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anybody else here into tractors

I have a glass beading cabinet out in my pole barn I use a lot.
My little sand blasting pot runs off of shop air, but my big one uses a Grimmer Schmidt 175 CFM unit that is based on a 351 Ford Windsor V-8 engine like an early 90's truck had in some
 
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My 10 liter heated ultrasonic cleaner is the bomb for cleaning smaller stuff.
 
It sounds ideal for my needs. I need to treat before paint on a large machine, without disassembly
 
I have one of those little ones too. Did you know that you can do devorative etching on aluminum using powdered sugar as an abrasive in the sand blaster?
 
Skittlebisquit said:
I have one of those little ones too. Did you know that you can do devorative etching on aluminum using powdered sugar as an abrasive in the sand blaster?
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I never heard of the sugar detail, sounds interesting.
I used to play with 3M Buttercut masking material they usually use to cut grave markers.
 
I hand built my big pressure pot out of a 120 gallon compressor receiver. The dryer on it was made out of an 80 pound propane bottle.
The comp pushes 90 PSI out of a 1/4 inch nozzle and can tear thru about 1000 lbs of black beauty in about an hour.

It rides on 13 inch Chrysler product wheels and tires that are mounted on the stub axles scavenged from a K car
 
Have any of you been to the California Agricultural History Museum in Woodland, California? It's just about 20 miles from me. Not my thing, but it's supposed to have one of the best collections of antique farm equipment in North America, not just tractors but farm trucks and well pumps and such.

As late as the mid 2000s if you drove the back roads in the Sacramento Valley you could see plenty of derelict flatbed trucks, mainly from the late 40s and early 50s. When diesel agricultural well pumps first became widely available after WW2 every farmer wanted one, and several good harvests in the late 40s meant they had the money, so all the farmers around here went and bought one.

Problem was, they hadn't figured in how to actually get the pump off the flatbed truck it came on. They really needed a crane, but that was way out of reach physically and monetarily. They finally just punctured the tires of the trucks and abandoned them where they sat, and hooked up the pumps. Most of those trucks and their cargoes are gone now from what I can discern. Most of the trucks seemed to be Fords-Ford has long been the best of the best in medium-duty trucks and tractors (the latter of which is now sold under the name "New Holland").
 
oregano said:
Have any of you been to the California Agricultural History Museum in Woodland, California? It's just about 20 miles from me. Not my thing, but it's supposed to have one of the best collections of antique farm equipment in North America, not just tractors but farm trucks and well pumps and such.

As late as the mid 2000s if you drove the back roads in the Sacramento Valley you could see plenty of derelict flatbed trucks, mainly from the late 40s and early 50s. When diesel agricultural well pumps first became widely available after WW2 every farmer wanted one, and several good harvests in the late 40s meant they had the money, so all the farmers around here went and bought one.

Problem was, they hadn't figured in how to actually get the pump off the flatbed truck it came on. They really needed a crane, but that was way out of reach physically and monetarily. They finally just punctured the tires of the trucks and abandoned them where they sat, and hooked up the pumps. Most of those trucks and their cargoes are gone now from what I can discern. Most of the trucks seemed to be Fords-Ford has long been the best of the best in medium-duty trucks and tractors (the latter of which is now sold under the name "New Holland").
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Were you aware that Ford made most of the Jeeps used in WWII?

I assisted in the restoration of a Ford script Jeep.
Ford was told to cease and desist with the script logo on the tailboard so instead decided that each bolt on the machines was stamped with their F.
The Willys parts were identical to the Ford parts except for the markings, so a few times, we had to cut the Ford markings out of bad parts to weld them into Willys parts to make them appear correct.
 
Nitro said:
Were you aware that Ford made most of the Jeeps used in WWII?

I assisted in the restoration of a Ford script Jeep.
Ford was told to cease and desist with the script logo on the tailboard so instead decided that each bolt on the machines was stamped with their F.
The Willys parts were identical to the Ford parts except for the markings, so a few times, we had to cut the Ford markings out of bad parts to weld them into Willys parts to make them appear correct.
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I never knew that and i had a frankenstien willys 25 years ago.
 
Nitro said:
Were you aware that Ford made most of the Jeeps used in WWII?

I assisted in the restoration of a Ford script Jeep.
Ford was told to cease and desist with the script logo on the tailboard so instead decided that each bolt on the machines was stamped with their F.
The Willys parts were identical to the Ford parts except for the markings, so a few times, we had to cut the Ford markings out of bad parts to weld them into Willys parts to make them appear correct.
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Willys only had a single factory, so FDR and his generals were cognizant of sabotage and bombing risk. So Ford was ordered to make the Willys design jeeps. Lots of trucks and other motorized equipment was made by Ford too, due to Ford having all-in-one factory complexes where every part was made on the premises. Obviously that was attractive to the military, so Ford got a lot of contracts despite Old Henry being an open Axis sympathizer. At one point FDR threatened to nationalize the whole company if Henry didn't stop his love of Hitler and Hirohito, and his sons forced the patriarch out.
 
I don't know much about tractors, but in the village I grew up they had a Steam Rally every year and they have a huge collection of steam traction engines. It's quite a site to see.

My grandad on my mum's side owned a traction engine for many years.

I love the atmosphere, the sights and the smell of seeing all the historic vehicles.

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This article from a local newspaper has a lot of images from one of the rallys

Haddenham Steam Rally and Heavy Horse Show 2019: Two-day festival dubbed 'special event' | Ely Standard

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