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Last Tuesday night I couldn’t sleep, no matter what I tried I just could not go to sleep, so while laying there awake browsing Facebook I stumbled upon an ad for an online auction. And for once it was 100 miles away, not 1000. Started browsing through the listings and stumbled across this little Allis Chalmers B with only 2 bids on it. It looked rough but I could maybe see some potential in it, and I’ve always wanted a B. So I put in my max bid and went about my business. Thursday night I get an email from the auction co with an invoice for $319…$290 for the tractor and $29 for buyers premium (I hate that they charge seller and buyer premium on online sales, but I won’t get on that rant tonight). Paid the invoice, then remembered my trailer is 100 miles away still at the show grounds along with the WD. Saturday morning I made the trip to the show grounds, loaded up the WD and brought it back to the farm. First 200 mile round trip for the day done…headed out for the second trip to pick up the B. Let’s just say when I got there it was a “little” rougher than I originally thought. But oh well we bought it let’s load it up and get it home. Got home too late last night to mess with unloading it. Fired up the 1940 Farmall A today and drug it off the trailer and into the shop. Started tearing in to it and yeah it’s ROUGH. But we like a challenge around here and I promised the seller that grandads tractor wasn’t going to scrap so we are gonna do our best to try to save it. Here’s the first of probably many videos on the project. With a torch, hopes & prayers, and maybe a tetanus booster she will live again. Stay tuned and enjoy! We Brought Home an Allis B… and Immediately Regretted It 😂 https://youtu.be/PyBvPMV89jY

Got a few minutes to finish mine up today so far as welding. Made a test fit just for giggles. This thing is hard to get situated. I thought I had something crooked until I saw the right side of the nose hitch is bent. Handles or not, the floor jack is a must. It weighs just over 80lbs. Now to figure out how to paint this thing!

A friend of mine ran a local Discount Gas Station in the early 1970's. He used to drain and collect all what was left at the bottom of the cardboard / metal quarts of top price name brand oil. Guess where it ended up selling for half the cost at the pump. Pure profit there...

I don’t remember glass bottles, but I do remember the quart cans that you had to jam the spout into. Or a knife or screwdriver, whatever you had handy to open it! And then if the spout wasn’t sharp and it was on of those heavy paper cans that had been exposed to any moisture the top of the can would kink then spout wouldn’t seal up good and oil would leak all over!!

I'm sorry if this assembly is taking too long. I am really working hard to pace myself to make it last as it is my winter project. Keeps me in the shop out of my Wife's hair (not that she minds my company I'm sure).

D. B. Cooper Day is annually observed on November 24 and is dedicated to what remains one of the most famous mysteries of all time. In 1971, a suited man named Dan Cooper hijacked a plane going from Portland to Seattle and parachuted off it. The catch? He seems to have disappeared into thin air and was never found again, dead or alive. On D. B. Cooper Day, Ariel, Washington, the little town Cooper is thought to have landed in, hosts a festival celebrating the events surrounding the skyjacking, the investigation, and the ensuing mystery. 2025 marks the 54th anniversary, and the fierce debate continues.

I ordered an extra large pizza. The fellow who took the order asked if I wanted it cut into twelve or sixteen slices, I responded the I didn't think I could eat sixteens pieces of Pizza so he should cut it into twelve.

Long story but I tried to buy this tractor back in 2021. At that time we were moving and I didn’t have the “fun” money nor room. Well two weeks ago the tractor popped up on market place. I immediately messaged the guy and told him the story. Even had my old pictures and name of builder. The guy was super cool and was listing it as his father had pasted and he and wife were moving to Florida. Told him I could buy it the following weekend and he said sold. I’ll even market it sold. Next weekend I traveled almost to Louisville from Indy to pick up the beast. It had been neglected for many years and was covered in a black dust/grease almost. After many hours of cleaning I have it looking great again. Even had Terry from redoyourhorse.com make me custom decals. Made a bracket for new LED headlights and installed LED taillights also. Few other minor details I changed but it is back to running and driving Tractor was built starting with a GT14 and the. Had grille and rear end swapped from 953/1054. Then had a frame stretch and 520-H forward swept axle installed. Karl Stohry is the builder and my goal is to get it back down to him so he can sign it. He is declining in health and was excited to hear I was able to buy it Will be a video on my YouTube channel soon Sorry, could only upload three pics right now of how it currently sits with all my updates

And that would be a Colossus of a mistake...

Hydro control plate ready to be installed. Hydro control plate installed.

Interesting subject line. I've watched a few shows about this. The only conclusion I can come to is, nobody actually knows.....

5 out of 4 people struggle with math. The other two thirds don’t care.

My son doesn’t come on here anymore, but here is a 704 that he has been making into a 4x4. complete scratch built axle, and a lot of lathe and milling…. I’ll try sort some build pics out!

My Dad had a jig in the garage that funneled oil cans into a jar... Always had oil for oil cans, chains etc. It was a large funnel on top a jar with two pieces of wood to hold an upside down can in the funnel... I still do this with the plastic bottles... keeps my oiler jars full... Waste not want not...

I’ve never seen one at the pump, but I do know what they are!

Funny you would bring that up because I was thinking this morning you're going a little too fast. Going to need another project by the end of winter.

https://www.then-now-auto.com/kohler-fuel-pumps-2/ They are good people, call first so they can send you what you need.

That looks like the one I grew up on. Lucky we lived in the mountains and could usually drift start it. But if we had to use the crank, Pappy always pulled the crank up....never push it down. That's when wrists, arms, and shoulders got broken. Ours had hand brakes but it looked like your project. Oh, probably not a concern for an Okie, but never try to down shift when pulling a drag sled full of rock up a steep mountain. They are very acrobatic and have perfected the back flip move. Experienced by a 70lb 10 yo.

Every so often someone pops up claiming to be him. There have been a few though that are factually scarily close and could legitimately be him. However, It gets debunked and proven not to be him pretty quickly. For all we know he’s still in the woods where he landed. Whether he is still alive or dead we may never know.

Im now 60 and have done yoga on and off since I was early 20s. I can do a deep Buddha squat from standing to bum down to the floor, feet flat, hips completely open with no problem at all, happy to repeat a dozen times. Not many of the young girls in my class are able to even get down. I've just been doing stretches after my 11 hour flight to Perth Australia and was happy to do a forward bend and stand on the backs of my hands, legs locked. Not bad for an old duffer lol. It is very much a case of use it or lose it, but also remember....the body you bring to the mat today may not be able to do what it did last week, but it may do even better next. Listen to your body. Unless of course it just keeps saying sit down and do nothing. Mick

I did something very similar to what @T-Mo did when I built my splitting stands, but engineered them a bit differently so that with different adapters they would work on several different tractors. Here they are under my M when we swapped the wide front axle out for a narrow, and again under my C when I pulled the engine for a rebuild @JCM good looking Super A you have there. Those smaller Farmalls are some of my favorites. Recently picked up this 1940 A from my late friend Rodger’s collection and got it running again. It’s probably my favorite tractor out of all of them.

I wouldn't use this aftermarket supplier for any customer machine, especially given that it does take some labor to install, but I figure I can give it a shot on our basket case 520 and see what kind of longevity we can expect. It will make a good case study.

Just as long as when we split the apple, I get the bigger half.

I know... Lame... Here's an idea...

Thank you everyone for the encouraging words. So here I lay being probed ,poked and all wired up. Nothing conclusive yet except for the blood clot. Stress test tomorrow. Blood drawing every few hours which has been troublesome. Some just can’t get blood from me despite poking me in different places with painful results. Another person comes in and does it in less than a minute without hurting me. I don’t think some are very skilled at it. It’s almost gone only 30 gallons left. I may be using it as a vein flusher from the looks of things.

Bought this tractor 38 years ago for mowing and snow removal mainly. At that time it came with a belly mount 3 blade mower and front plow blade. Over the years added a single moldboard and harrow that was used for a 25' x 75' garden deep with beautiful farm loam. After moving North it sat for sometime before I started to do a clean up and repaint. In October I was able to have help in splitting the A apart and replace clutch, pressure plate, throw out bearing and original carb stripped rebuilt and clear coated. While waiting for parts to come in I cleaned out the bellhousing and tunnel full of mouse mess and sanded up anything that needed it. Up and running now and did it ever feel good to be sitting up high listening to that 4 cylinder purr at idle, almost a nice lope to it. Change oil & filter, greased and adjust the width of the front end. If it wasn't so late in the year I would use it this Winter for a little snow plowing. Working on the front grille trying to straighten the horizontal bars now and some painting to do. I was able to locate a nice set of tools to do it. Gave it a cleaning yesterday and moved some leaves to the pile. I will update as I progress along. Pictures are through the course of years since purchase with the rims painted all red and left rear tire on backwards. It's getting there.

Before you buy a cheap gage, try just leaving you existing cap a little loose with the tank not all the way full.

Sold

I do have two more on the back burner, a 312-8 and a 314H. Problem is that the cleanup and paint requires warmer weather so one of those will be next years project.

I saw Steiner has those for sale

I have had this metal building steel around 40 years decided to make a front weight out of it. Got it cut out and tacked together. Turn into a joint project with Kevin as he welded it up. Had enough steel left so I cut another one for Kevin. It has around 2" of sheet lead inside. Best guess it weights 50 #.

What you feel is not the pulse that powers the pump. Pulse (or vacuum) is created in the crankcase as the piston goes up and down. If the diaphragm is good, then the one-way valve disks may be stuck or dirty. It does not take much pressure. All you are doing is filling the bowl of the carburetor. I'd love to show you how one of mine pumps, but I am not able to do that today. When you took the pump apart, I hope you didn't lose the tiny springs that sit over or under the little disks. There are several types of one way valves, ones that are just sitting free with springs, and ones that are enclosed in a cage. Putting it back together you have to make sure that the disks and springs are in the correct position so that you have the one-way action going in the right direction.

Kudo's to you for getting her to help getting off the trailer, and more Kudo's to her for doing it!

It hasn't got an ignition coil, of course it won't start. 1970 and 1971 were, but 1972 was equipped with a Koehler.

An AC B is the wide front version of the C, for the most part. Neat little tractors, pretty equivalent to the Farmall As.

Amen

Thanks 04fxdwgi. Your 8 steps worked perfectly. I also removed the right footrest. That made it very easy to slip the belt off the idler pulley providing lots of belt slack.

Yes, the 520’s have some complexity, but except for the panel with the indicator LEDs, there is nothing there that wasn’t on an automobile in the 50’s or 60’s.

Wow, that's one expensive plow. Hinges, rope , and a couple hundred bucks worth of lumber.

I don't have a good warm place for a cure though is my problem. I was aiming for day time temps min about 45 degrees and nighttime temp above freezing. The next two days are the only ones I have for the next 2 weeks. If I get desperate I may pull the wife's car out of the garage and use a propane heater to warm it up. My neighbor has a heated shop (it is a business) but I will probably do the engine work over there and probably the transmission as well. He is the one with the press that helped me get the steering wheel shaft out.

Dear Lord we pray that You bless Cas with Your loving care, renew his strength, and guide the medical personnel who are helping him. Help them find answers to Cas’s medical needs and restore his health. Please Lord, be with his wife and family in this troubling time. We ask this in the name of Your son Jesus Christ, Amen.

I like this picture as it show two great pieces of craftsmanship in Wheel Horse builds along with the master of decals. My custom GT16 4x4 built by Bob rock and the newly acquired GT516 built by Karly Stohry. Both machines based on the GT14 tractor. Super happy to own both

I have picked myself up several times and before anything else- made sure no one saw my gymnastics...

Lower steering shaft support block ready to install. Block has new bronze bushings installed top and bottom. Bolts are 1-1/2" long and fit perfect even though parts manual calls for 1-3/4". Lower steering shaft showing slotted nut. Nut removed from lower steering shaft then shaft greased where it slides into block. Block slid onto lower steering shaft then bolted to frame. Bolts torqued to 30 ft/lb. Grease fitting installed. Never seize applied to shaft threads then washer and nut loosely installed. Overview of steering assembly as installed.

I've said before, his threads could serve as assembly manuals!

Anyone remember this one? Stumbled across it and brought back some old memories. They weren't exactly mainstream but this song was on the radio.

Me too. You finally see how it all comes together once the stickers go on!

Can we talk about them? Specifically a 425 Looking for a small estate tractor that can do it all well but nothing amazing.

Just did this on my '93 520H last week. 1. Remove side kick panel covering belt 2. Disconnect PTO engagement assy 3. Remove PTO brake shoe 4. Remove mower drive belt from pulley 5. Removing right rear wheel makes things easier to get to, but you don't have to. 6. Put a wrench on the idler retaining bolt in center of idler wheel from the belt cover area (it will fit in space) and push down on wrench, removing tension from belt. 7. Walk belt off hydro pulley, working through fan and walking fan around with belt, being carefull not to strain fan blades. This seemed to work better than walking belt off PTO pulley for me. 8. Put new belt on in reverse of these steps and adjust PTO brake shoe per manual. It can be a true test of manual dexterity doing this by yourself, but I did it in about 45 minutes. If I can do it, so can anyone. Adjusting the PTO brake took the longest part of the job. Pain in the A** little thing that it is.