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SAE 30wt. This is what I use in all my old Kohler engines. I know it says for diesel engines. It is a close formula to what your old Kohler requires. This may be a better option in your area. https://www.q8oils.com/fr/product/q8-garden-oil-sae-30/

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Nah, all married women react that way - it's an alergic reaction brought on from the gold in the wedding band!!

Two horses could do the job for a couple hours, four horses can do the same job all day with a reasonable lunch rest break.

We always called them Bush Hogs. You have not committed a mortal sin but in attornment you need to say three Hail Cecils, four Hail Elmers, and recite the Wheel Horse 23rd Psalm. The Wheel Horse is my garden tractor; I shall not want. It moweth my green pastures: it leadeth me beside the still waters. It restoreth my soul: The Wheel Horse plowith the snow on the paths of righteousness. Yea, though I drive through the valley of the green tractors, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy Unidrive and thy Kohler, they comfort me. Thou preparest a Wheel Horse Collectors’ Club show before me: thou anointest my engine with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will drive a Wheel Horse forever.

I use 80 wt. because I have it. But I would not hesitate to use 30w motor oil. I think the lighter oil would be a better choice for the bearings. The gears in the hydro differentials seem fine with the 30w.

If you have no success replacing the fitting you could plug the hole with JB Weld and replace the bearings with prelubed and sealed bearings that are now available.

Caught that eh?

14 year old Elam making perfect zero turns this morning. Video Project 3.mp4

You are one lucky guy, you should go buy a lottery ticket.

I like to use E-Z Lok solid wall thread inserts. They come in standard and thin wall. To use the standard wall, you drill and tap and install. To use the thin wall, you drill and tap and then use a slightly bigger drill to remove the peaks of the internal threads, then install.

That kind of zero turn won't get stuck on wet leaves!

This was more of a Wheel Horse tractor accessory day. The old ATV tires that were on my trailer that I sometimes use behind my tractors needed some TLC. One tire had developed a leak, both needed valve stems and had pretty severe weather cracking. So I had some extra tractor tires which held air and some spare hubs so I swapped them. I may swap them back later but at least now I can move and use the trailer until I decide what I want to do.

Your "tire pile" skins look better than my tractor tires.

Not much to do on it while waiting on the axle work. Not gonna sit around an suck old fashions all day... ahem @wallfish Found some nice vintage Silvertowns in the tire pile. Getting mounted, rims cleaned up & painted.

Spraying fences again today. Have to do this once every couple years. You can see the difference in front of the tractor vs behind...

Forgive me father Pond, I have strayed to the green side. Please don't ban my Redsquare account I have a friend who says, " Even a A blind hog finds an Apple every now and then" A local estate sale had this tractor for sale on FBMP and at the sale for way to much. The previous owner had 10 acres of horse pasture that he shredded. Around here Estate Sales are outrageous price Thursday, 25% off outrageous 2nd day, and 1/2 off 3rd day getting closer to reasonable. I was the last person on the 3rd day just looking around and she was counting cash to close. I didn't intending to buy a tractor, but sure needed something I could put a post hole digger on for some repairs on the family farm. We have a great guy leasing the 300 acre family farm for cattle. But we are responsible for the 3+ miles of exterior fencing. Being in Texas I guess I should call this our "Ranch", but Dad always called it the Farm! Thankfully we don't need to build new fence, but there are cedar line post every 5th T post that are rotting off at the bottom, especially where there are low spots that stay wet longer. I'm the youngest son in the family, and still able to do some work around the place I inquired about the tractor and she said she couldn't do 50% off on it. I made her an offer and she took my number and said it would continue to be on FBMP. 2 weeks later I got a call and she said she needed to wrap up the estate sale and get seller their money. I interpreted that as, if she didn't sell the tractor she wouldn't get her 30% commission off it. She played the game of she had other offers to call and got me $500 higher. Surprisingly wife said "Go for it", you've been looking for something and you won't have to work on it before you use it like your backhoe one' PS there was kind of a wife jab there about my greasy farm clothes....the old Oliver always has a oily hydraulic seep somewhere. So its a 2021 John Deere 1023E with loader and shredder. It had 67 hours. I didn't steal it, but a really good price! I even got to transfer the last 6 months of the 5 year warranty over to me! The old Oliver doesn't have power steering, plus the JD hydro transmission with foot control sure is nice for light work. In 2 weeks I've put 7 hours on it shredding 2 passes around the perimeter fencing, and cleaning up some light brambles and dead wood along the fences. A lot more could be done around the farm, but we owe it to our leaser to maintain the fences When I got it the bucket didn't have a single scratch in it. I've put a few! Nice 4 ft shredder Going through the service list I've greased everything. But see it has an initial 50 hr engine and transmission oil and filter change. I can tell the filters are the black factory painted one with no writing, so I need to do that. Interestingly besides the transmission hydraulic filter, it has a screen to remove and clean for the pump suction. While most would consider this subcompact too small, I like that I can put it on a 16 ft trailer and pull it with my 1/2 ton truck. It weights 2600lbs I have my my old White Oliver 2-44 for any heavy work. With loaded tires it weights just under 10,000 lbs. With the weight of the backhoe and a bucket full of gravel it can put all 44hp of diesel grunt to that back axle. I try to be careful, as I really think it has enough grunt to break that heavy back axle.

Never really thought about it but I can see that logic. I believe the original spec from the 60s was straight 40... ?

They were probably used for "planters" in the house.

This is what I have been running in mine for years. https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/lucas-oil-products/lucas-conventional-hydraulic-fluid-30w-1-gallon/luc0/10017

Just guessing with all the holes in the hub from bolting through that the axle broke. They were the orginals off the 702 flame. Lot of scrubbing with this.

Hopefully you straitened him out on the color of that seat.

Kinda sacrilegious ain't it? Who's gonna fill up the barn you always stalled in?

Yep, they are clearly operating at idle. The fertilizer truck arrived just as Elam finished. The Elam went over the field again. Notice the two outside horses are black buggy horses. The colt on the left is in training, learning to pull in step and follow voice commands. Then David and 4yo Amos are laying irrigation tubing and plastic. The pumpkin, watermelon, and cantaloupe plants that are growing in the greenhouse will be planted thru the plastic with a wagon wheel planter after last frost. The plants will be fed fertilized water thru the line under the plastic.

I'm not even remotely familiar with the (semi) local show scene. We've been going to a couple per year. Owl's Head Transportation Museum is very welcoming to all exhibitors for all shows. Normally we attend the Truck & Tractor show but we've been really enjoying the Air Show. This year we have a lot going on in the camping & hiking schedule and also MANY things happening at home. Only one tractor related show for us this year. @JCM Jim's event in September.

That decal goes on the front if your tractor does not have headlights.

Yup. I remember as a boy I decided to do some maintenance on our 604. I drained out the oil and not knowing anything I put in 90W gear oil. That winter we had to warm up the engine before letting the clutch out in neutral just to get the oil in the trans moving. Never had to do it before

First show ( and only ) around here that even sniffs at garden tractors is in August!

I’ll send you a PM with a huge list of local (and some not so local) shows

After some 50 mph winds, one of the brush piles re-ignited. There was no safety issue because we had disk the field but this fire showed no evidence of smoke before I left for home. This one was partially burned five days ago. It was monitored until rain started. Got to be careful when burning piles.

Back home from the farm on the other side of the state as we continue to restore the water ways from brush and junk trees that have taken over in the past 30 years. We burned six or so piles and reduced the size of some we had already burned. Quite a job and a dirty one at that. The pond was almost un-approachable due to sprouts and trees--look at it now, just like I remember as a kid and I caught five bass (should have had eight) in thirty minutes. A new electric line is going through the farm and they purchased an easement from us. The other day, my brother who owns the house and a few acres that used to be part of the farm, called and said that trucks were coming in his second driveway and crossing onto the farm. He called the electric company and they said in the contract that, if needed, they had access to more than just the easement right of way. We did find that clause buried deep in the contract and unless you are educated in understanding contract language, you may miss it as we did. When he said that he didn't give them access to cross his property that quickly changed and they build their own ramp from the highway to the easement some 700 feet from his house. He didn't really want cement trucks and heavy equipment within 75 feet of his house coming and going from daylight to dark as it is across the road building the sub station. If you can zoom in on picture you'll see several fires. It was an excellent week to burn, not much wind and we had the disk on the tractor--just in case. The grapple we bought is a HUGE asset in this work.

I have also used type "F" ATF for the 953s without any problems.

So how far do you go to save your carbs? I came across this one with a ripped out screw hole. Using Jb weld to fix and will retap the treads.

Those John Deeres are Nice!...I check them out every year at our County fair....Maybe some Day..LOL

Perhaps the PO parked it right where his wife wanted to back into a garage and the axle took a beating. Please don't ask me how I would know about such a possibility. .

I have a tote on my 312H. No top as I store it inside and haul some long tools and hunting gear.

I got to use the tiller today for a couple of hours. It worked great and has no noise or other issues. The case was cool with no leaks. Hopefully it is good to go for another 30 + years.

I had a guy give me an older chainsaw. Medium sized. Jonsered 2054 Turbo. Left it at my small engine shop. He said it has good compression and feels smooth. He will check it over and advise. Currently has a 16" bar. Looking at installing a 20" with a logging chain. Hopefully, I'll have a nice 20" cutter for the arsenal.

I hope to be starting a topic in Other Brands. Stay tuned

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Hmmm, what do you charge for about an acre ? And I KNOW for fact you have spreaders for some fertilizers too! See ya next weekend! LOL (Gotta get all that crap done before the engine show season begins and it's creeping up on us!)

@WHX?? @JCM Good idea framing the receipt. I laminated the receipt for my Work Horse that I bought brand new so I can hang it when I show the tractor.

Removed the snow plow and installed the tiller.

Put some Cragars and baby moons on our 702 today

Well…winter storm “Elsa” is over in east central WisCo and she left a mess to clean up. Caleb is busy working and so I went to his house yesterday afternoon and surveyed the “damage”. Easily 12” on the level and several drifts that were in excess of 16”. However, the 520HC and two stage Ber-Vac were up to the task… The driveway looks pretty decent in this picture but as I trudged through the snow up to the house I walked through several drifts up to my knees! Hidalgo started without incident and even though the snow was heavy, and I had to drive slow but steady, the blower was handling the white stuff capably. I stopped midpoint down the driveway to grab this shot to give some perspective of depth. Nothing compared to northeast Wisconsin but the deepest level snowfall I’ve had to clear in a long time. I’m really thankful for this setup for Caleb. It will definitely handle whatever gets thrown at him in the upcoming years. I hope you guys affected by the storm all had “fun” on your tractors and stayed safe!

Did some spring greasing and swapped some wheels and tires around to free up a set for a new project Found a cracked shifter boot on the c165 and replaced it with a new one I had on the shelf. It stays under cover but glad I got around to doing some routine maintenance and caught it.

Thanks Don for the thoughts on the bolt. It was handy (like your avatar) and I’m on a time constraint (I leave for Israel on Monday). This upcoming summer, I’ll get a custom rod made up. Today’s project was to clean up the hood and fender pan, then load the tractor, and head to Caleb’s house. This tractor is in such good shape (the seat notwithstanding) and so I felt that the chalky hood would shine up nicely… I wasn’t wrong…I only spent about 20 minutes on it for now but was excited with the results! Not bad for 37 year old paint! my little 5’x8’ trailer was “just big enough” to fit the tractor with blower attached. Caleb got off work about an hour early so that he could be the one to clear his own driveway for the first time! For those of you that have known him for a decade—can you believe that he is now a first time homeowner??? unfortunately the throttle cable is not functioning well. We are going to need to outsource a good used one or find something better. however, even at about half throttle, that Ber-Vac was handling the snow with ease and the torque of that Onan is impressive! For those of you that enjoyed reading the Iron Horse thread, this picture is also there. This is my dad in 1975 clearing the snow at his first house with his 1965 875. 50 years later, his grandson is clearing his driveway at his first house with a 1988 520HC! Wheel Horse—a generational experience for the Stertz household (like it is for many of you!) Job well done for the old machine! using the bagger frame to hold some weight (about 100 pounds) may not be the prettiest situation, however it works just fine. Caleb has a full rack of suitcase weights but no bracket. I suppose that next spring/summer we can fabricate something to hold those. At least, he can now clear any accumulative snow moving forward this winter…

So let me see if I got this right? i have a K91 with a rope pull start on it. I want to put a Techy recoil pull start on it. So I buy a Techy recoil start and a Techy "short" recoil start cup? do you happen to have a part number for that? Thanks