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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.

So I was missing the headlight contacts for my C-160 and bought some that were "sight un-seen" that turned out to be overpriced for being used and being junk. Bummer. So....., after seeing what they are supposed to look like I decided I would just machine the parts and make some new ones myself, for FREE. Lol. Now, I definately didn't "re-invent" the wheel here, but do feel I did recreate a "better built wheel" in my opinion. The stock parts didn't seem to have held up too well, so I used some better than stock materials to fab up my own. I used brass for the contacts and nylon for the insulator, both being turned from rod stock on the lathe. The brass contact is hollow and soldered to the wire and the insulator is essentially an odd sized nylon washer but none the less still had to be custom made. Anyway, thought you guys/gals might like to see what I came up with.

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 !

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?

just in case this Shoutbox entry is "pushed down" (06 December 2013 - 05:10 PM) you know, I vote for Stevasaurus: "Mr Red Square". no crown or tiara. but he always has a good thing to say and he has my vote! thanks to my daughter Natalie for all my techno help!!!!

ZOMG!!! LMAO!!!

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 have one that I have not had a chance to use yet. Before I get to play I have to fix a little fuel pump issue, drop the deck and mount the plow and chains. Really looking forward to playing in the snow with this one. Sorry, no pics yet either.

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!

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!

cograds stevasaurus, glad to hear all went well chasm

That's just not fair.

where is he located?

Wow, Mother Load. I suppose the Round Hoods just out of shot in the pics are spoken for Duke?.

Looks great!

Looking very very nice matt!

Stacks just make make them look like Big Boy Tractors, and they sound great! That's why I put AG tires on the rear, and tri-ribs up front. Here are a few pics of mine, and a video as well. Matt http://youtu.be/S78kXv0Elg0

And meantime the neighbors are wondering why that crazy foreigner is doing burn-outs on his driveway with yet another damn lawn-mower.

Unscathed then Norm, that's good. Suspect you could have done with a few trees felling in the wind?. Now lets see Steve- Move to the Windy City/State and miss the storms.....Ok! Loads a Red Horses.....Yep!. Loads a good shows.....Yo! Food and plenty of Members Yeah! What's keeping me here?.........Can't afford for my Pension to be taxed by 2 Countries , Have to sell my workshop and Tractors!!!!!!!, otherwise, I'd be over there already . ................Nothing to stop me paying a visit sometime though . Don't let 'em get you down Neil, they're no worse than the last lot of 'Wasters', Damage is done and a long repair job needed, just hang on until it either gets better or unbearable, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Last one to leave can then turn the light off.

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

Looks like that would be great exercise for the dogs, and a lot of fun for the driver.

Just a little thought for all you BG fans. NIU took down, well let's begin at the top, who was that team oh-yeah IOWA Chickens., Wait Haymakers, I'll get it right, Hawkeyes. Then Perdue < not saying that was a big issue. Toledo won against BG, but the Huskies, well they won. BG has not faced an opponent that has a QB like Lynch. Lynch, is right behind Winston for the Heisman...On top of that, they are ranked 14th.......I'm going to say this is a simple slam dunk for NIU....Not often I go out on a limb like that, but if you have not been watching them, they have an offense that is ranked in the top 10, and rushing yards in the top 5...On top of that, they have something to prove, from last year's Bowl game. Redemption is only 2 games away, and they can taste it.....

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!!

Yeah see there...you need all three eyes working good Steve.

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

My Father in law grew up thru the 50's and 60's. He loves to tell the stories from his drag racing days and of just how different things were back in the day. I love too hear his stories. When he was 13 yrs old (early 50's) his father bought a brand new Dodge sedan. My father in law at 13 learned to drive that car the instant they bought it. His father couldn't get a license due to having only one eye and partial blindness in the other due to War injuries. At 13 my father in law drove the family wherever they had to go so long as his Dad was in the car with him. He was never pulled over, try getting away with that these days. From his stories it sounds to me like the simple things back then were a big deal, such as a trip out to get ice cream or a swim in the lake on the weekend. Simple things that most people hardly get excited about these days. He tells me when the new model cars arrived on the dealer lots it was a BIG deal and that a bunch of people would show up just to get a look see as to what was new and exciting. One of my favorite stories is how as a young kid he and his buddies would sneak thru a broken part of the fence of the Danbury Fair (he lives a mile away from where the Fair Grounds was) and ride their bikes around this huge place until old man Leahy would chase them off. In 1961 my father in law bought a brand new Ford Fairlane with every high performance option you could get. He took the car home the day it arrived and proceeded to take it apart to make it go faster. One day a cop shows up in his driveway requesting performance work be done on his squad car and that he would pay for the work out of his pocket. He explained that he asked around about who was the top Ford mechanic and tuner in town and everyone said take it to Joe Walko. Two days later when he picked up the car as he was backing out of my father in laws driveway he had this to say, if I can't catch yer ass the next time you run when I hit the lights for you to pull over I'll be back, and it won't be pretty. Father in Law still has that 61 Ford with only 2,000 miles on it and most of it from flat towing it to the track. It is MINT, he never registered that car. When he did flat tow it to the track, sneak it on the street or take it down to Moe's Shell or to do a few test runs over by where the Danbury Fair once was he would put a rear plate on it that said, "Lil Thunder" It hasn't been out of his garage since 68. (Personally, I'd love to see that car backed out of that garage and it's 427 once again make a Lil Thunder.) I can't imagine a cop showing up at someone's door too find out that the car that outran him when he hit the lights was nestled away in the garage. Instead of busting Joe he requested performance work on his squad car and paid Joe a good penny to boot! I guess something like that only happened in Danbury CT. Back then a big time racing town. Joe isn't in the best of health these days. I can see how his eyes light up when he gets to talking about the good old days. I can tell quite easily it was a lot of fun growing up in the 50's (and the 60's) and when we get to chatting it is like I was there also. I go to his house almost every day, my son's bus lets him off there. I can tell its a good day when the door is open to his garage and the 50's or 60's music is cranked. When the Steve Miller is cranked you know its a real good day. For us guys that weren't around back then its easy to get an idea of what it was like, just ask someone in the family that was there what it was like, they love to go back..

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.

As a younge girl my mum used to work in the city of Stoke on Trent in staffordshire ,the city is world famous for its ceramic pottery of Royal Dalton & Wedgewood pottery, Her job as an artist was to paint the designs on quality plates , cups & figurines . During the early 1950s my dad lived in North London & was trained as a Bricklayer & spent alot of his younger years rebuilding houses around London that were Bomb damaged during the blitz from WW2. Then went on to work in Fords Motor Company building Fordson tractors & that is where he stayed for over 20 years. In our kitchen we only had a small larder cupboard that we would have our food in , which wasnt much really . I remember as a treat we used to have bananna sandwiches or sugar sandwiches . but we allways had a proper Roast dinner cooked on Sundays , which still happens to this day . We had a newspaper shop at the top of our street called Toddy`s that sold candy ,cigarettes , knitting wool & small hardware stuff & pink parrafin for the oil heaters . My dad used to send me to Toddy`s to buy him a packet of 10 cigarettes & a newspaper & if Toddy`s was shut, which was half day on thursdays & all day on Sundays we had to buy the cigarettes from the machine outside the shop , I was about the age of 6 when i had to do this chore .

aww Steve your making me blush thanks Brian

I prefer stainless and red myself

I called this my junk room. just had a room and didn't ever use it. so I filled it with junk