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You Marines out there, you remember from the day you stood on those yellow footprints. You were told this is now your Birthday. So here’s to you and are Corps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEMPER FI Ooo Rha

Here's the plan. A 400hr K-341.

Got the snow blade on about 5 minutes ago.

Set up 2 of the tractors for snow duty This should keep it from snowing to early if I'm ready for it

What I'm guessing is they want a JD that runs/works like a .

I like the jet bicycle or the helicopter. LMFAO at that bicycle but but gotta give the guy some credit for what he did.

Made some good progress today. I will update some more tomorrow.

I think I finally have all of my leaks fixed and my PTO adjusted so I got a load of rock and did some spreading over some muddy patches in the driveway. I’m really surprised how well this thing pushes and lifts when scooping rock from the pile. What I thought would be nothing more than a toy is actually a pretty good little worker.

Throwing away some crap. Got Skittles and Hank in the shed. Next weekend I should have room for another.👍

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM THE NAVY. You guys and gals are Special.

God I did it again, I swear this is the last one... @WHX21 you are to blame for this

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHERS....SEMPER FI.. San Diego 1959

John Deere must be so excited to have a great tractor with their name on it .

The Commandants 2018 birthday message. “It’s not “Do as I say”, it’s “Do as I do.” @oliver2-44, Thank you for your support.

Thank You for your Service!

So I have had several of the more rounded hood speedex tractors. They are fun, but I have always wanted one of the more squared hood speedex tractors. Well I found one. It came with a 13hp Honda engine on it. But I did get a bunch of extra parts and two 11hp Briggs engines from other speedex tractors. So I can make it original. The best part is the snow blade. I have looked for one of these for along time, they are the coolest thing to me. Because with another bracket you remove the blade and flip it upside down and then attach it to the back for a grader blade. This blade is only 40in and not the 44. But I'm OK with that, being the widest part of the wheel base is only 31 1/4 wide at the rear. So here it is and I will be working g in this for a winter project. The other tractor in pic is what's left of a 1968 speedex S-17. But there is some good parts there. Also the last pic is a photo of a advertisement for the blade, so you can see what I'm talking about with flipping it.

Dont throw away Skittles!!!! Lol

I'm going to post an update. John and I have gone to a couple of Iowa vs Northwestern games, when they play in Evanston every other year. Well, today...the Hawkeyes and the Wildcats were playing in Iowa. I just had to call him and see if he was watching the game and how he is doing. They are getting him up to walk around...with a walker...and he can do that by the sound of it. He is making progress, but it is very slow. That is good news, but I wish I had better.

Get yourself a 12 Volt test light. Unhook you negative cable and attach the test light between the negative post and the cable. If there is a draw the test light will glow. Unplug things one at a time like your regulator,lights,cig lighter if there ect. When you unplug the source of your draw the light will go out.

It always great to see out schools hosting local veterans! Thank you to all our veterans and @Rob R looking good as always!

I was gonna say, God already knows you got it. What about your wife?

Thanks Karl, super day the Kids are wonderful and basically humbled all of us.... the Vet in the center is 96 and served for 4 yrs in WWII!

@MalMac, ya beat me to it! Haha I’m sure no matter when we stepped on the foot prints, we all look pretty good for 243! SFMFs

Update, got to work on 1054 a little today. Cut off right side stop. As expected made right turn sharper. About the same as the left. Did not get to work on fan gear nor take off left stop. Happy Veterans Day fellow Soldier's. 🏅

That's my Elmer Fudd hat keeps my ears good and warm The bench is 92" long by 31"wide and 41" tall. The shelf below it is 20" off the floor. Just stood back and realized I screwed up though...had planned on one solid piece of OSB for the shelf...but I put the top on and now can't get one piece in there...oh well I can piece it together. It's like I told my ex wife's grandpa while he was helping me this morning...we're building a workbench not a piano

.....Silly rabbit, I made room for her.

I just love when a plan comes together...still have to put the top on and cover the shelf. Bought a generator last night too for more power than just enough to run my lights, got one big enough to run my whole RV in the event of a power outage too, so it was a win win

Why the swearing @Rp.wh it’s a round hood, that justifies everything.

My grandfathers house was bought via the sears catalog. Sears was the amazon on the 20th century.

Jim, Often the reason to own something is: because I don't already have one. I think that's the case here. I have several tools for that very reason, and will most likely add more in the future! DB

To all my military veteran brothers and sisters. " Thank You For Your Service " If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.

My vote is for the Carlisle All Trails for best all around traction ( and they are dang cool ). Mine are 23/10.5's. The ags are 23/10.5's on 8.5" wide rims.

Looking into local craigslist here and found this tractor for 50 bucks. Anyone know what this might be? It looks like it might be a gravely but I'm not sure.

To buy it just to put it out of it's misery. Browsed our local version of craigslist, when I stumbled upon this. Guess this is the human analog to a cup of Coffey in the keyboard. Something is shorted out for sure! Note the elegant support for the exhaust. Nice touch. Note the Cupholder?

I was working on a couple of cup decals and threw it together

Cool!!! Congratulations on finding your Speedex! They ARE fun tractors, and I like mine a LOT! I had no idea that blade could be flipped and used on the rear. Keep us posted on the work you do to yours! Here's mine........ it's amazing how much you can do with a 16hp Briggs engine and some bar stock!

Wait till Ryan tells you more of the background story on this one—super cool!

I have one question. Why?

But that actually looks decent...

Our family shopped at Sears a LOT when I was a kid in the 60's-70's. Always had Kenmore appliances. Dad bought tools there, several lawn tractors and one SS16 GT, and I remember we'd always go there for school clothes and sometimes for shoes. I'm sure Santa brought us a lot of stuff from Sears! In my own adulthood I have bought several appliances there, lots of tools, and just the other day was using my Signature Series 12V Battery Charger, and a nice bench grinder. Ran across this several years ago in an antique shop.... had to have it just because it was in great shape and was a CRAFTSMAN...... never found it to work especially well in the garden (or, maybe I had other things to do the job), so it just hangs in the rafters of the shed.....

These horses knew too much and were placed under the Federal Witness Protection Program! Here is another one, changed his name to Oliver, but you can't disguise a horse too well with a fake nose and some make-up!

...I'm with ya Josh, some things like shoes just can't be tried on over the airwaves...

http://www.upledger.org/what-we-do/ptsd-relief.php There are still healers among us. Don't ask them to explain themselves. Don't throw a micrometer on them to check for clearance. Just find them in your area. They are there. My deepest appreciation to the vets that do their level best in these interviews to put into words what cannot be put into words.

Mrs. Pullstart’s “Frank” should be a quick “piler” once it’s up and runnin’

They will fit but they may "bulge" a bit at the sidewalls I put (NanKang)10.50s on my dad's Cub with the 7.5" wide wheels here's what they look like...

Like the ag's but, don't need 'em much nowadays. Turfs and chains work well when pushing wet white cold junque. Do use ag's on my Allis. Always set up with a mid mount grader. http://www.millertire.com/categories/lawn-garden-tires/

I like the OTR LAWN TRAC R1s, very close to size stated and didn't need chains running the 2stage last year, you can get tri-ribs in 16x6.50-8 but they are kinda pricey, I'm planning on a set of the same OTRs in 16x7.50-8 for the front of my blower tractor, good luck, Jeff.