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John @Wallfish with his one lunger diesel powered pop gun and his steel pot helmet... dont know where the pop gun is but I know he still has the helmet and uses it with his Wheel Horse bike. Hope link works... lol, you may have to cut and paste Tony https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2013740315369825&id=817542914989577

I prefer my oak seasoned for two years, for my house. (I'll burn anything in my shop.) All I cut & split this year is for 2021 yr. This white oak log is 30" x 40" at the double butt, about 20' long. I got 2 cords out of the entire double tree. Each 20" long of the dbl butt took 30 mins to split with splitter. I'll cut one more of my trees this year to process. Many logs I haul in from clearing jobs that I do. My Stihl 046 magnum (pictured) has a 25" bar, my 036 has a 20", I have a little 18" on a farmboss. I burn a cord/yr in my house. (probably 2 cords in my shop, a lot of green wood) I burn Red, white, post and pin oak mostly in the house. My shop has a straight vertical 8" schedule 40 stove pipe. I had to make an expansion joint on it because when it cooled off it would lift my stove off the floor. How much do you burn? How long do you season it?

Ok, guys, so here's the deal. I am a flip phone guy.I was driving an 8 year old military grade Verizon that the battery would last forever. Daughter drops her Smart Phone off the bridge and no, it is not a Timex watch. [Old guys will get it] The long story short is our two phones arrived without sim cards because the sim cards would be needed where our daughter is [allegedly] She got her phone set up with a temporary number because her phone was broken. Meanwhile , the train was coming down the track in that we NEEDED those cards in order to get our stuff done to switch carriers and avoid another month of billing. We used to have 4 devices --3 phones and a hotspot. Now we can use the phones as a hotspot, and that is how my communications with Redsquare is now happening. When my daughter forgot or neglected to confirm she had sent the cards, I about blew a gasket. Pretty sure the wife made sure I had no opportunity to tell my daughter what I thought about all this. These kids think that everything works easily on the internet. I knew better. As it was, we had to visit the phone store 3 times and she had to visit at her end 3 times. We also spent an hour with tech support of our own phone company because they never changed our old E-mail account to the new address. It would have been less stressful to go to Michigan and do it all at one location. It took at least a half hour with two people at her end to set the proper strength password after following all of their previous instructions to the letter. So if this all works We will be able to stream netflix free and have more [unlimited] data at less cost Anyway, if you are reading this, it Means it is working. I hate surfing on the phone. without a keyboard and a mouse and big screen, just forget it. i cannot post replies from my phone anyway, because it has a new E-mail address to keep Mrs Farmers and my stuff separate. Also, an android phone on Google makes it almost impossible to get where I want to go. it seems that they just want to say no to drudge and mis-direct away from that site. I have cracked the code somewhat, but it still takes a lot of steps..

Hey I gotta chime in here gents. I'm all for wood heat but when I see a nice strait log I see Furniture. Just my

This comes up from time to time around here, and it's always interesting to hear how everyone came up with their name. Mine came from my nickname around town, one of the old men at the coffee shop, who is a very close friend of mine and a fellow tractor collector pinned the name of Professor on me and it just kind of stuck. The 1990 part comes from the year I was born, I use this screen name or some similar version of it on every internet forum I belong too. Funny bit about being known as Professor around here, a few years ago I rented a house from another one of our local coffee drinkers, filled out the lease with my legal name, Bryce Aron Burden. Larry was looking over the paperwork and laughed as he said so THATS your name, the man and I had know each other for 5 yrs and he never knew me by any name other than the Professor

Got a surprise in the mail today 😀 Thank you Thank you Thank you These will come in very handy on our trip to the big show this summer. Very generous and thoughtful of you Rich.

I cut a couple big ones down before I had a little mishap... 20" bar on that saw.

Paint is original (as hard as that is to believe). I purchased the SK-486 from its original owner three years ago. He took meticulous care of it from when he purchased it in 1982. He was a RedSquare member who passed away three months after I purchased it. I don’t baby the tractor, but let’s say, it is not wanting for anything - I owe it to him.

My boat is named for my four Grandsons and my handle on the VHF when on the water is Four Buoys. When I am traveling or hunting, My handle on the CB and 2 way radios is the Gobbler. So when I joined RS, I simply used the shortened version of my birth name. Edward Lee Kennell I do answer to many names...Ed, Eddie, Edward, Ward, Ken, Kendall, and the Dog.

McGrew is something my older sister stuck me with over 50 years ago. I was known to be something of a daredevil, and after one of my less successful stunts, she called me Dangerous Dan McGrew. Sine my name is Dan/Danny/Daniel, it kinda fit. Even my Mom calls me McGrew from time to time..

My home town in Europe

I'll post the same thing that I said in @ebinmaine post. Thanks Richard for finding Eric's post. My mom called me Bob Ellison at birth and it just stuck. Every where I go people call me that and I've just learned to except it. I sometimes wish I was called Bill Gates or Bob Gates.

Starter, fuel pump, carb and all tins on the engine now.

My first Wheel Horse encounter as a 12y old boy was with my grandads Solett A-81. It was identical to WH A-81. The Solett A-81 was hard work for a light 12y old, when it was in use and hot it was imposible to restart it after a refuel or after a shotoff and it had a mean repull kick by the startin cord. It had for the Solett the distinct orange overall color, black steering wheel and seat, Briggs&Stratton 8hp engine w/o electric start, 5speed+reverse. In the 70ths and 80ths the Solett was a lawn and garden hardwear marcue here in Finland that SOK then S-group sold to customers. Another hardware trader Kesko-group that sold identical equipment to customers as Norlett. Norlett and Solett were often asembled or made in Norway. Also Stiga lawn and garden equipment was orange in color and sold as Solett by SOK. Both grandad and the A-81 are by gones, then i wasnt interested in the thing, more in geting to driving it. Im looking forward to get my WH 518HE to use.

Winter chores don’t get better than this. In a couple years, we’re going to get a fixer-upper and rebuild it together. He’d spend all day around the tractor if he could.

To say Kano Labs makes some interesting products is sort of like saying NASA does some interesting work. Most folks that use Aero Kroil, Kroil or other products they make generally have no idea what else is available unless they are subscribed to their mailers. One of those mailers last year mentioned some additional accessories that I'd never heard of - especially the Kroiler and the pouring spout. Hmm, had to check into this, so I gave them a call. Nice, friendly lady that answered the phone was full of interesting and tantalizing details, so I ordered a few things, especially that unheard of pouring spout for their gallon size bulk cans. I've had that gallon can of their product for 2yrs now, never could pour any of it into a container or oiler without most of it covering the top of the can, the floor, the bench, and myself. The last thing I wanted to be contaminated with oil is my welding table, that was the first thing to get splashed with the stuff, so the can was put away and stayed there until I could figure it out. I tried 2 different suction guns, neither would work right with that super thin viscosity of the Kroil - so I gave up and forgot about it. Now, listen up - I know all too well about the methods used to pour from metal cans, I learned that one when I was about 5yrs old from my Dad with gasoline cans, ect. Even the nice gal at Kano mentioned the method to pour out of that type of container - "you must put the spout at the top to pour the product out" she adamantly pointed out. "Yeah, tried that - it's all over the floor, my bench, me and everything else in the shop. The gallon can arrived almost dead full and this stuff is not in any way considered a cheap bulk purchase - I'd rather not waste any if you don't mind" was my reply. She laughed, said yes, in fact - doing this will spill some - use a funnel. "I was using a funnel, the oil is designed to cling and migrate on metals, and it does that quite well - says right on the can 'the oil that creeps'. Well enough, it will drip off the rim of the can and create a mess that does not come off. I'm looking for a spout - have one?" "Yes, we do - $XX dollars". "Great, does it leak??" "No, it is designed to seal and be left on the can for later." "Awesome - can I order one, please?" "Sure - you have an account here" "Ok, what else do you have in terms of dispensers and containers?" "We have a small metal can, the oiling can and several other things" "Hmm, interesting".... Well, that cost me about $72 after shipping, lol. One spout, two Kroilers, one small metal can, plus ship - I didn't care I spent more than what the bulk gallon price was on the product, I just wanted to be able to use it and not spread the stuff across half the planet. So, after the phone call and the order placed - a few days later these items showed up via the brown truck. First, the small tin can - they come empty, and you have to specifically ask for them. I believe you can also purchase them filled - it is intended to be like a 3 in 1 dripper can. Via the new non-leaking spout - I filled that can last night without spilling a drop - excellent!!! The little plastic spout has a threaded neck and the included cap is threaded - seals well after I made a gasket to seal off the top of the can - otherwise, it would leak. Still, not a big disappointment - that can has already proven quite useful with the .080" hole I drilled into the spout since it comes with a tip you must cut off yourself. Works like a small dropper, but bigger - like it very much. The Kroiler oiling can with the spout. Just basically a run of the mill Goldenrod oiling can with a paper label poorly applied. Works quite well and will find out in time if the solvents want to evaporate off easily or not. Seals seem to hold very well compared to most of the Goldenrod pump cans I have had in the past - maybe it's a specially designed one? I do like that is has a threaded tip - there are different tips out there for the Goldenrod cans, btw... Last, but definitely not least is that red spout. I have never found any spouts made to fit bulk gallon metal cans except for older gasoline cans - and we all know too well how much those things leak. The Kano Kroil metal gallon sized can is a 1-3/4" coarse threaded neck - searched high and low for a solution and all this time Kano has one of their own. Felt like an idiot the first time I screwed it on the can, capped it off with the included sealing cap and promptly flipped the can upside down to see if it was going to leak everywhere. It does not - in fact, I propped it up on a block in an oil drain pan and left it upside down for 3 days - not one sign of a leak anywhere. That sealing cap fits very tightly - so tight, it's a bugger to get it off but I'd rather have that than lose the solvents or have a spill. I think the spout was around $20, well worth the cost in my opinion. These items and more are available but you have to call them directly. They are not advertised anywhere nor are the really well known by most that use Kano's products. Glad I took the time to call them, I use their products a lot around here for all the rusty things I work on living in the Rust Belt. In thinking about it - I should have gotten one or two more of the little metal cans - they seal well with the gasket I made and would be a great way to store the common "Ed's Red" recipe penetrant versus a glass mushroom jar that I currently use. Not sure, maybe the acetone would still leak past the seal - it will slowly evaporate through the metal lid on the glass jar as it is now. BTW - has anyone ever found a spout to fit the metal gallon cans of Acetone?? I use a lot of it here, most of it evaporates over time due to the seal on the can wearing down. The smaller quart cans have gone to a stupid plastic snap-on lid that eventually starts to leak as well. With TIG welding - cleanliness is everything and I use the acetone to wipe things down prior to welding them, including the filler rods. If I could find a dispenser that can hold that stuff without melting or allowing it to evaporate - I'd be quite the happy old bugger. I might even smile, for once. Sarge

So, my wife likes funny coffee... ice, whipping cream, sweetener, this ghee butter she found.... I don’t know. I made her some iced coffee this morning in her new Mrs. Pullstart cup.... at about 6:30 a.m. She dumped the ice in the sink tonight about 7-ish.

That’s nothing compared to what you have helped me with, not to mention many others. Just a small way of saying “thanks”.

Don't you have anything better to do? Unfortunately I can't watch the video (because I'm not on facebook) but the picture looks like it's funny.

Is this smart enough?

Yer a stinky hole for bringing that up Kev but true true..... now you have to change your name to broofmadgestart! Hey ain't we suposed to fixin tractors here instead of all this fun???

I was almost ready to hook you up with a disguise.

Hey @Sarge, this look any better? I think the holes still need to be closed up, but this looks so much better to me already!

I have a million stories, (I usually do for any given subject) but I’m a little foggy from fillings today, so I’ll share the most recent “awww” inspiring moment here at the Lengerich house: Our son, Michael, is 3.5. We’d never really gotten him more than a trim, since haircuts for little ones are stress inducing, and Mama and I kinda liked his long hair. Once he got verbal, we asked him if he wanted a haircut and the answer was always an adamant “NO!”. That’s fine, we didn’t wanna cut it anyway lol. He went for a trim last weekend, and in the way there he told my wife he “wants a haircut like daddy!”. I get a medium fade, so for him to go from shoulder length hair to a fade was drastic. When he got home I about fell over. It looked like my preschool picture had gotten up and started walking around! The one on the left is me at about his age, the one on the right was when he’d gotten home, and then one of us together. Another quick one is simply the way my daughter, Olivia, sleeps. She is the most head strong, condescending , self confident infant I’ve ever met. She sleeps like she’s got the whole world under her thumb..... I’ve never seen someone sleep with so much self assuredness on their face 😂

Here’s a shoutout to @formariz and @pullstart and @KyleLengerich And @WHGuy413 just to start a little more interest (if there is any) in this thread given the big topic elsewhere on the forum recently... We got the rest of the frame made and hung the doors for fitment purposes... Im happy with the look and it makes my office look even cleaner which helps offset the obvious clutter problem that I have in my shop! Today, the kids has another ice/snow day from school and so I asked Claudia if she wanted to help me stain the doors. She readily agreed and we sanded them smooth, drilled the holes for the handles, and got ready to stain. We used a prestain sealer and then Varthane “Gunstock” oil based stain. I worked on one door while Claud did the other. She is the artist in the family and took very well to this work. Once again, I explained it once and then she did it, very well! Next up, she gets to learn how to brush on polyurethane...

Mine was Lengerich8 because I had first thought we had a Commando 8, but as we figured it out realized that we didn’t lol. Changed it to my name because i realized I could change it (some places you can’t ). I want to change it again simply because I didn’t think that if someone googled me they’d find me here, but I haven’t thought of a new one yet haha.

When the temp drops to 40F , I light the wood burner and use 2-3 cord/year. I get most of my wood for free from tree trimmers and home owners that are happy to get rid of the wood. I burn mostly locust, hickory, oak, maple that I age for 2-3 years. I'm burning a maple now that I worked up last summer that had been laying for 4 years. This week I took two maples down for a neighbor. They will dry for 3 years before using. I don't like to stock pile too far ahead.....at my age, I'm even reluctant to buy green bananas.

And back to Pullstart, faster than WH to Madge to WH!

That day your name went from PULLSTART to WON'TSTART!

Next time I see you I'll play it for yah. Tony

That little one is simple, but so nice! The big one, well we know if Terry doesn’t make it to dinner on Wednesday, he’s hitting every rest area on the way!

First off, very nice truck. I have only owned one hard tonneau cover which is the factory one in my avalanche right now, it works. Of the other trucks i have owned i prefer the access brand soft tonneau for ease of use and durability , i know you said you prefer a hard top, but a tonneau cover is like a tailgate lock on your truck, they only keep honest people honest. If someone wants whats in there they will get it.

Looks quite a lot better. The whole trick with welding cast aluminum is getting the garbage out of it - any contamination in the metal will create pockets that do not flow out into clean aluminum and will create leaks. I would try to at least pressure test it before adding fuel - once it leaks gasoline through any pinholes it is a fight to get it ground out and welded solid again. I wouldn't go above 30psi on cast aluminum, there may be some thin spots in that tank and blowing it apart would be a bad deal. The fuel contains some oils, as well as other things that aluminum doesn't like - those things will create a bad weld. Prep is everything here, the cleaner you can get it before welding, the better. Take a clean, new stainless steel brush and go in multiple directions across the welds - then, with a magnifying glass look very closely at any black spots left. A stainless steel pick can reveal if those spots are pinholes by scratching at them. If the black flakes off - good. If not, you have a hole. You can also use a clean flap disk on a grinder to knock down the beads flush - this will reveal any pockets that didn't fully melt and flow together at the base metal. It is pretty tricky to keep that aluminum rod within the gas envelope at all times and not let it blob itself into the puddle. It also takes a lot of power - the thickness of that tank sealing lip is going to need close to 175 amps to melt it properly at the root before adding filler. That looks like it was welded at around 60hz, is that the case? Sarge

I’m halfway pulling your leg, Jeff. We got an iPad as a source of home internet. It’s unlimited and can stream with Bluetooth? It is a pretty decent picture taker too...

I need about 7-10 cord to heat the house, shop and water heater, but I rarely get that much. I supplement with hardwood skids from a local stamping shop, and the wood boiler is set up for dual fuel, so I plan to put together an oil burner to help with heat as well. Being outdoor, I don’t have to worry about how seasoned it is as much as if I were indoors. Along with fixing up the boiler, I’d like to make our home and eventually the shop more efficient, to reduce the heat required.

The chainsaws we use are an Echo CS 490 with an 18 inch bar and a Stihl MS180c with a 16 inch bar. The splitter we have is probably 20 or 30 years old at the beginning of its life. It was rebuilt with a new ram and the splitting wedges were built up and added on to sometime before 2012 by a local commercial logger for use splitting the big butt ends of trees he brought home for his own firewood. 6.5 horse Briggs motor. Quite powerful. We added tires from a camper and it rolls through the woods very very nicely on those.

It should, and I’ll explain why.... the first attempt was from me, the first time welding cast with a new to me welder. the final product is from my father in-law. He runs the welding department at a sheet metal laser shop. I would expect that from him!

Trina and I have been together for three winter seasons now. When she was a young girl she lived in a house that had wood as its primary source of heat. Both of us ABSOLUTELY LOVE to go out in the forest and harvest the firewood. Time spent outside. Time spent running equipment. Time spent preparing for the future. Time spent keeping us warm. All great stuff. We've been burning about 1.5 cord the last two seasons but this one we had closer to 2 cord and we will run out before the end of this month. As soon as the snow clears, probably April, we will get back out into the forest to begin pulling in the trees that we have had laying down for a few months already. We are thinking next year we will probably burn about three cord. This year we want to get 2 years of harvesting done plus a friend of ours wants to help and take some of the wood for himself. Until this year we have been able to harvest Only the dead falls or sick trees and I think that Trend will continue for at least two more years. We have a Maine Forest Ranger coming on Saturday to tour the property and make recommendations. We will be trying to cut split and stack about 7 - 9 cord of wood this spring and summer. My Forest is approximately 70% Beech trees. The rest is a relatively equal mix of sugar maple, rock or swamp maple, hemlock, red oak, a few white oaks, four different colors of birch trees, poplar, some long needle white pine. We burn no evergreen trees. This season we tried poplar and discovered why some people do not like it. There's just no BTUs in it. In the coming seasons we will be harvesting poplar for use as kindling because it is amazing for starting fires which we have to do about every 24 hours. We don't leave the stove burning while we're gone because there's nobody to maintain it. In this area the beech trees have a nearly 100% rate of the cankerous bark. We watch to see which trees look the worst and harvest those. Around here the beach trees grow pretty quickly in comparison to the other hardwoods and there are many more of them so that will be our focus for firewood.

My FCC amateur radio call sign KC9KAS. It is a "vanity" call sign as the KAS are my initials! Ken Alan Smith. On a side note, my wife is KC9MLS.....same reason! No one else in the US has the same call sign (no duplications).

simple to tell. Some things in my mind, needs first its time to maturity, i thinkering a lot about all issues they can happen, compared to a older Tractor with Diesel Engine while pre- glowing.🤔 If things are mellow enough for me, i build them, but ahead i must "preglow" my mind how to solve all known issues. So my Screenname is program. Sometimes i just do things, because i be curious if they work.

That's it I'm just calling you BobE, Bobbie or Bobe for short.. or Robert E Lee from here on out....

The name change will update previous posts.... but for the record this quote says Madge said... and always will! I prefer my recoil... even when it breaks on Main Street at the Big Show... Then I fix it up and I run out of gas! I’d rather deal with those problems, than deal with a dead battery.

Thanks for the pics Steve, I can see that I am missing the tab on most if not all of my K-181’s for the throttle cable! I guess the spot welds broke?

They are awesome, I’m glad we can all sit around the dinner table and have a cup of whatever we’d like!

for The help I’ve recieved on the site becoming a supporter is well worth it. This kind of experience and expertise anywhere else would cost a fortune. Here are the rest of the pics I wasn’t able to load earlier

That is a fairly common problem, as the barrier free handle design originated to allow folks who can not "grip" the old door knob open a door...Problem is those canines can easily open it - even without the benefit of those highly useful opposable thumbs we enjoy and do not give much thought to...

I have one like that on my front screen door. I had to turn it so its straight up because the dog figured out how to open it.

One of the funniest things I remember involved my oldest son when he was maybe 3? We had a 1988 Isuzu Trooper at the time. A new Walmart Super Center was being built... the dirt work was being done at the site. We could park on a bluff overlooking the site and watch the diggers dig, the earth movers move earth, the bulldozers doze...... This particular day was hot enough that we had the windows up and the AC on while we watched the work going on. My my son was just big enough to stand in the floorboard on the front passenger side, hang on to a grab handle on the dash, and see out the front windshield. Remember.... the AC was on.... I looked over at him and he had his right ear up against one of the dash vents, with his left hand feeling around his left ear to see if any cool air was coming out. 😄. I asked him, “Do you feel anything?” He said, “Nope!” .... I said, “Good thing!!” 😄👍