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I do not change attachments any more to much bending reaching lifting etc. So today it was time to swap out the snow horses for the grass horses. Sweepster came down yesterday, no wind, got some the TWP road out of the yard and back on the road also the driveway, have some more to do but too windy today. Storage shed is in the distance up the hill.

RedSquare mentioned around the 1:02:00 mark

Being 80 I have learned to plan my work, once on the floor do EVERYTHING while you are down there, if I can remember why I got down there in thre first place.

My mom has been poking around going through old stuff at the house. She found this newspaper clipping from summer of 1974. Bruce of course is my late father. @Qball Yes... The Ugly Bruce. The plant in the following piece is still alive and thriving. If it was blooming in 1917 it was at least several years old then. So now it's 110? More? Horticultural Happening In Petersham By RUTH BASSINGTHWAITE PETERSHAM - Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Banks of Hardwick road recently had a "horticultural happening" in their home. A spider lily plant, last known to blossom some 15 years ago, began to bloom with one after another of the slender flowers appearing as day followed day. The bulb from which the plant has grown is known to be at least 60 years old, members of the family say. It belonged to the late Mrs. Lizzie Rich, Banks' great grandmother. In June of 1917 the plant responded to the bridal blooming month by wholeheartedly for the wedding of Edward and Mildred (Rich) Welch, the present owners' grandparents. Mrs. Vernon Banks, formerly Roberta Welch, had the plant for many years, but, not considering herself a green thumb expert, just "let it be" until her son and wife set up their own home. Mrs. Banks considers her daughter-in-law to be "a good hand with flowers" and it must be so. The younger Mrs. Banks noted that it was possible to witness the unfolding bud to flower production in an hour or two. How she had time to watch is a mystery to us as "almost four year old" Eric, and Heidi and Alana, nine month old twins, provide plenty of action every hour of every day.

Here you go then The line up 73 16 Auto & C160 68 Raider 12 68 Commando 854

11/16/25 I was going to look at a 314-8 with a BerVac 46” snowblower and a 42” RD (pretty mint!). 462 hrs!! He was the original owner and had all the paperwork from when it was new. So, we struck a killer of a deal. Did I mention that he said it hadn’t run in 6 or 7 years?! I rolled the dice, (I mean, hey it was a Kohler!!) I got it home. It was snowy out but i got the mouse nest out from under the motor tin and i pushed it back into the garage for the winter. Till today!! I did all the usual… cleaned out the tank, put in a new shut off valve, new lines, filter and primer bulb. I rebuilt the fuel pump and cleaned out the carb. There may have been a few things i forgot in there. But, primed the motor and it fired right to life!! It was a bit Smokey at first, 30 seconds into it and it didn’t smoke a bit! I made it around the yard once and the drive belt had had enough, it was toast!!

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

The 854 got a spiffy new set of adjustable tie rods commissioned from @ri702bill. Beautiful craftsmanship! Much improved steering now that the toe-out has been corrected. When giving it a test ride, I discovered that the tractor's left turn radius is a few inches tighter than its right turn radius when the spindle arms are hitting their respective stops. Only quirk is that the ball ends that I sourced have SAE threading on both the male and female parts, but the flats are metric! The shaft flats are SAE because Bill turned them from SAE hex stock.

Early model Crescent, modernized from overhead line shaft operation to electric with safety features. Built late eighteen hundreds, runs on Babbitt can accommodate blades up to two inches wide, currently fitted with 1.250" Crescent Machine Company was founded in Leetonia, Ohio in 1893. It manufactured a line of industrial woodworking machinery, particularly band saws. In 1940, it was bought by Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Company, which became the Rockwell Manufacturing Company in 1946. Leaving in the morning to bring her home.

Cleaned up a downed apple tree at my mom’s house today. The tree had just started good apple 🍎 production! Uses the 314- 8 of my brothers anddhis 4 wheel wagon as our other Wheel Horse cart was being used by their neighbor . Five loads in the four wheel wagon and she was cleaned up!

It's a runner! Wiring isn't 100% done. Going to try to get that finished up tomorrow. It still needs tuning but I may have to do that at Pullstart's.

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

You whippersnappers...Just remember what Hank said. We came from the West Virginia coal mines And the Rocky Mountains, and the western skies And we can skin a buck, we can run a trotline And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive

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

Hey fellas, So my work with the helicopter took me out to Indiana doing controlled burning, and I noticed three Wheel Horse Tractor’s at a person’s house along my route to the airport every day… Decided to stop in and met a great guy named Larry Greener, I’m sure a lot of you may know him. He used to have a pretty massive collection of our tractors. It was so nice, he was in the backyard and we just started chatting and he showed me some of his tractors… Including this awesome C160 that had a front end loader. Living out in California, I have never actually seen another Wheel Horse other than my own lol, so it was fun to chat with Larry. It is greening up so beautifully out here in Indiana, absolutely beautiful. I think I’m going to relocate here! All the best Jason

Slapped some brush painted red on this dethatcher today (gray just wasn’t going to cut it!)

I changed the oil and oil filter, and greased all 4 zircs. The recycler deflector had both bottom corners broken off, which sent grass all over the place, so I installed a piece of flooring and metal retainer to block it off. Buying a new deflector and parts for $75+ isn't in my budget at the moment. On a side note, I went down to the local Autozone to buy some sae30 oil. I didn't see any on the shelf so I asked an employee if they had any in the back warehouse. I told him I needed 2 qts. He came back with 2. When they rung it up, it showed it was 1 cent a qt. The manager said it was discontinued and they just wanted to get rid of it. I told them I'd buy whatever they had left. Walked out with 7 qts for 8 cents (sales tax was 1 cent).

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 joking of course. I'd love to be up there with them. Not sure I'd do touch and goes in random fields they way they do, but fun to watch. I was running my compressor and didn't hear them in time to get great pics, but this is my back yard.

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

Just got me a 418-8 tonight, been wanting one ever since I got a 418-A couple summers ago. Needs some cleaning up but runs sweet and decent older 48" deck. Of course the paper ID tag is wasted on it. What would be the model number on it?

Been riding quite a bit this week. Today I went on a stretch of the trail that I haven’t been on in a loooong time. It goes right thru the center of a small city which usually doesn’t appeal to me, but I actually had a great ride and eventually I passed thru the city and back into the woods. Stopped to snap a lot of pics:

April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise. The spacecraft’s destination was the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon, where the astronauts were to explore the Imbrium Basin and conduct geological experiments. After an oxygen tank exploded on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objective became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive. At 9:00 p.m. EST on April 13, Apollo 13 was just over 200,000 miles from Earth. The crew had just completed a television broadcast and was inspecting Aquarius, the Landing Module (LM). The next day, Apollo 13 was to enter the moon’s orbit, and soon after, Lovell and Haise would become the fifth and sixth men to walk on the moon. At 9:08 p.m., these plans were shattered when an explosion rocked the spacecraft. Oxygen tank No. 2 had blown up, disabling the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light, and water. Lovell reported to mission control: “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” This is such a coinsurance that Artemis 2 completed its nearly flawless mission the day before the 56th anniversary of launch of one of NADSA's most spectacular seat-of-the-pants engineering feats.

Not today, but YESTERDAY... We took a road trip to Mechanicsville to see @richmondred01. Along with the rebuilt K341s I bought home, I was fortunate to procure a nice straight fender pan and hood. Thank you sir! We took the scenic route home, through the Shenandoah Valley. The most difficult issue was iris continually trying to route us back to 95 and DC/Baltimore traffic. Aside from that, it was a really great day. Straight as an arrow, nice patina. And look, no spider cracks on the fender pan!

Doubled…maybe even tripled the value here ! Found a 300-400 series rear fender decal in my decal stash-pile that I’ll never slap onto a fender. Last picture is what I started with.

Lots of good wood for smoking. Apple wood smoked ribs on the menu anytime soon?

Put a little bling bling on that came from Vinyl Guy. Changed engine and hydro oil and filters and added oil filter cooling tin gasket.

April 13, 1976, The US reintroduces the discontinued and never-popular $2 bill to mark the nation’s bicentennial. The bill carries a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, born on April 13, 1743.

Your title is made up of the four most expensive words in the whole English language

Getting ready to paint the thing Got it all mask off

Today was "Get the tractors ready to mow day" Went to the WaWa to get some Rotella 30W and a couple tubes of Red n Tacky Engine Oil change, added EZ oil drain valve ,grease and blade sharpening on the 875 Engine Oil change, Trans oil (Mobil 1 10W40 Napa 1410 filter) grease. New battery and blade sharpening on the C-160

April 9, 1965, The Houston Astrodome opens, the world's first indoor, air-conditioned domed sports stadium. A year later, the Dome made history again when it showcased the first installation of Astroturf.

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.

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.

Love the 418's. I too would love to acquire the elusive 418-C.

I was using a push type reel mower on my lawn in Mo. Once, a couple teen ages came walking down the street while I was mowing. As they passed, one said to the other "oh, it's a lawn mower". I replied " yup, it runs on beer and cheeseburgers".

Did some staging on my bookshelf in the family room. The Nylint in the background is new to me.

A 310 I picked up this winter that needed some TLC. A very low hour tractor.

April 12, 1954 Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock".

My son has begun to really like riding his bike, so I drug mine out of hibernation to ride with him. Apparently as I've aged, the amount of padding on my saddle grabber has disappeared. So I swapped the seat to the "old fart non-reclining couch" version, and it is so much better! Looks a little dorky on my bike but I don't care... It's a Cadillac now!

I was an Army pilot. We don't jump out of a perfectly good aircraft. Of course mine were helicopters so it didn't make sense anyway...

Added adjustable seat tracks to HHHOOOWWWAAARRRDDD!!!

Given the businesses mentioned and its unique design, this is an antique ice pick or ice chipper, specifically a promotional one for an ice company. Identity & Function The "cage" handle is a practical design for an ice tool. It is often referred to as a "cool handle" or spring handle, designed to provide a secure grip even when your hands or the tool are wet and cold, while also dissipating the chill so the metal doesn't freeze to your hand. B. Cooper & Co. / Bond & Turney: These names confirm its use. B. Cooper and G. F. Bond were partners in the B. Cooper Ice Company of Troy, NY. They harvested natural ice from the Hudson River and local lakes, delivering it to residents for their "iceboxes" before electric refrigeration existed. Telephone 784: This was the direct line to the ice house to request a delivery. The Pointed Tip: Used to chip off specific-sized blocks of ice from a larger slab to fit a home icebox. Why the Unusual Shape? The scalloped, fan-like end (where the business names are stamped) likely doubled as a scraper or a small cleaver for smoothing the surface of an ice block or breaking off chunks, making it a "multi-tool" for the ice man or homeowner.

Hey Don, give that old coot a pass! (Pun intended)

Dawn Power Wash dish soap works well.

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

Here is the wagon I built. No, it does not tilt but it is very stable. Also, you can easily unhitch it when loaded so long as it does not roll away. Backing a wagon is much more difficult than a trailer. I grew up on a farm so backing up hay wagons got to be second nature. However, these small wagons are more difficult as they jackknife quickly.

This is great information for old people here like @Ed Kennell 😜😂 just kidding Ed ya know I love ya!!