Originally Posted by Fordzilla80

The left front tire blew out on me in the middle of a turn,so into oncoming traffic I went.I jerked the wheel to avoid an oncoming car,and the trees were about 2 feet from the edge of the roadway,so I had no time to react.I was pretty upset over it and made the mistake of turning the truck over to the towing company,and one of the drivers took it and fixed it up with a bunch of wrong parts and drove it himself.It had a 189,000 miles on the original transmission though,so I know it didn't last him long.I'm still tryin to find the truck,and hopefully whoever owns it(if it's even still around)will want to sell it so I can put the right parts back on it and restore it.It was my first truck that was driveable.

Originally Posted by SaikotikGunman

189k... that's not really all that much. We've had the '87 on it for maybe six years, and it's well past 200k miles and runs better than ever on all original drivetrain.

Originally Posted by Fordzilla80

Well,the lady I bought it from pulled horse trailers with it,and it was just a 2.5/4R44E combo.It always bucked going from 1st to 2nd,which might have been related to the 4R44E recall from 1999,but i'm not sure.No doubt about it a fully loaded two horse trailer probably wasn't good for the transmission at all.I used to have friends who saw the truck all the time,but now they say they don't see it anymore which leads me to think it quit on him.

Originally Posted by SaikotikGunman

Well, that is a bit much for a baby truck like that.

By the way, in response to your signature: Crops are green, barns are red, tractors are blue.

Originally Posted by Fordzilla80

Yea it is.I was preparing for a transmission rebuild since the day I bought it.

lol,I'm an IH man,so if there's a tractor on my property,it's gonna be red.But my trucks will always be blue.

Originally Posted by SaikotikGunman

I farm with a pair of Ford 5000's, a late '60's and early '70's model. My grandfather has all IH and Farmall tractors... but John Deere combines.

Originally Posted by Fordzilla80

Cool man.My Grandpa is diehard Farmall.Last I checked,he had about 7 or 8 F20's,and 2 M's,one being a restored Super M.Not sure if it's original or not though.All the F20's are original and still run,even after 70 years of service.I wish I could get the Super M and one of the F20's.My grandpa just uses the tractors to run the bush hog and do minor jobs.He used to raise cattle and swine,but he retired and just spends his day working on the tractors and going to parades.What a life.

Originally Posted by SaikotikGunman

My grandfather's in his mid-80's, and still farms 1500 acres. He'd be farming 2,000, but he was leasing 500 from people who decided it would be more profitable to have the land sprout houses instead of corn.

Originally Posted by Fordzilla80

Man that sucks.That really annoys me,all the farmland being bought up in place of houses.They really need to start selling vacant houses before they build new ones.

Originally Posted by SaikotikGunman

Amen... redevelop the land they've already screwed up before they build on any more, too.

Originally Posted by mstiles19

Ha but its cheaper to build new ones!

I am with you guys though its real sad, I am just happy that the PineBarrens are protected from development and they keep putting land into farmland preservation.

What really makes me angry is all these people who move out here to be in the "country" then get pissed when the deer eat there plants or get they get stuck behind a slow moving truck/tractor when they are driving 20mph over the limit to go get there darn lattes.

Originally Posted by Fordzilla80

I couldn't agree with y'all more.

Honkin ain't gonna save em no time either.When my grandpa runs his tractors,he goes his own pace.Everyone else can just go round.I'd love to be runnin a JD 9620 down a two lane road.Try passin that.