Recent content by DiggerDick

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    JD 1240 planter ??

    I have used mine for probably 30 years, went thru the plateless units when I got it and have had no problems with it since. Plant 30 to 40 acres every year, great not to have to check seed size and can get better deals on cost of seed. Can also go to soybeans and just change speed with...
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    Hit & Miss Burr Mill Capacity?

    I have one in very nice shape, paint on it and ready to use. Think it says 8" on the casting. WE used it with a John Deere B to crack shelled corn for baby chicks, can make fine to extra coarse. Has different plates with it. Can even grind wheat into flour. Iam in NW WI.
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    Don't know if you seen these but here's the 7520 plowing(pic

    I can really make mine work if I set the 11 shank disc-chizel to deep in our heavy clay
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    Delta Bandsaw

    When I replaced tires on my bandsaw, I cut strips out of an old innertube. No cost, just some time.
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    Items sold thru Sears Catalogs

    They also sold tractors and/or kits to build your own. Here is my 1938 with Ford model A engine and trans.
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    IH 1066 Hydraulic problems.

    Had the suction tube come loose on mine one time, only way to get it to work was rev it way up. Thought pump was shot, but my Son took it apart reattached tube and no problem since.
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    Last Cab ride!!! You all need to read this!!!

    I spent a couple years working maintenance in a nursing home to supplement my farm income. The rewards of helping some of the "residents" was worth for than the paycheck. I think every highschool grad should spend a year working in one of these facilities, it would give them a much better...
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    OT: Full Civic Literacy Exam

    This dumb farmer got 25 of 33 right
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    Fall or Spring Tillage Question.

    When it came to plowing Grandpa always said "a poor job in the fall is always better than a good job in the spring"
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    Memory? I already forgot

    I carry my memory in my shirt pocket. (NOTEPAD & PENCIL)
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    Help finding wheel

    List your dimensions on here and maybe somebody can help, I have quite a few that I have saved over the years.
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    Barn repair

    Gene Bender, any relation to Denny Bender from southern WI. Had him straighten an old barn for me years back. Did a great job.
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    rubber tires for 14 inch bandsaw

    I cut strips from old innertubes---like a large rubber band. Lasts a long time.
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    Safety glasses !!! WTF!

    I vote thurlow for president
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    oats threshing

    Cut with haybine or discbine in windrows with crimper rolls opened up, let it dry one day or three then pick it up with hayhead on silage chopper (no screen every other knife removed-leave as long as possable) after in the chopper boxes run up an elevator and thru the threshing machine. Can end...
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