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Tie rod ends have a tapered design that allows them to fit and stay tight when installed. Before removing an old tie rod end for replacement, count the number of exposed threads. Install the new one leaving the same number of threads exposed.
Machinery

How to replace worn steering components

Replacing old, loose tie rod ends is an easy on-farm repair you can do yourself

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Older tractors, self-propelled machines and farm trucks tend to get a little hard to control with age. Driving some of them down the road at maximum speed can be a bit like herding goats, and a little dangerous. They will only go approximately where you want them to. The reason is often due to excessive […] Read more
Vermeer’s BW5500 inline bale wrapper is designed to help speed up the wrapping process for large producers or custom operators.
Forages, Machinery

New Vermeer bale wrapper

Inline wrapper designed for larger operations

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Vermeer has added a new inline bale wrapper to its hay and forage equipment lineup. The BW5500 is designed to cut down the wrapping time for large-volume hay growers and custom operators. “As you increase the number of bales wrapped each year, producers should consider moving from an individual wrapper to an inline wrapper,” said […] Read more
The bushings slid into place in these leaf springs easily without damage.
Machinery

Cool it: cold temps for a smooth fit

How to use extreme changes in temperature to ease parts installation in your shop

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A variety of parts on ag equipment and vehicles are designed to have a friction or interference fit, which means components fit together so tightly they maintain their position relative to each other without any kind of fastener holding them in place. Bearing races, for example, remain fixed tightly in a housing this way. It’s […] Read more
92-year-old Hal Burns (2nd from right) shakes hands with Doug Roy, also pictured are Brian Wilson (far left) and Henry Dechant (far right). 
Burns was the pilot who flew this same aircraft when it was based in Iceland during the Second World War.
Machinery

High-flying farm workshop project

These men went to great lengths to bring in and restore a 1943 Canso PBY-5A airplane

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Many farmers have travelled long distances to bring back a unique restoration project to put in the workshop for the winter. But six men from Fairview, Alberta, may hold the record for having the most-difficult-to-retrieve farm shop project ever. They trekked all the way to Sitidgi Lake, Northwest Territories, to rescue an abandoned 1943 Canso […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Diesel prices hang steady in West, for now

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CNS Canada –– It doesn’t appear the gasoline shortage that has left many pumps across Western Canada dry will be spreading to the diesel sector, at least for now. Fires in northern Alberta and problems at a refinery in Edmonton crimped available supplies of gas for many Prairie retailers this week. While some Petro-Canada and […] Read more
Luc Jobin. (CN.ca)
Crops, Machinery

CN promotes CFO as CEO resigns

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Canadian National Railway’s (CN) chief financial officer Luc Jobin will become its chief executive on July 1, as incumbent CEO Claude Mongeau steps down for health reasons. Mongeau announced Tuesday he will resign as CN’s CEO at the end of June, after leading the railway company for six and a half years. “I was filled […] Read more
Clean Seed Capital Group held a ceremony to mark the launch of the first production CX6 Smart Seeder outside the manufacturing facility in Steinbach, Manitoba. The event went ahead despite a sudden April snowstorm.
Machinery

CX6 Smart Seeder goes into production

Clean Seed Capital Group unveiled its first production model drill in April

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Anyone walking the aisles of a farm show in Western Canada dur­ing the past couple of years has probably noticed a prototype of the Clean Seed CX6 Smart Seeder on display. It’s made the rounds to several shows during that time. But when the first production model was introduced to the public in early April […] Read more

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