Wow NIF, nasty weather is right. We harrowed everything as of a week ago and the spraying is done for now but it will be a while before wheels turn again. Ground seems to be pretty mellow and we will probably harrow once before the drill rolls over it. Nice shots of the D6 work in progress. I've pulled 9U and 98J trannies--not to bad a job once the cab is off.

Here's some scans of older pics taken from a few years ago. Bankout unloading bluegrass seed, van of it being unloaded at Jacklins in Post Falls when I used to pull them over there, D5 on 70' Flexicoil harrow (to keep this yellow), a shot taken off Steptoe Butte--good example of the Palouse from high up, and a new at the time 9632 harvester on the show off ramps at Arrow Machinery near Colfax.

I'm thinking hard about driving up to Chewelah tomorrow for some decent powder skiing. Maybe one more turn at it before "hot" weather sets in? Kind of a weird feeling to be riding a chair lift after being in the field...

Hello All, for anyone who is interested and close enough to go, the Eastern Washington Ag Museum in Pomeroy, Wa will be having their annual Spring(?) Farming Days this weekend, April 3rd and 4th. They have a small patch of ground that they plow up with horses and mules and then let the tractors cross harrow. They have just got done restoring a 16 horse ground power sweep that came off a farm about 4 miles down the road. Hopfully it's not to muddy for them as they have been rained/snowed out the last two years. I'll take some pics and get them posted.

NIF I have a sickle bar for a 222 it needs sections but the end/bar is allright you can have it if you want it.
As for weather we,ve had more winter the last three days than we had the last four months. I was all set to start chiseling when this started, but around here you can't grow wheat without mud:rolleyes:

Bruce

Bleedinred- nice pics, especially that shot from steptoe. Some of our fields we would not even have room to turn that 70' harrow around.

Bruce- thanks but we dont need another sickle bar, because we are going to leave pea bars on two of the four headers we have extra grain sickles already.

Well our snow storm fizzed out at 8:00p.m. last night here so we didnt get as much snow as expected. I was out and about this morning and stopped by where the D6B and offset disk is parked after being rained out 10 days ago.

It is normal to get a couple of snows in April here, but after very little snow fell in Feb. and March it is a little surprising.

I looked back in my picture files and found this one taken exactly a year ago. Showing that there was still plenty of winters snow left on April 3rd last year.

Gooday all
Really enjoyed the pics and comments on this thread.
I've worked with crawler tractors since 1940 both farming and construction.

I have a question for cat men;
We run D2s here in the Assiniboine valley for seeding on the soft valley silt because it packs so easily a crop cannot grow in the wheel tracks of ordinary 4 wheel drives. We pull 24 ft of IH 100 pressdrills, the D2s are turned up to 45 db. hp. with the long track frame and 16" pads they work quite well. So well that we are still using several late 5Us (the 56,57,ones), I had 10 of them at one time, but it is just the last ones that where the good ones, for our job.

So here is my question;
I want to put a hyd. pump on and drive it from the generator drive gear, it will be a 15 gal. pump at 1500 psi. this is adaquate for the pressdrills. On this set up the pump has a through shaft that I would like to drive an alternater also. What do you think, will the timing gears on the D2 handle this load?
Do you know of any that have done this, and/or what are your thoughts on this. These pumps come off the TD61s and TD91s and ran off the timing gears on these tractors without problems

John
Here is a pic of a 5U D2 on the test track testing for HP.
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Hi NIFarmer we are also having very cold late weather at least 3weeks behind normal. All we seem to hear about is carbon emissions reduction and tier 3 and 4 engines which are far more complicated and expensive to purchase and run, How often does one see a 30 year old Cat belching out smoke? i think we are being conned. I hope to put some more stuff on YOLO and SHROPSHIRE .in the few days all the best Atlas

It was pretty windy but dry enough to plow at Pomeroy. Here are some pics from the Eastern Washington Ag Museum, in cluding a couple of Cats, a wooden Harris 28-30 and there newly restored horse power sweep made to handle up to 14 horses. Enjoy

Bruce

"MB. wrote:

So here is my question;
I want to put a hyd. pump on and drive it from the generator drive gear, it will be a 15 gal. pump at 1500 psi. this is adaquate for the pressdrills. On this set up the pump has a through shaft that I would like to drive an alternater also. What do you think, will the timing gears on the D2 handle this load?
Do you know of any that have done this, and/or what are your thoughts on this. These pumps come off the TD61s and TD91s and ran off the timing gears on these tractors without problems

John

I have seen it done before, and I really don't know what to say about the gear train honestly.

The horse power required is 13.12 hp for 15gpm @1500 psi that's assuming 100% efficiency.

One hand the parts are getting harder to come by, however on the other hand the gears are fairly good size when compared to a transmission out of a midsized car. Also the D6d, D5b, and many other tractor from that vintage run a bigger hydraulic pump right off of the gear train.

Something else to consider the marine engines run both a pump for the heat exchanger and have an accessory shaft off that location to drive a bilge pump.

Personally I have driven the pumps off of the crank, however running off of the generator drive would be much cleaner.

Here is a picture of a drive I built in the 90's with that idea in mind to run a lovejoy behind the pulley to drive a pump.

Bruce, thanks for posting the pics of the museum and activities. Weather looks to have been a little nicer than it was up here today. The horsepower got a #1 restore from the likes of the pictures. Regarding the crawler tied up behind the header, I don't think that would be OSHA approved.

NIF, those are great exposures of your B. Are you using auto settings or shooting manual mode? Reason I ask is it's time to get my wife a new camera and I sure like the results from yours. Maybe its the yellow paint that does it...

This is an excellent thread with some awesome pics.,thanks for sharing guys

You have some nice country out there is western MB,John.

Bleedinred those pics were taken with auto settings on a Fuji FinePix J150w. Like I said before I like the small pocket cameras and that one takes fairly good pictures.