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12 pointsHi all, I have been playing with different silencers / mufflers on the C-125 I made a vertical stack which was great but did make a bit of noise. So I changed to a shorter larger diameter stack with glass wool padding inside. This has lowered the noise level and I'm pretty happy with it.
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7 pointsI cleaner the entire inside of the refrigerator . What pain ! Of course my 4 legged feline help got in the way, she even got in the frig and laid down while I was getting paper towels. Wet tabby fur is a big pain to get out of the crisper drawer.
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7 pointsDig Dug got a carb adjustment, and since the existing tensioning bolt for the hydraulic pump has stripped, I created a new fine tunable tensioning system. A bit unorthodox but it works perfectly!
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6 pointsThis short little yarn is based on the memories of an experience on a wonderful morning more than a little bit ago by a man now known as The Large Bear. Back in the 1990s I used to frequent an automotive flea market. It was held very early in the morning on the last Sunday of every month, April - October, rain or shine. I had heard to it referred to by some of the older folks as The Ponoma Flea Market. I always knew it as the Amherst Antique Auto Flea Market. Pretty much everybody I know just simply called it Amherst. You going to Amherst? How was Amherst? See or buy anything good at Amherst? It was an automotive related flea market, car show, used car lot to some extent, great place to grab breakfast. An all-around gathering spot for anybody who ever had even a remote appreciation of any car, truck or other machinery or smells such as car paint, hypoid gear oil, or rusty metal. It was... an institution. One of my favorite things to do during that era of my life was to get out of bed at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. and make the hour's drive up to Amherst so I could be there as the cars were driving in long before the gates officially opened at 6:00 a.m. Entries varied widely from month to month. Trucks, cars, motorcycles, etc. Muscle cars. Street rods. Hot rods. Most any vintage car. Drag cars that may or may not have been street legal... Driven in on "Temp" plates. Parking for non-exhibitors was set up in a rolling field maybe 10 or 15 acres that was usually stuffed to capacity by 7 or 8:00 a.m. . After that point in time you could only get in when one of the early risers left. Folks would be lined up a quarter mile or more down the road sometimes. The display area was several smaller fields all connected to one another and divided by Stone walls, rows of trees or even lines of cars of a particular type. I'd estimate maybe 20 acres total, more or less. Having been there more than a few times I had developed a habit of coming out of the parking area through the rows of cars, parts, accessories, and memorabilia for sale on my way to the entrance gate. I'd watch, listen to, smell, and sometimes even feel the sound and thunder of the engines as they came through and went to their respective parking. Walk a big loop around, repeat. On one of these excursions to the mechanical motherland there was a fellow who appeared to be well past his 80th birthday that was selling the hot rod he had built by hand himself many many years ago. The car itself is not super important to the story but I remember it being some sort of a bucket body and I remember pretty vividly there was a nailhead engine in it of some sort. He had put the thing together back in the 40s or 50s and that engine landed in the car sometime in the late 50s or early 60s. The Old Man had run it for a few years. Had a lot of fun. Good times. Good memories. Sometime in the late '60s or early '70s the car was parked, not running anymore. If I remember right he had brought it to Amherst with a price tag around $4,500. Hoping to get $3,500, $3,800. I suppose it was on my second or third circle around there was a couple guys that were fairly young. Might have been 25 or 30, maybe younger, standing there shooting the breeze with The Old Man. They only had about $2,500 give or take, between the both of them. I didn't see most of the interaction but it was pretty obvious that the old fellow had taken a shine to these two and they struck up a deal. He would take what cash they had... If they could get that engine to run for him to hear one last time. Well they started messing around with that old hot rod. Did some diagnostics. Went to their truck and got some tools. Commenced to removing pieces parts. I kept doing my standard issue circles walking around... Well now ya know how lots of folks like to do a certain amount of mechanical tinkering and there's also a fair amount of us that just plain like to help people out. Apparently what was happening in this particular situation is that some so-n-so and maybe his buddy would be walking by and see the nuts and bolts and parts flying off and of course question the situation. Explanation given by the young men, someone would offer to help. I'd swing by a little while later and there would be another guy or two and another tool box or two. As I was going by for the fifth or seventh time there was a crowd around the nose of that car that would have basically amounted to any racing pit crew in America. The intake, carb, distributor, valve covers, and some other things were laid out all around on people's toolboxes, carts, roofs, fenders, wherever it was convenient. The Old Man was standing around and watching the festivities offering advice and help whenever he could. I I think it was maybe two or three hours into the event that you'd start to hear that engine want to come to life when they tried to fire it. I don't recall ever hearing what the symptoms or diagnosis was. A little while later they did achieve success in getting that old beast of a power plant up and running. Needless to say both buyers and seller were something in the neighborhood of ecstatic. The old man shed a few tears past his smile from ear to ear.... The young men got themselves a car. And life went on at Amherst... @Mows4three @OldWorkHorse @Oldskool @JCM
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6 pointsTook a garbage Tractor Supply trailer and made it worth having. Roads in Michigan are crap and I was a little concerned with the tongue and it’s strength. I will be picking up a legend of sorts on my way home from vacation. Yes it’s a horse. More details to come later.
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5 pointsWorked some more on the power cart today, put all the winch wires on got my battery terminals in, havnt mounted them yet but touched up the inside bed paint. Tomorrow might try and rig up trailer light mounts and run some power cables. Then... just need to get the 314 driving again and I'll be back in business, 1 step at a time.
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5 pointsBring a vise, hacksaw, torch, drill bits and drill press. I'll bring the bolt.
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5 pointsDisclaimer: Venomous snakes in Maine have never been deadly. Only Timber rattlers have ever been here. But. .. They were mostly killed off decades ago and they're now so rare they're considered eradicated. IE, I have (almost) no venomous snakes.. That said, it's a disturbing shame that our forefathers and mothers raised us with a fear and disdain of such an ecologically valuable creature just because of old wives tales and wrong information. We have very few snakes left in my area at all. If we find one we're very careful not to harm it and will absolutely go out of the way to leave it be.
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5 pointsWe had a very random Sunday and decided to visit the "Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery & Centre for World Peace and Health" which is not far from us in the middle of the Scottish countryside. It was recommended by the hitchhiker we picked up the other day, so we thought "why not?" be something different to do. Was actually quite enjoyable, and very odd to wander about a monastery! Photos pinched off the website - I didn't take my phone as thought that might be disrespectful in such a peaceful place.
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5 pointsMemorial Day Parade today. Beautiful Day to remember those that sacrificed all so we can have parades, lives, families etc. IMG_1576.MOV
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4 pointsWe were missionaries overseas. During the Iraq war, our son was the last gunner in the convoy. We only got to talk with him on the phone three times during his time there. One time he said "Dad, I hate making night runs." His position was on a back of a flat bed truck with sand bags and his 50 cal. Kris came home from his time overseas about the same time we came home on furlough. Going for drives, he would stiffen up when we came to patches in the highway. (Where explosives would have been placed in Iraq.) We were in Thailand when we received a call that Kris had died in an automobile accident in Sept 2007. It was an accident, his girl friend was driving and lost control of the pickup that Kris saved for while he was at war. Longest flight I ever was on. Rebecca lived with us while she mended following the accident. Soon after his death, a sign up bonus to extend his time in the Army arrived in Kris' checking account. We contacted the Army to ask were to return the funds as Kris would not be able to fulfill his duties. We were told it was Kris' and they would not take it back. I am comforted that Kris died happy. He was with a women he loved, in a pickup he saved his hard earned dollars for and was about to graduate college with a life and career ahead of him. Not like his cousin who took a six pack to the bathroom, then shot himself in the head. He loved the military. Once Pam and I came home just before the 4th of July. We sat in church that Sunday morning crying like babies. We knew what we had in the country and it's being taken for granted and not appreciated. My wife likes to find a service men and women eating in a restaurant. She will do here best to pay for their meal--anonymously. When Kris came back to America to start his college studies. His first Christmas he asked for an American flag and pole. He moved that flag pole every where he moved during his remaining time on this globe. GOD BLESS AMERICA I not sure if you can see the entire flag pole in the picture below it is dedicated to our son.
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4 pointsThe snake you really need to watch out for down south is the Rattleheaded Copper Mocassin… never seen one, but I’ve heard they will chase you for up to 1/4 mile, bite you, then hang around to see if you die… if you don’t, they will bite you again !
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4 pointsBrought in the C120 I recently acquired to inspect the charging (discharging per Amp meter) while running. I removed the bolts holding the rectifier an Amp meter and bingo. One wire to battery connection not connected to rectifier. Cleaned up the end of wire and replaced the bad oem connection plug with 3 shielded solderless terminals. Found a few other suspect round eye terminals on solenoid and replaced them too. Hooked battery up and refilled fuel tank and the Amp meter is now reading positive charge. Checked the battery with meter and charging from 14-18 v mission complete. I happened to check the headlights and they now work too!
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4 pointsWhen I was your age you were lucky if a car would live to see 50,000 miles. Did have a 47 Cheby with about 60,000 on it in 1965.
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4 pointsThe only snake I try to dispatch is the Copperhead… not deadly, no… but you don’t want to get bit by one…
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4 pointsWhilst mowing the other day I saw this huge (for my area) snake at the base of an evergreen tree. Brought the mower close, it didn't move. Got off, poked at it, didn't move. It was a shed skin. Picked it up, hung it on the wire fence for later retrieval to put in the treasurer's car to scare her ( I'm SOOOO nice to her! LOL! ) As I rounded the corner of the house on a mowing pass, I saw a bird swoop down, grab hold of, and fly away with the skin! DAMNIT!
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4 pointsI saw this beautiful old girl today at a truck stop where I pulled in to fuel up. Younger fella, maybe 35 or 40 at the most, was driving it. I don't know enough about the older vintages of Pete's to tell you what year but I would guess sometime in the 70s or 80s. Couple of interesting things to note. Specialty freight hauler and you know that because the fifth wheel pin is set so far forward on the trailer. That means he hauls light freight all the time. The air and electric connection from the trailer to the truck is not at the back of the sleeper like most. It comes out at the very back of the truck where the plate is that holds the tail lights for the tractor. Goes up into the bottom of the trailer from there. No grease/oil stains that I could see, or fuel marks around the fuel fill neck on the tank. Some interesting character color and surface rust on the frame but nothing serious anywhere. Guy was wiping down his mirrors and glass. Apparently a well maintained older rig.
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4 pointsI forgot that our Quality Assurance manager here at work is a biologist and a snake nut. She looked at the picture and said unequivocally that it was a black snake. “You can tell by the blah blah blah blah.” She’s a reptile enthusiast and did her graduate research chasing snakes around Costa Rica. She made an offhand remark that was pretty interesting. She said for years she has always been able to pick up and handle black snakes like this one with no issues. She’d find one or be called to a friend’s house who discovered one and she’d pick it up, toss it in her car, and drive it to a field to turn it loose. She said in the last few years these have gotten so aggressive that they are almost unapproachable. And her friends who do this sort of thing have noticed the same thing. she said it’s probably not something anybody is going to research but there is something going on. Reptiles and amphibians are apparently early markers for environmental and habitat changes. Maybe they are telling us something. steve
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4 pointsI have two NEW replacement tie rods...adjustable.... on Ebay from Stens item 285-027. These have the RUBBER 'SHIELD' on each end to keep grease in and water out. These are just as heavy-duty as the Wheelhorse originals. Ebay item # 134124294069
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4 pointsThe fuel lines are probably hard and brittle. Change the fuel lines and that primer bulb if it's getting hard. Even time will make those hard, not just ethanol.
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3 pointsWell it’s a real Wheel Horse collecting rig now. No horse too remote for me now. 😉
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3 pointsAnybody set out last night to see if the "storm" occurred? Treasurer and I did, from about 10:30 until 1:30 We saw a total of about a dozen or so during that time, but the 'predicted storm' did not materialize. Two of them were quite large and of those I'm not sure that one of them was part of the comet trail. It was going the wrong direction, and too fast to be one of that brood. It was to the Northwest, and nearly what I would classify as a 'fireball'. It lit up, dimmed, and lit up again. One of the sighted ones was very strange indeed. It did not 'streak' at all ! Just a bright light that lit for about a half second, then out again. If we had not both seen it, I would have thought my eyes playing tricks. Had to be coming straight at us for that to happen. To be fair, they did say it would be an 'all or nothing' event, but if you weren't watching and it did happen, you would have missed it! Still a nice way to spend the evening relaxing in a lawn chair watching the sky. A nice cool breeze blowing, bats hovering over us collecting the bugs before they could bite us, tree frogs singing, quiet.....................................
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3 pointsLong and skinny looks like a coachwhip to me. If you see it again, scare it and see how fast it moves, coachwhips are the fastest snakes I've every seen.
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3 pointsThat's never stopped me from taking on another one. Or three. Or 17 too many...
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3 pointsOnly one , I am a rocket scientist so my second POS was a 1953 POS Chrysler with a clutch less trans for 2 and 3 gears. Clutch only used for first and reverse. I hated that ugly green pos. Rolled and crinkled the whole exterior the weekend after Jr. prom.
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3 points@cafoose my first car was a 37 graham Paige , next one was a 40 Buick super , also blew up my fathers 51 Plymouth while I was at it , just sayin , greasy pete
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3 pointsEven a Kohler k341 would have even been an improvement on horse power. Not to mention reliability.
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3 points@ebinmaine By the time you got your license I probably had gone thru 20 cars.
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3 pointsI wasn’t wondering Eric. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live any further south than I already do. It’s gotta be miserable down there…year round critters and bugs. steve
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3 pointsIn case anybody was wondering, you folks are making me roughly 0% envious that I do not live in a climate where there are snakes and spiders that can make me sick or worse. 😂
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3 pointsSpiders now, those buggers I’m not too excited about. This one is floating around in the pool is well over 2” across.
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3 pointsSpeaking as a RS vendor myself, I find that any issues that I have are as a result of PayPal. When an order is placed, PayPal notifies me, and I do the rest. PayPal does require payment at the time of order, but as far as I know, credit cards are not charged until the item ships.There have been times when for some reason, I don't get the notification and shipment is delayed. But your problem sounds like miscommunication directly between you and the vendor. When I order things here lately, I get written documentation. I take note of the name of the person I spoke to with dates and times. As Pullstart said, this is a very busy time of the year for vendors of tractor parts. From February until a week after the WHCC show, I sell more brake linings than all the other months combined. Miscommunications can unfortunately happen. I hope you can get your problem resolved amicably.
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3 pointsReady to rest a few days and bust it up again I s’pose.
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3 pointsThe way his head is elevated makes me think it could be a coachwhip. One of them hangs out near my shop and quite often can be seen looking around to see if anything is moving. They too will keep the mouse population down for you.
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3 pointsHaving 2 chainsaws and now this trimmer I agree. We have an electric one. It works fine for light duty work. It isn't a high powered piece and just lacks the gumption of any gas trimmer I've ever seen. I ordered an OE Echo gas line/bulb kit.
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3 pointsA little late but. Dug the workhorse out to give it a bath today.
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3 pointsI woke my Cockshutt 20 Deluxe up from it's long winters nap. She was a little argumentative about being woke up but after a little carb cleaning and some new lubricating fluids she purred like a kitten. Gave it a bath & went for about a 5 mile cruise. This was the last tractor that my dad & I restored together, there was some good memories rolling through my head while on my cruise. She should be all ready for this years show season. I bet @oliver2-44 would like this tractor, it's kind of in the Oliver family.
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3 pointsSecret is that it sat for 12 years. Previous owner called a junk yard to come take it a way. The junk yard was owned by my nieces husband family. My mother paid the junk price on the truck and my niece's husband repaired it while I was in the hospital for months being treated for cancer. He replaced all the brake, tranny, gas lines. Put those wheels on. Changed fluids.. etc. At that time it had 17,000 miles on it. They surprised me with it while I was recovering. Gave me something to look forward to for when I finally went home. I went in the hospital in February and didn't get home until June. Then in July I had 33 rounds of radiation to my neck and face. Every round, every day, I drove there in my new truck. That truck inspired me to get better. I couldn't wait to get out of the hospital to see it. That was back in 2019. I'm still driving that truck to my many doctors visits. I'm still battling cancer for the 3rd time. In November they removed a tumor on one of my kidneys. Never take your heath for granted. It all can change so fast. Love my family for not only giving me the truck but more importantly helping me pull through a nightmare I never would wish on to anyone. So as the window decal says on the back of that truck...... F#CK CANCER