HotRodTractor

You can be slow and be safe. Sticking to roads with less traffic, periodic pull offs to allow others to pass, ensuring your machine is road ready, etc... And granted not every scenario is going to allow you to be ideal - but when a whole lot of improperly prepared people gather and make decisions it can make a mess. Some of my closest calls have happened when I was operating farm equipment on the road ways.... so I do understand that sometimes you just have to be slow and in the way.... safety on the road is everyone's responsibility.

I find it odd that they would cast it out of a zinc material - but I suppose anything to save a buck with a high likelihood that it will be perfectly fine as so few people actually use these trucks as trucks. Casting iron in house is on my to do list.... I'll be making aluminum pours within the next 60 days. Iron is probably a year out.

I know your pain when I find the King Midgets are in the area....

Sorry for being extra slow.

Yes - all of my insulated bibs are Carhartts. I've went through who knows how many pairs over the years. Best thing ever for working in the cold even with limited movement. My dad always wore stripped bibs when he wore them - it was kind of something that I picked up from him unknowingly. Ironically I never owned a pair of stripped bibs while he was still with us.

I still farm and do occasionally partake in the bib wearing experience. More so in the winter as I find them a little hot and confining in the summer - but I do own a pair of pinstriped bibs for those more discerning farm social events.

I found this one in my digital stash this morning by accident. I really need to clean up and organize that stuff.... I know it doesn't say it... but it is powered by a flathead Chrysler Industrial.

I promise I'm not keeping you in suspense on purpose. I'm moving some stuff around in the house reorganizing and the scanner/ printer is currently in the same room as my sleeping GF. Considering she spent the day in the rain and wind directing traffic for a local COVID vaccination clinic.... I'll let her sleep.

Yeah - I'll take a nice high quality scan of it tomorrow. It doesn't tell you much of anything - it shows the 5 through 15 Industrial engines and text simply says they have Industrial engines for your 200 to 400ci applications. There are some interesting details to note on the engines themselves, but I'll let you guys pick apart the image when I post it.

This is just a small subset of what I have. I love old advertising literature and signs (even though the sign in this picture is a reproduction). I really kind of fell in love with the "Horsepower with a Pedigree" tag line that the Chrysler Industrial division used. There are a TON of awesome graphics with lots of color and variation on that theme. If someone was smart they would revitalize that tag line for current automotive marketing purposes. It really gets noticable and creative in the early industrial Hemi era.

Massey Harris altered wheat harvesting forever during WWII. Just before the war they created what is widely considered the first "modern" combine - the Model 21. Once the war started and materials were restricted it really hurt the roll out of this fantastic new machine. This is where the genius of the head of Massey Harris marketing changed history.... He went to the war board and pleaded a case that if they could build 500 combines and sell them to farmers with the promise that each one would harvest 2000 acres - the promise also included that the new machines would save gas, improve yields by more efficiency in the threshing process, and free up horses and tractors for other tasks. The war board bought into this concept in 1944 - MH built the combines and farmers fought over them.... then harvest came - they started in Texas as the wheat matured there first and worked their way north. They used airplanes to survey the fields and direct these new "harvest crews" to where the wheat was ready. It was a HUGE success and they averaged over 2000 acres per machine that first year. This put them miles ahead of the competition with a million acres of harvest experience and development. This program just grew and grew year after year and gave birth the huge harvest crews that roam the west today harvesting. The moral of this story? It was powered by a flathead Chrysler 6.

My Wards tractor: I pulled my IND265 engine from an Oliver Combine - no pictures of that. I have seen welders powered by these engines. I have seen air compressors built from these engines with special heads - the engine runs on 3 cylinders and uses the other 3 cylinder to pump and compress air. Forklifts, Payloaders, Snow blowers, airport tugs, cement trucks, boats, irrigation pumps, the list is endless. Perhaps the most impressive usage of these engines was in WWII tanks..... 5 engines bolted together onto a common jackshaft with a dry sump oiling making a 30 cylinder engine..... On Edit: I will see about digging out my small ad collection. I have about a dozen magazine ads I have gathered up selling Chrysler Industrial engines that show them being used in various different applications. I plan on framing them up for part of a wall display when I build the new house.

I'd have to go look - but the 230 engine in my Wards tractor is a 6A I think..... The industrial engines overlapped heavily with passenger vehicle production. They were putting these engines in everything they could as soon as they could. I have never found any documentation that explains the differences in each of the variants - I suspect they are most internal changes such as the camshaft. There are multiple manifold configurations depending on application. Both updraft and downdraft carburetor setups exist. Exhaust manifolds are even more complicated with the exhaust exit - up/ down / side / dual side. Industrial governors were typically belt driven pierce units. I have two of them. Its also not uncommon to find a hydraulic pump driven directly off the front of the crankshaft using a rubber rag joint on industrial motors.

A lot of these industrial engines have a hydraulic pump run directly off the front of the crank with a rubber rag coupling. I know that both my tractor and the engine I pulled out of a combine are setup like this.

I'm ready to go wheel and deal on a fleet. I'll even take that Power Wagon hiding in the middle of the back row there just be a nice guy.

I could have used this machine a few weeks back.... lol You have plenty of compression to get it up and running and then evaluate after you've had a few heat cycles and some load on the engine.

I'm not sure where you are located... but these are usually pretty easy and cheap to find. I'm not sure what you are going to find there is worth all the effort.

I know I thoroughly appreciate the fluid drive setup in my tractor for smooth starts and being able to simply and easily nudge the tractor into position like when I am hooking up equipment, or backing a hay wagon into the barn, or whatever.... I imagine all that would be amplified more with a forklift. But I also agree - that looks like a standard clutch bell.

I'd spend the extra money on that old TV. It won't collect all of your browsing information, shows watched, things purchased, whatever and send it back to the company to be fully cataloged, cross referenced, and databased just to be sold to whoever wants to try and sell you things.... That being said - we have the same issue no matter what we do anymore anywhere.... buying something at a store with a credit/debit card, surfing the web, even posting here, there is probably some bot scalping information on us unsuspectingly. *goes and puts on tin foil hat*

Not sure how I missed this thread. I've had a garden since 2016 and have developed it a little more each year with various aspects. The main vegetable garden consists of 2 4'x16' raised beds of cultivated soil that consists of composted materials, lawn clippings, cow manure, etc.... its this awesome lightly and fluffy soil that has taken quite some time to develop. There is also a row of hops plants. The GF and I cultivate a few pollinator friendly flower beds such as this guy: And just because I never want to have the excuse for a bad crop - I keep some honey bees as well: Obviously these are all old pics.... everything is buried under ice and snow right now.

In 1996 I was 14 years old. My dad and I had been talking about finding a 5 window Chevy pickup to restore/modify for my first vehicle. I was always into old iron of all kinds - dad was into antique tractors and just went with it. We had barn/shop space and I was already doing most of the upkeep mechanical work on the farm equipment, antique tractors included. Anyway - one day we went to an estate auction where the individual had owned several John Deere dealerships. Tons of parts and literature from decades ended up his farm and that was really why we were there. Sitting in "junk row" in the fence line of the farm was dozens of old vehicles, mostly trucks, going all the way back to the 1920s. There were 3 B-Series trucks there.... all in rough shape, one clearly had a head on collision with something... one had a stack of junk in the bed, and the third was a well rotted flatbed. All 1 ton trucks. I looked them over close enough to know they were mostly good for parts, but there was a lot of good parts.... and I noticed something that no one else bothered to look at... under all the junk in the bed of that truck there was a porcelain sign - it could only be seen if you were under the truck looking up through the rotted wood. I bought all three of those trucks for less than $100 dollars that day. It took a couple of days to get them drug out, loaded up, and hauled home - and then some farm chores took precedent for a couple of weeks (I think we were baling hay at the time...). Once I cleaned out the bed of the truck I found there wasn't one porcelain sign... but 3 of them... one John Deere and two Caterpillar Tractor signs... all good size. I trade those signs for a fully restored 1934 John Deere GP, and enough cash to pay dad back and then some.... By the end of the year I had another Pilothouse truck that was a runner - and I spent some time fixing it up mechanically and drove it through most of high school. Along the way I picked up several other parts trucks, stripping them down and saving the good parts and junking anything that I didn't feel had value. This continued through my college years - but I stopped shortly after my dad passed away in 2003. Fast forward some to 2011 - I needed a change and liquidated most of the family tractor collection as it was just sitting without time to even properly maintain it - while doing so I decided I was going to sell all of my Pilothouse stuff and buy a finished truck to enjoy. I looked at a lot of trucks - and I almost bought one until the guy decided not to sell it.... now I am back to having a huge stash of parts and 4 trucks - two good for parts, one good "original" and one that is blown apart in the middle of a restoration/update. I also picked up Don Coatney's P15 before he passed away - partly because it was modified in a similar fashion to the Pilothouse I have been slowly working on - partly because of the memories of reading the build thread as he was building it and him and Blueskies bantering back and forth about The Big Race. I like all things old and vintage. I really like old Mopar. I love the old flathead six.

Don't forget about the possibility of using a Ford 8.8 axle - the width can be found that is correct - and they are plentiful, cheap, and strong. I'm a proponent of swapping both the axle and transmission - mostly because when going to something like a T5 you lose the emergency brake, which a new rear axle can give you, plus upgraded brakes, better ratio, locker, etc... The Ford 8.8 I have in the shop right now cost me $100 - it came out of a Mercury Mountaineer and included the entire rear half of the frame and the driveshaft. It has 3.73 gears, limited slip, and disc brakes. My experience with Fluiddrives is limited - in fact I have only driven one and it is in a tractor. I didn't find it sluggish at all. In fact I was surprised at how responsive, yet smooth it is. It is very easy to throttle up and power right through the brakes. Granted - I'm dealing with a lot more gear reduction in a tractor, so that might be a contributing factor. I have one of those Wilcap adapters - they are nice well made products, but I'm using it to swap a flathead Chrysler into a Model A Ford. (Also mine is for a manual transmission). Its also nice they allow you to setup a starter on either side of the engine.... but be careful as many bellhousings will not allow either side. I had to find a "dual pattern" bellhousing out of a 1982 F-body to make everything work out correctly and get the starter onto the driver's side. I'm sure similar issues exist on the auto trans side of things. Just something to be aware of if you want to keep the starter on the driver's side.

No one in the immediate household has had it, but I know several friends and family that have had it. Results range from mild to death. It seems that most I know report mild symptoms, some slightly more severe, and just a couple with extreme hospitalization, vent, etc.... I just had an Aunt and Uncle pass within 2 days of each other just after Christmas from it. My GF Tamisha works at the local health department and has had both of her vaccination shots. She helps organize drive through testing and vaccination clinics. My sister has also had both of her shots - she is a nurse practitioner working with cancer patients.

This could be as simple as the float being set too high.

It sure looks like it.