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I had my helpers out with me the other weekend. I had to fell a black birch that was dying. Of course when all the work was done a cool yeasty beverage was required to quench my thirst!

Motors all apart... blower is beat to hell. But... its a 312 hydro and its a Wheel Horse. Over my dead body they get crushed. Hope everyone is safe and well. Tony

@rjg854....this is how i chose my name...until i started buying my own, my Dad, who owned all the horses till i started buying my own, has always said you dont need anything bigger to do everything you could or should ask of a Horse. Hence, all 12hp Kohlers, lol I like variety, tho... 2nd from left is my 312-8 that he bought n gave me in 2017, that got all this started. So it's his fault. 😉😊😂

So the other my wife and i were talking and I mentioned I was thinking about a horizontal bandsaw and how it might be nice to have one. Yes truthfully i can go down to @Shynon and use his, it's only 5 blocks away, but when your fabricating something man it takes a big chunk out of your day traveling back and forth. To my suprise my wife said Happy Birthday , (my birthday isnt until June) she never knows what to get me anyway so she said go pick one up, and i dont have to look for a gift. . I picked one up today, my first cutting project was making this roller stand on casters so its easier to move around the garage. So thanks to my wife and happy birthday to me...... early of course.

When my Dad and I built the cabin back in the eighty's we had one of those early version of the Alaskan style mills but quickly realized what you guys are mentioning about the cons. 'Course we didn't have the correct chains nor the internet or you fellas to educate us. I think we used about four times and threw in the towel. My uncle hooked us up with a guy with a woodmiser and it set in the corner till I gave it away to a neighbor who actually had pretty good luck with it. Woodmizer guy came in and had the whole cabin and then some cut in a day. I think he charged us 300 for the whole day. Lucked out and never hit a nail or common in our woods a bullet meant for a whitetail. You hit anything but wood with a bandmill yer done. I still have timbers, planks and board I use to this day.

Kev. I will keep my opinions about chainsaw mills to my self.I tried one 30 years ago and as you know built a band mill.With that said I will address what you need to do after the boards are cut.Make sure you stack the lumber where it can get air to flow through it while its under cover.Use dry stacking strips to allow air space between layers and avoid board to board contact while drying.If you air dry the recomended drying time is 1 year for every inch of thickness.There is a periodical that is called Sawmill and Woodlot management you might want to check out.It is aimed at homeowners and small operators.With the exception of the salt treated posts all the lumber for these structures came off my mill.

That's a Lambert "Triple Six" Pretty sure the hood still says '666' in your photo. For obvious reasons, the model was renamed. Fenders are correct.

Straightened out the garage... Stable/Barn...? ...Seems to be gettin' thatway...! a bit more today; fair bit of new "tack" to put up... Can't see it in this pic, but there's a 10 cubic foot WH cart, homemade belly blade, n plow blade, in there too, off to the left. I. Like. Red.

Is Covid a proper name for a machine I acquired two weeks ago? Or should I name it something more politically correct?

Well good afternoon everyone. In today's news from Idaho... the dull boom we heard this afternoon was explained as some fool in Hiram Maine trying to weld on something he shouldn't have been. More at 6 pm.

Now whahtt in tarnation?! You telling us you can't find something in that fleet of 25 or 30 little red tractors to keep a tiller on ..... isn't that kind of like going to a Ferrari dealer and asking them if they have a car that will go fast?

Picked up a rototiller this morning. I need to level my front yard after installing city water last year. Now I need to get the parts to mount it to my tractor. And the belt and pulleys that you need to run it. If you have them or can point me in the right direction message me please.

I hope this doesn't turnout to be another bumps and bruises thread.

Sure did just for the halibut … a 401 with the diamond turfs to boot! Dino's little eight incher and actually worked pretty good till I hit some roots from those spruce trees in the background then and up she come! Even let @Rp.wh have a crack at it. Power wasn't really an issue you keep her on the pipe Lane. Traction more of an issue. Weights, front and rear would help. This 401 has a B1290 Clinton in it. The guy I brought this tractor from had a cool little disc for it he claimed he used all the time. Sadly would not sell with the tractor tho.

Finally found a good use for those tiny sockets that you get in socket sets, sharpen them up and use them for hole punches! Really helped make the gaskets I needed. Loader tractor went down with a leak and it was time to try out a new china carb I bought forever ago. I had to pull the hood to get my fat hands in there to work. Need to pick up some cap heads socket bolts for the carb and a couple of fittings and I should have it back together tonight. I took some pics, I know how you guys are!!

@johnnymag3 Well owning one wheelhorse is as contagious as the Covid so why not. Or you could just call it Corona

Not what did I do to, but what I did for my Wheelhorses... I ordered a can of Berryman’s Chem Dip with the basket y’all praise so much. I have a carb that is very gummy but tight that will be dipped, along with a couple that need bushings. I’ve never done much more than parts clean and brake clean carbs, but feel like it’s one more thing that I could benefit from.

I found this one YouTube Lane. It looks like with the appropriate sized plow, it works just fine

My family got out of the house this afternoon and helped this guy plow the garden! It was so great to finally get Jada on Hot Wheels for a couple turns! It might not be for her yet, but at least she tried. We even got Frank out for a bit to disc the garden. He suffered a bit of carnage, sheared a bolt on the drive hub / axle.... but no big deal.

One of the positive things not mentioned is the hardwood slabs that sawing your own lumber gives you.It is nice knowing you got it all the good out of a given log.Slabs have provided me with a lot of heat over the years.

Getting back on topic here Kev check the logs with a metal detector if possible. Even then you can still miss things. These guys don't mess around they hit metal it's lights out with these rigs. Even then it happens.

A friend bought a cheap overseas starter on a couple years back. It only weighed about half as much as the Kohler starter and it didn't last more than a year. At my suggestion he bought a used starter from Lincoln at A-Z Tractor https://a-ztractor.com/ which cost about the same as the cheap junk one.

Same bat guy same bat channel and a big pile of WH parts !!!! I called the pile 19

I named the 1257 Corona....that was the other tractor I got at the same time !!!!

Worked on Covid, the newest acquisition..310-8...one owner...……..trying to do what the Media is beating into our heads. Unsure of the whole mask, no touch, but they hand food to me with contaminated gloves ETC. I tore her it apart only to find a nightmare wiring cob job. I started to disassemble the entire tractor and and tear apart the horrible wire harness. Im not sure what the original owner was thinking when he tried to SPLICE IN various items. The Volt meter with a light had positive wires running to both sides of everything! no ground anywhere. the entire thing was toast. On my way to making a color correct / gauge correct harness that is ran in the proper locations. This machine is so nice, I cannot leave it the way it is...…..Stay safe everyone...… Keep Horsin around !!!! john

Give Lincoln at a - z a call

Spoil sport. You trying to put the news services, emergency services, and funeral homes out of work???

I sent him a new clutch spring! That should do the trick. He said his spring was very rusty so probably very weak also!!! Thanks guys!

I agree with you and @JAinVA, I actually have a bandmill that I bought while deployed and was flush with extra money. I still haven't set it up, but really need to. Most of what I have done is resawing cedar slabs I bought from a guy that makes his living with a woodmizer. If was doing any volume, I'd be sure to be into the bandmill by now. At the moment, I'm turning $20 a pickup load into lots of useful roughsawn stuff around the house. When I start sawing my own timber, I'll definitely have my bandsaw ready for that.

Now why would I get something better than my rednecked poor man’s sprayer washer?

The chainsaw mill is a good way for you to start and get familiar with the whole process beginning to end. However if you are going to stay at it and get serious with it, as @JAinVA alluded above the band-saw mill is the way to go. Chainsaw milling is wasteful due to the wide kerf. It is hard, dusty,noisy backbreaking work. The only worst thing than it is a saw pit sawing regardless whether you are on the top or the bottom.. I got mine because I wanted to mill real wide logs with crotches as shown on photo above that were in peoples backyards and other wise would go to firewood. Got a lot of really precious stuff with it but I could not do it any more today. Mine uses two Stihls 90 and it is just a beast to handle. Any way we'll provide as much help as we can to make it sucessfull for you so then you graduate to a band saw mill.

Yes you will need the axle bracket and a mule drive that bolts up under the pto. Also the tractor will have to have rear rockshaft to pick it up. Get the manual for it will tell all. They are a beast. Someday I need to find a dedicated tractor to mount mine back on. Good one Norm! Sorry Kev been at least a week since I brought this up so your overdue....

I've read and been told multiple times that welding on galvanized steel is not an option without fresh air system.

Here is what I use

Best luck I've had is to disassemble as much as possible. Soak carb for 24 or 48 hours. Remove it and scrub all the big stuff off. Repeat that. Then a couple cans of brake clean through all the galleys and such.

The chain for a chainsaw mill is a "rip" chain. Ill check mine, but I believe it has no angle on teeth at all. Compare it to a ripping handsaw vs a crosscut. Same principle. The angle at which the teeth edge is ground is also different. It all has to do on the direction teeth are contacting wood fibers. Going right into the end of fibers rather than across.If it is not right it will wonder not making a straight cut and overheat immediately dulling the chain. Let me look at the instructions for mine. It may have all you need to know in there .If so I will post it for you. I also have a sharpening jig which uses a 12 volt battery for it. It uses very fine diamond burrs in it to touch up chain. You want to touch up chain frequently before it dulls. Its not the same as cutting across the grain, but much harder to do.

Thanks for the Birthday wishes guys. Life is good here, hope things are good with you. Stay safe, stay home. 😉

Kevin, I have a new repro GT14 3 point hitch. I was planning on using it, but it's just been sitting there. And its a second setup. Just thought I'd throw it out there. Let me know if your interested.

From what I’ve seen, they never came with a lift cable. The thick bar went from front to back. If you went with the independent 3 point upgrade, it added another cylinder to the rear lower bracket, a second control valve under the left seat pan sheetmetal with a control rod running to another separate lever next to your left knee. You ran a hydraulic hose from the first valve to the second valve and then plumb in the second cylinder. That attached to the upper lift arm in the back instead of the long 3/4” steel bar. Then you could lift either front or rear by itself. Not sure if the 953 cable would work as the hydraulic pump and motor would probably be in the way whereas the 953/1054 has really nothing in the way of the cable routing.

@12Horse Paladin where's other 11 horses

I can do all the MIG welding I want and the wife wont ask what I've been doing. Burn one 6011 rod and she will tell me how bad I smell. I guess "Aroma is in the nose on the Beholder"

While I was fiddling around learning how to weld yesterday, Trina and her mom took her 867 down into the forest and split up a huge pile of wood. We figure it's about 1/2 to 3/4 cord. Took them maybe 3 hours? Didn't catch any pictures of her tractor but I did snap one of when she was nice enough to put Cinnamon away for me. Saturday we used both tractors n both trailers to move a couple yards of loam from the front yard to the back for our 8 garden boxes.

Zach was excited to help with the yard work this weekend with his Blackbeard and the new weight box. Our buddy beefed this box up and added a hitch so that he could pull stuff around while having it hooked up. Does that 6 year old look happy to be on his own tractor or what? He’s a great helper too...

So I ran down and grabbed this tractor from IN this morning. It’s going to get a hitch for the moldboard plow that it’s future owners already purchased, some wiring cleanup and a couple little things then my buddy’s two youngest sons will be owners of this machine. I have shared “Cade’s Cows” before, the 14 year old beef farmer. His little brothers are getting this. I’m still on the lookout for something for him as well. They are pretty big Deere fans. I told them this tractor better not get painted Green and Yellow or y’all will probably shoot me!

You can also build a solar kiln to dry some of it a little faster. I have here somewhere a simple easy to build design. It’s really effective . Remember to paint ends of logs as soon as you can with a good oil based paint to prevent checking. You may want to do a little thinking on what you may be using material in the future to determine what thickness you want to use. Personally I am not fond of any 3/4 finished material being either always too thick or not thick enough for my purposes. I usually milled my stuff at about 3” and then later after drying resawed it with a resaw bandsaw to what I needed. Takes longer to dry but I get less waste and have more options that way. Keep in mind also that if you keep cutting you will have material for a long time to come. Plan properly where to stack it. It’s going to be there for a long time. Make good solid level and straight foundations with cement blocks and a few beams to put stacks on. Have plenty of properly dried stickers of the same size on hand . Cover the stacks with metal roofing panels with plenty of overhang. Depending on what direction the wind predominately blows where you are going to stack it, orient stacks so it blows on side of stack rather on the ends so ends don’t dry too quick and check. There is a lot of thinking and preparation to do before cutting any lumber so you don’t waste all the hard work it takes. With the right preparation you will have a lot of great lumber . I have seen much lumber that just became firewood because of poor planing and preparation. Now a days things are a little different our children not always following our trade, but my grandfather used to say that the wood he cut would be for his children and so on. He was using what his father had cut. I am now using wood I cut 20 years ago and I am sure some of it will be here after I am gone. It’s a great feeling when you want to build something to go and pick from what you have .

Kev I think i got that beat.I hit a square screwdriver shank in a log.Ruined a good band.Customer was not happy I charged him for the band but I wasn't about to eat it.Keep us up to date on your experiences.You know we have your back.Luck buddy!

@pullstart Once you start the planing part of your project , check every board upside down and backwards for metal . A few years ago I purchased some rough cedar for a project , pulled the tag off the end thinking the staple came out. WRONG it bend upward ,over the edge of the board . Ruined the planer knives.

Dan.... you asked for it! Cindy and I were out fishing once and I was telling her about your thing with bananas in a boat and she whips out a 'nana out of the lunch bag I couldn't throw her over the side she was the only one catching fish!

Stick welding does have a unique smell indeed. Speaking of smells, toxic stuff, oooh squirrel! and all that, NEVER EVER use brake clean to prep metal for welding! Better yet, if you ever use brake clean around the house, make sure you always get NON-CHLORINATED brake clean. That stuff will do bad damage in a quick hurry to your lungs and everything touching your lungs!