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last load of the year !!

AC Diesel

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Getting the last load of hay for the year with my vintage equipment

Trusty unit

I was on here asking about a joystick, this is what I bought



Unhooking



Only a partial load left

Not much for scenery



My destination



Doing my part to speed up global warming

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Sorry i'm completly computer illiterate, you'll have to click on the picture. I'll try to figure this picture thing out.
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Faster horses

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Not that I can be of much help, I just started using postimage myself.

There is a place there when you can resize your pictures. Find the one you want, that says repost to forums, or something like that and click on it. There are several choices, just read and you'll easily find the right one,
That's all I did and I got the right size. I never was happy with my photo size that transferred over here when I used photobucket.

I hope I helped. If not, someone will come along that knows way more than me. I found postimage to be pretty simple.

Thanks for the pictures!
 

LazyWP

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What is the tractor? A 190XT? Used to run all Allis tractors, now I am all Case, and the newest one is only 3 years younger then me.
 

AC Diesel

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The tractor is a 200, it has a few updates the 190 doesn't.


Yes they are underslungs, that were used for hauling stacks. They are real common around here, you can buy a good running gear on a farm sale for 3 to 500 dollars. I need to install one more pipe above the rear axle so I can haul 2 more bales, that would make 20 bales at a time.
 

Ho55

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We have a good ol allis chalmers 7050 maroon belly that has been one heck of a work horse. I like old ac tractors.
 

burnt

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I learned to drive on an Allis WC, hand brakes and all. Seldom had a good battery in it and the crank would spin back sometimes and launch you halfway to the moon, unless you were unlucky and it came around back and smash you one on the elbow. :shock: :shock: :shock: :cry2:

And the loader tractor was an Allis WD45 with narrow front end. Not a good arrangement for a loader tractor, it spent a sizable chunk of its life flopped over on its side! If you tried loading on anything but flat ground, it just laid over. :roll:

Can't say they hold fond memories . . . :?
 

AC Diesel

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Burnt thats funny, the first loader tractor my dad had when I was a kid was a WD45 with an Allis trip bucket loader. It had a narrow front also.
My younger brother laid it over once pulling a fence post. Dad still has that tractor, and it still runs great.
 

burnt

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AC Diesel said:
Burnt thats funny, the first loader tractor my dad had when I was a kid was a WD45 with an Allis trip bucket loader. It had a narrow front also.
My younger brother laid it over once pulling a fence post. Dad still has that tractor, and it still runs great.

http://images1.americanlisted.com/nlarge/allis_chalmers_wd_loader_3_point_hitch_1275_cornell_wi_29054885.jpg

Look at the picture and you wonder how could anything go wrong with a loader tractor like that? :lol:

Ours had a Freeman loader with a trip bucket.

And the crank. :mad:

http://www.purplewave.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?111103/F9929

It was a sadistic so-and-so that ever made a crank with straight-in notches to fit onto the cranking stub sticking out front of the crankshaft. The later ones had beveled or angled slots that would push the crank back off of the crankshaft if the engine backfired, saving a broken wrist or elbow. Ow the memories... :?

More than a few of those tractors and peculiar, elongated grooves in the front of the hood where the crank was forcefully applied as a frustration-relief tool after getting smacked on the arm after a misfire during an aborted cranking attempt.

They usually were not very deep though, since you could only do it one-handed because your other arm dangled like a useless, numb blob of pain! :lol: Also, the double bend design didn't lend itself very well to swinging it like a weapon while the predominant emotion usually spoiled your aim anyway... :lol2:

Thanks for stirring up all the memories, I guess!
 

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