the year of the flat

[jeanette]

well look what we woke up to this morning..


some of you may remember this spring the front wheel fell off this same tractor..


jerry got a flat on mighty whitey, plus i ended up getting all new tires for the caddie when the whole side blew outta the tire..
and jacks car.. well that thing always has a flat... cept this morning.. ;D

[Deleted]

Damn..........lost all the fluid too...........now that ain't cheap to fix and alot of work too..........feel sorry for ya. Wish i could help

[lilsparrow]

Ah, that just stinks! I suppose that will hold ya up on getting the rest of the crops in too.

[jeanette]

accually the tire fixer guy was here within a 1/2 hour.. they were back at it by 10:00...i expect it will be costly, but you sort of plan on something going wrong... turns out we didn't have to get a whole new tire just the tube..

[lilsparrow]

Well, that's good news!

[CaveWoman]

Well some good news is better than NONE...

[jack]

Gidday

Now Jeanette that ain't no garden tractor Eh!

[jeanette]

nope it sure ain't... we farm around 600 acres of corn and soybeans... they got the quarter section done today, theres a little left here at home then on to lone rock.. i think the weather will turn on us tomarrow..

[crazy1]

Gosh consider your selves lucky there. We got a running tab with the local tire distributer. If ya work on Dads farm and DON'T get a flat you probably dont belong.

[douglas]

Glad yer back up and going again, those things can be a pain to fix

[betty]

Somedays, it seems like any and all happens, hopefully no more flats.....sheese! Ok I gotta ask did.....................Jerry make the air blue blue when he saw it???ha.

[jeanette]

not as much as when he was trying to tranfer corn and found that jack used up all the gas in the barrel and lent out the gas can ;D
he's pluggin along.. it's getting really cold out.. pretty early.

i got a big pot of bubbling chilli cooking for him..

[jack]

Gidday

Hey Jreanette, don't blame me. I didn't use up all the gass. There's still plenty of gass left in me.

[nnbreeder]

I'm sure glad nobody around here knows I've got a rim clamp and tools. I'd never get any peace and quiet! Tire work is for the younger folk. At least the tractor is the right color!

[jeanette]

thanks nnbreeder.. we think so too..

i want to get the little bluie that goes with our big bluie... but he says i gotta make money from my garden first.. ;D

well we are done here at home, now the big move to lonerock..

[nnbreeder]

My little one is old enough to be all red. You could use the argument that you can't grow a garden big enough to pay for the tractor without the tractor!

[jack]

Gidday

Now NNbreeder, [My little one is old enough to be all red] could be taken two ways by a crude old Kiwi.

[nnbreeder]

Now Jack I always thought Ford tractors were popular in your part of the world. If'n ya get one old enough it is red instead of blue and even though it was a hoss in it's day it is just a little fart by today's standards. It is rated at about 35hp and it is a 641 series. Haven't chased down the year yet by ser.# but I believe it to be a mid 50s model. And yes I still work the heck out of it, there is a niche market for baling small patches, grading driveways, plowing gardens, pulling people out of muddy ditches etc.

[jack]

Gidday

Never seen a red ford. I have seen and driven tractors since they still had steel wheels. The oldest fords I have seen were always and much darker blue, but blue all; the same.

[jeanette]

You could use the argument that you can't grow a garden big enough to pay for the tractor without the tractor!

GOOD POINT!!!

any more the tractors are all basically GREEN OR NOT GREEN...

we have an old H we use too, there's a pic of her around here somewhere...

[nnbreeder]

Maybe the ones for export were the first blue ones. The N series were either all gray or red with grey sheetmetal. the early numbered series were all red then red w/ grey fenders and grill. and the thousand series were blue/grey. Much more colorfull than green all over!

[jack]

Gidday

Well bugger me dead. I wold never have believed that any Ford tractor was ever red. So9 I did some Googling and actually found some but some of the early ones I hace sen are like this

[jack]

Gidday

But I also found this, one of which I remember too.


And even one that was ealier that only ran on kerosene but have not been able to find an image.

But I still doubt very much if any red Ford tractor was ever imported into New Zealand.

[jeanette]

here's our old H..

[Jean]

Man, I wish we had metal wheels on our old tractor -- we've had the tires replaced, had the liquid that is supposed to seal punctures put in -- that helps, but nothing but metal tires would work on brushhogging with the darn locust sprouts. We treat them with brush killer, too.

Does anyone have a brush killer that they like? (btw, I am an organic gardener, so using the stuff at all is against my thoughts, but locusts are another thing.

[jeanette]

metal wheels would be great for aeration...

[crazy1]

And compaction..........

[jeanette]

everything is really packed down because of all the farm traffic.. the road ain't even kickin up much dust...

[crazy1]

Not much dust here either........its rainin.

[nnbreeder]

Heres a pic I found of a 600 series. I've heard so many tales of the rowcrop front end that I'm kinda leery of 'em. Love the old iron though. Cabs are the worst thing that ever happened to tractors. Runnin' in your own dust is hard on the equipment yet I see a lot of people doing it. Back in the day I wonder how many septic systems were plugged due to the washing of the dust at the end of the day?