I hate tractors

Walt Davies · Jun 18, 2008

Did you ever notice that your tractor and equipment can set nicely in the garage and never give you any trouble, then take out to do some work and they all blowup at the same time.

1. PTO on Kubota ( $450 in parts )
2. water pump on Case 485 O ( $124 in parts )
3. power steering on Cockshutt ( easy fix return line needed to cut off and put back on )
4. PTO shaft cover on MacDon mower turns hot and melts the catches grass The my partner catches the Hyd. In the PTO shaft tears out 2 ft. of it.

Make one want to just quit farming doesn't it.

Walt

PS anybody want a cheap farm?

Sparktrician · Jun 18, 2008

Oh, it aint that bad is it? Sounds like a typical day round here. Inject. line busted on 806, Blowed tire on skid steer, Dad bounced new discbine off of telephone pole (no great damage, but it was "new"!) Life goes on i guess...I hope tommorow will be better....

Walt Davies · Jun 18, 2008

BUMMER
Walt

Lanse · Jun 18, 2008

"Loosen it up, throw on a rim and it'll run fine!!"

3 new tires
3 new rims
new rings
new bearings
new crankshaft
new piston
nother carb
nother mag
two new pushrods
all new gauges
and now nother block, head and rocker arms

Im starting to question how good a deal i got on that B but i would do it again any day

TxFarmallFan · Jun 18, 2008

If it was easy, it wouldnt be as interesting.

Goose · Jun 18, 2008

That's why I said two of the happiest days of my life were the day I started farming and the day I quit.

DoubleR · Jun 18, 2008

$6.95 a bu. for corn to feed my cattle on monday makes me want to guit too along with the 700 a ton fert. and 3.96 a gallon for Off Road diesil fuel.

teddy52food · Jun 18, 2008

If you still have your health, you have it made. I have been disabled since 1993 through no fault of my own with no hope of getting better.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2008

I think it must be some kind of evil master plan. I don't farm but if I can go a week without something breaking, I'm doing good! Seems like you just fix one oddball problem and another one is awaiting for you. Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2008

For what it's worth, I have been in a wheelchair since 1982. Up until 2006 I have put in 1000 acres of crop every year. Did all the tillage, seeding, spraying, swathing and combining in that time. Had to hire SOME hired help to get things like grain hauling done. Bought and paid for 9 quarters of land (1440 acres) and got a new house built in that time. I have slowed down now. I would do it all again if I could. Don't think I never had the odd frustrating day in that time! But at least I'm semi retired proud (very much so) of what I've done.

jlmtractor · Jun 18, 2008

most of you that have replied to this post have complained about farming but yet you have no intentions of actually quitting. so what is the big deal some stuff goes wrong thats what makes it fun..... and plus most of the people that farm on here use older equipment so stuff is going to break and everyone enjoys it even when stuff breaks. so what is the big deal fix it go on and enjoy what you do....

Walt Davies · Jun 18, 2008

My buddy called me while in town to get two filters for Case 485 but I was in the DMV and didn't get the call until almost home. Bummer another thing. Gas was $ 421.9 had to fill the pickup and get some for the Cockshutt. Boys does that hurt.
Walt

jlmtractor · Jun 18, 2008

you talk about the price of fuel....

at the most recent job i just finished was fourty five minutes away, and i spent the whole week up there... and i didnt drag the trailer back to my house... but anyway i spent five days there with two pieces of equipment there and when i turned them in at the dealership i put 160 dollars worth of fuel in them and both of still had three eighths of a tank worth of fuel left in them. but in my truck i ran over three hundred dollars worth of fuel thru my truck. but i only drug the trailer up there twice, once to drop the track hoe off, once back, to take the track hoe back, and then once more to take the loader up there and once more to take the loader back to the dealership....

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2008

sammy the RED · Jun 18, 2008

It won't break if 'ya never use it. Use it and have some fun ! 8)

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2008

And as my mother says (tongue in cheek), all the high prices the consumers have to pay for food are the farmers' fault. I say like Marie Antoinette allegedly said, "let them eat cake!"

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2008

youve got what it takes, 24 years of farming in a wheel chair, my hat is off to you,- RIVIR :~)

rrlund · Jun 18, 2008

If they want one in Michigan,send them my way! God,I should have sold out last fall. What a way to make a living. I know what you mean though. I think it was 2 years ago,maybe 3 now,I was cutting hay and spun a rod bearing in one tractor. I usually used that one to grind feed,so I had to grind with a different one later that day. I broke a piston and bent a rod in that one. 2 engines in one day! Top that!

Dairy Farmer in WI · Jun 18, 2008

yeap happens all the time. right when ya need them too! last fall i was plowing and took the pumps outta my 4010 and 4020. that same day some of the wiring in my 970 shorted out and burnt some wiring. $6000 for all 3 to get fixed. now i got my 4020 back and was gonna chop with it but the brakes are shot. the pads are flaking off and plugging the filter up. there goes another 1500. then choppin hay with my IH chopper it keeps plugging (too wet) and for some reason the head and feed rolls will not turn backward!

all ya can do is scream real loud, throw your hands up and walk away! boy we must all need vacations!
have a good one
DF in WI

Andy Motteberg · Jun 18, 2008

Buy a Farmall and you won't have those problems

Walt Davies · Jun 18, 2008

YEP it will just stay in garage.
Walt

Anonymous-0 · Jun 19, 2008

Sounds like me rotary hoeing soybeans the other day. I was using my 9n ford with a 6 row pull type rotary hoe. Everything going good, running along in 3rd gear. Notice belt on alternator squealing. Walk to barn and get wrench to tighten adjuster. Get going again. Now I have a big clump of roots stuck in the rotary hoe. Only hunk of debris in the entire 40 acre field and I had it stuck in there. Walk back to barn to get prybar. Get going and made a few rounds and noticed rotary hoe wheel on ground with bolt missing. Walked back to barn and got a bolt and put wheel back on. Now I should be good to go.There is a big storm coming up. I went about 4 more rounds and the hitch broke right off the rotary hoe at the drawbar. It was made of fairly thin pipe and it cracked and I went down the field with nothing behind me. Walk back up to barn and got a chain and chained it to the tractor and finally got it done. Then I took it up to the barn and welded and reinforced the hitch. Almost ran over my favorite cat with the darned thing too because she decided she liked sleeping right in the middle of all those wonderful spikey wheels while I was welding the hitch. What a day to just rotary hoe! Sometimes I would be farther ahead to stay in the house.

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