What the Hell is that Noise?
Mar 12, 2024 1:04:18 GMT -6
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Post by haywood on Mar 12, 2024 1:04:18 GMT -6
Short Story for your Entertainment...
It was a Dark and Stormy Night, before picking up The Farmall M at my friends Dad's Wheatland Farm in Edwall, WA. 20 years ago. The M had been in one of their Barns for 12 years unused when I bought it.
I Took the Company Ford 7000 Louisville Rollback out 35 miles to get the "Old Girl"
and parked the Truck at Home in front of the house for the night. My Neighbor asked me if I heard Drunk Girls hooting and hollering about 2 AM.
MMM? No! He said his cousin was Joining the Army, she and her 3 Girl friends were pretty lit up and climbed up onto that Farmall M {under the bright Street Lamp} and took pictures with 2 on the tires one in the seat and one laying across the hood! I never did get a copy but would have gladly accepted one.
Part Two, Weeks later after cleaning the muck out of the M and getting her started
In the Yard at Work. I moved the Old Girl and she growled and rattled like she was coming apart. After about 75 Yards and a couple wide turns, she quieted down and was fine. That old Transmission has a lot of wear as she worked hard all her life. The Ride on the Ford 7000 was firm and bounced along the way home. The Transmission gears and bearings were worn enough to bounce around and miss align the straight tooth gears enough to make those gear sets Rattle like crazy until it ran far enough to Run those gears back into the wear pattern they Ran in...!
I only seen one other Tractor do that and it was a Farmall H with a hard life.
But all worked well plowing snow here in the winter and loading big heavy things into the truck with a boom pole. WE never did move as I had planned to years earlier or she would have seen more work.
It was a Dark and Stormy Night, before picking up The Farmall M at my friends Dad's Wheatland Farm in Edwall, WA. 20 years ago. The M had been in one of their Barns for 12 years unused when I bought it.
I Took the Company Ford 7000 Louisville Rollback out 35 miles to get the "Old Girl"
and parked the Truck at Home in front of the house for the night. My Neighbor asked me if I heard Drunk Girls hooting and hollering about 2 AM.
MMM? No! He said his cousin was Joining the Army, she and her 3 Girl friends were pretty lit up and climbed up onto that Farmall M {under the bright Street Lamp} and took pictures with 2 on the tires one in the seat and one laying across the hood! I never did get a copy but would have gladly accepted one.
Part Two, Weeks later after cleaning the muck out of the M and getting her started
In the Yard at Work. I moved the Old Girl and she growled and rattled like she was coming apart. After about 75 Yards and a couple wide turns, she quieted down and was fine. That old Transmission has a lot of wear as she worked hard all her life. The Ride on the Ford 7000 was firm and bounced along the way home. The Transmission gears and bearings were worn enough to bounce around and miss align the straight tooth gears enough to make those gear sets Rattle like crazy until it ran far enough to Run those gears back into the wear pattern they Ran in...!
I only seen one other Tractor do that and it was a Farmall H with a hard life.
But all worked well plowing snow here in the winter and loading big heavy things into the truck with a boom pole. WE never did move as I had planned to years earlier or she would have seen more work.