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Men Are Just Happier People! What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress - $5,000. Tux rental - $100. People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Two pairs of shoes are more than enough. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes. Everything on your face stays its original color. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. You only have to shave your face and neck. You can play with toys all your life. One wallet and one pair of shoes - one color for all seasons. You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look... You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache. You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes. No wonder men are happier!

I'm uncertain as to whether I have ever read such an astounding dissertation! Perhaps that is the most accurate and profound analogy that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It could perhaps explain with precision an otherwise non comprehensible phenomenon that has baffled mankind since it's creation! I humbly bow while I attempt to completely absorb the depths of this statement. I truly believe that many of the mysteries that have confounded many of us,certainly myself, has just been explained! I must meditate... Ok! I'm convinced! That explains it all! That will enable me to go forward with a confidence that I've never had! Richard, while I've always admired you, you have just risen to a level I didn't know existed. I'm fully ready to give you full credit I just need to hear from you that that was yours truly. No, I don't care. Wherever that came from I honor its source. Thank goodness I was born AND remain a man. I do not believe that I have what it would take to be otherwise! I did not realize that until this exchange...

I've had a bunch of requests for info on both of the above. I plan to get some time soon to give some details on both. I may make a video to let those interested check it out. Hang in there....im super busy.

Fantastic photo's!!!

That whole thing is quite true - however, we all do have one common problem... Women. They go against the grain of everything said in that write-up - which is why many of us turn into grumpy old men... Sarge

I mus admit that I forwarded this. It was shared by a friend and the author is anonymous. My kittens will out-cute your dog!

I recently purchased a1984 c-195. I'd like to restore it and would like to know what color red and what color would match the wheels as close to orginal as possible. Thanks for any help you can give me.

People are always claiming they have to have 1-1/8" axle 8 pinion transaxles. The others are apparently felt to be too weak. However i got to wondering how many of us have actually broken a 1" axle or a 10 pinion differential. I would exclude pullers with souped up engines or running duals. I have 16 or so horses and work on a few neighbors WHs. I have never broken an axle or torn up a differential. the only transxale failure I have come across was the axle needle bearing on my brothers C-81. it failed chewed up the axle (didn't break) and destroyed the 1533 bearing...and it was the vaunted 8 pinion 1-1/8"

Hi all Brand new member here.... I've been using my Bolens for the last thirty years but saw these last week and they were asking to come home with me... brother and sister Wheelhorses. A 1975 B100 8 speed and a 1975 C100 hydro... with a deck and a plow...the trailers appear to be older Harbor Freight bolt togethers but I'm sure someone will want them, nice size for a garden trailer. Brought them home New Years day... had a VERY crowded trailer... I'm sure I will have a lot of questions ...this looks like a fun and friendly and knowledgeable forum !!!!! Happy New Years all Mike B

My dog will out fetch your cat! Yes but does your dog get seat time? You Bet!!!

Much better ...couldn't figure out was on the kid's arm

While it's agreed that the 8 pinion 1-1/8" is the strongest I'm quick to add, when appropriate for the thread, that the 4 pinion 1" is one tough unit and not to discount it. I've been on these things since before the 8 pinion 1-1/8" even made the scene. I've worked them harder than what they were intended for but I have yet to break one.

This drawing should be helpful.

I used rustoleum regal red, linen white for the rims. Others will chime in. Best of luck, dont forget some pictures And . Oh, if you do a search, this topic has been covered MANY times. Become a red square supporter if you can. Glenn

This will likely fit many other models as well. They tend to wear where the motion control block rotates on it. Toro has just discontinued it so I decided to make up my own. Since I can't easily cut the slots for the E-clips, I decided to just use cotter pins and washers. I used all 316 stainless steel since I had some left over scraps at work. Here is the pin cut and drilled. Here is the mounting plate cut and drilled sitting beside the pin. All welded up. This is my pin and a worn out OEM pin for comparison. Here are some more comparisons between the two. That is a used nyliner bushing sitting between the washers as if the block was there with the bushing installed into it. Since I have 4 520's, I made up 4 pins. I am unsure if a horizontal or vertical pin placement is better or easier to use so I made 2 of each. I hope there is enough room to install the cotter pins. Here are the plans that I drew up. Wheel Horse motion control pivot.pdf My writing is not the best. From the center of the first hole to the inside edge of the mounting plate is .77". Cleat

I use 3/4" rubber stall mat cut twice the width of my steel cutting edge holes that line up with the cutting edge drilled I. The center so about 1"hangs past on top and bottom sandwich that between your plow and cutting edge works great when you wear out 1 side you just flip it over I get a couple years out of one normally and I plow asphalt and gravel and the mats are 4ft by 6ft so you get a lot of them out of 1 and for about 30 bucks

It is almost the middle of January and 58 degrees today so that means it is time to get ready for snow. I had left the 518xi's cab on over summer so just needed to re-install the doors. The 523Dxi got its cab installed about two weeks ago, and then finally got the snowthrower attached today.

Delroy, lots of other fine members in your area! It's been often said painting a is like throwing hand grenades, all you have to do is get it close!

Some ideas 2150 lumen off road lights 2.25 amps each (4.5 for 2) Tractor trailer marker lights are available that use .1 amp each lets round to .5 for 4 Gives you about 5 amps for draw excluding brake lights which would be intermittent. If your charging system is working correctly and you didn't run the battery down starting you will be draining about 2 amps from the battery so it should go about 16 hours...to completely flat something you do not want to do. but more than enough for your intended use.. Even enough left for a Horn

Should be the "I" terminal on ignition switch. "S" goes to solenoid.

Jack By brake lights do you mean you want lights to come on when applying brakes. If so I would ask why you would need them? Some kind of parade duty? I have some ideas there for you if that's the case. Yes stay with leds, you can get quite abit of lighting with of led's. For example a 4 watt led (36 watts equivalent incandescent) would only draw about .4 amps or less. .

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The wire from the small + terminal on the coil goes to the ignition switch I terminal not the battery Make your own 14 ga wire is more than sufficient.

For those of you that aren't sure what you've gotten yourself into or are having trouble seeing that diamond in the rough after you've started... I encourage you to stick with it. Whether your vision is a completely stock resto or a unique departure from original adding your own personal touches... Patience pays off in the end! When building a plow tractor, it is even a little more tricky because each tractor has little nuances that have to be figured out and taken care of in order for it to be a good plow mule. It's worth it in the end though when you get one set up and working like it should! I need to locate an electric lift kit for this one and he is done!--I think. We can always find some cool mod to do to these tractors can't we?

I purchased a C195 a couple of months ago that I'll likely be restoring in a couple of years. I can't wait to see yours and what you do with it. we love pics here on the forum. If you want to keep us informed through pics, you need to become a supporter which is well worth the little bit of investment. It is a great community that you'll find here and lots of helped as needed for a project like yours. Regarding the paint, I echo the sentiments of the guys above... Good luck and I'll be watching.

Regal Red and Linen to the

I don't think I'll be hitching up for photos till someone finds and hangs the feed bag! 🌽🐎 Think I'll just stick with the little red machine for now. Gary

How long are you going to run the lights?? LEDS or incandescent??? LEDs 16 or 18 ga would be more than enough.

@AMC RULES and @PeacemakerJack it's a ROPS off a mini excavator I adapted to the 2" receiver hitch. I only recently started calling it a 'rig' because of how massive it is now, weighs about 1000lbs without the plow. I was going to make a 'tower' to mount the lights on then I remembered I had this thing laying in the scrap pile. I had a post building the tractor and one of the motor last year, I added some things since the last post guess I should update it. Thanks for the compliments.

Rob: This will be the 3rd season I've had them on and there is very minimal wear (year #1 was only about 10 hours of use, year #2 about 25 hours and this year about 10 hours so far), the wear is just noticeable, I feel I should get 7-8 years of good use at this rate, and then I reverse the blade for 7-8 more years of use. I have a 90% asphalt drive, 10% concrete -- the kind of drive you have will make a difference. I think the asphalt is the least worst (less wear) and that a rough gravel drive may be the worst, I have 5,000 square feet of drive and plow right down to the asphalt surface, -- but notice that you use skids which would cause almost no wear since you're only plowing snow and not riding on a hard surface. Glen

This one had that too, I removed it so the Moderators wouldn't be offended.

I’m ready

Ok they are hard to beat on the cute thing!

You need to get the specs for the spring from Shawn he had them made. out of idle curiosity I experimented a bit. Without the spring and the differential with axles just sitting on the bench if you turn one axle by hand the other spins the other way and virtually no effort required to do the turning. Putting the spring in you cannot turn the axle at all, just like the 10 pinion responds just sitting on the bench. Tomorrow I will substitute a junk axle with a nut welded on the end. then clamping one axle in a vice try turning the axle with the nut using a torque wrench to see how much it takes to make slip. Also see if there is any grinding. Not sure what dimension you are looking for in your next to last line?? Edit: since eh outer diameter of the axle gears about the same in 8 and 10 pinions (the gear teeth are NOT the same and are not interchangeable) I wold assume the spring would have the same outer diameter. (Of course we all know what assume means)

Ahh ... street legal, I see. A brake light switch such as one of these might work connected in some fashion to the brake band, pedal or linkage. These are used on motorcycles and such. As far as wiring go right to the battery via a terminal block to land wires on and a inline fuse holder to protect against shorts. a 10 to 15 amp fuse would be plenty. I personally would measure the amp drawn and go a little bigger than the measured amp draw.

First pic is inside a 8 pinion second shows one of Shawn's new springs sitting inside. 3rd has axle gear out in, Have no idea if it would function like it does in a 10 pinion...also have to come up with a spring tempering process as currently the new spring doesn't seem to be "springgy " enough

We have same rating but apply it most to Deep cycle batteries Deep cycle batteries are rated in Amp hours a 32AH battery should deliver 32 amps for 1 hour or 3.2 amps for 10 hours, but it would be completely discharged. Starting batteries do not last long if they are completely discharged Starting batteries here tend to be rated for Cranking Amps and Cold Cranking amps CA is the number of amps a battery can deliver for 30 seconds before the battery voltage drops to 7.2 at 32 degrees F (CCA is same test at 0F) That kind of rating is more reflective of the batteries ability to start something.

Good Catch...Engage mind before typing

So long as you don't go overboard on LEDs and don't frequently shut the engine off and restart you should be able to get at least an hour or two out of it. Then put it on a charger when you are done. If you have a 3 amp system you can run 36 watts of LEDS with out draining the battery Watts/Voltage = Amps

Hello, I mentioned changing the drive belt on this 312-8. The break down for this machine shows part 108501 which is 5/8 x 81. I removed the existing belt and discovered a strange thing, but not too uncommon, a belt 1/2 x 82! I believe this was done to cut corners or something? Now I am going to go with the part 7473 which is 5/8 x 82. This 1/2 x 82 belt, is full of cracks, and would help to explain the rattling while in neutral and the serious squeal engaging the clutch! Man, this machine has peeling paint like crazy and serious rust too. I will be slating this one for refurb in the spring, should look and drive, beautiful once complete.......(temporary hood from older 312-8).

Several good threads on here about painting and paint color. Preperation prior to application is just as important as the final coat of paint. You can find a lot of good information in this thread.

I use 520H's at the house. A B-100 at the farm. There really has not been much snow at home to speak of in last 3 years. I've plowed twice this year. I haven't needed chains or weights yet. I set up the other 520H 3 years ago. I've still haven't given it a good workout yet.

Tough to admit it but I'm with Fred on this one🐺

Did not give the aftermarket block a thought when I made the comment. I do know what the ARP stuff is. Guess I could get some from my engine builder friend, he uses something else instead. Bulds a lot of circle track engines. On these small engines I just use engine oil on the threads and a dab underhead of bolt. And re-torque after a heat soak. Not trying to be a pain.

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Can we see the back of that... how you have the ROPS mounted?

Just got this rig put together. Still a work in progress. Have a single stage for it too but we've only had 2-4" storms so far.

Hope you intended to say 320 Amp Hr. I would suggest you get the LED lights you want and see how the present battery works out. You can always buy a stronger battery later if needed.

Took a good look at it today and no studs were lost. Keep in mind also that my studs are merely hex head sheet metal screws. Played around with tractor today and I am just astonished at how this thing performs with studs. I even hauled a few loads of firewood up my steep driveway and not one single slip. Not too bad for an expense of $9.00 and about 20 minutes of light work screwing them in. Also used it to clear path in lawn to get the firewood. A few pictures of the surfaces used on . Just too bad I did not have anyone to do a video, specially going up driveway with a full load of wood. Glenn Its just funny, what you state is just absolutely common sense, but I never really thought about it. I do have weights on front wheels also.I can definitely steer if blower is off ground even in deep snow. If I could just have blower slightly off the ground it would be great, but the way it works its all the way up or on the ground. I have to look into a little more. Its the first time that I really have used this blower for any substantial amount of time since last year I had traction issues. Well, that problem has definitely gone away. I have to do some tweaking on blower but I am definitely going to be looking for a two stage one.