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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: February 17, 2015, 06:21:23 PM »

I am back. That's a pretty useful looking compact tractor, Gene. I had no idea Case was still a brand as all we see down here are the green ones and the lawn mower brands in that style. Of course we see plenty of the Kubotas and New Hollands.

Gehl has made some major inroads in compact construction equipment and they seemed to come out of the blue to do so.

We just had an ice storm in Upstate SC yesterday and last night and all heck broke loose. Power has been on and off a few times for a few hours at a time and general traffic chaos everywhere. Temps are not that bad today- in the high 30's but dipping and staying in the teens later this week. I have a friend who works for the highway department in Colorado. His job is managing snow removal and keeping their state roads open all winter in his district. He was making fun of us to me on the phone last night and all I could say was "does it matter if you are driving on 1" of ice or 6"? Seems to me if the roads have a solid sheet of ice that would pose a problem to anyone. Our problem here is that people insist on driving in it.

Anyway, we have firewood and a genset and some 12 oz fortification so I think we will be okay.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: January 31, 2015, 07:20:28 PM »

I dug out my old password and logged on to find this is the only thread with activity in years. I'm going to bookmark the forum site and try to participate even though I will have nothing to add to this thread, seeing as I'm down in South Carolina and not actively farming. I do still have two tractors, a '49 AC B torn down and awaiting sleeves, pistons, rings etc and a '53 Jubilee that still runs though not with 100% power all the time. The hydraulics are sketchy too.

This is a better way to interact compared to an email list but for some reason our crowd has not embraced it. (I am 50yo by the way, and my age group has seemingly already moved beyond forums to social media and asfaik very few are messing with list-serves any more like the antique tractor mailing list.

I still subscribe to our tractor list and an MG car list and use a Jaguar car forum to keep my old Jag on the road.

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Tools, Trades and Engineering / Shop heat / corn stoves??

« on: December 25, 2007, 01:55:49 PM »

Those waste-oil heaters use a lot of fuel, I am told. If you're going to use one check the burn rate. I had a trucking company client who installed one in their shop, planning to use the oil from their tractors. They end up having to supplement with heating oil.