She's going to be a hot one

[the tractior vet]

Yep going to get hot out there today and i will have to be out in it . Finally the last part arrive yesterday after 6 . Been waiting on one lousy 3/16th by 2 1/2 headed pin . This sure is not the good old days where you could find one in town either at the parts stores or hardware dept. same as the Spiral rolled pin . Now i can get the deck back on the left step on put three springs on adjust the clutch the trans brake and dump valve and put old ugly back to work while working on my TAN. Getting to old for this outside field work.

 

[Mrfred54]

Yes it is hot, finally…sure has been a cold wet spring here. Now we will hear all about global warming again,again,and again. Told myself I ain’t working on anything this week so I went on a 100 mile trip and brought home a cub cadet 782 to go along with original, 102, 125, 127, 129, 149, 1450.

 

[the tractior vet]

Yes it is hot, finally…sure has been a cold wet spring here. Now we will hear all about global warming again,again,and again. Told myself I ain’t working on anything this week so I went on a 100 mile trip and brought home a cub cadet 782 to go along with original, 102, 125, 127, 129, 149, 1450.

Welp i decided that Nope we ain't ah going out . neat find on the 782 . since this old age thing has come on and at times here in N/E Ohio we get heavy wet snow and my old 7-24 arisen snow blower does not like heavy wet snow i found a Market place cub Cadet (non running )1250 , a uncommon 1250 with Hyd.'s and light pck. with a G T 46 mower deck fitted up for 200 green ones . I called a buddy and he and i went and picked it up took it down to his place where the shop was warm and the barley pop was cold . and dove into it . The ing. switch was toast , the wire connector was fried along with the wire ends and the battery was junk . Well i had the correct wire ends on hand and the local I H store had the five hole connector and switch on stock for way less then the internet by 50 % and a snio here and a crimp there and a battery fresh motion lotion and it fired up . a carb rebuild and it ran fantastic . According to the hour meter she has less the 500 hours on it . Steering was sloppy and someboody never put a grease gun to the steering box since new and well the bearings were toast and so was the stud . Cub cadet does not offer the bearings but John Deere does . the down side is ya won't like the price NOW , that set me back a 135 bucks for two bearings . Found a good used worn gear and shaft for 20 bucks . Motor mounts they were junk so i made up a new set out of neoprene bushings that gave the give to calm the engine vibration . Added new L E D lights along with flashers ft and rear in L E D . Rebuild a junk snow blade added in over 250 lbs of weights made a adjustment to the hyd control so it would stop moving when the control was centered . Raised the set up two inches to fit my donkey and rebuilt a wore out set of tire chains . It burns no oil no blue smoke and runs well and it will push snow . as a lawn mower it will climb the steep bank out ft of the house with ease . Cut lawn mowing down to 25 min.s since my little stay at the Cleveland Clinic i can no longer push the push mower . A fu fact here way back i got to drive the vary first Cub Cadet showen in our area at the county fair and a couple years later i drove the vary first 806 showen to the public at the same fair and at that time the man i worked for bought that 806 and a week later my uncle bought the first one to hit this county . Yea i am that flippen old . As a kid i saw a S/MTA demoed at my uncles farm in 1953 and yes it was White with red wheels . seat and steering wheel . saw a new 450 Diesel Demoed in 56 and a 560 in 58 and a new 560 show up in 59 and a 460 in 1960 then then 806 in 63 and a 706 in the spring of 64 . How things changed from 1953 when i first started doing field work running a Oliver O C 3 crawler when three crawlers did all the field work putting ten bottoms in the fields plowing to the mid sixtys where two wheel tractors were no putting 9 bottoms in the same fields plowing faster and getting more done per hour and if the neighbor cam3e to held with his OFF COLOR Green we now had 19 bottoms . When i came back from Nam things really change as the red had given was to Greene and now there were 4020's 4320' and a 4520 then they left and here come the Junk the 4630 i hated that tractor , we are now pulling seven bottoms on land and that thing would jump out of fifth gear while plowing and YOU would KISS the windshield when it did that . It was at the dealer more then it was in the fields . By then i had no time for my uncles as i had my own stuff to worry about and i went back to red . and bought what i could afford out of the junk rows and fixed i to work . And OH here at 1:30 Am it is still 78 degrees and the upstairs ya can bake bread . SOOOOOOO here we set with two fingers of happy juice.

 

[Mrfred54]

Love your ole time stories. I’ve got lots also but yours go back a few more years. Have seen some crazy stuff over the years. Talk about the snow blower, I’ve got A 1970 cub cadet walk behind, 826 blower. ( the only 826 I can afford ). It didn’t want to blow wet snow either, the chute would always plug. As I was using it a lot of years ago and it plugged I noticed that the blower housing was solid with snow between the impeller and blower housing so I thought, I wonder if the housing would stay clean if it would blow the wet shi@$& better and not plug. SO I decided to take an old mud flap and cut pieces to fit the blower fins and used self tapping screws and mount the pieces so they just rub the housing and you would believe the difference it made. I called it turbocharged blower, simply amazing and it would now throw snow 30 feet and has never plugged again. My blower has 3 fins so I did the three to keep it in balance but if a blower has 4 fins I would do two opposite each other for balance. I’ve done quit a few for customers and they always are very happy. 78 degrees here this morning already

 

[the tractior vet]

Love your ole time stories. I’ve got lots also but yours go back a few more years. Have seen some crazy stuff over the years. Talk about the snow blower, I’ve got A 1970 cub cadet walk behind, 826 blower. ( the only 826 I can afford ). It didn’t want to blow wet snow either, the chute would always plug. As I was using it a lot of years ago and it plugged I noticed that the blower housing was solid with snow between the impeller and blower housing so I thought, I wonder if the housing would stay clean if it would blow the wet shi@$& better and not plug. SO I decided to take an old mud flap and cut pieces to fit the blower fins and used self tapping screws and mount the pieces so they just rub the housing and you would believe the difference it made. I called it turbocharged blower, simply amazing and it would now throw snow 30 feet and has never plugged again. My blower has 3 fins so I did the three to keep it in balance but if a blower has 4 fins I would do two opposite each other for balance. I’ve done quit a few for customers and they always are very happy. 78 degrees here this morning already

Well when we got the 14-18 inches this year the 1250 was doing a great job up till we were almost cleaned up and i had maybe 25 feet of the drive to finish but here the snow was like 24-30 inches deep and pushen up hill and Cubby was given all she had and broke the right tire chain and i was done . So we tried to get the old snow blower going and welp that old gas even with last summer gas told nope ain't happen and would not start . Frustrated the War Dept. said WHY DON'T we just go BUY a new snow blower . With that i need my NITRO tabs and five shorts from the inhaler i was in total shock . So we go snow blower hunting . We checked the three places in town and Nope not a snow blower to be had , so we head up to Boardman everywhere up there NOPE not even a snow shovel , Next stop Austintown same thing nothing , came home . Get up the next morning and got on the phone and called everyplace that would have snow blowers . Lowes, Homer Depot lawn and garden centers mower shop T S C the farm stores tractor dealers in a 75 mile radius and nothing all but one the one seven miles south of me . I called down and Mikey answered and i said Mikey this may be a plum stupid question to ask but do you have any snow blowers and he said yep i have 11 setting here and they are on sale so at 11:30 and i bought a new 28 inch with the big engine and all the fancy stuff for 500 off list and they delivered and it was here at 1 ready to do battle . It is a monster as it chewed thru the side walk snow like a light dusting even after the city plows had it stacked up and compacted it will throw snow a good fifty feet and when you squeeze the go handle ya had best be ready to GO . I used it for twenty min. and the side walk was clean for a 150 feet each way , that drift in the drive was now over in the neighbors yard . Love the heated hand grips.