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IHC / Continental power unit
« on: December 17, 2009, 09:52:10 PM »
What IH equipment used a Continental power unit with a clutch? I just rebuilt an IY69 with a clutch for a friend. He doesn't know what it came off of. I'm guessing a combine. I have one off of a 50T baler but it used a tightening pulley on the belt.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / New toy(I think-hope)
« on: November 10, 2009, 09:39:40 PM »
Looks great! Now all you need to do is find a tractor pull and grade the track with it! Most of the dirt would wash off.:eek:

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'round the pot-bellied stove / International Truck Engine
« on: October 24, 2009, 08:16:25 AM »
A good thing about being able to belt it up for crannking is that once it is running you can slow down the starter engine to create a load. We've used that tactic several times after rebuilding a tractor engine by chaining a larger tractor to the one just rebuilt and then tow it around. Just back off the throttle as needed to increase the load.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Screw up resolved!
« on: October 14, 2009, 07:15:27 PM »
Sounds like you made something similar to the wedges used to remove a drill chuck from its arbor (those mounted with a Jacobs taper, not srew on types). I'll keep that idea in mind!

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'round the pot-bellied stove / International Truck Engine
« on: October 11, 2009, 08:10:37 AM »
What are you going to do with it when done? Build a display stand or mount it on a trailer powering some sort of farm equipment? Of course you could go find the rest of the truck.:p

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Farmall Cub / Cub trencher
« on: October 11, 2009, 08:03:29 AM »
I genereally view Cubs as something between light duty home-owner machines and real farm equipment. I saw one on Craigslist today that was set-up with a trencher on the back and a blade on the front. Now I may have to consider them light industrial machines!:rolleyes: It looks very heavily built and would probably turn some heads at a show. I wonder how the trencher is powered, by an external hydraulic pump? The machine also has a creeper drive attachment.

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / enclosed trailers
« on: September 19, 2009, 06:30:25 AM »
I saw an interesting set-up by an IH collector. He had a nice trailer finished out with skylights and a black and white checkerboard floor. After he unloaded his tractors, he turned it sideways behind them to create a museum for IH memorabilia. He filled it with stuff like IH toolboxes and tools from the 70's, dealer uniforms, hats, unopened oil cans, calendars, gas cans, fire extinguishers, literature and whatever else he could find that IH put their name on. It was far more interesting of a display than most of the tractors at the show.

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / ATIS List
« on: September 14, 2009, 09:39:41 PM »
Seems all ATIS traffic is down compared to a few years back. Maybe we are all expert mechanics now and only ask questions pertaining to historical data on unusual equipment.:rolleyes: I actually saw 2 real engine questions on SEL today!:eek: Seriously though I think Gene's comment about lack of interest is closest to the truth. It may also be in part to a tighter economy causing more folks staying away from shows and out of the shop.

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Motherwell Homestead Threshing
« on: September 09, 2009, 09:43:38 PM »
When we went to Mt Pleasant in 1996, it seemed there were at least 20 model steam tractors. They ranged from smaller than a lawn mower to slightly bigger than a Farmall Cub. They had scale-model sawmills they ran with some of the larger ones. I even remember a couple of the tiny ones in the tractor pull--they pulled a sheet of steel with cinder blocks piled on it. Needless to say the little ones didn't blow as many cinders into the crowd as the big ones did!

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Harvest 1957
« on: September 03, 2009, 09:39:22 PM »
I know we typically focus on what was taking place with the harvest equipment, but imagine the logistics it took to haul away and store the grain---especially using horses!

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Portland, Indiana Show
« on: September 01, 2009, 09:31:34 PM »
Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun doing demonstrations. When I used to demo my Papec I pulled it with my 12-20 Case. We showed it no mercy. I ran 2 joints of pipe vertical and then the curved pipe cut off to blow it 90 deg. I imagine with a full stack of pipe it would be way too underpowered. My cutter was originally pulled with an Oliver with around 35-45 hp on the belt. The owner always talked about how they never could choke it down!

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Harvest 1957
« on: August 27, 2009, 09:47:00 PM »
Quote from: DaveErnst;771
Up until 1966 we were pulling a John Deere #36 hillside combine with a Cat diesel 50. We had to use something that heavy to hold the combine when going downhill. We were dry farming 2,200 acres back then. In 1966 we purchased a Harris self propelled hillside machine new for $16,000. Talk about instant modernization! I still have the original owner/operators manual for that John Deere. Everytime I see it the memories come flooding back. The header was a flat canvas belt style with a wooden reel. Took 30' wide cuts. Most fields were 320 acres, 1/2 mile wide and a mile long. We were lucky to get 4 rounds the first day. That is one of the same fields in the picture I posted with the horses pulling that combine.
 
Dave

Just out of curiosity, do you have any ideas what the yields were back when they were using the horses?

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Lack of Posting
« on: August 12, 2009, 09:02:55 PM »
Quote from: Gene Dotson;746
I don't do a perfect restoration on my tractors, but they look nice for a while. The LA has a lot of belt scuff marks from running sawmills and threshing machines and still has mud behind the tires from pulling trailers out of the mud at Portland. The VC hardly had the paint dry when I hooked it to the hay rake to rake hay and scuff up the drawbar. Gonna do that again on Thursday for the third cutting... Gene

To me, one of the best sights at a show is a nicely restored (but not overdone) tractor that has some scuff marks on the belt pulley and the drawbar.

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Power increases?
« on: August 12, 2009, 08:58:20 PM »
I bet the "Cubota" is quite a sight! A friend of dad's came into the IH dealership he worked for and told a new guy at the parts counter he needed some parts for a diesel Cub. The guy looked far a while and never found the parts book so he asked the boss. Needless to say the boss wasn't too thrilled at one of his employees being made to look so foolish!

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Power increases?
« on: August 09, 2009, 11:10:46 PM »
My family never has believed in modifying anything for more power other than an upgrade in piston designs when time came for a rebuild. Otherwise everything has been kept stock, including the electrical systems. Dad always said he sold enough parts for stock machines that destroyed theirselves by being overloaded. I guess it really depends on how well overbuilt the original machine is. When you look back at our farming history, when a machine was deemed too small to get the job done, it was traded in on a larger machine. Don't get me wrong, not condeming the practice of squeezing out more power--it certainly adds more flavor to a tractor pull!

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