{"id":10308,"date":"2024-03-07T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10308"},"modified":"2024-03-07T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T01:34:39","slug":"after-weeks-of-work-will-got-our-ford-660-tractor-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/03\/07\/after-weeks-of-work-will-got-our-ford-660-tractor-started\/","title":{"rendered":"After weeks of work, Will got our Ford 660 tractor started"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how some pieces of equipment are dependable to their bones? Well, our old Ford 660 that we bought years back, from my son, Bill, has always been one of those. It would start immediately and run well. Until Will went to start it a month ago and it wouldn’t start. He checked the spark, and it had spark, but he put another set of plugs in, just in case. Gas? It had gas flow. He checked the compression. All good. But it still wouldn’t start even on ether. Finally, he ordered a carburetor rebuild kit, took the carb off and took it apart. Then he soaked it in carb cleaner. Yesterday, the kit came and today, he put the carburetor back together. Guess what? It started! We’re so glad to have our old friend back working again. Now he’s got three more tractors to fix, one with the clutch out, one with a hole in the block, and the last, needing a power takeoff shaft. At least the weather’s warming so major jobs won’t be so awful. After all, we don’t have a shop \u2014 heated or otherwise.<\/p>\n

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We really need our old Ford 660 a lot, every year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve sorted out my “regular” pepper seeds and am getting ready to start them this weekend. I want to put out larger plants this spring but that means transplanting into 4-inch pots, then even larger ones, as needed. More work, but hopefully, more peppers, come fall.<\/p>\n

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I want lots of peppers this year, not only for their seeds, which we sell, but to make lots of various pepper foods to can, like this Vaquero Relish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year was a horrible pepper year for everyone around this neck of the woods. With this crazy weather, we don’t want to take a chance. Yes, we’ll have to move them into the heated greenhouse earlier and have to run heat, costing more. But, hopefully, the peppers will reward us.<\/p>\n

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I’m excited to be making much more Gaucho Relish, which is made from chopped, seeded Sugar Rush Peach hot peppers with Cowboy Candy syrup. Everyone loves it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how some pieces of equipment are dependable to their bones? Well, our old Ford 660 that we bought years back, from my son, Bill, has always been one of those. It would start immediately and run well. Until Will went to start it a month ago and it wouldn’t start. He checked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10312,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions\/10312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}