Chapter 3 Get Together

The pony on the D6 has never failed to start every since I bought it a number of years ago. It started right up the day before after settting for 4 months. All worked fine when I walked it out of the shed, and brought it up to the yard. I started it twice more while adjusting the #24 front CCU. We pulled the hood, pulled the top of the carb and blew out the carb bowl, which looked clean, and it fired right up. Wonder why these machines like to do that when there is a audience. Must be a humiliation thing. Now I am going to service everything while the hood is off. Its a good chance to look everything over.

Hey OldIronHabit,

The first picture above is Halloween Scary!!! Who's the guy with the scary mask??? I know what you mean about how cats perform with an audience. I took a D35 to a show once and was starting to unload. Of coarse it was being difficult. Many people jumped in to give me advice on what I was doing wrong. I asked One person, who's advise was from another planet, how many tractors he had. "None" was his response... I walked away and unloaded another truck. I then took a 5 minute break to let the crowd disappear, then went back to start the D35 and it started right up. Your right, these old Cats like a crowd and will test you!!!
Hahaha... looks like you had fun. Did you save me a Pizza?

7uPuller

Hey OldIronHabit,

The first picture above is Halloween Scary!!! Who's the guy with the scary mask??? I know what you mean about how cats perform with an audience. I took a D35 to a show once and was starting to unload. Of coarse it was being difficult. Many people jumped in to give me advice on what I was doing wrong. I asked One person, who's advise was from another planet, how many tractors he had. "None" was his response... I walked away and unloaded another truck. I then took a 5 minute break to let the crowd disappear, then went back to start the D35 and it started right up. Your right, these old Cats like a crowd and will test you!!!
Hahaha... looks like you had fun. Did you save me a Pizza?

7uPuller

Roger and Andy,

Glad to see it quit raining up there so you could have a nice get together. Wish I could have been there. I was wondering what happened to the hood. It gives the impression you had to take it out of the shop before you could finish whatever you were working on. Oh well! I agree these Cats like attention and one of the main attractions is to play with you when you try to start a recalcitrant pony or turn the crank on a gascat. But I can't wait to have that issue on my 14A when I can get a working pony installed!

Jan

[quote="janmeermans"]Roger and Andy,

Glad to see it quit raining up there so you could have a nice get together. Wish I could have been there. I was wondering what happened to the hood. It gives the impression you had to take it out of the shop before you could finish whatever you were working on. Oh well! I agree these Cats like attention and one of the main attractions is to play with you when you try to start a recalcitrant pony or turn the crank on a gascat. But I can't wait to have that issue on my 14A when I can get a working pony installed!

Jan[/quote]

I would not go as far to say it quit raining. It only rained twice the week previous to the get togather. We could not push into the low area to be filled so we stripped topsoil. I'm going to take the grader out and clean up the woop-de-do's as I probably will not get back at the project until spring. Or I need a better cat skinner than us mortals to stop by and make it pretty.

Took the 212 out today for some exercise and now it looks like the Chapter 3 dozer operators were all pro's. The albino deer can move freely again without worrying about breaking a leg.