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  1. #12Caterpillar

    Haying in Wyoming

    Farmer Alex glad to hear that things where not a compleat fizzel for ya, I mow several acers of meadows down on the river bottems that don't seem to ever dry out, so i can relate to you when you say ya have to keep moven or :shf as far as a good ol relable tractor for the money i would have to...
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    Spring Fever

    Great pics as always Randy! I know exactly what you mean about spring feaver I can't wait to get my old #12 out an dress up some roads around the place myself.
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    Haying in Wyoming

    Sorry Farmer Alex for not getting back to ya i cant belive how time flys thanks for the info on your tractor sounds like its a very versital machine to have around the farm. I shure would like a front PTO and Three point hitch on one of my tractors. how did you end up by the time things dryed...
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    Haying in Wyoming

    Sorry to hear about your hay and weather over there iv been hearen some about it on the news ol mother nature just dont seem to be agrean with most of the world these days. it just started to get cold over here the last few days the coldest ive seen so fare is -10 but that dont hold a candle to...
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    Haying in Wyoming

    A few more pic's of putting up second crop alfalfa and some new alfalfa,oats,and peas
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    Haying in Wyoming

    Nice pic's Farmer Alex, just goes to show you don't have to have brand new equip to get the job done... all though We did go from useing two nine foot New Holland (Kune) mowers and one seven foot Kune mower a year down to one nine foot on a 3020 John Deere and the M150 this year it dose save on...
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    Haying in Wyoming

    Thanks FarmerAlex it has a 13 foot front or header and i beleve that the M150 was 130Horse Power and peaks at 140 Horse Power I would also like to see some photos of your operation I have always had a lot of interest in Australia... Ur ablolutly right clay digger that is if your ground is smooth...
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    Haying in Wyoming

    Some pics of my new M150 with 13' R80 header
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    Pull style disc hitch height

    Hi there CB1 in regards to your question about hitch hight just a few words first. As a younger buck i used to break the end disk off the front gang on the front quit reguler turning with a disk in the ground till i had some schoolen from my dad. :bash he said you should always lift a disk at...
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    HX dozers

    I hate to say it guy's and I am a die hard true blue amarican man that has had my hands on a lot of heavy equipment in the past and have a lot of mechanic friend's that work on every brand of equipment out there but just because something is built in amarica dose not mean it is 100% American...
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    Plowing in the Arctic

    Awsome pics Randy keep them coming our way. You have one of those jobs that never seem to get old. New experiances every day.
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    Cat 12 Grader problem, any suggestions?....

    My old girl gets vapor locked in the fuel lines between the pony and the shut off valve in the cab just lossen them up a bit till you get fuel there on the carb side and presto starto. Also as said before 12 volts makes them ponys start a lot better than that 6 volt crap just don't let the...
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    Heavy Equipment/Truck Mechanic

    Hay Mack I'm going to bore you with some of my life history. :) I grew up on a farm and loved to fix the equipment so much i new i wanted to be a mechanic and even more than that i loved to operate the equipment. So i went to collage and got a certificat in diesel tech and went to work for a...
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    Belarus 825

    Just a coment on the cetrifuge oil filter. We use them in conjuction with the reguler oil filters on our natural gas compressors the type we run are Microspin and I do see a benifit to them. We use them on a slip streem so all the oil dose not have to pass through them, you would have to have...
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    Black Case 8010

    Yep that lookes just about the way it sould, for a nasty four letter word. (Case) (Green and Yellow) The only colers that should be made.
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    Adams Leaning Wheel Grader

    Nice Job Good job guys! :drinkup There's nothing like watching that old iron come back to life once again to give a man a warm feeling of accomplishment.:D I remember when I got that old #12 of mine started for the first time after putting her back together. It was well worth the wait.:thumbsup
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    Did I hit a gas line?

    Here in Wyoming we have natural gas lines going in every direction you can shake a stick at, and my experiance in the gas patch (about ten years now):Banghead if you would have hit a gas line you would not be here to be asking about it just for an exampel back in the mid 90,s they where putting...
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    Belarus 825

    We have two Belarus's down on the ranch don't quit remember the sizes for shur they were both bought brand new and have an outstanding number of hours on them now. one of them you could not start in the winter to save your life:Banghead and the other one we take down on the river to feed out our...
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    12G hourly rate ?

    I am no expert blaid hand and I don't have the newest machine on the market but the work I have done in the past was 75$ an hour and the local ranchers that have have hired me are well pleased with that! But I can't expect much more than that as I am running an old #12 8T :bash that I have been...
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    Changing Seals on End Cylinder

    I would have to agree! Buy the time our cylinders started leaking, the top side of them had a grove in them so bad, rebuilding was out of the question. :beatsme
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