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So do any of you older guys understand what I am talking about and how this is done?? Say you have 2 or 3 old dead tractors so you take the 2 or 3 of them and build one good one but you do not buy much if any new parts to do so. Sort of like they had to do back in the 30s and 40s when you grand fathers farmed.
I have spent the last few weeks trying to do an old school rebuild and believe me it has been fun and more fun then doing a rebuild with new parts and one heck of a challenge to boot. No new gaskets, no new parts but a lot of mix and match stuff and a lot of hope it fits and meets spec.
 
up until the last few years thats what i always had to do...farm equiptment,trucks,motorcycles,you name it.
 
Old
I have been doing that all my life. Dad taught me that. Always be on the look out for a parts a machine. When I wanted a car of my own dad bought a 66 Fairlane no motor,trans,rear end. He unloaded it beside my Grandfathers wrecked 67 Falcon.He said if you take everything out of one and put it in the other you will have a car. He was right, I did it and drove it for several years. Same thing with equipment and trucks I always try and buy another of what ever I have already.
Ron
 
what tractor are you old school rebuilding? Dont forget to send some pictures, You are probably the best there is at old school rebuilding I think it is great! My brother is good at it also., I am not a good mechanic probably would be better if I had to, but he was always there to help me out.
 
30/35 years ago,I'd buy Chevrolet pickup trucks,wrecked,parked,etc. I'd sell parts,and take parts off several and "build" a 3/4 ton I used for a work truck.
Back then I enjoyed it,and made a little,or at least drove a "free" [for my labor] 3/4 ton.
Bought a 1965 Cheverolet with a new motor but wrecked for $96.00 and a six-pack,sold a lot of parts,[good cab]then ran the motor in two 3/4 ton bodys.
Things were a lot more simple then,and I was young,and in good shape.
 
I'm still having to do that on a regular basis. Most recent was #1 son's 99' Ford Escort. I'm still driving an 89' F-150 that's linage I wouldn't be able to figure out. Just got front fenders for it. I think the guy said they came off a 91' F-350, just like new! It was doors last year from a 90' F-150 that came out of Arizona. This seems to have become a test of "grit" now to see how long it can last in daily duty. 223,000 (certainly not highway miles) and counting.
 
I posted a bunch of pictures of what I have started with in the Farmall forum a few days ago. I am taking 2 Farmall Bs and an A and building a BA or in other words building and A with a narrow front on it. I could build a B but then the sickle bar mower I have to fits the A would not be able to be mounted. In the long run I am building a self propelled sickle bar mower. The pictures are what I started with about 3 weeks ago. The one with the white line on the torque tube is a crack where the A had a fight with a tree and lost
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A few years back my son took 2 B's and an A and made a wide front B out of them. The only things he bought were paint and decals.
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We like the wider stance of the B and the wide front front for mowing on the hills. Take another look at your mower, I think ours may even be off a Cub.

Tom
 
The sickle bar mower I have mounts in the back and has 3 bolt holes on each side that bolt under the seat area. That is why I am doing the BA instead of doing the B. I also plan to put duals on the left side so as to help keep it from flipping as easy on the narrow side plus I will be using a cast center and a wheel weight on the right side. The left side will also have a wheel weight on the outer dual. I'd do duals on both sides but I only have one set of pressed steel centers so I can only do one side
 
That is what I am doing with the hay rakes I have been rebuilding. On one I had to cut off the back part of the frame and replace with from anouther rake. Probably had pieces of 5 or 6 different rakes in before I was done.
 
Ain't what your supposed to do?? When I needed car parts,(years ago)I'd head over to the local junk yard, its surprising how many "new" parts are put on some cars to get them running, (to no avail) then they'd junk em. Saved lots of hard earned cash that way. This generation has to be the most wasteful yet, to most of em its "throw away buy new"!!
Bob
God Bless
 
Most recent thing I did was our Gehl 72 green chopper. Bought one off my neighbor who was gonna scrap his out. The ORC on the chopper was broke (all 6 bolts that hiold it together sheared) and it needed a new spout.

Our chopper had the spout just rebuilt when some other things went kaput, so we parked it in the weeds. I put the 2 together and now Dad is green chopping our shorter 4th crop instead of trying to cut and chop it for forage.

I fixed the ORC on the chopper, but the u joint on the front of the cover was busted so I took that part off ours (slid out the back 1/2 of the shaft). The side sheild was missing on his so I swapped that out too. Also put on the spout and blower band from ours. Our chopper had a busted u joint on the front knuckle as well.

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Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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