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Just rescued from another junk dealer. Sat in his yard for 3 long years. Got it home safely and put charger on battery for 5 min and it fired right up. Now to give it an oil change and new fluid in transmission. And clean fuel system. Traded a cheap $65 "bang- bang" for it. This will be my new plowing snow toy. Number 5 in my growing collection.

With all the ponies I have it was about time I got something to take more than 1 or 2. 18 ft x 5 ft 2". Wooooooooooo hooooooooooooo

Sort of like the president of a major corporation using a golden shovel to break ground for a new building. Two shovels full for the photographer and the off to the Country Club for some refreshment!

@AMC RULES @953 nut @pullstart @LengerichKA88 @Mows4three @wallfish @WHGuy413 @Herder @Lee1977 @PeacemakerJack @Achto @WHX24 @Ed KennellKennell @formariz @Vinylguy @buckrancher @stevebo @Sparky And... All those others that believe these above-listed characters that I never do anything. Ever.

Finally got around to putting together the stuff to make a hub puller, my neighbor turned this out for me on the lathe. Still took a lot of grunting, but got er done.

Been nursing my little sequoia sapling I brought from California last year. It has grown already over 4 inches this year. When it gets substantially bigger have to find a good spot for it in the place here. Perhaps 1000 years from now it will be close in size to its parents? In NJ of all places. Just to clarify it. Sapling was bought in Souvenir shop at Sequoia National Park. It was not removed from area. They only asked that it not be planted in Park.

having done this a few times, if you have an engine that has not been regularly serviced , like in a recent purchase, i make a point of frequent oil changes on both engine and trans. i would avoid using 10-30 oil due to engine heat factor , often smoking till it gets hot to flow. 5-30 works well as does 30 wt rotella. i save the little used oil for lubing other items. i also try to drive a recent purchase tractor with some road time , heating up oils and stopping to find other issues, remember you are trying to recover the neglect to this unit. two tractors that i recently did this to have turned out very well, i marvel at the solid operation that was hiding under the neglect. similar flushing to fuel system , it just takes time, pete

Picked up the latest addition today 416-8 anniversary. Its not been worked for some time clutch pedal sticks so spring or damper to sort but generally it's a nice one.

So in my Yahoo inbox today was an email from Photobucket.....I was never a big Photobucket user and haven’t accessed my account in probably 10 years. Established a new password and went scrolling. Mostly pics that I could care less about but this one caught my eye. I can’t tell you what year this was, maybe @nylyon can recall. Long story short Karl myself and Chris went on a road trip to Pennsylvania to pick up a “surprise tractor”. The young man on the right is Chris Sweetland, he actually started RedSquare as a high school project. That’s right! Hopefully his teacher gave him an A+ . Fun fact: Chris is member #1, he called me and asked me to join his tractor website so that he would have at least one member and that’s how I became member #2. Next to Chris is me, hands on my hips like I have attitude . Next guy is Dustin Messinger or DMESS he used to be a member here. I still talk with Dustin thru Facebook and Im picking up a parts tractor from him at the big show in a couple weeks. And last but not least, the character on the far right is our own Karl or Nylon. This was a great trip, my trailer, Karls Durango towing it, Chris sleeping for HOURS in the back seat and the C-160 surprise tractor! (Disclaimer; tractor in the pic is not the surprise tractor.)

Gramma had one but she was real old too so she had to sell .....

This is from the window of my wife's sewing room.

So over the weekend I picked up a no-name eight horse power only to find out I think the motor is toast. But no avail I decided to take the foot rests off of it and put on to IRV ! It all bolts up pretty well. Now some might not like it because it’s not all original but I love it! Although I will have to do some more painting but the parts are rust free so should clean up really easily.

Here is the one of the few he was referring to mhlmeader is a good dude and is welcome here anytime!

My buddy brought his 66 C10 in for four new tires and new shocks today...figured I’d share it with yall

A little less grunting this way.

It's a Moto Mower. Best guess on the year would be 1963

Last night after reading all this she looks at me and smiles and says... We gotta get to the Big Show.... Maybe that'll be on the schedule for 2020.

That video is kinda like video of big foot

This is the only place that reproduces rebuild kit for the metal body Kohler pumps. Or you can replace it with a new plastic one, yes all the new ones are plastic even the Kohler ones. http://www.then-now-auto.com/kohler-fuel-pumps-2/

I'm here Cas, just too much to do and too little time. I did find your post on the foundry and pattern maker very interesting. When I took a drafting position with Allis Chalmers Hydro Turbine Division in 1964, my first project was to measure a 15" dia. model Francis turbine at different elevations or "board sections" using a pantograph machine, then step up these sections to the full size 30' dia. prototype and lay out the board sections full size on mylar for use by the pattern maker to make the pattern for the 30' dia. 30 ton casting. This drafting layout work was done on hands and knees on a 50 X 50 ' drafting table using scales, slide rules, dividers, flexible splines and positioning weights ( called ducks due to their shape). I eventually joined the Hydraulic Lab where all the R & D and model testing was done for all the large hydro plants. I was responsible for the mechanical design, manufacture, assembly, and testing of the hydro models. While in this capacity, I purchased all my aluminum bronze and manganese bronze casting from a local father and son foundry. The father was the pattern maker and his son poured the castings. I also was always fascinated by this mans ability to make these pattern of a 15 bucket francis turbine using shrink scales and designing the pouring and venting routes to end up with a good casting. I eventually developed a process of machining the individual buckets on a 5 axis milling machine and bolting them to a band and crown plate. This was a big step in increasing the accuracy of the bucket shapes and made it a simple process to step up the model digital file to any prototype size. I still bought the bucket castings from the shop, but they were crude with finish to allow for the milling. Sorry, for the long story. I need to end this. The elderly pattern maker that became a very good friend has passed on, but I still see his Son and Grandson at school basketball games. About 10 years back, his grandson and my grandson played on the same baseball and basketball teams.

that's some funny stuff right there. Don't worry, I can make them fit.

Picked this up this afternoon, hadn't been run in a few years, I got it started , but needs some carb cleaning /adjusting. Nice seller, had TONS of wheelhorse, going back for a 701 tomarrow, lil red dragon ranger didn't have enough room.....oh, and I didn't bring enough cashflow

Just saw this one the other day. Roadster Shop built it. Pro touring chassis. Love those old trucks.

made lawn spikier and weights from old bush vacuum pump rotors, the rotor veins are a perfect slot to hold the weights on the 6" steel channel steel frame, each rotor wt is 90 lbs, this combo really breaks up the dense clay in the lawn, helps aeration and is great for grub and seed openings . tractor is my 82 black hood with recent 12 magnum swap, lots of modifications at any problem point, bought this new in 82, coming on 40 years, regularly upgrade it , don,t even think about hrs, just stay after it. note mower deck idler pulley , that i add to all my decks , totally takes the belt bounce out of spindle drive area, very quiet. buffed out the paint with maguires clear finish and a 6" hand buffer. good day to spike the lawn , steady rain last night, Chris crossed lawn oppose any cutting areas. normally tow the smaller spiker without weight when cutting , don,t even know its there , adding holes in lawn and breaking any thatch . this is what i did today. pete

yep definitely a Jacobsen, here is a photo of my 1963 Chief

PM me your address I will mail you one.

Do we have any Shot Glass collecting members? I will have some of these with me at the show for $5 each

We need a comparison video of Trina. Though I suppose it's to late. She'll have shifted all that stone by now.

You need to take a look at the roll pins on both ends of the horizontal shaft from the fan gear to the steering sector.

I can honestly say that after all of the organizations club's etc that I have been a part of since my late teens I have never seen the recipient of this kind of ribbing ever take it so well but, I would't want to make the Bear angry.

Has this video been slowed 😂

Killin me. You guys are absolutely killin me. Although I have to admit I'm a little bit upset at you right now. Not because you made that remark but because you didn't give me that idea BEFORE I moved all that @#$&+ stone.

Oh.... That is AWESOME !!!! Both of us, literally, just burst right out loud laughing.

Again to be expected....Wil give you a few minutes to get things straighten out!

I have this 417 with a 48" SD that I was thinking of listing on the big show sale post. But after charging the battery and mowing with it, the sound of that KT17 grew on me. So I decided to fix the left rear corner of the deck where it rusted thru. This might become my go to mower. Now, what to do with the C-120, 312A, and 312H? All comments on my welding skills will be ignored. This is functional, I use Bondo to make it purty.

I should mention, the pump seemed to be working just fine, but it was leaking thru pretty good....GAS...WAS...EVERYWHERE....it could have pumped fuel into the tractor setting next to it!!

The gearing is pretty much the same in all the 3 speed trannys. ( 1st gear 2.2mph, 2nd gear 3.4mph, 3rd gear 6.0mph). The 6/8 speeds had another set of gears below the normal 3 speeds ( 1st low .5mph, 2nd low .8mph, 3rd low 1.5mph). As far as pushing power, I don't think that you would notice much difference from the seat.

well guys today i saved a older wheel horse from the scrap yard;as i really don't know much about it but as you can see in the pictures there isn't much left but heck i thought there are many parts to be used ;what it is a model C-120 NUMBERS ARE @ 12k-802311378 followed by the numbers @6054 ;yes i do believe the motor has been changed as it has a tecky model HH-1100 the motor seems to be complete other than the carb ;the fly wheel turns over as well the eclectic clutch ;the wiring as well is missing but still there are many parts that can be used such as the starter which i have not tried yet 'the hood isn't really that bad plus the head light assembly is there plus i have an extra one to go with it in case 'sorry no lens as they are always busted ;the rear transmission pulley is there plus the belt ;so you guys might need a few parts for your C-120 'i am always open to offers ;thanks for looking and again if you need any thing do let me know '

If you are using gas with ethanol STOP! Use this site to find the good stuff. https://www.pure-gas.org/ Not too bad, all you have to do is remove the transaxle and then hope the 1/4-20 screws to the tank straps will come out!

I will probably have plenty Sparky See you Friday

that flypast Norm mentioned... here you go

About incredible women and to take the pressure off Eric for a minute. I used to have a neighbor next door who's wife Judy was an incredible woman. She would mix cement, split wood, dig holes, move enormous boulders, and on and on. She was unstoppable and fearless and worked outside from dusk to dawn.When we all got together in barbecues out side I used to say in front of everyone to the husband that if they were ever to get divorced to speak to me first and we would make some kind of arrangement so he would go and she would stay or she could even live with us. I also always said and mean it ,that if my life would one day have to depend on anybody, she would definitely be my first choice to have next to me. Unfortunately they moved away and she is gone, but I think about that woman every day I am working outside. She left her mark all over the place including a D&R Power Wagon she gave me when she left that I appropriately name Judy painting it on the front.

More thanks so much!

A few more. Here we have the intrepid Smith family as can be found engaging in their usual rally activity. From the right. Ewan, (Meadowfields son). Mark, (Meadowfield) Frank, (Meadowfields father) Ian, (Meadowfields brother) Jake, (Ewans twin brother}

I’ve been itching to get my 603 I bought from @Shynon. Now, you’ve made it even worse! I can’t wait til next week at the show when I get mine!!!!!

Shoulda brought you guys out back and demonstrated it. You would probably have one in a few weeks after getting more of the itch

Even better! 😂

Seven. It was only seven seconds. HAHAHAHAHAHHA

Just like @ebinmaine, after a 16 second load time, we got 8 seconds of work and then it quit. Im just sayin 🤷🏻‍♂️😂