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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!)

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 ...

Does buying one count?

Actually done this yesterday but forgot to post it. Mounted new Deestones tri rib’s on 73 12hp-8 also new front wheel brgs., made up a short frame snow plow, put snow plow and bracket on 857. Took 1257 home and 857 to Moms and waited on snow that never came.

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.

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

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

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

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

First look it reminded me of a belt keeper on er/guard for a early RJ ... thinking now a spring tooth. Tell ya what it really is ... a part to build an entire custom franken horse around... You start out with that one piece and end up with a running driving tractor.

January 15, 2009 The "Miracle on the Hudson" the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, after a flock of geese disabled both engines shortly after takeoff. Thanks to the skill of Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, all 155 people on board survived.

Well, we got around 6" or so of snow last night and it is snowing heavily right now. Another foot or so is forecast for today so I plowed some just to stay ahead of it. If I get too much then the big tractor and blower may need to come out. The 520HC is resting in the heated shop now. It is currently 9F with a wind chill of -2F so I wore my warm jacket and insulated pants to stay warm.

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

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

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!

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

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

I think someone put Jimmy in "time out".

Seen this for sale on FBMP Metric and American??

Refresh and a magnum.

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

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.

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.

Security camera footage of one of the more notorious and most wanted ringleaders:

Oh, you would fit in this cab. I have not even started this tractor yet this season but I am keeping the battery charged so it's ready to go.

Today I took a portable train layout for an assisted living facility for show and tell. I had some pictures projected upon a screen of how I made some of the items and a video of my layout at home. Talked about how I got into trains (wife's uncle passed and left them to us). Answered questions how I made mountains, buildings and other items. I anticipated spending 30 minutes or so and ended up over an hour. The residents (some 20 of them) seemed to enjoy and appreciate The activities director asked who and where they rode trains. Interesting stories. Lots of laughter and memories for these folks. One funny part. I normally run my trains pretty slow--just looks more natural. Someone asked "will it go faster?" Another "Yeah, lets see it go fast." So I opened up the throttle and nearly all of them cheered! Not too bad for a 79 year old engine.

I have an 875. First year for the "Wheel a Matic hydro which has slight differences with the later Hydrogear and Piston Piston models. The only more modern attachment that can work that I know of is the long frame snowplow if it has the extra hole to move the rear mount bar closer to the front.

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

Don’t really need another tractor but I saw someone selling an 875 for $100 in my area. From what I can gather it’s a 1965 model year only, first automatic? I’m assuming none of the later attachments from the C series and 300 series fit. Just wondering if anyone has any input. Like I said, I definitely don’t need another tractor but for $100, it caught my eye.

January 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America

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

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

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.”

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.

January 17, 1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright law.

Got out this afternoon. There’s a loggging company working the woods so the trails are pretty much ruined and it’s tough to get around, also downed trees and limbs everywhere, but I still enjoy getting out.

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

Mystery boxes came today in a big truck: So I unpackered them: and now I am tired. The shop is more, or less, done for now. I still have some outlets to place, and an air line to run, but the major elements are in place. Time to get to work.

'Course not to far off there EB. When I first succumbed to the addiction I had to look for them. Now they seem to fall out the sky. Some for free and many $100 rollers with a motor that fired right up. Some really nice ones for short money. People would see my junk yard and line ups from the road and just stop and see if I ran a tractor repair shop and ask if I was interested in another horse. She has since made me move them to unseen quarters Alice the C-120 came from a drive by for very very short money ... 200 ... ... with a magnum, a deck and a show tiller!!! Widowed PO just wanted to see it a good home.

Whatsaa mattah wit' you... That's not metric & american. That's so you can use it on bolts that face each direction.