| Bought a companion for the forty-five
 
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 Topic: Bought a companion for the forty-five
 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Subject: Bought a companion for the forty-five
 Date Posted: 12 Oct 2016 at 8:58pm
 
 
        
          | On auction time today, I got an AD 3 for 200 bucks. No engine in it, but one comes with it that is advertised as being "loose". Bought it sight un-seen. About 30 miles from home, so not too bad a distance. Like I really needed another project, but I have allis fever so bad, I can't help myself. Darrel |  
 
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 Posted By: shameless (ne)
 Date Posted: 12 Oct 2016 at 11:08pm
 
 
        
          | I thoughts you said you was broked? |  
 Posted By: Eric B
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 12:25am
 
 
        
          | |  shameless (ne) wrote: 
 I thoughts you said you was broked?
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 "Broke or not broke" a new purchase helps to lower the fever LOL 
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 Currently- WD,WC,3WF's,2 D14's B. Previously- I 600,TL745,200,FL9,FR12,H3,816 LBH. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal!
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 Posted By: JohnCO
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 1:15am
 
 
        
          | Dale, he is now! 
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 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 7:23am
 
 
        
          | |  shameless (ne) wrote: 
 
 
 
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 I am broke. I am goin to start up a custom road grading business to get "un-broke". Darrel
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 Posted By: CAL(KS)
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 8:20am
 
 
        
          | AD3 should be very similiar to forty-five except motor and minor changes  nice score.  worth $200 if it has 1 good tire lol 
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 Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20
 
 Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15
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 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 11:50am
 
 
        
          | Anyone know if the AD3 and forty-five have the same transmission. ..? Thanks, Darrel |  
 Posted By: Ian Beale
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 4:09pm
 
 
        
          | Darrel 
 According to the parts book there were gearbox changes at #785 and #1548.
 
 By the illustration those before #785 had straight cut gears (except #779).
 
 I'd doubt that they'd have tooled up for 785 boxes to then change so these might have been carried over from previous.
 
 I have no earlier literature to help with this.
 
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 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 4:56pm
 
 
        
          | Thanks Ian. I think the transmission was from an outside supplier, so they were probably at the mercy of what was available |  
 Posted By: Ian Beale
 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2016 at 7:17pm
 
 
        
          | Darrel 
 In that event maybe have a look and see if some other maker of graders was using something similar.  I suspect there was a fair bit of using what was available going on.
 
 It looks like the 45 brake assembly might be the same as the early Cat 12s for instance.
 
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 Posted By: shameless (ne)
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 2:34am
 
 
        
          | "advertised as being loose"???? I knew some gals from ND like that once! what....you starting a new parts yard for road graders? |  
 Posted By: Ian Beale
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 4:15am
 
 
        
          | Shameless 
 Then there was that spoof ad
 
 "Ford pills will keep you walking
 All through the night"
 
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 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 9:06am
 
 
        
          | |  shameless (ne) wrote: 
 "advertised as being loose"???? I knew some gals from ND like that once! what....you starting a new parts yard for road graders?
 
 
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 loose girls. ...here in ND. ...? I lived here my whole life and ain't found any. You must have a nose for that kind of thing. Darrel
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 Posted By: shameless (ne)
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 12:16pm
 
 
 Posted By: shameless (ne)
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 12:18pm
 
 
        
          | you musta been sheltered as a young'in Darrell! lol |  
 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 10:26pm
 
 
        
          | Well Shameless. Where I grew up, it was slightly remote area. 4 miles away from a town of about 100. 20 miles to a town of 800. And a long ways from anywhere. But, I did always manage to find a prom date, and it was female, and was of the human species. Lol. Darrel |  
 Posted By: Ian Beale
 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2016 at 11:10pm
 
 
        
          | Darrel 
 Then not like one of the wilder parts of Oz then - the Northern Territory in the past described as "the home of wanted men and unwanted women".
 
 And an even more un-pc one "Necessity is the mother of invention and the father of (deleted or I'm likely banned)"
 
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 Posted By: shameless (ne)
 Date Posted: 28 Oct 2016 at 7:58pm
 
 
        
          | was you 2 the only ones at the prom? LMAO! (poke,poke,poke) |  
 Posted By: Ian Beale
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 2:36am
 
 
        
          | Shameless 
 If I was Darrel about now I'd be reminding you "There's things for me to know and you to guess"
 
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 Posted By: shameless (ne)
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 6:22am
 
 
        
          | lol....oh....i'm sure he'll gits even with me down the road Ian! lol |  
 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 6:45am
 
 
        
          | |  shameless (ne) wrote: 
 was you 2 the only ones at the prom? LMAO! (poke,poke,poke)
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 well of course we was. Prom that way is a lot more fun than when you have a whole room full of people, Darrel
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 Posted By: tadams(OH)
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 2:35pm
 
 
        
          | Tell him Darrel   |  
 Posted By: SteveM C/IL
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 9:01pm
 
 
        
          | |  darrel in ND wrote: 
 Well Shameless. Where I grew up, it was slightly remote area. 4 miles away from a town of about 100. 20 miles to a town of 800. And a long ways from anywhere. But, I did always manage to find a prom date, and it was female, and was of the human species. Lol. Darrel
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 3 summers ago I helped a friend haul a 4WD tractor and scraper pan up there west of Minot and returned across US2 through Grand Forks.I never seen so much country with no dwellings.Seemed like you drove forever before seeing a one horse villa.I'd think it would be hard to find a date let alone a bunch of loose weomen.
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 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 9:08pm
 
 
        
          | Steve, you was in the populated part of the state. You got to get down into the south western part to get to the sparsely populated area. But if there was only one loose woman in the whole state, Shameless would find her! Lol Darrel |  
 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 9:10pm
 
 
        
          | Wait a minute here. How did we go from talking about road graders to loose women, all in the same post. Oh, duh me. Shameless is involved. Darrel |  
 Posted By: SteveM C/IL
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 9:13pm
 
 
        
          | Is everything up north in CRP? You'd see nothing but grass/weeds clear over the horizion and now and again there would be some cattle but not many.This was in June or July.Then there were the geese catchers.... |  
 Posted By: darrel in ND
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 9:16pm
 
 
        
          | You should have seen a fair jag of farmland in that country |  
 Posted By: SteveM C/IL
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 9:22pm
 
 
        
          | It's been a couple yrs and I got CRS....maybe closer to "Forks" there was crops? Where I'm from,theres nothing but crops in every field and direction.It was very unusual to me.I thought I was in "no man's land"! |  
 Posted By: Ian Beale
 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2016 at 10:08pm
 
 
        
          | SteveM 
 What cityites really don't get is that when the houses get closer than 4 miles it is getting overpopulated
 
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