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As long as I remember there has been a well rusted (or as some people like to call it "patina") 867 wheel horse sitting in my grandparent's barn. I loved that thing, and I always promised myself that I would own it one day. Well now, 15 years later, it's sitting in my garage. The best part is, it was free and it runs perfect. I drove it all the way to my house, which is actually only about a 1/2 mile from my grandparent's house, but it felt like a very long time. The first thing I did was put a stack on it. It just felt right that it should have one. Today was a very rainy day, but that doesn't get in the way of having some fun on my horse! I decided to take the 867 for a rip around the block. My neighbors probably hate me because it so loud with its stack, but I don't care. I own my dream tractor.

Hello All, Hope everyone is coping well with this virus mess... On my way to my sisters house I passed this... stopped and made deal. Then I looked around and found the place just too quiet and without any livestock or equipment. Come to find out the whole farm is in foreclosure.... the equipment auction happened April 2019. Nobody wanted the old non running "little tractor".... well the electronic ignition is off of it and @Sparky gave me a used pickup and coil to try. If that doesnt work it will get converted to 12 volt ignition. I dont think its been used much and check out the 3 point hitch! Sad to see Rockland farms heading into history.... at least the 'horse will live on. Tony

Today my wife asked if the old push mower still worked she wanted to cut the monkey grass back. I've been doing it with the Z turn the last couple of years, but like most things I don't do it to her standards . So I dug it out from the back of the shop checked the oil , still has a little gas in the tank at least 2 years old but it's non ethanol with some PRI-G gas treatment looked okay. Pumped the primer bulb 7 or 8 times pulled the cord, third pull , filled the tank with new gas and off she went. #nonethanol!! Side note the monkey grass doesn't look any different to me than when I do it, but she says it is, but after 43 years I just smile, I knew I shoulda married her sister. Stay safe.

Trina, her mom, the dog and I are cutting and splitting some firewood today. First time this spring we've had the tractors in the forest...

Busy day today.

I had to share my son Travis’s Facebook post. A brief history........ I bought that truck when I was 18 (1986 Chevy square body) and drove it for many years then Travis wanted it so we gave it to him for a graduation gift (it was ruff) so he worked on it and put lots of time and $ into it and we LS swapped the engine and now he is very proud of it as he should be! I sure do miss it!!! I love his caption 😂😁

I sat down to watch "Follow that Bird" with my kids. It's the movie from 1985 when Big Bird is adopted by a family of DoDo birds in Oceanside, IL. He tries to walk back to Sesame St.. To my surprise, a late 70s wheel horse makes a few appearances, and Waylon Jennings showed up too! Working on getting pics.... my mac blocks screenshots of itunes movies. Edit: This is my phone photographing my laptop.

Well, you asked for it... Emory had it out riding yesterday and loves it!!! Here she sits in the early morning dew. I’ll get some pics of Emory out cruising later on. I’ve been up since early laying a little paint on the ole D160! The other ranger is waiting for a little love - not to mention a transmission as its was busted from water freezing in it.

Nice tractor! I’m a fan of stacks but not the noise of an open exhaust, mine still “muffles”.

Not bored eric....... plenty to do. Welding up another gt14 tank tomorrow 👍

Made the C-141 run excellent today! I'd never been around a real Kohler carb that didn't have .050 of throttle shaft slop. Hunted down the suggested bushings (Finally found them at an ACE about 15 miles from my house) and put them in a carb that I had all but written off because it was so worn out. And WOW! It runs exponentially better, not just at idle but throughout the RPM range. I bought 10 at $0.99 a piece. figure I'll do the C120 next and then do the 1650. Both are incredibly sloppy. If anyone on here has a sloppy throttle shaft, fix it! Takes $2 and 15 minutes. Hillman 58087. Takes two per carb.

Priceless..... I don’t know where it is or when they do it, but I swear they ALL go to the same school!

Firstly i built a new Toy to crumble the Soil. Therefore i mounted few springs on the forkplatform. A testride show‘s it works perfectly as planed. While i do the crumble, i see again the tip of the Rock witch has killed my Tiller and i decide to remove it. So i decide to increase Seattime, with the Beast, because i still needed excessive use of the Loader to diggin the Rock out of my Field. Diggin 45 cm deep into Soil around that Rock to remove it. I nearly forgot to take any Pictures of this Action, but i do remember ( nothing is happen without evidence) and do a Picture while refilling the Area back. I missed to take a Pict of the Rock, but i have to react quick - it was a huge thing with about 35cm in diameter. Our neighbour Sepp come along with his huge Fendt and pick that rock to trash it somewhere into forrest. after refilling i mount again the Plow and do again pull rows into soil. Plow Day - the second. Weather plays along with 20deg. and i was able to enjoy my Seattime today. Forecast tells here - some Snow shall be up at tomorrow. 👍

Made a little progress on my two seater round hood today

With a big stack like that you can have a little evening extravaganza, Run the engine up to wide open throttle, turn off the ignition for a couple revolutions and then turn it back on. The flames the big stack will shoot should make your neighbors real happy. Don't tell your grandfather though.

I guess we’re under a flood watch... I found it! No tater planting today...

Could the FEL bucket handle the load? How was the counter balance?

In your defense, someone had to take the pictures.

Well.... I did help move the parts....

Well, I haven't posted a lot lately since life seems to have taken over. As many of you know, my son suffered a stroke before birth and technically has cerebral palsy. You would never know to meet him. We were lucky enough to get him enrolled in a medical study to help him gain use of his right hand through Virginia Tech and Carrillion Research center. He is one of about 140 kids from around the world to be chosen. He has a cast on his arm and hand he favors to force him to use his affected hand. We have had to move 2 hours from home 3 days a week. I thought it would be something fun for him to go get a cultivator from Limited12. Tommy has been a good friend for the last couple of years. When we got there, Emory wanted to look at Tommy's tractors. He really liked a couple of Lawn Rangers Tommy had. Before I knew it, Tommy and Emory were off talking about the tractors. They ended up flipping a penny for the tractors. Long story short, Tommy told Emory he would "sell" him both tractors for a penny! I couldn't believe how generous he was being. Needless to say, Emory was thrilled and can't stop talking about his tractors! I told a couple of girls I teach with about Emory's gift. One said, "That's proof that there really are truly nice people left in the world!" I know where a bunch of them are - right here on Red Square! I can't seem to get the site to let me upload any pics. I'll try again Sun. or Mon. when I'm back in cell range. Thanks Tommy for bringing a big smile to his face!

All this... Just for this...

I figured out these ball joint pickle forks work well to pull this snow blower pulley! I am shimming the “press” with wrenches on the shaft progressively.

I do this to get rid of all the slop in all the components. Make up a pin from 1/2" rod (I used stainless steel) then drill out the front hitch and the 2 hood pivots. Oversize hood pivot pin.pdf As you can see I use cotter pins and washers instead of the E-clips.

More pics of Trina's painting prowess. Love the copper color on the hubs Lift handle is the same metallic brown textured as the frame/transmission. This'll likely end up being my clutch. Transmission is ready for installation

Snow tires came off my commuter car...summer tires back on. If we get a freak snowstorm I’ll drive my truck (4x4) for a day I suppose. 42” RD deck in the pics to keep this on topic

The basic wedge....also fells giant trees and builds pyramids.

Ride Scoop of course, doing some other very important task... you know, lifting stuff and moving it, and dumping it... repeat...

Making some fuel tanks. Wanted one for the for the 953. May as well fabricate while you self isolate.

Trina's doing a little painting so's you folks don't get impatient.

Marvin needs some sun. Looking a little pale.

Unless you have the proper measuring devices and know how to use them I would advise you to take tha block and crankshaft to an engine machine shop. You can spend a lot of money on parts and be disappointed with the results if you don't do it right.

That’s because the inmates are running this asylum...!

I just picked up the same chipper shredder vac. Those things kick up a lot of dust and debris. I agree with using ethanol free gas and keeping a clean air filter. I also use some Sea Foam and Sta-Bil into all my small engines. When I fill my can up at the gas station I mix it right in there so what ever I am putting gas in, it is all ready treated. I even use it in my 2 stroke stuff, like chain saws and string trimmers.

Sorry no video (damn camera on strike again) ... Wet red clay covered in grass.

Look what I found in my stash.

Working on a recent pick up, I noted the left rear hub wasn't right so i took her apart. I was all pump up to try Ed's brass key / weld thing, was pretty disappointed to find the PO had ground the shaft undersized. They tried to use some kind of epoxy, some remnants fell off. On the bright side, the hub was new and the bore was still good. Determined to weld something, I took an old worn out hub and welded it to the axle. Figure it would last as I worked on other things and figured if it this was going to be parts or repaired.

You have to watch those flash floods! No tator planting but you got to play in the mud though

Now your scaring me! put it back! PUT IT BACK!

Too true!

It seems you need a Loader, huh ? 😂 don‘t tell me now you have a Trina 😎

Couple of tips Kevin...my transmission videos are between 5 and 10 minutes. 5 minutes is better for busy people that don't have more time then that. Sometimes it takes about 10 minutes to do what you want to shoot...that's OK also. 2nd Tip...always put in a title and date. 3rd tip...get a you tube account and upload all of your videos to it...keep the videos you want people to see public, the others private. With the you tube account, you can copy and paste the URL into Red Square, e-mails, SKYPE, fasebook, etc. 4th tip...if you have COPD or a cold or something that makes you breath heavy, a microphone will pick that up...and I can tell you...no body wants to listen to 5 minutes of that. A 5 minute video is about 95 MB. 4 Gigs will probably hold all the videos you could take in 5 years.

Nice day for it! Looking good! So THAT's where all the masks are going...

Thanks to everyone ! Only nice comments, not even a single one pointing out the pure insanity

Picked up a Magnum 8 a few years ago. PO said it stopped running like a fuel problem he put a new pump on but nothing... Cleaned it up cranked it and it had spark but never gassed it up and tried to run it as I did not have a test stand or a real need for it. Tried to get it running yesterday as it was nice outside. Would run on carb cleaner but not continue. No gas in carb bowl, float needle moved. Fuel pump was a newer plastic replacement looked good so I put on new fuel lines thinking they could be plugged. Line filled to the pump but not up to carb. Pulled the pump and the issue was obvious. He put on the wrong pump. Found I had a new pump for a small block. .Put it in and she fired right up and runs nicely. Just have to get the throttle /governor control adjusted. FYI Small block pump on the left big block on the right. the big block pump arm misses the cam but fortunately didn't hit anything else so no damage.... Kohler really should but some kind of marking sign on the pump body as to what it is for since the bodies are identical.