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Now I didn't start this ... credit goes to Brian @76c12091520h ... This is Busty with the bus seat that Pullstart give me. Replaced it with a home made seat that was a little more comfy and easier on the eyes. A go to tub puller and a ride around at every show. The boys said I shoulda renamed it Horny since I put this on ...

The only thing I am waiting for now on this 1057 is the E/fuel pump. This was supposed to be my winter build. But this went faster than I thought it would. But it is not running yet. I am sure there will be some tweaking to be done. I had this almost three years now just sitting doing nothing but taking up space. The seat was worth putting these patches on the seat from years of use good enough till I can have it reupholstered by Matt. I hope you enjoy the picks. OHH Also Wallfish made this pice that controls carb linkage. It works very well. No slop from worn out holes from years of use. It has full throttle movement. Or click click from idle screw to full throttle stop. Best I can do.

One day long ago somebody, somewhere was doing something stupid and hoping they would get away with it. What was that word / practice invented you ask? Sketch / Sketchy... Today im delivering the 310 I built for my wifes cousin so she has it for this weekends "big" storm. Its a little over an hour to her house. Pics are from this morning after I did my driveway. Somebody wish me luck!!

Got some snow between yesterday and today. Decided to do one pass last night on our driveway. Then did final pass and did my plow account about 20 minutes ago. 415BB428-68EE-4462-B3FC-C93255AE4408.mov

Not to be out done by the WI dudes ( @Achto, @WHX??), I've decided to start a restore on the 551 I brought back from the Big Show. Big thanks to @Pullstart and his crew for working with me and bringing to show for pick up. This will be my first Tecky motor restore and already miss my Kohlers . Just kidding motor seems solid without any unusual ticks, knocks, or smoke. Ordered a carb kit and will start there if and when I get steering wheel off. The throttle cable needs some attention fo sure cant hardly move it. Have had it running and drove it around and trans seems to be good. Haven't put a battery to it yet just used rope to start but wanting to have it both ways. I have a lauson 5.5 from the 550 I have and looks like a lot of stuff is the same ??? and it ran when took off years ago. May need some help on the electric when I get to it. One thing I can think of right now is what is the little box with the diode/fuses do thats on side of motor? just have one pic of it before I pulled it in shop but will post others asap .

I put a winch on the dedicated snow machine. I hurt for 2 days anymore using the manual lift. I do about 3/8 mile of drives.

I don't have a C-160 but I do have a C-120/180. If I subtract the 20 from the 80 does that make it a C-160.

I keep one in the drawer with my dual-purpose screwdriver.

Just can't turn your back on them there Wisconsin Garden Tractor Mafia members. A few years ago I bought a real nicer Wheel Horse at the Big Show, went to have lunch and came back to this

120… I like what ya did there.. Beautiful machine!

My experience with rubber and steel chains on turf tires. SURFACE RUBBER STEEL TURFS w/o any chains bare pavement best poor good ice poor best poor mud good best poor snow on grass good best poor snow on gravel good best poor snow on dirt good best poor

January 19, 1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

Having a whale of a time at plow day. AQM0Xq7jyqk7ZyEgjfH14PBJor9YDb5YGdiGT7W6acIrQ_FHmAfE0HbsQ9U8xKHPKbzaPv-r3-H6hmP-hlv4WYN2d8QUQn1dMu7Kwl5WubnBEw.mp4

January 23, 1986 Inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Chuck Berry; James Brown; Ray Charles; Sam Cooke; Fats Domino; The Everly Brothers; Buddy Holly; Jerry Lee Lewis; Elvis Presley; Little Richard; Robert Johnson; Jimmie Rodgers; Jimmy Yancey; Alan Freed; John Hammond; and Sam Phillips

Finally ready for install. Had to go additional 2” to the right in the front and reduce the overall length by 1/2”. .125 steel Sunrise Red

Yup, just took the air cleaner base off and found that I had somehow wedged the throttle linkage wide open. Oops. All fixed.

Here is something for your optical entertainment Sylvia. Maybe I should paint this on the hood for @WHX?? ??

Refresh and a magnum.

Is hard to say good bye.

I decided to add shallow grooves on the steering shaft to retain grease under the welded-on gear. The coiled pin in the steering wheel did not want to budge, so I had to leave the upper end assembled. I had to do some creative fixturing but added five equally spaced shallow (.030 deep) grooves inline with the root of every other tooth of the gear using a ball endmill.

Plastic scraper, flat blade screwdriver (being careful to not take the paint off), rags and elbow grease. No cleaning chemicals or even water. This spring I’ll remove the fender and guards and all and it’s get a proper pressure washing.

More like insulation… gotta keep that hydro pump warm for best performance and long life !

Took the C-145 for its first trail ride. Stuck and spinning more than moving along…back to the garage she went. Scored these used rubber tire chains at last summers WH Show and today they paid off! She went pretty much anywhere I wanted to go. Would have been unstoppable if I added wheel weights I bet!

Does buying one count?

The weather weenies are notoriously inaccurate when to come to predicting precipitation amounts...However in the last few years they are getting pretty close to predicting temperatures, So I am pretty sure it is going to be cold as a witches t*****

First major hurdle is over.

Got bad news for ya Squirrels... Dan and I already had our grubby mitts on that tractor and had our way with it. Pullstart plow day last year or the year before CRS. He had just got it and the first thing I said to him is... Kev this is way too nice a rig for the looks of you In between furrows Dan and I got bored 😴 and fingered we couldn't mess it up any worse than Pullstart could. I don't remember what we all did maybe @Achto does but we got it running. Pretty sure Dan had to teabag it a couple times. I was gonna flash some cash on it just to keep the angle grinder off it but tractor heavy ya know. Don't need another project. If I recollect it didn't need a frame off resto. On the carb for 15 clams I wouldn't be afraid to try a off shore. One worked great on a 502 I had & cheaper than rebuild parts. On the electrical I can definitely help you out ther. I went through a couple of techies and got real intimate with them diodes. '24 it was... AC Dude and Sylvia supervised. Well Sylvia just stood around lookin stoopid and doled out the 🧀 curds

I think someone put Jimmy in "time out".

I’ll join in. Heres mine bit rough and needs some work though. But definitely not as nice as @76c12091520h!

Thanks for the complements. I am pressed for space right now in that I have my truck, the wifes explorer, and my plow tractor all taking up space in my shop right now. My plan is to get another two car garage built next summer so my shop can actually just be a shop and not storage so at that point I may well buy or build a lift table that will likely do double duty of tractor maintenance and also a better way to clean the mower deck after each use where now I crawl under each time.

This would be a good opportunity to go with an electric pump.

Well it’s not what I did today, but this past week. Myself and another guy dug the hole for a foundation of a new house. Mostly I push material to the guy in the excavator who bales it out of the hole. Then I finish grade the bottom of the hole with the dozer +/- 2” for the masons. The hole is almost but not finished in the picture, I just snapped it after lunch one day. This is in one of the most expensive zip codes in the country. 1.9 acre lot- 7 million dollars. Spec house that will probably list for around 23 million! This whole area used to be nothing but farmland mostly potatoes and corn. From this point you used to look across approximately a mile of fields and see the ocean. Now it’s mostly houses with some occasional fields. It’s sad really.

Same technique for mine... 3rd season and going great!

We got about 6" of the wet stuff that got me 4 hours of seat time on the 312H. Seven driveways and 3 gallon of fuel later.

Dog and I hopped in the truck and took a little 700 mile jaunt to our Mo. location. Highlights along the way: Saw 2 white tail deer running along the edge of the woods next to the freeway just west of Lowell, Mi. Saw a flock of wild turkeys off in a field in northern Indiana. Saw a jack knifed westbound semi on the eastbound median shoulder with 2 heavy duty tow trucks working to get it loose Danced with the truck on ice a couple times on Michigan 6, just south of Grand Rapids - kind of in @Pullstart neighborhood. One of those dances was at 20mph - was really slick. No, I don't have 4 wheel drive - all those folks were in the fast lane flying by me. Was kind of hoping to see one of them get out of shape. Saw the aftermath of 2 rollover accidents - ice related. Pretty sure both were 4 wheel drive - didn't seem to help them. Remember folks, once a vehicle completely looses traction, physics takes over. You wiil move pretty much in a straight line from where you got loose. The faster you are going, the deeper into the puckerbrush you will end up. If there is a hill or birm involved, like both accidents I saw, rollovers can result. Bucked a headwind most of the 700 miles. That and the cold produced lousy gas mileage. Saw a guy who was flying along passing people on the right get pulled over by a State Policeman just west of St Louis. I smiled at that one. Enjoyed temperatures ranging from 9 to 20 degrees F. All in all, i'm happy to have arrived here safely.

So you basically removed all that paint protector! LOL Amazing how deep that stuff was. And BTW you missed a spot!

To my knowledge, no. What does matter is that you do not want the entrance of the wire going into the condenser pointing up. The wire acts like a wick when it rains; if the seal fails the condenser shorts out from the trapped water inside.

I just brought that 875 home a few hours ago. I even thought about going to look at the Electro as well. I'm pretty amazed that there are forum members everywhere. Not the first time I've seen posts about tractors I wanted to buy

Wanted to clean the new to me C-145auto but the garage was 28 degrees and it was even colder outside. So just a scraping, shop-vac and rag cleaning today. Also installed a belt engage/disengage lever (completely missing!)

OK, who wants to kick me first for selling the Ber Vac a couple months ago. Guess these guys will have to handle it.

Sounds feasible, but I wouldn't trust it. Why not sell or donate the chair and buy a lift from Harbor Freight for $139 or less that is designed to do what you want to do. I found one used for $75.00.

I represent that...! It was awful... just awful... cheese curd crumbs everywhere... oh the humanity!!!

Did my civic duty today. We are getting new neighbors across the road and I saw them struggling to clear the now packed snow from the driveway with plastic shovels. I asked if I might help and then plowed it down to the tire tracks that I couldn't get under. Turns out the father has a 416-8 ,with many attachments, that he might bring over when he gets the missing parts. I just didn't want them to be unprepared for the possible big snow coming Sunday.

Technically it's not one, but since it's decaled as one.

Ok i am going to give you guys a good suggestion about the snowplow skids for Wheel Horse early snowplows. i have used a plow with the bowl cup shoes for fifty years. These will wear on the bottom over time depending on your setting of the snowplow. My dad was a blacksmith and we remade ours. Last time we made a pair together with my brother it took about two and a half hours. 45 minutes to make them and the rest to figure the math for metal volume . We made the sidewalls of the skid bowl 1/4 thick as opposed to original 1/8 inch. You can see wear holes on the original 1/8 inch wall bowl below! Last year I had two sets made for $30 by a blacksmith shop. 1/4 thick again. But my next sets will have a solid bowl with a 3/4 hole for the six inch long 3/4 rod. So support your local blacksmith shop. They need the work and this helps them make something they never made before! The skill to do is valuable and you are preserving some originality! Here is a link to FIND YOUR LOCAL BLACKSMITH FROM THE ABANA -ARTIST BLACKSMITH'S ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA.: https://abana.org/community/directory/#!directory/map

Unfortunately my services were required at work on Saturday so it was kind of an unproductive weekend for me. A big Thank You to @WHX?? for the nice steering wheel. It cleaned up very nicely. I also painted a few small items for the engine today. Fly wheel, governor arm pieces, & little trinkets & doo dad's. I did get side tracked with another project. I'm helping a friend set up his Simple-city with a Magnum 16 Kohler. This was a yank start engine that we converted to electric start. Fits perfectly in the frame. He carved out an adapter that bolts to the flywheel so that the drive shaft can be connected. A few little kinks to work out on this yet but it is coming along well.

January 18, 2009, marks the final day of a week-long auction in which auto giant General Motors (GM) sells off historic cars from its Heritage Collection. GM sold around 200 vehicles at the Scottsdale, Arizona, auction, including a 1996 Buick Blackhawk concept car for $522,500, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 COPO Coupe for $319,000 and a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible for $220,000. Other items included a 1998 Cadillac Brougham, which was built for the pope. (That vehicle was blessed by the pope but never used because of safety issues; it sold for more than $57,000.) Most were preproduction, development, concept or prototype cars. The vehicles came from GM’s Heritage Center, an 81,000 square foot facility in Sterling, Michigan, that houses hundreds of cars and trucks from GM’s past, along with documents chronicling the company’s history and other artifacts and “automobilia.”

Flywheel screen ready to install. Flywheel screen bolts and screws ready to install. Flywheel ready for screen to be installed. Flywheel screen loosely bolted on with the four center bolts. Note the upper right hand center bolt is in line with an outer screen hole. It is critical to line this up right or the outer screw holes will not line up. Flywheel screen loosely bolted on with the four center bolts and the six outer screws. Flywheel screen bolts torqued to 180 in/lb and screws torqued to 22.5 in/lb. Flywheel screen installed.

Little cleanup and.. you could hang your nanners in the kitchen???