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Well, I'm getting closer. Had it not been for the broken bolt, I would have been driving it already. I spent all Saturday morning and then my buddy that works at a fabrication shop came over about 2 and we worked until about 7:30 or 8. Still didn't get the bolt out. We tried several small bits...

Well the tractor is back in one piece. Had a heck of a time getting it back together. Ended up having to block the clutch lever. Then I borrowed an inspection camera to make sure all was going in correctly. Then a nice sunny day so I could see down in there and slid it together with Monica's...

They were an older couple that had goats before. They also raised some type of Puerto Rican horses. I think they remembered the good part of goats, but not how much work the milking and caring for actually was. When we got there Sunday they said that before they started building a building...

Not much has happened with the barn since I'm still working on the tractor. We have managed to sell a couple of the ToggPines as we call them, though we are still holding them until the buyer gets his fence repaired and they return from vacation. We also sold one of our Boer Does that we had...

Well the pump is back in the tractor, but the tractor still isn't combined yet. I misplaced the cotter keys that I needed for a couple of linkages. I've found all of the bolts and stuff, so if that is all that I lost, I'm doing good. Been kind of hectic the last few days. We had plans for a...

Thanks Jerry, but anyone can take it apart. It is the putting it back together and does it work that is the hard part. Hoping to do that this weekend. Of course, thought I was going to have 4 days to do it, but I'm actually working from home today instead of on the tractor. Then I need to...

Oh, one more thing, just out of curiosity, I price a new hydrostatic pump. $4500.:puke1:

After quite a few calls around to different tractor dealers and also a couple of places that specialize in hydrostatic pumps and hit dead-ends with them, I ended up taking the pump to Franklin Equipment here in Columbus. They said $280 for the seals & $70 hour and 1 1/2 hours to repair it. 6...

Well, we are up to a total of 30 goats now. A few weeks ago we purchased 5 Boer/Nubian crosses that we are bottle feeding. Hopefully they will grow well enough so that they can be bred in August/September for wethers for next year's fair. We also had our one Alpine Selena gives us a single buck...

Not an engineer, just a lowly computer programmer. A little worried about the reassembly, but I'll get it. Hopefully it goes back together and works on the first try. I don't want to have to this job again.

BTW, I started on this about 1:00 yesterday and worked fairly steady, but not at a break neck pace either. Only stopping to eat dinner. The last pictures were taken about 9:45 last night.

This first picture is the clutch and throwout bearing. Not sure what happened or why, but the throwout bearing dropped. That little spring that is hanging down connects to the throwout bearing to pull it back into place. Throwout bearing is $75. While I've got it split, I think I'm going to go...

I kept running into road blocks for resources and getting questions answered and not wanting to pay a huge repair bill, I figured I was on my own. To be fair, I didn't call dealerships because I kinda knew the answer would be bring it in, we can take care of it. So, anyway,, I've done the deed...

I ended up using a couple gallons of my stock pile of washer fluid that I had for the tractor. But we were at Rural King on Saturday and they had summer formula on sale for 99 cents a gallon. Thinking it was all I went to look at winter formula, it wasn't on sale, but they didn't have much of it...

I had sent a message to Monica's uncle. He is a New Holland mechanic. He thinks either the 4wd shaft seal or a line above it. Not sure what all that involves. Hoping I don't have to split the tractor.

I've been moving a bunch of dirt into the new barn. The good thing is I'm getting close, the bad thing is I've been noticing some oil drips in my "path." At first I thought it was from where the rubber line joins the metal line along the side of the transmission that I've fix a couple times...

Well we are up to 11 babies. Unfortunately the last 4 are "useless" we did some experimenting with our registered buck and our toggenburgs (registered, but we can't get the paper work). They are super cute, but they are bucks, therefore, they can't be registered so we can't show them and their...

I also meant to post we received the water bill on Tuesday from the "Love Letter" they had sent us about the excessive usage - I didn't realize there was such a long time between reading and them sending the bill. Anyway our normal water bill runs 50-57 a month. This month is was $71.32. I'm...

The barn is insured, while it would have been bad had we lost it, it would have been worse had Ally not opened the barn door so they could get out to the pasture. The way the barn was filled with smoke, even with this relatively little fire, we would have lost at least some, probably all, of...

Thought I would catch up a little bit again. I don't have pictures of all of them on my phone, but we now have 7 babies running around....uh scratch that 9 and another 1 coming as I'm typing. We had the 3 (2 bucks and a doe boer) that was born on the 1st, 1 (buck boer) on Feb 7th, 2 (doe & buck...