Lets see your tractors

[85_Ranger4x4]

My crawler will go 8mph. It's scary going that fast on it, though. I'm afraid something will get hung up in the sprockets. It has so much traction you would get splattered all over the place during an instant stop. Much better to clank majestically around the field.

My C goes about that fast, but then the front end starts wobbling so bad the engine starts to miss. If the road has a nice crown on it so I have something to hold it against it isn't too bad though. The other two do it to some degree as well, but not as bad... and they go roughly twice as fast.

All they need is a couple hugely overpriced bearings and a multimillion dollar NLA gear or two.

 

[Will]

My C goes about that fast, but then the front end starts wobbling so bad the engine starts to miss. If the road has a nice crown on it so I have something to hold it against it isn't too bad though. The other two do it to some degree as well, but not as bad... and they go roughly twice as fast.

All they need is a couple hugely overpriced bearings and a multimillion dollar NLA gear or two.

The road...

I don't think I'll drive on the road. It leaves marks and the county highway department will follow them to my house and fine me.

Parts might seem expensive for this old stuff, but parts for new stuff is even more expensive.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Parts might seem expensive for this old stuff, but parts for new stuff is even more expensive.

Oh, yeah. I work at a shop so I notice that first hand everyday. The newer ones with fully hydraulic steering are really bad when the valves and motors give up. The more that I am around them the more I like about the mid 40's to mid 50's for a balance of simplicity and ease of use. Cases were pretty polite that way well into the 60's though.

It is just that a grand or better for parts (if you can find them) for a weed mower/snow pusher just because the steering is a little loose at flank speed doesn't compute for me.

 

[B2 Addict]

This one belongs to my wife's Uncle:

B2

 

[Will]

Hey, I don't think I posted my new tractor thingy! Tired of bouncing around on a 50" cut riding mower out in the sea of grass so I bought this in the summer. It has a 45hp Ford 4-cylinder and a Dana 20 drive axle so it's almost like, part of the family.

 

[4.0B2]

what happens when you have the 8N up here for some maintanance and then you buy a finishing mower used... sharpen the blades-- order a new belt (found one on eBay for $20, sure beats the 100 that TSC wanted) and then dad decides he wants to see it wor?

he tries it out in the front yard, and i live in a mobile home park.. lol. the tractor is for the farm land in Pontotoc.. but... he had to see it work lol

 

[chasemyranger]

fw 60

notice the ranger playing hide and seek in the back!

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[85_Ranger4x4]

Been a busy little bee getting the '45 ready for winter.

Ordered a new battery box and painted in the same wrong color that the rest of the tractor is painted, went to change it and discovered just how bad the wiring was and decided to rewire it.

Only two were really bad (none were great by any means), all but the little two wires I just put in a couple years ago when I changed the light switch in th dash were replaced.

Primary feed for the dash, constant 12V. Basically it runs the lights and ignition... pretty much everything.

Main headlight power wire, runs both front headlights.

I was talking to a guy I work with, he worked at the dealer back in '66 and remembers it getting a new manifold, M&W engine kit and wiring harness... so it has served its time (and then some)

I painted the dash to match the battery box and installed a new lit ammeter in it too. Figured it only made sense to have one I can see at night. It can run for weeks without the generator generating in the daylight, couple hours with the lights on though...

Also converted it from my coveted Snap-Coupler to three point so I can put the blade on it, I can't wait until I get my Snap-Coupler blade built...

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