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I pulled this and edited from another video. I may go back eventually and add more footage and try to get it to a better resolution.

Well i was trying to beat the rain with my 520hc and well...it didn't work out so i kept mowing. I got good pics though

I suspect comments on cooking is a more controversial topic than either paint color or oil! My Dad once remarked at the table that the handmade noodles my mom served weren't as "clumpy" as the ones his Mom made. It was years before we had handmade noodles (which I loved) again.

Many thanks! But just so you know, I'm just passing along what others have shown me in the past. That's what is great about this place. We all share!

Finished my sail boat mast to flag pole conversion today… Pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Well folks we're getting really narrowed down on things left to paint. All that's left is the wheels, couple of rods and levers, and I still need to put the transmission together so that can be painted... Here's today's progress:

Dad look like this then?

Sort of... but we would hear the can opener and moments later "Supper's Ready!" Actually Mom was a pretty good cook. Her Sauerbraten was to die for! I think the joke was, and it may have been Rodney Dangerfield... " My wife is a pretty good cook. She cooks just like my Mother used to open! " and another of his; " Not saying my wife is a bad cook, but the flies in the neighborhood chipped in and had window screens installed on the house!"

Time to write another chapter to this story and what a start we had! After arriving home last year, Claudia asked, “When can we do this again?” It didn’t take long to begin planning our “second annual Daddy/Daughter road trip”. Let’s take a couple more days and have a bigger adventure—that was the goal! Well, yesterday was a “bigger adventure” for sure. We decided to investigate Michigan on the back of the bike and see if we could visit a couple of neat museums as well as checking out miles of picturesque countryside. After taking care of some business at home we left at around 10:45 headed for Manitowoc, WI. The plan was to take the SS Badger (car ferry) across Lake Michigan. It was about 85 degrees and sunny but the old bike seemed to be running good. A stop at Culver’s for lunch and we would be boarding by 1:00pm. I stopped to take a quick picture of the boat right before pulling into the parking lot and when I let out the clutch—NOTHING. I couldn’t have burned out my clutch, what broke? A second or two of investigation revealed that the rear drive belt was roast! Snapped in half! Now what were we going to do? I promised my girl that we going to take the trip across the lake but our first hotel was in Cadillac, about an hour and a half from the ferry dock. The ferry trip was non-refundable and we were about 250 yards from the loading point. I decided that at the very least we would make the trip across and if nothing else worked out, we could return the next day on the ferry. Claudia helped me push the bike on the boat and get everything strapped down and then we settled into her first big boat ride! It was a blast going across the lake on such a historic boat. Meanwhile, I had reached out to @pullstart to share the news with him. Our plan was to hang out with him and the family on Tuesday afternoon but I wasn’t sure we could make it there now. He was immediately sympathetic and started to throw out some ideas of what could be done…then we slipped into the cell hole across the lake. I had some wonderful one on one conversation with my lovely daughter and we wandered around the various decks of the ship. By the time I was back into cell reception, Kevin suggested that he borrow a bike trailer from a local, load his “Couch on 2 Wheels”(Harley Dresser), meet us in Ludington, swap bikes, and we could be on our way! We both were overwhelmed by his generosity and took him up on the offer. It would take a little while for him to make it to us and so we got to walk around downtown Ludington before he arrived and sample some of the local food! Before we knew it, he was there, we moved over the luggage to the large touring bike and were on our way. It was getting dark by this time and as we rolled along, I realized that I had made a rookie mistake, I didn’t check the fuel gauge before rolling out of town. I knew where I was at on my bike but hadn’t looked to see where Kevin’s was at. The fuel gauge kept dropping as we drove on through the wooded darkness of west central Michigan and I was starting to sweat. Meanwhile a storm was brewing overhead. We finally found a gas station and pulled in, only to realize that it was closed and the pumps were turned off. A quick search on the GPS indicated that we had to push on to our final destination if we hoped to find fuel. As we sat under the awning, praying and thinking about the next ride into the darkness, it began to rain. We put on some rain gear and headed into the darkness. Nearly out of fuel, in the woods, at night, yea—IT WAS A BIGGER ADVENTURE all right! After passing no less than 6 fuel stations that were shut for the night we arrived safely in Cadillac at a station that was open. Hallelujah! We both were very relieved and our hotel night clerk took pity on us and upgraded our room to one with a jetted hot tub. She said that it looked like we could use a warm up! Many thanks to Kevin for his huge sacrifice to make this trip a possibility. Today is a new day, and we will continue to write another chapter…(ya’ll stay tuned now😉)

Went zipping around on another RJ-58 I got up and running today. Thing is pretty quick!

There you go, Eric said you can stay with his family...

Must have looked pretty funny, you out there swinging that big tractor around swatting at raindrops! Bet you've got Popeye arms! I've often wondered how badly the accumulation of grass on the flywheel affects engine cooling airflow. I'm in the habit if bringing my boot up to brush it off while I'm mowing. Even gone as far as thinking about installing a brush of some sort but never acted on those silly thoughts... or IS is silly? hmmmm....

Since one of my new ags had a change of heart about holding air pressure inside, I received these today. They sure look nice!

Some bearings have one seal on the outside and are greased by the grease fitting as normal. Others have two seals and are pre-greased so can not be greased. If you try the grease pressure will push the bearing out of the hub. Guess how I found out. Suggest replacing the grease fitting with a set screw/Loctite to plug the hole so that does not happen. The inner seal will not allow grease to enter the bearing. Garry

Wadda you an aspiring cheesehead now Plunge?

Pour a gallon of this in there. Let it sit for a week. Empty it out and rebuild the engine. Works every time!

I do not recognize the engine with the chrome valve covers engine mount location makes me think it's a MOPAR but never seen one before and would like to indentify for a friend. As time permits there will be a whole slough of interesting flat head Ford V8 goodies and other performance stuff for various engine.

Brought the brand new TLB home today. Almost sold off my collection of attachments and will obviously be keeping the 315-8 for mowing, along with a dozer blade and snowblower. Im happy thats for sure

Most suburbs around Boston are safe. Anywhere outside the I95/Rt128 belt seems from your description where you would want to stay. Maybe somewhere like Framingham would be easier on the hotel budget and you can also take the T train in and out of the city. Same for Natick or Southborough. The suburbs west like Newton, Wellesley, Weston are fairly affluent areas but closer to the city and south areas like Roxbury, Jamaica Plains and Dorchester, you probably want to avoid. If you're into the history stuff look towards the northwest areas like Lexington and Concord If you happen to end up in the Museum of Science, Check out the huge ceiling screens (probably can't miss them). I installed those when they did some remodeling years back

Well played Sir

Today, I made the horn work. It works very well!

Hey, Army field snacks are an entire cuisine unto themselves. Smoked oysters, saltines, and some spray cheese, oh yeah! Little ranger puddin for desert, heck I've even grilled moose with my e-tool as a spatula, and boiled fresh caught crawdads in my canteen cup!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MF5A4GF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have used these for years now, on all sorts of mowers, also the horses. Probably fitted more than 50 of these, and never had one fail. At $1.59 a pop, that's a pretty big no brainer for me, over those pesky greased bushings in the cheaper machines, and an easy no mess replacement for the greased type. They also come in a 5/8 bore, that fits the big deck wheels on the 60 inch deck etc. Can only recommend

This hood on the 418-A had a couple of indentations on the front that need to be removed before a new decal goes on. The original one was removed using the hair dryer from the front side back and forth until warm. Let sit for a minute and it pulled off easily. @WH1618speed Good luck

No one who reads this forum, I hope (for your sake..)

Did she cook the tin or the paper plate? Unfortunately that's a legitimate question considering the cooking skills of certain family members of mine.

A man after my heart! Straight out of the tin on a paper plate! Just like Mom used to 'cook'!!!! I love the ones packed in Hot Sauce! "I put that chit on everything!" EXCEPT... Liverwurst (sadly, I will never again have the homemade Grosmutter brand!) and Onion on Rye with plenty of NOT YELLOW mustard!

Looks like you got a set of diamond treads Tom so I will just keep these ones I got from Mike's horse Barn!

My offer is small. It’s just an old bike with close to 90k on the ticker. Making memories and not being stranded in the Manistee National Forest in the dark and rain is what it’s all about! Have fun, see you some day... but your bike will have a new belt before we know it! You forgot to mention the rareness of this belt...

Used to have a forklift at work that smoked bad. Easy to tell when it's out of oil, it quit smoking

Thanks! Oh the bamboo… That was my son’s idea about 8 years ago… “gonna make money selling the poles Dad…” It is beautiful and very cool but a pain in the butt… notice it’s between two driveways to contain it… grows faster than a Wheel Horse collection!!!

3/4" are tough to find here. Most trailers have went to 1" now. I have used these sealed bearing so far so good. Seem like high quality.

By the way, hats off/ big shout-out to kpinnc He is the man. ...Gave me a lot of help and advice on this build, particularly my recent pulley project. Don

Why the flying heck would you re-ring that??!!?? Just think of the absolute destruction you're doing to the local mosquito population!!!!!

Hi, I'm Marc and am from Luxembourg I have a 520H (Model 73520 / serial 5900115) and a 312-8 (Model 73380 / serial 3900132). I also had a european build B111, bought in Belgium back then, but unfortunately sold it a few years ago I think that I'm going to buy another Wheel Horse to complete my collection just as for some accessories like a plow, a tiller, a snow-plow and some tools to start gardening, but they are hard to find over here in Europe. If anyone knows where to get some tools over here, let me know. Have a nice day to all Marc www.marckieffer.com

I have had a mid mount for close to thirty years. What you describe is not abnormal. This attachment is meant grade loose material. If used to loosen hard pack the shocks will loosen the angle lock. These things will smack you in the knee as well as wrench your wrist. The only way to not deal with the mentioned issues is to put the blade on a hydro lift equipped tractor

best to throttle down (idle) when removing debris because it can be a challenge otherwise certainly look and feel like you've been cutting grass when you step off an Onan twin powered Wheel Horse grass clippings and small bits / pieces ... pollen ... all over your body head-to-toe - especially lower legs ... left lower leg ... shoes covered ... it's a war out there lol as opposed to the calm almost serene environment when cutting with a Kohler single (for example)

That's what was in my Sport Fury. I seem to recall that the covers were wiggly but not like the early ones. A friend had a 58 Dodge with one, can't recall the displacement though, and that had the deep scallops. That 318 I had (I typoed 63, edited to 64) wasn't a HP monster but it was pretty torquey!

One load of round hoods... ready to roll! Frank still needs a bath...

I have a not to be named relative in FLA who ran a 'grow operation' and used it all around his 'compound' on the St. John to keep out intruders. That stuff is nearly impossible to get through without causing a big ruckus. Talk about "Privacy Fence" ! His compound was bulldozed sometime back in the 80s and the stuff keeps growing back!

Noon eastern time on Thursday we’re rolling out. That’s if I get a bike belt whipped back into shape and get tractors loaded... my new rears for the lever steer are supposed to deliver any minute!

I replaced the stub axles and use trailer hubs with taper roller bearings, much much better than the flanged things that were original. I did intend making some kind of modifications so that the original wheels could be fitted with a ball bearing but it was more bother than changing the stub axle to use trailer hubs.

This is the best group ever😁

Are you sure it didn't stop smoking because the oil is low now? Might as well throw a couple qts. If Seafoam in it and let it rip!

Loaded and ready to roll

Tonight, Connie the C125 is towing a "launch pad" for fireworks over to the neighbors for some fun Happy 4th and God Bless America!