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All ready here. Forecast is for anywhere between 4 - 24. Still to far out.

It's together. I will wait a couple months for decals. But hey it looks a heck of a lot better. I will get better pictures Saturday hopefully.

As of now Mondays snowstorm looks to be heavy wet snow. These pictures are last Winter, a nice powdery light snow. 417 doesn't even work up a sweat on the powder. May have to bring out the big guns if Mondays forecast materializes.

Went out to the barn, fired up each tractor, drove them around a little bit, checked oils, gas, tires and made sure everything was lubed up, and belts are in good condition. Bring it on

You've got to be FULLY PREPARED for these events. Fueled up. Aired up. Start and drive the tractor at the first possible hint in the forecast of snow which can occur as early as 7 to 10 days previous. In the days preceding the crystallized falling water event it is fully authorized to drive the machine around studying and practicing the snow removal route no matter what the exterior temperature. I personally highly advise that on the occasion of the actual snowfall you be sitting on the machine, machine running, ready to go. Perhaps sitting in the open doorway of the garage for shed. Even kitchen door if that's what you have to do. There are those of us that may consider these actions to be "jumping the gun." I do not believe that to be true. This is in fact called, proper preparation.

My 1960 suburban with plow that I bought at Scott's meet and greet 7 years ago stands ready. 3 years ago we got a little less than a 1/4 inch overnight, buy the time I got her out and put a little gas in it and aired up the tires it had melted . Won't let that happen again .

be prepared to hibernate longer than a bear who uses fluffy rabbits on his shiney hiney!

Your diploma has arrived! Please proudly display it in a prominent place so everyone who sees it will know just how many mistakes you have made!

This was a Craigslist find and guess what, it was FREE! It has the deck and front dozer blade. The BAD. The owner had kept it in his basement for 20 plus years with intent to convert it to a newer style control system but lost interest. Sooo it’s all ther but in boxes. I’d like to drive it I think it’s cool but time will to. He did have the original book as well

Got out into the woods this afternoon. The stream is frozen but not enough for a tractor with a rider… so I didn’t get past the stream today

I needa get me some " 2 link " chains! and a snow cab... And BTW, when you're looking for your garden hose in the spring, you may find it plowed into the mounds alongside the driveway !

Looks like one more pour is in order. The button and a couple casings are still leaving a ripple. We’re close to running over the low edge though!

@ebinmaine ready for snow , probably get rain , saposed to have an arctic weekend , then rain to snow . really need extended cold to hold the ground cold , we have been up and down, but I,M locked and loaded for plowing / blowing , pete

Man… parked on carpets… must be thoroughbred’s that won the Triple Crown !

Not much doing here. I'll just pop along and check on Colossus.

I've added a Metal Demon blade to my wish list . A Milwaukee M12 Fuel hand-held bandsaw landed in my tool chest as a nice Christmas present. I've already had a couple opportunities to use it and I am amazed at the ease of use and quality of the cut. I used it last to shorten a couple of ⅜" bolts and it went through quickly and smoothly with very little heat. I think my hacksaw will not be coming out very often in future! Note: there are two models--the brushless "Fuel" model has a bigger throat (2.5 x 2.5), is lighter, more powerful, and easy to operate with one hand. Worth the extra cost, IMHO.

Got chains! I hear we could get 1/4" to a 1/2" of ice. They say Rain,Ice, and Snow in NC don't know were the dividing line will be.

Here in the piedmont of NC they are forecasting 1.5 inches… I am ready to fire up the 1994 520H and ride around !

i knew I’d get ya!

Blowers in the front of the line. Fueled and tires pumped up. Pilot lit on the furnace.

Yea I really want to try and put it back together! May not be quick tho lol

With the snow blower and the plow blade being about an inch high because of the gravel I can go out afterwards if I think it needs it and scrape it down with a grader blade.

Peoples is bizzzzzy... Kevin got too much going on with daycare... Don

About as much going on here as on Kevin's project.

Got out into the woods today myself…

Visuals…

Looks like this project and @ebinmaine's Colosuss are in the same race to the finish.

These Metal Demon blades are incredible. Standard circular saw cuts steel angles at maybe 3/4 the speed it would cut wood of the same size with almost no heat and minimal sparks. WAY better than abrasives because no black dust. I have cut full depth in some thick stuff with the 7 1/4 blade and if you don’t push hard it just cuts. Heavy pressure/heat are the killers but I think one of these blades will last a year under typical hobby use cutting materials less than 1/4” thick. If you buy one- read the blade. There is one for thin metal, one for stainless and one for thick metal- get the thick metal one.

I dunno... I should be a genius by now if that were true.

Figured that I would pipe up... been wanting to join in this thread for a while... Trailer and trash Thursday! Don

Can't just look pretty, gotta pay your dues.

Saw a mail carrier today delivering in shorts. Then again, it was cloudy and about 50 today in mid Mo. We are supposed to get rain/snow/ice starting around midnight and continuing until tomorrow.

free is better than cheap!

Gonna need verifiable images documenting said behavior…

Well this could be fun...

Likely get some done this weekend. Gonna be cooooold. 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

Seems that there are some differences in the way the newer shells are bent and the brackets for the gauge wheels didn't reach the reinforcing rod, and since my shell is caddy wompus, each side is a bit different. So I welded a coupon to the end of the bracket to take up the space. (shown above on top) Installed this way, I can now weld it to the rod: The gap was bigger on the other side and I didn't have any steel that thick so I used a scrap of the cutoff C channel that I made the other knee braces out of: I'm going to slip a small scrap in between in the middle and weld that also just for a little more strength

Next up I worked on the steering box. Unfortunately I don't have too many pictures of that. It was quite a search to find a steering box that would fit my needs. First I got a box off of a Toyota 4 x 4 which turned out way to big. Then I looked at using a steering rack out of a Opel (or Vauxhall as you might know them). That didn't work and/or got way to complicated. Finally I bought a steering box from an old VW Beetle type 1302 which was the ticket. Started working on the mountings for it (don't mind the stack of nuts, that will be changed) and used a trailer stub axle as a pivot for the narrow front like @953 nut suggested. Everything is setup at an angle to (hopefully) get correct steering geometry.

I have a 66 cutlass thats been mine for 29 years. 100% dependable weekend cruiser, pump gas 496 big block chevy, and runs mid 6s @ 103 in the 1/8 mile in full street trim minus a puny 10" slick. Sure, a junkyard LS with a chinkanese turbo would likely beat it and for less money, but thats not happening......

I know exactly what you're talking about. Sorry I didn't think about how close that lower bolt is on a 48. If you weld the quadrant on the reinforcing bar, the applied pressure will be pushing down on the factory plate anyway, and my tiny mind was thinking about the cracks that form around the hitch bolts.

Probably... but make absolutely sure that you've got the right size driver! Too big and you'll bugger up the threads, too small and you'll bugger up the jet. There's probably a 'special tool' made for that purpose that fits exactly in the slot.

I like that! It's going into my lexicon, thanks! Almost there... ground off the ugly and gave it a coat of paint. The areas not painted are where I'm going to weld the bottom of the gauge wheel rod brackets to the new rod. I found and repaired some cracks around those bolt holes also so decided to do what WH did with the later decks and weld those plates to the rod. That should move the stress from the wheels to the rod and away from the deck shell. One of @Horse Newbie 's photos. I'm only going to weld the plates to the new rod and not at the top to the deck. The bolts are plenty enough I think. I don't think I'm going to add the rod around the front of the deck, at least not yet as shown on @Horse Newbie 's deck: Mine does not have as much room between the wheel brackets and the bottom lip. If I do decide to add that later, it will have to be smaller diameter. I know the 7/16" won't fit, 3/8" probably not either. If I do put one there it's going to have to be only 1/4" and not sure if it's worth the trouble or not. There's nothing obvious to me that adding it would improve really. No cracks up there!

Took some inspiration from the clamp on receivers I see for wheel horses and with the design help of a friend I came up with a rear bumper/grab bar, I still have some details to finish like capping the tubes and welding on a receiver

I'm learning an awful lot this week !

By looking outside, some exercise for the twin Kohler may be in order today.