We’re moving along. Yesterday, Jeremy successfully finished changing and flushing the oil and hydraulic fluid resulting in much better hydraulic pressure on the tractor. Along the way he replaced several gaskets and filters. We continue to find that parts for this wonderful old tractor of ours are cheap and easy to replace! Woo hoo!
We also discovered in doing our research that not only do we have a short in the tractor's electrical system that is cooking batteries, but we need to stop jumping it with a 12 volt battery (i.e. the truck) because that messes up the charge regulator. The tractor uses a 6V battery, you see. Not quite sure how we'll do that - it will probably involve buying some piece of equipment to charge batteries that can do 6V. Until then, we'll continue with what we're doing and know that when we find the short and fix it, we will be replacing both the battery and charge regulator. Luckily, we can keep going like we are so this isn't a fix we have to do before we can continue with the work.
Our next task is getting the plow put back together. Hopefully this will just entail replacing the bolt that is broken. Given that the bolt in question looks impressively rusted, we'll see if that turns out to be as simple as we hope.
Once the plow is in operable order, we get to sit back and hope to goodness it actually rains! That would make leveling the site SOOOOOO much easier. It would also be a welcome relief from the unseasonably dry hot weather. Everybody cross your fingers for water falling from the sky!
At home, there is a fair bit of grass coming up around the place. We are having to water sometimes twice a day to keep the fledgling grass growing. It is amazing how something as useless as grass can take several times over the water that our garden did. *sigh*
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