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More pictures of the diesel all painted my 74 year old dad did an awesome job using spray paint

My property has oodles of weeds. Personally, so long as it's all the same color when cut the same length, it's good enough for me.

April 14, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant and his wife turn down an invitation to join President and Mrs. Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre to see the comedic play "Our American Cousin." In doing so, he deprives assassin John Wilkes Booth of a second target.

I treated mine with weed and feed every spring for many years. Then my well water started to grow some slimy snot.. After about three years of shock treating that only worked for about 3 months, I contacted Penn State and was informed the weed and feed was probably leaching into the well and causing the growth. I stopped the weed and feed and the well has tested good for several years. I have weeds and bare spots, but the water is good.

Just buried an old friend today. Your post and todays service reminded me that we need to enjoy fellowship with those who we have grown-up and grown-old with.

Got these 16 x 6.50 - 8 for 10 bucks ea.

And if there is an old friend that you keep saying you are going to go visit some day, don't wait because you may lose the chance. That has happened both ways for me in the last couple of years. I have had a good visit just before I lost a friend and I have missed the chance and lost a friend just before I went to visit.

Sorry for your loss bud. Seems everything in this world can stop except time. Enjoy it with those around you.

I've kept a handful of those stamped bearings just for "get back to the shed" emergencies, but that is all they are good for. If, and only IF your spindles are in good shape then you can use Stens heavy duty bearings (see the pic below) and grease caps. Some folks prefer sealed bearings, I do not. A shot of grease every few months makes a mess but it will make a bearing last for decades. If I have to use sealed bearings, I remove the inner seals and make use of the grease fittings.

Kinda kept this project quiet over the winter. Purchased it from @Buckeyes last year. Although I have original 4hp Kohler (w/matching patina) I decided to go with a more unique powerplant. 3hp diesel. Some modification needed to make it all work. Air cleaner wouldn't fit under hood so I had to improvise & use aftermarket. Slight modification to original belt guard mounting to get it to fit. Got original throttle lever to work w/diesel throttle control. Tried to make it look as original/subtle as I could. Usually starts on the 1st pull thanks to decompression lever. Think it will be my cruiser for when I attend shows..... 20260210_130010.mp4

The older I get, the more I realize that every day is a gift!

AHS: That looks like a great worker for you. Keep checking things until you feel you have all the bugs out. Enjoy the ride.

Been looking on line. I've more likely got a bad wire or a bad sender. There are 3 connections on the PC board that might be loose or dirty, too.

Yea is also been suggested just run em like ya stole em & replace every so often. It's not like it's a major job to replace them.

I like to use the sealed bearings. Usually get a couple hundred hours out of them. https://www.amazon.com/Pack-PGN-Flanged-Ball-Bearing/dp/B08HR2JNGJ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa

If you fertilize it, it grows faster...I do not seed the snow clouds why would I want to make the grass grow faster... ???

Treated the lawn today with Scott’s Max Weed and Feed. Never used Max before but Weed and Weed in the past did pretty well! Used my 1962 Wheel Horse 702 and my Stryker spreader! Took about one hour. 51% chance of rain this evening and 100% in Wednesday! So i took a chsnce by spreading today!

Just back from enjoying a visit with some old friends in Ocean City, Md.

Hasppy Birthday @Easton Rich, we are glad you were born.

HAPPPPY BIRTHDAY

wishing you a Wheel Horse of a day!

Happy Borned on Day, Easton Rich

Just curious is it easy to find service manuals for these tractors?

Happy Happy Easton

Can you tell us what pump you are talking about

Agreed. Do what it takes to make yourself happy and content as long as it's not at the expense of others.

I live in a town of about 11,000 people. We have five maybe six businesses that sell lawn mowers. I am amazed at how many mowers are sold in this town EACH year. I suspect that many more mowers are brought in from Springfield, some 30 miles away, where we have several big box stores selling mowing machines. I had a 1986 Snapper LT12 lawn tractor that we inherited when my wife's father died. I never really cared for it because of the hokey drive wheel and I sold it when I got the 520H. I fully see the 520H still running when I'm sitting in a nursing home slobbering in my oatmeal. We do use the TORO zero turn that mom gave us when she went to the assisted living and I likewise expect it to be the last mower we purchase. My wife's arthritis in her hands makes driving (the easy to steer) 520H hard for her so her go-to is the zero turn. I'm still baffled to see two or more mowers sitting outside, uncovered at many a house here. The narrator of the video was right. I'd rather purchase a used well-made machine than a plastic new one. I appreciate the video. It speaks not only to Wheelhorse but a host of other things that arn't the original manufacturers quality.

i use the ones in the link Achto posted above. I like the sealed because it keeps the grease off of them newly painted wheels .

I hope so. I need a big welding cart, the problem is I don't like the price at almost $500. I have seen on Reddit recently where some people have bought the exact same BluePoint tool cart I have used for around $300. If I could sell it for that I'd be OK covering the difference.

Burned out my last electrode for my plasma cutter last week. Place I bought it from said they'd discontinued the unit, and it's consumables. I use it enough that I ordered a new one, higher output, and then the next day they found me a link to the Amaze-On store for the company that made it for them where I could still get the consumables. New one arrived today, so I had to set it up and test it out. I think it works pretty well. Burned this out for the wife. It isn't perfect, but we both have some rough edges... Our first initials on the top, last in the middle, then the kids at the bottom.

I moved the tractor out of the neighbor's driveway this afternoon. I worked on a rather compacted spoils pile that has collected next to the front walk from the front porch cconstruction to make friends with the FEL and build some muscle memory with the directional pedals and brake pedal. The bucket didn't break into the pile very well. Next session, I'll loosen things up with the back hoe before doing more bucket work. I'll also move the mini van out of the driveway to make more room to spread what I am removing out front in the alley behind the garage - did good today, didn't hit my 72 Chevy pickup or the neighbor's fence with the back hoe or snag the mini van with the bucket when turning into and out of the alley. Got to talk with the previous owner as well - the temp gage said it was running hot, but it didn't act like it was hot. Didn't feel overheated when I opened the hood when I parked it, either. Edit: I checked it when it had cooled down - the temp gage still said it was hot. I suspect a bad gage - which appears to be built into the printed circuit board that runs the rest of the dashboard.

The pressed steel bearings are not as durable

See you next year, with it at the fuel station! That will run all year on a tank!

Pretty much finished up my winter project today. 1987 418-A paired with a 1995 tall shoot 42" snow blower. It started early last year when Original Tractor Cab Co. started selling cabs again for 300, 400, & 500 series. I also wanted to upgrade my snowblower from manual to electronic control with chute rotation and deflector movement all controlled from a joystick in the cab. Cab install was easy enough. Directions were easy to follow and no missing parts in the kit. I upgraded to the glass windshield (highly recommended), all lights, windshield wiper, side mirrors, review mirror, and cab heater. I also got the switch panel kit. IMG_8874.mp4 Next was the shoot control. Big thanks to @Steve Janninck for helping design and 3D print the electronic control boxes and other various parts. Joystick control: Electronic switching control box: The limit switch and diode box: IMG_9206.mp4 And the most anticipated piece....Air Horns! I had purchased these 12 volt air horns a couple years ago in anticipation of installation on a tractor one day. As the project came together, it became apparent that this is was the time to install them. IMG_6335.mp4 IMG_9227.mp4 IMG_9226 (1).mp4 IMG_9224 (1).mp4

I found some pictures of my 753 set up with the SGM-603. Note the swivel joints where the reel mowers connect to the arms and rear hitch. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

I got her as she had a nice deck and as a hydro wanted to use her with the cyclo-vac in the fall. Also I prefer Sunstrands for snow horse duties. They are not finicky about warming up before the hydro lift will work as some eatons are. The 418A was removed from snow duty years ago as she had to warm before she would raise tha snow blower to drive it out of the shop. And the Sunstrands have the 10 pinion LSD.

Brand doesn't matter much, I use batteries made by East Penn which are sold under various brand names. If you care at all about battery life they must be kept fully charged using a quality small charger. I use Battery Tender brand chargers and charge 2 or 3 days per month and get about 6 to 8 years from each battery. You didn't read the heading in this topic, it is for battery powered tractors.

Nice that it has the ROPS too. Good luck with it.

To stop the bleeding when you get cut on the poorly machined parts.

I would check with @76c12091520h He has way more stuff than is listed in the vendor pages.

The BBT has been ridiculous busy as usual. She started doing a second position for the hospital. Accounts Payable. This afternoon we moved the main backyard gate from "open out" to "open in". This makes it easier for us to move snow and also keeps the dog from the possibilities of pushing through the gate. Trina's also been busy for several days replacing the floor in her momma's kitchen. They didn't like the way the other (plastic fiber fake wood) things were laying down. She and her momma put down a 1 x 10 pine floor. Leftovers from the barn build. Polyurethane will be applied soon.

Busy busy weekend this week. Last night was girls' night at the school. It used to be the father/daughter dance, but they changed it because some girls don't have dads. This morning was hunting/dog run, followed by car work, then date day/shopping with the girls. Took my daughter ice skating for the first time, I like wheels better.

I'm thankful the Amish have deep pockets i my area.

I was telling my wife a couple of days ago that it saddens me to see our farmlands being busted up into small acreages. Minimum lot size in rural areas in Missouri are one to three acres dependent upon soil condition and perking for septic systems and wells. Our subdivision started out with lot size of about 1 1/4 acres. Then when the law changed, the remaining lots became 2 1/2 acres. 2 1/2 acres is a lot to mow, In my opinion, they certainly don't need that much land for septic system and well. Land here in south Missouri isn't THAT productive but these overly-large lots are NOT productive. We've got several farms being broken into 5 to ten acres. I understand housing needs and I wouldn't want to give my 1 1/4 acres for a 1/3 acre lot in town. On the other hand, some of the lots in town a person can barely ride a mower along side of the house. There's 400 acres just down the road with a gravel road through it and homes being built. Progress I suppose. Our family farm is pretty safe from "development". It already has three oil lines and two overhead power lines and a oil pumping station on it. I know what you mean about farmland disappearing to feed urban and suburban development, as a combination of factors can make it more desirable to an owner or an owner's family to sell instead of keep farming. A couple of years ago, we sold our 42-acre 'project' house and property. Fortunately, the people who bought that property don't seem interested in subdividing, and I'm hoping that they will set up a conservation easement or some kind of restrictive covenant that would prevent subdivision and allow its use as farmland. Its location was quite far from areas of significant suburban development (probably too far to interest the typical developer), and Maine's population growth rate is pretty slow, but you never know how things might change over the years. Even though we weren't 'farming,' I did continue to maintain its 20 acres of fields with regular mowing over the 17 years that we owned it to prevent the forest from taking over (which can happen very rapidly) and to gradually build up the soil with 'green manure.' Below is a photo of one of the fields, taken when I was mowing it several years ago. We are down to one property now, where we have been living for about 12 years, and I must say that since we are now only maintaining one property instead of two, we have quite a bit more free time to pursue other interests. Our current residence is on a 2-1/4 acre lot, which is mostly wooded and large enough to give us pretty decent privacy. Minimum lot size in our zoning district is 1-1/2 acres. To be honest, I wouldn't mind having a bit of extra land, at least on one side of our lot, but I'm not complaining. One thing that helps is that we're on a large river, and the visible island is town-owned land and is not buildable, so our view and privacy in that direction is protected. I like the new color!

Pretty busy indoor work day around here. I got some more work done on my new scale model building setup. Trina bought herself a new computer desk for her home office. It's functional but could be bigger and the keyboard holder didn't fit between the table legs. We made this larger top out of plywood. She painted it to match and got it all set up. The BBT aka Paint Department has been itching to get the one dark wall of the kitchen redone. She's never been fond of that color. Today she got some darker gray and combined that with white we had here to make a medium gray.

Nice start... Not too many of us ever feel we "enjoy" the electrical challenge though....

@8ntruck My dad has the Kubota equivalent of that machine, the BX23 (or something like that) with the 60” deck, FEL, and backhoe. He uses it all the time. If he’s outside, chances are the tractor is nearby serving as a wheelbarrow, puller-outer of things, or digger. He uses it to put heavy things into or out of the truck bed, lifts firewood up on to the deck, and touches up the driveway. obviously the backhoe isn’t used as often as the tractor and loader, but he uses it a lot more than I ever guessed he would. He’s dug trenches with it, drug stuff out of the woods, taken out stumps, and planted countless trees and bushes. It’s been really good for ripping out roots of nearby plants that have encroached into a spot where he wanted to dig. the backhoe is amazingly powerful for such a diminutive thing. It has enough power to flip the tractor over if you’re not careful. So it has capability beyond what it looks like. If you’re looking for an excuse to buy it you’ll find them within ten minutes of having it home. steve