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I enjoy growing different kinds of peppers. With the variety of colors, it's kinda like growing colorful flowers that are actually useful. I usually start them from seed in the early part of March. This year I grew mostly sweet peppers. One of my most colorful varieties this year is Chocolate Cherry Candy Stripe Peppers. The flavor of these is very close to green peppers, maybe just a tad bit more bitter. The colors are awesome though. Next ones are called Patio Snacking Peppers. With their yellow, orange, & red colors they have a great appearance. Most of the peppers on these plants point upwards when they grow. We have been picking these off the plant and eating them as they are or maybe dipping them in some ranch dressing first. Soon I will be making Cowboy Candy with these, a sweet & spicy treat. Next up is my Cherry Pepper plants. I may have went over board when I planted these, the plants have been producing like crazy. Most of the peppers on these plants hang down when they grow. . I have been pickling some of these already. I add dill, garlic, & jalapeno. The finished product is awesome as a snack, even better in a Bloody Mary. I did say that I planted mostly sweet peppers, the next pepper is not sweet but it pairs well with sweet. My Habanero's look exceptionally angry this year. These will be used to make Habanero sauce ( Awesome on wings). Habanero Jelly (Sweet with some spice, great on anything that you would put jelly on. Also great on grilled pork). I always keep some Habanero's in the freezer to add to sweet meals like Coconut Curry Shrimp. Now I'm hungry!! Happy harvest everyone.

August 18, 1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" reach #1 on the charts, staying for 11 weeks (a record for a single release).

Pumpkin patch is in overdrive this year. Sunflowers, not so much. Wabbits worked them over pretty good.

hey everyone! happy to be here

Thank you all for the kind words and support. We are getting pretty good at the camper life- this big RV definitely makes it easier. Storms aren't quite as scary since it weighs 35,000lbs of course... And we've been on shore power for about 3 weeks. If I never hear a generator run again... But we are doing well. We've been doing more cooking and eating less junk, which is a massive improvement! I bought a pellet grill and I gotta say they make some good stuff! My wife has become a pro with the air fryer too, so our dinners are pretty awesome. And this week finally- work has begun on cleanup/teardown. We still haven't figured out 100% how far we have to go with the teardown but we at least fairly confident on it for the most part. I went with a different contractor because his company was ready to jump on it instead of waiting for others to decide if they even wanted the work, which is mind boggling to me. I have been shocked by how many people had zero interest in touching our home even though I had money in hand. It guess most builders want to start with a clean slate and have minimal repair work, even though the insurance company was ready to pay for it. At least now things are moving and so long as that is the case we have a goal post in sight. At any rate, we are doing well and our focus can now be on rebuilding. We aren't just sitting here waiting anymore. Now if the heat will just give us a break! High 90s with indexes over 105 and high humidity just zaps the life right out of you! Thank God for dual air conditioners on this camper!

Grew looking peppers! Here are some of mine for you to enjoy. This year I mainly focused on growing sweet peppers that we can freeze and eat throughout the year. My favorite sweet variety is Jimmy Nardellos. I also grew a few jalepenos for pickling.

Mohawk Street Brandtford Ontario was the birthplace of my 2 farm tractors. 1947 Cockshutt 30 1956 Cockshutt 20 Deluxe.

Porcupine?? Didn't know you could eat those.

Wait till you get to be my age... oh wait... Actually a friend's property. His blind (one of seven) that he graciously lets me use... I have no problem maintaining it and trimming for him... I'm very fortunate! But I have suggested indoor plumbing, electric, heat, small refrigerator, but for some reason those haven't materialized yet...

I will go ahead and suggest replacing fuel pump with an electric one. My 520H would take forever to fire if it set any length of time, and the factory pump would squirt fuel across shop so must have been draining back. Here is a pic of mine so to give you an idea where and what kind I'm using. I can now turn key on let fuel pump run a sec or two and will fire right up. Your sanity and starter will thank you..

One side of the seat switch is grounded. With operator in the seat and the pto ON the switch is open so the magneto wire is not grounded and the engine runs. Operator leaves the seat the switch grounds the magneto and engine stops. If the pto is OFF the magneto ground can not get to the seat switch so engine will run operator or no operator in seat.

Kind of like owning sequential numbered 420LSE's?

It seems you have a pretty decent collection of horses, how’s about a few pictures?

Well I got it going this AM. I gave it a squirt of starting fluid ( which I don't like to use ) and it fired right up and it runs really good. Now all I have to do is figure out why it is not charging, 12.63v. Thanks for all the replies.

Finally had room to get the commando in the shop to work on getting it up and going I rebuild the transmission and installed it and the rear hitch too thanks to the people the help me with some gears and bearings so I could get the transmission done I'll looking for a steering wheel if anybody as one thanks

My favorite is Marconi, usually stuff and bake them. 50/50 beef and pork, rice, egg and cooked in tomato soup I'm about the only one here that will eat peppers so we will have porcupine meatballs and stuffed peppers.

Welcome from Pasco,Washington.

FYI --- When linking any of those things like that could you please delete EVERYTHING after the ? in your post. Everything after the ? is tracking BS that we don't want or need when clicking on it. I didn't know that either until @Handy Don pointed that out a while go. The rest is deleted but the link still links

Thanks, I'll have to keep an eye on it.

@Vinylguy comes through again! Thanks, Terry!

These are the only belts I use. About $30 at TSC and they can be returned for full refund.

You guys hunt in comfort. I just hang from a tree limb.

I suspect the envelope with the cash wasn’t on the table....

Download the Onan manuals here they will have the procedures for troubleshooting and maintenance.

Your wiring on the 310-8 was designed for a battery powered ignition system and you have installed a Magnum in place of the old engine, is this correct? The safety switch wiring for a battery powered system is different than that of a magneto system. With the battery powered system the safety switches remove voltage to the coil if you leave the seat with the PTO on. With a magneto system the ignition becomes grounded if the driver gets off the seat with the PTO on. If you want to have your safety switches to work as they should the ignition switch socket needs to be changed back to the way it came from the factory, a 103990 switch and a kill relay installed or completely rewire the safety switches. Going back to the 103990 and kill relay would be much easier.

Just be careful about the quills

Well, sort of. It was aa double sided 45 RPM so both sides were tied for #1.

Posting pictures is easy, just click on the choose files on the lower left and it will take you to your files, select the picture, open it and it will come back to your post.

Start by cleaning and inspecting the nine pin connector from the engine and the 30 amp fuse holder and fuse blades.

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I am old school and don't have one of those pocket phones to take pictures and there is no reception where I live. I know there is lots of spark because I hooked up one of those spark testers between the plug and plug wire and it was firing really good.

another thing to consider is when the blade is fully angled the skids/shoes can rub the front tires

You should be OK at 14.7vdc

With the right wig you’d be a ringer for Janice Joplin. Can you sing?

And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha To the funny farm Where life is beautiful all the time And I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha

I should say, there are other cars that can donate their distribution blocks for this setup. That generation Taurus just happens to be plentiful, and the block is easily accessed and removed.

I had the same problem, but my output was running at around 20vdc. I solved the problem by cleaning the area of the aluminum heat sink of the regulator and where it mounted to the frame. I don't know why that worked better than a direct wire to battery ground. However, if neither grounding suggestions work, replace the entire regulator with a known-good one from a donor tractor.

Correct. If you need it in the future it is posted on the cover page for the parts list. Click on the fuzzy part to see it.

@SylvanLakeWH nice! My buddy Matt showed up the other night for some euchre wearing his, and I had one of mine on!

Did a diesel fuel flush and gear oil change on the 161 before installing the ARK for the first time. Lessons learned...black hoods are too wide to clear the hydraulic pump and a shaker plate calls for an inch or so shorter belt It's always something.

Installed front wheel weights on my 312-8

Got the Bervac swapped onto 416. Also swapped rear hitch, larger wheels/tires from Workhorse. Still have a few more preventive maint items to get done. Got lift assist springs installed/adjusted & 150lbs of weight on hitch. Now I gotta figure out what to do with the Workhorse. Be nice to have it for parts but dont really want it sitting around...... 20260814_133023.mp4

After work pics….

@953 nut love REPEDITIVE PROBLEMS ? thats my home base , for ELIMINATION , fuel issues were always constant , cleaned out tank , new fuel valve , dielectric grease , makes rubber / plastic slide in , simple / easy , fuel filter at tank drop feed , insuring / verifying , NO DEBRIS START ! also 1 to 2 oz of STA BIL FUEL STORAGE , to every tank top off , like a fuel hose check valve just before carb ? clear hose , filter , verifying status , dare to EXPERIMENT , you already know what , fails, don,t have anything , consistently kicking my butt , thats you que , kinda like , whyining deck spindles / screaming clutch disc , WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY CHANGE / IMPROVE ??? did that years ago , sending you dairing gu/ gu . pete

Ah, another @cleat special. Looking forward to seeing the build thread.

Commando has new shoes put on today have been working on the motor when I have time to

Stocked the trout for the annual fishing derby for the ATOMIC KIDS. This is a private event sponsored by the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant for employees children. We put 1,000 12 to 20 inch trout in a 1/4 mile section of the North branch of Muddy Creek in Felton. VID_20260529_103818809~3.mp4 Fish catching pics tomorrow.