As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I is End Times excited.
It took 2 years, a tree in a tractor hub growing, but by the time this is posted, we should have our F 20 home, with all the nuances of shit that goes wrong with the Farmall F series tractors.
I'm already learning and frowning, because unlike Sad Boy, which has electrical problems to figure out to get the starter to engage, this F 20 I can fix.........although I do not want to outside or appreciate the flaws in this design.
I'm posting a site from the University of Nebraska which provides a free download of an operators manual as these tractors are unique as Jesus, in how they work. I'm in a fraternity now of 2067 people who downloaded this manual, which means there are thousands of these old tractors being restored and loved by people who were not even eggs in their mother's egg sack when they were built.
What is unique about the F series is they do not need a battery. You hand crank them and do not break your arm doing it. This manual helps in teaching how to start them. This tractor sat for 35 years, but before that, it was this farm families daily loader tractor to feed their milk cows for 35 years.
Now for the problems. The F series in the 20, attracts mice which build nests, piss caustic urine on metal and the clutch freezes up to various parts. Yes my clutch will not move, so I have mouse piss clutch to deal with. In reading threads, I do not have to split the tractor apart as in later Farmall tractors, this one apparently you can get at with a a pry bar and convince it to be a clutch.
The engine may be stuck, or it is stuck, but it might be the clutch or the pistons from moisture are rusted to the sleeves. That is not something I'm that worried about as that is taking the spark plugs out, putting in penetrating oil, and leaving it sit to soak. You jack up the back tire, put the gear into reverse and rock the tire backwards and that gets the engine loose. You do not pull them or you bend the piston rods. Just have to make sure the piston sleeves are loose in pulling it around with the spark plugs out so the penetrating oil shoots out of the cylinders and then you can start it.
Lastly, the F 20's flaw is the brake drums rust to the shaft. That is what is wrong with the left one and why we could not pull it home and had to have it hauled. That is that that big of deal either. Brake bands may be broken in getting it loose, but hopefully with enough penetrating oil things will sort out there too.
While the above photo is an F 12.........the 20 has 20 horsepower and the 30 had 30. I do not know what the Regular had, but that his this series of early Farmalls that fed the world. You can get an idea what this tractor looks like as it is cute to me, and quite light in weight as I could almost rock it forward even with a stuck brake.
These tractors in not needing a battery, had a belt pulley to run a buzz saw or whatever a flat belt pulley would be used, they had a PTO and a draw bar to pull things. The one I have has an old loader on it and I know where I can get a bucket for it for free, so I think I'm all set on that situation.
They do not have hydraulics, that did not come to be until the C tractors I think, and am sure the H as I know that has a hydraulic belly pump which I probably have to take off the H and fix......same guy sold me both of these tractors. I think I paid 400 for the H non running with a John Deere 9 foot mower. H is running.....I think I paid 150 for this F 20, and the guy did ask me if I got the H running and I said I did, and then he asked me if I was going to restore this F 20 and I said I would as I'm not into taking parts off of tractors as there are too few of them that they need to be restored for what is coming.
I think this F 20 will like in Model T's run on alcohol too. They are about the most EMF proof thing on the planet. I could probably run 50 year old gas in this thing as people do, which has problems lighting up with a match, and they will start and run. This stuff was all built to run.
So in time I will be an expert on this contraption and magnetos which I do not care to be, but given donations and time, I will be driving around my F 20 while all the big farmers are sitting there waiting for the government to deliver them diesel fuel for their souls.
I is delighted with this new ornament for the field. I know I can figure this girl out. I never thought I would ever have one, as only our other neighbor, France (Brier people are lazy in their vocabulary as his name was Francis, but he was France to us) had one of these tractors, same no paint, all rust, and he ran that tractor on the same little loader all his married days until he sold out.
Was a different era in Leo, France, my old man, Pete and whoever would drop a rear end out of an M out in the field and fix it in the field. I never thought much of these hayseeds when I was a kid as we were all white trash, but when my mum died, it was his wife who sent a card. When my brother died, it was her daughters who showed up at the grave service. Old neighbors are loyal and from a generation like this F 20 which is gone and I regret that you will never experience people like this as they are dying out and why I get so pissed over these sons of bitches now who cheat me and treat me like shit........like non donors. There time is coming along with their computer vehicles. I have my old alphabet stuff that fixes and will be running when Jesus comes back.
Yes Jesus rides up on his white pony, and He asks if I have any pie, and we give Him some rhubarb pie and He goes to get on His horse and I say, "Just a minute there Jesus, that pie is a gift from you, but maybe you would think about disking the garden up with that F 20 over there You provided for, as pie ain't free in my labor, before you go trotting off to Armageddon".
Nuff Said
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