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No tractor pulls for me this year......

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Topic: No tractor pulls for me this year......

Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Subject: No tractor pulls for me this year......
Date Posted: 22 May 2011 at 7:19pm

So last fall when I pulled for the last time something let loose in my left brake....well I finally got 10 free minutes to pull it apart and lo and behold I snapped the drum in 2 on my WC.....the WD45 is still in pieces so looks like it'll be a spectator sport this year.......

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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110

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Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 22 May 2011 at 9:27pm

Why wouldn't you fix it? MACK

Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 22 May 2011 at 9:36pm

No time....building my sister a house, flipping a house we bought that was foreclosed, trying to sell my house.....just no time....I'd love to finish my WD45 too.

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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110

Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 22 May 2011 at 10:36pm

I hear ya. If you ever have a few hours and want to rip into it, let me know. I'm working full time right over in bellefonte so not that far away

Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 9:39am

There ya go -- no more free time when ya get married --- LOL. I could not get my wife to fix tractor brakes, you pobably can't either ---- maybe later (28 yrs and I'm still waiting - LOL)

Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 9:53pm

I did not know you just got married. If I just got married I wouldn't care if I went tractor pulling or not, but after 46 years she will help me fix the tractor so we can go tractor pulling.

Hope you can have as many and more happy years as we have had. MACK

Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 10:08pm

Its ok MACK.....its something her and I like going to do but I just dont have enough time in a day ya know?

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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110

Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:21pm

Don't worry about the days Benny, worry about how short the nights are now. LOL I kind of know the feeling. I have been retired now for ten years and I don't have time to do anything I want anymore. Not enough hours in the day is right!!

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"Allis-Express"
19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17

Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:30pm

My grandpa always says he doesn't know how he did everything when he was working because he doesn't have enough time now that he's retired

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red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round
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Posted By: acwdwcman
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:50pm

they need to make the day with a couple more hours.. called allis time! lol

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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow

Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 10:08pm

One of the ways I've found to combat limited time, is to call up a buddy or two, and come up with a mutual 4 hour span of time when we can all gang up on a project at once... like an engine swap... set up everything that needs to be prepared... have everything there, and then we attack it as a team, and knock it out quick. Oftentimes, having two extra sets of hands will make a task like that go really fast... and if it means you put team-time to bring a machine back online, you've rapidly resolved an issue that yields long-term frustration, and done it with buddies.

My wife seems to tolerate it well... it doesn't happen often, but most wives will be satisfied to know that you're not hangin out in a bar, turnin' a pool cue and drinkin' beer...

...you're hangin' out in the barn, turning wrenches, and drinkin' beer...