124—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 19,1980
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If you’re at all interested
in things mechanical,
particularly as they pertain
to fanning, you’ll love a
publication called Farm
Show. It’s a monthly tabloid
with pages and pages of
gadgets, do-it-yourself
projects, and new
machinery information.
Somehow my name got
added to the list and so I
received a copy recently.
The lead story had to do
with a fellow from Min
nesota who couldn’t see any
sense in spending $50,000 for
a tractor he would have to
pay for with $2 com, so be
built his own.
It’s a 250 horsepower, two
wheel-drive ng that has just
about everything the
commerical counterparts
have and a home-built price
tag of about $lO,OOO. This
gram farmer relied heavily
on old truck parts to
assemble what appears to be
a good-looking functional
farm tractor.
The engine is a Cummings
diesel. The frame is made up
from White and Dodge
trucks. The rear end is from
a Mack truck, and the ten
speed transmission is a
Fuller.
The builder has no plans to
produce this rig com
mercially, but he says if
there’s enough interest,
plans will be available for $5
a copy.
Want to know more? Write
to Farm Show follow-up,
Stan Fnesen, Route 1, Box
91, Mountain Lake, MN
56159. Tell him you want to
know more about his farm
built tractor.
And if you’re not mto
building your own tractor.
Farm
Talk
Jerry Webb
Farm Show has lots of other
gadgets like a kit for con
verting an engine from
gasoline to alcohol, a kit for
making your own alcohol,
do-it-yourself plans and
information for converting
an old silo into a manure pit,
budding a hog feeder and
improving a variety of
commercial farm im
plements.
One section of the
magazine covers comments
from farmers on what they
like and don’t like about new
equipment. They tell it like it
is, nominating the best and
the worst of the com
mercially available stuff
they’re using.
A feature story in Farm
Show talks about how far
mers save money by buying
used tractor parts. There are
a handful of tractor salvage
yards around the country,
including one in nearby
Myerstown, Pa., where a
farmer can find just about
anything he needs m the way
of replacement parts.
The story quotes David
Dyke, president of Wor
thington Tractor Salvage,
Worthington, Minnesota,
who keeps two tractor
trailer ngs on the road at all
times scouring the country
for good farm junkers. His
inventory ranges from a 1939
Farmall H to a two-year-old
International 1086.
When these machines
arrive in his yard, Dykes
says they’re tom down, the
parts cleaned, sorted and
stocked in a large
warehouse. He claims that
75 percent of the time he can
tell within 60 seconds of a
phone call whether a par
ticular part is in stock. The
NORRISTOWN - Cen
trifugal pumps are
becoming very popular on
farm weed sprayers ac
cording to Montgomery
County Agent Joseph H.
Way.
rest of the time, he says,
they can find it in two or
three minutes by checking
the inventory.
Other subjects in the
current Farm Show—rubber
horseshoes that prevent
lameness, a better
mousetrap that uses glue, a
machine that unrolls big
round bales, a fancy new
pickup package for long
distance travel comfort, a
home-built rig that is half
truck, half tractor, and
experimental data on a
pipeline hog house.
Feature stories tell about a
monkey that sleeps with
pigs, an orchardist who
grows pears m a bottle, a
nurseryman who uses tiger
manure to scare away
predators, and a farmer who
has bis own bowling alley in
his bam.
Farm Show is a
fascinating magazine for the
mechanically inclined. You
can get a free sample copy
by writing to the Farm Show
Magazine, Box 704,
Lakeville, MN 55044.
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Centrifugal pumps
for sprayers explained
Centrifugal pumps are
long lived, even, with wet
table powders, and they
produce a relatively high
volume of flow; this makes
them a logical choice with a
jet tank agitator. Although
centrifugal pumps are
classes as low-pressure (100
psi or less) pumps, their
pressure is more than
adequate for herbicide
application.
The only moving parts of
the centrifugal pump are the
shaft and impeller. The
impeller is usually designed
to operate between 2000 and
3000 rpm; therefore, pto
powered pumps must use a
speed increaser in the drive
to obtain the high speed.
The impeller must operate
at a rated speed to give rated
performance. A 10 percent
drop from rated speed will
result in a 10 percent
decrease in volume and a 19
percent decrease in the
maximum working
pressure.
PTO rated speed must be
maintained requiring high
engine rpm’s; this can waste
fuel on a light load such as
spraying since ground speed
must be controlled with the
transmission, not engine
speed.
A solution to this problem
is to use a pump powered by
a hydraulic motor connected
SPECIALISTS IN CABLEVEY -
FEED CONVEYING AND AUTOMATION
AUTHORIZED DISTR
Dealer for GINGWAY FRI
to the tractor hydraulic
system. This also permits
the pump to be mounted on
the sprayer.
Centrifugal pumps are
good replacements for roller
pumps on old sprayers.
However, several plumbing
changes are necessary. The
inlet to a centrifugal pump
should have no restrictions.
Remove the suction screen
and install an in-line strainer
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Welding &
Farm Supplies
Hardware *
D.i MACHINE SHOP
3816 E. NEWPORT RD., RDIGORDONVILLE. PA 17629
1 Mile East of Intercourse on Rt. 772
Write or Try and Call: 717-768-8569 (Outside Phone)
Dealer Inquiries Invited
• Victor or Meco Cutting Torches
• Lincoln Weldors • Hog & Cattle Gates
• Custom Built High Pressure Washers
• Coal Fired Bucket-A-Day Stoves
• New A Used Structural Pipe
• We Supply Diesels and Mount on Farm
Equipment
FEED SYSTEMS
in the pressure line from the
pump. Use the same size
suction hose as the pump is
threaded to accept; don’t use
bushings or reducers.
A low-resistance cut-off
valve is the only item that
should be in the suction hose.
Also, no by-pass valve is
used; pressure and flow are
controlled by two valves, one
in the line to the boom and
one in the agitator line!
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