Anyone Know What This Is ?

[squonk 41,021]

6 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

 Im afraid people would ask me questions about it !! I have no answer for it. I am not the builder I just got it running again. Let me know when the show is though. I just might go.

If it happens this year it's in August the 7th to the 10th. I won't be there on the 10th. That tractor would fit right in. That's the best part. You get people stopping by and before you know it some one will know something about the transmission,the axle the hood who knows. I set up a canopy, a few chairs a few tractors and watch strange contraptions drive by.

[D_Mac 8,593]

6 minutes ago, squonk said:

If it happens this year it's in August the 7th to the 10th. I won't be there on the 10th. That tractor would fit right in. That's the best part. You get people stopping by and before you know it some one will know something about the transmission,the axle the hood who knows. I set up a canopy, a few chairs a few tractors and watch strange contraptions drive by.

Are you calling me strange?

[ebinmaine 67,268]

1 hour ago, D_Mac said:

Facebook, or Twitter, none of that

I don't have those either ... No time for 'em.

Redsquare is the ONLY social media I have.

 

 

If you have Gmail you automatically have a YouTube channel.

Otherwise it's fairly easy...

 

Did I mention that tractor is super cooooool?

 

 

[WHX?? 48,770]

13 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

Are you calling me strange?

You on that tractor wearing a suit & tie fer sure Tractor sure does have some character! 

You ever get tired of it please pay it forward, preferrable to a member here! 

 

[Pullstart 62,786]

40 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

 Im afraid people would ask me questions about it !! I have no answer for it. I am not the builder I just got it running again. Let me know when the show is though. I just might go.

 

You might meet someone who knows who built it!  It’s worth the trip to bring something like that to a show or ten!

[WHX?? 48,770]

2 minutes ago, pullstart said:

 

You might meet someone who knows who built it!  It’s worth the trip to bring something like that to a show or ten!

'Tis a small world ya know plus you get to see other cool tractors! 

[squonk 41,021]

I can't find the pic , but a friend who hangs out at the pageant with me has has a 4WD Massey-Ferguson garden tractor with Keep axles. I'm trying to get him to bring it again.

[squonk 41,021]

Just now, squonk said:

I can't find the pic , but a friend who hangs out at the pageant with me has has a 4WD Massey-Ferguson garden tractor with Jeep axles. I'm trying to get him to bring it again.

 

[ebinmaine 67,268]

39 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

Are you calling me strange?

In all the best most respectable ways I'm sure. 

 

[953 nut 55,068]

59 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

afraid people would ask me questions about it !! I have no answer for it.

Tell them anything!    most people won't know any better.              

1 hour ago, D_Mac said:

It has a seat on it and a bunch of levers and such, not sure what it does.

Probably a horse drawn piece of harvesting equipment.   Post the pictures and we will have fun guessing or making up a convincing story.        

[953 nut 55,068]

12 minutes ago, squonk said:

Massey-Ferguson garden tractor with Keep axles.

I was just about to   Keep Axles when you posted the correction.             

[WHX?? 48,770]

13 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

In all the best most unrespectable ways I'm sure. 

I'd call you that EB but you'd agree with me! 

[WHX?? 48,770]

1 hour ago, D_Mac said:

 Im afraid people would ask me questions about

If you can't dazzle them with brillance .... baffle them with bull$hit... works for me! 

[ebinmaine 67,268]

16 minutes ago, WHX24 said:

I'd call you that EB but you'd agree with me! 

Yes Sir.

 

Quite true.

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, WHX24 said:

If you can't dazzle them with brillance .... baffle them with bull$hit... works for me! 

 

Works for me...... Often....

 

[Pullstart 62,786]

15 hours ago, WHX24 said:

If you can't bedazzle them with brillance .... baffle them with bull$hit...

 

Had an old employee tell me that quite often... along with “You can always learn something from someone older than you.”

 

Another close friend and employee who passed away from lymphoma told me after witnessing a standstill argument between a lesser witted employee and myself... “Never argue with an idiot, because an innocent bystander might not know who the idiot really is.”

[ebinmaine 67,268]

34 minutes ago, pullstart said:

“Never argue with an idiot, because an innocent bystander might not know who the idiot really is.”

Solid gold wisdom right there

 

 

 

My maternal grandfather was basically my twin, give or take 50 or 60 years.

 

When I was 20 or 25 years old we were having a discussion about the saying:

 

"Respect your elders."

 

I'm paraphrasing a little bit but he told me.  "Boy, that's crap. You respect everyone a little to start. Everyone. Then you figure out who deserves more and you give them the respect that the others don't deserve."

 

[Pullstart 62,786]

Hey @D_Mac we could ask Rylee what brand it is!  Looks like something she put together one time...

 

 

[D_Mac 8,593]

@pullstart Ask her !!! I told you before I think your 2 daughters know more about tractors then I do. Also they are much better mechanics. I saw these and I thought of your two daughters.

[D_Mac 8,593]

Well I borrowed the power washer today and sprayed it down. Still a lot of grease on it but took a good amount off. Took it for a pretty long drive up and down my street. Next I am going to borrow a grease gun and grease it up. There are a lot of grease fittings. Change the oil. When I get enough courage tackle that carb. I figure since it is part Speedex and part Bonanza it is now a " Speedanza" . I want to see how it looks with the different tires and wheels on it. Someone told me that the bolts holding the wheels on might be reversed thread ? Any truth to that before I break one? I am really suprised with what little effort it took to get it running and driving. It really needs to be seen in person to appreciate the work that went into building it. I still look forward to all your opinions as to what you see in it. Possibly picking up that plow and lawn roller for it tomorrow. Keep you posted.

[diesel cowboy 263]

49 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

I figure since it is part Speedex and part Bonanza it is now a " Speedanza"

 

As for the wheel bolts being left hand thread I don't think they would be.  None of my Speedex's have them but who knows if the guy that built it put them on.  All the cars/trucks/tractors that I've seen that had left hand thread wheel bolts are on the left wheels looking at it from the operators position, and most of them had a raised L on the head of the bolt or stamped into it if it was a nut.  The right side would have standard thread

[ebinmaine 67,268]

7 hours ago, D_Mac said:

bolts holding the wheels on might be reversed thread ? Any truth to that before I break one

You can avoid breaking one you're not sure of by using a trick I heard of 20+ years ago.

"You can almost always tighten something but you can almost never loosen it".

 

Here in the Northeast cars/trucks etc get VERY rusty too fast.

If you tighten a bolt just a little it breaks the rust easier than trying to loosen it.

 

Since you're not sure of thread direction try to treat all the bolts like normal but TIGHTEN them a tiny bit.

Then Loosen a tiny bit.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

At that point you'll be dealing with a bolt that's more prone to move and you'll also know which thread it is by then.

 

This is also a great time to use your favorite penetrating oil between your movements.

 

[Pullstart 62,786]

If the bolts are sticking through the hubs at all, spray those with penetrating oil and inspect the threads during that time.  If you’ve ever seen a left hand thread, you’ll recognize how wonky it looks just threaded the wrong way! 

[953 nut 55,068]

5 minutes ago, pullstart said:

bolts are sticking through the hubs at all, spray those with penetrating oil and inspect the threads during that time.

Wire brush them first to get rid of built up rust.

8 hours ago, D_Mac said:

I figure since it is part Speedex and part Bonanza it is now a " Speedanza"

Now you know what to tell inquisitive people at the tractor shows.     Friend of mine calls his a "Fromall"  because it has barts fro all sorts of stuff.