So welcome back everybody. If you've been
watching the channel for any length of time you have undoubtedly seen me use the old Ford 3000
here. This is the first tractor that i used around this place and there's a bunch of videos on the
channel with me using this particular tractor. When i got the Kubota my intention wasn't
to replace this tractor with the Kubota. But as you can imagine the Kubota's a lot more
comfortable to use so this tractor kind of got put on the back burner. I do get it out every now
and then to use it for one purpose or another but for the most part it's just been sitting here
collecting dust. The last time that I used it was when I put my Spring food plots in and that
was in April or May I guess. So it's a pretty long time. So what I want to do today is I want to
get it out, I want to brush the dust off of it, deal with a few issues that it's got, and I want
to attach the mower to it because i think it'd be a great dedicated mowing tractor. But there are
a few little issues that we have to deal with first so let's go ahead and get this thing going
again and breathe some new life into it. The first thing that we're going to have to deal with is the
battery. As you can imagine the battery was kind of the first thing that went. And that's really
the reason that I haven't been using it so much. We've got a fair amount of acid leak here that we
need to deal with. I've got some baking soda water so we'll just pour that on
and get that neutralized. Go ahead and swing this battery out
probably should have done that first. I should have been giving
this thing way more attention. You can see we got lots of pitting going on
over here. That's just a result of all that acid sitting there for so long. Lots of peeling
paint and I'll have to put a little coat of paint on this just so that it won't... just give
it a little bit of protection in the future. But I should have been doing something
with this all along. It's pretty obvious that battery was leaking and messing stuff up. So as you saw there the battery should have been
changed out a really long time ago. It leaked and has created some rust and pitting issues and the
paint is all peeled. So what we're going to do is we're going to scrub this out real good, get it
probably not all the way down to the bare metal but as close as we can and repaint it. I've got
the correct color of Ford blue so we'll make it look halfway decent. So let's go ahead and do
that and see what it turns out looking like. So that's going to need just a few
minutes to dry. So what we'll do is we'll go ahead and change the oil and give
that some time to dry before we paint it. I wrote on the oil filter last time I changed
the oil it was 2018. It was...I really can't read the date very well. It looks like December
maybe of 2018 and 3,285 hours. Now it's got 3,364 hours. That's 79 hours and I definitely
didn't do that math before I turned on the camera. So it's been a while and you can see I
haven't put a whole lot of hours on it in the last three or so years. So let's go ahead and change
the oil and that'll be one step out of the way. I think my two-year-old
could have done a better job. You don't need any of this. This is spray paint. That's pliers. What's making that noise? That's a bee. Where'd the bee go? I don't know. That's brake cleaner. That's Zaza's tractor. I'm fixing Zaza's tractor. He thinks this is his sister's tractor. So we made
some pretty good progress on the tractor. We got the oil changed, we got the oil bath air filter
changed, we got the battery tray repainted and scrubbed. You want back down? Okay. Hey, can you
say thumbs up? Thumbs up! There you go! That's not your thumb but they know what you mean. But
we're getting real close. The battery should be in at the shop tomorrow. They had to special order
it because it was kind of an old school battery. Yeah, we're making some good progress. We'll get
it out hopefully tomorrow maybe the next day and put the mower on it and maybe give it a bath as
well. But, yeah, making some good progress here. Alright so it has been like 24 hours or so since
this has been painted and it is nice and cured. So let's go ahead and get this off
of here and put it on the tractor. That's sawdust. I want to show you all murphy's law here. This
thing went in in exactly the direction I didn't need it to go because i can't get that pin
in there until this post gets turned. So I'm going to have to figure out, get some pliers
and see if i can turn this post a little bit. That wasn't bad at all. Does it pass inspection? Check it for me. What do you think? You like
it? Okay, thank you. Okay, I'm also going to add some of this toolbox drawer
lining material here. It'll add some padding to this so that the battery
has a little bit of cushion. And it will also prevent leaks. So if we have
an acid spill again hopefully the acid will be stopped by this and it won't eat up our pan
next time. So that's kind of my thought anyway. What is this? It sure is. Alright so here's what we're going to
do now. I'm going to get all of these tools off of the tractor. It's amazing
how many tools you can accumulate working on something like this. If I just
put them all up when i was done with them it'd be a lot easier. But I'm going to get
these tools off the tractor. I'm going to take my helper inside and see if his sister can
watch him. And we're going to try to get this thing cranked up and moved out and pressure
washed. Alright, here's the moment of truth. I got dash lights. What do you want man? You want to clean
that one off? Alright well stand back. There you go. No it's wet! Of course it's wet.
You'll have to wait for it to dry. Alright one more finishing touch. This, uh, shroud or shield or whatever you want to
call it right here has been off of this thing for so long i don't think i know how to...i
don't think i remember how to put it back on. What do you think? Okay. Alright guys so i'm very
happy to report that we have breathed a lot of new life into this machine. We got the oil changed, we
got the oil bath filter changed, I did check the coolant and it's fine. Got that tire pumped up.
It does need to be greased probably. We did a new battery in it. Got the battery pan cleaned out.
I got all the rust...well most of the rust off of it. Got it repainted, got that acid stopped.
And I tell you what I'm pretty happy to have it back. It's gonna be a handy tractor just to have
for extra things. It'll be a good little food plot tractor. Good for mowing. And it's got a lot of
use...it's got a lot of life left in it. What do you think? You like it? You wanna go for a ride?
Let's go for a ride. I almost forgot to mention. This video has gone kind of long so we'll do some
mowing uh maybe on the next video. We'll get the mower hooked up to this machine and do that on a
different video. Right now we're going for a ride.
