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I met a guy through selling some snow plow mounts and wiring, ends up being our girls both wrestle and I made an acquaintance out of him (though we are from rivaling towns). I saw him at a benefit last weekend for a watering hole dive bar that burnt down, and he saw a post I made on FB in a Wheel Horse group. He asked if I wanted an old Wheel Horse. He thought it was a 64. I don’t have any ‘64 round hoods, so I thought what the heck. I threw him the old line of @WHX?? and @Achto’s that any old Wheel Horse not running is worth a hundred bucks. He said he hoped for more, but knowing it would go to a good home he’d take it from me. I think he doubled his money reselling the stuff he bought from me, so that is why he passed it on. It’s been up on a rack for about 6 years he said, and ran then. Getting it down, I saw a deep air filter housing. The thought of a Benjamin 854 was getting me excited! Low and behold, I found the 62- serial and a K-161 under the hood, proving it’s a 702. I guess typing this, I have found its new name. I present: Benjamin.

I had to pick up a trailer on the way home, to go pick up Mrs. P’s estate sale finds for the weekend, and with the front tires being junk I had to get creative to unload. I reverted back to my skateboard days, and let Benny grind his way down the single ramp. With the transmission drain plug sticking out 3/4” from the case, it was a great easy decent to the ground.

Hi To all my Friends, i had a troubleful times behind me, that was one of the reasons i was not able for longer time to visit The Forum periodically. Changin the Company and help the to become Serial State and do a lot of Work also arround the House. Than a Family Member passes and we was very busy in this timeline. Also the Subi needs a lot of attention, because the company they do the Rustrepair before makes sadly a lot of Junk Work. the Previous owner showed me a Bill over 3500 Bucks for „massive Rustrepairs“. The Truth is, the work was not worth the Paperwork where the Bill was written on. a Broken Rear Spring at 100Km/h was the beginning of that whole Disaster, what cutt‘s the Tire like a Soup Cup opener. Ok it is a 25 Year old Car, so that can be happen a spring collapses - no doubt. So we took the Subi to a Friends Workshop, who is a Car Sheetmetal professional to use his Car Lift. The Basic Job was exchange 2 completely new Rear Shocks including springs to prevent the same was happen on the opposite Side. By inspecting the Damages of the tyres we found a Sheetmetal part in the Wheelhousing, that flapped a little unmotivated arround and seemed just „ flown in“. We grab a pliers to remove it and another sheetmetal part was „hanging“ on it and opened like a tuna can. Dang - looked behind the scenes, we found that the previous company just glued the sheet metal Patches on the gunk and rust of the old Sheetmetal and just „finished it“ with lots of filler to egalize it. Undercar stone protection to hide the worse Work finalized the kind of „ Work“ the more we inspecting, the more the real disaster becomes visible and we deciding what to do. I was short ahead to Sent the Subi to the Junkyard, but i love that Car. ok, short Calculation - trash it - but what Car get next? It must be a 4x4 for the Fawn Saving, Petrol Engine - best with a LPG system in - my Pricerange is about 4000-6000 Bucks Let‘s start a Search....🤪🤬🤐😱 after 3 Weeks of Searching i found, that i wouldn‘t find a honest Car for a real Price. Prices for used Cars are exploding here. For the Subi i payed 1300 bucks and i knew there is several Work to do on. i calculated add on with about 1500-2000 bucks for 4 year Road Safety. So i opened myself a calculation ahead and finalized i have to invest 4000 bucks into the Subi and a dang amount of Time as compare another 4 Wd Car what is better than the Subi to go is at least 10000 bucks here at the moment.🤬🤐 At least we decide to completely rework the whole rear Car and even the Axle mounts. Except the rear side doors and rear door nothing is as it was before, 1/4 of the Whole car is completely rebuilt new. all parts are needed be at 2800 bucks plus his salery and support for the Workshop. A real fair Deal. We completely rebuilt the whole rear end once with parts that be available on the market and what is not available we built it by ourself. We also rebuilt the whole section under the rear Axles Axlemounts, that binds lot‘s of time but i just can work on Weekend on my Car. My Friends helps me a lot, by set me his Trainee aside as helper. Win Win situation for us both, he learned a lot and now the Subi is back on the Road. just his first Paintjob was, let me say Discusting 😎😂😂😂, but hey it just must be Fixed not be a beauty its a Car to Work. Yesterday i finished the whole Frontaxle ( Calipers, new Discs, Brakepads, Dustcovers for brakediscs, Joints) Luckily we didn‘t have that much Snow this year, so i can do lots of things by Myself.

Wet sanding is a pain and time consuming but essential for a good finish. We often talk about a faster way to do it but there is none other than using our amigo Manuel. Goes a lot faster with two guys going at it and would go faster if @Pullstart didn't keep texting pics of his scores of the day ...

Maybe a Kohler powered ambulance

It started Friday night around ten PM with a large house fire. I didn’t get home until around three AM. Then yesterday around 12:30 PM we got called out to a huge brush fire approximately 20 miles away. We could clearly see the smoke from our firehouse and knew it was going to be a long day. While working in my garage I heard the neighboring fire departments getting called out on my scanner for multiple brush fires. I knew I should get ready for the call and before I started heading for my truck my pager went off. Our fire department sent two brush trucks, a pumper and a 6200 gallon tractor trailer tanker which I drove. Over 90 fire departments from across Long Island came, plus every law enforcement agency known to man! This was one of the largest wildfires I have been to in my 37 years as a volunteer firefighter. And the first time I’ve in person seen the use of helicopters to help extinguish the fires. I must say that they made a huge difference, three Blackhawk helicopters each carrying 660 gallon buckets. The fire was all around the airbase where these helicopters are stationed. I’m not sure how many acres burned but I know it was a lot. The fire was pretty much out around 8pm due to the diligence and professionalism of these men and women. Unfortunately at this time it appears as arson (although I’m not certain) because 4 separate fires were reported within a few miles of each other within a very short timeframe. Also unfortunately my friend who makes driveway entrance gates lost his shop in the fire. Luckily out of the hundreds of people that responded I heard of only one injury.

KITCHEN BASICS , ORIGINAL BEEF STOCK , IS ABOUT A 3 PLUS HR SIMMER , POT ROAST IS FALL APART TENDER , initial meal is terrific , but the bonis is hot pot roast sandwiches , with a side of gravy, like the ,ARNOLD BREAD WHOLE GRAINS , WHEAT SUPPORTS DIGESTIVE HEALTH , AS A TOAST ,ON THE SANDWICH , DIPPING HEAVEN ! often refer to this as a knockout sandwich , my favorite . pete

Kevin, you needed another project. With the oil heater nearing completion and NO OTHER PROJECTS it was about time to find another.

The Tecumseh serial number, 7299, says the engine was assembled at Tecumseh "on the 299th day of a year ending in 7". Because of the model of the tractor, we can be sure that means 1967. The 299th day of 1967 was October 26. That's too late in the year to have gone on a 1967 model year tractor. The engine was shipped to Wheel Horse in late 1967, added to the tractor in late '67 or early '68, and the tractor was sold in the Spring of 1968 as a 1968 model year tractor. Scot

Clothes washer crapped out so that cut deep into my tractor time. Fuel tank is in, had to cut out the shift gate screws to remove it, stainless replacements went in. New “brown” 7473 drive belt installed. Started to run new fuel line, filter/ shutoff etc…

Makes me wonder if having one of these on the roof of my pickup would have any effect on potential road ragers... Might be worth the time spent on the shoulder with blue lights just to tell it's nonfunctional plastic if a few Karen's wet thier leather seats over it...

Maybe a automatic fire extinguisher.

Looks like you got 3 tractors. A 702 with a 701 engine and genny blended in with a C-160 steering wheel and rear wheels / tires

I thought the 701 had the double pulley set-up

Cat seems to agree.

@WHX?? So those switches work even when they're not under water???

I don't want to hear anything from any of you in a few months about our warm weather friends...

I spent the last 3 days being a robot inspector at the FRC event we are hosting. Completion ended up today with the upper class team a member of the winning alliance and the under class team the captain of the #8 seated alliance. The under class team got eliminated in the first round of the lower double elimination bracket. The upper class team is currently rated at #58 in the world, while the lower class is rated at #355. Not too bad of an event that was effectively a 3 day long debugging session.

Nice spring day, so I got the equipment out and ran them around the neighborhood. My brother tried out the 1994 520H, then jumped on the 2003 Cub Cadet LT 1024 for an extended trip patrolling the hood. He just recently came out of 2 extended jaunts in the hospital and is staying with me until we can find him a place. The seat therapy did us both some good and it is nice to have him back. He mowed the grass today. I trimmed and blowed. IMG_4983.mov IMG_4980.mov IMG_4982.mov IMG_4983.mov IMG_4986.mov IMG_4985.mov

I don’t know what my plans are. I’d like to hear it run, then evaluate my situation.

Its nonsense... Nothing to do with energy... You have exactly the same light and dark hours on any given day over 24 hours... Can we just be done with it...? Pick one, I don't care which, and stick with it... .05/.05

Corn beef and cabbage with potatoes, carrots, and sweet onion in the crockpot.....

How much would I have to use to get my bill down to Zero?

I think he is saying #33 is worn down and fits loosely into the inner race of the outer bearing because the previous outer bearing failed. If that's the case #33 stub shaft can indeed cause a squeal as the outer bearing spins and both races spin together. The loose fit of the stub shaft would not stop the inner race from turning. I'm thinking a new stub shaft will fix this. @S416-8 has some spare PTO Bells in his parts lot he might be able to sell you. Good to have a spare kicking around anyway.

No pictures taken along the way showing the Subi progress?

Another peaceful WINTER morning here in Maine.

You must be older than you look. I wasn't around in 1784 so I will have to take your word on that.

Did you Denny I never noticed. Would have never known it you hadn't mentioned it. At any rate it is holding up well but it is kept inside in the summer and in the lean to off the warehouse on hot standby in the winter. Guessing the sun would do the most damage. I added roof lights ... now that I never blow at nite ... and a custom inside control panel for them and the strobe ... we had less lighted switches on the submarine...

I found this online.

Jeepers cats most of my tractors would be named Benny then... Seems like 702s are falling out of the sky lately. I really hate to ask this but what are your plans for it?

Daylight Savings Time Starts, observed on March 9 this year, is the practice of advancing the clocks by one hour from Standard Time during the summer months and reverting the clocks to Standard Time in the autumn. The fundamental concept is that doing so will help us all to create better use of natural daylight: putting the clocks forward one hour in the spring will give us more daylight during summer nights while changing the clocks back one hour in the fall would give us more daylight during winter mornings. Thus, Daylight Saving Time helps us save energy and reduce costs. Benjamin Franklin came up with the notion of resetting clocks in the summer to save electricity. People could use the extra evening daylight instead of wasting energy on illumination by setting the clocks forward. Announcing his ‘finding’ that the sun delivers light as soon as it rises, Franklin penned a humorous letter to the “Journal de Paris” in 1784. But it was William Willet, an Englishman, the first true proponent of Daylight Saving Time. It came to him early one morning in 1907 while riding his horse. Despite the rising sun, he noted that many houses’ shutters were tightly sealed. Every four Sundays in April and September, Willet spent tens of thousands of dollars pushing businessmen, politicians, and members of the U.S. Congress to move forward 20 minutes. But his plan was largely mocked. The practice was condemned as a sin by one group. Years later, Daylight Saving Time was finally implemented. During World War I, Germany instituted Daylight Saving Time in May 1916. Soon after, the rest of Europe joined in. So did the U.S. in 1918. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to preserve Daylight Saving Time after W.W.I. ended, in part, because farmers would lose an hour of morning light. Until the next war, Daylight Saving Time was eliminated. Roosevelt declared ‘War Time’ on February 9, 1942, when the war began. Daylight Saving Time was implemented in all U.S. states and towns after W.W.I.I., causing confusion. That’s why Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966 to control the ‘Wild West.’ Daylight Saving Time began on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October under federal legislation. With the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Daylight Saving Time was extended to the present time in 2007.

@Brockport Bill All the firefighters are volunteers, however on the EMS side of things some of the chiefs,EMT’s and paramedics are paid. My department doesn’t have an ambulance or run EMS, that’s a separate entity. We are entirely volunteer.

There might be an additional factor or two that govern implement interchangeability and tractor current operability--but those may not have a material effect on the solution. In certain cases, the “up on a rack and the forklift is inoperable” factor might also be important. 😉

Maybe a dually chicken coop???

This needs to be a magnet

@Achto has a HUGE maple next to his driveway that has to come down. A limb broke off and came down right on the cab of his almost new to him Dodge. He has to hire a guy to bring it down branch by branch to avoid the house and garage. Power lines even have to come down to githerdone. We are going to have a wood splitting party so it's gonna be all saws and splitters on deck & most likely a few horses & tubs pressed into service. Pics once we get at it.

I would be in favor of permanent DLS because it's usually not very light out when I leave for work, not matter what time of year it is, and I'd rather have the extra hour of light after work. The last survey about it showed 90% of people wanted to stop changing the clocks, and that of that 90% it was split about 50/50 on which way to leave it, so they did nothing. A more recent survey showed people more in favor of leaving it on standard time, which I am very opposed to.

Actually my source was winkapedia. Another fun fact I discovered was that Hungarian immigrant Leopold Eisen Dunkin patented his new light bulb in 1785 which we recognise as the LED, coined after his initials. He also discovered that by wiring 2 of Franklins kites in a series would solve the problem of grid demand. Years later his great grandson Clancy Eisen Dunkin, a retired police officer, would become the founder of Dunkin' Donuts in 1905.

Light bulbs in 1784 weren't very efficeint, lightning striking his kite couldn't keep up with supply demands.

I'm just glad all that stayed on your side of the lake this time! I'm with @953 nut on this one...

Here is a video to help with the brush install.

Nice wind chimes!

What a difference in the climate from up North. Nothing better than an Onan in a 520 in the sweet spot, motor sounds great ! I see you have your motion control lever adjusted correctly and don't have to hold it in position. Nice tractors & videos. Well done my friend.

Was able to spray the sheet metal today. Every thing was wet sanded with 400grit and then receive 3 coats of IH red acrylic enamel. A big THANK YOU to Jim for helping out with the sanding and prep work. With any luck, I should be done using the spray gun on this project.

Finally done!!!!

Factory WH Photo. A 1987 418-A. One of my favorite models that has stood the test of time. Rugged and reliable for most any task around the acreage.

Got some more done