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More to come on my newest addition. Picked it up last Saturday and have made decent progress so far. It's the one in the background.

Bought this last week not running. Got it running at the show I was at. Thought about a clean up and flip. Then today... new drive belt, took off pump belt, oil change, transaxle service, basic wiring job so I had crank and on/off and charging. Threw a bucket of suds on it... stood back and went nope.... not for sale! LOL Tony @wallfish @Retired Wrencher @Sparky 20260620_142318.mp4

I like makin' stuff... Of course half of what I make doesn't work.

I have this rack on the back of my Raider, I cut it down so it's the same width of the tractor.

That's all I could talk @Raven AKA my significant other into posting a lot of pics this evening. I was in Mass and she headed to N.H to hang out with her sister. We met up with @Bill D and @Brockport Bill at the New York border last Saturday. We left at 5 30 am and returned home to Maine at 5 pm. Long day and haven't stopped working on it since. Will keep you guy's updated on the progress. By the way you meet the nicest people on Red Square. Two great members. Bill and Bill.

Less than a week for the show for my first time, will be there Friday morning. I had to get new tires for my trailer as my other ones had some dry rot after 11 years or so. I’ll be bringing my 1257 to ride around on and bringing the tub cart as well so the warden can ride around on it. Also decided to bring a pop up tent and a cooler so we can sit under it with the tractor.

June 20, 1988 Guns N' Roses' biggest hit is widely considered to be "Sweet Child o' Mine," released as a single in the U.S. on June 20, 1988, from their 1987 debut album Appetite for Destruction, becoming their only song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

My back yard is fenced in for the dogs. My shed is back there and inside is a WH cart. It's a pain to get it out and open the gates for any small job like carrying tools for anything to do in the front yard so I have this little Toro cart that stores easy, dumps and is cute as a button! If it fits it ships!

The one on the right was not originally built for this but the left was.

Please stop giving me ideas.

I put a seat cover on mine that is nothing but pockets on the back. If what I need won't fit there I hitch up the rolling toolbox or my trailer. But a carry basket thing would be cool to have. Like the ones on a farm ATV.

Broke out the HVLP sprayer today and mixed up some Regal Red. I thought for once I'd get a hood done right on the first try. ...well of course not. The side facing the sun got a little too much from the idiot running the gun. 6 inch long sag. I wiped most of it off so it would take less sanding to fix. Rustoleum has a "gooey" thing that automotive paints do not. Even thinned down it splatters a bit. Getting a coat to the "wet" look is tricky without laying too much. Gonna take some practice I guess. Heckuva lot of work just for some hardener. And just to do something right for the day I finished the steekers for the engine.

Yesterday Trina was around the house and heard what she figured was a catbird. Being interested in birds as we all are here she went looking around for it out the windows. What she found wasn't a catbird. It was a little orange kitten. Obviously very timid and likely wild, it was not approachable. Trina left an open tin of my sardines out. The kitten enjoyed them. Trina and I both thought we oughtta try to catch it and then consider keep vs adopt out. We have several excellent shelters around and a great organization called Friends of Feral Felines. She went to town and bought a small animal trap and some food. We set the trap and left it out overnight near the last known kitten location. Side yard. Then.... this morning rolled around. You can see the silver of the trap kind of set behind that big rock there. Yesterday Trina set that hoping to catch the orange cat that we had seen and heard. This morning we got up to find the trap had a dark animal in it!! Obviously not an orange cat. So I went outside and discovered a black kitten. There was also several other cats around. If you zoom in on that trap a little bit you can see a dark colored lump at the upper right and an orange colored lump right between the trap and the rock. They are having some breakfast that I put out after I discovered there were more cats out there. Soooo... this morning Trina set to making a kitten cage out of scraps we had laying around. Use what ya have! This is built with old ballusters and some hardware cloth/wire mesh. See the former deck gate at picture left. Handles added for ease of humans. The hinge is a piece of black leather. Here's the black kitten resting in its temporary room. We've since added a piece of carpet to block our neurotic dog from seeing the cage occupants and also covered the whole kitten capturing set up with a pop up. We left the black kitten out in the forest because the other two (that we've seen) have been coming by to visit so we're hoping to catch all three.

@Sparkey your cat looks very similar to the cat we had when I was a kid. His name was Colby - due to his fondness for Colby cheese as a kitten. He used to sit on top of the TV and watch baseball games - occasionally taking a swipe at the players.

First time for me too, which is kinda crazy because i only live 26 miles from there, and i've always had at least one Wheel Horse since the late 80's early 90's, but never anything newer than 1969, because i like'm that way. I heard about the big show maybe 15 years ago and it had always already passed when i'd remember about it, which was usually when the tie rod would fall off while mowing with the 401, AGAIN. i've probably used a pound of weld wire to keep making the hole small again. But i'm not missing it this year.

Sounds like some is getting a bit excited Gear??? Rightfully so ... this will be my fifth time going and now two years in a row. Sure wished I lived right down the road from it. It's 3000 miles for me. Well maybe not THAT far but it seems like it with Dan driving and me holding on to the OH Jesus handles most of the way. Make sure you track us down on turn one (Squonk's corner) and say hello. We may also be in the hospitality tent with the black & gold enclosed trailer in the camp ground and a big red Dodge. left to right Ed @tunahead72 Cas @formariz Richard @953 nut James @Jrblanke The Squonk @squonk Randy @rjg854 and myself. Sure is a delightful load of BS ther

What the heck Jim? ONE picture? You should know better than that! I know you said more to come but did you need to keep us waiting?!!

Didn't think it would take a melding of the minds to get it running. Might tho messed with it abit today and got a puff out of it once or twice but that's it. 'Sides my mechanic is off duty gettin his own crap ready and now he wants father's day off for some kind of rouel. Tell ya can't find good help.

What? No WH parts in the build??? I expected to see a C 85 hood latch... or two.

This is waaaaay to wide. But if it was cut down to be the same width as the tractor . This is Tony @Docwheelhorse at a show a couple years ago with the platform thingy mounted on his tractor hauling back an oil can score

Man did I play that over and over in the cassette deck of my GMC pickup ! My musical tastes have mellowed some since then..

Last morning on the Bay.. The horseshoe crabs having a planned parenthood meeting this morning. Barkley's ready for a ball game. Heading Home.

You will find him either eating or nodding off under my canopy!

I just get texts about my unpaid parking tickets or car related issues with the Maine DMV. Which is kind of funny as I don’t own a car… I did have someone get my debit card number a few years ago. They made an attempt to try to buy Netflix and a few other random things. One call to my bank and that was resolved. My bank’s pretty vigilant about scammers. If I buy something in a place that I don’t usually go sometimes my debit card won’t work which is a good thing as it guards against a potentially sketchy transaction.

Hate to say this but Beaps is right. Now truth be told I am not a cat lover but I hate mice worse. Not that i don't have and feed a few barn cats. But absolutely no cats in the house. I'm weird... I absolutely adore the smell of cow$hit... can tolerate pig$hit but the smell of a cat box has me reeling. I've had literally thousands of cats come thru the ranch in the last 40 years. Some die naturally in old age some at the hands of owls and other natural predators. Some even at the hands of me. I cherish them all but the song birds think I am an a$$hole. What you are doing is a good thing EB. Sitting on porch tonite... cocktail in one hand Tom in the other. Then there's Pearl... pretty much worthless but does bring in a mole or a pine squirrel from time to time. Can't look at her without getting hair.

Yep any where near Wallfish he has the BFH. Off the back of any truck works too tho. It is what it is and nothin we can do about that. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/topic/115851-weatheralways-a-scary-topic/

Happy Birthday @c-series don, we are all glad you were born.

Feral cats are about as welcome as feral hogs. Feral cats are hard on bird populations and feral hogs are hard on about everything. Some folks have no regards about the animals they dump off to defend for themselves. Without you and Trina, those kittens would have likely had a slow and painful demise.

Even if it doesn't those are the best trips one remembers.

@WHX?? Yes definitely excited, nervous and excited. The show is about 5-6 hours away from me, will be driving a 95 Chevy (my every day driver), red, and my tractor will be on a home made trailer my dad built years ago (also red), I’ll be arriving in all red. Hopefully the weather is decent to walk/ride around and everything goes smooth. I’ll be sure to try and find/track you guys down. I’ll be plopping our tent somewhere I can find space.

So the 1045 isn't feeling too well? So where's the thread on that? Break out the UEI and get diggin!

Starting to load up sold stuff and tractors

Send me one I could use another mouser.

Ok here we go Don since I am out of RS jail ... Madge ripping Don a new one for cutting in on a tractor buy. Denny @dclarke refereeing. Don being admonished by Wild Bill @Wild Bill in VAfor being late to the parade and having a speck of dust on his tractor. Me thinks he even got a ticket for that one!

Happy Happy Don! See you in a couple days! Crap my name is not in red and I can't attach pics ... Be right back.

Just an idea for @adsm08 💡

Pivots in the front. No suspension.

Happy Birthday Don Have a GREAT ONE !!!

Wow that seems like so long ago. That was the last big show I attended. I hope to get back one day. Family reunion on the same weekend this year. And who on earth let me get in the front row? Good way to ruin a decent camera!

If I can’t carry it, the trailer gets used. The smaller stuff goes in a bag and then on the trailer.

That trailer might be over the weight rating for a 1045.

I goofed off all day. I scheduled today off about a month ago to do a bunch of work, then finished it all last weekend. Went fishing for a bit, worked on the boy's tractor for like 10 minutes, actually got to mow today, took the doggos for a small hike, but they are small doggos. Right now I'm watching Ghost Busters: Afterlife.

So you sayin' we need to take more tractors along ???

Funny you should say that. My wife hates when I do the same thing. Usually, I will let them go on and on, then when they take a break to get their breath, I just say Hello?

Love hearing how your dealing with these kittens. Have a soft spot for cats even since the first one came to live here maybe 18 years ago. He was the “family cat” but he became my cat and followed me everywhere. He passed 2 years ago at the age of 16 but it gave me a new appreciation for cats. Our current cat “Bill” is about 8 years old and he’s been awesome!

Same here Richard. They know what I use mine for and call me when a purchase looks suspicious. They have also credited me for purchases I have made and were never delivered as advertised.

Are you talking about something like this? Or something more commercial? I've been considering something like the first "roller" style. They also include a handle so you can push them around by hand.