Straight Stick plus Gleaner power

 Couple of updates on the old WD project. I have made a verbal move on those CASE rims and they will come with the tires. I dont have a need for the old 10-28 Firestone tires right now, so they would get set aside or maybe sold.

I am going to try to go get these rims and tires next week some time. Plan would be as mentioned. Get the tires removed, check the rims, develop a rework plan to make them 14 inches wide. And then think about tires??

I also went to local fab shop to get some 1/4 inch stainless plate for the pads for the wheelie bars. As we were talking he wanted to know why I needed stainless? And he proceeded to tell me that you can weld mild steel and stainless. So I left, came home and whittled out some 5 x 5 inch mild steel pads from 1/4 inch plate. and then welded it to the stainless legs with steel Mig wire. Seemed to work ok. Probably some good reason this shouldn't be done but I learned something today!

Regards,

 Chris

300 mile road trip to pick up these old rims for the WD-Z tractor project. They looked good in person. I did not see any rust out on the outside. Looks like they are formed from 1/8 ich or 3/16 thick material and then riveted together.

The tires are the 10-28 size. What tractors might these fit?? They will be for sale soon. Maybe a Mud truck guy might want them? They have a very good edge on some portions of the bars! Just not worn even all around??

Also picked up some random smaller weights. 100 + lbs.

Three @ 20 lb and one at 40 lb.

This stuff was down in the hill country of Ohio. Was like a roller coaster ride on the way down as the GPS took the shortcut! So we start on a couple more projects for the old WD-Z! Will get them demounted on Monday and check out the rims for offset and addition of a band, to stretch them, to near 14 inches instead of current 10 inches wide.

Humm these do have the 4 holes for wheel weights! Wonder if those would match up with Std Allis weights? Will have to check that out too. 

I wasn't going to blast these. rims for clean and paint. They have a patina that may match the tractor pretty good as is. The additional widening strip may go on the inside.

Regards,

 Chris

 Weather was very spring like today! Worked in the sugarhouse and then took the old tires to get them unmounted.

These rims look like 9 inch wide. (10 inches outside) Well I guess the spacer will just have to be a little wider?

Rims are really in pretty good shape! No rust through anywhere, just surface rust and scale.

 

Offset is 1 inch more than where I have the current WD45 rims set on the adjustable rims. So that means all the additional width, that I will add, will be on the inside of the wheel. And the tractor should still fit on the trailer too!

Layout for sectioning the rim:

This is where I should have a plazma cutter! I got it but it wasn't pretty!

Sure look different split! The burr makes the rim look thick, but after clean up the band will need to be 1/8 material. at least 5 inches wide. That would make a 14 inch rim for a 14.9 tire. That seems to work good on the 45. Man that sounds like I am buying another set of Crop Max 14.9-28's.

I did check with the tire shop and they do make 16.9-28's they are 12 ply! Probably could run them with no air!:)

Still not sure if I will blast and paint these rims. I usually have them blasted at this point. But these rims are pretty good. So I just cleaned up the weld zone and will fab them back together then think about clean up. I thought the current patina was pretty close to the current WZ look? They would look pretty good with cream center and silver rim and a big set of 16.9's on the old girl! That would limit it to Farm stock but maybe that would be OK too??

Couldn't stand it anymore and had to go for a ride on the WD45. It seems to be getting better at coming out of 4th gear too.

The rim parts are cleaned up and ready for the spacer. I have cut these rims down in the small dia. which is the right place to add the spacer. Need just under 84 inches of length for the spacer material. I think I am going to have the spacer rolled into a ring. It just gets harder to whack it into a hoop, the wider it gets.

I need to check on the pulling schedule at the PA farm show in early Jan 2020. I need to go and this might be a excuse to take a tractor.

Thanks for checking in on me. 

Regards,

 Chris

(sorry these pictures came out larger than normal I can reduce them if needed??)

Thanks for the encouragement!:)

 I have not used the rim guard yet. All the tires I have had changed or put on have been dry. My D17 still has some calcium in the rears. maybe 100 lbs in each? It was at 5500 and I took out 500 ish. (250 ish per rear).

I think I will leave these tires dry also. I just don't have good scales close by to get the weight right. I am estimating I may be 25- 30 lbs per wheel lighter than the spin out type?? Hoping to add that weight in back of the axle for a little better balance on some of the poorer tracks. The goal is to have it weigh about 3500 lb with these rims and the reduced weight of the revised snap coupler hitch.

If things work out would like to put a set of the Crop Max 14.9-28's on these rims next spring.

Regards,

 Chris

Worked on these rims today. I thought it was warm. Well it was only about 27 deg F. Not much wind so the Mig worked good. Spooled up the new wire and laid down some welds to tie this split rim back together:

I should have put the hood down!:)

Got one done as far as welding and grinding, sanding and wirebrushing. May get to the other one tomorrow. I think they are going to work OK.

This is the only Christmas card your going to get from us!

Merry Christmas from the Casbohm family to your family!

Regards,

 Chris

 The decal is the standard instructions for the three settings for the hydraulics. Nothing special there.

Thanks guys, (MD, ac) ,for the nice comments I appreciate that! 

It just seems that if I can get a little bit done once in a while in the winter, that things go easier when spring rolls around.

Regards,

 Chris