My wife and I started farming just doing hay in 2017. Back then we only had a tractor I traded a car for and an old square baler we picked up for $300.
Since then we are farming around 100 acres and growing each year. Slowly albeit but thats what it takes to start farming from scratch.
Neither my wife nor I have any farming experience and have never lived on a farm.
We now have a full operational(and antique) farm equipment fleet. It's alot of work using outdated practices and methods but it is the most cost effective way for us as a start up farming business without having giant equipment payments.
We are trying to show that if you have a dream and put in the hard work IT CAN BE DONE!!!
I just bought one of these. Needs work, and I've never worked on anything mechanical before😂... your videos are helping, though. Hopefully, you keep posting repairs for this.
To be honest I don't know. Mine has the original IH gauge that doesn't have numbers it's pretty much a white gauge that sleeps over to red. Hot idle mine is always set a little above the middle after the rebuild I did years ago.
I've seen an engine lose ignition timing once in my life. A guy my dad worked with bought a restored Farmall BN, and it didn't run right so he asked Dad to look at it. It had Dad baffled enough that he just started moving plug wires around on the distributor with the engine running and it got better! About 10 or 15 minutes later it started running like crap again so he moved the wires all 1 terminal around the cap and it got better again. The guy took it apart and found a bad tooth on one of the drive gears for the distributor, and as it ran the timing got later and later. Probably not what's going on in your case but that's what it reminded me of. As for spark plug heat ranges, I've always been told that high performance engines need colder plugs and stock or very mild engines need hotter plugs. I don't know what a 706 runs for compression but I figured anything 8:1 or lower would need fairly hot plugs. I could be wrong, I have been wrong already today LOL. I'm glad she is running better, definitely sounds a lot better. Thanks for sharing, Shawn, I hope you have a good one
Cold plug for when it is ran wide open full load. That builds the heat in the chamber for sure.. along with the platform, sheet metal, the seat, and the driver lol it ran 60+ hours at full throttle disking. And thanks! I am very happy with the rebuild!
I had a 706 gas and a 460 gas back in the ‘80s - ‘90s, both needed to change the plugs two or three times a year. They’d get a light colored carbon on them. Can’t remember what plugs I ran. Weird how the timing moved.
Great to see Ole red running smooth again. Trying to make 3rd cutting here this week myself. Mother nature has been a little more temperamental than usual and made it difficult this spring and summer here in Central Ohio for us. Looking forward to hay making videos thanks shawn
Boy you upgraded drills since the last time I saw you plant! Glad your wife doesn't have to ride on the box and hold the trip levers anymore 🤣🤣 I do love that gas 706. You were definitely giving it a workout. You've got a beautiful farm! I hope you have a good growing year, Shawn! Thank you for bringing us along!
Man that bird is relentless! Video length should be up to you in my opinion. I have trouble watching longer videos mainly because I just don't have that much free time. My own videos I prefer to keep under 10 minutes because that's easier for me but I've done several that were longer when I needed to to fit everything in. You're fun to watch so do what you want to do. Hope you have a good one, Shawn!
The D282 motors are the same way to tighten the belt. Someone had to think to make something simple so complicated. Had a bearing replaced on that shaft and for some reason it decided to walk and put the fan into the radiator. $765 later all was well with the radiator.
Our super M burst into flames because of a bird nest but luckily dad’s pickup had a fire extinguisher. Even though it was a small one, it put it out before any damage was done!
I laughed so hard at those may flies! I've seen that so many times, and I still get laugh. I pull in the barn, idle for a minute and say, "Go free," as i shut off the tractor! So many!
I’ve been there Want to be a Farmer, It’s a tough row to hoe when you only work on a small budget . However, it’s pretty much the same on any money scale. Buy bigger ,newer equipment, lease more ground or just be content on doing the best you can with the things you can afford. 10 % is 10 % weather your profit is 1,200,000 dollars or 120,000 dollars. A 600 dollar tractor beats a 600, 000dollar one with 6,000 dollar payments and you et to keep most of your 10% .good for you.🇺🇸🙏🏽😎
Dont matter what them blades look like. When its down and plowing its supposed to be level .front moves dirt out rear pus it back. Unlevel will "row " the field and take a few years to corrsct with a field cultivator
Yes you are correct. I just use the pattern on the blades as a guide to ensure they are all going the same depth. Self taught and that's what I have figured out lol. I have learned that f'd up means you really f'd up lol
I will make an effort at it for sure. You aren't the only one that has commented about it. A few years ago people were saying that they didn't like that they couldn't hear me over the equipment running. I'll get some disking footage for sure though. NOT in the next one lol
Those 706 gas were notorious for burning points. That's probably the flutter you are hearing at idle. They usually clear up under load. Once load is taken off they go back to that flutter. Just how they are.
I have confirmed your suggestion lol. They were used points I just cleaned up and put in when I serviced the distributor. Good call on that one... It is way worse now lol. Video soon of points replacement.
Looks like a job well done. Man, i know the feeling about kids, they can be frustrating but you still love them. If kids are occasionally ungrateful or little turkeys once in a while that's normal but it's the ones whose parents uave let them learn that as their entire overpriveleged personality that are the problem. Also, nice bug collection, who would uave thought, ive never seen that kinda swarm on a tractor before. Thanks for sharing.
Id love to see the disk getting worked. I love watching old equipment being taken care of and used. Older equipment may not be as fancy as new but a lot easier to work on and fewer points of failure. Plus id rather machine a part than having to build a myriad of wiring harnesses to get a switch to talk to a PCB or actuator.
