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Wire from the battery should be on the center terminal of the regulator

Scored a FREE vintage Coke cooler and unloaded it with the 520 FL. It cools but the wiring is pretty scary so replacing.

There was a great story about Enzo and his take on "Customer Satisfaction" years ago. Seems that a Doctor in upstate New York bought his first Ferrari, new, in the summer. All was well until late fall - the car stumbled and drove poorly when it was cold. So..., he wrote a letter to Enzo himself, describing the lack of satisfaction with an otherwise fine car. A few weeks later, Enzo himself responded in a letter. The gist of it was "If you can afford my car, you can afford a heated garage for it!" End of discussion...

October 5, 1919, a young Italian car mechanic and engineer named Enzo Ferrari takes part in his first car race, a hill climb in Parma, Italy. He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but not a great one: In all, he won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Many people say that this is because he cared too much for the sports cars he drove: He could never bring himself to ruin an engine in order to win a race. In the mid-1920s, Ferrari retired from racing cars in order to pursue his first love: building them. He took over the Alfa Romeo racing department in 1929 and began to turn out cars under his own name. Annoyed with Ferrari’s heavy-handed management style, Alfa Romeo fired him in 1939. After that, he started his own manufacturing firm, but he spent the war years building machine tools, not race cars.

Three blonds are sitting by the side of a river holding fishing poles with lines in the water. A game warden comes up behind them and says, Excuse me, ladies, I'd like to see your fishing license. said the game warden.But officer, replied the second blond, we aren't fishing. We all have magnets at the end of our lines and were collecting debris off the bottom of the river. The game warden lifted up all the lines and, sure enough, there were horseshoe-magnets tied on the end of each line. Well, I know of no law against it. Take all the debris you want. Then he left. As soon as he was out of sight, the three blondes started laughing. What a stupid fish cop! The third blonde said to the others, Doesn’t he know that there are steelhead trout in this river?!

On a drive in the country a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another. 'Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about,' said the city slicker 'but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?' Time, answered the farmer. 'What does time matter to a pig?'

#41 off the assembly line

Now this is definitely a “side shot”!! I posted this elsewhere on the forum but just realized how perfect it is for this topic

I did put the original rear tires back on and ran a rag of WD40 across it and now I want a set of ag tires. LoL. Going to look into adding hydraulic lift since it's doing so well! Might even go for sending off the motion lever and PTO lever in for chrome. 😁. Got a few pics and a cold start, no choke. VID_20261004_125013.mp4

A guy in my town posted this for sale, $100 Not really practical for my yard (not to mention lack of storage) but I thought is was pretty cool!

Got sprinklers set up on a timer. They run for 1/2 hour in the morning and in the evening.

Q: Did you hear about the magic tractor? A: It turned into a field! Q: What do farmers use to make crop circles? A: A pro-tractor. Q: Did you hear about the wooden tractor? A: It had a wooden engine, wooden wheels, wooden transmission, and wooden work! Q: Where do you find a tractor with no wheels? A: In the same place you left it! Being a farmer isn't for everyone, but hay, it's in my jeans

The temperatures and my schedule granted the trip to a processor buddy. I’m glad I jumped in the old plow truck, I smoked a little deer on the way home last night. The plow mount took the hit, and there were no marks on the truck. It’s been quite some time since I was involved in a car deer accident.

NOS ? Think I would throw some cash at that.

We've had good luck introducing winter Rye in the past. Grows well in the fall.

That is a 4 wire regulator - 3 are visable, one is under it. Is that one intact? Remove the regulator cover and observe the contact arm area of both relays inside.One is open with the key off, it closes to allow charging. (It MUST open when off so as to not discharge the battery). The other is the one opening & closing rapidly when running. With the engine running, it should spark at the contacts in use. If not, it needs to be cleaned. All that arcing is normal, but burns and erodes the contacts. Disconnect the battery! Lightly file the contacts - do not use sandpaper! Some folks use a crisp new dollar bill instead. Hook the battery up and see if it charges. IMHO - the wiring is old and painted - there may be corrosion where the wire terminals connect to the tabs & the S/G. A good cleaning is in order too.

I mucked out the cab of the truck today. Hasn't been done in a loooong time. Much more pleasant to sit in now. Also worked the lawn restoration a bit. The grass has started to grow, but it is nowhere near a lush covering of grass. The seed I used was a mix of different grasses. One of them is growing well, the others are more like green fuzzy on the ground. I mowed it earlier this week with the deck at transport height, I mowed it again today with the push mower. I got the leaf blower out and blew about 1/2 of the straw off, hoping to get more sunlight on the green fuzzy type of grass. For good measure, I spread some more grass seed around. Got a few weeks of good weather left, hopefully some more grass will get started.

Here is my new seat. Some 2X4 to make it level. It was free from stuff i saved and will work for now. The old seat was shot and I think it held about 50 gallons of water in it.

I am in total agreement with you two on keeping a roof over stuff. If it's got wheels and tires, I want it under cover. When our kids had a carport installed. I laid 2x6 treated wood under the runners. I felt this kept the metal runner off the gravel and hopefully last longer. Our camper's carport is bolted down to the cement pad. I park the camper on rubber mats. I hope this is better on the tires than parking on cement for months on end. Great project you've got going on.

A guy heard What's New Pussycat song by Tom Jones on the radio one day. It went earworm and stuck in his head for several days. Out of desperation, the guy goes to his doctor for some relief. The doctor says, 'oh, you are suffering from Tom Jones fixation syndrome'. The guy says, 'wow. Never heard of that. Is it rare?' Dock replies: 'It's Not Unusual'.

Perfect for this topic!

I went looking for a decent reversible scoop, and saw this:

I have one that is well worn. Don't buy one with the intent of using it regularly, it will self destruct over time. The hitch and framework will crack and break and the ratchets in the wheels will wear out. Parts are nearly impossible to get. I am keeping mine as a collector item in the hopes of finding parts over time. For regular use, get a throwaway model from Home Depot with the brand AllFitHD, parts are cheap and available and are identical to Ohio Steel.

October 4, 1975 Pink Floyd's concept album "Wish You Were Here" reaches No. 1 in the US and goes on to sell 13 million copies.

Absolutely agreed.

In October of 2025 we bought ourselves a new camper. Smallest least expensive model we could get and yet still more than we needed in features. We had it tarp covered last winter and always intended to build a hard sided structure. Both Trina and I are firm believers that campers (and many other things) should be protected from the sun and precipitation as often as possible. After waiting patiently for about 10 months to get an excavator here for site prep, we're finally ready to get our part of the building process going. The camper living space box is approximately 13' long by 8' wide. Add the hitch and we need a 16' minimum storage length. After a fair bit of reading and searching we decided on this metal framed unit for the beginning of the structure. At 14' x 20' this will be more than large enough for the camper trailer and several extras. Other pieces of equipment and tools will also be stored here. Once the above pictured structure is built we'll add the rest of the metal to fully enclose it. There will be large doors both front and rear. Here's a few pics showing the proposed location of the new camper cover building. This would allow us to drive a tractor out the back side of the building because it's about 8' from the drop off by the trees. It would also allow us to drive a tractor along the right side of the building and be able to use the ramp our excavator operator left for us. That ramp is to the right of the 3 trees at pic center, and curls around to the left and behind them. This pic shows proximity to the house. Better zoom. The openings of the ends are 14.3' according to the online pics. 20 foot front to rear. 14.8' to top middle peak. The blue flags are for the Code Enforcement Officer to see so he knows we actually measured. Not guessed. 75 feet is the minimum amount of setback. We'll have about 79' to the angled support leg closest to the road. Today I ordered a set of 16 mobile home anchors. These are USA 🇺🇸 MADE. 30" depth with a 4" round fan width. By the chart I found we should use 12 of them for a 130 MPH wind resistance. If we get a realistic half that it'll be fine. One big thing to figure out will be how to open the front for the full 14' wide and 13 ish foot tall door.

Interesting design. Thanks for sharing

How is it attached? Bolted to the front steering axel ?

You will find a wiring diagram here. Click on the tractor to see it. This older Kohler service manual has a good section on the starter/generator and regulator.

I have a newer 3 point version of that for my Massey. They’re a nice chipper.

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Can confirm. I have quite a few.

Shoddy Wiring But 14HP, Hydro, Good Seat, Front Carriage Where is the picture of it in your garage Horse do like company, haven't you built that bunk in the garage yet Who am I to talk, there's a Black Hood on MP for the last few days 2-3 miles from me. My wife actually spotted it on MP before I did. In one sentence, she asked if I was going to look at it and wasn't I going to sell some of the ones I had

I finally finished rebuilding the transmission for my Dodge M37. This is the early-series synchromesh type used in the M37, which was later replaced by the NP-420 in the M37B1. It turned out to be a rather expensive project, as I replaced every gear, shaft, bearing, seal, shim, retaining ring, gasket, companion flange, spring, expansion plugs for the shift rails, etc., etc., with new or NOS parts. It’s now essentially a brand-new transmission. I don’t want to have to rebuild this again, so I was careful to do everything by the book, and then some. That involved lots of fiddly, but important details, such as checking clearances in half a dozen places (all of which are now within new specs), cleaning every threaded hole with a chasing die, replacing bolts and lock washers, making a new (improved) shift lever alignment pin, using appropriate thread lockers and sealers on the through-bolts into the case, pre-lubing with Lubriplate assembly lube, doing proper safety wiring on the shifting forks, applying proper torque to fasteners, and many other details. Here's the transmission all back together, just before it got its final coat of paint: Here it is after the final paint, which covers the fasteners, as it would have with the original factory paint job for the military: Now it's on to more engine rebuilding work.

Couple shots from @JCM & @Raven 's Annual North Berwick Meet n Greet.

857 A day early but if I don’t do now I will forget by tomorrow.

1257 and C160-8 sporting there wheel weights.

Had the 1988 312 out today with a newly acquired dump cart (LTD-244). Found the cart at a local (mostly used) tool store.

As usual I'm a day late & a dollar short but here's a couple...