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Better late than never, happy birthday kid! Love you! You’re kind of a chip off the old block 😂

314H is officially ready for snow duty. Weights painted and installed.

We've begun the construction of the building. Yesterday we moved all 7 of the heavy boxes across the yard with Cinnamon Horse and the black trailer. We opened and reinspected all materials. All fasteners, framing, and brackets were separated and laid out. Today we began by making the whole roof. Added the first vertical section of the legs and all the cross braces possible. There's a slight lean away from the picture taking position here so we got some paracord and tent cords and tied the frame to the ground at 3 places. Tomorrow we'll continue with adding more screws and then the lower section of the side legs. We've decided to order good quality properly fitting metal roofing instead of using the supplied small thinner multiple pieces. For a few hundred dollars investment we'll have a much stronger build and far less possibilities for roof leaks with the better fasteners and no horizontal seams.

Over the last couple weeks Trina's been adding a few small loads of rocks and stones to the edges and approaches of the bridge as she goes by doing other things. Yesterday I loaded some rock from the front yard into the black trailer. This morning I finished up the approach ramps with the load from the front. The bridge and first couple feet of path are now done. This morning I was able to take the first cruise all the way around the entire house & barn circle since the most recent excavation was done. Long way to go with rebuilding some old pathways and making new ones... but it's fully drivable with only moderate roughness in comparison to the past.

I came across this wheel horse 312 hydro "classic" near my home. $75! Doesn't run. A little over 400hrs. Owner doesn't know why, but someone cut thru the wiring harness! 🤔🤪 Right there is a big clue sir!! 😂

October 30, 1938, A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes mass panic.

Sometimes you just gotta keep your mouth shut and hand 'em the money!

Hope they make you stop at Yankee Candle in Deerfield too. Endless isles of ridiculous trinkets and candles! You'll love it LOL

Sorry, the plan is to head up this Sunday. I always go alone on my e-free fuel runs, but…wife wants to hit some deli up in Vermont and my mom is now coming. It’s gonna be a loooong drive

This mower has probably 25 years of mostly sitting . It was a three hundred dollar mower even back then. I got it for a family member who had a husband who had a quad bypass so the wife could make the yard. It came back to me when her health declined as well Now my wife has been bugging me for a mower that she can just start and run so with the electric start feature this one will be it. The tank was empty and the air filter foam on the outside was nasty so I gave her a squirt of penetrating oil in the spark plug hole and also the carb and pulled it a few times. It has the patented carb bowl with no room to get a wrench underneath. Maybe an offset wrench would work but who knows. Anyway after thinking about grinding a socket for the bowl nut, I replaced the rotten fuel line . She fired on carb cleaner and caught on the first pull. I have to replace the final drive parts at the wheels if I can figure it out, but at least it will start and run . Maybe YouTube will show me the way on the drive repair . She's a beauty but pretty heavy to push around . .

I have this one and it does indeed work well. I have not used on mower deck pulleys but see no reason why it wouldn't work. It has helped with a few "frozen bolts" though. I like it a lot better than haveing to use an open flame for heat.

I think I might have been asking to much of it. I have owned this one for at least 15 years and it’s been worked hard! Never was used for easy leisurely mowing. Always towing and plowing snow dirt and stone (and today it was railroad ties). It does have the weaker of the 8 speeds so it’ll be getting an upgrade with the new trans.

Caught this rig loafing around awaiting its picture.

Cut four wooden wedges from hardwood, place two of them under one side of the pulley where the tip of one is over the tip of the other, do the same on the other side of the pulley. tap on each wedge going from side to side so the upward pressure will be even. Continue driving the wedges in until they are as far as they will go. put the nut on your spindle shaft to protect the threads and give it s good hard hit with a BFH tool. The pressure from below and the shock to the shaft should do the job.

I got my Dad a 39 crank start Allis B so of course I had to convert it to electric start. 12V battery with a 6V Napa starter. Touch of the starter button and that engine practically flew out of the tractor!

Smiling, but no teeth?

Cinnamon Horse has been happily helping do some yahd projects.

I've added these on 4 tractors and they work very well. One Facet and 3 Carboyle. Just keep the psi very low (5 psi or less, lower is better) and they work great. I prefer to keep them closer to the carb myself but these tractors aren't big enough to mount outside the limit for the pump. Pretty much wherever you want is fine. Pick up a few 3/8 brass fittings and you have plenty of options. Just be sure to install the included filter to preserve the pump itself.

All day long...

Here's one of many threads on e-pumps. 520H Electric fuel pump locations. - Wheel Horse Electrical - RedSquare Wheel Horse Forum I have had good service with the Carbole pumps. Do not let the pumps run dry. I like to wire mine to the hot side of the light switch.

Years ago, I had stickers that said " Be sure brain is engaged before putting mouth in gear"

Kickstand must have been an option on that model!

wonder if they had any trouble with it dumping unexpected?

The flat edge on mowing part of the blade won't affect the job the blade does on the grass. The secret to a good cut is the condition of the "corner" of the blade, where the cutting edge meets the short side of the blade. If the corner is a sharp 90 degree angle that you don't want to push the pad of your thumb or fingertip into very hard it will cut your lawn very nicely. This not to say you shouldn't pay attention to the whole length of the cutting edge, just that it really does't need a razor edge. I didn't learn this on my own, it is discussed in detail in videos you can find on the MagnaMatic.com website.

Electric power washer off the road side. Complete with 2 hoses and wands. It works fine!! Much easier than dragging my gas powered one up the deck stairs.

I don't know if the intention for this thread was to post random funny signs or just for the "stay away from my tractor" signs, but I think I'll post some other funny signs here.

Me Too I have a Facet oin my 418A turn switch on you can hear the pump clicking after a few seconds it gets quieter then yoo will have instant start up.

Go electric. I personally use and recommend Facet brand pumps. There are less expensive models of other brands.

Used and maintained as you noted @FLtractor, it’ll outlast you.

Wow guys. What a help. I messed around a bit at the Toro site and they were saying that only present production models were available for download. With the great weather we are having I will be doing this in the shop during bad weather. Soybean and corn yields are great this year and I want to see my nephews new combine Fendt class 8 that fully optioned can exceed seven figures. The front has tracks instead of tires. He lost his other combine when it burned down in a field. He is hoping for fifty percent depreciated on the insurance claim. An eighteen row head and 250 bushel corn and that thing just eats. Here at the home place the guys are running a John Deere class seven and running while unloading into a grain cart.

A wise old shark and a young shark were swimming near the shore when they spotted a couple of young swimmers. The young shark asked the older one if they should go right over and eat therm. The old shark said no, first we will circle around the with our fins barely above the water, then we will circle them again with our fins fully exposed, then we can eat them. The young shark asked why you would circle them twice like that. The older shark said they taste much better once you scare the sh** out of them.

here's a new angle on removing mower deck pulleys from spindles that have been "rust welded frozen" on the spindle shaft. i have participated in numerous threads on this topic and am back in situation again -- using penetrant, map gas etc -- the two crow bars - hub puller etc. no luck !!!!!! It was suggested to me I need to get pulley collar hotter - and was suggested to use " Heat Induction Bolt Remover" -- or also maybe called "Induction heater" --- Has anyone used this tool to heat and remove the deck pulleys? I watched one video and the guy said when removing a nut the heat process will destroy the nut. Does that suggest the collar on top of pulley on the spindle shaft would be deformed ? I don't want to have to get new pulleys but if that's necessary then I guess that's the cost of removing the pulley ? any insights from anyone using this Heat Induction tool method? thanks

They were brand new blades and that was the factory edge. I know in my 6' New Holland finish mower they want you to leave the blade edge slightly blunt

Just filled up the truck @ $ 3.50 a gallon and a can of non-E for the @ $ 5.00 a gallon. What the heck is that all about? North Carolina suspended the gas tax until the end of November but I guess that only pertains to alcohol adulterated gas and not real gas.

Update on this. About a month ago, I got down to the KY property to work on the tractor. I tried chasing the threads with a die, but it is a round die and I don't have a handle for it. Channel lock pliers wouldn't get a good enough grip to turn the die and keep it straight. A thread file needed to have the wheel, brake, and hub pulled to get enough clearance to run the file. I ended up using the two piece repair nut. It threaded onto the damaged axle threads and pulled up to somewhere near the 400 lb ft torque requirement - or whatever me bouncing a few times on the end of a 4' cheater bar made. I've put several hours of box blade and grader blade time on it since. So far, so good. I still am considering this to be a temporary repair. A new axle is on the repair list now.

I've never used one, but I have seen induction heaters used in production processes. The induction heaters are capable of heating things to a bright orange - hot enough to mess up any heat treatment the heated piece has. Chances are a heat induction bolt remover won't get quite that hot. It probably has an adjustment for the heat level.

I was born in Butler and grew up near there. My dad took me to a couple car shows with Austin and Bantam on display back in the early '70s and I remember the small chassis and 4-wheel steering Jeep models that were made there. Lots of engineering in that part of PA back then, Pullman Standard being another. Cool stuff and a nice find @Mike'sHorseBarn !

Here is the engine service manual

IMHO. That'll be fine.

Well, with all due respect, he’s apparently got a master’s degree in blade manglement and engine defunktitude. A double major!

The BBT aka Trina and I have 4 days off paid work. Plans have changed from wilderness camping to yard & acreage chores. Today we moved the 7 heavy boxes 📦 of the new camper house building to the front of house nearer to the build site. My 1974 C160-8 Cinnamon Horse was called up to duty. After the trailer was emptied of boxes I shoveled some stone into it. That'll be used for the ramps to and from the green garden area bridge.

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My apologies, I misread it! Need to wake up.

HAPPPPY BIRTHDAY

Oops, too many letters. And yes, that is the kind she drinks.

Is that the kind of whine yer old lady drinks?

Situationally dependant. If I wanted that tractor to last another 50 years and I didn't already have a spare engine - I'd spend $500 (or more) on a Kohler > in a heartbeat < before using a cheapo replacement. But with extra engines or whole machines available? It'd get shelved...