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Happy Birthday @ebinmaine!!! Have a Colossal day!!!

Your catching up to me BRO, that's not good. Save some air otherwise you won't be able to blow out the candles, classic right there.

Not my fault this 20yo has to live in an 80 yo body.

I’ve heard people say “never give a smart phone to a dumba$$”. Guess there is truth in there somewhere…

You speeled that wrong Sylvia ain't that right @19richie66 ...

Happy Happy EB! I thought I had that pic for future roasting Plunge ... now I do! Filed under dudes giving tractors mouth to mouth ...

Used the 310-8 to spread a 1/4 T of lime.

Those are known as snow donuts.

Dad and grandpa said... do not get old.. Both Air force. Thank you all for your service.. I told them I will NOT EVER be an old man.. Too late That said, there is ALWAYS a way. Your youth may betray you briefly, patience will prevail. Onward and upward always. This is the way

I think what I have to add is relevant to a topic of aging: Pam and I have matured to not needing store bought cards. Hanging inside of our our camper is a piece of paper with a dollar bill taped to it. On the paper my son, who was probably in 2nd or 3rd grade wrote "Happy birthday dad, I know this isn't much but that doesn't mean your a bad dad." A few days ago for my birthday, Pam taped a dollar to a piece of paper and wrote "Happy birthday Phil, I know this isn't much but that doesn't mean you are a bad husband! The other day while shopping I told Pam to come to the card section. I said "IF I was going to buy you a card, this is the one I would get." Showing her a 6 or 7 dollar card. We seem to enjoy trying to outwit the other with our cornball cards. Pam starts cooking Thanksgiving meal way earlier than I plan to get up. She came back an got in bed. Kind of snuggled up to me and I said "Wow! You smell good!" "I do?" she asked. "Yeah, you smell like kitchen!" I guess she took that a complement because I heard her telling some of her girlfriends of my comments. Some parts of getting older are pretty sweet.

Absolute BEST club to be in right there!!

Proper tractor resuscitation right there!!

I am not old! …I am just well seasoned.

Puts me in mind of the little grey haired granny who drugged and kidnapped a young man. Hooded and cuffed he came to his senses in the foreboding silence of a dank cellar. Suddenly he heard a door open and light filtered weakly through the hood. He listened intently and in fear as light footsteps made their way down a creaking wooden staircase, before slowly moving towards him; purposely, menacingly... Then a female voice, soft yet somehow terrifying in its tone.... "Now what did I come down here for.....?"

We now know why @c-series don back hurts if he ever complains!

More plowing with the 308 and got my snowmobile out to ride around for a while with my nephew. He also helped me with putting everything back after getting the snowmobile out. By the way he’s 8. My snowmobile.

May be the reason I still have a flip phone, I have managed to brake a few of the flip phones. A couple of them were El Cheap O's put together in some back room with cheap parts. I did drop a good Motoral and back over it with the pickup. The phone I have now is a Kyocera, feel like haveing !/2 a brick in your pocket. I try to keep the front screen back aganst me to protect it.

I agree that two is adequate when using iron weights. The concrete-filled plastic weights, however, have less internal structural integrity so I’d use all 4 with thick washers under the nuts to distribute the loading--and do NOT over tighten these lest you bend the plastic and crack the concrete inside. Also, with either type of weight, consider trimming and rounding the ends of the bolts so that they just barely protrude from the nylock nuts and don’t imitate the antagonist’s chariot in “Ben Hur” with your legs or shed door frame as targets!

Talk about wishing him a Looooonnnnng Birthday. wishing you some rocky seat time!

It's an antique primer tool for shotgun shells

Air guide frame ready to install. Air guide frame installed.

Now... where did I put that list?!?!???

You can save a small fortune by doing it yourself as well as having the satisfaction of a job well done. A dozen years ago we designed and built our final home, we were both 66 at the time. We subcontracted the foundation, framing, roofing, siding, and drywall but did our own plumbing, electrical, painting, flooring, trim, and cabinets. We came in a little more than $ 80,000 under the turn-key bids and have some great memories as a result. The tongue and groove ceiling in our great room is one thing my wife continues to marvel at. She will sit in a chair looking up and comment about the number of trips up and down the scaffold were made installing it. You can't buy memories like that, you have to make them. Thanks for sharing your progress and keep up the good work.

Still used on cross country and down hill ski areas everywhere, minus the horses...

In the late 80’s early 90’s I used to plow a local gas station where the owner was an old gentleman from Canada. He told me about snow rolling in his small town and how in the spring it was difficult to get through the melting slush, so they would drive wagons along side of the rolled snow. I remember him telling me that the packed snow could be seen as late as May! He was quite the character and enjoyed his afternoon/evening cocktails. I also remember going there a few times when he had apparently over-served himself and I ended up staying there and pumping gas so he could stay inside. Then I would bring him home after a little argument about his ability to drive. He would give in and I would take him home, as I had to go past his house to get to mine. He had the last gas station that would check your oil and wash your windshield. Now that I think about it, I miss those days.

Happy B-Day! Wishing you many more, you Maine-iac!

here is photo of what i use for rear axle bracket - work well - - commonly available most hardware stores

My wife and I have been exchanging the same special cards for twenty or more years. A couple of them have sound effects when you open them and surprisingly they still work. Must have made better batteries back then.

It’s a 1993

Likely you and I are similar in the fact that MY “higher mileage” was earned!

Hey Eric , wishing you a happy b-day !

Voltage regulator ready to install. This machine originally did not have a voltage regulator. I decided to mount it on the guard bracket. Regulator bolts bolted up tight in bracket. I need the space under the regulator because there is a protruding screw head on the bottom of the regulator. Regulator bolted on.

I knew things had become challenging, but wasn’t really plugged in on the details. Wow! The 1983 budget for our home, not including the land, was $50 per sq. ft. and we went just slightly over. I was the general contractor, My Dad and I installed all the interior doors and trim and I did all the finish painting. Local laws meant doing plumbing or electrical work required a license; insulating and sheet rocking a whole house yourself is time-consuming and isn't going to save a lot. Having village water and sewer and Con Ed natural gas in the street made the lot more expensive but saved a bunch on the build and ongoing expense. And most of my relatives thought we were spending too much! Now my spouse and I are looking to refresh the well-used and "showing their age” kitchen and primary bathroom. $$$$ ahead assuming we can even find a contractor!

I hate iPhones. I never typed “dozen”, but it doesn’t just check spelling, it injects grammar where it believes it is needed. …And people want AI. Bunch of bleeping idiots.

Shot shell capper.

Think your on to something Mike... I had thought a die handle but then the round thing looks like a shotgun shell and the way the handle flips over. Weren't shells made of brass at one time?

Muffler bracket ready to bolt to muffler. Muffler bracket loosely bolted to muffler. Engine ready for muffler bracket to be installed (top 4 bolts of crankcase cover removed). Muffler adapters coated in never seize. Muffler and bracket ready to be bolted to engine. Muffler assembly bolted to engine. Crankcase cover torqued to 225in/lb in proper sequence as per engine manual. Muffler to bracket bolts tightened.

Happy birthday Eric. My first time plowing this year. Hope you get to play with a tractor too.

When on a worker for working - Heat, hammer, drill new holes, use new wear bar to even it out, paint it and go... to a degree the top doesn't matter... it pushes snow, not diamonds...

Excuse me, sir, but you left your tractor on the workbench - just in case you were looking for it.

Hi Dave, I have a lift table that I bought from Harbor freight. It’s a motorcycle lift that I made the top wider to accommodate my tractors. I doubled up 3/4” oak plywood and banded it with poplar. I waited until it went on sale and I think I paid around 500 bucks for it. My only regret is not buying it sooner! Since I have a bad back this is really a game changer. Now I stand up and work on them without having to stop because my back hurts. Unless I’m doing something simple it’s going on the table! You want pictures? I got em!

I am one of those twenty somethings lol well I just turned 30. The only thing on my house that I paid someone to do was the roof. I have replaced all the carpet and flooring in the house, and ran new PEX water lines. Dug out my crawlspace area 12'x30' area because it was only 6" from the dirt to the floor joists. Dug it out to about 24" clearance with a small shovel into 3 gallon buckets to get it out of the crawlspace, then into a trailer for the wheelhorse to do some work for me there lol I also installed a new furnace and added a AC unit (only had a furnace originally) And ran some new ductwork for that (part of the reason I had to dig out the crawlspace area) Then a big project I did was tear out my kitchen and dining room all the way down to bare studs and floor joists so new subfloor insulation and drywall. Repaired some minor structural issues from people messing with some openings through the years and added some barn beams in the openings. Built my own cabinets from bare stiles (that I got from habitat restore). And 4x8 panels for top sides and bottom of cabinets and built my own cabinets doors using a router table to cut the bevel and dado for the door panel. And made my countertops from 5x12 sheets of laminate. Also did the tile, trim, etc. But I am pretty fortunate to be able to do all that myself, I have a interest in woodworking and my profession is a inspector for mainly modular housing which is built to residential code. So I have more knowledge in that area then most 20-30 year olds.

A link always works. https://mwvvibe.com/white-mountain-snow-rollers/

i have rehabbed various plows - some in pretty ugly condition - cleaning/sanding or blasting off the rust -- then primer paint, then final red -- usually a new "wear edge" blade, plus new carriage bolts -- and typically rehab to the springs and rods - always a worthwhile project