Thread: A few problems show up

More problems.

Went down to the village today to fuel up, and realised the blinker warning light was not working. Pulled the blinker switch to bits to replace the bulb, only to find (eventually) that the problem was the spade connector onto the blinker unit.

Then decided to get the RH speaker working. Broken wire. But took a while to find it, and longer to replace the wire.

Then another (unrelated to Series 2a) problem. I have a woodcutter working on the place at the moment. He left about 1600. An hour later he was back - on foot. It seems he took the wrong road out of where he was cutting the wood, and his truck (with a generous two tonnes of wood on board) now had the top of the RH wheels level with the ground. My tractor is somehow getting air into the fuel when left standing for some time, so it took a while to get it started. Then had to drive a couple of kilometres to where he was stuck, and pull him with a very long chain. Took a while to get him out, but did manage it after about four or five goes, shovelling a space in front of his wheels each go, and changing the chain length so the tractor was not on the same set of wheel holes each time. Took about an hour by the time I got back and parked the tractor.

John

Would you believe it! Woodcutter bogged again! This time twenty metres from my shed! Took a lot longer to get him out, had to unload all the wood first. Some of the country round here just turns liquid when you disturb it.

This does not help my preparations for Castle Hill!

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Would you believe it! Woodcutter bogged again! This time twenty metres from my shed! Took a lot longer to get him out, had to unload all the wood first. Some of the country round here just turns liquid when you disturb it.

This does not help my preparations for Castle Hill!

John

An old mate raises sheep and cattle near Alpha on a greyish sandy loam. In drought he says you are flat out getting a ripper into the ground and in a good wet it is wise to move the dozer every couple of days before it sinks out of sight.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

An old mate raises sheep and cattle near Alpha on a greyish sandy loam. In drought he says you are flat out getting a ripper into the ground and in a good wet it is wise to move the dozer every couple of days before it sinks out of sight.

When I was working in the Lake Buchanan area in 1962, I think it was, I was asked by the bloke on a neighbouring property (by radio) to come and help him with my Series 1, because it had a capstan winch. He had every vehicle on the property bogged. He had started with his Mainline ute, taken the truck out to pull it out, then taken the tractor out - each took a walk of several miles back to the homestead after he bogged it. I went out with him, and assessed the situation - tried to pull the ute out, but it was "not a hope". Managed to get the Landrover turned round by laying corduroy, and got out of there. This was reddish sandy loam. OK to drive on once in a light vehicle, but run over the same tracks again a couple of times, and it just turned liquid.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

When I was working in the Lake Buchanan area in 1962, I think it was, I was asked by the bloke on a neighbouring property (by radio) to come and help him with my Series 1, because it had a capstan winch. He had every vehicle on the property bogged. He had started with his Mainline ute, taken the truck out to pull it out, then taken the tractor out - each took a walk of several miles back to the homestead after he bogged it. I went out with him, and assessed the situation - tried to pull the ute out, but it was "not a hope". Managed to get the Landrover turned round by laying corduroy, and got out of there. This was reddish sandy loam. OK to drive on once in a light vehicle, but run over the same tracks again a couple of times, and it just turned liquid.

John

Sounds like what we used to call 'custard mud'.
I had a number of Landys bogged in it on a driver training course on a property about 20kms NW of bathurst once.