New aquisition! Anyone running a perkins 4.248 on WMO?

[Josh Carmack]

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I recently acquired this for 500 bucks, couldn't pass it up, anyone hae experience running one of these of WMO WVO?

 

[Shadetreemechanic]

My John Deere does WVO and WMO. Likes them both just fine.

 

[Josh Carmack]

Update, got about 80% in the tank, it starts just fine, went from one to two revolutions to start up to three to four. 10 to 15 seconds in low 30's.

 

[Brad S.]

Are those tanks for a gasification???
Or maybe a sprayer set up???
Just a guess.
Looks good.
With wmo I would think gravity flow should be a advantage.
Can the IP be adjusted???

 

[Josh Carmack]

Sprayer setup, it has since been removed because it was rotted out. I put many a gallon of Treflan down on that tractor as a kid, back in the days of bustin' middles and choppin' the tough weeds. Before the days of spray only crops, and high rise sprayers that can cover 50 acres an hour. My uncle bought it new in 75 and put God only knows how many hours on it. Rebuilt the entire power plant and then retired it two years later. It sat in a closed shed for 12 years and now belongs to me. Only thing it needed was new fuel lines, battery, steering cylinder, and 3pt seals. Hi range clutch is a little weak, but it's a wet clutch so I figure it'll give a few more years.

 

[Josh Carmack]

It's gravity flow to a mechanical pump, then to the IP. I don't know, the IP is still sealed from the last rebuild. It already puts down more power to the ground than wet ballasted tires can hold.

 

[Brad S.]

Old yellow, nice.
Just curious when do you guys normally plant beans???

 

[Josh Carmack]

We started cutting three weeks to a month ago, and are still cutting depending on variety and location. We have two "regions" in my part of the state, we have what we call the "Bottom", and then the hill ground. The "bottom" is simply the Mississippi River flood plain. Perfectly flat land that extends 15 to 20 miles east of the river banks, and the hill ground which average 150 ft higher than the bottom with a sharp bluff type transition between the two regions. I mention that because when we farmed we worked ground in both areas, and it is completely different land with different schedules between the two mostly due to soil type. We would plant the hill ground usually within the second week in May and could wait as late as June to get the bottoms in. Slightly cooler temps in the bottom, and better soil result in the one to two week delay. While we never did it, One thing others have done , and I saw my neighbor do it last year, and thats plant an early variety of corn, harvest it, and immediately plant beans behind it, and get away with it. That has only been successfully accomplished down here in the bottom in my area. try that in the hills and lose a bunch of money in fuel and seed. I myself am what us locals call a "bottom rat" my house is in the flood plain, I live about 5 miles from the bluff and in 2010 I had 7 1/2 ft of river in the first floor of my house. Its a fertile land, but you have to be accustomed to the river going where it wants when it wants. Just this season alone I watched the river take out thousands of acres of corn crops.