BOBWhite

At the start of the week it was hot and had a massive fire, by the end of the week its cold with a chance of snow. I don't really like either option. Something like 230,000 acres burned but thankfully we didn't loose much of importance. Some neighbors lost a good amount of cattle unfortunately.

At first I thought it was storage but how on earth do you get up there?

Is that a aircon unit on the top of that MH? Also did I hear that right when he said $25,000 for a Volvo?! Wowee that seems like a lot of money for the early 80s.

Some of the newer John Deere choppers use v12 Liebherr engines. Never been around one Took a look at that GMC V6 this weekend, 67Rmodel was dead on with the location of the number but it took some scraping to read. 401M is what it said but still not sure what M or "magnum" means. It would be a cool motor to swap into something but the Allison auto trans in it is way too huge for a pickup.

Have one of those giant GMC gas V6s sitting in a truck, don't remember what ci it was. My uncle told me that the gas v6s were basically built to be diesels so they'll last forever. Must not have been a very good diesel though from what I've heard. Oh the topic of air-cooled Duetz; never knew you could get them from the factory in trucks here. Up until 96 you could get them in gleaner combines but they were hated by most. Twin turbo air-cooled V8 was just too strange for farmers, they had to be kept CLEAN which isn't easy to do on a combine. Parts and service were also terrible so many got junked or cummins swapped if they really like the machine. At least they sounded cool

This was the style I was wanting to replace it with: The one on my 285 doesn't feel like it's doing much. This type always worked well on JD stuff

Educate me on hand primer pumps, are there different thread sizes? I have a few older pieces of equipment with the old "unscrew and pump" type and would like to replace them with the "black top" type. The old style probably would work if I put new seals in but I prefer the newer type. Thanks

The city of Minneapolis is in such a sad condition. Minneapolis Moline and other great agricultural products were made there not all that long ago, now they just manufacture chaos and destruction.

This also applies to Venezuela

I wish our truck had the 549, but the 345 V8 in our seed wheat truck really has treated us well. Such a smooth engine for not being maintained and cobbled together spark plug wires.

Door plate tag or Injector pump tag might reveal something if they aren't worn off too. Someone here might be able to decode that injection pump tag but not sure. Best of luck

I kept a little Honda trail 70 in the back of my pickup for that very reason, parts fetching that is. I must have carried over 1000lbs of small odds and ends back and forth from the field to the shop. Pick it up and throw it in the back when done. And sorry again for highjacking the thread lol.

Since Joey shared his mobile mechanic setup I thought I'd share one I saw sell on Truck Paper the other day: What a rig! Be something nice to build something like this on the farm someday, crane and welder would sure be handy.

Thanks for passing this along. Good parts list here: Maine is a world away though

Good eye spotting that! It would be a cool project to save that cab and restore it. Ive heard helicopter and crop duster turbine engines have a lot more hours left in em after FAA regulations decommission them. Wonder how hard that would be to swap 🤔