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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.

So earlier this year Rylee bought this 1076 with her own money. $65! I told her that when she’s ready to work on it, I’ll show her how to work on it. Some smart kid decided it’s too cold and wet on her birthday to ride the quad in the field. She’d rather wrench instead! ❤️ We started by checking the oil. Now I can see there is a wiring mess, so we’re checking over the wiring before we try to touch the key off..

This truck had me totally drooling... 1991 square body crew cab 1 ton long box... Excellent restored condition! With a 12valve and an NV4500 manual 5spd. I can’t figure out why he didn’t want to trade even up for my “much newer” 1995 350TBI! I’m not a catholic but I entertained going to confession for covetousness after looking this truck over good What a beastie!

Someone testing out their new hydro Wheel Horse?

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

Yah Richard if yer the jolly green giant! Now that is just bizarre I don't think I've ever saw a pole shed with a shingled roof or 2 ft trusses. When I built my warehouse trusses are 9 ft oc but designed for the snow load at that distance. Just heavier lumber in them. Mine span 45 ft.

Ive tinkered quite a bit with this tractor in the past couple weeks. I ended up swapping the transmission drive pulley with the one from my 418-C for no good reason. I am still not sure if i will ever end up using it for anything, but its cant hurt to have i suppose. It was a pain to swap but I was having a hard time leaving it behind! I played with the twin on there a bit more and got the governor set correctly. The previous owner told me that it ran fine until it was hot. I hadn't though much of that comment since there was other far more important issues to take care of, but closer inspection yielded a small melted spot and small hole at the back of the coil can. I didnt try running it long enough to see if it would happen but that would certainly do it. I did end up removing the twin and installing the m12. Easy swap from kohler to kohler hardware-wise, the biggest issue being the wiring adaptation to the magnum. I got everything sorted and went to start the tractor. It didnt give me a lick of life so i checked for spark. It had none, which was odd, so i just disconnected the main engine plug to determine if i had ground going to the coil. The spark was back so something wiring it not right. More research told me that i have the wrong ignition switch since it is a magneto engine vs the original points/coil engine. Anywho, got the m12 fired without it plugged in and it turned out to be a clean running, strong runner. Very happy with it on there. The correct ignition switch showed up yesterday and was installed last night. Just needed to swap a couple pins around in the connector. Verified that she charges and got a battery hold down made up from some scrap lying around. I grabbed a can of satin black spray paint and went to town. Got the grill re-blacked and the wheels painted. I really like the wheels black! Some more paint here and there and then its time to move onto which implement it will be sold with. I think it will go with the snowblower it came with. That snowblower and the 17 horse twin were originally destined for my Work Horse, which takes care of the mowing duty during the warmer months, but plans have changed. A week or so ago a friend of mine was shopping around facebook marketplace. He leaned his phone over to another friend, both of which are cub cadet guys, and the second says "hey those are wheel horse rear wheel weights". Mounted on a 1968 Cub Cadet 104 were WH wheel weights. The tractor looked to be in good shape, came with a bunch of attachments, and the price was very right with more than half the cost/value in the wheel weights alone. It turned out to be only a couple miles from home, so i couldnt say no. The initial idea was to keep the weights, fix the tractor and resell, but i fell in love with it a bit. Didnt take much to get the tractor back to perfectly running shape. As with WH, i enjoy the craftsmanship and simplicity of them. I think this one will stick around for a while. It came with a snowblower so that is the reason the blower will likely go with the 417A frankenstein. The Work Horse will also be for sale and i will be mowing with the 418C. All in all, im very happy with this tractor and like the others that have come and gone, will likely regret getting rid of it. I am going to keep the twin for a future something or other, not sure yet. Find me another WH with a bum engine perhaps.

My little baby is 10 today! Where does time go? She’s spending her morning making us some of her famous flap jacks then we’ll be in the field before we know it! She wants to have a quad riding day!

Same here. I really do miss splitting by hand a little bit. So I do a little bit every year. .. the power splitter was one of the best investments we've ever made.

Officer: “You look kinda young to be driving such a fast machine there son...could I see your license and registration?” Boy: “Uhm...My Dad said it was ok...”

Have I not taught you anything? Pull the deck first! She ain't gonna need it where she is gonna ride! Deck does look to be decent tho so don't scrap it! Hear tell they don't make them anymore. Need some wiring tactics give me, Dan or @953 nut a jingle. Most of all have fun!

Cleaned up the front yard just before dark ! Dang l hate dark ! I need more light dang! Need more light!