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As some members know, I've had this big honkin piece of concrete from a basketball hoop by the side of the road waiting for the village to pick up.. We have clean up days in the fall. I don't keep much junk around but we replaced our memory foam mattress this summer. I cut up the old one in cubes to get rid of it when my dumpster isn't full. (Believe it or not a electric knife works great for this ) I have 4 cubes left so I put them around the concrete in a pile along with an old reading pillow. I leave for work at 5:15 AM and find the foam cubes strewn all over the yard and the concrete about 15 ft from where it was. No time to investigate. I come home early today and get looking. Some mohambie must have thought the foam was a Nascar safe barrier. There is a tire mark where the concrete was. A tire mark on a piece of foam along with a broken chunk of concrete. I figure a drunk driver or kids piled into it. What's weird is my wife and I didn't hear a thing and neither did my dogs. I had to get Elvis out to get the boulder back to the road. You can see how far it got moved by the pics I figured I would get somebody with this boulder. I would think if it was just an accident, the Police would have been there.

Jim the deck is a good foot rest for her while she grows into the stirrups 👍 @stevasaurus you’re really gonna love this name we came up with! 1076... 76ers comes to mind. Philadelphia 76ers. Philly. A Filly is a female horse too young to be a mare. Rylee’s “Filly”

Pretty soon, the tractors will have a place for everything and everything in it’s place! We put up another section of racking and it will allow for some custom pallets at 66” long and 44” wide to store tractors 3-wide in the racking. The closest green upright is 9’ tall, it’ll be a shell for the buggy to rest on top of

I won some $$ in the poker room so decided to get this. It is over 12". I was going to make one but! last piece that I needed for the plow. I like the welded stud. Makes it easy to put on.

Maiden voyage! The motion control is a bit sloppy, but no smoke and smooth operation!

Two words for whoever plowed into that: POETIC JUSTICE oh yea and...say it with me... FRONT-END ALIGNMENT!

With a capital “T” @stevasaurus! Today we were looking for a belt guard. I found one in the pile that I thought might do the trick, then thought of “Big Junky” my 1276 with a 10 horse Kohler on it. I figured Big Junky would be much better suited with a wrong guard, and Filly would be better off with a proper guard. It’s not perfect, but it’ll keep that kid safe.

Now I've heard this word before. I wasn't sure of the meaning but now I believe I have it sorted out. It stems from a Latin origination and means Dumb butt who hits concrete.

Thanks Caleb, I hope they last forever! Here are the pictures of the day Rylee bought Filly! We were getting the back hoe/front end loader and Rylee just had to come home with her very own tractor!

A little update while my 10 year old is sleeping... Daddy checked the gap on the points and we were at a loose .020”. I brought it in to .018” and this Filly came alive! On the clean cement, it spins the tires a bit from forward to reverse! I need to come up with a belt guard and get her on a test drive soon!

And this is exactly what you get for hanging out with Jack's crew.. naming tractors then getting attached to them and now can't even parts them out need be! This is exactly why I name them 1077 #1 and 1077 # 2.... be thankful I don't get attached and not be sentimental about parting them out cause you might very well end up with parts! Wel....l maybe except for Old Red and Cindy's Red and the Highway Man... Jeepers Cats now I'm naming them....you guys are bad influences! Pull the PTO belt she wants to ride with feet on the deck... safety first !

Here is my 1054 with blade and my 520H with snowblower and 60's cab.

@bcgold that car has AWESOME Patina and great potential...if I would’ve had $15K lying around (yea right, I have 4 kids under the age of 16😉) I would’ve bought this Poncho last summer... 1948 model retrofitted with a late model engine and OD tranny If I could’ve afforded it, I would’ve bought it and drove it pretty much the way it sits

A insulated finished ceiling & proper attic ventilation will cure that issue.

You know...Kevin, how you guys got around to Filly reminded me of that song in the Music Man..."Ya Got Trouble". OMG...WHX?? is naming his horses??? The Bronco is Nagurski. the 701 is Rodger's the 857 is Cuttler the RJ is Francis the 876 is Joe Buck

Thank y’all so much! From Rylee

Awesome work with the maul Jeff! You should get yourself an old tire to wrap around that wood! No more standing it back up, just whack a-mole!

Got more potential storage up in the trusses too!

My friend Rodney Burger (lawnman_56) has a Shaw-Du-Al tractor . He picked it up earlier this year in Florida. As the book by Michael Martino (Straight from the Horse's Mouth" notes , Harold, Elmer Pond's brother worked at Shaw Manufacturing in Galesburg, Kansas.. Harold later started the Speedex Company in Ohio,

Well we're going to stretch the limits on the belt drive. Lol I put some 26x12-12 meats on the rear. They are on 12x12 homemade hoops.Just look at them ! 😆

UHM...But big difference...I did know I hit it... Also used my car the other day to stop my rat rod when I started it (Predator pull start) in reverse... On the bright side - I Didn't scratch the so that was a plus...

@ebinmaine, @PeacemakerJack, @pullstart, Eric here's my "muscle power" splitter and me 99% finishing off the wall of big round wood onto the ole truck before the next couple days of forecasted rain enjoy.

Why haven't you filled it yet, you have lived there long enough.

I think this was a pre-packaged kit from a local lumber supply and as of last year I believe it was 7 years old. Fun fact, in that 7 years, the supply lost had doubled in price from the same supplier!

You definitely don’t need to apologize for that roof system Kevin. Someone went to A LOT of extra expense to build that like that. For instance, (everyone who doesn’t want a math lesson—skip to the next post😁) you have 41 trusses with the gable ends as opposed to 11 with an 8’ span. Even if the 11 were extra heavy duty, you still have three times more cost in trusses...at Least. I’m going to estimate an extra $6000 Then roof sheeting...assuming that it is 1/2” OSB, also assuming that you have a 4/12 pitch on that roof-eave to peak should be about 24-25’ depending on overhang. That means you have about 2,000 sq ft of roof on each side which means about 60 sheets of OSB per side, which at current prices is around $1200 for the whole roof. Shingles and trim would set you back about $5000. In the end the builder/customer would spend about twice what that roof would be in standard pole barn layout. Based on a quicj check—steel and trim would be $6000 and purlins another $500. Trusses spread to 8’ with purlins and steel directly applied. These are all approximate numbers with no labor but the point is...it would be interesting to know what the original intention or spending the extra expense for conventional framed roof. Pole barn roofs abound in the Midwest and are plenty durable but it is interesting that you have a conventional framed style. Very cool shed though kevin with TONS of space but I guess you will eventually find a way to fill it😁 I’ll be quiet now and get back to work...

There area couple of pictures . I used 1/8" x 2" flat across under the front seat and gas tank bracket with short pieces of 2" channel to raise it. I also used 1/8" x 1 1/2" supports under the shiftier plate to reinforce it. I used a short piece of 4" channel with some 5/16" plate on top of the transmission and added the receiver hitch to that.

A seat might be a nice addition.

That is a cool tractor you got for Rylee @pullstart With you and Rylee in the shop it reminds me of all the times me and Dad have wrenched together! That is good quality time and memories that will last forever!

More hood photos. Had to flare the side out to clear predator. And the fender pan I found at the big show a few years ago.

Fluid filled 23x9.5x12 Kenda turfs inspired by @SylvanLakeWH, and wheel weights. No chains. Works well for me.

I recommend a hydraulic unit which I have access to 2 but wanted to go old school and get a bit of a work out too.

Wasn't all day but 1 or 2 hours an evening (for the past week) after work and yes it's finally caught up with me and shoulders... But as you can see in earlier post where I started and where I ended up at.

I can see her now wheelin that machine at the big show Friday night under the lights.

It’s 40x80 with 16’ sidewalls. We really lucked out putting a lot of sweat equity into our old home, then finding this place in a cheaper county. The house is another fixer upper, but the property is awesome! Some day the floors will have room to navigate without tripping over things! Who am I kidding, more stuff will just show up to keep inside! Addicted? That sort of sounds like a bad thing... Too many toys? That’s the product of working to support fun habits and creating a business that benefits from (fun) work tools (toys)!

I would venture to say that it is about 1/2 as big as it should be.

You got way too many toys Kev.... Naaawww life's too short and banks got plenty of money I hear tell.

Man I miss Old Iron....

I run chains and fluid fill tires on my c160 and if I spin a tire then I'm pushing a lot of heavy snow. Or I hit the garage and didn't know I hit it. Don't ask . And tell me how no one has done that also.

Abandoned but not forgotten

Added front weight to my 312-8 using discarded concrete post used in home building. These were the sections cut off at a construction and they were going to be trashed. Lashed to an extra mule drive and add approximately 65 pounds to the front end. Helps to reduce the wheelie issue.

I need a lie down after watching that.

One word .... vinylguy!!!!!

Naturally haha

No wonder you need all that weight, you look kinda light.

My shop has 2' oc trusses, 5/8 plywood, half lapped #30 felt paper and a metal roof. If you don't insulate the bottom of a metal roof as pictured above it will form condensation on the underside of the roofing when the building is heated, raining indoors ain't cool.

Here are some more pictures of a Shaw-Du-Al from a 2011 show I attended in Spencer, Indiana (Owen County).

@HamptonT I agree with @troutbum63 here. I feel like you’d be further ahead keeping the chains and tires you have and raising the seat pan for clearance. @Lee1977 has some pictures and a description of raising his seat up if you click the link:

Great name—Kevin and Rylee! Bonus points for a triple meaning...and easily rolls off the tongue! Looking good so far!

Love it!!