Whats the strangest item found?
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Topic: Whats the strangest item found?
Posted By: Bee
Subject: Whats the strangest item found?
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 7:47am
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Whats the strangest item you have found on your tractor ? Apparently someone couldn't get this 7/16 socket off the bolt sometime between 1949 and now...(Exhaust Manifold)  |
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Posted By: Steve M
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 8:34am
| My wife says the STANGEST thing on my tractor is ME!!!! |
Posted By: Steve M
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 8:35am
| Better make that STRANGEST. See what I mean, I can't even spell. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 8:54am
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I found a dead mouse in the gas tank of my first tractor, a 1940 A John Deere.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 9:47am
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Found numerous pennies, nickles, and dimes in the left brake housing on my C. This means two things; 1. one of the former operators of this tractor was left-handed(as I am).
2. I should go over some of the ground he worked with a metal detector. If that much change made it down in there, the fields' have gotta be a gold mine! LOL!
All that sounds good, unless it was just the grandkids thinking grandads tractor was a piggy-bank, and dropping it in there. LOL!
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Posted By: Dave Richards (WV)
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 9:56am
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Found 12 hickory nuts in the bottom tank of the radiator on my D-12. System was sealed and had coolant in it. Either mice stored them there once when rad hose was off, or I once heard of hickory nuts used in the cooling system as an addative. I have a B with a petcock attached to the intake side of the manifold. They come with a threaded hole for them. Was told that when the electricity went off, you could run milkers off the engine vacumn. Makes a great place to insert starter fluid. |
Posted By: Kip-Utah
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:04am
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Bought a '41 WC from original owners son,and when we got it home & started scraping grime off the engine block discovered a WD45 block. The engine had all WC internals and external components including the 45 degree exhaust manifold. It had been installed by a dealer over 50 years ago as a replacement for the original damaged block. ------------- HANSEN'S OLD ORANGE IRON. Showing, Pulling, & Going!! |
Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:12am
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D-12, when I took the valve cover off there was a socket left on one of the head bolts. Been there a looooong time from the looks of it. I had to pry it off. Dave I have seen those intake ports and I could not figure out why they were there! ------------- Charlie '48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:35am
| dave I have a c with a petcock on the manifold. the engine came off a a combine . I know if it's hot and you kill it , you open the petcock & she will fire right up. I call it an anti flood valve. the strangest thing on any of my tractors is my wife!! |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:36am
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My C has a 40 model B Kerosene engine. I have a petcock in the intake manifold. I have heard that it was used to hep with cold-weather operation, but not sure how that would help.
I have also heard the one about using engine vacuum to run milkers.
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Posted By: morton(pa)
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 11:16am
| I can't say its the strangest but the B that has been in the family for 30+ years has the original wrench, and spark plug socket with handle that came with all B's from the factory. It's quite nice to know they have stayed with the tractor this long. |
Posted By: split51
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 11:19am
| I found the original spark plug socket for my 29 Model E in the gas tank. |
Posted By: BrettPhillips
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 11:20am
| I have heard of a one-foot square piece of shag carpet being found in the brake area inside the final drives on a B. Musta been one determined little mouse... |
Posted By: Burgie
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 11:22am
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Dave, we had a WD with the petcock and it was used for milking when there was no electric. ------------- "Burgie" |
Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 11:24am
Didn't check for these yet under the birds nest in the tool storage compartment..... |
morton(pa) wrote:Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 12:38pm
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I found a bumble bee in the gas tank on my CA once. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 12:55pm
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Probably the piece of a flannel shirt I found in the gas inlet on the carb on my D14. Took me awhile to find out why it wouldn't run right! Don't know where it came from, if it would've come from the tank, you would think it would've restricted the flow a long time before getting into the carb?!?!? ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Rawleigh
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 1:14pm
| Crawfish claw in the radiator of my TD 9 trackloader. Must have been refilling it out of a ditch!! |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 4:28pm
| I bought a WD that came from a slaughterhouse and found butcher knives in some of the strangest places. I am pretty well set for butcher knives now though. |
Posted By: wkpoor
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 5:03pm
| My first CA came with the plug socket and handle plus a wrench and something else (I put them up for good keeping, I'll have to look to jog my memeory) in the tool box. |
Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 6:03pm
| I brought home a B that had 11 rocks in the gas tank. don't know if they were put in there on purpose, but I had to hold the tank upside down and the wife fished them over the lip of the gas cap hole as my fingers are to chunky to reach in there and pull them out. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 6:06pm
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When I worked at the local Allis dealer back in the early 90's I found the name and date written in marker on the valve cover of someone from the AC factory on a 200 or was it a 185. Wish I had written the name down but I didn't. One of the older mechanics told me they took in a new tractor back in the 50's or 60's that had gotten a flat tire while on the lot. It had a broken beer bottle between the tire and tube. A little off topic, when I tore up the carpet in my house, sprayed with glue on the floor so that the carpet backing sticking to the glue left behind the guy's name and date spelled out. I took a picture. Built in 1974. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 7:16pm
| Fired up a '28 Allis E for the first time a few years ago and there was a well preserved dead bird in the exhaust manifold. When it first fired that dead bird took a last flight about 20 feet into the air and landed on the operator platform! |
Posted By: Joe(TX)
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 8:33pm
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Not really strange if you live where they abound, but; I found a dirt dauber nest on top of a piston on a WD. Ended up with a stuck piston.
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Posted By: Gary in da UP
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 8:52pm
| 3 baby starlings and a half bushell of staw in an Oliver 77 gas tank. Bought the tractor and noticed no gas cap , heard 'em cheeping as I rolled it off the trailer. There were no survivors. |
Posted By: Creek Jenkins
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:40pm
| I think Walker wins this one, I laughed pretty hard over his comments! |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:45pm
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Posted By: Wendell(OK/TX)
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 12:23am
| Sometime in the 60's, Dad rebuilt a WD for the original owner who said engine had never been messed with. Found a 1/2" drive extension in the pan. |
Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 7:14am
| The petcock reminded me of when Dad had an air hose that screwed into a spark plug hole on a WD45. If he had a flat anywhere he took a plug out and used the hose to air it up off the engine compression, got him home sometimes to fix it right. I found it in an old shed several weeks ago. Not on a tractor though. |
Posted By: KenBWisc
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 9:54am
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Yup, I have one of those spark plug air hoses with a gauge my Dad gave me!
------------- '34 WC #629, '49 G, '49 B, '49 WD, '62 D-19, '38 All Crop 60 and still hunting! |
Posted By: AaronB
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 4:09pm
| The carb on my WD has a grease zerk in the throat that goes to the air cleaner. ??? |
Posted By: AaronB
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2010 at 4:11pm
| My wd has a grease zerk on the carburetor. In the throat that goes to the air cleaner. ??? |