Hauling grain with a 160 hp tractor with around 5500 hours and pulling 900 bushels of grain. I throttled down first, then shifted down and heard severe grinding coming from under my feet in the cab of the tractor. I couldn't just stop there at all. I unloaded the grain at the elevator, limped home with no more noise, and parked the tractor. The repair shop came out with a truck and loaded up the tractor. A week later I attended "the viewing." The entire rear end tub had been removed from the tractor with not a single part left inside. I saw the shafts and gears on a table and on the floor in the shop. I would not have been surprised to see something like this in a tractor with 10,000 hours, but this was hard to comprehend. I know the prior owner did use it to haul all his grain to the elevator, and I had heard this type of use could be rough on these transmissions. I now understand how, why, and I tend to operate this a little differently as a result of this experience. A few years later, the engine was completely rebuilt/overhauled. We discovered some more misuse/abuse by the prior owner once again. I have a lot of money stuck into that tractor, but it will outlast me!
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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