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I bought this beautiful 603 from @Shynon last summer. I’ve been thrilled with it. The carb got some gunk in it the last time I had it out, so I figured I’d bring it home to the garage while I have a chance to work on it. One of Tom’s stipulations was that I not paint the tractor. I agree that it would be a shame to mess with such beautiful patina, so I thought I’d try my hand at enhancing it. I’ve honestly felt like cr_p today, but thought it might perk me up to mess with it a little. I put the carb in the tank to soak, so I took a few minutes to sand 1/2 of the hood with 800 and 1000 grit and then oil to see how it looks. Man does it pop! Ear in mind I will buff it down and it will dry with more of a mat sheen, but retain the beautiful color. The only other thing I’m going to do to this tractor is clean and paint the wheels with a fresh coat of Rustoleum almond. I do have the original hood, but decided to keep this one on for now as I love the look. Hate to admit it, but I think I’m really on board with this patina thing!

Trina and her mom spent a few hours moving the rest of the firewood from the upper yard in the shed to the basement. 5 loads in the Ohio Steel brand trailer tugged by her 867. I spent a lot of the day in the outdoor workshop moving/organizing/cleaning then took apart the 1267/1287 mongrel so I can shelf some of the stuff and use the 8 speed transmission for the Colossus project.

Yup. Elvis comes out for the big jobs.

I plowed the driveway today, before the rain! I can’t believe how wonderful a job the old power king does.. slow.. but it does it!! Here’s some pics! 65 power king 10hp kohler. @ebinmaine

It should look like this when finished...

I know here in UK on this tiny island we are very stiff upper lip, don't really like causing a scene, or drawing attention to ourselves, or talking about how we feel... but holy moly this was an eye opener lol and this was one of the more tame clips ! link Phil

Maybe an intake and exhaust would be enough to help out mileage. There’s plenty of fart IN the truck!

Oh no no no no no Please don't.... No no no no no no no

Plan on doing some drifting Kevin? In my humble opinion, I don’t think you would have to worry about it. Now if you make it 15’ long with dual axles, you might have trouble turning it without a lot of weight up front.

WOW you folks are anxious for this project! Between you and @Lee1977 I better get back to going!!! We got @19richie66 working on his. @pullstart making a monster. And @Cvans working on getting an incredible engine in a C160. You'd think you should have enough to watch but noooooooo...... Ok well I'll see if I can The Paint Department to throw a little sparkling brown around today. I'll be having some shop time dismantling a parts tractor to get at the transmission I want to look at.

@Gordyhogg here's my poor old Blue thing as I found it. I still havent decided if its a restore project or a parts machine, but at least its now in a dry barn.

Today I managed to put a fresh coat of red paint on the garage floor and accidentally got some on my trailer frame. I picked up a set of rims from a Ford Ranger that I'm going to use for my trailer. The factory clear coat has pealed off in quite a few spots leaving the aluminum oxidized pretty bad. I'm considering sanding them down and painting them. Unless any body knows of a good way to get them back to their original state.

My 21 year old son built this snow making gun when he was about 10... Cost about $20 at Home Depot for a few parts...Cool thing is, it actually works!!! Hose on one side, compressor on the other, adjust flow of air to water ratio based on air temperature and tada!!! Snow... By the way, he’s now in his third year at University of Utah getting a Mechanical Engineering degree... Still have it in the garage...

I have built many odd things in my life but I think to most this one will be the oddest and most unusual. Its a typical Portuguese oxen yoke. I am probably the last one in many years that has built one of these, and it is probably the one I am most proud of.

finally got started on this tractor tore it down little over a year ago haven't had to to mess with it stated sandblasting it and like a dummy i didn't use a respirator (face shield only ) used the black blaster sand from menards it is recycled coal slag time i was done i inhaled about a bag of it and face was black from it . felt the effects latter that evening hacking around from it. bought this blaster from harbor freight worked pretty good sat down and did the dash panel and strg wheel cap that a little tedious to do when wife talking at you asking questions paint be here for it next week and have one of the guys at my work going to paint it in our paint booth at work should look better than new i hope will have more pics to come

Hi all. Thanks for the add to the group. Always have liked the older tractors and mowers. This will be my first antique tractor resto. I hope to learn alot here and hope I can help out along the way

I made an attempt to try and polish the rims today. The results that I was getting for the time that I had invested were less than satisfactory. So.. on to plan B. 80 grit sand paper and a DA sander made short work of the clear coat that was on the rims. Then a couple of coats of self etching prime, some black paint to high light the "deer track" looking recesses, Silver base coat followed by 4 coats of clear. Not the bling that polished aluminum would bring but I'm happy with the out come. The plan for tomorrow is to throw the old wheels on and move it out side and then get the fenders and ramps adorned with some red paint. Then unfortunately it's back to the salt mines on Monday so there will be no progress until next weekend. I will how ever, get the new tires mounted on the rims some time during the week.

I sanded with water first. Then, I coated with boiled linseed oil cut with just a little mineral spirits. After it’s wiped down the finish will be more soft and aged looking. It just brings out the beauty of mother nature’s work.

Eric I'm sure now that trailer that I have is an Ohio steel wagon. I am in the process still stripping it down and going to paint it soon. I'm thinking about putting truck bed liner on the inside. Got some custom decals ordered from the vinyl Guy to finish it off. Heres a small preview.

It certainly is a Colossubility

It probably will take a colossal amount of time for a project like Colossus, just thinking out loud

So after some looking around I found this one. It's a Precision Mathews PM 932 milling machine. Had a vice,collets, DRO, power feed. Nice to have a son with a great boss that let us usd his new skid steer to move it. Now it's home in it's resting place. Pretty excited to see what I can do with it.

You know sometimes leaky axle seals are an advantage. Leaky side is sliding off with just a light tug from a two jaw puller. Other side didn't budge with the set up on there (pic 1) Do not want to snap the flange so have to reconstruct my pull from behind set up used a few years ago on the D200 (pic 2) Some of the steel tubing I used was repurposed in the interim so some new fabrication is needed.

Guaranteed no pressure here either. You guys will all have several rebuilds done til I wrap up my first!😀 Hang in there all, still hoping to get back in the mix soon. I’m still going for the record of longest drawn out project ever!

Don't know if my project qualifies as odd either,but, different than some we'll say.... 22 foot skiff

A little update for today. Replaced the fuel line and cleaned things up. Had to readjust the governor and throttle cable. Starts and idles with one pull. Puffs some blue smoke with running. Drained the trans. HUH half full of water due to the shifter boot being cracked and sitting outside for quite some time. So now the job of flushing it out

Never measured it but you can easily observe the difference in the angle of the tires when turned all the way. I'm not so sure it needs to be deadly accurate but it does make a difference to have each wheel tracking close to the correct radius. Otherwise, they are skidding to make up the difference which my guess would be mostly on the inside tire since the outside would probably have more traction from the weight transfer during the turn.

Glad to hear you just had a stomach bug Dells instead of the usual STD you have... Heres a little inspiration for your current aspiration. .. it was sitting in my local Chevrolet dealer, why I have no idea, while I was waiting to have my 25k on the clock wheel bearing replaced. Kev @pullstart we is gonna have a little talk about GM crap! But being the HD fan I am....the white stars are a must!

Just wait til you reinstall it. Suggestion : Start with a cocktail!

I don’t have any pics of it, but I made a 1/2” cube inside a 1” cube inside a 1.75” cube inside a 2.75” cube inside a 4” cube out of a chick of 4” aluminum square bar. All of the cubes float freely inside the next larger one, but none of them come out. I don’t get to use the mill very much, so once in a while I do a project just to stay sharp. This was one of those. I also make these rockers.

Countless hours and nights.

Not sure this would be odd but this was my last piece l made.

I just went down and wiped the oil down. I’ve been letting it sit overnight, but this will give you an idea of the sheen it leaves @The Tool Crib. It’ll dry down a bit more, but will still keep a luster.

If you filled the tranny filled with diesel when you noticed the seals leaking? I've had some leak with diesel, then do OK with 90w gear oil. You can get new seals from our vendor "Wheelhorse parts and More in the vendor section.

On a more serious note, here are some things we built. This is a transmission adapter for my engine stand. It works well enough, but I need to find a way to clock it better. It won't let the transmission sit perpendicular to the floor, just at a 45* angle. I think I need to drill an extra set of clocking holes in the head. Here is a desk we built for our son out of the cab of my old truck.

Do my kids count? They are pretty odd.

Love it. You should come over to The Ranger Station and tell those guys about your project, TRS is basically the Red Square of Ford Rangers. Here is my home-brew resto-mod 87.

Not real odd for what it is but odd that one would go through the trouble of making one out of wood. Sometimes when I am bored I do stuff like this. Picked the nastiest scrap piece of walnut that I had and made a case for my I pad.

I got the old 1267/"1287" mongrel taken apart today. That has/had the 8 speed transmission I wanted to use for Colossus because I know it's fairly tight and shifts well. I left it draining...

When a man knows what he wants... he knows what he wants.

I have traveled alot and have been in every state west of the mississippi and my all time favorite state would be Montana hands down ! Hard to beat the northern rockies!

Take your time Eric. No pressure here. My project is liable to stop at any moment.

@AHS You just bring it down to southern Maine and Trina and I will take care of it for you.

Can we have a raffle, I"ll purchase the first six tickets. Awesome tractor thanks for sharing.

Don’t know about a dessert sand color Jim. Emory is the driving force behind this creation and he’s wanting OD green. We’ll see how it shakes out as we move along.

Original plow blade?? BTW we like our here. Full resto would out of the question noting that patina and character, for me anyway, BUT fellas here got me brainwashed to stay character but we get the notion that it is your tractor you see fit. As far the rims you may find some ' barrow rims to get/keep it a roller but later Suburban rims might be better suited. Rims from another brand may be another option as well. No chance the rims can be saved? Don't rule that out as I have saved some pretty nasty ones per @oliver2-44...then again lost a few on the table.

The tranny in my main vehicle (520H) requires a 10 minute warm up...?

They are great little tractor.