another hobby.

[MercuryMac]

Next year Dutch.
OI, thank you, I know what you mean, living off of someone else's excitement. I get a lot of enjoyment out of the builds on this forum.

[MercuryMac]

Here are some pictures of the old tractors at our 'Plowday'.
A John Deere 'R' pulling a 4 bottom plow.
A John Deere 80 pulling a 5 bottom plow.
A John Deere 'AR'.
A BaconBuilt four wheel drive, a homemade tractor by a local guy, Dick Bacon. It was made in the late sixties and put into the field in 1970. The first year, it didn't have a cab yet, and I remember seeing it at the county fair like that. There's a Detroit two stroke four cylinder motor in it.
My brother Rob loaded up his Cockshutts to go home.

[MercuryMac]

This coming week-end is Pioneer Days at our local museum. Some of the guys took an AR John Deere carb apart because it wouldn't start. That was the worst looking carburetor that any of us had ever seen, so I took it home and started fixing it. It looks like there was an inch of water and some of the new gasoline in the bowl for three years now. Boy Oh boy.

[soltz]

[MercuryMac]

Well, I sandblasted the inside of the carb and drilled out all of the gas galleries. Then I rebuilt the carb and put it back on the John Deere at the Museum. The tractor started up so that was time well spent.
From the Museum, I went to fix a 1948 Ford for a lady. I had previously diagnosed a coil problem, so had ordered in that weird Ford coil. After installing the new coil, I found there was still no spark coming to the sparkplugs. The whole distributor system came apart again, still no problem found. Agrrrrrrh. Some of my day didn't go well.

[dutch]

must me some kinda ignition problem then, right... ?

That carb sure looks nasty. I`m almost surprised you got it going...wow

[Old Iron]

Sometimes those ole distributors short out

[MercuryMac]

Thank you Dutch.
Yes, OI, the distributer could be grounding out the little brass spring that brings the electricity to the points, or the little bolt in the points that anchors the spring and energizes the contacts could be the problem.
I'm going to keep whacking away at it.

Today, I attended a 'safety meeting' and got a couple of pictures of the Twin City plowing at our Plowday. I'm pulling a P&O two bottom plow. P&O sold out to International Harvester in 1919, but I think I-H kept the name alive for a few years. That still makes the plow almost one hundred years old, as is some of the tractor.

[dutch]

that first one really is a beautiful picture.

[bob w]

Very nice.