Where is everyone #5

That's 4 Posts for U on this Page, leave @DougA some room lmao

 

Just know that JD is probably near by watching you load product. Then makes a timely comment when you are long gone.

 

Now we're talking lol..... use to have a Sheppard grill on a smaller tractor years ago. Nice to see an oddball, I see a later model Deere in the background looks like too.

 

That’s an encoded message. Like when Orphan Annie wanted Ralphie to D-R-I-N-K M-O-R-E O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E.

 

Well I'm back guys, had a fire on one of our combines but we caught it in the nick of time before it ruined anything. Luckily we're close to the farm so we could spray it down with the garden hose.

A bearing went out on the back beater and started all the chaff and fine dust on fire. I stink so bad of smoke and soaking wet so time for a shower.

 

Funny! Not getting ignored.......yet. My fingers runneth over! LOL

 

They are mostly pend up now. What are kids to do nowadays. Case of beer and a old pickup and we thought we were kings!

 

For the last two weeks I have been meeting with a few home builders to get cost and plans on the style house I want to build. The wife has been putting in her ideas as well.....bless her heart. Went from a small 1600 sq. Ft. Home up to 1900 sq. Ft. Try to explanation to her you can only fit so much footage in so much sq. Footage......she don't get it......or does she ? ........i need some alone time with my beer fridge !!!

 

Wow, I was just telling MJ, 4MER and JD earlier about a field fire in a field my brother in law plants. Neighbors combine caught fire then somehow caught the pickup next to it on fire.

 

Yes Sir I know exactly what you are talking of, valve guides being knurled was common too.

Lot of folks don't know a piston is not perfectly round..... I remember Dad working an automotive machine shop after giving Uncle Sam his time in Germany.

Like you say rebuilding what you had was more common then. I remember dad talking about repairing an engine and only replacing 1 piston per customer requests. Chuck a piston blank up in the machine and it would rock back and forth as it cut the new piston to size ( 1000's of an inch ) of course.... new rings in all holes and a valve job along with shaving the head if needed. And never align the piston gap up with the wrist pin. Yes Sir I know of a few things from yesteryear .... and I might add, its good having you here, none of us know everything and sharing our knowledge with each other helps us all. Although I'm in my 50's I was raised by a man born in 1918, so ways of old are natural to me . Hell I still make my own cornmeal on my family Gristmill lol!!