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As I have eluded to off and on for the last six or seven months, I am finally going to start a thread on the construction of my new pole building. It's been a long time coming, and I have made and scrapped many plans, but the latest rendition of my new pole building is final, and the components are being delivered on Thursday, 2/27. Back during the summer, I cleared a spot in my woods that is about 20 x 24. We leveled it, tamped it, and that as far as we got due to undependable contractors, weather, vacation, and some health issues with yours truly. I put the 416-H to work in August. Then the rains came and work came to a stop. In September, the family went to Disney World, and while there I visited member @Zeek. After seeing his new metal building, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. But vacation had it's pitfalls. My wife fell and dislocated her shoulder, and I developed a viral infection. She healed and I continued with my virus until late October. Along with that, I continued to have issues with my ongoing Atrial Fibrillation. Then my concrete contractor put me off until the second week of December, and the metal building manufacturer, Alan's Factory Outlet, changed their specifications requiring me to have a larger concrete pad or smaller building. So I scrapped them and contracted with Fetterville Sales of Lancaster, PA. They are doing the entire project from building to concrete. Then the County got in the way. The building permit got held up it the Forestry Department. What??? That department has nothing to do with individual permits, only contractors clearing large areas of trees. So, here is am. I cleaned the leaves off of the leveled area and am now waiting for delivery of building materials on Thursday. Wish me luck. I'm giddy.

Man.. Like I needed more! I'm officially up to 5 Horses. These were at the same swap meet that I found the David Bradley at. The one with the engine is a 69 Electro 12. The engineless one is a 68 800 Special. The Electro is pretty rough; hood is rusted through on top, obviously needs rewired, and has what I assume to be a CC spec Kohler on it judging by the color. The pan is what I believe to be a shaker plate engine, as it has the odd shallow pan with the bump out on the bottom for the oil dipper. Has spacers under the mounting bolts to make it work. Turns over by hand and has compression. I'll have to get it running and see how the hydro is. The 800 Special is minus the engine, gas tank, headlight assembly and rear wheels (I pulled the fronts so it would fit better on the trailer). It's really a more solid tractor than the Electro is. Steering gear teeth are extremely tight. Teeth are still very square. One of the ball studs that the tie rod snaps onto was broken when the PO was loading it. I'm assuming it is a 3 speed? Hubs seem tight on both tractors. All of the tires are original WH. Guy was shooting for the sky on the price - thought they were worth $325 as a pair. After 2 days of people looking at them and picking them apart, I wound up with them for $50. Figured they were well worth that!

worked most of the day on this whole tractor has new wiring all put back together need to put front spindle covers on yet and when it warms up more need to touch up some paint here n there. need to get a battery for it fill the trans with oil and engine with oil I haven't ran it yet when i do will try to get a video of it running my exhaust pipe coming out from under hood a tad long but guess will keep the heat away from the paint and may keep me from breathing as much also turned the flapper sideways may help deflect some away from operator. and want to say a thank you to the vinyl guy here what an awesome decal package he sells they and all his stuff are the best out there going to try and leave plow bracket on this as long as it don't interfere with the draw-bar

@Stepney @JCM @AHS @Oldskool Here's what Trina, her mom and me have been working on this weekend.

Had the Horses out for exercise today, took them all for a lap around the property.

Been at it again today. Had to stop a while to take my wife to urgent care. She’s got a bad sinus infection and ear infection. I managed to get the tensioner pulley where I want it, but had to notch the tub for clearance and add a reinforcement bar. I welded an additional 17” into the steering rod. I got the motor bolted down where I hope it will stay. And lastly, I cut a big gaping hole in the old suburban hood I have. It could probably have been saved, but hey it died for the cause. I payed a fuel tank up front to see how it would look there. I’m going to stretch the hood about 8-10” and modify a belt guard next. I think I’m nuts for spending so much time on an old wheel barrow and a bunch of rusty parts, but I’m having fun anyway! Ignore my mess, that’s how my creative juices come out best!

Good luck, I’m jealous!! I’ll be following this post! Last December I purchased this 12x24 prebuilt shed/garage and although I absolutely love it I quickly found out I need about four more of these!!!!!

Hello, I’ve been away from the site for awhile and wanted to touch bases with y’all. I’m now a home owner and married so hasn't been my number one priority for a bit. That hasn’t stopped me from buying a few whenever I can and I’ve got some builds underway that should be neat summer projects. The find redsquare members may appreciate the most is the 417 I hauled home from Tennessee I’ve also picked up a 1990 416 and a later model 520. Between tractors, parts and potential builds I’ve got a lot I’m looking forward to sharing with y’all It’s great to be back

Not sure that's his shadow. Looks like a bear with big ears to me.

Got done cleaning out the shop today organizing my tractor parts away from my wood projects. Burning off excess wood from the shop nice time to sit back with an adult beverage.Ahhhh!!!

Lowell, Joette, Scottie, and Bryan, This is the first time I have read this thread completely. My heart and prayers go out to you and the rest of your family. I would like to say a prayer for you... Our most gracious and Heavenly Father, thank you GOD for the many blessings and the healing that you have given this family, and thank you LORD for the ones yet to come. I know LORD through faith in you mountains can be moved ! Lord I humbly ask you to help us, your children, through prayer and faith in you, to move whatever mountains stand in the way of Lowell's family's complete and whole recovery from this trial that they are facing. I ask in your son's, and our Saviour's Holy name, JESUS. Amen.

I have a turning plow I want to plow 6 1/2 deep I put that amount under the land side tires and went and set the bottom of the plow almost flat but a bit high in the back, I lined up the inside of the furrow side wheel with the edge of the share. I have 55# wheel weights an will fill all of my tires I do have tire chains also. Can you fellas look at my photos and tell me if I am close?

I see the FoMoCo logo that's your problem

my next project is getting the 48 inch deck that goes with this done it is in excelent shape needs some paint and deck belt and wheels along with the deck brakets a little wallared out need to weld it up then i have a brinly 10 inch plow for this i did plow my garden with this tractor before i tore it down and it a great plow tractor also havve a disk and cultivator going to repaint this summer i have a show want to go to this fall be kinda fun plow on this and disk on my 857

mole tunnels everywhere - so attached a roller to a 416 and did some rolling with foliage down was able to get a few neat sunset pics

I'm taking the engine to work tonight to take apart the rest of the way and clean it up. I've heard the Wisconsin engines are tough and hard to kill. The papers all the parts were wrapped in were from 1997. So i imagine it's been sitting at least 23 years

What a deal Jonah! Got that Electro running yet?

Update on Scottie: On January 31, 2020 Scottie was scheduled for a urethral graft surgery that would allow Scottie to urine properly like he did before the accident. His medical team included the current urology surgeon that has been on his case since day one and another surgeon from Texas who was helping via face-time on the internet. It was then determined after Scottie was in the operating room that the urethral graft was not going to be done at this time. The medical team then decided it would be best if the scar tissue was completely removed from the urethra in order for the chances of it not coming back full force. However, Scottie had to have an epidural to help with the pain after the procedure and the medical team had to complete this surgery with out the use of robotics like they used during his reconstruction surgery. During this procedure the medical team had to cut open his pubis bone ( which is located in the middle of his pelvis) and separate it in order to get the his urethra. Once they cut his pubis bone open, the medical team decided that they would cut out the area of the urethra that had all of the scar tissue and remove that from his urethra. Then they had to release more of the urethra from just underneath the bladder and then reattach the new clean ends of the urethra. He has another foley (penial catheter) in place to help with the healing of the urethra. During this procedure Scottie had some blood loss which required him to have 5 blood transfusions. He then woke up and could not see temporarily due to the swelling and amount of anesthesia he received. The swelling went down and he is able to see just fine. He was very anemic in the hospital but he has since rebounded very quickly and is no longer anemic. He was in the hospital until Monday February 3, 2020. He has been doing well, except for the pain that is associated with the type of surgery that he had done. His recovery time is about 12 weeks for his pelvis and on March 2, 2020 he has an appointment with the urologist and they may take out the foley (penial) catheter. Scott will then have to retrain his bladder and wait about four months to see if the scar tissue will form again. Lowell, Scott, and I are all praying that this is the last of Scottie's procedures and that he will be able to be himself again without the catheters. Scott is still doing home bound school and his teacher comes out to our house every week with homework for Scott to complete and to gather the completed stuff and return it to school. Scott is on a pass/fail program and he is able to stay up to date with his fellow classmates. Each day is a blessing from God and a miracle in and of itself. Lowell and I are very blessed by each and everyone of you and we are so lucky to have you all in our lives.

Here's a good discussion about them.

Yes it is one of the cleanest I’ve seen as well. The gentleman I bought it from was not the original owner and didn’t know much about it, he claimed not to have ever worked it and did keep it indoors under the original cover. As far as what I’m planning to do with it I’ve pondered that for awhile and decided not to work it. I’ll likely keep it around as part of my collection but I have considered listing it for sale at a similar price that I gave for it. Not sure yet.

Glad you noticed those. Yeah I had a little fun with a couple of empty cans of spray paint !

Off topic here but just noticed the WVU decal, my daughter is there.

Nice collection Jonah and l would say you are on your way to a large herd!! Now by the looks of your shadow it took a large hat to wrangle those horses!!

Now I hope ya get stuck and need a BFH, cause I don't see one of those in there!

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I agree. I am victorious so far... I hope to get the old unit pulled tonight so I can return the core (and unwanted wheel and tire) and hope like crazy that my favorite flannel hoodie is still hanging on the side of the donor

this tractor don't shine like my 857 i'm a little disapointed in the paint i bought my wife made that comment today the paint i used on my 857 10 yrs ago was emron that paint now for red is 250-300 bucks a gallon compaired to 85 bucks a gallon i used on this oh well it still looks good for now

Oh no, what it means is she now does not want me to sell the other 120, but get it going for her instead!

we have 2 big veg gardens on the 2 properties, last year was our first year back home again (took over my grandparents old place), we put in a big berry patch of blueberry, raspberry and strawberry. also put in somewhere between 75 to 100 Christmas trees. the 8 year old wants to be farmer, his roadstand last year did pretty good

Niiiice... We're going for some extra sun and giving the local animals a little more room to get to the watering hole. Moose are quite rare around here but we have a quantity of deer akin to a petting zoo. Also freeing up between the trees to attract birds that appreciate that type terrain. (Cardinals, for instance) We've talked about putting several raised garden beds out in the middle of the clearing where they'll get decent sun. The soil is fantastic there.

we are doing the same here too in nj, had 5 poplar trees taken out, 8 more going next week, these trees are about 125 foot tall and about 2 foot around. we putting in alot fruit trees once I get opened up a little more

Thanks! I hope to bring it along with us if everything turns out like I hope. Might be a little bit of a wild ride though. I’m using a 4” drive pulley with a 63 3 speed trans. It originally had a 2 1/2” drive pulley on it!

Sitting here looking at these 2 k341s and I'm a little baffled when I started to count the fins. The one on the left the orange one is 12 fins and the black one on the right is 13. I believe that the orange one came off of a gravely and the black one came off of a wheel horse tractor.

Will be running a 30 amp service from the garage to the shed/shop. The run will be about 100 feet, underground and inside plastic conduit. Already have the space allotted in the garage breaker box. The County had me designate it as a "shed" so that there were fewer inspections and lower cost. I will have to wait until after the U&O sign-off to run the wire.

First thing i thought was.... oh, django is back...

That in and of itself was what made me switch over to a full brimmed hat from baseball caps when I started hiking a lot a few years ago. Obviously they have a fair amount of value if I'm going to be out in the sun for any other reason as well.

Nope. Not yet. Missing the coil and the wiring is a mess. They've got a ballast resistor mounted on the dash, and I'll have to get a picture of what they have for a key. They took a 70s GM ignition key and cut it down and ground it like an Indak key. Works fine and looks interesting! Come on now, I'm not that quick! Bought it late in the day right before the guy was going to pack up and head home. I didn't have room in my truck so they're on my dads trailer at his place as it was past dark when we left the swap meet. Going to mount up a couple of tires later so that I can make the 800 a roller and may tinker with it some then. As for the shutoff valve in the hood, I thought that was interesting.. Wouldn't work well unless you had a big loop of hose under the hood. Yeah, we don't allow that wet white stuff to fall from the sky! Rust is a big no-no around here. The rest of the tractor is completely solid. Best I can tell is it might have sat with something on the hood that held moisture and rusted it.. I've seen what a bag of fertilizer will do to metal if it is left and allowed to get wet. Thanks! Yep - I was wearing a large hat. Every year that I've gone to this swap meet, I've gotten at least moderately sunburnt. From about 5th grade on, I'd always skip school to go to it, and when I came back the following Monday burned, I'd always get strange looks from my teachers. Went to a swap meet at the Texas Motor Speedway in September and a guy was selling these sombrero looking hats, so I bought one. It's now my designated swap meet hat. Didn't get burnt this year!

SYLVANLAKEWH, agree with you on your ( frequency of oil changes ) mind set . a fresh, and hot , oil change is your best protection for your engine life and flush out of moisture and crud. btw i save the less hour oil for my oil pump cup to lubricate a number of areas. i regularly change out lubricants after a thorough heat up with yard use , keeping the lubricants fresh , is best , pete

Sigh...gonna need a bigger box

NICE...….I would have bought them too.Ya know,us Yankees up here in the snow belt are used to the rusted and rotted out machinery.You're in Texas,right? That Electro-12 must be an import.I didn't think rust was allowed in the hot,dry southern states.Have fun with your new toys.

Land sakes Kev. .... Can ya give him at least 15 or 20 minutes?? How bout now Jonah? Izzitt goin???

That’s this guy! No matter what you bring or where you stay, it’ll be a great time! If you need loading advice, I’ll lend you my thoughts and my 9’ ramps for a bit too!

Nice looking tractor! It does look like you have far more than 12 PSI in the rear tires, though.

Got some parts in yesterday. And made a jig to press out the spindles and one to press on. Made a new steering fan gear shaft.

Thanks for the pictures and info, guys! I appreciate it! Now on to make another thread about what I bought at the meet today!

I love a good outdoor fire, very mesmerizing to just sit back in my Adirondack chair and stare at. Also love it when there’s a piece of wicker furniture to “get rid of “ ...this was a wicker hamper that was starting to come apart

Finish the electrical last night charging system works, I need to put a choke cable on yet. First start today choke and two revolution of the starter ang running. After it is warm just bump the starter and running. I think I will make an exhaust bracket yet. I have calcium from one rear tire left from the old ones, I need to fill all of my tires yet and put on my wheel weights. Will need to get it done won't be to long till I meet to get the new garden going.

$300-400 without pics. I've only gotten out as fast as I can 3 times before a seller came to their senses. First was a Cub Original that looked rough and had a blown head gasket but ran good and was a blast to tool around in. 2nd was an Allis /Slimplicity mid grader. Paid $100 for each and that's what the seller was asking. Both times they couldn't understand why their phones were ringing off the hook. 3rd I was disabled with my heart issue and went for a ride with my B-I-L to pick up a mower he bought at a moving sale. I spied a small york rake in the bushes complete with the drop down grader blade. I asked about it and the guy says he forgot all about it and said give me $100. I said ok and we loaded it up. Heck I've given stuff away to folks at the show and here at home. Sheet metal, engine blocks, tires frames ect. Paying it back sorta.

finally got to work on this about 3 hrs today got alot of it together i am going to rewire the whole thing done away with all the safety switches (clutch pto seat ) when get it done will have to go and retouch bolt heads and some minor stuff with paint i bought some stair step tread at lowes hard rubber kind was going to cut them to size and use two face tape to stick em to running boards wanted something smooth for ease of cleaning the mud dirt off i hope two face tape will hold it bought some gorilla tape cant find stair treads with self adhesive backing i still have a way's to go before it is done

Did this happen Ralph? Tony my Cinnamon Horse with winter weights, plow, and me.. is well over 1300 lbs. I run an NOS Wheelhorse belt and have Zero issues. Back, forth, many many many times...