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here's my RJ58 custom stainless Brian

I don't know... I'm thinkin' his Techy shirt and pink skirt just might be the winning combination.

You mean...lucky for us.

No...I did not know, but now I can see who I am up against. Lucky for Mike it is not a wet T-shirt contest.

Thanks guys...itsi a god thig I cna touhc tyep 4 teh lsat 4 weacks.,,,eye showd be abel to sea god aganai on Firdya...tanks

well I also have this little ditty my 701 with stainless frame I started with this and after 5 months Brian

Here's your uniform right here!! Take your pick! Or just stay with your traditional one!

Boy! I really look good!!!

And for our next contestants...here is a pic of Don standing with Zeek at the 2013 Big Show... Looks like Don is holding my coffee mug and sharing some of Vans Peach Shine with Zeek.

Here's a few pics of the tractor, color combo courtesy of PO. (inner weights are bolens, outer weights are Jacobson) I had a 753 hanging around the house with a snowthrower I redid for about two years now. It motor started to smoke up a bit, but otherwise a decent tractor. A friend came over,drooled over it, and said "I gotta have it." (A friend who ended up with the bug for a roundhood obviously). He called me the next day and wanted to trade heads up for this tractor. The only issue with it was a starting issue, but once you get it going, runs fine. I thought about it, and said...what the heck. It'll spark up interest in me again for a new project. (I've been all camaro as of late). Turns out the battery was way underrated, and a new battery was all it really needed. I swapped to newly purchased rubber chains, as I have a stamped concrete apron just outside my garage door I don't want to mess up. Put weights on the outside and inside rims, got all the tune-up parts ready to install, changed the oil in the motor and crankcase, seals seem pretty good, and lights work. Will just clean up the wiring a bit. Snowthrower engages fine, will just lube and wax up for the season. Tires are decent, and the fronts are new. New reg/rect. Came out of the garage last night around 11pm, feeling pretty darn good. (beer may have helped), but was nice to work on a tractor again. The only snaphoo I ran into was a messed up woodruff key in back right axle. The axle is fine, but the hub took a little beating on the key slot. It should get me thru the winter, and figure I'd address it in the springtime. I got a new set of keys coming, and will swap sides to put the wear on the other end of the hub.

I'm very familiar with tailpipe flamethrowers....lol....I just didn't expect it on my tractor....especially when it took it upon itself to do it without consulting me....I can also be somewhat of a smarta$$....my years in the military and law enforcement helped nuture that.... ....I did just happen to come inside to get the key after looking to see if the plug wires were loose....but both appear to be snug and making contact at both ends....so I'm not sure what would have caused the one plug not to fire and load up the cylinder with fuel....so any ideas would be greatly appreciated....if for nothing else it will keep my other half from ragging on me about buying a twentyfive year old tractor.... ....I'm new to small engines and the components particular to them....it ran great after the initial tuneup/service i did after I got it home from the PO's place....I really need to get a factory service manual.... ....thanks again, Paul

Ken- The motor is ready to come out. I am planning on doing it this morning. Rudy is gonna help me. When I took the seat out of the truck to get ready to recover it I found the side cover for the tranny which has the shift forks on it. I believe the tranny may be locked up. Either way I will know today. I had to pull the radiator, radiator support and front grill to be able to pull it out. Once I pull the motor, I think it will go under the deck where I have pavers so I can continue to work on it over the winter and not be in the mud. Since you asked... Here is my new horse hauler that I picked up last weekend. I have been looking for a 2001 or 2002 Silverado HD (gas or diesel) with low miles. Well I found it !! This bad boy has been babied !! 27K on this 2002 HD with the real deal Duramax !! Ain't no worries this year going to the show hauling a trailer -lol ! I LOVE this truck. Has all the features and runs perfect. I will be selling my Dually and Blazer and reducing to just the one vehicle.

This is some funny S**t for sure! Did you know you were eligible for this contest BEFORE the eye surgery?

God save us from the people who want to make the world a better place.

Grass is greener is the saying, I think you would have to look very hard to find anything greener elsewhere. I'm an Englishman...and proud of it.

Hi Glen this is mine there great tractors. I will some day like Bob and Steve restore it. when I retire. Gary B....

Success...I now have two crystal clear...about 20/20 baby blues. I can read street signs from a 1/4 mile away (this was driving me crazy)...and I need readers for newspapers (only like 150's) , but that is because they put in far-sighted lenses. It is truly amazing what they can do now...I feel very fortunate and Thankful. I really feel young again.

I think I have fully adjusted to being retired... I actually can't believe I had time to work. I keep looking at my 857 to see if I want to do anything to it. It has original paint and was pin stripped by my Dad. I think I just want to do a major cleaning on it and maybe a little polish and wax. I just love this horse.

I was born in 1944 in a small town ,Wellersburg, in the Appalachian Mountains of Southern Pennsylvania. So I was 6-16 years old during the 50's. Some of my memories are: The one room school house.... grades 1 thru 8 in the same room with one teacher. Eight rows of desks... one grade per row. The first grade had approx. 6-8 students and the eighth grade had 1 or 2 students. The Older students helped teach the younger students. My Dad and Granddad farmed 26 acres during the summer and worked 3 hand dug coal mines during the winter. The mines were dug into the side of the mountain at approx. 10 degrees. We laid narrow guage track and used ponies to pull out the loaded coal cars. The coal seam was 14-15 inches high. You would crawl into the seam dragging a chunk of wood and a wooden wedge . After digging a ton of coal and pushing it out to the cars to be loaded, you would stand the precut chunk of wood on end and drive in the wedge to support the rock ceiling. All work was done with carbide lamps. Baseball was the primary sport played in school. When the weather was warm enough, we combined our 1/2 hour lunch and 2 - 15 minute recesses into a I hour baseball game. Some time in the early 50's we bought a TV with about a 10" round screen. It was the only TV in town , and all the kids came to watch the World Series. We planted corn and oats on the farm to feed the ponies, that were also used to work the farm. We also kept a cow for milk, and a beef and several hogs for butchering. Hunting deer, turkey, grouse, rabbits and squirrel also provided much of our meat. We also had a large garden that provided all our veggies. We kept honey bees and had apple (pressed our own cider), cherry and plum trees for our deserts.. As a young boy, I looked forward to leaving this hard work and went on to West Virginia University were I studied Mechanical Engineering and found my way to Allis Chalmers Hydro turbine Inc. in York Pa. where I worked for 45 years designing and testing Model Hydraulic Turbines for most of the large power plants in the US....Grand Coulee, Hoover, Raccoon Mt., Bonneville,etc. I now realize the years I spent in that one room school, the farm and coal mines were the best years of my life and prepared me for life better then any University. Sorry for the rambling, but you asked for it !

its looking really good. I fixed one up the other year. I still cant find a seat. the drive system is unreal. I can pop the front tires off the ground with a blade on it. im not trying to be disrespectful by posting a picture on your tread. you liked how my bolens looked. I just thought you might enjoy a picture of my 224. thanks brad

I DID NOT GROW UP IN THE 50'S I GREW UP BEFORE THAT. I WAS BORN IN 1929 AND GREW UP LIVING ON MY GRANDFATHER'S ISLAND. IT WAS ONE AC. IN SIZE AND WE WERE THE ONLY HOUSE THERE. I WENT TO SCHOOL BY BOAT AND THEN WALKED 1 MILE TO SCHOOL. IT WAS ROUGH IN THE WINTER. WE DID NOT HAVE ELECTRIC POWER ON THE ISLAND. I AM STILL OUT ON THE WATER MOST DAYS. I HAVE BEEN FROM MAINE TO FLA. ON THE WATER. I AM 84 AND STILL PLAY WITH MY TRACTORS AND MY GO FAST BOAT. I AM ALSO A HAM RADIO OPERATOR. (W1RGW) I GAVE UP MY MOTORCYCLE LAST YEAR. I GOT MY FIRST CAR (1929 NASH WITH WOODEN SPOKE WHEELS) WHEN I WAS 15 AND IT WAS WAR TIME SO THERE WAS GAS SHORTAGE AND WE ONLY GOT 3 GAL. A WEEK. MY NEXT CAR WAS A 1932 HUDSON. SINCE THEN I HAVE HAD OVER 80 CARS.

What a great topic! I remember the " civil defense drills" in school. Same thing here in NY, line up in the halls and kneel down with our arms over our heads. Saturday was shoe shine day. After cleaning our rooms in the morning my Dad would have my brother and I shine our shoes with polish, then leave them on a newspaper on the kitchen floor to dry. Our shoes would be good to go for church on Sunday and school for the rest of the week. And this was public school not parochial! Hardly anyone wore sneakers to school. I remember in junior high school bringing sneakers in my bookbag and changing my shoes in the classroom before school started just to look "cool" wearing sneakers!

I don't know about this Big Show leg contest. I think Steve has an unfair advantage. With all the shows he's been to his legs are known nation wide because he's been showing them off... Did you know that if you put your ear up to a person's leg you can hear them say, "What the hell are you doing?"

Lynch is bad a## and the program as a whole is very well run. My only concern is how much of an impact that a graduated Lynch will have on this team next year. He has played an instrumental role in the rise of this team over the past few seasons and I feel that his departure will mean a significant drop in the quality of play next season. Look at how Central was with out LeFevour. Will they be able to beat "higher" quality opponents? Maybe not. Enjoy this kid and this team now gentleman, for they may not be this good again for quite some time. P.s. whats with Iowa and wrestling? Ernie "the big cat" Ladd anyone?

Had to use the horse to haul the trailer with the 49 motor and tranny!!

Dang...the Big Show is a GREAT TIME!!! I will actually get to walk around and look at tractors this year. I look forward to seeing all you guys and a few others at the show. You never know what jersey I will be wearing...maybe Bret Farve as a Viking???

I love my 855 , it's the same tractor just 2 years older. It's a little worker, I got it from my brother and he was not shy to work this one. I watched him push off a dirt pile as big as a 15 passenger van to fill in a spot in his yard. Chains on the tires pushing off little at a time. She doesn't work that hard anymore and looks a whole lot better. This is the machine that started me on this CRAZE!

Competition is Fierce!!!!

Mike333---the GT 1100 is nothing like the GT-14. Way too many differences to list. There is about a 500lb weight difference between the two!

Bob...is this where you got the Senior???

Monday morning on my Sisters farm in SW Pa. In the blind by 6AM At 10AM this fat little 8 pt filled mytag

I like the white hood also. Kinda like a Wheel Horse patio tractor

Neil, Stevebo and myself hit this huge flea market in our area every Sunday. Vintage Americana SELLS. For big bucks most times as well. Some of the stuff I see is really nice and priced accordingly, some of it is crap and overpriced. Its funny how some of these TV shows help us and hurt us at the same time. They help us by preventing people from tossing this old stuff in the trash, they hurt us because most of this old stuff is now overpriced and out of reach of most of us. Have you ever watched the TV show Happy Days or American Grafitti?

What a GREAT IDEA. kudos to everyone involved.

Massive Attack - Teardrop:

Who's the HANDSOME GUY now????

Just missed the time window by 10minutes. That's exactly what I was going to type when I read Steve's post!!

too much and it's back to blurred vision!

Bluffhunter...you are reading my mind...that is exactly what I was thinking. It was like looking through dirty, wet windows before...blurred vision and yellowish...now crystal clear. I can see the blades of grass, the needles on my pine tree from 50 feet...there is only one moon again...and to be able to read street signs with out having to go past and turn around and go back...priceless. A little Rock & Rye is in order. Thanks guys.

Chris: You will like the rubber tire chains on your tractor. They work great and I used them for several yeas now on the B-80 Wheel Horse and 42 inch snowplow combination. I am going to use the 1963 633 Wheel Horse this year with no chains but wheel weights . I think I have some photos of the B-80 that I will post here. This years snowplow setup on the 633:

Thats the driving force behind 99% of all the decisions I've made in my life. The other 1% were just a waste of time.

20 eyes are better than 2 or 3!!

Here's kinda how the spacers fit. I think I used 7/16" X2" fine bolts for studs:

I just keep thinking of other stories as I read all the posts. I have a cousin that is 3-4 yrs older than me. He worked on a horseradish farm when he was in high school. The high school and jr high were right next to one another, and he had a car. He got me a job on the farm when I was 13 yo making 1.00 an hr. Man I was the richest kid around, working about 10 to 20 hrs a week .I had a Cushman scooter my dad had bought me, so I was stylin. In the hot summer I remember hoeing the bean field. Those rows were so long and I was so small I couldn't see the end. But the job I hated most of all was pulling corn. We would get out there about daylight and the corn would be covered with dew. In the first few minutes you would be soaking wet. Someone would drive the tractor pulling a wagon and you would only pick for a couple hrs. After that you would be done for the day, except for a few of the older guys who would bag it and take it to market. So you would get up before daylight, work a couple hrs, get soaking wet, then go home. I remember that farmer to this day, I still drive past whats left of his farm. Where I hoed beans is a subdivision now. And another part is a golf course. The old homestead is still there with the sheds and farm equipt.I always thought if I ever see someone out there I will stop and see if it's still in the family. I remember him having a couple boy's a few years younger than me. He was the nicest farmer I ever worked for and paid the most. He paid 1.00 most of the others paid .75 an hr. And he was just a quiet hard working guy .I never heard him raise his voice to anyone. And about that Cushman, man I had a lot of fun with that. It had a briggs 8 hp engine .It had a kick starter that was under the gas tank, the tank was like a motorcycle tank. You didn't straddle it to start it, like I said the kick starter was out in front of the motor, so you stood on the ground and stomped on the pedal. Sometimes that sucker would kick you back and hurt like hell. Beleive me they were hard to start, especially if you only weighed about 80 lbs. I'm sorry about hijacking the thread, but these memories keep on coming.

1956....Everett, Pa.... Like a few said safety was not an issue it seemed, Walk to the movies on the other side of the river then afterwards go down and watch the teenagers run their cars round the circuit....then walk back across the bridge at night scaring ourselves with zombie stories. For a dime get a big bag of candy at Sonny's and candy was behind glass....just told the guy what you wanted....all penny candy (or 2 for a penny). There was a sawmill down the street and we would walk right in while the men were working....belts all over the place running different types of saws...they just said "Hi fellers" and kept working. Ride bikes for miles to swim in a pond or ice skate. I would have to eat a soft boiled egg in a bowl with bread pieces and then out we would go....ate lunch at the house we were playing at....the mother would have something for us....then best be home for supper or mom would find me and paddle my butt back home. The best thing was how the community kind of kept an eye on all the kids....they all knew who we were by name....and if we had a bike wreck or other accident would care for you and get you back home....The shows like "Leave it to Beaver" and "Andy Griffith Show" were not too far from the real thing....great time to be a kid it was!!!

I'm a 1963 model and wasn't around in the 50's, but I grew up in a rural-suburban (at the time) part of New Jersey. Everyone seemed to know one another, we still had real drive-in restaurants with car hop service. Across the street was a drive-in movie theater where us little kids would be dressed in our PJ's and play on the little play ground under the screen. My school was a mile from our home, and we walked to school every day. My kids though I was exaggerating about the distance until I showed them and they were amazed. Things were inexpensive, but we never seemed to have a lot of money. My father used to send me to the store to buy him cigarettes and they would always sell them to me no questions asked. The same store also sold candy and gum cigarettes, I guess to get us little ones started early! I used to like the bubble gum cigs because you could blow through them and it would look like there was smoke coming out the other side. I suppose that some of the things that people thought were great, maybe wasn't. I remember driving in the car in traffic, the exhaust fumes were NASTY since many cars had large 400 Cubic Inch engines or bigger! Smoking was allowed everywhere including grocery stores! There was no such thing as a non-smoking section, and it seemed like everyone smoked (except my mom). Us kids were allowed to build carts out of plywood and ride it in the streets! I'm sure that tons of kids were killed but it was never advertised because it was a dumb kid issue not a failure of society or our parents. In my town, it wasn't unheard of for someone to have chickens, cows, horses and pigs and although there were farms, these were at people's homes. During school we would have air raid drills. When the siren would go off, we would have to go into the hall with our head against the lockers resting on one arm with the other arm behind our necks. If a kid misbehaved in the store ANY mom was allowed to smack the kid on the rump, and they were usually thanked!

Last year for the cable was 1990. Here is a 1984-87 manual which had a spool on the crank. The 1st models did not have a spool and the hole was in the crank. Hope this is the style you have. Here is an earlier manual with different illustrations Garry

Buckrancher's stainless is to die for...that is the TOP SHELF!!! I do not know how you would top that...maybe gold leaf and Candy Apple Red...would love to see that next to each other. Brian's stainless and WH Red is the excellent combination of 2 colors that raises the bar. The fact that he added a deck to that horse, this last year, made it a match made in Heaven...Absolutely Outstanding!!! In my opinion...it is "Best of Show" no matter where he shows it.

You can also break up the RED with some pin stripping...my Dad did all his horses and attachments.

Yes Kerry, its been re-engined, retired, the plow redone, and the sulky reconstructed, as close as I could get with having another one to work with. Both machines have now been to a show in august, and one in sept, so I can get them dirty and put them back to work. not sure when I'll take them out to another showing, as now I'm questing for ones with 16" wheels. I'll be needing a pair as I still have a cultivator and a blade with nothing to do. Ps, did you ever find the manual?