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Hey Jersey boy, I ran a 1066 in New York City for Cruz Construction, two big Detroit’s Air over hydraulic. Took four lowboys to move that piece. That was a long time ago :-)Do you remember what company had that incident? There weren’t many 1066s up in the Northeast.

I paid too much for my equipment to let someone else tear it up. Dad always taught me that if I needed to borrow something to buy it instead. Chances are I'll need it again.

We were in deer camp a couple years ago and I had just bought a new log splitter for my farm. One of the guys thought it would be ok to just help himself to my new splitter and told me he was going to use it. I said, "I want to get one thing straight and up front. I don't buy equipment to be used as community property". That shut it down right there and others in camp know where I stand.

Barry, it's been a couple weeks since the last report on the tractor and bush hog. Have you got it back? If not, has Chris said when you might get it?

If you haven't got it, hope they get it fixed soon.

Not yet, Randy.

You get your stuff straightened out with the equipment and tires?

Enough stuff will break on a farm when used properly. Misuse is a killer in time not in the field. I see it a lot here with the hired help they can get now. miles

Yeah, right now, knock on wood, every things up and running.

Truth!

Reply to Bambam:

The company I worked for in 1968 was Argee Construction out of Lincoln Park, NJ. That's the company I think had the accident. The accident happened in 1970, I think, In Park Ridge, NJ, Bergen County. The small company I worked for at the time was not Argee. We were doing the improvements on a development. My boss was a former estimator for Argee.

I remember Cruz. That was a big outfit. We were tiny.

Barry, it's been almost a couple of weeks.... got the rig back, yet?

Thanks, Randy.

No sir. No gottee.

I built a fire under the dealer about 2 weeks ago. Guess I need to pay them another visit.

In the meantime, I've been wearing my butt out in that big tractor/shredder. No end in sight. Thank God that rig has been running 100%.

Just got done with the Jacobs ranch. Did all the smaller places, but not the big one we did first last year. That was fine by me.

Hope things are good with you up there. Not much rain out of the latest storm. Dry.

BTW, my brother found a new F150 and is going to sell his old one. I think it's a 2019...

I know the feeling from the borrowers side of the fence.

Had done some work with the neighbors tractor and just driving out the driveway, the front wheel went anigoggling.

Checked it out and the wheel bearings had totally failed.

Pulled it to the side (shared driveway) using the brakes to steer and went for a Coleman.
Got it all apart and next day in town went to the bearing outfit and got bearings luckily a direct reference set with o0td having to pay the dealer only sourcing prices.

Get home break out the Coleman, bearing grease and a stool.
An hour later it was all fixed and ready to go.
LUCKILY it was something simple and chap.

Speaking of dealer premium . . .

Year ago I built a brass tumbler using 2 Fafnir pillow block bearings.

Later when I was in their plant I mentioned how pricey they seemed to be . . .

My escort laughed, and said I was lucky I bought them in Fafnir gray, they were over twice as much when purchased in John Deere Green,

I asked pappy one day when I was about twelve if he thought I was old enough to learn to run his old Oliver . He said " Boy , putting a kid on a tractor will only do two things . #1 get the kid hurt and #2 tear up a perfectly good tractor ." So , the answer was no . Never could understand his thinking since I was already driving his daddy's old T model truck . Having had kids of my own , I now know exactly what he was talking about .

As an update, I'm supposed to get the tractor in question when I started this thread, back on Wednesday.

Dammit. Be like getting a new tractor, they have had it so long...

Wow, that's 3 months! At least you're getting it back before winter.

Yeah. It just missed the bulk of my busy season, shredding for clients.

Good thing I had another tractor and shredder. I used it hard this summer. Thank God it held up, and was reliable.

A couple of years ago, I bought a used Cat 938 wheel loader. The thing was like brand new with only about 2500 hours on it. About 3 months after I bought it, one of my jack nuts ripped the fender off of it.

Wow Barry.

I had forgot this thread, found my post and thought it seemed
familiar.😉

That's a long time to wait on a piece of equipment!

I don’t borrow and I don’t loan.

Good to hear you're finally getting the rig back.

Good deal Barry ! Glad your finally gonna get it back.