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A small church in our association is needing some work done to it's one hundred year old building. I was asked to lead a team to start repairs. Helpers has been pretty sparse so most of it was done by me. I didn't attempt to work on the gable ends without someone there to help with the 28' ladder. There are three pictures. One is the back of the church after I scraped the paint. Two is finished paint on the back--window is still needing paint removed from glass.--Helpers don't seem to have steady hand to cut-in paint but I'm appreciative of the help. Notice how far from level the side room's ridge is. The 2x4 rafters on the main building probably have an 8" (or more) belly. The last two paint jobs were done by folks who left overspray on the windows and storm windows. A church member believes it has been fifteen or more years since last paint job. The window sashes were almost bare of paint so it's likely been 25 or more years since they had any freshening up. Three is me power washing the front of the building. I scraped the paint, Power washed, spot primed bare wood then top coated. The helpers mainly focused on windows and yard work and helping me move ladders and tools. In addition to painting, I've made several repairs. From replacing siding ( that I made out of cedar), making new metal window drip cap, replacing three window sills. I'm doing my best to make the building more resistive to water invasion. I found it interesting that none of the windows has sash locks. In other words, until the storm windows were installed, all a person had to do was raise a window to gain entry. Interesting side note: The church is getting new roof because of hail damage. The roofing supplier loaded the roof pretty much at the the top of the valley where the side room is attached to the main roof. With the belly in the main ridge, If I was the roofer, I probably wouldn't have allowed the supplier to load in one location only. At least spread it over a larger area. A member and I measured the ceiling to floor height after the shingles were placed upon the roof. Once the new roof is installed. We'll measure to see if there was any deflection in the ceiling to floor measurement.

Today would have been @Stormin's birthday, we miss you.

Starting 7 or 9 years ago and averaging every couple, we've had a portion of the acreage fairly close to the house cleared of tree stumps and rocks, then flattened out. We began by adding a second driveway which forms a half circle off the larger older one. Then we had the garden area created. The entire area of the now 4 year old barn was built. Then another expansion off to the left of the garden. This year we began felling trees off to the right side of the house building knowing we wanted to get the excavator back and have him do the same treatment as the whole garden space. Rip out and pile up stumps, trees, rocks, etc. Reorganize. Recontour. Bury some. Stack some. Flatten some... Repeat. This is the closest I could get to a before n after. This is taken after 3 loads (14 or 18 cubic yards) were brought in to raise the area. This is almost the final product. This new flat spot will be the home of the camper house (carport ish) metal building. Couple more in progress pics. There's now a small ramp off the back right corner that a tractor would fit down. This'll give us access to the whole right side of the house for future wood processing. Also gives us a full tractor driveable path all the way around the house once the ground dries out. Another big part of this year's work was creating a nice wide long flat spot behind and below the barn. This'll be specifically for tractors, tractor storage, parts, machinery, etc. The intention is to move the 13 x 20 portable garage down from barn level to the new lower space. Also build another portable garage with the frame we got from my mom. 12 x 20 I believe? Both of those will eventually be covered with corogated type metal roofing like the barn and house already have. He had to lay over several trees and do a LOT of material movement for this. Here's a few odd angled pics of the area. I'll try to get a better view later. From the house deck. From the left side. For scale, that shed is 20 feet long but at a distant view. From below and behind. The portable garage by the barn is the 13 x 20. Another side view. We've been considering having a 4WD/ AWD vehicle usable path cut through the forest over past the barn for several years. Really since we got the garden area created and had need for moving materials down there. We'll still be adding size to that and of course adding loam and manure every year so we got the cut done this time. He felled a bunch of small to medium trees to clear the spot. The operator then used a portion of the old ramp, along with a large amount of material from a hole he dug, along with a full truckload of 1.5 inch max crushed stone, to rebuild the ramp for us. I find it extremely interesting that a professional excavator can look at our property and just KNOW where to dig for certain things. Yesterday he pointed to a spot and said, "I bet I can get gravel there." I reminded him about the rocks and ledge and he showed me a mound. A friggin mound. Somehow he knew that was not rocks but a place to harvest gravel. Here's that hole about half done. Several shots of the new ramp down to the forest, in various phases. Following the curve to the left here, it faces the garden area at the bottom. The last portion of the work was rebuilding some drainage and redirection of water flow to improve towards the frog pond and then to the forest. This is facing up towards the road on the far right of the house. The mo-chine.

My new to me D160 came with a paint job that I think was done in a hay barn. If you ran your hand over the hood it was ruff. You could feel and see all sorts of imbedded dirt in the paint. I took some #2000 paper and did a light wet sand followed up with a orbital polisher and it came out shiny and smooth as glass.

September 30, 1960 "The Flintstones," the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres on ABC in the US.

I'm feeling honored to be included in this group of s. I guess?

First recorded visit to a National Park: Rumor has it that some Senior members of RS were on hand to record the event on their tintypes... I've reached out to a few to try and secure the RS required image verification... @WHX?? @Achto @Ed Kennell @ebinmaine @953 nut...

If you go with an original style high amp switch i would suggest replacing the old heavy stiff cables with awg 6 welding or super flex cables. Much easier to wire and less stress on the ignition switch

And that keeps the wiring short in length and tidy. I added mine on the 854 by making up a plate and mounting to the tail of the S/G...

When I restoed a 1067 PO had converted it to solenoid. I was on the fence about going back to original since I am a purist but what the heck it was considered a custom anyway so just cleaned up with new wiring. Good decision since it's a go to tractor. Can then use the very common $10 four term switch and they last forever.

I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner. I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked,"If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?" "No, I had to stop drinking years ago," the homeless man replied. "Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?" I asked. "No, I don't waste time fishing," the homeless man said.."I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive." "Will you spend this on hunting equipment?" I asked. "Are you NUTS!" replied the homeless man. "I haven't gone hunting in 20 years!" "Well," I said, "I'm not going to give you money. Instead, I'm going to take you home for a shower and a terrific dinner cooked by my wife." The homeless man was astounded. "Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? I replied, "Don't worry about that. It's important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up drinking, fishing and hunting."

A man is driving up a steep, narrow mountain road. A woman is driving down the same road. As they pass each other, the woman leans out of the window and yells "PIG!" The man immediately leans out of his window and replies, "*****!" They each continue on their way, and as the man rounds the next corner, he crashes into a pig in the middle of the road and dies. If only men would listen.

Replaced leaking axle seal. Hub puller worked perfectly again... 1" axle seal #'s 100863 SKF9815 Timken 240731 Sourced at local auto shop for $7.50 each. Called at 7:30 am, picked up at 11:30 am. My thanks to @squonk for guidance on the seals...

None of them are suitable for a wheel horse, they are too wide and as bill already mentioned they would get in the way of opening the hood unless you mounted them a couple feet out front. You need to get off Facebook and get out there in the shop workin' on whatcha already got.

1960 Suburban 400 with a butchered hood!

Yeah that might take the purest right out of me ...

wheelhorsepartsandmore.com sells them, but the price is a bit steep. There is a thread on here about someone converting their setup to use a starter solenoid and less expensive switch

If you were to add a starter relay, then you will be able to use most any key switch that has an M terminal.

Throttle Cabel positions,seat pan and footrest suggest 1960. Way overpriced IMHO. Hood chopped and not original motor hurts it bad. Looks like mowing deck might be a 61? I do like the rear tires though..

Heck I got a neat birthday present. Decide to share it with my Lawn Range L-107 that Father bought in May of 1967. @stevasaurus She has been sitting for a week or so and the terrible Techy started on the first pull

Here's a passel o' pics from Trina. Good straight on view of the new camper house spot. Several angles of same. This is the ramp off the back side. This is a good straight view of the flat spot behind the barn. Here's where the new vehicle usable path will eventually continue down the hill, to the left of the hemlock tree, and bend right, towards the garden. We will likely need a culvert just past the tree. There are other pics showing the V shaped water course. The rest are various views of the project from different viewpoints.

For those of you who don't know what they are. https://www.fumotousa.com/ Not exactly giving them away but if you need to change your oil a lot ... priceless.

Me too, but I didn't return till 1989.

Nice result, and WAY less work than repainting, too!

Three toes on each foot? No? Not related! 🤣

Less expensive, more reliable and gets the high amperage wires out from behind the gas tank. This drawing uses the 103991 ignition switch which can be found at any auto parts store.

This is true. Since the bulk of my herd is early 60s SG tractors I keep replacement switches "in stock".

It is always better to use a solenoid in the ignition circuit - it removes the heavy amperage load from the key switch and gives it to the better suited device. High amperage thru the key switch generates arcing & excess heat - both shorten its lifespan.

To me the 3 piece trans (a plus to me), footrest, clutch pedal, steering wheel looks to be in good shape, lift arm and quadrant, seat, fenders and seat pan, wheels and tires (if usable), front axle, clutch pulley belt guard (if still There) plus running engine (looks to be a HF predetor). I wouldnt care to have maybe 300/350 in If it was in close proximity to me, but I'm a sucker for the little Suburbans. Here is a pic of my 550 Suburban with a HF Predetor engine swap and it worked out great, but I would have preferred to have the original Lauson engine back on it and still might convert it back one of these days. I still have original motor that came on mine, but PO busted the block trying to get exhaust pipe out.

Stainless steel hood mounting hardware ready to be installed. Hood ready to be installed. Tractor washed up and ready for the hood to be installed. Hood installed.

Video from Trina

I installed a Fumoto valve in my M14 Kohler to make oil drains easier. To drain the oil in my 314-8, I had to remove the deck or use a Mityvac vacuum evacuator. Any other methods would end up in a mess with oil spilled some where. Given enough rain and sunshine I cut every 4-5 days in the growing season for 3+ hours a tour. 25 hour services roll around quickly. The Fumoto valve has a nipple that a 3/8 soft clear tube plugs onto to direct the flow of waste oil to a drain pan. No more bending license plates and trying to work around obsructions or trying to get the the vacuum hose past the tube and into the crankcase of the Magnum engine.

Yes, I was there. I returned in 1973 and it had become a bit deeper and wider.

Can confirm. In fact I've been wondering for years if I'm related to Fred Flintstone. Bear shaped of course and also my ridiculously short legs and tall back.

Happy in memory of Stormin's Borned on Day,

Serial number falls right in with the 421 reported 754 builds. 854 frame, K161 engine. Everything seems to jive.

As he say in England - "Now don't that just sucketh!" Like going to a Buffet and there is nothing on the Doctor approved list to eat!!

OK, you made me look; First Network Color Cartoon Series: The Jetsons premiered on ABC on September 23, 1962. It holds the distinction of being the ABC network's very first program broadcast in full color. However, according to AI, and we know that must be true, The compatible all-electronic color standard we use today (NTSC) was approved in late 1953, leading to the first major coast-to-coast color broadcast: the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954. The First Special: Premiere aired as a one-hour special featuring star hosts like Ed Sullivan and Arthur Godfrey, though it could only be viewed in a few select cities (Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York). The First Series: Shortly after, on June 27, 1951, CBS launched The World Is Yours!, which became the first regularly scheduled color television series. The Technology Limit: These early 1951 broadcasts used CBS’s mechanical field-sequential color system, which was not compatible with standard black-and-white television sets.

I've got quite a few for rolled roasts if you have the patience to bone it. Was always dad's favorite. He always got ticked off with my 7mm-08neck shots. Yep or x bow. Problem with this time of year is getting it cooled down without a walk in. I plan on taking a pick up load to a donation place once it cools down out. They pay the butcher 135 to cut & wrap all you gotta do is gut it and get it to them. Problem is here the nearest place is hrs away. They recently upped it from 125 to try and get more processers to participate.

It looks homemade but the fenders look stamped. The person with the does not know.

Home made & fenders are off a orchard special fer sure.

C'mon over Sylvia I got 12 doe tags. Ducks in a barrel too.

They are out there but yes $$. Couple of used ones on fleabay but a roll of the dice their any good. Bar beat me to Mike's thread.

I thought of that too. His are for a battery ignition not a magneto.

The commando 8 is alive and done it bought some memories back driving it around today

Lots of stuff. Kind of sad, though - I started putting summer away. Put the pontoon on the trailer & unloaded the stuff off of it in preparation for winter storage. I pulled the pedal boat out, washed it, and put it in its winter quarters. Opened the fill valves on the paddle boards in preparation for winter hibernation. On the up side, i took a kayak out around the lake, and got some Wheel Horse seat time moving the pontoon trailer and pulling the pedal boat up the hill from the lake. Still, the empty dock at sunset is a sad sight.

Took a little time to get the transmission ready for tear down today. Pulled wheel hubs and cleaned them up and chased all the threads. Soaking the brake lever and bolts in some PB Blast. Getting this little tractor ready to get out of the container and start the rebuild. Hubs came off pretty easily. Used the puller on one, the other just slid off with a prybar after removing the retaining bolt. Dave