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    Calf tubing question

    Never heard of "left or right". I always used a short piece of steel tubing in the mouth with a six foot piece of stiff garden hose inside of the steel tube. I rounded the cut end of the garden hose just to ease my conscience. The steel tube kept the calf from biting down on the hose while I...
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    Battery Chargers...

    Goose, in the meantime, watch the yard sales and junk stores for those old 70's era can openers - the kind with the built in knife sharpeners. Those little motors were common in a lot of chargers.
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    RACOONS IN THE BARN

    Yes, cats will get in the live traps, but usually only once per cat. That's still aggravating if you have a dozen barn cats. I had one big old barn cat that didn't mind getting caught because he knew that I would release him in the morning. After four or five times catching him, I carried him...
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    Horse Pulled sickle bar mower HELP

    You got very good advice, but in addition - if you have a section that is not making proper contact with the ledger plates, carefully check the adjacent sections on each side of the perceived offending section. An adjacent section may be bent down and holding its neighbors up, making for a poor...
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    JD 60 radiator shutters

    I apologize - I missed your comment about not having shutters for your radiator. It was plainly stated, but I somehow managed to read around it.
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    JD 60 radiator shutters

    I have an early JD50 with shutters. I flipped the shutter assembly upside down and use a control cable to adjust the airflow. I keep the coolant temperature around 180 degrees. I very seldom have to fool with the adjustment. It runs much better at 180 degrees. With the shutters open, the heat...
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    1952 john deere a questions ??

    Well he actually died of old age, but we always figured that we'd find him laying out in a cornfield when he didn't come in for breakfast. He once fell asleep on a Case tractor and turned it over when he dropped off of the bank at the end of the field. It pinned him down in the middle of the...
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    1952 john deere a questions ??

    There was an old guy in our community that had an early styled B that he used to cultivate corn. It never had a battery, and the flywheel cover was missing. He used a big Crescent wrench on the flywheel lugs to spin it over. As he prepared to spin it over, he always said, "Now step back boys"...
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    Literature---New Holland Hay Mowers, Conditioners and Hay Rake Brochures

    I had an old friend who had the conditioner that attached behind the mower. I saw him use it one time, and I think it was only because I asked him how it worked. He bought the entire line of New Holland hay equipment and we all had to go over to his place and look it over. It was a big purchase...
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    Tail Fork Rotary Mower.

    You have to pump the grease to them until it's dribbling everywhere. Here's a tailwheel that I made for my son's mower. It uses a hub and spindle from a '68 Ford pickup. Never needs greasing and spins freely.
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    Solutions or ' tools ' for a leaking dam .

    Bridge contractors drive sheet piling in a box configuration [cofferdam] for water surrounded pier construction. Then they pump the water out of the box to allow work on the river bed. The sheet piling joints will leak like a sieve, squirting water into the hole from every direction. The...
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    How things have changed

    I gave $5 for my first loader. It was a Freeman bracketed for a WD45 that had been turned over. I repaired it and modified it to fit my JD 630. It served me well. I now have a couple of JD 45 loaders to fit my old 2 cylinder Deeres. I feel like I'm on the cutting edge of technology.
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    Literature---1960's NEW IDEA Hay Mower Brochures

    I mowed a lot of soil bank ground with those New Idea trailer mowers when I was in grade school/high school. Every farm in the community had one. They were a good pitman mower - easy to hook up - drawbar pin, PTO, tie the trip rope to the seat, and you were ready to go to the field.
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    Ever been stopped by the highway patrol for a safety check

    I worked road construction. In the sixties I would find pieces of chain along the highways. Every link of the chain was cut. The old truckers told me that they were pieces of safety chain that had been "modified" so the trailer would sever from the pulling vehicle when something went wrong. True...
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    The Fiddlers

    I have the greatest respect for those folks. The average person doesn't realize how much talent is required to play a fiddle. I played guitar, mandolin and some banjo with moderate success. The fiddle whipped me. That doggoned bow. . .
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