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Is that how she nabbed you? Sorry, that one was too easy

Folks are busy in some trades. Ridiculous busy. But common courtesy is not so common to the masses anymore. If I make a call or text I expect a return. If I call someone more than twice they RARELY get another chance. Contacting someone for a service or repair multiple times is drama and time spent I don't need and won't tolerate. He's out.

Picked this up at auction last month, got it all washed up and waxed this weekend

I know there are mixed emotions on this model because of certain issues seem to follow these around. Myself it is one of my favorite models in the WH line. It is the hardest worked WH that I own among the small collection I have. Would like to see some of your favorite pictures either at work or rest of the two models.The first picture is @Raven on her first WH experience back in 2009. Might as well start her on the big machine first in powder to get the feel for it.

In this somber day of reflection we have been blessed with our fifth grandchild. I couldn’t ask for a better day for her to arrive. Josephine Maria Sousa

Started with this guy about 7 years ago. Back then, he was responsive and energetic. Last year I went through hell trying to get him to come out and do preventive maintenance, but he kept stalling me. He didn't show up until I said to be here or I'm getting a new guy. This season, he's pulling the same song and dance routine. I want to dump him, but my wife likes him. He's a smooth-talking tap dancer. She likes car salesmen, ticket scalpers, and all-around flim flam guys. If I can't count on him to get his sorry self over here for the PM, I believe he'd drag his feet on a cold night in January. I say get rid of him- he didn't learn his lesson last season. Am I being a constipated, unreasonabble, cranky old curmudgeon, or am I right to find a new guy? Opinions. please Heater guys are all over my area. Thanks in advance.

This past spring I fabricated a front bracket to hold a winch and act as a suitcase weight holder. I began my search for the piece of steel I needed at McMaster-Carr and though they are fast and reliable a premium must be paid for their product. I found metalsdepot.com and sourced my need at half the price. This morning I did the same comparison for some 3x3x1/4 aluminum angle I need and again the price is nearly 50% cheaper at metalsdepot.com.

An 8 speed... Mebbe a future Herd member?

It is used for rolling tubes into tube sheets of coolers or condensers. The center part had three rollers that can be adjusted by the large nut center top.

This is a business decision and should be based on facts, not feelings. He doesn't value your business and certainly has no friendship respect for you, or your wife, either. Tell your wife you don't owe him anything. Your relationship is based on business and he is no longer a good business decision or time investment. If he's banking on past success entitling him to poor service going forward he'll learn the hard way.

One minor thing to bear in mind, especially with cranking by hand, if points are running off the camshaft like most K series, you're only gonna get a spark every other revolution - Unlike lawnmower engines (which are a waste spark system - that is, they'll fire every revolution - once at top of compression and once at top of exhaust, which is wasted spark - K series with points operating off the camshaft fire only at top of compression stroke (Which trips up newbie using common inductive tachometers - with many of those that count RPM based off ignition pulses, you gotta "double" the RPM reading to get a true RPM's, unless the tach has a means to account for it - 4 stroke vs 2 stroke) So rotating engine by hand, can be difficult to test for a reliable steady spark if you can't get it rolling through multiple revolutions at speed fast enough to generate a spark.... just something to bear in mind.

I’d say “next!” The older I get the less tolerance I have for things like that (and many other things for that matter!) Especially if you have plenty of others to choose from. Maybe you’ll find a smooth talking flim flam guy who will actually get the job done and then you’ll both be happy!

I can see both sides of that coin and also been on both. I've had conversations with people about disassembling a good or mostly good tractor. Many (or most) of these parts are not being made anymore. They have to come from somewhere when we're in need. One good running whole tractor can supply the parts to keep quite a few others from becoming useless and obsolete. Sacrifice one for the good of many.

My grandpa gave me his 1975 C-160. i cleaned it up and did a bunch of maintenance on it and put it to work. Its in great shape and runs awesome pics here - https://imgur.com/a/hsszO6V

I've had a couple 520-H and one 520-8 that was a very rough (even for the south) parts machine. None had reduction steering but all had the swept axle. I had to cannibalize one 520-H to have a good tractor, as one had a bad hydro and the other a blown engine. I used the best of both to make the one I still use today. It works like a dog, and never complains. The only thing I don't like is the high mounted DCL, but I plan to change it. Meet Pinkie:

Back in 1979-80 as an inspector during the construction of 2 600MW coal plants the condenser for the steam turbines was my responsibility. Each one had 12,000 60 ft tubes that we’re installed on site. Each tube had to be rolled into the tube sheet on each end. That’s 48,000 rolls. I did a calibration roll on each roller twice a day. If the tubes are under rolled (under expanded) they leak. If they are over expanded (over thinned) they crack and leak. If the are rolled deeper than the tube sheet thickness they fail. Those air guns driving the rollers were noisy in those water boxes. I bet @squonk or @peter lena has seen these before.

Ya know.... Geese. Hoof's. Ain't normal...

My first instinct was Coffee stirring stick.

Hello! I looking for a little advice since I have never been to this event , it always conflicts with the Iola car show/swap. I would like to try it in 2024 for one day. It’s a Thursday , Friday , Saturday event…..if you could only go one day which one would it be? thanks for your input!

Perhaps you should have your wife take charge of having the heating system serviced. If he doesn't respond to her you can rest assured she will change her mind.

My son Mike keeps two of his plumbers on call just to service old customers, but unless it's a real emergency, he has to turn away new service calls. Most of his guys are scheduled on new HVAC installation projects It's a challenge to find any new people interested in the trade.

Enjoy some of that today!!

Congrats to the parents and grandparents. Family be one of the importantst things we have in this World. Have a happy times with her. They grow so fast - sometimes felt tooo fast....

Carpenter’s in Camden, NY is hanging on. The area is so rural and economically down that the big box stores are still 25 miles away. On a visit with my oldest grandson, he wanted to know why there were numbers painted on the floor down the main aisle. I realized they were for measuring out rope, wire, and chain from big rolls at the rear of the store. Last number was, if I recall, 90 just inside the threshold of the front door. He wanted us to buy some rope so he could see them do the measuring! An additional plus is that they hire young people for the summer and the old timers give them an education. We were helped by a 2nd year engineering student who’d been working there for several years and she got us to the right parts drawer in about 10 seconds when told the length, diameter, and TPI for a bolt I needed.

Depends on the tractor model. They attach differently. What model are we talking about @gwood

@formariz congratulations ! cutie , the older we get , the more you appreciate them ! always look for the opportunity to hold them , grew up in a household , where my mother took in abandoned babies , NY CATHOLIC CHARITES , a week to 10 days old , kept them for a half year , and gave them back , to get another , handing off your little brother / sister to one of the nuns , was heart wrenching . mom did that for 27 years , 2 babies a year , thats 54 babies , still have the old black / white 3x3 photos' . never forget , Pete

Since Almost Heaven is here in Indiana (well, about 3 hours from me), I had to take a closer look (not in person...yet...). Looks like they've grown since the picture posted in the thread Eric pointed to. I just drool and want a closer look when I see something like this - especially the "red" areas. Dang, why can't I zoom in closer!?!

Just remember. I don't believe the 8 doesn't have gear reduction steering .

Thanks! I will see you there on Saturday

Do a little digging for less-than-satisfied customers comments on this guy. Kind of like reading the customer reviews on either Amazon or HFT. Try Yelp, Angies, and even the Better Business Bureau. You may have your suspicions confirmed... or not. Bill

I got a call this morning, one of the kids forgot her chromebook, which is every book for every subject at school now. Sign of the times, it’s been this way quite a few years now. Walking it into the entry way (parents aren’t allowed inside during school hours), the principal was greeting the kids and playing this while the kids were walking in.

Took a year to save up to get it all but, its done. 1998 Deere 425, upgraded to 26x12x12 cleats and 8ply fronts. Rears are loaded 80%, 72lbs of iron ballast on each rear. 3pt hitch, 190lbs of rear ballast. Hydraulic lockout installed, and a CTC loader. Moved about 4000lbs of dirt in 10 minutes..i love it.

The fan attaches with 4 screws. You can see the holes in your picture. That pulley looks original to me. I don't have the tractor anymore to give you another pic

I know a couple places like that. Both are always priced well outside what thier offerings are worth, and both said their stuff would "rot" if they couldn't get the asking prices. Sadly, that "rot" is typically what they get... Just today I passed one and there are dark rusty tractors where bright red ones sat 10 years ago. Stupidity lives just on the far side of stubborn. Some folks are eat up with it.

Caz I'll run this by Trina and see what we come up with. Thank you very much. As far as the floor or ceiling supports... I've spoken to the builder about the construction of these pole type buildings. The poles are in the ground 4+ feet and obviously quite strong... but... the walls are not. The vertical outer boards are supported by the horizontal purlins set outside the poles. Neither of those are meant to carry bunches of extra weight. That's the reasoning behind needing a roller on the floor, or hanging from the roof trusses. In my case I'd likely do the floor roller because of ease and keeping the weight off the structure. Most of the weight would be resting on the concrete.

I love my wheel horses BUT I don't care what color the machine is if it's the right tool for the job.

Once you get by the green & yellow............

Got the transmission back together today planned on painting the transmission and the frame and some pices tomorrow

Had no time to work on it but did a little bit last night work on the gas tank and clean up some parts hope to start working on it soon that's the planned

Found a good cly head and a gas tank just waiting for them to come in planned on next week start working on the old 753 by taking it a part fix the steering system and rebuilt the transmission and go though the motor doing a little body work and a good red paint job and have it all done by the temple show I hope will put pictures has I go along with this project

I did a gas tank rebuild on one missing the two side nuts to accept the thumb screws when the hood was on. I thought I posted the pics on Red Square three or four years ago but could not find them. What. I did is bout some 1/4 X 20. Special nuts with a flange. These are deeper nut that have various names depending on who makes them. These are Tacoma Screws but there are others with similar design. What I did is fabricate a small metal plate and drilled a hole in the plate to accept the Tacoma Nut but JB Weld to the flange and back of the plate to the tank. Now the tenanted of the old famed pieces need to be removed (or revised to accept you new plate and Tacoma Nut! Sorry I don’t have a lot of pics but this works better than using a traditional nut or traditional flanged nut as the extra length on the Tacoma Nut strengthens the fix. https://www.tacomascrew.com/Product/055-010

What kind of jb weld to used

I was going to remove the bottom from the tank, clean the area up and use low temp aluminum weld rod to fill the area in. https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=low temperature aluminum welding rods After the area was filled then the plan was to drill & tap a new hole. Then reassemble the tank with a new gasket. One suggestion, but I'm sure guys will be along with a few more.

753 1963 Lawn & Garden Tractor 753 4-Speed Kohler K161S-28626E 7 Wheel Horse 5025 Seeing a couple K161 heads listed up on Ebay now.

Work on it little tonight made a bracket and weld it in because it was gone

Got the motor and the wiring off start working on getting off the front pices that someone put on it and look at the steering system

Download the K series single cylinder engine manual - the governor settings for initial adjustment start on page 52.... Sarge