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August 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus, with Juan de la Cosa as second-in-command, sets sail on his first voyage with three ships: Santa María, Pinta, and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, for the "Indies".

Happy Happy Kev! After a weekend of preaching tractor safety here to a bunch of kids I feel I should say some thing here ... nawww

Waiting on a pickup time.

I have a chance to pick this tractor up locally for $200. Deal or No Deal? Sounds like it belonged to the seller's grandfather - so details are patchy. Based on her recollection of her grandfather's statement and the fact that the fan guard is off - I'm guessing the flywheel will need to come off.

I am very saddened to report that my brother Wade David Ralph passed away on Wednesday due to complications from COPD. He was an Army veteran serving in the Army Corps of Engineers as a mechanic, truck driver and operated heavy bulldozers during the Hurst Fires near Fort Ord, California in the 1970’s. He was a very good carpenter, building homes and remodeling in Alabama and other locations and often assisted my father Clifton Ralph in his blacksmith shop. David was also a great Wheel Horse garden tractor fan ! We traveled to many different tractor shows and bought many Wheel Horse tractors across the USA and one in Canada! His COPD prevented him from traveling to shows with me the last 7 years as he was 24/7 on concentrated oxygen. FYI WADE DAVID RALPH 10/08/1953-07/29/2026 Visitation Saturday August 8th 10:30a-12:30p Kuiper Funeral Home 9039 Kleinman Road Highland, IN Internment 1:00p Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens 8178 S Cline Avenue Crown Point, IN

1990 510-8

Put the mid mount grader that I got from @Pullstart on it this evening, I need to get a longer lift link though as it doesn't go all they way to the floor.

@Sparky I would not put those 23x10.50-12 ag tires back on your 520. You have a nice lawn and I’d hate to see you mess it up. Instead of you having to worry about storing those rims and tires I’d be more than happy to come and get them. This way it will help you with storage space. I’m just trying to help you out here Mike!😂 Work with me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I couldn’t decide so, a two fer….for SSS.

Spent the last few days making my tractor more Wisconsin. Now I need to get it some cheese curds. I put the wheelweights I bought from @WHX?? at the show on and went through the RM-425 deck I got from @Achto and put it on too. This deck was the nicest deck I've ever gone though so far. None of the bearings were seized and all of the grease looked good but I still cleaned it up and put some fresh Lucas green in it. The nla double-d blades looked like they had either never been sharpened or sharpened very little.

Couple a pics of C160 with the new to me rear wheel weights.

A 22º slope of grass? No tire that I know of will eliminate potentially dangerous slippage--there just isn’t going to be enough friction regardless of weight. I’d say your options are chains on turfs or a tracked vehicle.

k341 if it aint locked up is worth asking price especially around these parts... steering wheel appears to bo in good shape also..

New candidate for worst seat. Definitely needs a bath. Simple electrical system. Should be an easy fix.

Bottom line bad electronics are a cheap easy fix. You got it home yet??

12 is definitely a sweet spot for price/performance.

@Bar Nuthin A bad ground will cause any number of sillyness occurrences

Her comment about wire wheel to clean up corrosion??maybe a bad ground somewhere Bad stator would mean battery going dead

Thank you - I'm a body and paint guy, not a mechanic - so I'm educating myself as I go. If that's the case, could it also be a mis-diagnosed rectifier and low voltage? I guess getting my hands on it and some time with the multimeter may tell the story.

Brain fart on my part. I was thinking magneto rather than battery ignition. A second cup of coffee is starting to clear the fog.

It's worth the parts price alone. I don't know what the flywheel would have to do with spark unless the engine has been swapped.

Happy Birthday!

Seems as though the 12 HP of many year models was the bread n butter.

It’s good to have friends in this hobby Don! Actually the reason I had to remove the ag’s was because the wheels on the 42” deck wouldn’t clear.

@Darrenw85 We are going to need more, several more pictures of that beautiful 867 that you restored. Outstanding job 👍🏻

Changed hydraulic oil filter on the C161 that seems to have been neglected on anything maintenance related... Found out it was quite past due

It's so satisfying to be able to start and drive a project that you put together and have nothing go wrong

Today I finally made a hold down for the battery. It’s a little overkill as I used 3/8 threaded rod and thicker steel for the bracket side, but it’ll do the job. Battery doesn’t bounce around anymore.

+ fuel economy to power ratio

Picked this 312-8 up this morning! Might be the nicest original one I ever bought! Has a bagger and a plow thats just as nice. Got it running after a carb clean and new fuel lines. I was just gonna flip it, but I don't know about that now. It works pretty great! 20260801_170738.mp4

Found this while scrolling... https://www.facebook.com/reel/1008069465347807

Happy Birthday Kevin...Thank you for all you do for this group!!!

Whistle pigs1 Pullstart 1

It rained, so nothing.

That machine was certainly someone's pride and joy.

When I built our house I put in a LOT of blocking in all the shower walls. When it came time to install the grab bars I used foam double stick tape to hold them in place while drilling and mounting.

We slept in, went over to Crystal Lake Diner for brunch, walked the dog, and finished several small projects that were cluttering up my bench - there is actually a fair sized empty spot on it now. One of the projects was finishing reassembling my Red Ryder. Last fall it quit shooting. When I did get it to shoot once, the barrel plug/sight and shot tube came out and landed about 8 feet away. Total tear down and search for parts. Ended up with a new shot tube, barrel plug (with a 'fiber optic sight'!), new air tube, new plunger seal. Once I figured out how to make a dependable spring compressor, it went together. It did shoot bb's - at a very low velocity. It was not producing an air pulse when fired. Took it back apart and compared the new plunger seal to the old one. Was about 1/16" smaller in diameter. Put the old seal back in and it is working like it should. Needs to be sighted back in, probably due to the new shot tube and front sight.

Tire/wheel swaps on the 520 today…B-80 used to haul it all away.

So long as the choke and throttle shaft tabs are the same it's a direct swap. I've swapped the shafts before just to make them an easy changeover.

August 2, 1943, a Japanese destroyer rams an American PT (patrol torpedo) boat, No. 109, slicing it in two. The destruction is so massive other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead. Two crewmen were, in fact, killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Kennedy.

Bought a rebuilt starter from DB Electrical Thanks for the recommendation @Achto a year ago and it finally decided to quit, of course no where near the shop..So it was time to release the belt and SLOWLY PUSH THE ROUGHLY 800 LB Tractor with SDdeck towards the shop. Can't complain it's been noisy since I bought it around 6 or 7 years ago. The starter is an easy replacement but fortunately I had removed all the bolts and put never seize on them that hold the tins on. Putting the tins back on is a slight pain in the rear. Super quiet now.

@Retired Wrencher that fuel, oil related varnish , is the issue , 2 things I changed to years ago , sta bil , enhances fuel cleaning debris , another major cleaner ? zinc, been adding rislone zinc , typically 2 to3 oz to a fresh oil change , also like the valvoline 10-30 VR1 flat tappet oil , no smoke or varnish . repetitive problems , are simply something I have to get after . after EVERY USAGE , I go after a regular check over , for FEED BACK , HOW IS IT DOING ? WHAT IS IT DOING ? need a tweak ? over 40 years , regular maintenance , go to what makes it bombproof , my screaming pto neighbor , has no clue , pete

Looks like this gives excellent results. Remember to hand plane the cylinder head for flatness too.

Just like UFOs. They never existed until people put up pictures of what they might look like down in Roswell, NM. Next thing you know the tourist crowd from outer space shows up to see the photos and then we are overrun with UFOs. Sounds like if Connecticut hadn't posted those pictures the bobcats would have stayed away.

I use them in my shed and place broken up skins around entry points and other inconspicuous places. Traps are also set and the catch rate has dropped dramatically since placing the skins.

Ol snowball was back but “Opie” was putting the hurt on him by the time I got off lawnmower. I pulled him off and hope he/she will be alright. He/she did make it back to shed where Opie couldn’t get to him. I was trying to get dog off of it and dog was swinging snake around and wrapped it around my leg bout lost my religion on that one.

Absolutely fantastic!!! You mind me asking what kind of tires you’re running on the rear?

My 867 after a lengthy restoration.

New seal is in along with drum and brake band. Hopefully it doesn’t leak, it does stop very well now. I did scratch up paint doing all this so gonna have to touch it all up at some point.