Recent content by Alvin 41

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    Roundup/2-4-D

    I would use Triclopyr , apx $65/gallon .Better than 2-4-D on brush and doesn' kill grass .
  2. Tractor for sale

    For sale Tractor for sale

    Two Oliver 770 set up to run feed mixers. One factory LP with 2 hydraulics and 13`-38 rears , $2100 , One converted LP with recent complete engine overhaul and 2 hydraulics ,$3100.
    $21,003,100.00
    $2,100.00 to $3,100.00
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    Florida Solar panels questions

    Have had 30 panels feeding the power grid for 3 years.Cost me about $30,000 with subsidies and payback is about 14 years. they are supposed to last 25 years . SWI .
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    Diesel biocide

    Had to add it to 200 gallon fuel tank of Cat 65 0nce.
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    Lawn mower (tractor) maintenance - Anybody else do this?

    I've got a 42" zoro turn . Mow 5 hours/week. Don't get a lot of build up .Tend to clean only when sharpening blades or fixing blade spindl bearings.
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    Silo for Saturday

    Silo might be a Ribstone . Those windmills had only twisted wire bracing and 60* angle iron legs. Mine blew down in the 70's with a TV antenna on it .
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    New idea 803 c

    803 is hydro drive . Has flex cable to drive valve and soledid to rear wheel drive .
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    Ih 706 d282 more power

    Back in the late 60's I was using a new 706 gas hard and it was burning valves . I finally put an Olds 455 V-8 in it and used it for yerars . Had about the power of a 1066 .Ran it to 5000 hours and sold it about 1985.
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    999 2 row planter

    My father had one in the 40-50's ,chechkwire ,fertilizer ,and bean seeding attachments. About 1956 we took off the front castor wheel and adapted it to 3-pt to fit our Ford Jubilee which we narrowed to 40" and used it to wheel track plant corn .
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    24D weed killer

    Excellent description of 24-D"s and 24-5T. We used 24-D in the late 1940's to get canada thisthes out of oats.The agent Orange mix was thousands of gallons of mix heavily sprayed out of airplanes to defoliate trees .
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    Last Threshing machine

    One of first self propelled combiners was Berrys Combined Steam Traction Harvester by Stocton Berry in Lindsay CA in 1886. It burned straw for fuel.
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    Skid steer

    I've ran skid steers for over 50 years . First reliable one was a Case 1845. Now have two 1994 NH L-785's that have over 10,000 hours , they have two speed hydro and one has 37"x16.5 military Hummer tires and will go over 10 mph. These 6000# machines with 2000# lift can do a lot of work fast.I'm...
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    Progress on the 830

    Great pictures !!!
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    Literature---Le Roi Tractor -Engine Brochure

    We had a Gehl chopper about 1953 that came with a Leroy engine. It was basically a WD Allis engine with a hand clutch and gear reduction driving the chopper drive V belt .Overhead fuel tank and crank start .
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