Showing posts with label Tractor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tractor. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2019

SIMPLICITY AT IT'S BEST.



This photo will not mean much to many of you.
But as an old real tired [retired] auto mechanic,
I just love it.  The very simplicity of this old 
tractor.

There were just a few cars running yet with this
simplicity when I was a young man.  What  you
will not believe is that they actually ran, and that
WITH OUT ELECTRONICS.

This of course is not a car but a tractor that I
ran across in Lytle Creek California a few years
ago.

Yes, it makes me long for the simplicity of "The
good old days."






Sunday, February 18, 2018

ANOTHER OLD TRACTOR




As you can see from the header on this page,
I just love old simple tractors.  As a retired auto
technician who is burned out on all the new 
computerized stuff, this looks great to me.

This tractor was located in Lyle Creek, California.









Sunday, January 28, 2018

CAMERA TEST






Perhaps my favorite photo.
This is the same tractor that is in the header of this blog.
But there are two things that make it a favorite to me.

One, I wanted to see how cheap a camera I could buy
that would actually work.  The camera I used on the 
image was an old used Kodak that I bought of of eBay
for $1.00.  That is right, only $1.00.  Now I did have to
put batteries in it.

Two,  it was a rainy day when I went out to try the
 camera out.  I just love the shine that the rain put on 
things.

Saturday, January 20, 2018

SIMPLICITY AT IT'S BEST




I just love the simplicity of this drive train.
OSHA might not like it.  But as a retired auto
tech., I think it's great.

It is not obvious from the photo, but this is the 
same tractor that is on the header to this blog. 
It just happened to be a rainy day when I was
trying out a $1.00 camera.  That is right, the cost
was only $1.00, used on eBay.  Just trying to see
how cheap it was possible to get a decent camera.










Sunday, December 3, 2017

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WANT




I spotted the little tractor above at a friend's place one
day. After looking it over good  and seeing it was a
well built little tractor, old and just sitting there, I
confess to wishing I had it.

It had a hydraulic powered draw bar, wheel weights and
a hydrostatic transmission.  It would be a lot stronger
tractor than the little thing I had.

In time my friend wanted me to get it running for him.
So, I brought it to my shop and "fixed" a bunch of stuff
to get it going.  Then returned it to my friend.

It was being used around his farm pulling a mower.
My friend has a lot of volunteer help because of the
camp connected to the farm.  So the tractor was being
used a lot by "young boys".

You guessed it.  They ran it out of oil.  So, back to my
shop to go through the engine.

Does it surprise you that now I am content to not
have that little tractor?





Saturday, January 7, 2017

IT JUST HAPPENED

I was on a farm about thirty miles from my house
when I spotted this old fossil of a tractor.  I knew
right away that it was something that just happened
all by it's self.


Let me explain.
Do you see those old railroad ties that are
lining the area with the tomatoes?  Now 
they are simple enough that someone might
have designed their arraignment.  They could
have a designer, or creator.


The same is true of these cement blocks that
border these garden spots.  Simple enough that
they could have a designer.


But that old fossils of a tractor could not possibly
have had a designer.  It is far too complex.  You
know, just like this old world and the universe,
far, far too complex to have a designer or creator.

You know how it all started, you have been 
taught.  There was nothing.  Lot's and lot's of
nothing.  In fact there got to be so much nothing
that billions of years ago all the nothing compressed
and went - BANG.  Then we had something.

Then by pure accident, and lot's and lot's and lot's of 
time, the something turned into the complex world 
we live in.  Simple, right?


The same way with this old tractor.  It did not
start with as much nothing, so it is not as big
as this old world.

Being as I was not there when the tractor came 
into existence, I can speak with authority on the
matter.  [Just like a "scientist" does.]  It is probably
one of the latter developments that came from nothing.
So it is possibly only about two million years old.

But having no designer, it runs so well that you 
would think it is only about thirty four or five
years old.

Not bad for something that came from nothing.