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It depends on what I'm using it for: Overall work and long life Kohler Money no object quality and long life Honda Easy starting and light weight Briggs If I have money and all the time in the world to fix it Onan If I need a good boat anchor ( Because of it's weight not it's quality) Wisconsin If I was giving the piece of equipment to my brother in law Tecky

i get to redeem benefits on my man card by doing housework........

1. Kohler, reliability and parts availability 2. Honda, Reliability and durability 3. Onan, Torque 4. Tecumseh, If Tecumseh still built engines and made a twin it would give you twice the problems. 5. Wisconsin, An 18 horse Wisconsin twin is about the size and weight of a VW beetle.

Looks like the basement to me!!!!

75 C-120 auto, I use at the farm. It snowed about 4 inches. Better than 5 feet!

Benefits? There's supposed to be benefits? Wottavok??

Martin, all I can say is Thank you!! I made the Final cut! Now you know I'm going to have to buy two calendars, one that will be open all year long on the month of May and then one to actually use. They both look awesome, a very Nice job. As always, Terry Dennis and yourself put out Top Notch work!!!

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Don't for get wiping the water glass rings off of the roundhood end tables!

Does look good, but here... I was expecting something more like this.

All my valve stems are to the inside. Why? Who knows? At least I don't have to remove the WH hub caps.

I thought of that, but if i were to reverse the rims they will hit on the fenders.

Sounds like its made itself a nice 35 amp heater from the fried components. (The 40A is probably what goes to the resistor fan control). Glad to hear it stopped burning! I had a similar experience: My first car I had a pretty nice sound system hooked up but I couldn't afford a nice sub woofer amplifier so I bought a Bazooka brand or something like that 700watt mono amp (fuses rated about 80amps). I am a amateur radio operator and my antenna wire ran through the trunk next to where the amp was mounted. Apparently Bazooka does not shield their amps from ANY RF noise because the MOMENT I transmitted on high power there was a LOUD THUMP. Moments later my car began to fill with smoke. I have to pull over on the side of the interstate and I dive in my trunk (i had a Bonneville and the amps were mounted against the back seat, I could have slept in that trunk) and start tearing out this amplifier that now has flames licking out of it. Luckily I always have my tools with me so I was able to toss it on the embankment before my whole car burned to the ground. The amp totally roasted itself in the grass.

I've always heard, and it sounds logical, it was to accommodate wheel weights... Bit of a pain to get to them tho aint it?

When I was selling these new tractors I asked one of the reps why they always put the stems on the inside of the wheels and he told me it was for cosmetic reasons. But I wished they'd forgot looks and just put them on the outside, so much easier to put air in!

Maybe the valve steam is on the inside so you dont have to worry about wheel weights hitting them? Just a guess. Im probably wrong.

One question, is it Harbor Frieght? You'll be taking it back if it is, hope they don't mind the Red paint!! Friend bought one used it for about ten to fifteen minutes went back to it, turned it on and basically was a fishing hook (not big enough to be boat anchor) JUNK

Here are some pics, this one is all original and works. Also has the correct tag on it.

You guys got a secret handshake too?

I'll stick with my pre 1980's

I know where that one is, ya better hurry...

Oh yeah, almost forgot... folding the laundry on the HY-2 702.

cmon Craig, just admit that it was harder than you are letting on. you don't have to hand in your man card or anything........ you had to go and get a camera, walk up to the calendar pinned on the wall. then take a picture. just be honest and admit that it was a lot of effort. we won't think anything less of you. you probably even had a rest along the way, maybe cracked open a cold one , watched a little tv......

Excellent calendars Martin. The pictures from the members that you used are Top shelf. I am humbled that you chose one of mine...Thank you. OK, take a deep breath and get out the lawn chair with your favorite cocktail. You deserve a nice long break. Outstanding Mate. All should know also, the calendars that Squonk will be taking orders for are professionally done...they are like if you bought them in a book store. :)

coming apart......

We are ready for snow in Central Pennsylvania. (Not Buffalo Snow)! I would like to say I won't need to even fire them up this year. I find the older I get, the less I deal with snow and cold weather!

i have both versions of the 2015 calendar done. before i go any further i need to personally thank Terry Dennis for his help today on making both calendars more 'red square' than they were. i have limited editing privileges with the iPhoto calendar program i used to create them and needed some of Terry's expertise to make them look right. I'm having problems uploading them to the files section of the forum, so i uploaded them to google drive and the links to the files are below. you might get a warning that google can't scan these files for viruses because of their size. i didn't put any viruses in the files, but if you have virus software for your own piece of mind you can scan them if you really want to. i need to communicate with a moderator on whether I'm missing something here because the upload feature of the forum isn't letting me upload them to files section and i think its because of the files sizes. they both run about 28 MB. members, i hope you are all ok with my choices for the calendars, i thought long and hard about which pics to use, some pics were perfect except for a tire cut off or not enough background or something else. some of the pics weren't big enough and i asked for higher resolution shots, most of you were good about providing better pics. this task has definitely been an eyeopener for me, i am willing to do it again next year if you guys want me to, but I'm going to need more help from some of you with the quality of pics submitted. here you go...... calendar 1 https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B-Mtecq9EjlkclV6Y1BlUHpzbVU calendar 2 https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B-Mtecq9EjlkQzFUQzB0WXJHVG8

Less than 10 miles from home and I couldn't resist, been wanting one of these with the 16hp Kohler for some time. A little rough around the edges but with a little work everything will clean up just fine. Probably next winter's project.

picked this up yesterday on Craigslist , it pays to keep checking. NOS Tecumseh HH60 short block less crankshaft. date on the packing list is 1978. i'll probably finish the assembly and use on my lawn ranger

Ya I will try to find the link so you can print one out.

Good news .....I loaded Mike and his wheelchair and took him in for his 4 week check up today and he came out on crutches. Getting out of the wheelchair was a big step. The surgeon did some strength tests on his dislocated right shoulder and the broken ribs on the left side an gave him the OK to use the crutches. The left leg is healing, but is probably 4-6 months from being able to bear any weight. The surgeon says this was the worse knee fracture that he ever attempted to repair. Caution....do not read any further if you do not want details of the accident. When Mike slid off the roof, feet first, he grabbed the spouting with his right hand dislocating his shoulder. This action swung him vertical and caused him to land on his locked right leg instead of his head or back. His left leg missed the wall and the full force of his 220 lbs falling 20' was taken on his right leg. The stronger upper leg bone (femur) was driven down thru the lower leg bone (tibia) about 4" splintering it into 6 major pieces and dozens of small fragments. The fibula was also broken one place. These 6 major pieces of the upper tibia have been screwed back together and surrounded by a metal band that also has a vertical bar attached to the good part of the lower tibia. We thank God that Mike landed on his feet and did not suffer a fatal or paralyzing injury. We are thankful for the surgeons that did an amazing job of reconstructing the knee. We thank you, and all those that offered good wishes and prayers.

Hmmmm where to start Here comes my little helper First she sais to remove this! So I said go ahead Once she got that off I found out the hard way not to remove this hose by this bolt!! Use a crows foot for the lower bolt on the bend. Then on the brake side just disassemble the whole side it helps to get that lower bolt off. How about about this when your fighting to get the hydro off!! Trust me the 5lb didn't work! And a few more random pics When your all done fighting with it just remove the whole rear end especially if you didn't have a crows foot and needed to remove the oil filter line with the hydro!! Probably better off removing this rear end anyway it's just four bolts ( it will drop on you quick watch out) and gives much more room for a quicker disassembly And now I'm done with throw it away and get anew one cause you will probably just break the hex bolts right their anyway!!!

Not enough linen beige on it. Either pin stripe it or get some of Terry's decals!

Those old Bonnies trunks were huge. All you needed was a set of ramps and you could haul all your horses to the show Luxo style!

What good is having a man card without those "benefits"?

If it blows at least it will still look cool. China hasn't had a lot of problems with electric motors for awhile, I'd say 90% of what's on the shelf today has them. Not that I agree with it but what can you do.

I like the seat springs mounted to it Gino. Happy Thanks giving...

I run both as well. Normally I use an in-line shutoff valve as well. This way I don't need to wear out the packing in the sediment bowl. Just my normal go at it.

Hands down the Kohler. Why, to me they have more than proven that they can go the distance with little to no repairs so long as you maintain them. Reputation is everything. The Honda I KNOW would be an excellent choice but if given the choice I'd rather stick with what came in my Wheel Horse.. Now if we are talking about re-powering a log splitter or what have you then hell, just give me the Honda! As for the other two, well, a Techy will always be a Techy. I don't know enough about Wisconsin's (never owned one) but I do know that they were well made and built too last..

Scott, when I first saw this one at the BIG SHOW I fell in love with it. I then found out Craig just bought it from you. At the time I thought man, bummer, but I knew Craig would take care of it so I was happy for him. I never thought I'd actually wind up with it but I'm happy I did! For me, my collection always seems to have a theme or revolve around something and yesterday I kinda noticed that my collection is revolving around 8 hp tractors. It seems I have four 8 hp machine's now! I forgot about my sons Cole's little Super Suburban that I wedged an 8 hp in...

Forgot to paint the outer guards. Will do that tonight and update pics in the morning.

And the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that. What, for about 6 years now?

Hey now, that's a good tip... is that where you keep your Mrs Geno?

I don't know... them damn sediment bowls do impart the vintage look... but, seem to always develop fuel leaks of some type. Nothing worse than a in the garage overnight...and being awakened by a shrieking Mrs. in the middle of the night... with the dreaded..."I smell gas" "What? Are you trying to kill us?"

got the drive belt in the mail today, so went out and finished up everything on the blower. got the chain all set up, cut the length to 51 links like the original, lined up all the sprockets with shim washers and installed the chain. double checked all my bolts, installed cotter pins in all the areas i temporarily put hairpins and gave the whole blower a good spray down with quick wax. chain, idlers etc installed.... new belt fresh from ebay, this one was $20 in a sealed bag, not sure what they run at the dealer, probably more i would guess. chain guards on. all done.... came inside to get a bite to eat and after a while look out the back window to see Kent out on the back driveway with a shovel messing up all my test snow........ so i finished up my lunch and went out there, but not before putting my coat and slippers on. i thought to myself how dare he exert energy! i was wondering if he was feeling ok, working and all.......after all he is a teenager, what will he be up to next????? actually i already know the answer to that, having 4 others that have gone through those years already...... anyway, i said to him to stop that working thing immediately, he might break out in a sweat and I'm sure he didn't want that to happen. i did manage to get him to hold my phone for a few minutes while i tested out the blower on what was left on the driveway (which wasn't very much-darn kids......)

Keep it and run it in the 4th of July parade.....lol

Got some wood delivered today (black locust) and stacked about 1/2 cord down near barn and took a few pics of where I stand as of today. I like the look of the stone and the wood.

I have my SK-486 ready to go and used it this morning. The blower is an earlier 32" inch model (36" at the widest point) that has been cobbled up and converted over to a tach-a-matic setup. This setup actually works really good and has no issues other than being a little ugly. I used the blower all last winter on my C-81 with no troubles other than having to spend most of the time in low range for the 8 horse. The 16 horse is going to handle the task a lot better this year.

No actually they used all of the early hoods up first, then they used the newer style, I'll get a picture then of the hood mounts. Say, can you get a picture of the hood mounts on the front of your frame? I have a nice square hood from a 1077 that I want to install and I am curious to see how they made up the front hinges or brackets on yours? Your front wheels are 8" is that the factory norm for this as well? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!