Wash and oil core at least twice daily
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AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
Did you check it? I was in Kit Carson as a young Boy Scout on a trip to Philmont back when the earth was cooling. Don't remember the tractor.
Yes, that guy owned the tractor, which is why its still here today.
Likely someone here's grandad?
The air filter element on my nineteen year old Sierra has been replaced just once. It will go to its grave on its second air filter element. Of course the fact that I live in a relatively dust free city helps a lot.
Looking over my fifty years of owning vehicles, the progress the automotive industry has made in reliability and longevity of vehicles has been impressive. In the seventies, a typical engine needed at least a valve job by 60K miles. The service manual on the VW Beetle recommended taking the starter apart every 20K miles and doing required maintanace on its components.
In the eighties and into the nineties, mufflers every three to four years and cooling system hoses every few years was the norm.
My Sierra still has the original exhaust system and hoses. It has needed very little work over its nineteen year life.
Labour was much cheaper in the 1920s and people worked much longer hours. It was more cost effective then to have work done on your vehicle.
Looking over my fifty years of owning vehicles, the progress the automotive industry has made in reliability and longevity of vehicles has been impressive. In the seventies, a typical engine needed at least a valve job by 60K miles. The service manual on the VW Beetle recommended taking the starter apart every 20K miles and doing required maintanace on its components.
In the eighties and into the nineties, mufflers every three to four years and cooling system hoses every few years was the norm.
My Sierra still has the original exhaust system and hoses. It has needed very little work over its nineteen year life.
Labour was much cheaper in the 1920s and people worked much longer hours. It was more cost effective then to have work done on your vehicle.
Here's my Hart-Parr. Using one of these 8 hours a day is why farmers died early back then. It's loud, cumbersome and clumsy. However, I'm sure it was much better than a team of horses, oxen or mules. If you zoom in, you can see it has an oil filter, but Purolator long gave up on the selling the element, which is equivalent to a rag. What's also interesting is that when using this tractor, you use the clutch pedal with your right foot instead of your left. Talk about unlearning everything that you've done all your life. 
Reminded me of my young years in the 60's cleaning and re-oiling oil bath air filters on larger gas trucks.
Those drive wheels wouldn't go far in an Illinois farm field.
Those drive wheels wouldn't go far in an Illinois farm field.
This tractor is a parade queen only.Funny story: I was at an estate auction where this tractor was coming up for bid. The auctioneer said: "We pulled this tractor out of the shed, hooked a battery booster up to it and it took right off!"
I got a big smile on my face and I looked around at the other bidders. Everyone else was just stone-face and nobody else was smiling.
I guess nobody else but myself thought there was some humor there....BECAUSE....it's a hand-crank only tractor.
There is no electric start.
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
Or use Amsoil and just twice a week
Pic #2: The engine's 'lid' is a galvanized reconstruction and the fuel tank cap is missing.
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