Ye Old Garage

[sublime68charger]

Some guys have all the luck.
Nice score

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i wouldn't say that as now I feel like I own this guy who's a great guy some favors if he ever needs anything I'll due what I can to help him out.

plus once I get it where I want it I'll still throw some cash his way its just if I stick $500 into the ATV then he might get $300 or if I stick $200 in the ATV he'll probably get the $500. He just doesn't have the time to mess with the darn thing any more or doesn't want to either way I happy to have it and I don't have the time either but I love Honda ATV's and I have the shop area to work on it. Wish i had more ATV fix it knowledge but with Message boards and time you can find your answers. and its not that I need it running working this weekend, It would be nice but probably not gonna happen.

 

[harley jim]

I have been looking for a side by side or a gas golf cart to use around here I'm always running to the neighbors shop for something or to help him. I'm out in the sticks and they run them on the roads around here.

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[sublime68charger]

HarleyJim

My Dad has a Kubota 1100 Diesel and that thing is a workhourse! Full Cab with AC/or Heat. Has a snow dog V Plow on it for snow removal in the winter!
Hes a retired County Worker Ran the Blacktop Plant in the summer and in the winter he ran a Grader with a V-plow on the front and a Wing for banking snow!

I would love to have a Side by Side but they are $$ and in my woodland trails the ATV wiggle alot better than SxS. For the 6 ATVS I have which are all 15 plus years old I may be able to have 1 SxS but I think the Kids like driving there own ATV VS riding in a SxS

 

[harley jim]

Yes you are right, If they all ride they will remember that for life.
I had a 4 wheeler up until a couple of years ago. My Stepdaughter lives at winrock it's a 73,000 acre ride park about an hour from me we always talk about going there to ride but never have enough 4x4s at one time for everyone to ride. Maybe someday

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[xtremek]

Free is good.

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: you are quite HANDY when it comes to John Deere tractors and ATV's. no wonder you spent the time to build that little ATV/tractor service station.

I think curds and beer is a better reward for watching your meal portions than DEW, but that's just me trying to help.

that is a PURDY picture of all those John Deeres in front of your garage. it's hardly looking like YE OLD GARAGE anymore.

we all need a few of those sales and freebies to keep us smiling so keep up the great work.

 

[sublime68charger]

Free is good.

it can be, though you factor in the time I'll spend farting, err fixing it up how I want and will it really be free?

but its better than what I has yesterday at this time which was nothing.

I get it running it'll be a good quad for the oldest kid to use and it'll be handy for me as well!

 

[sublime68charger]

Sub: you are quite HANDY when it comes to John Deere tractors and ATV's. no wonder you spent the time to build that little ATV/tractor service station.

I think curds and beer is a better reward for watching your meal portions than DEW, but that's just me trying to help.

that is a PURDY picture of all those John Deeres in front of your garage. it's hardly looking like YE OLD GARAGE anymore.

we all need a few of those sales and freebies to keep us smiling so keep up the great work.

Drives thanks for stopping by and putting up with all my regression's in the being healthy you keep trying to help and some of it does stink in!

 

[Bob Heine]

Free is good.

Cheap is good, free is better.

 

[sublime68charger]

so I had to move the old outhouse/wifes garden shed,

used the ATV and the rear winch and atv just didn't have the traction to pull the outhouse so I had to anchor to the truck and then use the rear winch to move the shed inch's at a time, it worked out fine and shed is in its new summer location for now.

sneak peek about why the outhouse got displaced from it's location spot!

 

[sublime68charger]

Cheap is good, free is better.

can be it all depends upon your time and expense in said free item before its at a state that you can use it.

I'm hoping I don't have to sink alot of $ into said ATV to make it usefully to me.

she's up on ramps now going into a teardown process to fix the stuff that I know how to fix and needs to be fixed.

 

[xtremek]

Chicken coop?

 

[sublime68charger]

Chicken coop?

winner, winner! Chicken Dinner!

its not in place yet but the chickens are ordered and will be here on May 15th!

so I got to get it in place and ready to go by then!

 

[harley jim]

What kind of chickens did you get. I used to raise buff orphingtons. I'm thinking about starting them again

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[drivesitfar]

SUB: nice to see you got a HONDA ATV cause I love HONDA ENGINES.

does this mean that you and your bride will be making eggs for breakfast more often than eating cereal or a banana.

if you need some ideas on what to do with eggs please ask cause my bride has been a vegetarian for about 30 years and she makes eggs as part of her protein in her diet.

great looking chicken coup BTW. so if the little outhouse was hard to move how are you going to move that big thing off the trailer to it's new home?

good luck and I bet your kids will love the chickens. also do you have many hawks, eagles or birds of prey to dine on your chickens or are they always going to be behind the fence and under cover?

very exciting stuff!! (I thought it was an ATV garage cause it's so big)

 

[xtremek]

Eggs and pancakes with homemade maple syrup. COUNT ME IN!!!!!

 

[sublime68charger]

so the chicken coop is now placed out where it needs to be and anchored down,

the New Chicks are here and the daughter wanted to sleep out in the shop with them the first 2 nights so I got to sleep out there as well.

or as I termed it. Sleeping with the Deere's while daughter sleeps with the Baby Chicks!

my sleeping spot!

daughter with one a the baby chicks

daughters bunk for the first 2 hours then she moved outside the bathroom door as the chicks where to loud for her to sleep.

 

[xtremek]

Looks like a fun nights sleep. How many chicks?

 

[sublime68charger]

Looks like a fun nights sleep. How many chicks?

15, chickens and 1 rooster!

sleep wasn't to bad when I would wake up I could see John Deere 140 and that big air cleaner from the glow of the night light that the daughter needed.

back was a little sore and all that but no different than when I been out camping with Boy Scouts or Cub scouts, that cot and me have been avg about 20 nights a summer the last 3 years. so far this year I'm at just 3 nights on the cot!

 

[sublime68charger]

Xtremek, This post is for you and your Mule,

My family has a 54 Golden Jubliee my Grandpa bought it new

I don't have many pics of "Henry" Tractor has been named for as long as I can remember,

any way got Henry out and running this last weekend and used him for a afternoon of pulling out some small trees!

Henry in front of Ye Old Garage!

up close of the Hood emblem!

hooked up to the tree to pull out.

using a block to get a little leverage to help get the stump out of the ground! darn trees are tougher than they look!

middle son showed up outside and got to drive the tractor for the first time!
before his older brother even which he was pretty happy about!

 

[xtremek]

GOt to love those old Ford tractors, they're almost indestructible. VEry cool.

 

[Bob Heine]

My family has a 54 Golden Jubliee my Grandpa bought it new

Matt, when I close my eyes and think 'Tractor,' that's what I see.

 

[bunks-tj]

very cool, our main tractor until about 2 years ago was a similar vintage MF to-20

 

[sublime68charger]

Matt, when I close my eyes and think 'Tractor,' that's what I see.

Thanks Bob, Hope all is well down there and the heat isn't unbearable yet!

yep the Ford tractor had a classic no nonsense design and its still handy to have around.

It was my Grandpa's chore tractor and due all tractor for many many years.

 

[sublime68charger]

very cool, our main tractor until about 2 years ago was a similar vintage MF to-20

ah yes the hand shake agreement between Ford and Ferguson!

Never have drove a Massey Ferguson, Heck I dont think I have ever even road on one. Though My Dad did have a Massey 44 before I was born but that got traded on a Case 730. I spent many hours riding the fender of the case when I was in single digits for age. Case got sold when I was 9 years old I cried myself to sleep that night I remember. Grandpa was retiring from farming and my dad wasn't gonna take it over as the farm was to small to make a go of it.

1984 I was 9.

 

[sublime68charger]

Matt, when I close my eyes and think 'Tractor,' that's what I see.

My Dad gave Henry the pain job he has now back in 1998 or so. Any way My Grandpa was living in a nursing home at that time and we brought the tractor out to the nursing home for him to see. Wheeled him out the door to where the tractor was and he Goes that looks just like how My tractor looked many years ago, and we said that is your tractor and he was up out of the wheel chair in in the tractor seat lickety split and had a big old smile on his face, Started it up and drove it around some as well I think. I know there is a nice picture of grandpa and grandma standing by the tractor that day over at my folks house.

 

[xtremek]

That's a cool story about the nursing home. It's a good way to start my day.

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: great looking tractor!!

awesome story about your gramp wheeling out of the nursing home and jumping on the tractor to take it for a spin and also your middle son getting to drive it around before your oldest did.

does that tractor usually stay at your dad's or is it in your care now for the next 50 years?

have a great weekend.

 

[shopnut]

Hey Sublime. Thanks for sharing some posts on the JD 140. I have a '74 110 which was purchased to maintain the grounds back in 1998 when the Asylum property was first acquired. I loved using that old tractor and still have it, but it hasn't seen the light of day in quite a years now. You may have inspired me to pull the old girl out and see if it runs. Thanks (I think)! LOL

 

[sublime68charger]

shopnut thanks for stopping by,



my JD thread's about the 2 140's I have are
69 140 is here
https://www.wfmachines.com/forums/sh...h-Sleeve-hitch

the 74 140 is here
https://www.wfmachines.com/forums/sh...-140-H1-Thread

they have booth been on quite the journey since I got them.

any chance of a pic of that 110 that you have?
Gotta love the old JD's they are 1 tough tractor!

 

[sublime68charger]

Drives, Henry stay's over at my dad's shed he has way way more room than me.

been a few years since he has ran but now that I had him running for a afternoon I'm hoping to put him to work more often.

let me know If I need to bring Henry over to pull that stump out at your daughters!

 

[sublime68charger]

That's a cool story about the nursing home. It's a good way to start my day.

glad your day got started off great! Hope it finished even better!

 

[xtremek]

It ended successfully, hurting and sore, but successful.

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: remember the movie "STRAIGHT STORY" where an old guy that didn't have a car drove his JOHN DEERE across the midwest to go to a funeral or maybe just to see his brother. it's a SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW movie so barely watched it once, but since you like JD's it might be some good entertainment while you are resting from a hard day of work.

speaking of work you did give me a good idea on how to help get my daughter's stumps out of her yard with the 4x4 leverage. of course there will be plenty of hand digging and axing and such cause we can't get a stump grinder or anything over 3 foot wide into my daughter's back yard.

driving Henry down your town's main street might be fun if you can organize an AFTER COVID 19 parade.

cheers and hope you are having fun with the family and Henry.

 

[sublime68charger]

been working on putting a OEM 3 point system on my 69 John Deere 140 and its on and goes up and down!

have to put rest of tractor back together pretty up the hydro lines so there not rubbing on anything and then get teh cultivator on it and use it to weed out the garden. it'll be way better than use a hand held Hoe I Hope.

 

[sublime68charger]

Drives its on my list to watch that movie Strait Story! saving that for a brutal hot day when I cant work on something that'll be mid july or August.

 

[xtremek]

Did the 3pt come off another tractor? Was it hard to put on?

 

[sublime68charger]

Xremek, the 3 point is a OEM kit made by John Deere for the 140 tractors it hard to find and they are not cheap either, there are after market kits as well you can get that are just as good or better in some regards to the OEM kits'

wasn't hard to put on now that I have it on. Like most things if I had to due again I could due in 1/2 the time but when your doing something for the first time I more of a go slow and try not to due step 7 at step 3 and then have to take all apart and start at step 1 again.

I also took off the rear seat and fender pan as I need to due some other work on the 140. Changed Hydro fluid in transmission and adjusted the Hydro linkage, When tractor was in Neutral it wanted to creep foward.

also I had to add a rear Hydraulic Kit and then i opted to put in a Hydro lockout kit so when I'm using the 3 point I don't have to wait for the rock shaft cylinder to cycle before the 3 point starts moving.

the 3 point will quick attach and can now go on/off in probably a few minutes.
though I'll probably just be leaving the 3 point on the tractor for the most part I would guess.

 

[sublime68charger]

Xtremek this is gonna be right up your alley,

the Old ford got some more love this weekend!

I could explain but I'll let the pictures due the talking for me!

its a little busy out in front of Ye Old Garage!

shameless photo Op of Henry and the Charger!

Saw Holder made and installed!

even has a spot for your chainsaw wrench!

took it back over to my Dad's that where tractor stays and Told him Happy Fathers Day now he could me more effiecent when skidding wood! "Don't know if he was impressed or not but my Mom sure liked the idea?

 

[xtremek]

I do like that, very nice bit of shadetree engineering. Well done.