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Welcome to the world, our 3rd child born today at 4:17 am. 6lbs 5oz 20 inches long, Samuel Robert Prondzinski

Thanks! I wish I knew where I put the SD card from the camera. I have a bunch more on there, but I set it in a place where it would be safe and I wouldn’t lose it. One things for sure: it’s safe 🤷🏻‍♂️ Heres another wide ranging collection of the ones I have on hand. Half of my time out in the yard last year was looking for things to shoot. It just amazes me that on such a small piece of land (5/8ths acre), we have such a wide variety of things that live, here. We have insects and plants that spend their entire life cycle in our yard, when you think about it it’s crazy. This year I’m going to put out a mason bee house, and I’m going to plant more pollinator attracting plants as well.

@pullstart That wall hanging is wonderful. I love it. Here's another little addition we made yesterday afternoon. Last weekend we opened up the bottom of the stairway by removing a wall and rebuilding part of it back up. Here's a couple of before and after. Here is the wall as completed. The Shelf is an old piece of reclaimed rough Pine. The braces are harvested from our forest by Trina yesterday.

I haven’t been as active lately, as some of my other hobbies have pulled me back in. One of my other hobbies is photography, specifically nature. As I’m an avid gardener, I got started kind of on accident by taking pictures of various plants so that I could send them to family and friends to show them off. Then I started to notice that I was pretty good at sneaking up on the critters that inhabited said plants, so I started taking pictures of them. My aunt directed me to a website to submit my pictures to, and now I believe I have over a dozen photos that have been published to it. I submitted a bunch of different photos and never heard back from the lady that runs the site, so I eventually forgot about them. I recently heard from her again (life got her busy, who’d have thunk 🤷🏻‍♂️) and she’s posted some more of my photos. Because of this I’ve been gearing up on all fronts to make this year a good gardening year. I’ve also been getting my camera ready, lookin into new lenses, and looking into ways to attract and House certain types of insects. Now, some of you may enjoy the pictures, but with spring coming, I thought it might be helpful to post a link to the site to help identify any critters you may come across putting your Horses to work this year. The link to the site, as well as some of my pictures, can be found below. http://www.knowyourinsects.org/index.html

Snow cover pretty much gone, so I could do some yard clean up with the 753. Had limbs all over the front yard from a ice storm in early February. Will be hauling wood with the 753 after I cut up the big stuff with the chain saw.

This is a recent wall hanger. It’s not so much a tool, but a big collage of important things in our life together. I built this out of some pickets from Grandma and Grandpa’s property, the house that recently burned. My father inlaw bought his childhood home from his parents while Grandma was in a home. We recently lost her to alsheimers and just to our right in the photo is where the pickets came from. As you can see, we were wed there and the place is a pretty significant place of memories for my wife as the fence surrounded the “junkyard” where she used to play. She’d like me to add one more knob, the one from the bathroom in the house, it was changed out last summer and given to Taylor as a funny keepsake.

Thanks so much for all of the prayers folks!!!! We went to Emory’s orthopedic doctor today and got a lot of relief! He had Emory do a standing X-ray of his hips. He relieved us in that he said he didn’t feel that Emory has thinning of the bones or displacement of his hip. His socket is normal and development is on target for a child his age. Any irregularities are typical of a child with cerebral palsy. He will visit the dr again in a year with X-rays repeated in 2 years. Now, we can breath a little easier!!!! Thanks again for all of your prayers, support, and kind words!

I got most of the work done on my new to me 416H. I picked this up a couple of months ago for 240 near to me. Went threw engine new belts, plugs, cleaned carb, set valves an new plug wires. Sanded down most of it and some new decals. Starts right up no smoke with 1400 hours on it. Its a 1990 so not too many if used regularly. It was plugged FULL of crap, never seen so much stuff in a tractor. Runs strong but my yard is WET and I got stuck, only one tire was spinning is this normal? They are bald and need replaced but either I have not noticed this before or I have an issue in my trans? Any thoughts

Started on the engine. Looks more Techumseh-ie in the pics but it'll get K90'd. The super duper spark plug is just so I can hold it. It's glued in the hole so it'll just be cut and shaped later on.The little circle on the flywheel side isn't glued or staying, just used for reference. (amazing how many flaws you can see in the close up pics. Completely unnoticeable by the naked eye. At least mine anyway!)

Well, what do you expect? You removed a ton of grass clippings from the rear end, now you don't have enough weight!

When we had a house completely to ourselves, we had a “Moto Room”. It was a den that I took control of. I had a great deal of my own, but also my dads and both grandfathers military momentos. I also had a lot of our “family history” stuff up as well. Once we moved, most of those things had to be boxed back up, but some are still on display. Circling back to my most recent post, we’ve also started putting some of my pictures up as well. I have a few things here and there though.

I had my 1961 Wheel Horse 701 out yesterday and checked out the vitals to get ready for the coming garden planting season. The 701 still looks good and functions pretty good !

OK, The only cutter I have is the one in the tool. The only chisel that is marked is the upside down one...it is Stanley. The four fold rule is marked Made in England. The metal folded rule is a Lufkin. Yes, that is a leather strop. I threw in the Stanley Butt Hinge Gauge. Now details on the Brace / drill. It is marked K D 110 Interesting, with the drill handle removed and the ratchet engaged on the brace, it is possible to bore a hole square to a wall and 1.5" from the perpendicular wall. Oh, I did get the knives sharpened.

don't know how that got in there, but it was a tight fit. It was full too, just goes to show. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

If you take some soft copper tubing and hammer it flat, you can use it behind any holes and then weld on the rim. The weld will not stick to the copper...save a lot of grinding. Helps if you have a daughter that welds. Did electrolysisto get rid of rust.

Congrats Mike ... sure busy makin a gramps outta the old man! We'll have this little guy plowing in no time!

I forgot to add these two as well.

Almost any thing can be saved. I was able save this rim by doing some "noodle welding" with a wire feed welder followed by a lot of grinding.

This was made and used by my wife's Grandfather. And a few hole makers I have collected.

@Ed KennellKennell Requested pics in another thread so here's a few of our walls. Yes the levels, are. My grandfather that got me interested in Tractors in the first place used to use that big sickle. The saws were his as well. I used the one at the top just the other day. My other grandfather liked birch trees, as do I. There are several other paintings with birches. Various tools from inheritance and other finds. Trina's wall of karate including her Black Belt certificate. Yes, she knows how to use those "decorations" along with several others. And the dog's favorite indoor spot. Her name is Meeha. Feel free to share your own pictures!!

I have been searching for an original 754 for a few years now as it is a rare bird that I have wanted for some time. Finding a 754 is difficult enough but when this one came up for sale locally from another member here I had to get it. Motor was bad in it and will need a rebuild. I found a replacement 8 that was recently rebuilt from another local member. After swapping parts and some paint here she is.... I do plan on rebuilding the original motor at some point but it needs machine work etc. That will be a future project.

Well ok not really a mystery part ... sorry guys I know how much you guys like IDing stuff. It's a fender pan support that came off a franken1055 that got mafiaed. Looks to be adjustable? Question is what is the correct model it came off? I suppose now I am expected to get a tractor that it belongs to?

Happy Birthday @clueless, we are all glad you were born! And welcome to Medicare!

Right now Randy, he’s taking seizure medicine that the dr says gives him an 80% chance of never having another one. As far as we know, he is on it for the long haul. We don’t mind as long as the meds do their job. He is one tough little guy and everything to me! I would go crazy without him. He goes with me every step and trip I take. I couldn’t ask for a better little buddy!!

Thanks guys, tried a new local BBQ joint today, it was good but not as good as everyone says it is. Got up to 66 today but going down to 41 tonight . Dick, I got my Medicare card in the mail the first week of March . Going to have a big slice of Oreo ice cream cake and a large glass of cold milk and head for bed. Life is good at 65.

Grass clippings? that would be manure.

Limited Slip Differential....Dummy me was wondering what drugs had to do with Wheel Horses....DUH

That's some good lookin top soil right there.

Ace Hardware has a huge selection of thin thrust washers. I have gotten 18 Gauge (0.050") and 14 Gauge (0.078") 3/4"thrust washers there, they were about a buck each.

A piece of paper towel stuffed in a chunk of brake line makes for a good way to clean out the excess in the outlet bung

Here's my BSA set And a few of my Starrett and Mitutoyo tools.

The rest of the rubber was stripped away and the spoke was welded all around.

That family tree is of my maternal side.... my grandpa was the only son and he had four daughters.... our branch of the Finch family is essentially gone. But that tree (while now we know it is incorrect on a couple people) was done by my grandfathers uncles. My paternal grandfather was able to run the Lengerich/Großelengerich (name change in New York upon naturalization in 1870) to 910AD. I’m hoping to get all of his work someday.

@LengerichKA88 That family tree is wicked cool. On my mother's side of the family, there is a fellow in Western Massachusetts that has a tree that is on two or three pieces of plywood! It goes all the way back to the middle of the 1200s if I remember correctly. Cool part is, all that research was done three or four or five decades ago or much much more. Long long long before the internet was available. I can't even begin to comprehend the amount of hours that went into that tree over the century or two.

Well, over the weekend I did my least favorite thing in the world and did not hate it for once! I Finished sanding all the layers of paint off and then sprayed the whole thing with Rust Reformer. After that I ended up bondo and sanded 4 times before I was happy with how the hood came out. After got another layer of Rust Reformer over the whole thing. Next weekend I will be spraying filler primer on it and back to sanding. I also spent some time outside and finished bolting everything I could back together on the tractor. Still waiting on the quote to get the rims powder coated white. List of what I still need to get done. Hood primed/painted Seat pan sanded/primed/painted New cushion made. Order shaft sleeve to go on the engine/pulley Get/make belt cover for drive belt. Rims powder coated Decals ordered/installed

I finally got the 701 put together and out for some pictures today!

Looks great John, but I would like to have seen the pics of the innards (crank, rod, piston, valves) before you put the head and pan on.

In some parts, that might be a reserve gas tank!

Congratulations! Got the Lawn Ranger on order?

Robbie: it is not hard to put a 10 pinion into an 8 pinion 6/8 speed. Did that on a 310-8 that is a towing tractor.

IDK if I would keep my water bottle there ...

@stevasaurusWe all don't have welders in the family , how much does she charge per rim ?

All but one of the Charger Electros I have come across were hydro gear 10 pinions. The last one had a piston to piston (But 10 pinion) do not know if it was dealer installation replacing a failed hydro gear (remember Wheel Hose pretty much said hydro gears were "Repair by replacement") or a later swap.by some owner. i have never seen one with an Eaton. i would suspect if there was one it was a home made job. After all Chargers ended in 1972 but WH continued using Sundstrand through the no names and C series up until 1980 (C-125)

Nice work, tried to roll the winter lumps out of mine today and now I have a couple of sets of ruts to fill. This winter here in Mi has been strange, seems to have a long cold spell. Just waiting for the spring rains to start....should stop raining by end of April mid May. Lol may get the garden in by July.

Part 3 under way! I spent 40 minutes rolling the tank to coat all surfaces, now time to spend 30-40 minutes draining excess from the tank!

If I ran over my lawn with weights and chains this time of year (or ever) there wouldn't be much left of my grass with all the rain we've had the last couple of months. I can hardly wait to spread pre-emergence and to see how my new Briny lawn sweeper is going to work but not until the yard drys out. I'm not even walking on the grass because the ground is so soft.

Here’s the post on wheel repair I was talking about... The entire build is a work of art, worth the read from start to finish.

Sure is nice of the forest, to hang on to that stuff until you need it!

Yet another first hand testimonial for the removal of balance gears! Please share some pictures of the carnage.

Gear transmissions with 1-1/8" crankshaft use 4" OD engine pulley #7466. Hydro transmissions with 1-1/8" crankshaft use 5-1/4" OD engine pulley #7443. Garry