If you are going to be pulling with a Farmall, you will need the rear
wheel weights. This tractor has none.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I believe most preppers are people who exist in a dream world of beans, guns and gold. You never see any of this following subject and it is one of the most important of all things, unless you want to eat your bread by the sweat of your brow and do allot of walking.
I have an adoration for Farmall tractors as I grew up with them, know they are mostly indestructible and I like the colour red.
The reality is when there are shortages that is more than food. Most of you are not JYG and can make things out of nothing, so you should be like farmers used to be and at least have a few oil changes, filters and the correct oils around.
I will use my example of Farmall letter tractors in H and M.
The tractror has a transmission and gears, It needs lubrication, so that means an oil of 80 plus in viscosity, or twice your motor oil. This gear oil also is what lubricates the belt pulley drive. It requires about 6 gallons.
80W-90 gear lube transmission oil for tractors
Next you need hydraulic oil, for your cylinders to lift objects like a mower or loader. The good news on that is that you do not need special oil, only NON DETERGENT OIL for the hydraulic pump and cylinders.
The good news in that is that is what you use in your engine. The standard is 30 weight oil. Now for your big lesson. When it is 20 below zero, 30 weight oil is like sludge. It takes a great deal of engine and cylinder wear to get it to the point of being viscous. You can either warm the engine with a heater or just wear your engine. The reason you probably would be running your engine is the lights are out and you are using your PTO generator. Again, if you have a garage, that at least will probably be around freezing and that is a whole lot warmer than 20 below.
Oct 21, 2018 ... Original IH specs called for 30 weight, non-detergent motor oil for warm weather use, 20 weight for cooler temps, and 10 weight for extreme cold, BUT, that ...
Dec 9, 2010 ... Hydraulic oil is too thin and will leak. Fill it with clean SAE-30 non-detergent engine oil. It doesn't hold that much, so it is a good idea to ...
You will need oil filters which are canister type. The recommendation is that you have enough oil on hand for two changes and two filters, and you would save the oil and old filters as used is better than nothing at year 7 of this.
You can get all sorts of replacement points and plugs and not regret it, but you do not want to be going into debt building a new tractor. If you have the funds, I would get a complete set of seals and overhaul kit for a tractor, put it all in one box and keep it where you will not lose the parts.
My dad had two sayings.
One was water was cheap feed for cattle.
The second was, grease is cheaper than buying a new machine. He had me grease DAILY, no matter what the manuals said in hundreds of hours. I greased our combine every morning during harvest, it took an your and half, but we rarely had any bearing trouble with it and it was a very old machine.
So you probably should get some very good bearing packing grease and some good lithium grease to keep things greased, as counting on people dying and your going over and pilfering things is not a good idea for trying to survive.
Most of this stuff will work in John Deere and Allis letter tractors, that includes Case, Massey and whatever as they were all about the same set up as there was not expensive exotic blends of oils or additives back in the day.
I would do the same thing for vehicles, but just remember that computers fry and your pretty new vehicles will be sidewalk ornaments for the most part and you will not be able to fix that stuff, and junk yards will have to guess at parts.
Start thinking beyond your Bitcoins as you can't grow things with electronic currency and you will work yourself to death trying to survive, as that is why people in the last century lived from 65 to 95 years old, as the Farmall appeared and did all the woodcutting, grinding, staking, pulling and whatever that was killing people.
Ok more million dollar knowledge an still waiting for the millionaires to donate.
Nuff Said
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