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Nut and bolt restoration, starting to reassemble. Have 8" front wheels and dropped spindles New tires and restored rims yet to come Every component media blasted, primed and painted

I got to have some fun last night with my 418-A with 42' plow attachment. Video is 10x speed since it was about 40 minutes of actual video. Camera was suction cupped to the top of the 42" snow blower w/ a tall chute attached to my 520-H. First time all year with some real accumulation, and first time pushing with the 418-A (last year I used my 312-8). This tractor is a beast and worked flawlessly, and having the plow on a hydro / automatic this year was awesome. Had some technical difficulties with the tractor lights towards the end, but got everything working just fine today. Wheel_Horse_418-A_with_42_inch_blade_snow_plowing_1-17-2020_at_10x_speed.mp4

I found this TORO branded tractor trailer while Christmas shopping this past December and figured that since most of the other bigger true "Wheel Horse" haulers go for a mint and all my tractors are from the TORO era why not get it then modify to my liking with some decals... I haven't applied them yet but took a few pictures to show what they may end up looking like... I really prefer 1 set over the other but please feel free to voice an opinion, thanks Jeff.

So my friend Mickey died recently, and his estate is suing his landlord over it. He recently moved into a new apartment, the place was listed at "Move in ready, with in unit exercise equipment". Mickey thought that was great since he was kind of a fitness buff, but the treadmill the landlord had supplied in the apartment didn't have any safety stuff, no pull cord with a key, no hand rails, not even the things on the side you can put your feet on to stop running. The ME said that he died when the treadmill got going too fast and he just couldn't manage get off safely. Services will be held January 18th at 2:00 in Carlisle PA.

First real test. Five inches of wet snow this morning around Cleveland ... No chains - plenty of traction. Boys and their toys ! IMG_1840.MP4

I have a thing for old barns and finally have one (16th century) part of which will be used for my wheel horses. I'm clearing out an area in prep for storage but following spinal surgery will need a table lift or similar to continue maintaining them in the future as I refuse to simply give in and let someone else do it. I'd like to see your maintenance lift set up if you use one for ideas going forward any pics would be much appreciated. I only have four at the moment C161, D512, 416-8 and a 704 but plan to expand, that is, when the good lady isn't looking 😉

That should hold.

Tank of gas and a wee bit of oil after plowing 4 driveways worth of Michigan sunshine!!!

Been waiting for some decent snow and were forecasted for 5-8 inches. Only got 3 inches but very wet and heavy tho. Could use little bit more weight but all in all very happy with the way she pushes!

Today we live in a time where everything is already done for us therefor the main reason why talented and resourceful individuals are becoming a rarity. I too have been lucky to have been inside of structures such as this one and I can tell all that there is a feeling of awe and humbleness that takes me over when in them. Like I said before, a building such as this one has soul. Even an untrained individual cannot but help to be mesmerized by the sheer presence of it and its components and admire the effort, ingenuity and resourcefulness that went into the building of it. Imagine looking at a standing live tree and assessing its size, girth, and curvature and placing it in your mind as one of the structure components . Then felling it by hand and hewing it with hand tools always with the end product mind . Used to a world of machinery and manufactured precision today, one looks at those beams and wonders how it is possible to build with such rough irregular components without fasteners a building that lasts for many lifetimes. I can tell you that it is because precision is meaningless and nothing but a useless obsession when it comes into things such as this. It is the use of physics such as gravity and knowledge of simple facts like wood movement, such as to make the collar beams out of dried wood and the beam out of green wood so when the beam dries it shrinks the sides of the mortise against the cheeks of the tenon creating a perfectly tight joint that needs no glue or fasteners, just to mention a couple. Such individuals merely used knowledge handed down through generations that is tried and true, but unfortunately soon to be lost. I have individuals in my family that were illiterate, could not even read a ruler and basically built monuments with an ax. We are referring to this particular building as a barn,and treating it as such, but trust me when I say that despite its visual roughness and seemingly lack of preciseness in its construction, it is indeed a real monument.

Not so much made as converted/ upcycled... needed a small lamp for the house and had this vintage camera lying around that didn't work so... got the idea online , had some old style flex around and this was the end result... just the right size for what was needed

OMG man, I can't believe I just read your whole post and thought, oh that's too bad, even glanced quickly at the photo and thought, well that's weird, and didn't catch on until I read a couple of replies. Good grief I'm dense!

I need to trim some of the wall creeping plants and clear the roof, flower beds late winter early spring.. Thankfully its not evasive like ivy so easily done without damage to the walls..

If you have a Lowe's or a metal fabrication shop nearby you can get a piece of the right size diameter steel and make one up.

I knew the uneven spot in the driveway was coming. I normally get the tip of the vee plow up to glide over it. Today, I don’t know if the switch was slow to act, or possibly I hit the wrong direction. There’s a lot going on in the cab with one control running two plows up and down, plus 4 wings moving.

Lower, flameless one for me as well. Wish I could find something like the GMC one over here. I'll have to pay a visit to the local model shop next time in town.

Here's the Nylint version... The one I snagged is ERTL but about 1/2 size.

A pair of pennies will only cost you 2 cents.

http://www.offroaders.com/tech/firewood-BTU.htm

That building has "soul". Can you take some more detailed photos specially of the joints where beams intersect?

Ok, so you know the drill. you shake the carb float and cannot hear anything that sounds like liquid. You float it in a cup of liquid. is it really OK? Not necessarily. I was inside an old forrest gump Snapper rider carb and it has sat for years and years. The carb has a little brown goo in the bowl, but it cleaned up well as did the float with a bit of lacquer thinner. I had no reason to suspect a bad float, but this is a sure fire test. If there WAS any old gas inside the float, it probably would be pretty thick anyway, so I did my test. Just run some hot water as hot as you can stand in a container and immerse the float. The metal heats up quickly and causes the air inside to expand ----. bubbles happen pretty quickly. Just for fun, i immersed the float into cold water, and quite a bit of the water sucked back inside the float. Very evident that the liquid got inside. It rattled a treat. I just watched a video that has 35k subscribers and the guy is pretty good with carbs, and the guy just threw the float in a container of gas and it floated. He called it good and went on. My old float floated just a high as his float did, BTW. That's why I am sharing this here. BTW, you can repair these floats with solder in a pinch, but I buy new ones if it is possible. i dry out what is inside by setting them outside on top of an incandescent light bulb well away from a building and then after they boil dry and quit spewing fumes, use solder or gas tank liner to fix them..

Nice job on that repair Kevin. Upper part of the crack, circled in red, looks like it may be older than the lower part, circled in blue...?

We've got a bone in pork butt in the crockpot right now and after its 10hr slow cook it will get shredded up for pulled pork. NO FEET!!!

I was able to jack the plow in place... or close enough to bust out the welder. I’ll get the trip springs out of the way then start burning on the steel.

You need to tighten up the rivet in the dash throttle control or replace the rivet with a bolt and nylock nut so the tension can be adjusted. The faster the engine runs to more pressure the governor exerts on the throttle cable trying to slow the engine down. You need to match that pressure with the throttle cable. I use a bolt with about a 1/4" of shank that is not threaded. That way none of the pivoting parts are on the sharp threads which would cause wear. You will need to add flat washers as necessary so the nut does not run out of threads. Cut off the threads not needed. After assembly you can reach in there with two wrenches to adjust the tension needed. Garry

@Bertie that is indeed a beautiful structure! We don’t have anything of that age or beauty over here, but my Dad’s house is built of two log homes from the early 1800’s. We love older structures.

Reminds me of a soup I had in Graz, Austria a few years ago. Swines Axle Soup ….It was basically a bowl of warm lard with an entire pigs foot (axle) sitting in the middle. I did my best to consume it so as not to upset my host. May be you should put your soup on simmer for a ew days Paul.

In all honesty, if that popped up in my neck of the woods, I’d pop on it pretty quick. I’d get rid of the lights, put on a correct steering wheel, and add a square seat pan, paint the engine red, and be happy!

New throttle cable to replace broken one. Snapped mid cable... Only 38 years out of that cable... just can’t get good stuff these days... Cleaned air filter and carb. Gassed up and oiled, ready for the wee bit of snow that is reported on the SNOWMAGEDDON weather forecasts tonight and tomorrow... 5-7” forecast and you can rest assured from news reports that the end is near... At least I can go out riding in style...!

Spent a snowy Saturday sucking dust.......filled 10001 rust pits and the spot welds at the back of the hood and finished up all the bodywork on all of the red tins and got everything in high-build primer. Bye-bye hood seam! Next step-sand and paint.

That's a heavy plow for that frame to hold, good job welding, looks like it has had a lot of use. I never had a v plow. I had one plow a western that tripped the blade like that and the springs to snap it back in place, I did not care for it, sometimes snow would fall on it and it wouldn't snap back all the way. Lots of weight and stress on the frame. I liked the Fisher plows that the bottom edge tripped. Had to keep a good eye on the ware blade though if it was way down the spring brackets would ware off and, well big problems. Plowing is a love/hate relation, I miss but then I don't.

Me too. marv

For a lift table, Bertie, take a look at Machine Marts web site. They sell motorcycle lifts. Should be easy to fit a wider top on. Did think about one myself before I was given an old hospital bed. I use ramps on the handle end and hand winch on t'other. I love the barn. I've three ex-farms by me with barns, that are full of rubbish or unused.

Wheels back and looking good. I rebuilt the handles today and fitted the clutch control lever back together. Looks like I have bought a carb for a bike engine, I found a supplier that stocks refurbished carbs so I will buy one for the machine and sell the one I have to a bike nut. I've found the spares for the cutter bar so when they arrive I will rebuild it and we will be close to cutting.

However side discharge and rear discharge decks use different would rather be sure we knew what he needed. mule drive belts...

As a bonus the mouse problem might be eliminated.

24 hours of soaking = Nada Glad this isn't a rush project

Remove the ball and put a piece of round stock thru the hole and bolt to lower hole. Can the extender gain additional support from some bolts on the transmission. Maybe some here can help with that.

Personally, I think it partly depends on your wood stove and how you use it. We have an older Godin coal stove that we've burned wood in for years. It's basically a vertical cylinder that won't take very long pieces of wood, I like to keep them around 12" or so max, and not too wide. It's in a room that doesn't allow a lot of airflow into the rest of the house, so I like to burn a mix of woods (always dry well-seasoned hardwoods) so the room doesn't get too hot. I'd probably be happy including some elm in my mix if it were available around here. For what it's worth, I have a couple of charts that rate firewood for heat value and other wood-burning characteristics. There's a bunch of these on the internet, and I haven't taken the time to research where they get their numbers from, but here's what they say... The first chart I just got from the PA Farm Show last week, it was a handout at the state's Hardwoods Development Council exhibit. It rates elm as "fair" overall, and breaks it down like so: Heat yield -- medium Burn difficulty -- medium Split difficulty -- easy (doesn't match your experience, or the other guys here) Smoke -- medium Sparks -- no BTU's per cord -- 23.8 million Here's a reference for that chart: www.offroaders.com/tech/firewood-BTU.htm The other chart I have includes white elm, and only gives its heat value as 17.7 million BTU's per cord.

Well... its all over... had 3 shops look at it (1 was shop Travelers wanted me to have look at) Then they sent an adjuster... he looked at truck for an hour and a half. Calls me, says dont argue and totals it. They are picking it up monday and giving me a check after my deductible for $8700... Essentially double what I paid after taxes, reg, the truck itself etc... The end... now for truck shopping Tony

It will burn just fine, just not a lot of BTUs and quite a bit of ashes. I learned how to split wood back in the ‘60s on the dead Dutch Elm that Dad cut for firewood that decade. I learned quickly to “peel” layers off those wood chunks versus the ‘normal’ method of splitting wood. I could ‘loose’ 3 or 4 wedges trying to split a big piece of elm thru the center.

Turned out that we got done at the Secretary of State's office a little sooner than we expected today. We got our paperwork filed to make our 'alternate location' our 'primary location'. We are Michigan residents now and the Missouri property is now in project status instead of residence status. I had a little shop time for the Wheel Horse today. Got the rear Tach-a-Matic off and more accurately measured for my receiver hitch project. We still need to go back to our Missouri property to keep that project moving along. While I am there, I'll get the receiver hitch CADDed up and, eventually, fabbed. If everything works out, I'll post a PDF file of my drawings.

That’s so funny it’s wrong!

You gotta learn to be a bit patient, let it set a day or two.

I like cheese

I took Horsey-2 (1988 312-8) out for its inaugural ride on my new property. It's been unseasonably warm and wet here in Western NY for January- so there's a lot of swamp right now. I wore a chest mounted GoPro and took this video. I got stuck twice- i haven't cleared a single log yet and it's running stock turf tires. The trans sounds a little whiney under throttle so i might try flushing it with diesel and refilling with some full synthetic gear oil. She fired RIGHT up though and didn't want much choke- not bad for 35 degree weather! It's going to be epic this summer once the ground is dry and i've done some proper trail making. I plan to give this one a pulley swap and 26" ATV tires out back to bump the top speed and make the lower gears more useful for recreational riding. right now i only use 2 and 3 high- used 1H once to crawl over a pile of rocks. She's got good clearance- it'll be better with bigger tires (19x7x8 up front on stock spindles should level it out).

Soaking time. I do not want to chance something getting broken in the 20 ton press..the hub, the axle, the press or me.... I did try pounding some to push the hub in...nada.... Somebody left a couple qts of Mercon here a long time ago. no Fords in my future so that some acetone and we shall see what happens

wtter It works good . I think i could get it to go deeper if the angle beam was longer. It's weighted to swing up when not in the ground

Update on Scottie: This past Monday Scottie and I went to his two week check up to do a urine flow procedure and to figure out what our plan for the future. What we found out was we only have three options left at this point in the recovery process for Scott. The first one is to allow time and medications to work in his favor and hope that his urethra will not close shut with scar tissue like it did before. Keep in mind that his urethra completely shut after 3 months that is why we had the unexpected surgery in November. The second one is to do the appendix surgery and have the surgeons create a mitrofanoff trough which is taking part of his appendix and attaching it to his bladder and attaching it to his belly button and that is where he will have to catheterize himself every three to four hours. With this procedure, he will be looking at in vitro later in life if and when he chooses to have children. If we do this procedure there is no going backwards and this is the last hope for him to urinate. The third procedure is to do a urethral graft. This procedure has only been done in the US two other times. Both procedures that were done came back with no drawbacks and no rejections. Scott's surgeon said that Scott is an ideal candidate for this procedure and he will be the first adolescent to have this done in the US. Talking this over with the surgeon and with Scottie and Lowell we have decided to go ahead with the urethral graft and we set the surgery date on January 31, 2020. Scottie, Lowell and I did not want to take our chances with the medication and time to allow his urethra to close. We do not know if this procedure will work for Scott or if Scott's body will reject the foreign object in his urethra. Scottie will be in the hospital until Monday and he will have two catheters when he comes home and he will have to retrain his bladder once again and the typical recovery time is 8 to 12 weeks but the surgeon told us that his recovery time will be longer since he is an adolescent and has been dealing with this for over a year. Scottie is continuing with his home bound school and he is not far behind his class at all. He is maintaining his 6 class course load and he is right along with his class mates. He will be starting 3rd quarter the end of the month and so he is finishing up his assignments and projects before quarter end. Please keep our family and Scottie in your thoughts and prayers as we prepare for his upcoming surgery. Thank you for all of your support and love to our family and to Scottie. Lowell and I do appreciate you all!