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@Tonytoro416 you have won the mug! Please pm me and we’ll work out the details. Congratulations!

All you need is a plastic garbage can, battery charger, wash soda, chunk of steel and some wire!

Being tilted "on a bank" is probably causing the float or the needle valve to hang up in the carburetor bowl, and he's not getting any fuel.

My 2 cents: squonk is on the right track here. I'm a painter, it's what I do. I have a wall full of PPG certificates ( for whatever that's worth ). It puts me at unfair advantage in that if I want to paint something I just mix it and go. However, that doesn't mean that I never pick up a can of Rust Oleum. Rust oleum never dries , or put in different terms it never gets hard. If you're going to clear it do it right away. There is no reason to wait. When you wait to recoat Rust Oleum after it initially flashes off , you are re-activating the base color which leads to the cracking , lifting mess that we're all too familiar with. And yes you can coat Rust Oleum with a 2K ( hardened clear ) while the base color is still slightly tacky, I do it with some small parts occasionally with no side effects , but never a hood , fenders , etc.

The 417s PTO was slipping a bit when the 48" SD chugged thru the too heavy grass. So, today I took the bell off and "machined" the clutch face. Then scrubbed both the bell and clutch faces with alcohol. Now she locks together like it's welded.

some of you may remember me, I haven’t been around for a while. Sold off my last wheel horse a while back. And I’m down to my last garden tractor. My first. My bolens 1050. I haven’t had too much time for anything tractor related lately. Between starting my own business, and a sudden change in interest. I realized my tractors were being neglected. Since I’ve been spending so much time on axes and saws. Anyways, I just want to thank y’all for having one of the nicest communities online. I hope to one day settle down and have another wheel horse or two, but that time is still far off. Thanks for everything ~Mike

Well I did it again before yesterdays buy I have 2 520H one dedicated blower with cab and the other well I was going to put my loader on it but now I think I will put it on my new 522xi. This is a very clean machine and has 1200hr on it and a two owner unit with me being the third. It included all the manuals and spare keys as well. Seems to need a tune up but maybe it’s just more quite then my 520’s are. I will be doing a full maintenance one it before trying to fix the kwik-way on it as it was for a 520 so will be some fabricating involved. See pictures below. This is the way I picked it up should clean up nicely after a good bath.

Another 5025 going together!

Thank you sir. seems small maybe to some but I’m pretty jacked up about this. I have never won anything and for this to be something a member made it’s super awesome

Couple of 67’s…original 867 and a modified 657.

@jeremi3210 @Shynon Good Morning, Ladies and Gentleman, this is your captain here, preparing for take off. This should be a short flight, cruising at approximately 562 ft. above sea level. We’ll be arriving in WI with a slight tailwind shortly wheels up. Over.

Starting a front tire swap for the 414. The front wheels are not correct and have some sorta spacer to make em fit. So the shot tires on the correct wheels need to come off…out comes the Harbor Freight tire remover/installer. What do you think the crap is that’s in the first tire? Old tire sealant? I scraped out the wheel and it looks like it’ll clean up with some elbow grease.

Worked the charger 12 yesterday Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there too!

Just read this little article about the fact that my own Hiram Maine is the town that gets the most precipitation in the state. Whoooduhthunkitt. https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-rainiest-place-in-maine/ @OldWorkHorse @Oldskool @AHS @JCM

Serviced my 42" Recycler deck ; this has been in use since 1996. 27 years of weekly use, just common sense maintenance , no oil soak downs, no fancy coatings ,only cut when its dry (mostly) . I replaced one spindle belt about 8 years ago, the front rollers once, and one set of gauge wheels.....best quality of cut deck Toro / Wheel Horse ever offered.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. 💐

1981 C-105 1977 B-80 2002 315-8

The wheels actually cleaned up pretty well. This is after a good ol’ scrubbing with simple green. Next weekend will be sanding and wire wheel work and then get some paint on em!

@Achto / @WHX?? as you probably know by now , I am in the other zone when it comes to a nagging problem , more often than not , the original functional set up was correct , it was the build cost pull back that made it a problem . after correcting the intent , its the detailing to that , that make things work with solid reliability . thats why I suggest on a recent pick up , take advantage of what works , and enhance that function . just my own 2 cents , think I used to work in Wayne's world . pete

So the yellow and white tractor(my grass cutter), was needing her deck blades sharpened, oil and filter change, chassis lube, and the air / pre-cleaner filter serviced. When I backed her out of the stables, proof was left on the floor… Slid the deck out from under her belly, but before I got into the blade sharpening and spindle lubing, I decided to service the tractor first. So in my usual fashion, I went a little past an oil change… I figured now would be a good time to remove some of the grime … I wound up with the air filter back plate off because I couldn’t get to some of the grime. I wound up making a gasket that goes between the backing plate and the carb. Since I was this far along I dropped the carb bowl and emptied that out. I used Lucas Red Tacky grease to grease the wheel bearings, front axle pivot shaft, steering knuckles, and all other grease fittings… Got the grease gun hung up on the grease fitting on the steering gear box and didn’t think I was gonna get it loose… Didn’t finish the tractor service much less the deck…

This weekend was the Scott Air Force Base air show here in O’Fallon, IL. What used to be an almost annual event has been pared down in frequency over time, but it’s always an impressive showing of the men, women, and equipment that makes the US military the mightiest force in the world. The headliners were the US Navy Blue Angels with their locally-manufactured (Boeing- St Louis) F18’s but the other demos were equally impressive. I especially liked the F22 and C17 demos. I didn’t choose to spend much time watching the events through my viewfinder so I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but I did snap a few. My wife and I attended both days since we really wanted to see the Blue Angels perform and Saturday’s performance was cancelled due to an epic storm at showtime. We live close enough to the base that we could have watched from our backyard, but it was worth enduring the 86 degree heat and extreme humidity today to see it up close. Scott Air Force Base turns 106 years old this year. The last show was in 2017 at the 100 year anniversary. I believe it is still the only major military installation named after an enlisted serviceman, Corporal Frank S. Scott. Scott was the first aircraft casualty in the US armed forces, having died in an aircraft crash in 1912. The base is the home of the Air Mobility Command which coordinates and controls just about every logistical movement of materiel for all the armed forces. They are the FedEx of the military. Not many assets are stationed here as the base of 15000 people is largely administrative, but blue and white C-40 congressional delegation planes and a fleet of KC-135 refuellers along with an assortment of small aircraft call the base home. We’ve been fortunate where I work to have had projects run out of Scott through their medical evac wing and KC135 programs. I know these events happen all over the US each year and if you’re given the opportunity to take in such an amazing exhibition I encourage you to go see how some of your tax money is spent. Steve (the last picture is of the F22 flying with a P51)

Being a 314-H, it should have a Magnum 14 on it. Not sure if he's using ethanol-free fuel or not, so it's a good idea to drop and clean the sediment bowl on the carb as well. And though it's more expensive, ethanol-free fuel is worth it. Ethanol wreaks havock in an aluminum carburetor. Over time, it will destroy it. I don't care what some may say, water and bare aluminum do not like one another.

All machines running, one with replacement ivory inserts for this antique lamp.one of course running the last few percent of the gt14 dash.. And the middle one a tray of 50 gargoyle/grotesque pendants for the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Assylum!

Congratulations @Tonytoro416

Front wheel work in progress on the 414.

Mothers put up with all us butt heads, and the rest too! Thank you Moms, have a Happy Day!

For improved steering with the loader on your 16 Auto try a set of tri-ribs up front. I also agree with Eric that the Carlisle Tru-Powers are great rear tires.

Birds of a feather.

Got part of removing grass build up from the underside of the deck today… would have finished it if I had not broken the first paint removal disc on my right angle dye grinder… I was using a rubber backing pad and I should have been using a plastic one. Naturally this sharpen blades, clean underneath, and grease the spindles turned into the underside getting prepped for the POR-15 treatment…

We've been ridiculously busy here this weekend. Electrician was here yesterday. Barn wiring is well started. He'll call the State Electric permit office tomorrow. They'll either send someone to inspect the work or tell him to call Central Maine Power Company directly. Once approved the wire can be run from the pole and connected. After the power is in... Could be several weeks... We'll have our electrician add a few more circuits. Because of the new electric wire to be installed, we needed to clear a few trees out. Today we felled and cut up 1 large grey birch, 1 medium grey birch, 2 smaller beeches, and some brush. Here's the smaller grey birch before n after. See the chains?? We used a hand winch to PULL the smaller grey birch tree. Put a pretty wicked tension on it. It was undoubtedly headed towards the barn. We could have left it as far as the power lines but it was a tall thin soft tree that leans HARD during ice and heavy snow. At one point last winter it was touching the barn building. Had to go. Here's the before n after of the larger grey birch. We tied off with the chains here as well because although it was leaning ok to the left of the barn a half decent breeze or unseen interior twist in the tree would have been disastrous. It's all cut and stacked so it'll dry a bit before splitting.

The Carlisle Tru Power 23x10.5-12 are about $122 at Walmart. I think I would try just the new rear tires with the Rimguard and weight in the box before replacing the fronts. Thank you everyone, you have again been extremely helpful!

I was happy to see both my adult children come to see their mother on her day. They owe her a lot and appreciate her efforts. Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms out there.

Now to run em until I run out of black filament! Need to put a couple console plates on too!

Congratulations!!! @Tonytoro416

I get dibs on the first to look in magic buckets

I would reset them like this

Reading all this I think what we should be doing is going by our own experiences on learning how to live with them and not some stupid reality TV show.

Wish I was 35 again.

Carb and head removal on the free 310-8.

Lol Ed... Missus said I look much younger... felt so spritely I turned out the horses and cleaned out the stalls...

Got a hair cut... I suppose now you are gonna tell me to get a real job...

Rubberized asphalt concrete (RAC), also known as asphalt rubber or just rubberized asphalt, is noise reducing pavement material that consists of regular asphalt concrete mixed with crumb rubber made from recycled tires. Asphalt rubber is the largest single market for ground rubber in the United States, consuming an estimated 220,000,000 pounds (100,000,000 kg), or approximately 12 million tires annually.[1] Use of rubberized asphalt as a pavement material was pioneered by the city of Phoenix, Arizona in the 1960s because of its high durability.[2] Since then it has garnered interest for its ability to reduce road noise. In 2003 the Arizona Department of Transportation began a three-year, $34-million Quiet Pavement Pilot Program, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration to determine if sound walls can be replaced by rubberized asphalt to reduce noise alongside highways. After about one year it was determined that asphalt rubber overlays resulted in up to 12 decibels of in road noise reduction, with a typical reduction of 7 to 9 decibels.[3] Arizona has been the leader in using rubberized asphalt, but California, Florida, Texas, and South Carolina are also using asphalt rubber. Tests are currently underway in other parts of the United States to determine the durability of rubberized asphalt in northern climates, including a 1.3 mile stretch of Interstate 405 in Bellevue and Kirkland, Washington[4] and a handful of local roads in the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2012, the State of Georgia issued a specification for the use of rubber-modified asphalt as a replacement for polymer-modified asphalt. In Belgium, tests in the ring of Brussel and in the F1 circuit of Francorchamp (see the film by Jean-Marie Piquint Rubberized Asphalt for Esso Belgium).[5][6] Two quality control requirements are necessary when using asphalt rubber: (a) crumb rubber tends to separate and settle down in the asphalt cement and therefore asphalt rubber needs to be agitated continuously to keep the rubber particles in suspension and (b) crumb rubber is prone to degradation (devulcanization and depolymerization) and thus lose its elasticity if asphalt rubber is maintained at high temperatures for more than 6–8 hours. This means asphalt rubber must be used within 8 hours after production.[7]

That’s better than a housing division in 5 years for 9.25 million…

Back in our Michigan base of operations - that's where the Wheel Horses are. Got Morgan the 14-8 woken up from his long winter nap. Just checked the oil & gas, turned the key and he happily cranked over. Took a little bit of cranking, 'cause I had run the carb dry last fall, but he fired up without any complaint. Since the front blade was still on him, we pushed some gravel piled up in a few spots in the yard that the snow plow left behind. Dropped the blade added the cart and played pick up sticks with the sticks that the trees dropped last winter. Next job was to mow. Well, the 42" RD deck was leaning against the back shed wall - behind the 48" project deck and the extra plow blade that will eventually get converted into a belly blade. Terrible planning on my part last fall when I put that stuff away. My wife walks up as I am trying to dig out the 42" deck and start talking about the changes we need to do in the shed to better organize it. This discussion leads to how many decks do I have, and since I only have two tractors, which deck am I going to get rid of. I says I'm not getting rid of any. She asks why? I says that they each do something the others can't do. She asks what do you mean? So I ask her why she has a bunch of embroidery hoops for her sewing machines? Well, she says, they each do something the others don't. QED, end of discussion. 42" RD deck got mounted on Morgan, we mowed the lawn. On the way back to the shed, I notice that the deck drive belt has flipped upside down in the PTO pulley. I also thought I saw some cracks on the inside of the deck belt when I put it on the tractor. Got to chase those two items down.

Still doing small things to the raider project but getting closer everyday. It runs pretty good for a Tecumseh lol. Still have to trim new throttle and choke cables to fit and tidy up some wiring to my liking. The one picture is a little clue to yet another project I started as if I needed more irons in the fire. The last three weeks have been 70-80 hour weeks spreading fertilizer

My wife responded to a local social media post. Garage sale in a neighboring town that I wanted to visit anyway for the farm store. Got some goodies for $25. 8 speed trans, heavy hubs, wheels tires and chains, plastic weights and a fuel tank for a C series. The lady says “my husband told me if you want the rest of the chassis for it we can bring it to you.”