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Congrats!! Nothing wrong with giving your own horn a toot now and then!

Please don't give advice about tractors because you are going to get someone killed. Your rational about hitching to a tractor is obtuse on a scale of Biblical proportions.

Doing it in house maybe. But when you consider the liability issues for commercial applications, that's when it gets pricey. I think you'd have to have something like an ANSI (?) certification or something to market it retail. That's what I'm basing my opinion on. There was a discussion on...

How much pressure are you putting in your system? I wouldn't think plastic drums would handle too much, but then I don't think it would take much to push the oil through either.

I don't think you could make a ROPS for a Farmall for only $1500. At least not one that had some kind of engineering going into it. My tractor weighs around 5500 lbs.

Common sense should tell you to hitch a load to the tractor the RIGHT WAY. If you can't operate your tractor the way it is designed you probably shouldn't own one. I had a linkage pin for the governor fall out when plowing once, there's no way I could have shut down the tractor or controlled...

I wish my truck looked that good.....

Here's a little reading for you. In the second link note that 85% of accidents involving flipping over to the rear are fatal. I'm betting your Ferguson and Farmalls don't have ROPS. And that TO30 weighs at least 3000 pounds, it ain't gonna feel good sittng on top of you while you're folded...

That should be at least #2 if not #1, and it should read "WILL flip over backwards", not "might". Sorry to hear about your cousin, that type accident has killed a LOT of people, probably in the top three causes along with rolling over sideways and PTO accidents.

Logs on tractor tires are a VERY BAD IDEA! They WILL HIGHLY increase your chances of flipping. On a duece, you won't flip, you just have to be carefull to avoid damaging the truck. Glad you got it out!

never, ever, hook up to the 3pt hitch on a tractor!!!!!!! that is just about a guaranteed way to flip it and kill you!!!! always pull from the drawbar! you must always pull from below the level of the rear axle or the tractor will rotate on the axle in a heartbeat!! I don't care what...

Well the biggest thing I need is about a dozen cases of hours depending on how many are in the case. I need the eastern standard size. Other than that I'm pretty good for now. I got enough parts with that deal so that I can redo all the axle seals and bearings if need be, and do brakes on 2...

Uh, right now I have a deuce with no brakes at all, and the front bumper off. But I'm a workin' on that sit-yew-ashun. :)

I'm in Ostrander, what area are you in? I'm at work today (and it's late) so sorry I didn't see it earlier. What kind of lumber do you have laying around? A couple of 4-8 ton bottle jacks and some plywood or lumber will get you out in a Jiffy. He's a pic from when I got my tractor buried. It...

You might be able to get fire hose for it from a fire dept. that's upgrading their old hose. That truck proably had 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" double jacketed cotton hose with brass coupling. May be hard to find with brass coupling because of scrap prices, but you might get lucky. Not sure how many...

I'm crying right now, and my sides really hurt.

What truck??

Another thing you have not addressed is ROPS. Deuces have NONE. You might want to give the NIOSH LODD reports a gander first. You need to give this some SERIOUS thought. If anyone but you drives it, drivers training is an absolute MUST. Home brew fire apparatus used to be cool, until I...

The deuce reminds me of the times when I still liked being in the military. There's all the other stuff too like the coolness factor, but the nostalgia's the main reason.

I've never split gears, but you can drive loaded in high range. Used to pull a deuce with two fuel pods in the bed and one in a trailer from Central Oh. to Camp Grayling and back every year. You won't win any speed contests, but if you drive with regard to the weight, you'll be fine in high...