For the last 3 years, my daughter (27) has been running her business, a horse boarding/training/sale facility and since I’m retired (and her father😂), I got drafted as free barn help.  Aside  from helping with the horses, which I actually have experience with, I have been drafted into working on her 1 ton truck, her tractor, horse trailers and the usual farm chores.  I have learned a lot of things like working on her Kioti tractor (Korean diesel) and remembered a lot from my younger days wrenching on my own vehicles, which weren’t 1 ton diesels.  This last week I earned the certificate for becoming a certified poo slinging spreader mechanic. 🤣😱 I won’t go into the gory details but a machine that is probably older than me that is ground driven (no PTO) with more gears/chains/straight shafts that won’t properly sling poo, I felt like I was Mike Rowe on an episode of “Dirty Jobs”.  To add insult to injury, it wasn’t empty when we started this product.  Long story short….we had to tear it completely down and reassemble.  

Looks like it's seen some time in the field.

It looks mid-evil and dangerous….. my buddy had one that had 1/2 chains the flung the poo…. It went everywhere. 

My cousin got my papaws 1948 ford gasoline tractor to start up the other day. Don’t make em like they used to 

4 hours ago, GRiver said:

It looks mid-evil and dangerous….. my buddy had one that had 1/2 chains the flung the poo…. It went everywhere. 

It sure highlighted the reason most old time farmers didn’t have all their fingers!  All of my maternal relatives were farming folks.  It had 2 drive mechanisms directly cogged to the main axle.  One spins the blades that do the chopping and slinging of the poo, the second is a drive system that has 2 chains on either side of the box that run front to back that pull a series of 2 inch tall angle iron bars connected on both sides of the box which move the poo to the blades.  Every moving part on that machine was designed to remove your body parts.  She coats the inside with used truck/tractor oil to keep the wood from rotting.  

 

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

My cousin got my papaws 1948 ford gasoline tractor to start up the other day. Don’t make em like they used to 

I spent a lot of time on google trying to figure out why it had 2 oil drain plugs and the oil filter was on top of the d**n motor. Next up will be a deep dive into flushing the hydraulic system.