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July 17, 1955 Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 18 million visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion.

Agreed. On the value, you'd have to have some better pictures to really determine the condition of it. Those mid-mount pieces have gotten some good prices the last few years. If it is solid overall and not badly damaged, $300 minimum.

I'd rather go to Wally World...

Check this out. Pay By Plate - Illinois Tollway I set up a pay by plate account a while back when I went to the @stevasaurus pad in Elgin. It works well but you don't know for sure when you're getting your picture taken. I used it again when I took a tractor to Oak Creek, WI last summer. I relied on the phone to find the route with the least tolls. It will save you some and with auto-pay you won't get late charges. Their notifications work well and it was easy to keep tabs on it.

First time to the BS I dropped coins in the proverbial basket. Tolls with no basket I had the attendant sticking his head out the window and count axles and really took it in the shorts. 2nd tie we borrowed @PeacemakerJack Ipass and the cost/hassle went away. Another toll road score we just ran the damn thing figured pay on line. Well they didn't post my plate and what i owed until AFTER the due date and took it in the shorts with a overdue charge. I took it up with the Ipass Nazis goons to no avail. After that I got my own which was rather painless. It's free but you give them plastic numbers and a amount to charge to it when tolls rack up and its paid automatically. Works pretty good and like Dan said good for the countries of IN, OH, PA and others. $369 to go both ways to the BS for us so we still take it without being kissed. Trick is to know the best routes with low tolls even if it takes a tad longer. Chi town yer on yer own or like Sylvia says one of the many reasons to stay the hell out. We gotta pay 30 just to go have breakfast with @stevasaurus.

I've wanted to do a video montage at Disneyland of bits of tired, crying kids and title it "Disneyland, the happiest place on earth".

I’ve used Bill’s Place to get a 103990 switch from Toro and it’s still going strong.

I was given this as a joke gift years ago as I’m a bit partial to Fords. Although with the quality decline and complexity increase over the last 6 years, this could be used on just about any brand. Especially the newer stuff. I haven’t found a good place besides the obvious for it yet.

Found one reference in a illustrated parts list. 6-32 thread by 3/8" long

@76c12091520h Our own vendor.

When I think of Springers I think of short legged somewhat zealous, energetic & high strung bird dogs but some are fairly relaxed. Especially in their older years. Yours Don gives the impression of a larger mellow house springer. I'll have to do some reading on bench springers. I had a female Chesapeake once that got tangled up with the neighbor's springer. Result was a smaller single female chessispring?? Had the oily coat of a chessie and the body of a springer. Turned out to be a great dog. I eventually gave it to a OTR trucker that fell in love with it and was a great cab companion.

@WHX?? My dog is an English Springer Spaniel, there are basically two kinds. There’s bench bred, which is what my dog Lucy is and field bred. Field bred is obviously bred for field work. However I had a bench bred Springer named Wallace that was literally outstanding in the field.

came across a couple oldies today -- inlcuding an old horse - I have little knowledge of the early era models - What is this Tractor? - - Also found this belly grader under a 416 horse - is grader OEM ? Hopefully, I will get a better view in the future of both the oldie model tractor as well as the grader blade -- but in the mean time, any preliminary info would be appreciated ? Also, hoping to establish their approximate value ? thanks, Bill

There is no charge for the Illinois I-Pass. Cuts your bill in half. Also works as an EZ Pass in other states. https://agency.illinoistollway.com/about-ipass

yes, that is OEM

Holiday Road...

Fixed that for ya ...

Nice thing about the I Pass little blue box is you can put it in any vehicle. Couple months ago Dan with down to fib land on a score and just took mine down with him. Still had to pay about 4o in tolls but the tractor was FREE! Now they did away with the little blue box I been told and it's some kind of sticker on the wind shield.

I think I have one….. I think?!

EZ Pass! And with it most tolls are reduced some. Nice to breeze right thru & not have to stop to pay or get tickets. Online account all tolls are itemized so its easy to recognize any possible errors. When I picked up the 702 in Chicago I spent more $$ on tolls than I did on fuel.

Very much appreciated. I'll talk to Trina about a list of wants/needs etc.

first pick is 520H with Facet metal pump 2nd pick is Facet plastic pump that went on 312-8 in same place as 520h, I cant find pic of 312 pump mounted but you get the idea. Both work great but believe I prefer the metal cube type better just because it takes up a little less space than the plastic pump.

I am a mutt, like most of us!

It was a short 5 hr shift at work today that about halfway through, we had a freak rainstorm that was snapping trees off and moving anything that wasn’t bolted down. Then, I mowed the fire station lawn, and my lawn as well. The new lock tited mule drive knob worked like a charm with no issues. Now just relaxing and browsing the internet. The next two days I have off and I have a bathroom that needs to have tile that needs to be finished up being taken out. At least it is supposed to get cooler.

U got burnt but being the nice guy I am I will come and haul it and equipment off for ya if you will split fuel bill with me.

Decided to take a few pics of my 1257, touched up a few spots and tried to clean it a little. Also added a few things since last time I posted pics of her. Ordered a few decals from "redoyourhorse." Looking forward to those. Got more to do to her.

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.

i think I have one if you need it. It came out of, if I remember right another 312 I got from @ebinmaine in the parts haul I got last year. I’ve got the hour meter for the C-141 project’s engine and everything else has a working one or never had one so I don’t need it.

We picked up an ezpass in Ohio one time, actually two of them. For the 75 cents per month they cost in rentals, it’s worth having for the few times per year we hit tolls east or west of Michigan. The savings are close to 50% of the advertised rate as well, so it’s money saved to rent them indefinitely.

Franklin, NC, is a rather small city with a lot of churches with big parking lots. Many years ago the town leaders decide to install parking meters as a source of additional revenue, turned out the meters didn't bring in enough money to cover the wages of the one city employee who collected the coins. About three years later the meters were removed and downtown returned to normal.

I don't really remember what I did today, but I got paid for 14 hours for it.

What are your "ideal" property characteristics? I keep fairly close tabs on the real estate market---not because we're looking, but just because it's an interest of mine. If I hear of something that might fit the bill, I'd be happy to pass it on to you. Feel free to PM me.

I tidied some of my rubber edges up, and @Lil’ Pullstart helped me snap some lines for the e-track.

Been wanting to setup a way to tow, move and lift items for some time. You know the dead tractor far from home... Recently got around to doing this rear crane idea. I decided to go simple by using a brinly hitch. Well the cable could break in up or down position. But I figured it should be good for about 500lbs at least since I had a rear dirt scoop on one and it never broke. I made it with a bumper hitch receiver and had a brinly sleeve hitch adapter on it.. I could go to a rear receiver hitch mount on the tractor for added strength. But this is a good start to see how much I use it.

Neat idea. Do this right now. That 500 lbs you're familiar with is gonna get much heavier very quickly with the added length. More importantly - dynamic motion loads. A rolling and broken down machine being pulled will add very different load moments to the crane and pulling tractor. The crane I built years ago is a little too heavy duty... But works great. It definitely puts a considerable strain on the tractor.

I just re-configured a 32” 64-65 Lawn Ranger gear drive to use on my 401 to replace the one i had been running for the last 10+ years that was pretty beat. I was amazed how quiet it is. I thought the belt was seriously slipping when i first engaged the pedal, but it was just that quiet. I use the red “tacky” grease on the gears. Check the cross shaft for axial play. It should be minimal. Maybe .020”- .025”. On my 702, when i bought it and finally got it to the point i could mow with it, i noticed it wasn’t cutting well on the one side. I found that the one cross shaft gear had a sheared woodruff key. Once i replaced the woodruff, the cross shaft wouldn’t turn. I found that the gear spinning freely on the shaft had smeared the shoulder of the shaft where the gear butts up against, so when the nut was tightened, it was pinching the bearing towers between the two gears. The shaft is 3/4” and the bore in the gear is 5/8”, so basically the gear rests up against a 1/16” shoulder on the shaft, so don’t over-tighten the nut or it can damage the shaft. I ended up making a .020” shim with a 5/8” i.d. to fit behind the gear. In hindsight, i could have made it .030”-.035” and shimmed out a bit more of the backlash at the gears also. I think there is a service bulletin on thicker thrust bearing washers for the blade shafts to minimize gear noise on some models also, but if you have excessive axial or radial play in the cross shaft bearings, i’d start there. If the gear nuts were over-torqued at some point, or a smeared woodruff, the shoulders on the cross shaft may be damaged, resulting in excessive axial play of the shaft which results in excessive backlash at the gears. Cross shaft tower bearings 1630-2RS Blade shaft needle bearings B1212 The threads in the aluminum(?) bearing towers on my old deck were in rough shape from numerous belt changes. I swapped out the bolts with longer ones and whatever combination of washers needed to grab ALL of the threads possible in the towers. Maybe inspect the cast housing closely for cracks also. I’ve cracked 3 of them over the last 28 years. They get really noisy when that happens. They break across these same two holes. I added some bolts that kept this one mowing for a few more years. The Lawn Ranger donor before, and after the Suburban linkage transplant.

they are defiantly louder.

Have one available in Nappanee, IN

Cut some grass today.Cut better than I thought it would. Deck is a bit noisy but I’m guessing it is just the nature of these old gear driven decks. Hard to believe that the original tires still hold air after all this time

Broncos, Chargers and Raiders I believe it was a option from 70-72

So far it’s coming out exactly how I wanted it to.