Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you
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Devonviolet
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Dude, you missed a tree!
Looks great, don't know why Jan would get heartburn from looking at the results! I'm guessing you are finding your "new" tractor to be quite useful ... and fun!
Devonviolet
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Again, thank you to each and every one of you for reading and commenting on our journey from suburbanites to farmers:
Toooo FUNNY!!! Hahahahah!!!
Bruce
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Got it! He'll stop "wasting hay" after he gets everything cleaned up and the plan, whatever it ends up being, comes together. I'm sure Mr. Haney will help!
Mike CHS
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I didn't have enough trees in my paddocks so I planted quite a few. 
Bruce
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Careful you don't run them over with the mower! Shade trees are a good thing in animal pastures.
greybeard
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I'm sure he will...for a small stipend.
Mr. Haney was the con man, the guy that usually had an ill fitting suit and tie on..and always with an angle..
Hank Kimball, was the inept 'county agent'
Baymule
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And if funny smoke comes out from under your tractor, TURN OFF THE KEY! Unknown to me, there was a bare wire on the wiring harness. I was happily bush hogging, almost done, when smoke came out from under the floor of the tractor. I killed it immediately and crawled under the tractor. I saw the melted wires and just left it right there. If I hadn't turned off the key, more electrical damage would have been done.
Later we got neighbors to bring their big tractors and drag it up on our trailer so we could take it for repair. New wiring harness installed..... $1,000
Later we got neighbors to bring their big tractors and drag it up on our trailer so we could take it for repair. New wiring harness installed..... $1,000
greybeard
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Most of the time, if I'm not going to be using my tractor for a couple of days, I disconnect the cable from negative terminal of the battery.
IF I have an electrical problem and especially if I see smoke, I also disconnect that cable..by any means at hand, as quickly as possible, and that is usually by cutting the cable. (Battery posts and cable terminals have a bad habit of welding/melting themselves together in direct short situations.)
There have been lots and lots of tractors burn to the ground with the key off and battery fully connected.
Lighting, charging and part of the start circuits generally have at least some of their circuits "hot at all times"...meaning the positive side of the circuit is almost always energized and control of that circuit is usually accomplished via controlling it's grounding.
IF I have an electrical problem and especially if I see smoke, I also disconnect that cable..by any means at hand, as quickly as possible, and that is usually by cutting the cable. (Battery posts and cable terminals have a bad habit of welding/melting themselves together in direct short situations.)
There have been lots and lots of tractors burn to the ground with the key off and battery fully connected.
Lighting, charging and part of the start circuits generally have at least some of their circuits "hot at all times"...meaning the positive side of the circuit is almost always energized and control of that circuit is usually accomplished via controlling it's grounding.
Bruce
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So many things to think about and remember!
