A lot of H's and M's shipped to New Jersey were equipped with the 100" axles for straddling two or four vegetable rows. I'd say they were more common than the standard 80" axles on the H/M/Super H/Super M tractors for our area. They look a little funny on tractors that are only used for shows or parades now, but every once in a while you'll catch one out cultivating a field with the wheels spread out as wide as possible. A local guy currently has a Super C for sale with cultivators, long axles and the rear wheels spread all the way out, and it's too wide to haul on a trailer.
100" axles were more common out here where sugar beets are raised. My grandpa helped a neighbor during harvest running a super M. He told me they'd break one or two axles every season as there was so much equipment mounted to the one side of the tractor along with having the wheels moved out so far on the axle.
We use a ton of those Caplugs at work, to keep contamination and paint out of the innards of the industrial flow control products we manufacture. They're available in yet larger sizes than the biggest ones in that kit, if you need them.
I can relate to the bug thing! And its hot and humid here in South GA. Not the best conditions for painting without a paint room , especially sheet metal that I want to get a nice finish on. Im looking forward to your videos on painting the sheet metal on your H.
Back in the day, the letter series tractors, were shipped from Rock Island to the dealers on railroad flat cars. They dished the rear wheels in to provide extra room to get as many tractors as possible on each flat car. So yes, any tractor arrived with the wheels dished in from the factory. The receiving dealer would then either leave the wheels as they were, or dish them out per the customers needs for row crop wheel spacing.
my dad told me ford's were made so short wheel base because he could load them across the flat car and get more on the car and ship them cheaper. he didn't like ford's because he had seen tractors raise up and flip over and killed the farmer.
Another great video, especially about wheel widths and plough allignment. I remember so much as a teenager at farming college, we had a lecturer who looked over his half moon glasses at us and said " If the tractor and plough are pulling right the tractor will steer itself" and I allways believe he's was so right. Great to see it spoken about again. Keep the vids. coming. Martin. (England)
My '40 H has the 100" axles. Been on the farm since new. We used it mostly in the summer for cultivating and always had the hubs dished out and out to the end of the axles. The outer bearings haven't been replaced since I've been alive (I'm 64) but we did break an axle twice (if I remember Dad telling me correctly). I've been looking for another set of the special axles for my '50 so I can use the cultivator on that tractor. Great job on the painting and thanks for all the tips and little tricks. 👍👍👍
Snow til late April and Mosquitos as soon as it melts off??? Visiting LeSeuer and getting to meet Da Squatch was great, but man, I don't know if I could deal with more Minnesota. I'll just hang here and watch the goings on via the 'Tube and say hey each April. On a different note, because your H project is moving ahead, I decided it's high time to lay into my grandad's old 43 H that I "restored" back in high school with rattle cans and a very limited budget. Now I can do her justice and make it right, thanks for being a bit of an inspiration my northern friend!
Another great video Squatch. Thanks for explaining how you want to minimize the offset between tractor and plow. The old H is going to look great when its back together. Cheers
Reminded me of when we painted the top of my 62 BelAir in a garage to get away from wind blown dust and insects. All good until the painting started and then the insects rained out of the rafters to die from the fumes in the primer coat.
OMG - I had to look away at the end of the video. I hate mosquitoes. I started scratching my own head watching all those miniature vultures flying around. I could never live in Minnesota.
The main reason for being able to adjust the tire tracking was for row cropping meaning what the center of your row crops. As in 36" width rows or 30" 22" or 15" width rows, even in the old days corn was planted in 38 and 42 inch width rows, not so common in today's farming practices.
Excellent video it's no fun at all trying to work and be bombarded by mosquitoes. The fresh paint is looking really good. The narrower wheel spacing makes a huge difference when plowing. Keep up the great videos
I've got a John Deere video from the late 50's about setting up draft on pull type plows. It explains how to set up the tractor and plow so you can pull the plow with a log chain without side draft. Should work with any tractor/plow combination.
*Regarding your seasonal allergies.* If you are not already using it, find local raw honey and go nuts with it. Give it a few months of 2 - 4 tablespoons (More if you have a sweet tooth like mine) a day mixed in with whatever you want made sweeter and the odds are you will see a huge reduction in your allergy problems. Ideally, go right to your local Aperaries (The Bee guys), and get it raw right off their bulk systems. 1 gallon is about $30 - $40 depending on the location and time of summer. I used to have horrible summer allergies but since starting the raw honey thing several years ago, I now have nothing to at worst a minor few 10's minutes flare up now and then when around extremely heavy pollen sources (so thick I can taste it and feel it in my teeth levels) I was hypersensitive to in the past. It's a slow inoculation effect so don't be surprised if you don't notice anything for several weeks or more. It took mine almost a whole summer to really take effect.
I have seen a photo by John Deere in one of the manuals for their plows from the 1950's showing either a 70, 720, or 730 pulling a 4 bottom plow as I recall. The tractor and plow were meticulously adjusted for proper alignment. The tractor and plow were coupled with a 20' chain between the tractor and plow. It was plowing perfectly. It was a photo from above the tractor. I would love to see that picture again. I am sure most of the other manufactures also had similar photos.
Toby, the last few tractors I painted the axles that needed to be black I used the old Dupont No. 33 tire black and painted it on with a brush because like you gloss black was to much and the flat black wasn't enough. The reason I used it once was we were out of any black in the parts department so I was in a hurry because the owner was wanting to get the tractor on the lot for sale. So I went back in the shop and decided to try the tire black, because I always had a can of it setting around because every used tractor that came in if the tires were not to worn or dry rotted the owner wanted those tires blacked so they looked better. From the first time I used it I was sold on using it from then on. I got so many compliments on those axles about how I made them look so good so I stuck with it.
For any given track width , the axle loads on the bearings will be identical, whether the wheels are dished in or out. Granted it *SEEMS* like there would be more twisting force with the wheels dished in, it's a very compelling illusion, but the only thing that matters is how far from the bearings the center-line of the tread is.
If only you had one of those “cent an acre meters” that the Deere dealers used in the 50s to sell tractors. Then you could test your fuel economy to see if the plow helped or not. Really just a quart mason jar with a line marked on it. You hooked it to the carb got the tractor in the furrow filled the jar to the line and drove till the tractor ran out of fuel. Take the other tractor hook to same plows at the same place you started before and see how far it goes till it runs out. The guy I worked for that was the Deere dealer back then was a master at setting plows and he prided himself that he always could get close to a football field length or more out of his tractors than the competition. It sold a bunch of tractors for him back in the day.
with that many little hueys flying around, there has to be some stagnant water near by. I typically spend a day each spring looking around the area near my home for any thing collecting water and fix it. That has served me well keeping the little annoyances at bay.
I'm from Texas and we have mosquitos year round. That said, I have never seen mosquitos like what I saw during one of my trips to Minnesota. Since then I have joked that it must be your state bird.
With the dish in/out When I was a kid a neighbor of ours ran duals and used a turning disc to plow fields I dont know the length of the axle He did on both his H and M
Great detail explaining how these offsets work and are applied to field work. I learned a lot today & those are not mesquitos they are to big. I can see them in your video. More like swarming prehistoric blood suckers 🇺🇸🤠
Nice work, buddy! That red is really looking good. Got a nice shine to it, too! I appreciate you taking the time to talk about gun settings. I have been pretty timid about laying paint on things simply because 1) Paint is expensive and 2) Having runs means spending more money on paint... More work in sanding, etc. But, there is only one way to learn! Looking forward to seeing the pieces put together. Skeeters are BAD here as well. I have sprayed the yard TWICE, and it hasn't phased them a bit!
The only thing affecting the wheel bearings is the distance between center of tire and the wheel bearing itself. Turning the rims or hubs one way or the other doesn't matter. Extended (longer) shafts might have been used by people who put the wheels further out, and hence put more stress on the bearings. Same thing as using duals and running the outer wheels on a raised edge around the field. You are not going to have a two furrow plow pull perfectly straight. They always pull to the right.
Toby, I’ve got an idea glue some of those mosquitoes on those parts, and they can help you move them around! Painting outside and you still do an excellent job. You are something else!
Appreciate the video and I like how you explained why you decided to go the way you did with this project. . mosquitoes well...welcome to the swamp life. 😂
As I was watching this video, I could not tell which were your mosquitos and which were mine obscuring the screen. I am impressed that you can get 2-3 videos out a week with your limited time and slow upfeed. Thank you VERY much.
Great looking paint job. One other point about scrubbing the front tires on the side of the furrow, you tend to wear out the inner sidewall of the one tire.
Maybe a mosquito zapper would be a useful addition to the shop? Those things are big, hungry and aggressive! Just like the refrigerator magnet that we have with a mosquito on it that reads "send more tourists, the last ones were delicious".
Just as in the case of travel, refurbishment does have a destination. But, the journey itself is just as important and satisfying when the process is so well thought out. Yours is immaculate.
Hello Squatch and Senior; Being a Flatlander I'm not sure if tis will work for but how about a bug zapper. You know the kind that uses electricity to ZAPP them into toast. The last one I saw was in a campground. It worked okay. Just a thought. Great video.
5:08 yup, this is common across the board. As long as one uses the original parts, all configurations are permitted and accounted for. There's even variants where the wheels are offset so that the body is pushed to one side or another, with extra weights on the "light" side, unfortunately, those i've seen are also ones where the shaft (on the heavy side) got torched out, which is a bummer.
I had my own crane business for years and you would be surprised how many people don’t understand physic’s they didn’t understand that the further away from the crane you got the less capacity and you can’t lift as much over the side as you can over the back at least with my crane that how it works some cranes have a 360 degree chart . But It looks really bad with your mosquito situation and it’s only May that sucks I am just outside Winnipeg Manitoba and I have only seen maybe 2 mosquitos and that’s no lie but it’s been very dry for a long time here!😀🇨🇦
Something else often forgotten. The way IH had to ship tractors by rail, and also by truck. Dished out was only way they would fit, so they left the factory dished out. Especially by rail. They would put two Farmalls per flat rail car, so dished out let them nose the two tractors together with one going along side the other. A wide front tractor they couldn’t do along side the other, they had to nose them square up.
Those bugs are annoying to say the least. Thankfully they weren't there when you were painting. Do you have some standing or stagnant water nearby? Plugged downspouts? If I were working in that space, I'd have to find a way to deal with those baddies! I'll also say this tractor is going to be so red it's almost gonna blind us!
Great Video......but now I feel like I have mosquitoes EVERYWHERE......! Your fresh air supply apparatus looks great......my only suggestion.......while filming yourself spraying, you should have the sound track from "Star Wars" Darthvader breathing playing. That'd be awesome!!!! 😁
I have heard, but don't know if there is any truth to it that dishing the centers one way or the other can help the tractor pull better. Every guy that said that though, didn't know which way was supposedly better. This was in regards to tractor pulling. The way you described in regards to plowing I could see how it makes sense depending on application.
Great work. Great content. Although I'm 'seasoned' in my interest of all things Ag, I have zero practical experience. The older tractors and their model designations baffle me. How does the horse power rating of the H (and the M, and your other older tractors/dozers) compare with your Kubota and other modern tractors? Trying to understand, for example, how you match or gage the horse power to the number of plow bottoms a tractor can/should pull?? On 'plow days' different tractors that look similar are pulling different numbers of bottoms?
Even the more "filler" type videos you do are interesting to me; I enjoyed this one as much as all the others. By the way, I have a Powerstroke that would smoke all those mosquitoes right out of existence. I'd give you a great deal on it..........
I've always heard it said that it's better to adjust the tractor to the plow rather than the plow to the tractor. And if its a tractor that's only going to be plowing and you never have to mow or cultivate with it (i.e. things that require the wheels to be set out wide), then there's no reason to worry about having to try to adjust it a bunch. Plus the old Farmalls were a lot easier to change the spacing on than the old John Deeres were. Splined axles and clamps like to rust in place lol.
Splined axles along with the need to pull the steering shaft just to remove the hood were probably the two biggest flops of John Deere's design. What a cumbersome maneuver for such a simple task!
@Kenny Kizzle Rusty Nutz Ranch on the two cylinders yes those are their two biggest flaws. On the New Generation (especially the 3010 and 4010) their biggest flaws were the hydraulic couplers, putting the controls up on the dash where they're hard to get to, and making it so you have to pull the front axle out remove the hydraulic pump.
All these spline type tractors were and are designed for wheel changes. They were meant to "pull" different jobs, sometimes in the same day or with quick changes, so they're not meant to be set and let to sit. My brother still keeps three old style tractors for work in the apple and pear orchards and those three have their wheels changed from side to side from row to row. Nowadays, it's normal to have more than one horse, but back then, "this" was the horse, and by bread and water, you'd "cut" his legs and glue them backwards if that's what the job needed.
You sure you meant centerline? Moving the tires in or out would not change that. You would have to just move the left for example. That would make a change in centerline.
Great video. The State of Minnesota bird, the mosquito, knows no boundary. If you are looking for content maybe a video on making gaskets would be something interesting.
The very next video I watched I saw Curtis of Cutting Edge Engineering use that very same Cat plug kit when removing the hydraulic cylinders on his 'new' boom hoist. I need to get out more.
Great looking paint job man. Old tractor looks good enough to eat. Did you spray a clear coat on it or is it just a high gloss paint? It shines like a diamond on the screen I'm watching on.. By the way I was a pipe fitter and pipe welder for years and I would save those caps and plugs that came in the pipe, identical to your kit.(which is pretty dang cool). You may want to check those industrial packaging supply companies they have them and may be cheaper than caterpillar. Really digging the channel, keep up the great work
Can you put dual wheels on the long shaft. Why would you want such a wide spacing on your rears for a tractor with a trike front or dual front with a narrower spacing.
Great video Squatch. Just curious but is Sr. going to start work on the Farmall 350? You teased that it "could" be a 2023 project. Is there more than transmission issues? You do have the paint gun out. Lol.
The reason wheels were dished out was easier to ajust wheel to cultivate corn and beans back in the days and if tires were loaded it was a hard job to switch wheels side to side instead of just sliding on axel. farmers had to do that on the little fords to cultiate. ln later years when 30 inch row were used farmer would turn the wheels around to cultivate 30 inch crops like you have now. Also in hill ground narrow spacing were dangerous on side hills!! l will be watchin!!
Oh I know from my visits to Canada in the 60 s they log in the winter because the bugs are so bad especially in the spring. They have big problems with black flies in some areas up there. Also the marshy areas are frozen so they do not get stuck.
Black flies are bad here, too, in Minnesota. They always go for your ankles! Between skeeters, black flies, horse flies, and ticks... We've got our share of pesky pests!
The black flies can be brutal in Michigan's upper peninsula. I swear them things actually removed flesh when they bit into me. I was afraid 10 or 12 of them were going to gang up and drag my carcass off into the woods, never to be seen again!
With those special axles one could almost install a second set of wheels, much like a dually truck. Doing this might even balance out the load on the outer axle bearing would it not?
Speaking of off topic... Did Senior do his annual maple syrup production? Hopefully y'all got at least a little footage of it, always pleasant to watch.
09:50 oof seeing you fiddling around with that nearly victorian era eletrical plug, it's a small miracle you didnt get eletrocuted.
A lot of H's and M's shipped to New Jersey were equipped with the 100" axles for straddling two or four vegetable rows. I'd say they were more common than the standard 80" axles on the H/M/Super H/Super M tractors for our area. They look a little funny on tractors that are only used for shows or parades now, but every once in a while you'll catch one out cultivating a field with the wheels spread out as wide as possible. A local guy currently has a Super C for sale with cultivators, long axles and the rear wheels spread all the way out, and it's too wide to haul on a trailer.
Those are some big skeeters
Some of my hummingbirds are not as big as Minnesota mosquitoes. 😂
Fortunately you don't have to worry about them carrying you off into the woods, because the really big ones would just take you away from them. 🦟😁
When the skeeter season opens the big ones start to get taken out by the trophy hunters!
Mosquito AKA the Minnesota state bird, AKA the Tennessee state bird and the Louisiana variety is often mistaken for small airplanes.
100" axles were more common out here where sugar beets are raised. My grandpa helped a neighbor during harvest running a super M. He told me they'd break one or two axles every season as there was so much equipment mounted to the one side of the tractor along with having the wheels moved out so far on the axle.
We use a ton of those Caplugs at work, to keep contamination and paint out of the innards of the industrial flow control products we manufacture. They're available in yet larger sizes than the biggest ones in that kit, if you need them.
I can relate to the bug thing! And its hot and humid here in South GA. Not the best conditions for painting without a paint room , especially sheet metal that I want to get a nice finish on. Im looking forward to your videos on painting the sheet metal on your H.
Back in the day, the letter series tractors, were shipped from Rock Island to the dealers on railroad flat cars.
They dished the rear wheels in to provide extra room to get as many tractors as possible on each flat car.
So yes, any tractor arrived with the wheels dished in from the factory. The receiving dealer would then either leave the wheels as they were, or dish them out per the customers needs for row crop wheel spacing.
my dad told me ford's were made so short wheel base because he could load them across the flat car and get more on the car and ship them cheaper. he didn't like ford's because he had seen tractors raise up and flip over and killed the farmer.
Another great video, especially about wheel widths and plough allignment.
I remember so much as a teenager at farming college, we had a lecturer who looked over his half moon glasses at us and said
" If the tractor and plough are pulling right the tractor will steer itself" and I allways believe he's was so right.
Great to see it spoken about again.
Keep the vids. coming. Martin. (England)
My '40 H has the 100" axles. Been on the farm since new. We used it mostly in the summer for cultivating and always had the hubs dished out and out to the end of the axles. The outer bearings haven't been replaced since I've been alive (I'm 64) but we did break an axle twice (if I remember Dad telling me correctly). I've been looking for another set of the special axles for my '50 so I can use the cultivator on that tractor. Great job on the painting and thanks for all the tips and little tricks. 👍👍👍
Yikes, ya need a bug zapper in the garage now lol.
Snow til late April and Mosquitos as soon as it melts off??? Visiting LeSeuer and getting to meet Da Squatch was great, but man, I don't know if I could deal with more Minnesota. I'll just hang here and watch the goings on via the 'Tube and say hey each April. On a different note, because your H project is moving ahead, I decided it's high time to lay into my grandad's old 43 H that I "restored" back in high school with rattle cans and a very limited budget. Now I can do her justice and make it right, thanks for being a bit of an inspiration my northern friend!
Another great video Squatch. Thanks for explaining how you want to minimize the offset between tractor and plow. The old H is going to look great when its back together. Cheers
Reminded me of when we painted the top of my 62 BelAir in a garage to get away from wind blown dust and insects. All good until the painting started and then the insects rained out of the rafters to die from the fumes in the primer coat.
OMG - I had to look away at the end of the video. I hate mosquitoes. I started scratching my own head watching all those miniature vultures flying around.
I could never live in Minnesota.
The main reason for being able to adjust the tire tracking was for row cropping meaning what the center of your row crops. As in 36" width rows or 30" 22" or 15" width rows, even in the old days corn was planted in 38 and 42 inch width rows, not so common in today's farming practices.
@@westsidesjvalley Exactly
Excellent video it's no fun at all trying to work and be bombarded by mosquitoes. The fresh paint is looking really good. The narrower wheel spacing makes a huge difference when plowing. Keep up the great videos
I've got a John Deere video from the late 50's about setting up draft on pull type plows. It explains how to set up the tractor and plow so you can pull the plow with a log chain without side draft. Should work with any tractor/plow combination.
@@squatch253 I've used the video on many plows and tractors to get them working properly, it helps out so much.
Those Electric zapping fly swatters work great on the mosquitos and the zap sounds never gets old.
*Regarding your seasonal allergies.* If you are not already using it, find local raw honey and go nuts with it. Give it a few months of 2 - 4 tablespoons (More if you have a sweet tooth like mine) a day mixed in with whatever you want made sweeter and the odds are you will see a huge reduction in your allergy problems.
Ideally, go right to your local Aperaries (The Bee guys), and get it raw right off their bulk systems. 1 gallon is about $30 - $40 depending on the location and time of summer.
I used to have horrible summer allergies but since starting the raw honey thing several years ago, I now have nothing to at worst a minor few 10's minutes flare up now and then when around extremely heavy pollen sources (so thick I can taste it and feel it in my teeth levels) I was hypersensitive to in the past.
It's a slow inoculation effect so don't be surprised if you don't notice anything for several weeks or more. It took mine almost a whole summer to really take effect.
Toby, the simple solution to your mosquito problem are "Bats". Put some bat houses up in the local area trees and let mother nature take over. 👍👍👍
I have seen a photo by John Deere in one of the manuals for their plows from the 1950's showing either a 70, 720, or 730 pulling a 4 bottom plow as I recall. The tractor and plow were meticulously adjusted for proper alignment. The tractor and plow were coupled with a 20' chain between the tractor and plow. It was plowing perfectly. It was a photo from above the tractor. I would love to see that picture again. I am sure most of the other manufactures also had similar photos.
Great video. Enjoyed watching 👍🏼
it is good that you are feeding your small flying pets...............................
I love watching your channel. If you're cleaning and prepping parts, I'll be watching. Thanks for all the content I anxiously await every video.
Thanks for the update Toby! I’m really enjoying the Preparation H series. The paint looks great! Can’t wait to see what your gonna do next!
Toby, the last few tractors I painted the axles that needed to be black I used the old Dupont No. 33 tire black and painted it on with a brush because like you gloss black was to much and the flat black wasn't enough. The reason I used it once was we were out of any black in the parts department so I was in a hurry because the owner was wanting to get the tractor on the lot for sale. So I went back in the shop and decided to try the tire black, because I always had a can of it setting around because every used tractor that came in if the tires were not to worn or dry rotted the owner wanted those tires blacked so they looked better. From the first time I used it I was sold on using it from then on. I got so many compliments on those axles about how I made them look so good so I stuck with it.
For any given track width , the axle loads on the bearings will be identical, whether the wheels are dished in or out. Granted it *SEEMS* like there would be more twisting force with the wheels dished in, it's a very compelling illusion, but the only thing that matters is how far from the bearings the center-line of the tread is.
Yes you are correct most people don’t think of the plow to track centerline of tractor
Excellence in explaining
If only you had one of those “cent an acre meters” that the Deere dealers used in the 50s to sell tractors. Then you could test your fuel economy to see if the plow helped or not. Really just a quart mason jar with a line marked on it. You hooked it to the carb got the tractor in the furrow filled the jar to the line and drove till the tractor ran out of fuel. Take the other tractor hook to same plows at the same place you started before and see how far it goes till it runs out. The guy I worked for that was the Deere dealer back then was a master at setting plows and he prided himself that he always could get close to a football field length or more out of his tractors than the competition. It sold a bunch of tractors for him back in the day.
with that many little hueys flying around, there has to be some stagnant water near by. I typically spend a day each spring looking around the area near my home for any thing collecting water and fix it. That has served me well keeping the little annoyances at bay.
Great video. You answered three questions I had. Wheel spacing, fresh air for the hood, and centre lines for tractor and plow.
Thanks.
I'm from Texas and we have mosquitos year round. That said, I have never seen mosquitos like what I saw during one of my trips to Minnesota. Since then I have joked that it must be your state bird.
With the dish in/out
When I was a kid a neighbor of ours ran duals and used a turning disc to plow fields
I dont know the length of the axle
He did on both his H and M
Great detail explaining how these offsets work and are applied to field work. I learned a lot today & those are not mesquitos they are to big. I can see them in your video. More like swarming prehistoric blood suckers 🇺🇸🤠
Wishing you all a safe Memorial weekend 🇺🇸🤠
Great video!!! The H is looking awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Nice work, buddy! That red is really looking good. Got a nice shine to it, too! I appreciate you taking the time to talk about gun settings. I have been pretty timid about laying paint on things simply because 1) Paint is expensive and 2) Having runs means spending more money on paint... More work in sanding, etc. But, there is only one way to learn! Looking forward to seeing the pieces put together. Skeeters are BAD here as well. I have sprayed the yard TWICE, and it hasn't phased them a bit!
The only thing affecting the wheel bearings is the distance between center of tire and the wheel bearing itself. Turning the rims or hubs one way or the other doesn't matter. Extended (longer) shafts might have been used by people who put the wheels further out, and hence put more stress on the bearings. Same thing as using duals and running the outer wheels on a raised edge around the field.
You are not going to have a two furrow plow pull perfectly straight. They always pull to the right.
Your shop reminds me of that OFF Insect Repellent Commercial many years ago.
Toby, I’ve got an idea glue some of those mosquitoes on those parts, and they can help you move them around! Painting outside and you still do an excellent job. You are something else!
Appreciate the video and I like how you explained why you decided to go the way you did with this project. . mosquitoes well...welcome to the swamp life. 😂
As I was watching this video, I could not tell which were your mosquitos and which were mine obscuring the screen. I am impressed that you can get 2-3 videos out a week with your limited time and slow upfeed. Thank you VERY much.
Well mission accomplished! You’ve made watching paint dry entertaining!
Great looking paint job. One other point about scrubbing the front tires on the side of the furrow, you tend to wear out the inner sidewall of the one tire.
Great respect for the quality of your work! Excellent.
Maybe a mosquito zapper would be a useful addition to the shop? Those things are big, hungry and aggressive! Just like the refrigerator magnet that we have with a mosquito on it that reads "send more tourists, the last ones were delicious".
Wheel spacing is determined by crop row spacing on most tractors or where the right side tire runs in the dead furrow for plowing fields.
Great illustration on the plow drawbar set-up. Thanks.
Great point on the centering of the plow and tractor!
Just as in the case of travel, refurbishment does have a destination. But, the journey itself is just as important and satisfying when the process is so well thought out. Yours is immaculate.
A great up date on the paint job ,and of course the tutorial on tread width and the why's of it .
Hello Squatch and Senior; Being a Flatlander I'm not sure if tis will work for but how about a bug zapper. You know the kind that uses electricity to ZAPP them into toast. The last one I saw was in a campground. It worked okay. Just a thought. Great video.
The Farmall Super C had straight wheel centers however they were available with three different axle lengths.
Hey Squatch,,,H is looking great. Enjoyed the thrust line breakdown.
When bugs want to invade my inside shed space, I have used some mosquito repellent torch fuel in an old safety flare pot . They keep away.
Pritty work ❤👍. I just did a grab bag of assorted implements I picked up from an auction some of them came out pritty good to
5:08 yup, this is common across the board. As long as one uses the original parts, all configurations are permitted and accounted for. There's even variants where the wheels are offset so that the body is pushed to one side or another, with extra weights on the "light" side, unfortunately, those i've seen are also ones where the shaft (on the heavy side) got torched out, which is a bummer.
I had my own crane business for years and you would be surprised how many people don’t understand physic’s they didn’t understand that the further away from the crane you got the less capacity and you can’t lift as much over the side as you can over the back at least with my crane that how it works some cranes have a 360 degree chart .
But It looks really bad with your mosquito situation and it’s only May that sucks I am just outside Winnipeg Manitoba and I have only seen maybe 2 mosquitos and that’s no lie but it’s been very dry for a long time here!😀🇨🇦
Thanks for another great video
Have you tried the company called caplug for the caps and plugs? ALOT cheaper then that cat kit.
Something else often forgotten. The way IH had to ship tractors by rail, and also by truck. Dished out was only way they would fit, so they left the factory dished out. Especially by rail. They would put two Farmalls per flat rail car, so dished out let them nose the two tractors together with one going along side the other. A wide front tractor they couldn’t do along side the other, they had to nose them square up.
Those bugs are annoying to say the least. Thankfully they weren't there when you were painting. Do you have some standing or stagnant water nearby? Plugged downspouts? If I were working in that space, I'd have to find a way to deal with those baddies! I'll also say this tractor is going to be so red it's almost gonna blind us!
Slick air compressor for your hood! Thank you for showing it!
Cat, cummins, detroit, Paccar all have plastic plug kits. Kit in video are small cap kit but they make plugs to fill in 5 inch hole if needed too
Great Video......but now I feel like I have mosquitoes EVERYWHERE......! Your fresh air supply apparatus looks great......my only suggestion.......while filming yourself spraying, you should have the sound track from "Star Wars" Darthvader breathing playing. That'd be awesome!!!! 😁
I have heard, but don't know if there is any truth to it that dishing the centers one way or the other can help the tractor pull better. Every guy that said that though, didn't know which way was supposedly better. This was in regards to tractor pulling. The way you described in regards to plowing I could see how it makes sense depending on application.
Great work. Great content. Although I'm 'seasoned' in my interest of all things Ag, I have zero practical experience. The older tractors and their model designations baffle me. How does the horse power rating of the H (and the M, and your other older tractors/dozers) compare with your Kubota and other modern tractors? Trying to understand, for example, how you match or gage the horse power to the number of plow bottoms a tractor can/should pull?? On 'plow days' different tractors that look similar are pulling different numbers of bottoms?
nice work again. still loving the pain job.
Yes, amazing to see mosquitoes this early in the season! Godda do a standing water check around the yard.
Even the more "filler" type videos you do are interesting to me; I enjoyed this one as much as all the others.
By the way, I have a Powerstroke that would smoke all those mosquitoes right out of existence. I'd give you a great deal on it..........
I've always heard it said that it's better to adjust the tractor to the plow rather than the plow to the tractor. And if its a tractor that's only going to be plowing and you never have to mow or cultivate with it (i.e. things that require the wheels to be set out wide), then there's no reason to worry about having to try to adjust it a bunch. Plus the old Farmalls were a lot easier to change the spacing on than the old John Deeres were. Splined axles and clamps like to rust in place lol.
Splined axles along with the need to pull the steering shaft just to remove the hood were probably the two biggest flops of John Deere's design. What a cumbersome maneuver for such a simple task!
@Kenny Kizzle Rusty Nutz Ranch on the two cylinders yes those are their two biggest flaws. On the New Generation (especially the 3010 and 4010) their biggest flaws were the hydraulic couplers, putting the controls up on the dash where they're hard to get to, and making it so you have to pull the front axle out remove the hydraulic pump.
All these spline type tractors were and are designed for wheel changes. They were meant to "pull" different jobs, sometimes in the same day or with quick changes, so they're not meant to be set and let to sit. My brother still keeps three old style tractors for work in the apple and pear orchards and those three have their wheels changed from side to side from row to row. Nowadays, it's normal to have more than one horse, but back then, "this" was the horse, and by bread and water, you'd "cut" his legs and glue them backwards if that's what the job needed.
You showed us on an track layer if you're not pulling in the center of the tractor it always wants to pull to the right.
Great video, I can't wait for the after plow day update and review!
Your doing good. Keep it up
I'm so glad we don't have mosquitos like that in Virginia... that looks miserable. Good job, Squatch. Keep up the good work!
I wonder how many of them are now Farmall Red? On the outside at least. They will all be Squatch Red on the inside...
I always like Old machinery being REBUILD as NEW. I then can see how it was ORIGINALLY. Thanks Squatch253
You sure you meant centerline? Moving the tires in or out would not change that. You would have to just move the left for example. That would make a change in centerline.
You can hear the little dive bombers around the camera. I've always heard that the Minnesota state bird is the mosquito.
Holy crap. I could see some of those skeeters.
Have you looked at any other 2 part etching primers? I know Axalta makes a few as well as others.
Great video. The State of Minnesota bird, the mosquito, knows no boundary. If you are looking for content maybe a video on making gaskets would be something interesting.
Shop vac setup near light bulb to cleanup the mosquito issue
Like the color saturation of the red in the video, really pops 😉
The very next video I watched I saw Curtis of Cutting Edge Engineering use that very same Cat plug kit when removing the hydraulic cylinders on his 'new' boom hoist.
I need to get out more.
How is your eye not twitching with that hose so tangled? Thanks for the details and that plug kit info too.
Great looking paint job man. Old tractor looks good enough to eat. Did you spray a clear coat on it or is it just a high gloss paint? It shines like a diamond on the screen I'm watching on.. By the way I was a pipe fitter and pipe welder for years and I would save those caps and plugs that came in the pipe, identical to your kit.(which is pretty dang cool). You may want to check those industrial packaging supply companies they have them and may be cheaper than caterpillar. Really digging the channel, keep up the great work
Can you put dual wheels on the long shaft.
Why would you want such a wide spacing on your rears for a tractor with a trike front or dual front with a narrower spacing.
@@squatch253 ok thanks 👍
Watching these skeeters are making me itch.
Great video Squatch. Just curious but is Sr. going to start work on the Farmall 350? You teased that it "could" be a 2023 project. Is there more than transmission issues? You do have the paint gun out. Lol.
The reason wheels were dished out was easier to ajust wheel to cultivate corn and beans back in the days and if tires were loaded it was a hard job to switch wheels side to side instead of just sliding on axel. farmers had to do that on the little fords to cultiate. ln later years when 30 inch row were used farmer would turn the wheels around to cultivate 30 inch crops like you have now. Also in hill ground narrow spacing were dangerous on side hills!! l will be watchin!!
thanks
You going to RPR?
The wheels do not have be set the same on each axle. I understand it looks better but they were made adjustable to fix draft, row widths, etc
Oh I know from my visits to Canada in the 60 s they log in the winter because the bugs are so bad especially in the spring. They have big problems with black flies in some areas up there.
Also the marshy areas are frozen so they do not get stuck.
Black flies are bad here, too, in Minnesota. They always go for your ankles! Between skeeters, black flies, horse flies, and ticks... We've got our share of pesky pests!
The black flies can be brutal in Michigan's upper peninsula. I swear them things actually removed flesh when they bit into me. I was afraid 10 or 12 of them were going to gang up and drag my carcass off into the woods, never to be seen again!
"Nice" to see the Minnesota state bird out in abundance.
With those special axles one could almost install a second set of wheels, much like a dually truck. Doing this might even balance out the load on the outer axle bearing would it not?
The special 100inch axle shafts could have maybe suited twin wheels, could that be correct?
Got to love Mn state bird enjoying the videos
I was going to ask if you were going to paint X231, but you've already answered my question (I'm reading between the lines)
You always seem to have some of your state bird in the shop with you.🤔
Always. More work to do. Yes maybe an update on the next problem to be tackled on x231.
Speaking of off topic... Did Senior do his annual maple syrup production? Hopefully y'all got at least a little footage of it, always pleasant to watch.
I hope to see some saw mill action this year