much as it does over there and when it does rain, the soils can't support the machine anyway so you either make a mess or get bogged. So there's not much point having the cab.

@jawzx2 I couldn’t recall the qualifications to becoming a “Named Sheep” in the kingdom. Whether it was if a name fits it sits, or gotta be unique enough to earn a moniker. Seems it’s more a fitsNsits reasoning. Which is all good. I normally call my Rampage “the Trucklet”. But have always called my Eagle “the Eagle”. I call my cat many things. Depends on if she’s being cute or a hoodlum.

@forsweden it's his GF's mother's truck. She mostly pulls a gooseneck horse trailer with it, or puts the stake-sides on for mulch runs to Home Depot...

@essextee DD - JD
pull - Allis Chalmers
burn - whatever the other thing is

@nauraushaun Pretty sure he pull-started the little starter two-stroke!

@just-jeepin should be lol

@silentbutnotreallydeadly I've done a couple of jobs on my old Volvo since I got a workshop manual, but the fear of screwing up is still there.

@pip-bip I was surprised enough to automatically press the Add to Cart button!

@pip-bip said in It's that time of year again!:

@jawzx2 cab heater FTW!

It's a good one too, as soon as the temp gauge is off the bottom tick it starts blowing warm and by the time it's at normal operating temp --which is pretty quick, Shubaura/NH have a well designed cooling loop in this application-- it'll heat that cab up like a sauna and you have to turn the temp down or risk roasting yourself to death.

@cash-rewards Hydraulic oil is mean and nasty shit. There's a couple of spill patches around here due to the antics of the previous owner. Fortunately, this tractor uses plain old 80w-90 gear oil in its transmission, final drive and differential (better known as the back half of the tractor!) and the 3 point linkage and any hydraulic control is powered off this as well. So leaks aren't quite the issue they would otherwise be...

@jawzx2 My SAAB, super easy. My MINI, somewhat hard. Jaguar, not too bad but SO MUCH OIL!
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Filter’s under there somewhere.