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Glad you got it. Having one of these valve remover tools makes them very easy to do. TSC, auto parts store, etc have them and they're cheap. I bought a bunch of valves, the tool, tire plugs with tools, rubber cement etc etc so it's always in stock ready to fix something. Maybe $20 for everything The tool works great for holding the valve stems on tubes when installing those

@OldWorkHorse You could have made it multipurpose. Stainless instead , a simple head, some tubing water ,and it would be ready for liquor.

This is the one that got me in to this crazy addictive hobby.

Holy crap... bout fell off my barstool on the broom in ther... whadda did it cost ya for someone to come push that broom!?!? Shoulda had him frisk that pile for 10mm sockets... You guys should try looking for a wallet lost on a plow field sometime... @Achto says it can pay big dividends if it sprouts...

I have these on one tire on each of my tractors. Never know when you might need one.

Spent 3 hours looking for my lost wallet. 10-11 workout at the gym 11:15 self checkout at the grocery store had wallet to check out 11:30-1:00 stopped to visit with shut in friend. 1:15 changed to work clothes at home no wallet The nightmare started....credit cards, bank cards, drivers license, club key cards, etc 1:30-2:20 searched car, retraced all steps, called and asked friends caretaker to search the house where I was sitting. called the grocery store to look for wallet no luck any where the grocery store began checking security cameras I drove back to the grocery store to check the parking lot no luck Went in the store and watched videos of me putting my wallet in my left front pocket after I checked out and getting in my car Now I knew loss had to be after I left the store. Back to my friends house and searched. When I stopped there earlier, my friend was sitting in her recliner and I sat in her wheel chair beside her. Now she was in her wheelchair and eating lunch. With help of the caretaker, we stood her up and there I spied my wallet had slid down along the cushion and side panel of the wheel chair. The caretaker had not seen it when I asked her to look earlier. The 3 hour nightmare turned into a great day. Ed is one happy camper. Can't thank Jerrys Grocery store enough for all the help with the security videos that clearly showed me putting the wallet in my left front pocket. Now I have a couple wide rubber bands around my wallet to create traction so it doesn't slide out of those slippery nylon gym pants.

The cleaning fairy stopped by today. For a little while at least. It’s been months since I could get the hoist arms on the ground even!

And slightly back to basket case… for now… hopefully…

He definitely loves it. We got home from fishing yesterday and he went right to the garage and started working on the C-121 again.

I don't have a cushy condo deer stand Jim. Us poor 80yos gotta stay in shape to shinny up a tree.

The 3 items marked in GREEN are (1)gasket 200191 (2) O-ring 973500 and (3) big O-ring 970132. All 3 are identified here in the HYD PUMP Excel SS. If you can't find them on-line, I probably have them in my shop. MOTOR 90-1136, 37, 40.xlsx

So, I feel like adding my (several) somewhat similar stories after reading this - glad you found the wallet! But first: 1. Wife got me a nylon wallet with velcro closure and a paracord lanyard, which I use a carabiner to attach to my belt loop, and usually have the car keys on the carabiner also, so I don't lose EITHER of those items easily. Which had happened before, which is why she got it for me. 2. When I got a new phone this year, I got a leather case with 2 credit card flaps. I almost always have my phone on me, and if I happen to not have my wallet, I have a way to pay for emergency stuff. (Well, there's Apple Pay also, but I haven't tried that yet. ) 3. I got a new AMEX account earlier this year, and lost the card within about 2 months and had to cancel it and get a new one. Old one has never been found. 4. I've left cards at stores several times, called them and had them hold the card till I could get there to pick it up. They're usually pretty nice about doing this. Story 1: Back around 2007 I was working in Center City Philadelphia, a 45 minute drive then a 45 minute train ride. One time I left my wallet on the seat on the train. Not much cash in it, but of course I had to cancel the credit cards and order a new driver's license ASAP. Happy ending: About 2 weeks later, a fat brown envelope with no return address showed up in the mail. Wallet was in it, with as best I can remember, ALL THE CASH and cards. Maybe they took some cash to pay for the postage, I don't care! They could have taken all the cash and sent back the wallet with the cards and I'd still have been VERY happy. I wish they had provided a return address, because I would have sent them a note and a reward of some kind. Story 2: Around 2011, I was riding my motorcycle to work on a 45 minute commute (no more trains). Got to work and realized my wallet was missing. I thought I'd dropped it along the way out of my back pocket. Asked my boss if it was okay if I re-traced my path and looked for it - sure. Rode slowly all the way back home - NOTHING. Bummer. Went in the house and poked around a bit. WHAT?!? Wallet was still in the pants I had worn the day before that were in a pile in the corner. DUH!! (I don't think I told the boss where it was, just that I had found it....).

Putting chains on today being January! On both tiers this happen to me. Old Sears 22's tiers on the B-80 the way I bought it. I always take the air out. So both of these Valves where shot. So, after this: I thought, I do not want to take tier and weights off. I found this old screwdriver BINGO that did the trick. Easy peeszy. And as Mack the mechanic used to say that`s is getting you worth.

Eric, these are 4 ply radials. They are pretty tough but I mounted them in the yard, manually they are Duro frontier. EDIT….. They are 23-10x12 but they do not rub. Hubs are all the way out even with the axle end also.

Matt good job teaching your son how maintain these tractors.

In 1977 I was 22 , traveling the south, and southeast, installing bowling equipment. I was making $8 an hour. That was pretty good money in 1977. I came home in Feb. of that year for a 2 week vaca. The boss sort of wanted everyone to have a truck, to help haul equipment from one job to the next. I had a 1968 Impala convertible at the time. Nice car, but it wasn't a truck. I went looking for a truck and found this. 1976 El Camino Classic. I figured it was close enough. It was a beautiful car, exactly like the one pictured. The day I bought it, I drove to a friends house to show it off of course, and we went for a drive. He dropped his cigg on the seat and burnt a hole. New cars don't stay new very long I guess. I really loved that car. I still had it when I got married in 1977, but traded it shortly after,

Blue Richard?!? ... you at EB's place? Study those manuals and pull the belt guard for inspection. New to you thers no telling what could have been done.

Todays progress report. Tractor torn down to the bare bones. Man there is a lot of tractor left after you tear one of these down. I'm used to there being nothing left but an angle iron frame. A PO must have gotten a new drill and a set of bits for Christmas or some thing. This tractor was littered with unnecessary holes. Some time spent with a welder and a grinder, all the extra holes are closed up. Now I'm trying to decide which hood to use. I have one that is pretty solid other than the hole in the top which would be an easy fix. Problem is that it has had some bad history and fits like a saddle on a sow. The other hood fits well but every mounting hole is busted out, not as easy to repair.

A few months back I finally came across an old Collins 6lb splitting maul with the axe eye design. I've been holding out for a splitting maul with this exact size and eye for a bit now. Seen lots of the round holes around but wanted the axe eye version. I know you can buy them new still but it's funner for me to save an oldie and get a fun side project for a rainy day. I had split down most of my wood pile with axes, which I prefer to use, but there are number of big knotty rounds that the axes were no match for. So this will fill a nice niche in the splitting arsenal for me. For the handle I had been looking around the last few months and honestly the hardware stores have gotten pretty pathetic over the last 5 years or so. Seems even a decade ago or more I could still get a good selection to hand pick a handle from a large lot. Still could find a cruiser handle, etc too. Now it's not much and they never stock more than a couple of any kind it seems. But I decided to try a Truper handle brand that looked good enough to try. I'd probably grade it a B or high C as it did have a little knot towards the handle end but don't think it'll be an issue. We'll find out though. Anyways...on with the hanging. Marked out the line to cut some off the end. I always leave about half an inch more than you think when you lay the head over it. Wood shrinks when you're pressing it in so don't cut it off too short. But it's nice to eliminate the top inch or so and not have to waste time working that down. Step one was sanding off all the lacquer...worse part of the job. getting it worked down...slowly but surely... I do like to bring them all the way down on the shoulder. It's the strongest point for most of that impact stress. This looks good and will take the head off one last time for final sanding and also do some edge work on the head before final hanging So this head must of been made on a Friday at 4:55pm as the edge was not lined up well and much thicker on one side. I used the grinder to take it down a lot then finished up with the file. Got the edge where I want it so now for final hafting The wedge set nice with lots of curling trimmed it down and left the kerf about 3/8" proud. Filled out the eye nicely! I then set in a metal step wedge and gave it a BLO rubdown and headed off to the wood pile to try it out on one of the knotted rounds Split up the round with ease! I profiled the cheeks down and gave it just enough edge to stick in the splitting stump pretty easily. Turned out really nice and I'm looking forward to putting it to use! thanks for looking! And feel free to post up your favorite wood pile splitter! I'd love to see em!

FYI Just in case someone else has a deck spindle with the components "brown welded" as mine did. I'm force feeding Kroil using a rubber tip that came with my grease gun with an extra long red spray can tube that I saved from a SeaFoam treatment kit. I removed the zerk grease fitting and cleaned out the grease in the shaft with Q-Tips. I put the tip to the zerk hole and the Kroil came bublin' up around the shaft.

Refurbed a battery box off a 875. Both battery holders gone. I really enjoy doing these as it involves getting them toasty and some old skool smithing on an anvil. Didn't go on a but my leetle friend now has some horse parts ...

Might have something to do with it being somewhat a mild winter so far. For me at least it has been.

I received a handmade wallet for Christmas many years ago. It was a beautiful piece but that thing was more slippery than Teflon, I gave up trying to use it after numerous Ed style episodes. I never tried a biker wallet, I understand that they won't hold more than $2.00.

I took four 7 1/2" wide rims and cut them apart to make two 11 1/2" rims. One set of the rims did not have the correct off set for a , this didn't matter cause I was going to cut the centers out of them anyway. I marked them on the inside where I wanted to make my cut. To get the cut strait I jacked a tractor up, bolted the rim on, fired the tractor up, put it in high gear to spin the rim, then made my cut with a 4 1/2" grinder with a cutting wheel on it. "My Red Neck Lathe" After the cuts were made I removed the center from 2 of the rim halves & welded the rims back together. Followed by grinding the welds smooth inside and out. Leak detector spray showed that my welds were sealed air tight but I decided to run tubes any way. When completed I fit the rims with 26x12x12 tires. Here is one other more expensive option. Rim blank and the center disc will allow you to adjust the off set to your liking. https://www.millertire.com/products/wheels-by-type/lawn-garden-wheels/12x10-5-rim-blank/ https://www.millertire.com/products/wheels/lawn-garden-wheels/12-rim-center-disc-5-hole-concave/

6 weeks later and 90 cents a gallon cheaper…

@Howard dellapuca / @857 horse Knows a guy who makes super wide wheels. I don’t think he’s on here but they were selling at the Big Show in ‘22. Here he has a set of tires stretched on a super wide wheel. He was explaining something to my daughter about the seat… they were good buddies all through the show!

Fits perfectly! I have a blow brake line somewhere. I’ll let the rain dry off it a bit, then investigate.

I have a number of these valve caps::

a little update. back on wheels! so now there is the drivebelt to install and some eletric conection of the engine left. and some small things... and still missig a steeringwheel..

t The hubs are designed so the set screw centers on the woodruff key when the axle are flush on the out side. Moving the hub out will cause the set screw to cock the woodruff key when the set screw has less holding power to keep the hub from moving on out. Just don't do it, it's going to cause loose hubs.

I’m running 10.50’s…… no issues

Not a bad idea Eric! and yea please! i would love a list of parts. thank you

Can the hubs be slid out so that they are flush with the end of the axles? That will give you as much clearance as possible.

Since we are in the midst of epiphany I would go with the holey hood. Bad joke, hope God doesn't strike me dead! The bolts should pull it into shape for you.

Right now I'm still young enough to enjoy the exercise and I don't use wood to heat my home or anything that warrants this being a regular chore. It's mainly for backyard fires and camping/hunting trips. I do want to get a splitting wedge and I did get one of these little splitting hatchets by Estwing a while back. This pick is when it was new. But its been a tough and good tool for sure and will make a few splitting chores easier.

My recommendation is to buy only a hickory handle and get a local blacksmith to make you a splitting wedge! Use the hammer end of your maul or get a short handle sledge! Theat will save you a lot of frustration and fewer handles being broken!

I have had several but two RJs standout in my eyes! First from 2016 bought in Underwood, Iowa from Austin McCoid ( who now owns 35 Wheel Horses and contacts me every once in a while to see if I am ready to sell his old RJ back to him)! It was a 20 degree below day when we hauled it back to Elgin, Illinois to drop off (3) RJ/Suburban transmissions to Stevasaurus. The second RJ was one I bought in March or April of 2020 as the pandemic was starting to spread in Nashville, Indiana for $60! It was in the worst shape and I am still tinkering with it but it came along way from it’s 2020 condition! I first finished the cut off hood that was on the tractor when I bought it but several Red Square Members said I should have a original type hood! So I bought three and had them redone. One was actually two that I had front and top rematched to make one good one. I still need to hook up throttle cable and wear in the transmission differential bushings some more in the second RJ! These were rough and May not be beauties but they are nice enough Wheel Horse RJs now!

Troy-Bilt Junior ... Murray Super Sonic Jet Pedal Car ... Pedal Car with custom paint job turned into a baby stroller ... Coca Cooler Ice Chest ... Oak Ice Box ... Metal Ice Box early 1920's .. 1930's Shoe Shine Stand

I hang empties in the tree... only way to get me up ther quick...

@daveoman1966 is the guru on the hydros. I would listen to him on this case. BTW, I know nothing about "D's".

That is great Matt. Looks to be lifetime Member.

You could consider making the investment and time to add a spacer. You'll have to install lugs and studs in the stock hubs which is a great modification anyhow. We've done this to several of our tractors and likely do it to more. I keep a list of needed parts if you're interested.

for the scissors comp’ny! Need proof?

I went with the pins because I wasn't sure if I could find all the fragments and needle bearings if I used a chisel. My vision up close is not what it used to be. Whatever method works for you, works for me!

Since in maine it's been pushing 50 out latly and no snow even in January I decided to take advantage of the weather and make a burn barrel 2.0 to clear up some of the limbs around the yard from the last few wind storms we had come though before have to do it all in spring

And it worked like a charm All three pullies off and shafts out in a morning!

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Paint the darn thing RED