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Michaeljp86 said:
Here was my last big tow from this summer, a John Deere 2010 Diesel with a kelley loader. The tractor was about 2 hours north of me. My GPS always wants to take the highway so when I left the place I picked it up I though I knew my way back to the highway I wanted to take. I missed a turn and ended up right on the beach on a 100 degree day. All the narrow streets were packed with Mercedes, BMWs, Porsches.We get a lot of Chicago people here on the weekends. There was no way I was going to fit down those streets so I seen a big empty parking lot with a exit only sign and a street on the other side heading out of town. Thank God for that parking lot. :D

The 6.5 pulled her good, after winching it on with a come-along for about 4 hours I drove home with the AC maxed and daydreaming about our michigan winters.

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Heres how the 2010 looks now, almost done.

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Whats the story on the Deere? Sorry, neat old tractors are interesting.
 
DieselSlug said:
Whats the story on the Deere? Sorry, neat old tractors are interesting.
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It ran a ad in some classifieds looking for old tractors to fix up. I got a lot of people with a busted up farmall A for $7000. I seem to attract these people. Some woman told me about this JD, said it would start and hasn't ran in a few years. Didn't give me a price or anything. I went up and looked at it and her husband said he needed $2000 for it. It was overgrown in trees, the loader was half taken off. It was a mess. I offered them $1500 and the entire time I was winching it up I was thinking how stupid I am. It had lots of hydraulic leaks, the steering gearbox was pumping oil out the center of the steering wheel. Ive got a little over $2000 in it. Still needs a steering wheel and I just ordered a new fuel gauge and sending unit. Ill probably have about 3k into it when Im done. I got lucky and found a set of used rear tires for $100.
 
Picture of my 6.5 hauling a 98' Ram Cummins for my friend Bill.
 

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I should have taken pictures of the load of concrete block and ready mix I hauled from lowes. About 16,000lbs, those load range Ds on back were about to let the rims touch the ground. That was a stupid miscalculation on my part.
 
GM Guy said:
is that hand-line? I dont see any sprinkler risers though.
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I didn't pick those up yet, I bought this stuff from my great uncle, it used to be my great grandpas. I bought his irrigation setup, pump and everything. Also a transplanter and potato digger. There is 3 sprinkler heads that do a 100ft radius and a bunch of smaller ones.

The pipe is 20ft 4" steel and 4", 3" and 2" 30ft aluminum. The pump is a 6cyl chrystler with a hale pump.
 
I may have to haul around a forklift we just picked up, 10k lbs itself. I'll snap a pic if I do. Not worried at all about the Duramax handling it. :thumbsup:
 
Michaeljp86 said:
I didn't pick those up yet, I bought this stuff from my great uncle, it used to be my great grandpas. I bought his irrigation setup, pump and everything. Also a transplanter and potato digger. There is 3 sprinkler heads that do a 100ft radius and a bunch of smaller ones.

The pipe is 20ft 4" steel and 4", 3" and 2" 30ft aluminum. The pump is a 6cyl chrysler with a hale pump.
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leaning tower of inline power?

what brand is the potato digger? I take it you are getting into small time spud harvest? with the low overhead, on a bad year, you will be the only profitable spud farmer! :D
 
GM Guy said:
leaning tower of inline power?

what brand is the potato digger? I take it you are getting into small time spud harvest? with the low overhead, on a bad year, you will be the only profitable spud farmer! :D
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The tater digger is a john deere, I have 2 old IH ground driven diggers but the JD is a pto driven. I just unloaded a hay wagon off the trailer I bought yesterday, should have taken a pic. I noticed it has a hoist under it, I didn't notice that when I bought it.
 
Michaeljp86 said:
The tater digger is a john deere, I have 2 old IH ground driven diggers but the JD is a pto driven. I just unloaded a hay wagon off the trailer I bought yesterday, should have taken a pic. I noticed it has a hoist under it, I didn't notice that when I bought it.
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This stuff would fit nicely in the farming forum. We haven't put anything over there in quite some time guys.
 
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