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fwo 
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 Topic: Tractor humor, my Allis 180
Posted: 06 Jun 2012 at 11:04pm |
The throttle handle broke off from my
Allis-Chalmers 180 about ten years ago. Since then I have been using
this Vise-Grips pliers as the throttle handle. I have gotten used to it
and it's rusted on there in such a perfect comfortable angle that I no
longer want to get it fixed. In fact, the next time I'm down at neighborhood welding shop I'm going to ask him to weld in on there
permanently. I want it welded on because a couple years ago my Amish helper, Jonas,
needed a Vice-Grips and borrowed this one. Not only couldn't I get the
tractor out of a slow idle without the Vice-Grips on there but it took
me days to get it back on the tractor just exactly right.  That frayed baler twine is my choke cable. On cold days, I pull that
string to help start the tractor. I realise that string is frayed but I
don't have baler twine on the farm any more so I hope to nurse this
string along for a few more years.
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captaindana
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Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 4:51am |
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Wow fwo you are surely bringing back memories! Our 180 we bought new and couldn't keep the throttle pin nor choke cable intact. Our vise grips NEVER left the position yours are in; and our choke cable was a heavy 12v electric wire which also stayed for the life of the tractor!
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Curt-Indiana
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Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 5:12am |
I still use baler twine! What address can I send some! LOL 
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Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 5:57am |
You don't happen to be Irish do you? 
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Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 6:11am |
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Thought that was a factory option -- LOL.
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Larry B
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Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 8:50am |
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Ihave that same option on my 180 gas, should have come from the factory that way.
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Posted: 08 Jun 2012 at 10:05pm |
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duct tape, vice grips, 12ga electrical wire. standard video field kit, frequently raided to keep machinery going. "temporary" fixits tend to become permanent as they keep on working.
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52 CA, 41 B and a little B1 oh, yeah... and an 8N ford snuck in there, too.
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NickT(Ky)
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Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 7:25pm |
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I've got a medium sized phillips screwdrive bent 90* clamped to my throttle on the D-14. It sticks up above the steering wheel. I can turn the wheel and hit the throttle with one hand while working the hyd. cont. with the other. Looks odd when I go to parades but I use it then too.
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Unit3
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Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 8:01pm |
Someone call Jeff Foxworthy. "IF YOU EVER used a visegrip as a replacement part on your tractor, then you might be a redneck."
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Clay
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Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 11:38am |
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I use Vise-Grips to hold the unloading auger in position on my CII combine.
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Claus
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Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 11:51am |
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Anybody ever bought the parts to fix this right? Dad has an old 170 with the same problem, looks like an expensive fix or make something on your own.
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Mike56073
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Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 1:59pm |
Wrong color on the vise grips, LOL 
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Oldoug
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Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 9:08pm |
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Dad had visegrips on the brake lever and p.t.o. lever on his 200 for years, I got the p.t.o. lever fixed last year gonna work on the brake one when I get time someday.
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SHAMELESS
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Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 2:19am |
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whew!! i thoughts i was the only one that ni...jimmy rigged stuff! my dad always used baling wire to fix stuff...i use duct tape!! now this takes a load off my mind!!
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Lonn
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Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 7:33am |
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Good duct tape is nice. It's what holds my mailbox on the post. Been two years since I taped it the last time. Cheap stuff wouldn't last 6 months.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 10:02pm |
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ha ha yeah, shameless... i can just see you losing sleep worrying what anybody else thought about the way you do things. thanks for the chuckle.
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52 CA, 41 B and a little B1 oh, yeah... and an 8N ford snuck in there, too.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 10:41pm |
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ya caught me...CA!!
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012 at 9:52am |
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On the subject of "Farm Fixes" , most older tractors I have seen always have nails of various sizes in place of cotter pins. In fact if you look in any old tractor tool box there are always an assortment of old rusty nails.
I restore quite a few old steel wheel tractors for customers and always leave at least one quite visible, "nail cotter pin" in place just to make the restoration authentic!! LOL
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ironac
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 2:27am |
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Best tool ever! Hmm maybe I will start a new topic on this.
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