Redneck Engineering

exSW wrote:

"Good as new" favourite phrase of a notorious tractor jockey.

Or in the words of another notorious crooked auctioneer, "ride and drive, boys"... Wink

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Dale (Stonelick) wrote:

my redneck solution for fixing a cracked seat pan on a CA. The Harley shock absorber is not an original idea.

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Every time I buy a used piece of equipment, I always have to "de-farmer" it. I swear, some farmers will spend more time "Jerry-rigging" something than it would take to fix it right.

I like that picture to.

1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp

There should be a law that forbids some folks to use tools of any kind. About a year ago I brought an I-40. I knew it had been farmerized as there were springs everywhere on the governor and throttle linkages. I just chalked it up to the typical things of those that can't follow the procedure to properly adjust the governor linkage and thought that it wouldn't be a big deal to straighten that out. I also found that the brake lock had been unhooked, because it it the late style with the ratchet teeth and no matter what you do it won't work as intended. I have a set of peddles from an earlier D10 with the cam lock to fix that. It had been used for loading mulch and had mulch everywhere. After I got a few layers off I found that the sensing linkage to the 3pt had been disabled. No big deal ther either as I'm going to remove that wimpy bastard to hitch up 3pt for a full Snap-coupler that works with all my equipment. What really takes the cake is what I've encountered while replacing the waterpump that has a bearing loose enough the the fan was ticking against something. First off, at some point in it's life the lower water elbow had rusted out as the entire lower hose assembly had been replace with a car hose and the was no way to drain the anit-freeze into a bucket. Then I see that it is a size larger that the radiator or waterpump nipples because it is pushed all the way up the neck on the waterpump.

All I can say is that it wasn't leaking and that at least the worms on the hose clamps were pointing so I could get a screwdriver on them. After getting to the pump itself I find that the last time this was done someone made a stud from all-thread for the bottom bolt. It went in OK I guess, however now the stud needed a lot of help to remove. As the I-40 has a loader and hard nose, I'm not removing the radiator. I got the fan off and out with normal effort, although the waterpump hits the radiator before it clears the stud. The only thing I found to work was vise-grips and that only had room for about 1/8 turn at best. needless to say at 16 threads per inch and the homemade stud in near to 1/2" that took awhile. The method I do is to remove the pulley on the one with the cast fixed pulley, drop in the correct bolt with copper sealing washer and then press the pulley back on. that allows for removal next time without pulling the radiator.

If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits.
If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY

Here is the patch my grandfather put on the block when it cracked. Flat piece of steel with stainless screws and inner tube as the seal.....

chaskaduo wrote:

Reminds me of the Band-Aids stuck on you commercial. Smile

Did I hear a request?

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Amazing how people bash farmer repairs they manage to keep them running even if the farm isn’t making any money. Easy to fix things right and put them back in the shed when you’re not depending on them to make a living.

Amen... I find good old American ingenuity very interesting. Amazing what people can come up with. Some should have been engineers. Keep posting those band-aids.

My Dad, rest his soul, was a great one for utilizing the farmer cotter key (bent nail). Had many of those in implements around the farm. They functioned just as well as a cotter pin and maybe in the long run even better. At least you could straighten them out and re use them!

Regards,

Chris

D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet.

I have whole collection of never been used cotter pins, but still have things with a bent nail in them Big smile

We have a family saying, 'Slaymakerized' because my Great Uncle Sam fixed a LOT of things on the farm with what he had. There was a broken hinge on a barn door, that had the sole of an old shoe nailed in place of the hinge. I'm sure it had to have been there for 40 years or more.

Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 06 Feb 2020 at 10:24am

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