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Hi Wheel Horse friends! I haven’t forgotten the best internet community bar none. I’ve been preoccupied with a truck I bought two years ago and to say it has caused pain, heartache and at times joy would be the understatement of a lifetime. But alas, it is almost done. Hope you like it!

315-8 with a 42”sd….

Almost done.

Lol till you have a door on a eve side blocked and everyone forgot how to use a shovel but you!

A little more progress today. Welded up the axle. Still need to clean up all the welds. I also machined the axle pivot pin sleeve and cut the hole to mount it in the axle.

Cleared a little brush today...

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Those should do great, I looked at them but the largest I could find were 16 x 650 x 8. chose these 19 x 7 x 8.I'm real happy with mine.

By the way, this was last fall to give an idea of what I’ve been doing… IMG_4095.mov

Well. This is my haul for the week. I have already made pudding and jam. My bride made fig and walnut pie. Open for suggestions. I made fig rolls with fig, water chestnut, beef liver, wrapped in prosciutto and pan fried. Tasty but not well received by my bride.

Two words, Bad Ass!

Well for $125 and a trip to staten island. Id say its coming along. The piece of stainless steel that she came with for a hood had to shape up and give sharper edges and trim for air cleaner and exhaust. Just need to strip it finish the cut edges and paint it almond.

Hey @JCM, what's that on the front of the 417?

Got 2 K 181's running today.

Same goes for solar panels, you don't want the snow to pile up and have them not producing electricity but when they warm up just a little bit the avalanche is coming. We have an array of solar panels on the second story roof of our church and a standing seam metal roof with snow/ice bars. The snow cleats on the solar panels are six inches taller than the panels and spaced six inches apart bot when the thawing begins that just breaks the snow into smaller ice bombs that go right over the bars at the edge of the roof. We have to put out drums and caution tape anytime it snows.

The house is fine, the barns will get steel. I won’t add any dams, I want it off asap. We had steel on our old house. Other than cell reception, I loved everything about it!

A table top by 4 E's custom resin and woodworking (can be found on the booky face) incorporated a large 11.75" 3d printed Wild/ Classic logo! Beautiful stuff!

Those are the reasons why that truck will be in your heart forever. The old blood sweat and tears passion of doing it. Looks great too. Those old step sides are cool trucks

Added some color. Still have to square up the one on the right and build frames for them.

When you have some serious work to do, it's tough to beat a well maintained 520 Wheel Horse.

It looks like the fuse is in tact as it should've burnt open at that little thin spot in the middle. Could it have been heating up at that connection because of corrosion causing an arc fault? Maybe clean those connections up? If it's cooked then I'm with Dan and would go with a modern type of fuse replacement. Or, just use "tin foil" like the old one basically was for nostalgia purposes.

First thing this morning took some scrap wood from the roof work on the abode to the tip. Though tips are called recycling depots now. Back home and reloaded the trailer with old roof tiles, some scrap metal and two 5/8th x 4' x 4' ply sections I've had doing nothing. Then up to the farm. The ply will make a new floor for the transport box. Scrap metal in the skip and tiles went to fill in a field gateway.

Give it a good bath and ask another hundred. 😄

Yep... only drawback is snow/ice slides. Cell service sucked to begin with but steel roof didn't help. Still need a land line.

For the record... We went with a metal roof specifically for snow removal. No heavy weight setting up there. No ice jams.

Looks pretty good Kevin! Just one question... What's for dinner tonight?

SWEEET! nice work. when i was in high school my first truck was a 65 chevy fleetside long bed. straight six, 3 on the tree. great memories! i like the wolfs head oil sign too. i remember that brand. regards mike

That looks real nice!

Trail cam at Pullstart Stables...

Put new blades on the C-145 36RD deck and promptly proceeded to dull them. Sticks and stones may break my bones but do worse to new blades. Hats off to Brian @76c12091520h for getting me a NOS set. Check out the box! Nothing works like a horse!

My old grill was staining my patio with rust, it worked fine but the lower cabinet was rusting. So out with the old and in with the new! Used my C-141 8-speed to carry the old one with a free/ it works sign on it, up to the paved road where it will be gone by lunchtime!

Thank You!

Most of us can not afford a copper roof, but here is a testament to metal roofing. A St. Mary’s Cathedral, known as Hildesheim, had a copper metal roofing system installed on it in 1280 A.D.; the same exact roof is still there to this day.

Mount for a front tine rake @ineedanother

Excellent. That's what's going on Trina's 867 at some point this fall.

A 400 and a 550 are the same tractor with the exception of the electric start components and the H55 Lauson/Tecumseh motor. This may be a 550 and not a 400. I told mine there could be worse things I could be doing. Asked her "Would you prefer I do those or tractors?" LoL

Awesome!

Here’s my things in a roof story. Years ago I was brush hogging some woods with my Ford 545-C for a customer when all of a sudden there was a BANG and the brush hog started shaking violently. I thought I hit something or wrapped up a cable? I got off and looked underneath and noticed that one of the blades was missing! Then I noticed a slice in the side of the brush hog! I figured that the blade couldn’t be too far away after that so I looked and looked but couldn’t find it. There was also a gentleman with a weed wacker with a blade on it doing around the trees. He helped me look to no avail. So I had to get new blades and go back to finish. Probably over a year goes by and I run into the guy that owns the neighboring house, he’s a friend of mine. He says “Hey wasn’t that you that brush hogged my neighbor’s woods a while ago?” I told him that yes it was me, why? He then told me that he found a blade stuck in the roof of his house 😳 right above his kitchen sink window while cleaning his gutters. He said that it just tucked itself under one of the tabs and didn’t do any damage. He pulled it out and kept it to show me! His house was probably 80-100 feet away from where I was working. To think there was a man working nearby when this happened! Since then I will not allow anyone anywhere near where this type of activity is taking place. I’m glad nobody got hurt! And that’s my story!

That roof looks fairly new, why are you measuring for steel?? It was in todays paper...guy had a block of ice fall on to his roof during the night. Left a hole going into the attic the size of a regular claw hammer. Scared the heck out of the wife and him...the 2 kids never woke up. He thinks it came from an airplane...they are investigating. Then there was the story in Texas where a snake fell from the sky and wraped around this woman's arm, while she was riding and mowing the lawn. A hawk swooped down and wanted the snake back. Scared the heck out of her...word is she is still not able to sleep good. BTW...lived in a trailer park for a few years in Maine while in the Navy. You could hear it snow. Don't forget to put the stop avalanche things in. The yahoos next door put a steel roof on without that and when the snow let loose, it fell on their car. It left a mark.

I had a Silver Wing GL 500 for a couple of years. Poor mans Gold Wing I called it.

Well, a second engine and we have progress. IMG_0041.mov

I cleaned the 42" RD last week and tackled the 48" SD today. Little more work to drag the 48"er out from under the 417A. Sure glad I have hydraulic lifts to put it back on. Did the Greasy Pete thing to the mule drive bearings. I know, it's not Lucas, but it is green , tacky, and high temperature.

Jim, its good to know there are others out there who are as gifted as I am to dull a new set of wheel horse mowing blades in record time !! Carry on my brother Well done.

Removed balance gears yesterday, so today I replaced the front hydraulic cylinder and removed the drive belt release lever. All back together now.