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Although I have pictures of Zach in and on this wagon they are from about 6 years ago and he has no recollection of it. We were doing some massive garage cleaning/organizing tonight and he was super excited about the wagon…so I let him hook up Blackbeard and haul burnables to the fire pit! He was in his element!

Gotta record this here for the future! Our garage has been a mess too long and so today was the day to do spring cleaning! Zach got home from work and jumped right in to help. He had been “dying” to check out/us the WH wagon. I have had it standing up next to the wall for the last 5 years or so. Zach has no memory of riding in the wagon even though he has on a couple of occasions. now he is begging me to restore it. I told him that he has several other projects to finish and then he can do this one. He told me that when he has his own place someday he wanted to buy this from me. I told him that it’s not for sale—and I could tell he was disappointed (I generally don’t sell stuff to my kids). I said, “if you want it that much, it’s yours when you have your own place with a garage or shed to keep it inside…”😎🙌🏻 after all—he is the only one of my four kids that has owned a Wheel Horse since he was three years old and restored it when he was nine💪🏻 He even used the custom @Achto hitch pin to pull it around…thanks again @19richie66 for the sweet Blackbeard decal—looks really cool on there! Another chapter in the Zach/blackbeard story📖

i always thought my 37 SD on my 312-8 was terrific cut - - maybe the 2 blade design, or the lift attachment on the one blade -- but it sure leaves nice cut - and the 12 Kohler always enough power

Mowed all my parent’s lawn with the 312. It powered through with only one stop to tighten the mule drive. The PTO went bad on their mower so it had been a week since it was mowed. The grass is growing like crazy with our odd weather for the time of year lately. I also recruited the 308 for them to use if they need to. Just a little grease in the mule drive and a once over to check it over as my test after I put the deck on had a new noise up front. After it’ll be good to go.

I just saw your truck thread. It looks like a very nice solid, straight truck---definitely worth getting back on the road again. The 300-inch six is an excellent mill. I've owned four F250s over the years (although none with that engine), plus several other pickups, and now I've 'downsized' to an F150. When it comes to axle work, I can't claim to be an expert, although I've overhauled a bunch of rear ends (I used to break them occasionally during my hot rod years in high school and college). I still have a case spreader lying around somewhere. Rear end work can be a bit fussy to deal with, so having a professional take care of it probably isn't a bad idea. I'll follow your thread to see how it goes.

I called the shop you recommended. They seemed very friendly and knowledgeable, but they said it would be about eight weeks before they could get to it, so I took the engine block to Redline Performance in Hallowell, which happens to be a little closer. I'll give them a call tomorrow and see how it's coming along. I will probably have them bore the cylinders .010 over and turn the crank .010 under in order to clean up the rust spots. I'll have them check the crankshaft bores and see if it needs align boring. The cam and lifters look like new, and I think the valve guides should also still be within new specs. The engine only has about 8,000 miles on it, and if it weren't for the rust spots, it would all remain standard size. The exhaust valves looked 'fairly good' and the intake valves looked like new (but I'll still have them touch up the valve faces and seats). The engine came with hardened exhaust valve seat inserts from the factory back in 1954, and they look pretty good, so it shouldn't take much to clean those up, although I'm going to see how much they'd want to install new higher-tech inserts. I have lots of NOS parts...too many to mention...and I just obtained a complete set of NOS exhaust valves, still wrapped in cosmoline-soaked gauze (see below), which isn't very pretty, as they resemble a dog's chew toy (or something you might flush down the loo) but they've been well protected over the years.

And if you have a private well, test the water for radon too

Spent the day doing some more yard projects. Other half and I decided to sell the pool this year and buy a park pass and travel different state parks this summer. We also decided to turn the old pool location into a new flower garden. So spent the day digging out the sand and digging down the under layer of soil and ordered 6 yards of garden soil. They said it was going to be delivered by the end of the weekend. Awesome! Now I have the time to dig all that sand out. We'll I dug all the sand out and wouldnt you know I looked up and tue dumptruck was dumping my garden soil. So no rest for the wicked right to filling wheelbarrows and the new garden spot. Also built a walk way from my pad though the garden to the lawn. Turned out pretty nice.

John @wallfish is the pro here. I did quite a few radon mitigations when I was in the home improvement business. Most homes with a sump pit are fairly easy to do yourself. However, there are some situations where you might want to get a pro involved. Where I live (Maryland) there is no requirement for licensing or permits, at lease when I did it. Because of that fact, a lot of unscrupulous characters like me were putting in radon reduction fans. Test results were always favorable afterwards because of the simplicity of it. Think of radon as steam in your bathroom. Steam you can see, radon you can't. But when you turn on the exhaust fan, it removes the steam. Same idea with radon, only you are removing the radon from under the basement floor or crawlspace, and you are running the "exhaust" fan constantly.

One has dynamic braking, the other has a mechanical brake. I think it would be a bigger project than you want to tackle. Just my opinion.

I think (I am not an eaton guy ) pic two may be an Eaton 700???

Picture 2 is not a sunstrand...picture one is a piston to piston sunstrand not an early one.

Brings back memories of my spring bear hunts in Northern Quebec. The flys were deadly. I spent many nights in the woods with several cans of DEET in my sleeping bag and with a head net over my face. Before leaving the sleeping bag, you had to lay down a cloud of DEET to clear the flys long enough to jump in your cloths. One year we had a new hunter that failed to keep covered and was bitten around his neck so badly he had difficulty breathing. We had to rush him South to the Maniwaki Hospital. The strange thing was, the little Indian school children stood by the road every morning in shorts and T shirts waiting for the school bus. Seemed they were not bothered by the flys???

Meadofield: You have a gift. The quality of your work is A plus. I wish I had half your talent and you have all the right equipment to do the job. Always enjoyed your post.

A couple of weeks ago we got a six speed that we are planning to put in our 854 and make it and 864. We found after tearing it apart last weekend that it has the wrong axles and now we are waiting for axles from ebay to ship. Last week and weekend I painted a bunch of random knick paddy whack parts.

Got them nice and shiny with some scotch Brite, elbow grease and patience

Compared to the red supporter status I presume you mean @ebinmaine @702854boy