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And this one has been mine for 60 years. And Mrs.Ks for 80 years. She vacationed here as a 2 yo toddler. We usually spend several weeks here every year. Just got back home after a great week with our two sons and thier wives. VID_20261009_064926134~2.mp4 We had cold and wind the first couple days so we stayed on shore to crab while the Ladies shopped. First crab of the week. This guy watched my traps all day waiting for a handout. The weather really improved and we got out to do some serious crabbing. Crab omelets for breakfast, steamed for lunch, and cakes for dinner. Feeling blessed to have a family that loves it here and keeps me in the game. Blue skies and calm seas to all.

October 12, 1900 First modern submarine is commissioned by the US Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland.

They prefer to be considered Intellectually Challenged weights.

@953 nut @Ed Kennell Here you go Richard, I just took this video 5 minutes ago. Talk about waves breaking on the beach! It’s hard to see in the video, waves a little to the right and approximately 1/2 mile off shore have got to be 10’-12’ hitting a sandbar. Last night was pretty wicked here, with the storm coming up from the south bringing heavy rain and strong winds. It’s calming down now though and we are heading home soon. This is just east of the Shinnecock Inlet, Southampton, L.I., N.Y. IMG_2274.mov

The first mate on a ship decided to celebrate an occasion with a "little" stowed away rum. Unfortunately he got drunk and was still drunk the next morning. The captain saw him drunk and when the first mate was sober, showed him the following entry in the ship's log: "The first mate was drunk today." "Captain please don't let that stay in the log," the mate said. "This could add months or years to my becoming a captain myself." "Is it true?" asked the captain, already knowing the answer. "Yes, its true," the mate said. "Then if it is true it has to go in the log. That's the rule. If its true it goes into the log, end of discussion," said the captain sternly. Weeks later, it was the first mate's turn to make the log entries. The first mate wrote: "The ship seems in good shape. The captain was sober today."

I am bringing a friend, that would give Aaron a bird’s eye view of the action!

I got all coked up today ... the evaporator fan wires were brittle and cracked and a short waiting to happen. Unit bearing motors are not meant to be taken apart and this one was hardwired. I was up for the challenge and replaced the cable. Rewired the rest of the cooler while I was at it. I dated this thing around early 50s.

Started some physical therapy today. Started out by turning the ends down on some 5/8" rod in order to make a new tie rod with replaceable ends for my 953. Changed the sediment bulb and gave it an oil change. Next I made a bracket so I can hang dumb bell weights on the front. Finished off by preparing some 7" x 5/8" round plate to use as my dumb bell weights. These weight about 6lbs each. I have enough room to hang 13 of these on the front. The 78lbs should help hold it down.

Just replaced the stator on my 520-HC Vanguard swap because it wasn't charging. One of the stator wires had insulation missing by the flywheel. After replacing, voltage was still not much more than 12 VDC. I replaced the regulator and then it jumped up to 14.03 VDC. I also adjusted the valves. They were between 0.011 and 0.014. Specs are .005. Now it runs great and the tach moves but I don't think it's accurate because of the Vanguard having only 8 poles on the stator.

Back in January or February of 2019 my inlaw’s house burned down, 5 days after my MIL was struck by a pickup checking her mail in a polar vortex. She was heavily sedated with lots of broken ribs and bruises so my FIL wept in silence next to her as his childhood home burned down. It’s been a tough rebuild on the inside, though their new home has been finished for some time. They have been going through some of the recovered items finally and found this match book. It’s art work I don’t recall seeing before. Pretty cool!

Attempted to mount these brand new 4 ply tires. Actually felt something in my shoulder while I was leaning into my Harbor Freight tire mounting rig. Stopped before I did damage to some muscle that doesn’t see much action in my day to day activities ! Was just too much and ya gotta know when to let the pro’s handle it. Local garage popped em on for me. Gotta love all the nubbies…but they won’t last.

Beautiful pics Don for sharing.

@Ed Kennell Speaking of the beach, I thought of you Ed when we piled up this lobster! Another couple that camped with us had a friend who owns a lobster boat. We literally got them fresh off the boat! This was last weekend in Montauk, L.I., N.Y. Water in the background is Block Island Sound.

Have a wonderful day and remember the correct First Folks.

Eric, those photos of you doing WORK remind me of my wife's opinion of the "Home Renovation" shows on TV. She always tells me the host of the show is filmed holding tools and then gets out of the way so the workers can actually accomplish the task. Nice of BBT to allow you to look like you did the job.

An old fuel line can have minute cracks in it that won't leak gas yet but will allow air into the line and the fuel pump can't pump air.

Getting the belt guard aligned is a tricky proposition. There's very little clearance overall so a gain at one spot creates a tight spot somewhere else. Ended up bolting down the guard and running the engine, then tapping around with small rubber mallet until I found the sweet spot where the noises disappeared. Sometimes you just gotta go with what works.

I was expecting to see a chair on the front end with some one from @Pullstart's plow day sitting on it...

A String Walks Into A Bar He says, "hey bar keep, I'll have a beer". The bartenders sternly replies, "we don't serve strings here". The string walks away discouraged. He comes in a few days later and tries again, "hey bar keep, I'll take a rye". The bartender, more aggravated replies, "I told you, we don't serve strings here!" The string leaves disappointed. The string figures he will try again a few days later. He walks up to the door of the bar and thinks for a second....This time he ties himself in a loop and messes up his hair. He walks up to the bar and says, "hello bar keep, I'll have a rum and coke". The bartender replies, "hey, aren't you a string?" The string replies, "no, I'm afraid not"

The world record for a drum solo is 10 hours and 17 minutes. It’s held by the kid who sat behind me on American Airlines flight 86 from DFW to Paris.

I can only handle 25 letters of the alphabet. I don’t know why.

This afternoon Trina and I finished up the bridge and installed it. The last two vinyl boards to be added were the ends. That'll prevent the aggregate from going down in between the beams. After having the little stream cleaned out and reshaped by the excavator we decided to move the pathway upstream a bit. The old bridge was located just to the right of the hemlock tree at picture left. We'll now curve the path to the right more before crossing the stream. We had already set the bridge in place and were making adjustments to its base. Trina went to get the garden hoe while I held the bridge up. We dug out the dirt and rocks from under the bridge even more than the excavator had done. Once we got a good stable set, we added some of the rocks and dirt we'd taken from the bottom of the channel to the sides of the bridge. These next two pics show the channel we added and the overall set up from each side. We'll continue to add stones to both sides along with creating the approach pathway from each direction.

What's the difference between a man's wallet before and after kids? There are pictures where the money used to be.

I had to go take pictures haha From left to right 72' Raider 14, 73' 14-8, 74' B100 Left to right 72' Raider 14, 73' 14-8, 74' B100 Left to right 72' Raider 14, 73' 14-8, 74' B100 Bonus single photos 72' Raider 14 I unfortunately neglected to take enough photos at @Pullstart's plow day to get other rigs in any photos with my tractors.

Yeah, the sea was angry when we left yesterday morning.

I've never tried to skin then field dress. I was taught to get those guts out asap, hang, then skin. In your opinion: For those of you that skin 1st then field dress, does it really make butchering that much easier?

BBT said the guys would think we were staging those!!

Good afternoon on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I have a 1990 Wheel Horse 310-8 tractor. I got it running. I ran it for ten shut it off went to restart it again no luck. I took off the air cleaner put a little gas in the the carburetor it ran again. Shut it off same thing will not start until I put gas in the carburetor. All help again will be much appreciated from all of you.

Love the sound of waves gently coming to the shore. I played that video several times. Glad you had a good time.

I tried to get a smart car the other day but they sold out too fast. Why? I guess I'm just a bit slow.

Take the fuel line off the carb crank the engine does gas spurt out???

Looks like you were spray painting a white bikini on somebody!

did you pick it up yet?

It's alive.. ALIIIVVEEE! Starter freed up on it's own.. or I might have had some wires switched around.. I guess we'll never know Took the oilpump, oiltank and gastank off, rinsed, cleaned them all thoroughly. Put them away to dry out for a few days. Made a tiny test gastank and after some fiddling around I found out somebody had put the wrong sparkplug in the engine. It poked to far into the cilinder and made contact with the piston. Luckily nothing got badly damaged and I found a better sparkplug laying around so put that in. Cleaned the carb and took out all kinds of gunk and nastyness from the floatbowl, freed up the float needle and hooked up my tiny test tank. After a couple of tries the Kohler started to cough and flung debris everywhere. Succes! After that I tested the transmission which worked perfectly fine. It's a bit quirky though. It's got one high and one low forward gear and one reverse. The drive is opposite of what you would expect, the drive engages when you step on the clutch pedal and disengages when you let go. For the intended purpose this might be rather handy cause when cleaning the paddocks it's a lot of stop and go/on and off the machine. With this setup there's no need to put the machine in and out of gear everytime you get off the machine. We'll see though, only time will tell.

I had a GT14 about 12 years ago ago, so I know what you mean.

Finished!!! Thanks @Vinylguy!!!

That is a great model tractor. Check the tires for age cracks , use that to negotiate. What's your intended usage? I'm not that familiar with that older style deck. But maybe someone can comment whether it has the "Double D" deck spindles and blade availability. I know you can upgrade the deck to complete new spindles with common size shafts. An ebay seller has them for for the price of just buying bearings.

You'll find no shortage of opinions, here! WARNING!!! - This place is full of "enablers" that believe you should own a Wheel Horse for every day of the week! With regards to the one you're asking about, location plays a factor. Make an offer and see where you and the seller come to agreement. Here is Indiana, it's a $400 to $500 find. Once the Wheel Horse bug hits you, be prepared to spend more money on dialing it in and adding attachments.

When a toddler reaches the "why?" stage, it's like opening a bottle of champagne—once it's uncorked, there's no going back.

Why didn't the toilet paper cross the road? It got stuck in the crack!

I marked each rim where I wanted to cut them. Bolted the rim on to a tractor, spun the rim in high gear full throttle, & cut through it with a 4 1/2" grinder After all 4 rims were cut, I cut the center out of the outside rims and welded them together. Finished product.

New tires and wider rims on the 314H. Used VHT wheel paint. Not a fan of it. Turned out really rough. Re-sand and paint in the spring. Now to paint the wheel weights. Plan on using the 314 as my plow tractor this winter. Just had the driveway repaved, so going to try a poly edge on the blade and no chains.

Looks good... my 2 cents - seal all surfaces & edges of all the wood. It is going over a high moisture ares, exposed on all sides...