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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

This kind of detail makes me very happy. Someone gave a fuck when they designed this.

The bolt is recessed so it doesn't poke into the rubber mat that goes on top, but because water can go there, they put a drain hole next to it, so it doesn't stay trapped in the recess forever and rusts the bolt.

1984 Japanese engineering 👍

A bolt in a recess on a horizontal surface that would trap water. But a small drain hole is next to the bolt so water can leave.
#Tractor#Iseki#Engineering
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Iseki finally got that well deserved wash. Also a new alternator belt, so no more screeching.

Love the engine access here. Top hinges up, side panels just lift out to get access to everything. Nobody appreciates good engine access like a former sailboat owner!

Drying off now, then time for some fresh grease.

Before: A nice blue tractor with rototiller attached. The big rear wheel is covered in mud all the way to the hub, front wheels not much better, the driver floor is crusted in slabs of mud.
After washing: The same tractor, now all shiny and clean and glistening in the sun. The white rims are white again and the rubber floor mat is removed from the driver area and drying somewhere else.
Front of the same tractor, with the engine panels removed to expose a small 3 cylinder diesel engine, battery, radiator and alternator with new belt installed.
The removable blue access panels resting in a trailer along with a toolkit.
#Tractor#Iseki#Farm
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Donncha Ó Caoimh

Rural Banter in Cork

Tucked away on the serene Sherkin Island in County Cork, I stumbled upon a timeless moment that felt plucked from another era. Two older men, clearly no strangers to the soil beneath them, were deep in conversation.

This photo was taken in 2015 while on a visit to the island. I hope they are still living on the island, chatting away.

inphotos.org/2025/03/26/rural-

Two elderly men converse surrounded by tall grass and greenery on Sherkin Island, Cork, Ireland. One seated on a vintage red tractor, while the other stands beside him gesturing mid-conversation, both dressed in workwear and bathed in warm sunlight.
#cork#ireland#SherkinIsland
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Donncha

Rural Banter in Cork

Tucked away on the serene Sherkin Island in County Cork, I stumbled upon a timeless moment that felt plucked from another era. Two older men, clearly no strangers to the soil beneath them, were deep in conversation.

This photo was taken in 2015 while on a visit to the island. I hope they are still living on the island, chatting away.

Apertureƒ/11CameraCanon EOS 6DFocal length105mmISO100Shutter speed1/50s

#2015 #agriculture #candidMoment #Canon6D #Cork #countryside #elderlyMen #farming #Ireland #Photo #Photography #ruralLife #SherkinIsland #tractor #vintageTractor

Two elderly men converse surrounded by tall grass and greenery on Sherkin Island, Cork, Ireland. One seated on a vintage red tractor, while the other stands beside him gesturing mid-conversation, both dressed in workwear and bathed in warm sunlight.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Picked the best of the old roller triplet and filled it with water ballast. I did actually find a cap for them in the garage junk, but it was too rusted and bent to fit, so I just made a wooden bung and banged it in with some inner tube.

Held fine but was quite difficult to pry back out after! The former mud pit is now blended with woodchips, hay and rolled somewhat flat. Could be more level, but oh well. I'll sprinkle some grass seed and see what happens.

An agricultural roller for towing behind a tractor. Actually this is one part of a three-roller but that would be too large and the other wasn't in good shape. A blue hose is stuck into the filler hole, slowly filling the inside of the roller with water ballast to increase its weight to about 250 kg give or take.
A threaded lid held in a gloved hand. The lid has a rusty thread that is somewhat perished and has been cleaned with a drill wire brush. The lid is also deformed, distorting the thread. It has two flanges for turning while the top remains flat.
The roller again, now filled with water, some of which has spilled over it. A wooden bung is hammered into the hole surrounded by some black rubber material bunching up around it. The bung has been cut down to be flush with the roller drum.
A man wearing a knitted hat sitting on a small blue tractor, turned to look backwards over the rear to the roller that is now attached to the tractors draw bar and towed behind through a grassy yard somewhat torn up by tractor tyres.
#Homestead#Tractor#Roller
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Wish I could find a manual for this thing. Or service instructions or anything.

Not much out there. It has hypoid gear oil in it, which I determined by sniffing and rubbing (thick fluid with sulfur smell) and there is what is probably a fill level bolt, but it's all guesswork.

There's a few Japanese stickers but they're mostly safety warnings, telling you to not stick your arm into the rotating blades, yo.

A blue Iseki RA 1360 Rototiller from Japan. It's detached from the tractor and parked on a plank. It has two guards on either side, a thick central shaft and on the far side a chain drive to the lower shaft, which isn't in the picture here. Two silvery rods with springs on them hold the rear flap door down.
#Iseki#Tractor#Rototiller
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Garden tilled. The rotavator dug up a brick, a few more concrete chunks, some plastic, a pipe and a massive fucking steel beam. Luckily it seems I didn't break any of the tines. The guard door on the right was bent slightly, but it was easy to unbolt and bang straight again, didn't even chip the paint. Japanese steel won over Soviet steel 😁

Figured out what the feedback lever does, too!

Some tricky driving to get in the corners.

A bunch of things the rotavator revealed, including a pipe, a bit of plastic on the left and a big steel C-beam covered in soil. The rear of a blue tractor with rotavator is visible in the freshly tilled field behind.
The tilled garden/field, with neat rows on the right where there was nothing in the way and somewhat less tidy at an angle on the left where there was a fence and a big tree with large roots. The soil looks dark and fertile.
#Homestead#Tractor#Rotavator
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Short work day because morning shenanigans in town, but then I retrieved the rotavator from the tractor barn. Fixed a few small problems and greased all the things, as it was nicely painted but not a drop of grease anywhere.

Some studying of Japanese manuals (translated) and wrestling the thing on and off the 3PH twice and then... magic!

Turning the concrete field into fluffy garden soil. At sunset, sadly, so just a quick test run.

A blue Iseki RA 1360 rotavator. It's a tractor attachment, here sitting on a plank for maintenance. There's a chain drive on one side, a flap door with large springs and safety guards on either side. It's built very solidly. Under neath, invisible from this angle, is a thick shaft with spinning blades that chew up the soil and aerate it nicely.
A small blue tractor with said rotavator now attached and lowered into the ground for work. It has taken an oval run around the former overgrown and concrete strew garden and where it has been, dark, finely crumbling soil is now leveled out behind it. In the center, for comparison, the overgrown mess with deep grooves from concrete beams remains.
#Rotavator#Tractor#Iseki
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

After I finally got the beam out of the garden, I hooked up the other end and turned it 90 degrees so it can go thick end first towards the gate behind which I want it to be.

But before I can pull it the rest of the way, I had to tidy up the other beams spread out in the yard. Luckily our tractor fits between fruit trees, sheds and old bee hives and I could pull them all into a pile, one at a time. One shattered!

This took the rest of the day 😓

A crumbled concrete beam exposing several long pieces of rebar. The rest is pulled together next to it.
Small blue tractor standing under some large apple trees next to an old dog house, rear towards a couple concrete beams it has pulled into an orderly array. The sun is shining and some snow covers the mud and moss.
The yard at sunset. Some snowy lines show where the concrete beams used to be, now they're all on the right, packed tightly with the short pieces on top.
#Concrete#Beam#Homestead
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Final result: Moved it about 3m. Just too bloody heavy.

I tried many things. The wheel lever worked, but was a lot of work to reset (steel wheel very heavy). Shortening up the chain and lifting it with the three point hitch hydraulics worked equally well and a lot faster, but the wheels just dig in and lose traction. Maybe double tyres 😁

Also learnt that a front ballast for the tractor doesn't do anything. At least not a 100kg one (me standing on the front bar hopping up and down).

The end of the beam, leaving a gash in the dirt where it used to be. It's about 3m from this mornings position, which is good but not nearly good enough. Another beam is hidden under grass and moss next to it.
#Tractor
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