aharleycpl
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We just had to share our new baby. We didn't pay the mortgage and will catch it up to bring home our new Fergie.
They were a little snow bound but we dug them out and with the help of a couple buddies we winched them out and drug them home. There is a 52 and a 54. One we were told was a runner and the other had a block that had been frozen. They came with a Da-West (Davidson Westholt) front end loader and a back blade.
After spending a day, a lot of work and swearing we had them drug home to start evaluating. We took the guys word that one of them ran. After a couple hours troubleshooting and testing we had one up and running! Over the last couple of weeks we rebuilt the carb, swapped fuel tanks, troubleshot the hydraulics and gave it the redneck tune up. We move the good tires to the runner and it even could roll on its own now. (BTW, calcium filled turf tires must weigh about a billion pounds and may live in my field until the end of time because the one that held air landed stem down) Going to fill the traction tires with windshield wiper fluid instead of calcium.
Fergie runs pretty decent now. Just moved the good oil pressure gauge from the broken one to the running one and it has 28psi cold at a low idle. Could not be happier about that.
We figured out we left half of the loader up in the snow banks and will be headed up to dig it our once we get a little bit warmer day. It s currently under 2 feet of new snow and we bent the heck out of the one piece we got getting it unstuck from the ground so going to be a little more careful this go around.
Next on the agenda is changing out the generator to a 12v alternator that we ordered from yesterdaystractors. They are not the absolute cheapest on the net but they are right there among the least espensive. Also ordered up a new oil filter from them and I can say they are the cheapest I ran across so we want to make a shout out to the site owners for their resources!
Progress has been a little bit slow because it has been under 20 degrees each day lately but doing a little bit each day they are coming along.
Another shout out to the site owners for maintaining this forum. Some of the best advice I have found has been consistently found in these forums.
She is running, rolling, and soon she will be charging and stopping reliably.
They were a little snow bound but we dug them out and with the help of a couple buddies we winched them out and drug them home. There is a 52 and a 54. One we were told was a runner and the other had a block that had been frozen. They came with a Da-West (Davidson Westholt) front end loader and a back blade.
After spending a day, a lot of work and swearing we had them drug home to start evaluating. We took the guys word that one of them ran. After a couple hours troubleshooting and testing we had one up and running! Over the last couple of weeks we rebuilt the carb, swapped fuel tanks, troubleshot the hydraulics and gave it the redneck tune up. We move the good tires to the runner and it even could roll on its own now. (BTW, calcium filled turf tires must weigh about a billion pounds and may live in my field until the end of time because the one that held air landed stem down) Going to fill the traction tires with windshield wiper fluid instead of calcium.
Fergie runs pretty decent now. Just moved the good oil pressure gauge from the broken one to the running one and it has 28psi cold at a low idle. Could not be happier about that.
We figured out we left half of the loader up in the snow banks and will be headed up to dig it our once we get a little bit warmer day. It s currently under 2 feet of new snow and we bent the heck out of the one piece we got getting it unstuck from the ground so going to be a little more careful this go around.
Next on the agenda is changing out the generator to a 12v alternator that we ordered from yesterdaystractors. They are not the absolute cheapest on the net but they are right there among the least espensive. Also ordered up a new oil filter from them and I can say they are the cheapest I ran across so we want to make a shout out to the site owners for their resources!
Progress has been a little bit slow because it has been under 20 degrees each day lately but doing a little bit each day they are coming along.
Another shout out to the site owners for maintaining this forum. Some of the best advice I have found has been consistently found in these forums.
She is running, rolling, and soon she will be charging and stopping reliably.
