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Every part media blasted before paint. Wheels and Spindles changed to 8" Pretty much a 'New' Horse

Ever use her bathtub for washing a bear hide you are prepping for tanning? Oh,and I've been married to her for 57 years. That bear grease is really tacky stuff. Our bathroom was 5 years old, so I just put in a new one.

I gave up...had mine blasted and powdercoated...worth the coin to me...

They make the rocking world go round! got the 24-12-12 Carlisles mounted with a set of Farmall weights on her. I really like the way they look on this tractor. I think the added stability will be good when I get the loader on as well. For perspective, the 23-10.5-12 Deestones.

I had Grey @Wheel Horse 3D print up a few things for us. Trina and I were jabber jawing about everything and nothing one day and door knockers crossed through the conversation. I figured I'd see about a Wheelhorse piece. Today Trina spent some time sanding and priming it. She left texture some places and smoothed out others. For scale, the backer is approximately 4 x 6 inches

Hey all, I was given a couple of 48" decks, was told there junk, I could use for parts. Started stripping them down and the next thing you know this is what I got. Didn't get many before pics.

Another product of @Wheel Horse 3D Grey. EXCELLENT work. Trina requested a pair of 7" tall gargoyles to put outside somewhere. Here's the results after she's painted them. Gargoyles were commonly used in medieval times. Their two main purposes were to scare off evil, and to divert rainwater. ... The word "Gargoyle" originates from the old French word "Gargouille" meaning "throat" but which also describes the gurgling sound of water as it is coming down the downspout.

Front mount hitch on my 1267

Been married 5 years. She filled up the sink for me.

Took the past week off and went to FL. Had a great time with the wife. Got to spend time with my best friend from high school and spent a day at the Sun n Fun Air Show, but when we came back, it was Welcome to the Jungle! I had planned to mow prior to leaving, but weather and parts delivery didn't cooperate. So today I installed the new deck belt and installed the deck and got to work. Took 3 cuts with a lawn sweep between cuts 2 & 3 to get it back to where it should be. Then I see there's a 60% chance of snow on Tuesday. Ugh!

Moving half the farm so have been doing a lot of fencing lately. The little C125 and it's trailer have been invaluable as my mobile tool box, and for dragging hundreds of meters of water pipe and electric fence wire about the place. Had all the tractors out today taking down a section of pens so we stopped for a group picture!

Moved a few yards of mulch.

Mowed an acre today and "Connie" didn't even flinch with this job. Can the K301 can handle a 48"?

Dragged out the Briggs powered walk behind... did a carb clean, replaced rotted fuel line, oil change and evict mouse even though evictions are currently illegal. Well Mr. Briggs and Mr. Stratton want to challenge Mr. Pearson to his low idle challenge... I personally don't think a Tecumseh could idle this low TURNED OFF... LOL Hope to see all of you in June. I know Bill doesn't come around here often.. Maybe he will see this. Tony 20210418_095557.mp4

Set up a swing set for my wonderful daughter! And put a new exhaust on mean green! The grass chute on mean green is a modified wheel horse chute so still has some WH relation!

Changed the engine and transmission pulleys on the 854. Now I've got a fast little tractor.

Putting the decals on the 876. Wasn't sure where the one on the rear was suppose to go, but I did a search, and found it located at the bottom. I hope that's right. This cover plate was missing when I got the tractor, so I made one. Don't know if it's right, but it works. Of course I ruined the decal when I tightened the bolts. I thought having a flat washer under the head would prevent that, It didn't. I'll have to see if I can get just that decal. Then I got to this decal and didn't know where it was suppose to be. A search didn't help. Anyone got a pic?

You created a monster, Eric will have designer spindles painted up in three different colors.

If you need to clamp round bar and don’t have any “V” blocks, cut some angle iron the round bar will sit in, position one piece with the “V” upwards weld another piece on either side with one leg of the angle sitting flat and facing outwards. Drill holes in the ‘feet’ to suit ‘U’ bolt clamps, etc. You then have an improvised “Keats” block which can securely hold round bar, tube, for drilling/welding, etc.

Yup... And FREE...! Thanks big brother! 1 flat but I’m thinking easy fix... (Agrifab 17 cu. ) but soon to be 5th car SL&WHN RR on the way! or maybe a working rig... we’ll see.

Or use the @pullstart method , wrap your finger around the round stock and let your finger slip down a little as you tighten the vice quickly . Nice red color on the round stock and a flat finger to boot.

Or soon will be !

Hmmm... those pics appear that you're doing this at the kitchen sink? You must be a bachelor! I wouldn't even get two steps in the back door carrying that wheel!

Received the wheels from @pullstart! So happy to get the tires on them and get going!

Yeah but I got the best one. Rest are 🤪

Better?

Worked on the 1257 Heavys battery box and reinforcements and worked on organizing the work side of the shop.

Picked up a couple deals today as well. Snagged a seat bottom to start ousting together a new seat for the 160. Found it on fleabay and the guy was semi local and got it for $20. Also picked up a really nice clevis hitch kit for $175. Even came with the original installation instructions. With regards to that, I did my best to search if this was in the manual section, and I couldn't find it. If it would be of use I can scan copies and send them where ever they need to go.

Come do my lawn🤣? Mine looks like sand.... 😞

Everything you do has a measure of risk involved, the degree of risk you expose yourself to is your choice. In the '60s I lived in SC and the helmet law was if the operator or passenger was under 16 they needed a helmet, over 16 I guess they figured you were hard headed enough you didn't need one.

My wife and I took a canoe ride today - 1st of the year. Paddled across the lake and followed the shore line back. We saw a bald eagle and a pair of swans. Lilly pads are starting to sprout from the bottom of the lake, marsh marigolds are blooming, and May apples are sprouting in the woods. While walking the dog this morning, I saw a log in the pond next to the trial with about 15 painted turtles lined up on it sunning themselves.

The transmission is in. Now I can get onto more tin work.

Don't forget to stop at the end of you driveway!

Changed the engine pulley, went from 2 1/2" to 3" The transmission pulley, went from 4" to 3 1/2" Nice increase in overall speed, didn't have to change the belt length, but had to modify the belt cover a bit by moving it more to the front. All that was required was to relocate the holes that holds it in place. The hardest part of the whole job was getting the pulley off the transmission shaft.

THANK YOU GUYS! THIS IS A GREAT PLACE! I must have missed seeing the hole for the pin- under the tractor and trifocals can be difficult.

Front thatcher

It looks great and the direction of the bolts in the differential is correct. Excellent giving it a test run before installing. Smart. I have a bench and an electric 3 hsp motor that I use.

All clean and shiny.

Thanks !!!!! Gonna get some seat time today on the C-160

I hooked mine up to the pto on my 314 and got some speed in it to make sure everything was doing wat it should b4 I re installed it. Also how I clean them out fill with diesel and just set it up to run for a bit and work on somthing else while I wait work smarter not harder lol

@OldWorkHorse ok. Yup that's how I have them. It's been apart. Everything looked good . Relubed and tried again. Its together. It seems to be fine now. It even shifts lol

Just got one... Works very well.

A late start to my day & had to quit earlier than I wished, but I was able to make some progress. First thing on my agenda was to pull the head and de-carbon it. I was happy to see that there was little to no piston wash when I pulled the head off. There was also good cross hatch on the cylinder walls. Engine looks much better with a nice clean head free of any paint or crud. Tins back on the engine and the dash tower installed. I had to walk away after I came to this point. Hope to be able to get the wiring done tomorrow. Waiting for a couple of parts yet other wise I would be able to button it up the rest of the way.

Did some experimenting with the big drill press and a cross slide vise I picked up a year or 3 ago. Never tried to mount the vise so that was interesting. Got that figured out and put one of the meaty hex rods in it. Checked level/plumb 7 ways to everything. Drilled a hole in one end of each rod and then tapped then for 7/16-20 thread. That's the smaller of the 2 rod sizes. Smooshed the drilled tie rod into the vise and ran a tap into it. Used the nice fresh no idea how old this oil is cutting oil. What with the rod being so high out of the vise and the vise itself being... "Not expensive".... There's a tiny bit of off parallel from the rod to the rod end. All told it was a great experience. Another tool for our home use. Now I need to figure out how to clamp round material. If anyone has suggestions I'm all ears.

Almost done! Need to do a second coat on the belt covers. It was getting dark at the 'painting tree' and I had a few runs. Need to wet sand them out after the paint cures sufficiently and paint on a horizontal instead of hanging. I'll set up a bench outside to do that. See those four shiny new bolts? The top of the deck sheet metal was bowed down and the result was that the idler bar was sitting low and the idler very close to the 'sub-chassis'. Couldn't come up with a suitable way to straighten it, I think the metal was somehow 'stretched'. Every time I got one side up, the other went down, and vice versa, so I decided to drill some more holes and add the bolts. Now everything is snugged up the way it should be. New CAUTION and Belt Routing labels are on their way from Terry. Too bad I'm gonna mess it all up again, this is my 'worker' deck. Oh well, they were made to do a job, not just look pretty! QUESTION for you learned Gurus: I have a discharge chute for this deck but nave never used it, I find it clogs up and leaves long rows of 'clumps' rather than shoot the clippings out to mulch back into the soil. As I recall, when I did use it, it attached with two bolts where the white arrows are. But what are the GREEN circled holes for ? Bagger attachment ? I may have partially answered my own question by looking at the book for the deck. It looks like there are FOUR bolts to attach the chute, two on the sides and two on top, but there are still some extra holes unaccounted for. The manual for the deck shows three of the five holes. ALSO: the manual shows what appears to be a metal bar on the bottom of the deck running fore to aft at the chute outlet. My deck doesn't have this bar. Does anyone know where it went? Seriously though, are the 48 SD decks supposed to have this bar there?

With the start of a bed my project has become a bucket T. It still could be a sand rail but I'm not building it for speed. It's almost ready! The front axle saddle must be welded, two belts bought, a gas pedal and all the other adjustments of a custom build. After its maiden cruise I'll call it finished and that might be it for me.

Whatever it takes to get the job done!