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  1. 11 points
    So a buddy that works at the auto parts store asks me last week if I'm still into wheel horse tractors. So naturally I say yea, what ya got? He says I have a raider 12 been sitting in the shed for 6 years and needs to go. He says I'll sell it to you for $200. Well I don't need another tractor but he only lives 4 blocks from me so I literally drug it home.......got it running too! 20240318_205914.mp4
  2. 3 points
    Excellent catch! Limited Slip Differential 6 speed. Excellent workers.
  3. 3 points
    Exactly what i learned in my training time several moons back.. turbulences results in kavitation what causes that it washes copper out of the pipe - until it leaks. Deburr is a main underestimated reason for that. the difference between M and L is unknown for me. Our Copperfittings we dealing with and pipes have about 1mm thickness. i see sometimes the cleaning after Soldering is an important point, but also often be forgotten. @953 nut You said Upon inspection I found green corrosion on every fitting along all eight 2" supply and return pipes. The sloppy installers had not wiped down any of the fittings and they were all ticking time bombs. That‘s also my experience over time. I be a old school craftman. we learned to check every step we do twice, to be safe when we leaving out work. If we must repair, we exchange as much as needed but as less as needed. The result was in 99% sloppy Work - while not deburr or not cleaned after soldering. but to say it is a worse material because of sloppy work - hum... Calc is a different story i know about. i just have seen once one problem with a blown pipe what was material failure. all other was typical craftmans fails.
  4. 3 points
    When someone comes up here to the Mitten state and shows me how to get Colleen UNSTUCK from the field, then and ONLY THEN we will talk about hanging it upside down
  5. 3 points
    You guys send riders, I’ll put ‘em up there. I think I’ve mentioned this before. No bill collector is knocking on my door. Taxes are paid. Tractors make me happy. So do Rat Fink things.
  6. 2 points
    @Tractorhead THANK YOU !! Type L has a heavier wall thickness and blue lettering on the outside wall instead of red as Type M has. 1/2'' M wall thickness is 0.028 and 1/2'' L is 0.040.
  7. 2 points
    We were forced into having wheeled bins probably around 40 years ago. Prior to that we had a metal round dustbin which was collected once a week. Our "bin men" or refuse collection operatives would take every bin from where the household kept it and empty it into a dust cart, before putting it back. This obviously took more men and time. So the "Wheelie bin" came along. Emptied only ever two weeks fir general waste and every four weeks for garden waste and six weeks for recycling. Now the householder has to put each bin out before 6am on collection day, so they all go out the night before. This blocks pavements, which is in itself an offence. Invariably the bins are full to bursting and if its windy the contents end up blowing out because the lids are so light. Oh, there's another offence racked up by our council of littering. The bins are loaded by very expensive automatic bin trucks that are way more complex than the old style trucks. So to save on wages and employing people our councils have created more problems than they fixed. No one wanted wheelie bins. No one likes wheelie bins. Not many people have room outside for the FOUR much larger bins we have to have. And if they get damaged or stolen you have to buy your own replacement. Yes they do get stolen, either to replace a bin at some nefarious persons home or to use by nefarious persons for transporting stolen property in at night, yes the council provides wheeled transport for burglars. And finally a popular passtime for our Yoof cultcha is setting fire to the bins left out overnight as they burn beautifully, leaving the result welded to the pavement outside your home. Progress is not always All it is cracked up to be, especially if the council using public money are treated to perks and trips abroad by the wheelie bin manufacturers. Now, help me down from this damn soap box and give me a hand to carry it to the kerb edge.
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  9. 1 point
    The Combine, perhaps the greatest combination of good ideas ever made. Harvesting grain crops was the most labor-intensive operation on any farm prior to mechanization. The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing—to a single process. None of this just happened; it took hundreds of innovative improvements on one-another’s ideas to arrive at today’s modern combine. I will cover each of these operations in the coming week. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, rice, oats, rye, barley, corn, sorghum, millet, soybeans, flax, and sunflowers. The separated straw, left lying on the field is then either chopped, spread on the field, and plowed in or baled for livestock bedding. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labor-saving inventions, significantly reducing number of man-hours needed to harvest crops In 1826 in Scotland, Reverend Patrick Bell designed a reaper machine, which used the scissors principle of plant cutting plant stems. The Bell machine was pushed by horses. A few Bell machines were available in the United States. In 1835, in the United States, Hiram Moore built and patented the first combine harvester, which was capable of reaping, threshing, and winnowing cereal grain. Early versions were pulled by horse, mule, or ox teams. In 1835, Moore built a full-scale version with a length of 17 ft and a cut width of 15 ft. This combine harvester was pulled by 20 horses John Deere claims to have developed the first self-propelled combine in 1946 but they seem to have missed a couple of predecessors. In 1911, the Holt Manufacturing Company of California produced a self-propelled harvester. Their 1888 14-foot cutting bar combine was pulled by an 18-horse team so a self-propelled version was a vast improvement. In 1923 in Kansas, the Baldwin brothers and their Gleaner Manufacturing Company patented a self-propelled harvester that included several other modern improvements in grain handling. The Gleaner used Fordson engines; early Gleaners used the entire Fordson chassis and driveline as a platform. In the 1920s, Case Corporation and John Deere made tractor drawn combines with a second engine on the combine to power it. Pull-type combines became common after World War II as many farms began to use tractors. These combines used a shaker to separate the grain from the chaff and ejected the straw while retaining the grain. Later combines were PTO-powered as larger, more powerful tractors became available. These machines either fed the grain into bags that were then loaded onto a wagon or truck, or had a small bin that stored the grain until it was transferred to a grain wagon.
  10. 1 point
    It looks right at home ....
  11. 1 point
    I send a Kohler carb through my ultrasonic cleaner 3 to 5 times MINIMUM after cleaning most of the outside. When done with that stage I use brake clean to squirt through every little orifice back n forth a few times. Do you have another carb you could swap to prove that's the issue?
  12. 1 point
    I agree. I've seen several machines that I wouldn't change anything. But here in the southern US, a 2007 model often looks like a 1967 model from the northeast. An old joke here when we found barn treasure was "swamp fresh". So more often than not here, patina isn't an option if you're going for full function. No other option but refresh in the least.
  13. 1 point
    I second every word ! But in my opinion is the Patina also a kind of „good looking“ technically there is no doubt about it, they must be taken care. Every Machine they be well maintained be reliable workers. Patina with a high level of technical care is actually my way to go on my machines.
  14. 1 point
    Clear a blade angle arm maybe?
  15. 1 point
    Sweet deal. What's that bend in the PTO lever?
  16. 1 point
    Technically illegal here (misdemeanor) as a “theft of services” though only enforceable against someone clueless enough to leave clues to their identity!
  17. 1 point
    I guess you’ll just have to wait for either a dry spell long enough to firm up the soil, or someone showing up with a fairly powerful tracked puller.
  18. 1 point
    Hey guys, thanks a lot! I’ve been away for a while. Logged in this evening and saw your notes. Thank you! Attached are two pics of what I’ve been up to …. Found some nice sanded plywood at our big box store. My wife’s idea for some basement storage … she’s happy. Just got 4 inches of snow (Cleveland/Akron) and still falling. Will be breaking out the horses in the next couple weeks.
  19. 1 point
    Yes it will fire briefly with direct injection into the carb. It has good spark at the plug, fuel pump is pumping but I can't get it to run. Its pull start, not electric start so it gets old quick . I disassembled the carb, ran it through the ultra sonic cleaner for 2- 20 minute cycles, made sure all orifices were clear, put carb kit (float needle and seat, gaskets, washers) in but still no go. Stumped for now. Maybe redo the ultrasonic cleaner treatment?
  20. 1 point
    I'll say this- you don't just make them pretty. From what I've seen, these machines have been truly restored. The attention to detail in this thread is outstanding! And I agree: take care of them, but a happy tractor is a working tractor.
  21. 1 point
    These early Rangers were sharp little tractors. Yours look like a solid machine. Pound for pound, probably the toughest little tractors ever. I just finished one for my son. I couldn't find an early one, so I just made mine look like it.
  22. 1 point
    Mike - - - - - - com on Mike, you can do better than that gott'a be a RED TRACTOR. Plus, Kevin has chickens.
  23. 1 point
    Overhead track system in a circle like a merry go round!
  24. 1 point
    I love it, the sign next to it is a nice touch . You mentioned getting your shop the way you want it when you "grow up". Personally I've been refusing to do so for almost 60 years. My shop is my fortress of solitude & it has to be functional & FUN I probably could've restored another with the time & money I've spent organizing & decorating it. I don't think I'll hang a Horse but I do have a SpeedEx I'm tired of shuffeling around, hmmmm.... I'll have to seasonally decorate it of course, skeleton for halloween, Santa for Christmas, ect...
  25. 1 point
    Exactly. I build my machines to look and work good. They get shown off but also worked. The unlucky one that gets put on grass cutting duty will get the dirtiest but if treated with reasonable care they don't get too scratched or banged up. They are all kept inside and that in itself saves them a lot.
  26. 1 point
    I understand that logic but these mo-chines are built to be put to work. Trina's been asked the same "why put so much work into blah blah blah just to scratch it up?" Both here on Redsquare and at events. I've written her response before and it deserves another mention: She replies "I know where to buy more paint" .......
  27. 1 point
    I did have the water tested and it is good except for the low pH. A good answer is an acid neutralizer combined with a water softener (a neutralizer makes water harder), I chose to not have all that maintenance and choose my plumbing carefully. One example is to replace the brass faucet washer screw in outdoor hydrants with stainless steel. Just so you know, all houses near me have the same issue with copper and brass plumbing, it ain't an electrical problem. I laughed when the gubbermint installed low income housing and specified copper. One of those houses was allowed to have a wet basement for years and should be condemned for extreme mold. One member here spoke of copper pipes clogging, not an issue here, the hole keeps getting larger.
  28. 1 point
    Gotta put some sort of Character up on there. I vote for Rat Fink!
  29. 1 point
    but it is better than a scrap yard and I'd right side up.
  30. 1 point
    From well water to substandard city water we have it all. Just as an example. My sons city water, he is 10 miles from me on another system, is under a boil requirement about 75% of the time. Among other problems, some water is so hard the calcium clogs the copper pipes, more so then plastic. You can have the fanciest copper pipes in the world but it the water wont flow through them they just look good. Just a poor area of the state. It all comes down to money. Oh they say...... we are going to pour money into infrastructure. They buy electric buses for the city and the rural folks drink $h*t! I'm done.
  31. 1 point
    I had a comment stirring around, but this is a family show so I figured I better keep it to myself.....
  32. 1 point
    When I worked at Dupont the 316 Stainless steel pipes even 3 or 4 inch schedule 80 would sometimes leak due to stress chloride cracking. That was just water lines to the columns etc. Chlorine is nasty stuff.
  33. 1 point
    I'm just sitting here waiting to see @WHX?? eventual comment
  34. 1 point
    Just making the shop my own… no lost bets
  35. 1 point
    Get an iside bet with myself how long it takes until another Tractor was „ learning to Fly“... is this the new storage system for cleanout the Shop? or was it a loosing bet like - one tractor must leave ... ok gimme 24h and it will not touch our Ground? i have questions.... but it looks Cool. At least it is much better than selling or dump. 👍
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  37. 1 point
    They were in the back, in cold storage. This will keep them away from mice, keep them in the warmer shop, and be appreciated rather than ignored. Like I mentioned in the video, the RJ35 is quite slow and slightly impractical. It is however a wonderful piece of history and a crucial part of Wheel Horse’s legacy. I’ve brought it on the show circuit. Though I don’t mind those who do, I prefer to mix up my show tractors. It’s not worth putting cash in my pocket, but it’s better than a dark barn. At the end of the day, it makes me happy
  38. 1 point
    Wouldn't it be easier to put them on all those pallet racks?
  39. 1 point
    Ill give you credit for a creative display! But it just doesn't seem right, so I gave it a emoji. At least he didn't use a hangman's knot! Poor tractors To each his own!
  40. 1 point
    another @Pullstart accident waiting to happen Hopefuy he will not decide to hang the yellow bus from the ceiling.
  41. 1 point
    Those Briggs had nylon or hard plastic starter gears for decades. That was meant to be the sacrificial piece versus the steel flywheel. If your steel geared flywheel has bad teeth I'd be curious to know why. Finding parts for those should be fairly easy. A to Z may have some. Perhaps Brian Badman. Sears used a similar or identical engine for quite a while. (The GT1800 Trina and I rebuilt for our friends has a Sears engine.) I don't know what the interchange years would be though.
  42. 1 point
    If or when she ever wants to remove it, we can do that and stick a solid foot rest back on. We’ll stick the parts in a box for her kids to learn how to drive a tractor
  43. 1 point
    Pretty much done! ...a few things to touch up, but the belt guard turned out sorta ok- got some dimples, but not terrible. The first pic below is what I started out to mimic. This machine actually started as a L157, so everything from the steering wheel back was made to look like 62-64 model as best I could. Anyway- this is the final look. Little rascal drives great. Low range with 8 inch wheels is like time stands still! Of course, before my son can drive it- it'll get safety switches in the pedals, or some form of bolt-on running boards. His legs are shorter than I thought, so he barely reaches the pedals anyway.
  44. 1 point
    Then you're in good conpany! I didn't paint the belt guard today. It was so pretty outside I just rode it around like it is. I'll paint later.
  45. 1 point
    My rims looked that good. Then I mounted the tires I'm going to do some touch up near the beads where I messed up the paint.
  46. 0 points
    Like the Suburban 400 I hung up a while back, my RJ35 has a mostly permanent home in the shop now!
  47. 0 points
    3600 in parts, rest is labor. Both headlights are broken in the back, frame horns bent, motorized louvered pieces behind the grille, (not to mention complete grille) are busted out, a/c condenser is bent in so they are replacing it so evacuating the a/c to replace that, painting the hood and passenger fender, bumper and all parts for it. It was a rather large deer for around here. This is the second time around for the front. Last time a car burnt ip in a parking lot and she was parked in front of it.
  48. 0 points
    I built a 1/4” thick bracket and used 6” nail spikes to attach it to the corner post in the shop. A 2” square tube hinged on a 3/8” bolt and I simply slid the tractor into place and built a jack post while it was in position.
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