How to Repair With What You Have on Hand or GT5000 Fix the Fix.

[FlyBoy50]

The good times in America are over for good ! They only crank out cheap junk and fill the land fills. You defiantly have to get creative to keep things going !

 

[brandon7861]

You can't go wrong with a Gravely.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Reading that sentence made my right shoulder hurt.
Vineyard work, have to plow in-between the vines and the way then was called a french plow, almost no one used herbacides back then, too expensive.
(See below random poor web pic with the operator not even close enough to the berm to clean the whole thing)

See how he's twisted around looking at where the plow is?
The plow has to move in-between each vine, then pull back as it passes by.

(That also makes my neck hurt.)

Pictured is nice hydro setup,
The piece of rope tied to rops support is to pull it in case the trigger rod misses the grape stump it's hooked to a hydraulic valve that retracts the plow easy pezzy if you catch it in time.
If you don't catch it, the plow just rips the vine out of the ground leaving it hanging by the wire and mangles the stake next to it.
Lovely
The two we had were "vintage" spring and fulcrum designs that failed about every 3rd vine.
Takes about 4 times the effort to overcome the spring and get the plow to retract before carnage insued..
All day long
It finally got to the point where it was easier to just pull the dam rope on every vine because you really don't want to stop again and tear another one loose from the bent grape stake......

@Shadetree Mechanic

WTH were you 50 years ago?

Push a button psfsh what's the world coming too?

73
Jeff

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Fifty years ago, I was trying to fix my Tonka truck. I was 4 years old.

 

[BayouRadioAmplifier]

Fifty years ago, I was trying to fix my Tonka truck. I was 4 years old.

.
yeah!
I remember growing up in Los Angeles late 60's to early 70's.
Tonka trucks built tuff. They had that "steel" symbol on them.
We trashed on them in a dirt spot in the back yard. hard to
break them.

Also remember them Schwinn bicycles, the Stingray, with
a "sissy bar" and that big flat slick tire in the back.
Built like a tank. how the frame was welded together,
and them front wheel forks.

 

[AudioShockwav]

the Stingray, with
a "sissy bar" and that big flat slick tire in the back.
Built like a tank. how the frame was welded together,
and them front wheel forks.

Don't forget the banana seat and 5 speed stick shifter

73
Jeff