Not sure if you read the comments.... that said if you do, commendable work and quite a good diagnostic ability. My issue is... hard to say stuff as some take it as being I being a keyboard jerk, NOT MY INTENTIONS... Your shop is organized and fairly clean, even the lathe is cleaner than I ever was able to keep my own lathes and trust me, I had about every size and make from cheap stuff you would find at harbor freight to some of the nicest stuff that the navy ever had on ships. I even had a six jaw six foot flywheel model that came from germany. That machine was the finest lathe ever possibly made. I have been on a binge of your different videos and one common thing I see is you just don't clean up the stuff your working on unless its absolutely necessary to do some repair. Now I know that using say a pressure washer on stuff or just blowing stuff off is not always needed but man oh man do you get to my OCD as far as removing the trash and other off of say a lawn mower or some little dump trailer three wheeled device. I seen old aluminum cans and such still down in the crevices and to me its a "Err" moment for repairs or even getting into a operational shape. Yes I am a old man now, as we speak, pushing seventy four years of robbing air from other kids that deserved it more than me. I got my emancipation shortly after my fifteenth birthday as my dad who was ashamed of me, a G****ned native piece of less than human waste, worked me like a rented mule, and fed me the scraps off of their table in the woodshed where the strap had been laid to my backside many times leaving scars I still wear to this day. I got freedom and never looked back going to work in the woods as a choker setter for doing logging. Some one discovered I had some talents as a mechanic and so made a parts washer/gopher/small stuff the other men didn't want to deal with. I got drafted and so got home in seventy... spent a couple years in the home town to find most just don't like Indians around their white children or possibly dating one of their daughters. I went to alaska where I started in the woods again but soon someone who knew me ratted me out as a good mechanic. I really wasn't all that good at the time but you know how that goes... you just get better at what you do so found myself at the lead in most shops as a fab man and welder plus do diesel engines... yeah, I must a had some natural indications of making a good mechanic. More for sake of dumber ways of saying it... common sense with a fair amount of good diagnostic abilities. I also drove big equipment, but never really good on it, just knew how cause fixing stuff requires you to test the stuff. I hope my comment doesn't offend you but why not do more cleaning of stuff you work on?
Ha! That's funny most people tell me the exact opposite. That is the work area is a cluttered mess and I need to stop being wasting time cleaning stuff and just fix it. You would really freak out if you worked with some of the people I do. I've seen a guy take the top of an injection pump off a small Kubota engine and just brush a half a handful of dirt right into the crankcase to clean off the gasket area when putting it back on. I think my favorite is when people let dirt build up in their skid steers to the point you can no longer move the foot pedals. But to answer your question it just depends. I try not to clean something before I know it will run, which is why I left those mowers so dirty. I actually did wash them all off later to help them sell better. The three wheeler full of trash I wasn't going to work on at all so I sold it just the way I got it. If it's something important like a machine tool or some equipment I intend to use myself I do keep it pretty clean. I just rarely show cleaning anything because it's pretty boring.
Hey Mate recently found your channel, greetings from Australia. The Fordson make of tractor was as common in Oz as John Deere is in the US. They were a 40hp "Compact" tractor right up to the 1980's used commonly by "Homesteaders" which we call Hobby Farmers down here. The Vapor fuel you mentioned was basically from a vege oil and gas mix. I actually learnt to drive one in my early teens (30+ years ago). The starter handle was normally switched of by a switch on the instrument cluster.
@@AlwaysBored123 Massey as we call them here were popular here in heavily irrigated fields. The fordson were seen as a more gp tractor, here in Aust, as we had far more beltdrive stationary equipment than requirements for PTO drives
Great video bud. Really enjoy watching the stuff you fix. Especially older equipment. I enjoyed the zero turn that you fixed and made me think about trying tk find one cheap and gey it fixed. Always wanted to do something of the sort but with the job i have i never have time to work on my own stuff though unless its something that i have to fix like replacing my injectors in my truck. I'm sure you know this but most of the time the reason why the wheels have been turned out or in some cases spun out is for hills, again i'm sure you know that. We all have our opinions though, i like them like that but then again i live on nothing but hills lol. Keep up the great video's definitely subscribed
That reverse start was a thumbs up!
Not sure if you read the comments.... that said if you do, commendable work and quite a good diagnostic ability. My issue is... hard to say stuff as some take it as being I being a keyboard jerk, NOT MY INTENTIONS... Your shop is organized and fairly clean, even the lathe is cleaner than I ever was able to keep my own lathes and trust me, I had about every size and make from cheap stuff you would find at harbor freight to some of the nicest stuff that the navy ever had on ships. I even had a six jaw six foot flywheel model that came from germany. That machine was the finest lathe ever possibly made. I have been on a binge of your different videos and one common thing I see is you just don't clean up the stuff your working on unless its absolutely necessary to do some repair. Now I know that using say a pressure washer on stuff or just blowing stuff off is not always needed but man oh man do you get to my OCD as far as removing the trash and other off of say a lawn mower or some little dump trailer three wheeled device. I seen old aluminum cans and such still down in the crevices and to me its a "Err" moment for repairs or even getting into a operational shape. Yes I am a old man now, as we speak, pushing seventy four years of robbing air from other kids that deserved it more than me. I got my emancipation shortly after my fifteenth birthday as my dad who was ashamed of me, a G****ned native piece of less than human waste, worked me like a rented mule, and fed me the scraps off of their table in the woodshed where the strap had been laid to my backside many times leaving scars I still wear to this day. I got freedom and never looked back going to work in the woods as a choker setter for doing logging. Some one discovered I had some talents as a mechanic and so made a parts washer/gopher/small stuff the other men didn't want to deal with. I got drafted and so got home in seventy... spent a couple years in the home town to find most just don't like Indians around their white children or possibly dating one of their daughters. I went to alaska where I started in the woods again but soon someone who knew me ratted me out as a good mechanic. I really wasn't all that good at the time but you know how that goes... you just get better at what you do so found myself at the lead in most shops as a fab man and welder plus do diesel engines... yeah, I must a had some natural indications of making a good mechanic. More for sake of dumber ways of saying it... common sense with a fair amount of good diagnostic abilities. I also drove big equipment, but never really good on it, just knew how cause fixing stuff requires you to test the stuff.
I hope my comment doesn't offend you but why not do more cleaning of stuff you work on?
Ha! That's funny most people tell me the exact opposite. That is the work area is a cluttered mess and I need to stop being wasting time cleaning stuff and just fix it. You would really freak out if you worked with some of the people I do. I've seen a guy take the top of an injection pump off a small Kubota engine and just brush a half a handful of dirt right into the crankcase to clean off the gasket area when putting it back on. I think my favorite is when people let dirt build up in their skid steers to the point you can no longer move the foot pedals.
But to answer your question it just depends. I try not to clean something before I know it will run, which is why I left those mowers so dirty. I actually did wash them all off later to help them sell better. The three wheeler full of trash I wasn't going to work on at all so I sold it just the way I got it. If it's something important like a machine tool or some equipment I intend to use myself I do keep it pretty clean. I just rarely show cleaning anything because it's pretty boring.
Hey Mate recently found your channel, greetings from Australia. The Fordson make of tractor was as common in Oz as John Deere is in the US. They were a 40hp "Compact" tractor right up to the 1980's used commonly by "Homesteaders" which we call Hobby Farmers down here. The Vapor fuel you mentioned was basically from a vege oil and gas mix. I actually learnt to drive one in my early teens (30+ years ago). The starter handle was normally switched of by a switch on the instrument cluster.
That's interesting thanks. I see way more Massy Ferguson's of this vintage than anything else around here.
@@AlwaysBored123 Massey as we call them here were popular here in heavily irrigated fields. The fordson were seen as a more gp tractor, here in Aust, as we had far more beltdrive stationary equipment than requirements for PTO drives
i think they put that ball valve in there to give it a float position for mowing and such.
Great video bud. Really enjoy watching the stuff you fix. Especially older equipment. I enjoyed the zero turn that you fixed and made me think about trying tk find one cheap and gey it fixed. Always wanted to do something of the sort but with the job i have i never have time to work on my own stuff though unless its something that i have to fix like replacing my injectors in my truck. I'm sure you know this but most of the time the reason why the wheels have been turned out or in some cases spun out is for hills, again i'm sure you know that. We all have our opinions though, i like them like that but then again i live on nothing but hills lol. Keep up the great video's definitely subscribed
Thanks a lot. Zero turns are great to fix up. Parts are cheap and they are usually designed to be repaired. Or the commercial ones are anyway.
Those where the best tractor ever very popular here in Ireland and the UK took a lot of abuse and done a shed load of work
I liked this one just didn't really have a use for it. Plus all the seals were shot in it and it leaked everything.