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Got the 418-8 and Brinly plow set up and plowed the garlic patch.

Celebrated what we did 61 years ago. Took the family of 18 to breakfast. Sept 8 1963

After soaking in Berryman's for a week I did a thorough cleansing and added brass throttle bushings...along with a OEM carb kit... Reinstalled and no more running on choke only@

Breaking down the new to me C-101 .Flushed the gear case with diesel twice .Removed break band ,needs to be replaced. Tomorrow the rest comes apart.The fun has just begun

My son turned in the keys to his Audi A4 Cabriolet for a 2024 Rubicon 4xe, this is one NICE jeep! Just Empty Every Pocket!

The wife and I usually go every year and always look forward to seeing folks we haven't seem for awhile IMG_5886.MOV

A Wheel Horse GT-14 is the only information he has offered. That is like asking for a set of spark plugs for a Ford passenger car. If we don't get it right this fellow is in more trouble. There are 9 different GT-14 models and I don't feel like digging up all those wiring diagrams to see what model uses what ignition switch.

Our 18 month old granddaughter and zI took a ride on the C160. We just idle around a little since I didn’t have any ear muffs for her. She loves to crawl up and sit on the tractor.

We picked up a parts tractor for a black hood restoration project for my Son and I. The plastic dash piece was worth the overall price and everything else was a bonus.

So I went to another estate sale today. I picked up this rusty old cleaver for 10 bucks. Watched a few videos on restorations but I wanted to clean it up without using any power tools. Came out pretty good but I'd like to get some more of the stains out of the metal. I used steel wool, vinegar, some emery cloth. Sanded the handle and rubbed linseed oil over all of it. Looked up the brand name... Briddell. I guess it's a pretty good one. Don't really have a use for it but I thought it was pretty cool. Any suggestions on cleaning it up some more without using any power tools?

Congratulations Ed and Mrs. K. There have been 22,282 days from the day you were married up to today. If you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since then you have slept a total of 7,427 days or 20.33 years. You spent 33% of your life sleeping. Since night and day always follow each other, there were precisely 754 full moons after you were born up to this day. On Sunday, September 8th, 1963 77th US Women’s Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court #1 US song: My Boyfriend's Back by The Angels #1 UK song: She Loves You by The Beatles Popular movie: The Executioner of Venice directed by Luigi Capuano. Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship; Clark's 5th GP win of the season. Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 x 20-win seasons. The 16 Gemini astronaut candidates began training in parachute landing techniques. The training involved being towed to 400 feet by a parasail, then releasing the towline and gliding to the ground. This training was necessary because in a low-level abort, the pilot would eject from the spacecraft and need to descend by parachute. But your wedding had to be the most enduring of all of these events. All of the sports records have been surpassed, new movies and songs have come and gone but you are still going strong.

This morning I finished removing a few more tins and gas tank to clean and replace bushing. Wile I’m on it I mind as well take care of the axle seals,remove the hubs.I don’t really have a good tool for that yet. Removing hubs is probably my least favorite job,I have a extra one in case I break one. The left side I think maybe was exposed to weather more as the tire was a real pia just to remove the lugs. All in all though this tractor is in pretty good shape for sitting in a corn field for many yrs. Hope I’m not boring 🥱 too many with these post a couple pix

Part 4 Weld them up after tack. Ugly welding but it's solid enough: Test fit works: Painted satin Red Apple as that was what the hardware store had in a darker red. Lever added to Tach-O-Matic and deck installed. It works! : End Part 4. Final Part.

I find adding two 1/8" NPT street ells to my grease gun gives me a lot of options on hard to reach zerk fittings. They are just snug so I can rotate the coupler in both axis.

Working on a little magnetic flag holder for the 414-8 hood. A few more tweaks and I think this will work perfectly!

Have a great day Dave, Thank You for attending the M & G yesterday and hope all your questions regarding your 520 were answered

Excellent Ed, hope you and your bride had a great day 💖

Congratulations Ed & Mrs. K

Thanks for all the help, it's resolved. Have purchased parts from az tractor.com Can really recommend them/him.

@KeatonI have the original manual for the 1972 safari snowmobiles. I’ve attached some pictures for you. I hope it helps.

I have 24 x 9.50 x 12 on my 1989 520 with 7" wide wheels.

857 doing a little work hauling dirt and wood chips from a stump I had ground down to make room for the new shed…where the 857 will reside. See how that works

Today I remover the dozer blade from the 418-C and installed the leaf blower in preparation for the annual deluge of leaves we have. When I built the blower I used an eight inch round air duct elbow to direct the air flow but replaced it with a shorter rectangular sheet metal piece. Works as well and doesn't stick out nearly as far.

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!

Happy Birthday @Mike in NC, we are glad you were born.

Don't let Stefan catch you saying he is from Germany. He'll correct that in a hurry.

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Happy birthday! @stevasaurus

Day 13 (I think I lost count lol) Today got a couple things done. Rebuild the Carb at work with a OEM NOS Briggs carb kit one of our local power equipment shops had left. But the carb back on with everything fully rebuilt inside including the fuel pump, Replaced the vacuum line. Changed the spark plugs and bolted the engine fully down. Also attached the throttle cable IMG_9164.mov

The 520H tractors have a plastic spacer because the hub runs so close to the transmission. When you install a hub, leave a bit of clearance. I think that I see an uneven amount of clearance on your black hub, it may be just the camera angle, jack it up and see if there is some up and down movement of the tire, there should be next to nothing.

Happy Birthday Steve, have a great Day 🎂🎁🎈🥳

Happy Birthday Steve!! Sounds like you have had a great day.

It was a nice day so Mrs.W and I headed out for a walk in the countryside around where we live. We would usually drive onto Derbyshire where our nearest National park is. But locally we have plenty of greenery and sites to visit. We started off at Wentworth Woodhouse, the largest house front in Europe. A spectacular building which was the country seat of the Fitzwilliam family until the family died out in the early 20th century. Walking down the front parkland we crossed the fields to the family mausoleum, but I couldn't get a decent shot of it as it's closed in winter. A good way further on we passed Hoober Stand, a landmark built by the sane family as a tribute to a rebellion that was crushed. It is actually three sided so technically a pyramid. A little further on and we pass the Needles eye, another folly or garden ornament built by the Fitzbillies. Originally a solid obelisk one of the Earls hollowed it out to make a kind of gateway so he could run a straight road from Wentworth to Pontefract racecourse so he could travel direct to watch his horses run. Local legend has it that he bet a friend that his coachman was so good he could steer his coach through the eye of a needle. He won of course because he had his own needle and could prove the bet. Calling off at the Earls colliery workshops we had lunch before returning to the Woodhouse over the fields. so many buildings I missed off and didn't photograph because to us they are just part of the landscape. For example, cottages with outdoor toilets and a "nightsoil" window halfway up the wall. A horse and cart would pull up beneath the window each week and "nightsoilmen" would shovel out the effluent through the window for fertiliser. We had a similar toilet in my first home just 56 years ago. Also, telephones were not affordable in your house when I was a kid. So it was off down the street to phone box, assuming you had someone to call, as no one else had a phone. This is the type of cast iron phone kiosk but as we all have mobiles now it's been repurposed. This is a final view of Hoober Stand, the pyramid tower. Just wanted to show the scale of it. Still open to visitors in summer you can see York Minster on a clear day. Hope you enjoyed the little trip round our back yard. It's nothing on the scale of what you guys in the states have, buy it's still purdy impressive for us. One of the Fitzwilliam family was beheaded in the Tower of London, he was a friend of King Charles the 1st and was commanded to attend court in London, believing he would not be in trouble with his friendly king. He did however fear the worst but still went knowing some had it in for him. He lost his head for his troubles, but not long after Charles lost his too. Funny that we nowhave Charles the 3rd on the throne. Opposite almost called him the second, good job I spotted it given his ancestors penchant for lopping off bonces.

Or even the correct rear attaching bracket for the model of the cab that I have would be great too. This is what I have as of now…

The Paint Department also got the seat springs cleaned up, derusted, and painted, and all mounted. Yes I know they're "backwards" I like the lean to be forward, not tilting back off the tractor. And.... I'm backwards too.

I took a flat bar from the pile o stuff and put a twist and a couple bends in appropriate places using the bench vice and a huge C clamp. No heat needed. 11 gauge x 1-1/2" stock. I was even lucky enough to have 2 of the 3 holes where they needed to be. All exhaust and the bracket will be removed and painted. I'm thinking this'll do for now. @Mows4three @LengerichKA88

A 3 for 1 here.

How to be forgiven for buying another tractor? Tell her it's hers!

Just wasted a bit over 90 minutes looking for the clutch pedal for my C-160-8 renovation project. The latest in a series of searches for parts that went missing since I took her apart last fall. That's what happens when projects get drawn out. Finally found it ...it was in the oven and must have been there for a couple months. Had been in the electrolysis bath and then after rinsing got put in the oven to dry off.

Beach shots!! How cool!! I bet that’s a first here on RS