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little Z
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un cafetal en Naranjo
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:01pm PT
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this is a pretty unique sort of tractor setup used for mashing down aquatic vegetation and churning up a flooded bed of mud in preparation for growing rice. When in use the thing is under water up to the axels. I'll try to get photos of one on the job tomorrow. Got here too late today - the sun was going down...
oops, thread drift
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:10pm PT
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It's built on an old Ford.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
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What a funny, weird, wonderful thread for a climbing site! My main connection with tractors was the 2007 Gibsonburg,Ohio, classic tractor show. I was cycling solo cross country and stumbled into it at the end of the Labor Day weekend. It was cool to see all that old hardware. Some photos here.
BAd
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Tobia
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Denial
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Nov 15, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
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Part of a young buck's passage to manhood; learning to tractor. My nephew, on my 1974 JD1530
Neighbor on Kubota, a newer tractor.
Other tractors (of sort).
Another nephew, another tractor, Mack Ch613. (1995)
younger nephew
They loved the air horns.
Biggest "tractor" I ever handled, a Lorain 50 Ton "Moto" Crane. I went to the factory and drove it home ( to a local construction company). The paint was still wet (literally) when I left the lot in Tenn. (1979)
210' hydraulic boom with jig installed.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Nov 16, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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Tobia, what a monster that crane is, seeing one of those things always reminds me of that killer chase scene in the 3rd Terminator movie.
so here's some shots of those mucking tactors in action
these tractors mash everything in their path including lots of little critters and so there are always birds around coming to snag a moist, mashed, morsel (in this case the birds are Great, Snowy, and Cattle Egrets, Little Blue Herons, and Great-tailed Grackles).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 17, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Nov 20, 2012 - 03:13am PT
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Tobia was thinking the same thing as me upthread.
Me at five. We were moving from Wheaton, Illinois back to Massachusetts. No one noticed I was driving the rig until I got to Ohio!
Eric
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Tobia
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Denial
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Nov 20, 2012 - 06:06am PT
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Eric that looks like an old frieghtliner or International, I can't tell with the door open. Early 60's, cab-over type. Cab-overs were popular during late sixties through late eighties; but conventional type rigs came back due to safety, noise and other problems. Driving one is a strange ordeal; especially if you are usually in a conventional.
I think cab-overs are a thing of the past now; like a lot of the tractors on this thread.
My first cab-over experience that I can remember: talking the YPCC truck drivers into letting me jockey their trucks around the YPCC warehouse. I had to show them my CDL before making a bet that I could dock it, drop and hook to another trailer.
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perswig
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Nov 20, 2012 - 08:19am PT
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Sweet additions.
Little z's mudder rigs look like steamship paddlewheels.
I like the b/w Ford in Fletcher's pic - running on tubes?
In BAd's link, looks like a Minnie? and the third grill showing below might be another Cockshutt?
Dig it.
Dale
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jstan
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Nov 20, 2012 - 11:04am PT
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Anyone here with experience on the Kubota L2550? Is this a tractor or a big toy? I will be using mainly the loader but the back hoe will be very good also. 27 horse. Grading and footings in sand. No 12 bottom plowing or any plowing for that matter. Might want to rig a grading blade. Thinking in sand a little urban machine is about right.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Nov 20, 2012 - 04:19pm PT
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Yeah, Tobia, I'm not an expert on cab-overs, but my brother's were, so they are on my radar (one of those brothers is in that photo). Back in the 70's they were totally into tractor trailers. This was also in the era or CW McCall's "Convoy." I think that played a role in this. Anyhow, they took a trip from Massachusetts by car to New Orleans with my Mom. Their car "game" was to count and identify (pretty specifically) all the trucks they saw.
Needless to say, they saw a lot!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Eric
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 20, 2012 - 07:42pm PT
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What a funny, weird, wonderful thread for a climbing site!
Yup. Someone come from away (Newf expression) might think it a bit odd.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 20, 2012 - 07:46pm PT
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A mathemagician friend once insisted to me that there's no such thing as an "odd" number. He said that some numbers simply have more interesting properties than others. As he had a doctorate in math, I was willing to take his word for it.
Lawyers, when wanting to make such a reference, say "numbers not evenly divisible by two".
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Nov 20, 2012 - 09:33pm PT
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I used this B2100 Kubota on an geological dig. There wasn't much it couldn't do; it just took a little longer to get it done. I moved tons of overburden, shale and dug a decent trench with it in some hard clay. Kubotas are good machines.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Nov 20, 2012 - 10:56pm PT
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jstan, if you get one, you hafta let me drive it!
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Tobia
Social climber
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Nov 21, 2012 - 11:27am PT
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My 1974 JDeere was built in West Germany. JDeere took over-stocked major components of other models and designed a tractor to utilize them.
It's a 3 cylinder 43 h.p. agricultural tractor. It wasn't in production for long. They made a 830; following the same formula.
I hate to hear that about Kubota moving to China. I wonder if they have been bought out, going after cheap labor or just trying to increase output. They make fine machines and have been for the past 25 years. The price is right; especially on parts. J Deere parts are ridiculously priced! Although my tractor is well built, things wear out.
Worst part is it is only 2 wheel drive; whereas modern tractors are 4 wheel drive.
I had a 1974 JDeere 310 backhoe that was a well built machine also.
I am going to my neighbor's house to take some pics of his antique truck and tractor collection. My favorites: 1948 Ford dump body and a 1961 B-Model Mack. He has restored them from the ground up.
Case is history, correct?
Interesting website for machine heads:
http://archives.hcea.net/index.php?p=collections/collections
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Nov 21, 2012 - 07:00pm PT
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I didn't know New Holland merged with anyone; other than Ford.
Ford and New Holland were good farm tractors. A lot 1960's-90's models are still at it. Who knows how many 8-N's are still running (pre-1960). There are 3 within 2 miles of my place.
Zephyr still around? They aren't big in the south; but I used to run one for a herbicide company. It seemed like a decent tractor.
I can't find where Kubota moved production to China; but I did discover Kubota has two factories in GA for assembling tractors and manufacturing ATV's and other yard machines.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Nov 21, 2012 - 07:15pm PT
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Back in Kentucky, I accidentally missed a turn and ended up on a wavy, one-lane road that just went on, and, on and on.... There were houses pretty regularly spaced apart, and three churches in this dozen miles I kept going on... It was Sunday and they each were holding services.
FINALLY, I see a sign telling me about the road. It says "No Outlet - Road Ends In Water." It was a public fishin' spot.
But, there was also this fine old tractor sitting on the side of the field.
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