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Pinckneyville, Illinois, I believe.

Wife wanted a raised bed garden…it happened today ( still needs to be filled).

Dangit @Sparky!! Wife walked up behind me while I was looking at this and now I have another project. I either gotta either build a few of these, or fix her tiller.

April 3, 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in the USA on April 3, 1968, marking its US debut as a landmark science fiction film.

Who's lawn do you typically end up on...?

Cinnamon Horse C160-8 is ready for chipping duty.

FFA was such a huge part of my school years. Great to see this in 2026!

No driver-ed classes required for these kids.

Cleaning the carb and addressing a couple things on a new addition...I think this section of fuel line from the pump to carb might just be original on this '73 16 Auto. It won't even bend The good news is that the carb is now clean and ready to be installed with new fuel line tomorrow

Instead of doing it while mowing, I make special event of it. The C141 - 8-speed with the tranny selected to Low 2 or Low 1, Throttle set at about 3/4 position, Ear buds in, Beverage in hand & away we go. Usually about a 3 drink job.

My thought on orange is this. Orange is for Oranges and Kobotas. 'Nuff said.

Moved my trailer with the almost complete 416H.

Hi all Got some more done, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" became the mantra for generations of ex-wives that were married to some guy named Dave....

Picked up this ultra rare 520-H, these are a limited edition with only 100 in existence, and I have #77

Great job! But.... How ya spose to get a tractor & tiller up in there???

Happy Birthday @jeremi3210

fired the 520H up after replacing manifold, decarbonization, valve adjustment, carb rebuild and oil drain repair. IMG_8918.MOV

Aluminum My favorite

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This is the best advice for you, you have the colored wiring diagram, you know the correct ignition number. This is a fairly simple wiring diagram so get a new switch some new wires and connector and just do it and stop guessing.

“Open the pod door Hal”

I roll as a separate task.

Yesterday the BBT and her momma and her kid and her grandbaby went for Thai food. Chopsticks. Drumsticks. Whatever...

I would if @Achto would quit borrowing it ...

I sharpened blades of my 42 RD deck. Who knows when somebody did this before but blades (aside from some dirt,oil and surface rust) looked as new. Oregon 91-804 as we speak. I used butane small torch, 1 1/8 wrench, another diy flat wrench to install blades, and some brutal force to unscrew the nuts.

Happy Happy bro!

With all the woodlands you have behind you it might be a good idea to look into the Hügelkultur method of filling.

@cleat that is a nice trailer!!!

Back in the day before I was old wise enough to get hydraulic trannies and lifts, I used 3 assist springs on my manual lift snow blower. I made the springs from old garage door springs and used a turnbuckle to adjust the tension. I set it so the blower was just touching and I could lift it with one finger. I found the additional weight when the housing was full of snow held the scraper down tight. If I needed additional down pressure I could simply push the lift lever forward. How much does a snowblower lift spring assist REALLY help? - Implements and Attachments - RedSquare Wheel Horse Forum

As Wheel Horses are typically some shade of red I’d paint it red. I went with IH Red implement paint as it seems tougher than standard spray or spray gun paint. And matching it later is easier as it’s a standardized mixture. The consensus seems to be as long as it’s red ish it’s fine. However, since it’s your tractor, paint it any color you want.

Hi all, started working on my 856, ended up rebuilding the engine and while waiting for parts started working on steering, lots of slop. Pulled tie rods, steering wheel and shafts. Front of frame was wollowed and shaft end worn. Steering block got two bushings and steering wheel shaft cleaned up, installed upper dash bushing, reinforced bushing with steel puddy and new lock collar. Ordered hiem joints for tie rods and will machine new rods when I get parts. Don't forget the green high temp grease.

Wow. Never cease to be amazed at the factual information available here. I'm going out to take a stab at this. I'll report back shortly. Obviously THANKS ALL! 99% successful. I could get the eccentric collar hand tight but every time I tried the punch it came loose. So I'm going to leave it as is with the set screw in place properly (I'll get a new one in there before next winter.) Unless there's some trick to smackin it with hammer.

Here is one video showing the lock:

Happy Borned on Day, Jeremi

Take a gander down through Sparky's thread called, Let's Talk Tires. There's all kinds of excellent information in there.

Hello, my Name is Dick and I have been a lurker for a while and now I’m the proud owner of a 78 D160 with a Onan 16hp and hydraulic 3 point hitch. It additionally came with a plow and snow blower plus the 48” deck. Now let me explain how we arrived here because the D160 wasn’t what I had my heart set on even though now I have it I’m in love. I am with a lack of a better term…a giant NERD. I am a HVACR tech and more specifically a chiller tech and I’ve also done things in my past such as build custom motorcycles, and sheet metal at a resto shop. I have a full fab shop including a lathe, press, chop saw, tubing bender, notcher, tig, mig etc…. My hobby is tinkering from building an repairing my own cars to building mini bikes from scratch. Now I have recently purchased a larger property with a wooded area that need cleaned up and we keep a large garden. I knew I needed a tractor and there is nothing I love more than a tool that can do many jobs. I had my heart set on a gear drive 4x4 sub compact tractor and I quickly realized that it was going to be very difficult to find an older gear drive tractor that had all the attachments I needed that was also within a reasonable distance. Nominees were the JD650, the Kubota b7100, the ford 1200, yanmar 155d, Mitsubishi Beaver. The issue is I wanted a snow blower, a front end loader, and a mower. Finding all of these and less than a few hundred miles proved impossible and even though the attachments can be found it was a mess when it came to getting the right info. If I had time purely as a project it would work but I need this thing to work. I switched my focus to getting 2 machines. 1 lawn and garden tractor for mowing and moving a garden trailer and 1 for the loader. The wheel horse gear drive mowers were already in my want list for my smaller property but it was a little light for what I needed but the d160 popped up and it seemed like the perfect compromise between what I wanted and what I needed. Now, it’s not perfect and it needs a little work. The lower deck needs to be fixed, I’m sure the spindles need to be gone through. The whole thing just needs freshened up. I also need to find a mule drive and get the deck working, as well as build something custom for the 3 point to haul firewood out of the woods. It’s still to be determined if it will make it out of the woods without 4x4 but tires and maybe a winch may help. Maybe I’ll get spunky and build a loader out of it. Only time will tell.

Here is a couple pics that might help top pic is an 856 and is pretty much the way it came new and bottom pic is a 701 that I made a bracket to bolt cable to because I just couldn’t get it where I wanted it on arm because of exhaust. Both work great, in my experience its better to leave cable long and not have any sharp bends in it so they will slid in and out easier. Remember u can keep cutting shorter but you cant add it back on.

Today, I swapped the idler for the drive pulley on my 312-8 mowing tractor. I thought I had a better one. It sounded worse, so after checking out the old one which seemed good so i put it back on and made sure it was tight. It's ready to go now and in the process figured out how to get the side panel off without taking half the body panels off. A win in my book.

Did not know we had one of these on the forum. But I sold my c-120 today and went to a great cause. Father and son project!

An impact drill can save you a lot of grief

I don’t think I need 2

I also have #78, and it is RedSquare’s 20th anniversary this year. What should I do with this one?

Here we go, got them both done. Going to pull the front axle to check on the axle pin and spindles see if I can tighten things up.

Got one tie rod done, my son came over with his girlfriend's car (she said it's making a clunk clunk, click click sounds,) well the ball joint was toasted, front rotors and pads, oil change. So didn't get to make two. The steering wheel was brown rusted, well I stuck it in sonic cleaner was evaporust, came out pretty clean.

Added some cabinets in the shop and did a bunch of spring cleaning. Projects have stacked up so I really needed to get things organized and make some space. Finally getting some nice weather and more daylight