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Took advantage of being snow bound. No reason to get out and too cold for me to enjoy being out so I went through our hundreds of slides and transferred them to the computer. Fun to look back to the mid 1960's of family photos. Lots of memories and things I hadn't thought about for years. For one, that's me on my first mower. I don't remember what it cost. I'm pretty sure was a Montgomery Wards, one forward speed and one reverse speed. The blade was a direct drive--If the engine was spinning--the blade was turning. I believe Ward's mowers had tread on the tires and Sear's mowers were smooth. I'm guessing that if it was in gear and a lad pulled the starter rope and it fired off, said lad would be slow chasing his mower.

Cleaned up after the 417-A with two stage blower today with the 418-C. I have the skids setup a little bit on the blower so I can go across the grass. This way my dog can have a place to go, and I can get to the place I dump my ashes from the wood stove. Scraped the driveway down with the 418. Tomorrow if I get ambitious I might get the C-141 with the sweeper out and clean the driveway a little better.

Ventilation for a belt guard ala @cleat with a Greenlee punch. Bit different pattern Cleat but should work. Coulda had the spacing a little closer. Deburred with a step bit. Speaking of step bits... @Pullstart was here...

I've got a small block Chevy in my old ugly orange truck with sketchy valve seals or maybe worn guides. Th3 #3 cylinder was fouling the plug. As a stop gap, i installed a plug with a higher heat range in that cylinder. That patch has been working for several years now. Probly ought to mention that I don't drive that truck very often.

Well a little bit of thawing seemed to really help. Wet concrete grips better than frozen. So got a couple driveways done. Then my friend and I got a Wheel Horse Man Date in as we plowed the parking lot for small school. Mine is the 416-8 and his is the 417-A. We were plowing after dark for a few hours. First time I needed the headlights for work. Was glad I had them though. Parking lot lights were out. But we got it cleared off pretty good.

Take the deflector off and add a flap of rubber to the back outside of the chute so it extends up into the deflector. Pop rivets will work. Then put the deflector back on over the rubber. That is how Gravely solved that problem on their snow cannons.

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Been there!! My first rider was a similar Sears model - but it had a blade clutch. But I did start it in gear one time... ONE time.

Definitely offshore for that coin but probably good enough for the women we go out with. OEM labeled will be 3-4 times that price.

Amazon has a pretty big selection. Count the teeth on your old starter and make sure the new one is the same. I think they only made a 10 tooth and a 13 tooth. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kohler+k301+starter&crid=237QC8AU74ED&sprefix=kohler+K301+starter%2Caps%2C147&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-expert-pd-ops-ranker_2_19

I've seen too many of those cheapie and cube pumps fail prematurely in my auto parts store days. Use a Facet Posi Flo, Carbole, Mr. Gasket, Napa Balkamp. All the same pump in a different box.

During a party this past fall my wifes cousin Linda took a liking to my late 1970s C160-8 speed plow rig. Linda is the woman I've mentioned before with stage 4 ovarian cancer. She said she wanted one... well I told her Id build her a unit. I put together a 1985ish 310-8 and got it delivered to her country home in time for this 2 ft snow storm. She knocked back all the snow and im glad she had fun doing it. I believe the quote was "it kicks ass" Yah it broke a tierod... no biggie I'll get one to her before the next storm which is suppose to be bigger this coming weekend. I love spreading the Wheel Horse joy... there is no better unit out there! PERIOD!! Cecil had better have set up shop in heaven... or I aint going!! Tony

I’m glad to have two horses set up for snow duty. Had a chain come off my D160 so i finished up with my 417. We have another storm potentially brewing here NJ. Possibly a NorEaster.

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Didn't realize the wife was recording from inside her warm kitchen. Like I said earlier, I love Hydros!

Gave her a test drive today. Most definitely a huge improvement, and I already loved this thing before. Reduction steering is a massive plus on fat front tires. I can steer with one finger now. Hydro is much faster. Now it drives like any other Eaton as far as I can tell. Of course the foot control makes it better. I went ahead and changed the engine oil and filter, even though it had only 10 hours on the clock total. I built this engine so I wanted to make sure it was cleaned out just in case. I always do that with rebuilt engines. Oil change before 5 hours and once more about 5 hours later. She's good now for 50 hours run time. Took pics just to prove we do in fact occasionally get some form of white stuff...

Happy Birthday @Sodaking27, we are all glad you were born.

Try Pat's small engine plus @Achto may have a Otherwise find the PN and Google it.

I use SnowJet on STs and Snow Shovels prior to snow storms - works great. I think Gary hit it on the head. The gap is very small and amazed at the amount of snow that sneaks thru. May try to finish cleaning this storm. If it works - great. If not, will pop rivet a piece of rubber. Thanks for the responses.

On Sunday I plowed just fine with the 416-H. My driveway is only 125 feet long with a mild 1% uphill grade from garage to the road. Under most circumstances I can push snow up to 6" deep. I don't use chains. That was Sunday. When I was finished, the snow and ice wasn't. Come Monday morning there was another 2" of snow, followed by 2" of frozen mix. It was hard enough that my 240 pound didn't make a dent in it. The 416-H would not begin to push it. So I fired up the old Craftsman 24" snow blower. It slowly cut through the frozen mess. Clean up followed with the 416-H.

Same here and I run the scraper on dead flat on blacktop. The auger carries snow around back to the front and throws it underneath instead of out the chute. Worse when it hits a uneven spot. Center of the auger is getting beat up and should be manicured. I bet installing rubber paddles would help

Gives new meaning to "You light up My Life"

I got blow back yesterday first blower use in several years. Mine has wheels so I lowered her a notch made it a bit better but still blow back.. I have gravel and uneven ground so I don't want to set it any lower . Just go back with a plow to tidy up.

Thanks for the offer, WHX??. I think I can get by for now with the blade on 'Ol Rusty.

Eric how much snow did you get? I had to use the 14 hp blower to get the huge leftover banks form the plow trucks. The blower did short work of it and three neighbors driveway entrance. At lest it was not hard packed snow.

Can you lower the scraper edge a bit?? I see the exact same thing with mine. I move the vast majority of it with one tractor with the blower, then final cleanup with the plow tractor.

Here is a comparative viscosity chart that cross-references the common SAE engine oil, SAE gear oil, and ISO VG (hydraulic fluid) grading systems. Note that while oils on the same horizontal line have similar viscosities, they contain different additives and are not always interchangeable; Kinematic Viscosity (cSt @ 40°C) ISO VG (Hydraulic) SAE Engine Oil SAE Gear Oil 32 ISO VG 32 SAE 10W SAE 75W 46 ISO VG 46 SAE 15W / SAE 20 - 68 ISO VG 68 SAE 20W / SAE 30 SAE 80W 100 ISO VG 100 SAE 30 SAE 80W / SAE 90 150 ISO VG 150 SAE 40 SAE 90 220 ISO VG 220 SAE 50 SAE 90 / SAE 140 320 ISO VG 320 SAE 60 SAE 140 Back at the Power and Hydro plants turbine oil is rarely changed ie I replaced 50 year old oil when doing major rehabs. A Conoco Phillips oil chemist recommended we use hydraulic oil as additive oil to our turbines to boost the gradually lost additives. We also did additive testing every few years and on rare occasions had the oil company make us a special 5 gallon can of super additive oil. So my 2 cents is to keep using a Hydraulic oil to get additives. Then again garden tractor loaders are low pressure 7-800psi, so there not like the 3000 and 5000 psi modern industrial systems. So additives for pumps and valve surfaces aren't as critical.

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We sure have been talking about these a lot lately. I use the offshore 9.98 ones with no problems but any low pressure 2-4 or 5 psi will work. Search on electric fuel pump to find those threads. Just installed a cheapy on a 520 that was a notorious hard starter. Started right up the other day at -15 out. Another one in progress.

Outstanding Tony! She looks like she's really enjoying that tractor! Well done sir!

Couple 857 pics as it leaves the warm basement after a repair and gets put back in the cold shed

It sounds like a shorting path to ground. Or maybe is it getting oil fouled?? Try switching the plug from #3 with another - see if it follows the cylinder or the plug... I have seen a bad plug before that when removed & grounded the spark jumped the gap just fine. Reinstall, and it would not work under compression. Changed the plug and it ran fine. Not so sure an inline spark checker would be of help - gives a false positive for the condition above...

Well done Tony. She looks happy riding the tractor. I am glade we don’t get storms like this one every year.

Yes

Posted in your other thread Wayne. I can send you my old bushings to get ya by. Best thing to try when you get hung up drop the blower to get weight off the front and back on the rear. Back out carefully in the same tracks dragging the blower. Lift the blower back up when clear.

We got close to 12” of sand like snow and have been off and on getting more all day. The 308 didn’t break a sweat.

I got a blower you could rig up on a A-90 for her Doc. Some Briggs power... 💪

Good idea I was actually gonna purchase one for reloading to clean my brass

Warming it up first worked and she fired right up. Ran through 2 tanks of gas. Some of those drifts were pretty high too. Luckily the neighbor across the street was out there with his loader and also pushed my 3ft + DOT piles to the side for me. The DOT plow piles are always the test of durability on the 2 stage's chain

Looks like it came with the super rare cutting board belt guard !! 😂👍🏻

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That was my idea. That way I'd have room in the pole building for a project or two, not just tractor storage.

Good to see you're back! Life is a beach without any Wheel Horses

Fixed it for ya... This just in from NOAA... climate scientists have determined the true cause of climate change...!!! earth's gravitational pull has been altered due to a previously unknown and highly irregular concentration of C-160 Wheel Horses in Maine... efforts to verify this have been met with a Black Belt and many damaged field agent egos... this is a developing story.

‘84 C-145 Auto

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Is to early for Christmas carol. Got this from @Pullstart at big show this year and haven’t got to mess with it much….Yet

Had some of the C series Herd out today.