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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...

Awesome tag team effort there today.

Sounds great!

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

:)Excellent video Bob...always nice to have good help.

Aim for the street lights with it! That's what I did with mine hooked to Marvin!

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

Looks like new. You did good I think!!

These? or these?

Spinner hubcaps work for me! Also, love the stack.

Just went through the same ordeal myself last week on the 857. Then on top of that, I busted a hub. That was another 2 hour job to cut and chisel that off.

This doesn't help you out with your problem but here's what I've done on several tractors to prevent it from happening. With the pin out I drilled a small hole (1/8" - 3/16") from the top through to the pin hole. Every time I greased the tractor I'd put a drop of oil in the hole. Not much but just a drop or two. It wasn't enough to seep out and I never had a pin seize after that.

Jack. Good pick up. I like when there is a bonus. Good luck. Glenn

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

i thought i would settle the black paint on the hood decision this morning. i compared the semi gloss black sample with the gloss that is on the hood and the powder black of the blower housing. I'm staying with the hood the way it is. don't want the hood to flatter than the engine tins! i really hate rattle can paint though, I'm just too impatient to deal with the drying times. i want to work on parts the same day i paint them if i have the time, watching paint dry might be fun for Stevasaurus, but not me.......

Yep, bait... gets me everytime too. They scream...FISH ON!... when they see me coming.

Nice set-up, never owned a Yardman, but I would if it came like that.

The 606 has the 5053 model transmission. I believe that same trans. is found in the mid sixties lawn rangers and short frames such as a 656, 856,857 and some others. Maybe you just need to do a rebuild....I've done that myself and if I can do it, then almost anybody can do it.

So Craig, how's that addition to the house coming? Now, that seat back can be redone.

I just bought this 'Horse last Saturday. It's a Raider 12 and a 7-1252 tiller. The tractor starts and runs, but needs at least a set of rings (lots of blow-by and smoke). All the gears work, and the rear end is nice and quiet. Came with a 42" deck and what are supposedly pretty new blades. The tiller has all the needed parts (belt, mid-mount idlers, axle-mounted hitch, and helper spring) except for the idler spring, which I ordered today from a local Toro dealer for $6 and change. I gave $100 for the tractor and $75 for the tiller. I don't know anything about WH serial numbers, so I could use your help in dating the tractor. The plate says: 1 6241 611970 Thanks for looking!

Really no one said it yet - Is she going to fill it with sea horses? Maybe a horseshoe crab or two. Anyone else. And it was built by a wallfish. Nice job sir.

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.

No pictures from me...I am so sorry guys. I did see Marvin though...and it was looking really good. It was parked between the satellites, so everybody got to check it out. Seriously, it was a fantastic swap meet and it was so great to walk around and shoot the breeze with everyone. I was like Squonk walking back and forth to the truck. A special thinks to Shorts and his wife (Sharon), Buckrancher and Jo, Racinfool40 (Mike), a special thanks to Funengineer (Dave), Scott Wheelhorse and his dad Dave, Jake and Doug Kuhn. What a great day...I hope lane got some pics.

Here's a play by play on how to remove a deck. It might shed some light on the install steps. Mike.............

Also had a visitor over night. Our grand daughter Lyla. First night away from her Mom.

Thanks guys,on my way to TSC!

Plugged Muffler?

One of the main things is don't get any oil on the floor before you epoxy it. It almost impossible to get oil out of a concrete floor. We did my friends garage and used a steam heated pressure washer on the floor and still had the epoxy come off in some oil soaked areas. I think we used Sherman & Williams.

Nyquil...I will have the piece you need Saturday. Send me a PM with your address and I will send it to you. If this works for you...that would be really cool. Listen...the nice thing about this forum...you can throw ideas out there and not really get attacked...and get back excellent feedback and advise. I am not going to apologize for being concerned about safety...yours, mine or anyone else. I was a lineman/cable splicer with the phone company for 35 years...it is the guy with 25 or more years that cuts a corner and gets hurt or worse. Hopefully, that brake piece will work for you...and I will help you to that end. Maybe you can go the Big Show in June and we can play Top This with our scars. That could be interesting and a lot of fun.

If you want to learn all there is to know about epoxy floors and floor coatings go to www.garagejournal.com Go to The Forums at the top of the page. Scroll down and go the Flooring section. All you need to know is there. There is a lot of information, mostly good from DIY and the professionals. If it doesn't allow you to see the pictures or all the posts all you need to do is join the site, no charge and it will give you full access. I had Epoxy-Coat installed by Performance Floor Coating Systems, INC Cost was about $3.25 a square foot. I could have bought the product and saved about half but I figured my time was worth something and considered that I would have to eat up a weeks worth of vacation to do the job. After watching the two guys do the work I'm very glad I paid to have it done. (My wife didn't want me doing this on my own either Smart lady) They arrived about 4 in the afternoon, had it ground and first coat (primer coat) on by 9pm. Went to town to get a room and dinner, returned around 11pm and finished the second coat about 1am. Returned the next morning around 10 and put on the clear coat with anti skid. I was walking on it the next day and put things back in the garage a week later. This would have taken me about 4-5 days if I was lucky and I wouldn't had done half as good a job. This is not like painting walls where you spread the paint thin. No you squeegee it on think and roll and back roll it. Not saying that a DIY cant do it. It just takes a lot of planning and more knowledge about the process than most people have. You'll find a lot of information on cleaning, grinding, rolling, back rolling etc on garagejournal. Epoxy-Coat is located in Michigan but has installers all over the US. They do a lot of work for the Federal Govt and NASA. Their installer traveled over 250 miles to do the work. No extra charge. I had a base color of beige with the beige chip blend. Clear on top of that with an anti slip added in the clear top coat. The anti slip is a must if your going with epoxy. It's the slipperiest floor out there. If you want more information email Epoxy-Coat. They have a banner add on garagejournal.com The gal that monitors garagejournal.com for them is Christine. She's very knowledgeable and will help you out. If you want to see my thread on my floor search for burleyfarm. Here is the title of the thread Epoxy Coat Installation by Performance Floor Coating Systems. I don't have a basement either and the garage is where we spend a lot of our time. I'm with the tractors and I built my wife a small studio for her silver smithing and jewelry making. I use a propane fired radiant tube heater for heat and supplement her studio with electric baseboard heat. Unless you do welding or very heavy metal fabrication the epoxy is the way to go. I have been doing all my welding outside. I just built a pole barn for the heavy metal work, welding and painting. Otherwise the epoxy would get all messed up. So it does have its drawbacks but nothing that you can't find a way around. Good luck with your project. If you have any questions pm me.