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I usually bring my GT-1600 to shows for tooling around but its way to "new" and gets no looks or respect from the old iron guys. This year I'm going to be on a newly acquired 1054 that I have been tinkering with this spring. I have her running great and it looks ok from 20 feet. I still have to get decals for her to be finished but its usable as is now. I do have the missing headlight lens, just need the O-ring to install it securely. Not totally sold on the stack yet . I also need to decide what to do with the rims, I might deviate from the standard almond color . Mike...........

Wrangled this little round hood filly at Stevebo's first annual Ct meet & greet yesterday... old girl received her first oil bath today...now ain't she something sweet?

Had to rustle another one back across the CT/NY border today.

I made a road trip today for a new toy today. I am not real excited about the tractor that it is on but i am excited about what is hanging off of it. It is a Kwik Way loader with a backhoe. It is on a Yardman 998 tractor made by MTD and is the same tractor as White 1855. It runs well and is actually a nicer tractor than I thought it would be. The backhoe and loader are in decent shape but the loader bucket is pretty bad off. I am playing with the idea of moving it to a 520 that I was putting together for the Ark loader on my C-160. I am a little worried about the size of the 520 vs the yardman. The yardman is physically larger and weighs in at over 900lbs I believe. Here is the required picture.

I heard all the talk about how good these snow blowers do so I went out and picked one up this morning.

No "Salad Dressing" for either of these two. They only way that will happen is if Steve buys the leftover tractor when i'm done. Then he can slather it up all he wants!

Did a little mowing Friday with the 520H. I put new wheels on the deck. Replaced all the bushings in the mower deck frame. New lift rod because the one on the deck was made out of threaded rod and the threads where starting to grind away at the hole. Sharpened the deck blades and shot some grease into the spindles and away I went for the first mow of the season. Everything worked great. I cant wait to finish my yard and tear down some of those big ugly , straggly burning bushes in the photos. A lot of clean up and prunning to take care of from the original owners. Kyle

I bathed her with some fresh new oil today.

thats great you got it going, Duke. sounds good, I'm happy it runs for you....... I'm seeing Brian popping up all over the place in Michigan and Indiana this weekend. i should have made the trip out yesterday.......

You'll love it, they chuck snow like crazy. One thing I noticed is that the side wings are mounted backwards on yours, undo 6 bolts and you can have em on right. Mike...........

A Kohler Magnum fits in real nice where the Briggs used to be! My GT-1600 has a Mag 10. Mike...........

This is what I used. Bought it from HF. Got the idea from another member and it worked nice. I can't even remember what this tools real purpose is. All I did was Just soaked the pin good and let sit over night, put my impact wrench on this tool and let it do the work, Took maybe five minutes to push it out .

thing is, its not really the wheel horses fault. i guess you could blame all the previous owners the tractor has had. the problem with the whole pin area is you have bare metal that water is allowed to get to (the gasket for the trans doesn't go all the way between those ears that the pin goes through) and slowly over time it gets stuck real good in there from corrosion etc..... its just one of those things that lack of removal and/or preventative maintenance (putting some anti seize or oil on the pin) will cause over time. even if you take a whole day to get the pin out, it probably took decades to get that way......

I would say it depends if you water your lawn or not. I irrigate a little over an acre, and put about 40-50 hours a mowing season with a 60" deck. My neighbor doesn't irrigate, and he puts on about 5 hours a mowing season (cutting his weeds).

Our community had their annual garage and yard sales event on Saturday. I had a pile of stuff I needed to get rid of. Old Laptops, geek stuff, hunting/fishing crap I never used, etc. It was mostly "man things" so to get the guys up my long driveway, I moved all the horses out in front of the driveway facing the road then put the tables of my "stuff" in front of them. Wow! What a magnet! Sold most of my stuff and had a good 4 out of 10 ask me what I wanted for the tractors. In particular, the one with the loader on it! Everything had a price tag except the tractors. When people asked if they were for sale I said not really but...........I told everyone that there is a price for everything in this world and when I told them the price I wanted for any of them, they would either laugh, shake their heads or tell me everything they saw wrong with one. Again, I told them they really weren't for sale but I think I may have pissed a few guys off. In any event, they did what I wanted them to do. (4 grand for the 520 with the loader or all 5 tractors with all the implements I have for a 2009 to 2011 Chevy Silverado 4x4 Crew cab diesel). Hey! You never know!

Nice haul, if I owned that setup I would be digging holes all over my yard.

You've heard of Lawn Furniture? Craig takes it to another level!

Fireman took some time to get the engine running right and we also did a little wet sanding and buffing today at the meet and greet. I think Craig may have some video of this just to confirm that I don;t just spread salad dressing on my tractors...

I've been a member for a year but took in a lot of info and getting to know my "new to me" old 86' 312 Wheel horse. She's got new lug tires and new paint for this year. Looking to get a plow setup for next winter. Make this baby a year round work horse. Flushed the transmission a few weeks ago thanks to this forum and fixed and electrical problem just today. Lots of great info and a great group here. Thank you! Tapatalking from my galaxy

Had a graet time .Thanks Gene and Richard for the hard work putting this all together.Sold some stuff but bought some also.The bus seemed to be just as full if not fuller on the way home,must have loaded it differently.Got off easy only bought one tractor,and traded for a welder,and bought a few misc. small parts.Lane did you take any pics?

Here we go again! Glad to see it! It always makes me happy to see others spending their MO! ~Duke

Thanks Martin, Yeah I have enough challenges with this Ole girl I'm glad something is finally going right with her!

Congrats on the new blower... when the going gets tough, you certainly won't be regretting that purchase.

So far it has ran great, I have probably 20 minutes run time on it and its been flawless and needed no adjustments. Mike..........

And some more, this is all one days work. I take pride in my work and love it when the gardens turn out like this. The ground is perfect right now, not to wet and clumpy or dry and hard. It is tilling up like powder. Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk And since I sold my big silver truck, this is what I use to pull my tractors. A Ford Mustang Pony Package to pull the Wheel Horse Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

Nice find Rex....It looks like it was hardly used.

These? or these?

Nah! They are junk! ... bring to the big show in PA and I'll take it off your hands! You scored a great deal there. it looks brand new! you need it living in Maine!

looks great Sparky. I'm thinking more and more about another 1054 or even a 953 to replace the one my wife stole from me.......

Nice buy, and very nice green grass growing, we are still waiting....... it is starting to change right now, but with cold temps it is not very promising.

Nice!

Nice score there Jack. you are right, that workhorse looks like a straight one there.......

When you're done Martin, I'd sure like to borrow that magic carpet. ........ Awesome work!

Too many 's keeps the in/out laws away. Hey, everybody knows...no vacancies here.

Reminds me of my hometown high atop the Appalachians. When we were expecting and needed another bedroom, we simply sat another old Ford on blocks and hung a curtain across the windshield..... Instant add-a-room.

alright Craig...... where do you put all these tractors? do you have other storage? all i ever see is that small shed and even though I've heard on here that its magic and all, but whats your secret?

now if we could just buy an after market carb for an onan at a good price........................... eric j

What... you don't feel like you've been impacted?

I had a fantastic time, I think I found everything that I needed and couldn't live without saw some I want but don't need talked to a lot of old friends and made some more new ones. Had a good trip home, put the copilot Sharon in charge before I started to take a nap 1 eye at a time while driving.

Went to Mentone today had a great time. This is my fifth year there. Each time I go, it gets better and bigger. Enjoyed talking to everyone. Great way to start the season. How about that "Chops Fire Pit" that was some good eating BBQ.

I agree....Most here like garden tractors and the V7 is a lawn tractor....as well as others we have seen. It all depends what what a person wants to do with their machine. That is why so many different machines were made in the first place. To each his own...Some like black hoods, others don't....same deal! It isn't that others don't like them or want them....they just don't fit into their need or use.

Alright, I got to where I did as suggested and sprayed gas into the carb. Still died. So that got back to thinking how can it be a fuel problem when it's getting plenty of fuel manually. Now even though I was still leaning toward a fuel problem I got out my test light and checked a few things. Short story come to find out it was loosing power to the coil. The Prior Owner had used a wire tie off of the choke cable to tie up some of the wiring harness. When I would try and save it form dieing the movement of the choke cable would move the wiring harness just enough and would temporarily keep juice going to the coil. Found a problem with the juice going to the coil way up in the harness. So I will just do a rewire job. Thanks for all the help guys.

Thanks for the replies! I checked out the Garage journal site and all I can say is wow! I've looked into a few options and I'm Still leaning towards epoxy. Sherwin Williams seems to be the way to go. Easily available and time tested. There seem to be several smaller companies online who claim to have this or that over everyone else. Well S&W has been around for a long time. Should I need more product I doubt Ill have any problems finding more several years down the road. I'm happy I looked into this now. I hadn't given much thought to cure time. Guess i was a little ahead of myself again. We're pouring the slab next week. Ill plan on painting the floor in September. Until then NO oils or other chemicals allowed in daddy's man cave!

Wow, after reading that, if I ever decide to epoxy my garage floor, having a pro do it sound like the way to go. Just to go off on a tangent for a moment, now that I have retired, I do some handyman work at a retirement community a couple of miles from here. One of my customers, an 83 year old widow, drives a 2009 Jaguar XF. Her garage floor is painted with epoxy, plus she has carpet on top of it. When I ask her why she had carpet on her nice garage floor, I thought she would say that she didn't want to mess up the painted floor, but she replied, "sometimes I drive barefoot and when I get out of the car I don't want my feet to get cold".

I'm being followed by a martian invasion

Update to my own response. Brought a new iPad mini retina several weeks ago after my $79 tablet crashed. Holy cow, what a huge difference. Everything is better!

90% of my posts are from ipad. Even my videos are edited and uploaded from ipad. I like the fact it always works and is on 24/7 :D

There is no slip capability in the tiller itself. Either your belt is slipping or more likely your PTO clutch needs adjustment.