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I just had to share @D_Mac's cool wagon he has for pulling kids around. This thing is awesome. The engine is styrofoam and acts as a cooler! I got dibs on this if it ever goes up for sale Don!

I've been thinking of building a holder of some sort or modifying an existing bench for quite a while. Needed to work on the 8 speed for Colossus so I decided now was a good time. I put some thought into what and where would be the best location to pop a couple holes in an otherwise perfectly fine surface. There's a space between the toolboxes on my low rise bench that I don't use for anything but setting something for minute (or a month).

My wifes uncle dropped this off this morning, he was going through some old hats and decided it needed a new home. Very nice condition, local dealership.

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This is a recent piping job showing 3'' and 2 1/2 '' copper tubing piping from outdoor chiller to 2nd floor water manifold for a furnace.Unfortunately the outdoor piping was done during very cold temps and windy which made the soldering difficult trying to keep the flame directed to the proper area on the fitting to allow the correct temp to allow the solder to flow. This is the type of work I did 30 plus years ago fitting and soldering joints this large and knew what I was getting myself into but did bring back many memories. The only bad part part if you notice the red rag on the outside unistrut frame work supporting the diverter valve and associated piping was right at the end I stood up knowing there was a 1/2'' threaded rod and hanger for a support and hit my head getting out of there and received a nice gash in the top of my head. Hope you enjoy the pics.

I ordered the cooler online at Ecklers Automotive I pulled it up and it seems to be discontinued. Yes thats what it was called " Piston Power Pack" Holds one can in each cylinder plus 4 and your ice under the manifold. Lift up the valve cover and pull out a cold can of your favorite beverage. I added the " taco bell cup and round cookie tin". The exhaust is mounted to the frame so you can just lift out the cooler. Yes real Hurst Shifter and real Hurst shifter knob on the pull handle. I also mount a Blue Tooth speaker behind the radiator and play burn outs and engines revving through it with my cell phone. Built it not for kids but to carry stuff at Swap Meets and Flea Markets so we called it the " MEET WAGON " Guess what it was never used for that and became another toy for the kids. Turns ALOT of heads when I pull the kids around in it at Car Shows. I have this black one as well. Radio Flyer wagon. Engine made of wood. Steer and push it from the back. You can see the steering wheel coming out the back. Kids have out grown them now but they got a lot of attention at the shows.

@squonkIt was nice meeting both you and Randy. You had room on your trailer for it !! I am sure you could mount a mower deck under it and remove the Radio Flyer decals and replace them with Wheel Horse and BAMMMM you have a one of a kind HOT ROD HORSE !!! lol If I had an old mower deck I might just try that. I hope your cargo made it back safely. Hope you are pleased with them. Send me some pictures of them with their new herd. Thanks again to you and everyone who expressed interest in them.

RER'S ! RER'S ! RER'S! RER'S!

Metaphorically in my rearview. Off to another home.

785 mile (round trip) ride today to Boyce, Va. and back home. Left at 6:30 am, back at 10:5 pm. Delivered a tractor (GT-14) I sold then picked up The D-Rod. Took long way down to avoid the outrageous tolls on Pa. turnpike. ($33 one way) Went over the river & thru the woods past grandmas, up the hill, down the hill, around The corner and several hundred curves. Then up & down some more hills. Mostly on skinny, two lane mountain roads. Really glad I didn’t take the big trailer. Extremely scenic but decided to just pay the toll $$ on way back.. Hit 5 states. Ohio, W.Va., Maryland, Va. & Pa.. Ran in light snow most the way home.

Yes. I sold the D-Rod last July and regretted it ever since. Glad I got it back. And yes, letting that GT-14 go was a tough pill to swallow. I REALLY liked that one.. I just don’t have room. Ive been “thinning the herd for a year now.. Trying to get down to 4-5 tractors.. Only keeping my absolute favorites. I think 6 is probably going to be a more realistic number..

Had a pretty good turn out for what is going on right now. All sorts of tractors and garden tractors

As soon as I figure out how to sell them for $4 to $6,000 each...

Thanks for the compliment. Just a shade tree engineer. The plan is next week to start work on the DeSoto and start a new thread here. Boy have I got a mess to clean up in the shop after the WH project.

Got the brackets welded up and a stabilizer bar. Cut all the old brackets off the bucket. Started making up the hooks for the quick attatch.

Um, the school district is still looking for that crate!

I have a metal milk crate I use cut out 2 holes in the bottom and cut open the front and put in my engine building stand.

Coming to my house Monday

He who farts in church sits in own pew.

TITAN SCREW DRIVER SET; They've been selling this set of 25 different screwdrivers for $15 when it goes on sale. It is a very complete set. Even has the micro-sized precision screwdrivers. As with anything from Costco, if you don't like it, you can return it for a full refund. I needed a very small screwdriver to adjust the carb on a chainsaw, and the kit had it. I have really torture-tested some of the more standard sizes and they hold up well. I have yet to put them to the ultimate torture test: banging off an axle dust cap with a hammer. Made of CR-V blades, hexagonal shafts so you can get a wrench on them, magnetic tips, comfort grip handles, a lifetime warranty, and an 800 number on the package if something breaks. It was a good find for me, especially because the kid takes tools and doesn't return them without hassling him. BTW, when I need to look for my tools most of them are hanging around his reloading stuff.

Boy did we get a bunch done on the project today. We spent pert near 8 hours. Trina was disassembling, grinding and painting like a disassembling, grinding and painting madwoman. All to appease Mr. Norman @Stormin Here's proof of how much priming and painting she did today. Note the interesting sunburn like color tone of her arm. That's paint. Washed right off. She even had red hair for a little while this afternoon. I rebuilt the transmission... and helped her here and there moving things etc. I want to say thank you to @stevasaurus Steve for making your transmission videos. Here's a few pics of the transmission: Empty. Carrier and wheel bearings removed. Cleaned up and ready for reassembly. Gears all cleaned up and waiting to be reinstalled. I did have to grind about .002 off the side of a woodruff key so I would have the right size. Took me two attempts but the second one worked great. These next two pics show how I was able to remove the carrier bearing. I experimented with the bad one to make sure it would work before I screwed up a good one. I owe Lincoln at A to Z tractor I thank you for this idea. @A-Z Tractor Carrier installed. Wheel bearing installed. Ready for reassembly. Good to have extra parts laying around. When I got this bugger disassembled I discovered that this reverse idler gear has seen better days. It would have worked okay but I had another one in the shed that was in better condition. Here is all of the internal system reassembled. Ready to drop the top case half in place. Note the super long axle... Fully assembled and ready to be wire brushed. Part way through the priming stage. And here it sits on the bench happily drying overnight. And... here we have another Wheelhorse mobile hanging with paint drying. Note the copper dash plate. The pictures of this just can't do it justice. It looks fantastic. The two pieces on the outside are the reinforcement brackets for the frame. Trina painted those a hammered bronze color to keep with the theme. If this steering shaft looks a little long to anybody it's because it has a 1.5 inch extension welded into it. my little perfectionist wasn't happy with the roughness of the welds so she took some time to grind it a little smoother. I mentioned to her that we wouldn't be able to see it. Her response. "It's awful. It needs to be fixed." These next two shots show the steps and the bottom of the steering column support from a couple different positions. Really nice bright red. Hubs have been primed. Here's a better shot of the copper dash panel that Trina took specifically to try to bring out the color.

+here is a quick vid of me doing couple laps around back yard

One done. The other tomorrow after work. Then to scrounge up some rear tires.

Oh, lets just face it: Screwdrivers were meant to be abused.

In a day as good as this, horses have gotta run.

I used to be a cleaning kid at a too” and die shop. If you’re really good at sweeping floors and changing mill coolant, they teach you how to sharpen drill bits. Yeah, I used to be good at cleaning! Maybe one of these days I’ll try to do a video on sharpening drills. It’s pretty simple... but as mentioned, practice and practice and more practice!

Actually the F-150s hitch is just the anchor for the roller. The 417A supplies the power to the Eaton 6 in the Charger V8. It's a good test.....that right tire is spinning. This is the method I use to test all hydros in non runners. If my arthritis behaves, this Charger V8 may become a rear engine two seat golf cart.

I did add 178 lbs and the tire continued to spin thru the full range of forward/reverse. Sorry, I didn't have anyone to take a picture of me standing on the tool box and operating the motion control lever. She did push the Ford forward a bit before the tires started to spin. I was afraid she might push the Ford and drag the 417A

Thanks for sharing the pic of Mr. Strayer with his tractor Ed. Maybe write his name on it under the seat pan or under the hood some where?

This was my Ford F150 which, like most of us, I wish I still had . . . . it needed a new bed like most from that era. I scored a non-rust bed in Lancaster, PA. Fortunately, I worked for a body shop part-time and could use their facilities.

Now Kev why was I not informed of this sooner? All joking aside I do believe that ones wheel base does look a bit longer than my "dump" truck...

Got the support bracket fabed up and installed got it running after it died the first time it take some cranking to get gas into carb but my starter Bendix stuck in flywheel and had to pull starter to fix that. Then I didn't get the governor adjusted right and it ran pretty fast before I realized it

The little REO is going to the Dino in IL. I'm not sure what i'm going to do with the Work Horse yet. Going to fix the kill switch and make a battery holdown. We'll see!

I have a very large assortment of screw drivers and most of the flat heads are bent (pry bars) or snapped tips (chisels). I have a really old craftsman flat head that I was using the handle as a hammer the other day and the handle snapped right in half. Oops! It may be time to work on an upgraded set some day...

Kevin, outdoors when windy I used an LP Turbo torch and indoors an Acetylene with a large # 5 tip, no oxy. Have never used clamp on. I have not done this type of work this big since before 1987 but as they say it's like riding a bicycle you never forget how. Each piece of copper was half round filed on the inside and a slight bevel on the outside then sanded , fluxed and soldered. That size copper does not want to fit together that easy or not at all without that prep work. Thanks for your interest.

Screw a piece of flat sheet metal to the piece you cut out and instant plug when the hole is not needed. Garry

My father only had a bench grinder, which I now have. And he done them free hand no rest. And he done saw chains free hand as well, round one for the teeth and flat one for the guides. I remember watching my father's father sitting at a big wet Stone which he pedaled sharpening sythe blades, lawn mower blades and knife blades off the horse drawn mowing machine.

I went with my FIL yesterday to pick this guy up. It’s a ‘79 C-30 extended wheelbase ramp truck. The 350/SM465 3 speed+creeper gear was a blast from the past when I got the offer from him to drive it home! It’s got 85k on the ticker and runs good... just needs a tune up, a brake job and some wiring. I sent it up the highway at 70 mph just a singing a song with no smoke, no temp issues just a big ‘ole smile on my face!

@ebinmaine my father also was perfect in drillsharping, he has a good eye to do that simply on a grinder. i have also mixed results, but i remember his advice 60deg. Shall be the best angle for mixed usung. but the importanst thing he told me is the behind grinding, i have no good eye for. but also this is just practice, practice, practice. to get an better penetration of welding i learned to phase the welding area. a good conduction ( cleaning of ground and welding area) in the half rent. the rest is just exercise and as before mentioned, use some scrap metal and try. After that cut the welded area in half and look at it. even if you no experienced that much, you will be able to see where the penetration is better or not. when you welded few things together, give it a riptest, to see how good it lasts. so you get more and more trust to your weldings and get a feeling if it‘s last or not. 👍

I like @953 nut Richard's idea of a table. I think it was @WHX24 that also has one. I've been watching my habits for weeks to see where was the least inconvenient place.

The two main things in welding IMO are preparation and not rushing.

Beautiful work Sir. Hope your head heals well and soon. At least you know it couldn't have done any internal head damage.

Another quick update. Since corona is here and we can’t really get out, I’ve worked on the horse a little. I pressure washed the tires I’m going to use on it and plan to tube the back ones later tonight. I had bought some foam and a Indian looking blanket to cover the seat with. Really wanted a Mexican blanket, it couldn’t find any locally, so this will have to do. I decided to shorten and widen the back a little. Here’s how it looked installed. I think it turned out ok.

I drove the Raider to my neighbor to show him his cleaned up tractor. He was pleased to know you guys appreciated his donation. Terry Strayer and his Raider 10

Front stabilizer done . Enogh for this weekend

Subframe done and paint, put a skid plate on the bottom to protect the oil filter and hose. Installed the studs from @rmaynardin the hubs. Easy wheel installation.

Did some hole locations on the mill with use of the DRO program for holes

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.

I agree that the ignition module might be the issue, but the smoking and oil fouling says to me that there is serious engine wear or damage.

Eric, You can limb with the bow but you lose contact with the dogs once the cut is made.If you come in contact with something past the limb you can have serious kickback issues.