Glad to see this!

[jas11964]

I've been away for a while. Finally get time to look in and, low and behold, here is something I had been hoping for. Glad to see a place dedicated to the Economy and Power King tractors. I grew up right beside a dealer for these machines and have owned several for the last 18 years. I see there are already some nice tractors showing up. I presently own a 1983 2414 with a 4 speed tranny and a 1981 1614 with a front end loader. Both are work tractors. The two show tractors I had that were of this brand are long gone now. I'll have to get some time to catch up on the threads. Until then, keep it orange!:thThumbsU

Jeff

[jas11964]

Here are some pics of my PKs. The Jim Dandy is no longer with me but it was as close to a restoration as I ever got. I have some better pictures but they seem to be too big for the forum.

Jeff

[jas11964]

Here's one of the duties that my PKs see every year. Firewood duty! I stack wood 10 feet high in the woodshed so I need something to get it up there.

http://i41.tinypic.com/xfndzc.jpg

[Chuck_050382]

Nice looking Power kings.

Now that is a wood shed.

[tiretrx]

Nice rides Jeff! Found myself staring at the wood shed pic for quite awhile, pretty impressive! Thanks for the pics!

[jas11964]

Thanks! You know, that wood shed is nothing but a very well built corn crip that I bought at a farm auction. It's 13 feet high so the guy who actually won the auction couldn't figure out how he was going to get it home because he had a tunnel to go through. I offered him double what he paid for it since I only live half a mile from the auction and he took the deal. I paid him $10 and dragged it down the road to my place. I think it was 3" shorter by the time I got it home LOL. It's constructed of rough cut lumber and chain link fence so it is really well built.

[Dragon]

That is a great deal on that shed. Materials alone are worth it even if you would have had to disasemble.

Can you give a description of your process for loading and then unloading the wood shed? Besides the obvious as I know that sounds like a really silly question.

But I kept looking at the picture and with it so high inside it seemed like a lot of extra work goes into stacking it higher than you can reach when standing on the ground. In the pic I can see you have a smaller ladder inside between the rows. Are you ever concerned that one side or the other may tip in on the center asile while you are in there?

Thanks. And that PK looks like a great tractor.

[jas11964]

There's no real secret to this, really. I just stack until I can't stack anymore. The ladder is an extra narrow one that I buit specifically to use in the woodshed. Even then it still doesn't fit between the rows when I'm stacking the last one. One side of the shed is one winter's worth of wood. The other side ages almost two years in the shed until it's used. When I can't use the ladder inside, I stack more wood in the opposite direction between the two sides in whatever room is left. I begin to stack in stages so that I can use the wood as steps. It's a lot of climbing but, when you work alone, it's the only option. Besides, it's great exercise. When I get to the end of the last row, I can pull back the fencing, climb up on the ladder and take the wood from the bucket which eliminates all that climbing.

There are a couple of cross members in the shed that were holding the sides in when under the weight of the corn. The sides see no pressure now but these cross members actually help to keep the wood in place. There's no real room to fall over when full but it one side is empty, I supposed there could be. It the pile were to shift, the wood would catch on these cross member before it went too far. As tight as things are stacked, I do think you would even notice that it moved. Ya do what you can, ya know?