Recent content by Lou from Wis.

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    Really bad starting year.O.T.

    Well I am just getting over NEW MOAN YA or at least I hope so.Spend most hours in the sack with breather (Proair H F A.and pain killers.#2 son is home sick with new kemo. #1 son is fighting what I have. All around,it's starting to be a nasty nasty year.Weather is 0 this morning and no sigh of...
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    fFIRST CHRISTMAS BY MY SELF

    My prayers to you .Lost my wife congenital heart failure.Now with other problems lurking on the horizon,for both of us,times will be tough.Memories are the greatest assets a person can have.Remembering the love we shared and carried in our hearts for family and friends is whats it's all...
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    Termial.O.T.

    Well folks. bad news hit the door again today!!My #2 son was told that he was terminal stage 4 caner. He has to undergo back in the hospital after Christmas so the Dr's can pack the intestinal cavity with kemo hoping to kill the cancer. Cancer is not in his organs but evidently the surgeon...
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    O.T. Getting older

    Goose,Welcome to the age of wisdom.LOL.I also wanted to hurry up and get to the age of 21 where I thought there would be un-limited freedom to do what I wanted to do.WRONG WRONG.I'm just managing emotional stability with health problems that this family is going through again.Re-occuring cancer...
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    Fun Day making cider

    Matt. We went a bit farther then cider.Oh BOY DID WE.!!!About 25% alcohol content.Had a snoot full (2 classes)the other night,and I can swear it's smooth as silk.I couldn't see all the years apples going to waste ,laying on the ground,rotting away.We still have 8 gal,working. Today it's putting...
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    New tractor fuel??

    Russ ;our hydrometer is accurate I'm sure.Going to have a sample run at Vodka distillery located in Sarona .We use freeze concentration to reach that %. One fellow said he can reach 40% but I doubt it. 30-35 is about all that can be reached.
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    New tractor fuel??

    Watched a movie where bootleggers used moonshine to fire up old truck when the fellows ran out of gas.Our wine project went past the wine stage to brandy 25% a.b.f.Some smooth human gasoline and delightful to drink.Made over 16 gallons and got bottles and caps,labels and hydrometer.NO!! NOT...
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    Pulled The Intertube Out Of The C Farmall

    Way to go.!! Age and difficulty in being mobile,makes the situation some what a problem for guys like us. Like you,doing difficult jobs takes a lot of thought before any job effort is put in motion.I'm 83 years old with neuropathy that keeps traveling to different body locations daily.Tube...
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    New heater core

    Been changing heater core's for some years,not a delightful experience.Right now the whole radiator went south on our Bob Cat.Repair man ordered new core so next week we should be back running again.I put a new heater in our 706 and boy was that an easy install.If ever we have to replace truck...
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    Bobcat radiator problem

    Thanks but we have tried and no results.Some older tractors may be just the ticket in getting a new like radiator .I seen a picture of an old tractor here on Y.T in the field,rusty with a radiator that was laying on the frame, and it looked like if would fit.Top Fill,bottom inlet and outlet and...
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    Bobcat radiator problem

    The unit is old and new radiator is N.L.A. any where!!! If a new radiator was still on the market We would have it. Some older tractors may have one that would be adapted with little or no effort.Bobcat doesn't even have anything like what we need. Core manufacturers won't talk about it.The...
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    Bobcat radiator problem

    Well our 722 radiator gave up the ghost.lots of leaks and has been repaired before we got it.Got over 12 years usage before this happened. Cant buy just a core as all we tried (company's)says Cant make em,even though we have a blue print.Took it to a radiator shop we have used in the past but he...
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    Anyone know how to dissolve rust?

    Tom,Don't know if you can get this product where you are located. The best rust destroyer we have ever found (bar none) is Calsi SOL. PLUMBERS USE IT TO CLEAR RUST FROM WATER PIPES and boy does it ever work, but use it in well ventilated place with rubber gloves.I'm not affiliated with this...
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    Update on easy firewood

    Again.Great post& Pictures.We bought a hay elevator last summer with the idea of shorting it down from aprox 40ft so we can use it to load our truck-(1 ton ford dually(1975)with bed lift,slow dump but works.Going to have to change distributor to point system.Electronic system is for the birds as...
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    Got some easy to make firewood

    Good looking wood. Good for you. I'll bet you wish all your fire wood came by that easy lol. Son has still working on our load we bought 12 chord this summer.Mostly ash and white oak.Got it green so it burns a lot longer then dried wood.Last year we went through at least 30 chord,and still ran...
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