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I got Benny fired up the other day! @adsm08 you were right about one of the front tires. So, I rocked it with one tire flat on the bottom/top/front/back while it rolled along. The foot rod is broken from the frame. It’s got a “safety loop” on each side from an S hook or small chain link. The drive belt may be a bit too long. I need to hold the clutch pedal back to engage the belt. There’s a big fuel leak from the one piece tank, where the very large pipe bushing meets the tank. I was able to tighten it about 1/8 turn, but it just slowed the leak. I’ll have to take it apart, clean it up, and re-assemble. The best part though, no smoke from the engine! It starts stubborn with a weak battery, but once it pops off, it runs great! All I did, was verify it had spark, charge the battery for a day, put fuel in and fire it up.

In addition to joining the WHCC, you may want to join the KGCFBC. Only $50 dues and you get a free 5 gallon bucket. I am the treasurer. Kennell Grandsons College Fund Bucket Club

Doing the same thing Ed Kennell did getting into the season! Well after three 70 degree days time to remove the snowplow and put my mower deck back on my 1974 Wheel Horse B-80. Still going strong like my 701 and one of my RJ-58’s!

You can sell stuff on my spot. I only charge 25% commission plus a hot dog!

Popcorn Lover’s Day, celebrated on the second Thursday in March, is a dream come true for all popcorn fans. Do you want to know how? Because you get to eat your favorite snack all day! This means you can choose any taste you want. Salted popcorn, buttered popcorn, caramel corn, and even kettle corn are examples of this. The goal is to consume anything and everything that appeals to you. So, what are you holding out for? Begin popping your favorite snack with friends and family and start nibbling right away. Make sure that the day is one you will remember for years to come.

I contacted his mother this morning. She’s thrilled that I’m looking forward to helping him out. I think I have just the machine in mind that I wouldn’t mind seeing it go down the road. He does have a C series, but just told his dad he wants to find another one. He also wants to start a YouTube channel, so she’s all on board with us filming ourselves working on it, and him receiving it as a surprise at the end.

Once the BIG SHOW BUY or SELL thread is started you can list it all there and give Red Square members first shot at it.

I've used the tapered tang of a large file as an easy out.

It's likely I have one here.

You can sell stuff at my spot, I only charge 10% commission and TWO hot dogs, plus a soda 🤣🤣🤣

For the last several years I have been staying in Gettysburg, specifically Choice Hotels, which includes Quality Inn & Sleep Inn. I had several terrible experiences at the Quality Inn, so I've been staying at the Sleep Inn since 2022. Last year there was a problem with the breakfast service, so I wrote to Choice Hotels. They said they would issue me 35,000 points for my trouble . Big woop. So this year, I downloaded a new version of their app, and lo and behold, there are my 35,000 points that I'd forgotten about. So I booked my two nights at the Sleep Inn, and it was totally paid for by points. Here's this year's room.

"Just Do IT" we need as many young folk to learn about basic mechanics (hands on not just you-tube it) and you have to put the phone down while doing it (both hands).

... and Sparky does too @Achto certainly rates two birthday threads ... Happy Happy Dan ! No problem finding pics .... Good Nite Irene

Thank you for all the Birthday wishes. Mostly an average day for me. Ran a 49L natural gas generator for an extended load test. Love the glow of a turbo & exhaust. Just when you think your kids pay no attention to what you do any more, they remind you that they still know. My son gave me a shirt that pretty much is spot on for me. Finished off the day with my meal of choice at home. A steak fresh off the grill, a baked potato, and fire roast corn. All & all a good day.

In the Packers forum it's "moran"

Or, My spot! 10% commission, ONLY 1 hot dog and I'll let you take the WH bike for a ride.

just back from niantic ct , dr green signed off on my hip progress , spot on , doing exactly the activity needed on my hip replacement , very glad to hear my regular walking engaging my hip function , stay after it , of course on the way bake , was going thru niantic ct , had to stop in to local SIFT BAKERY , more like a food pastry , emporium , every thing looks and tastes so good , good excuse for a walk ! and a nap , stay after your health , pete

Started refurb on another "Fireball 8" This is out of a 65 875 so it's a spark advance style engine. New piston and valves. This will be going into my 857 as a temporary engine whilst that engine gets rebuilt. Then it will be a spare bullet if the need arises. Used the old screw and slide hammer trick to remove the deep PTO seal

Not a popular position probably but especially in Europe I woould avoid the Kohler or KT or M-18 series and the onans. Parts for Kohler twins are getting hard to get here in the USA I doubt Onan parts are all over Europe either..Get a K-341 16hp single or get a B&S Vanguard twin.

Drive out the pin remove the handle mount trany reinstall the handle

$200 is probably fair but without pics anything is possible. Kinda hard to kill anything with a Kohler and manual trans. If the engine turns over by hand with compression and it shifts into all the gears I say go for it if you like it. I had a CC 100 years ago. Really liked it but the engine smoked like the lady at the end of the lunch counter in the 60's. With a kid on the way I didn't have the time to mess with it.

@Achto You have multiple brands. Any thoughts?

Kevin. My brother has a wood stove like that with an assembly line on rollers stop at 4’ saw comes down and cuts it. Then goes to a stacker. The hole thing is under a pallet shed. Heat the hole house.

Careful, with talk like that there wouldn’t be any of us left around here

Dan deserves a second Happy Birthday considering who he hangs with!

I was working on one of my tractors in the driveway and a guy from down the street stopped and asked if I was the person that worked on the wheel horses. After a little bit of chitchat, he said he stopped because he has a cub cadet 122 and asked if I’d be interested in buying it. I went and looked at it today. It seems like it’s in decent shape. It’s not running, but it’s all there. There’s no headlights, it doesn’t look like there’s a creeper gear or hydraulic deck lift. It has a deck, the tires look good, the seat is almost brand new. He wants $200 for it. Seems like a fair deal to me. Anybody on here have any cub cadet experience? I don’t have any pictures, unfortunately.

I haven’t ever seen or heard about anything like those. Now JD did make some “spin out” wheels that were adjustable offset like the big tractors.

More progress today I got the hood finish painted headlights in and mounted and like any old car/equipment it was a bit of a PITA to mount. Now to get the hood stickers again as pulling the old ones off the old hood was a no go.

@Red Stallion Two other members besides myself answered you about what red. I stated in that post I used ACE or Rustoleum brands gloss black. It's going to dull over time especially if you don't clear coat it. I don't clear coat as both of mine are used to mow and plow. Since your in Austrailia, as long as the paint can bond to metal any available brand should work. If your going showroom stock I've heard that satin black was the stock black. But there really is no specific black or red to use I use what I have access to.

Cub Cadet's with a gear jammer tranny are getting hard to come by in my area. The Cub Cadet 122 is a sought after by the pulling crowd. At a $200 purchase, I could easily flip that & double my money. Without getting it running. Transmission alone should bring $300

Yup!!! I have gravitated to the Orville Redenbacher Simply Salted variety available at the Big W ( Wally World) We had a baby sitter when I was about 4 years old. Everytime she was there she tried to make Jiffy Pop for us. Burned it every time!

Just a quick search on the interwebs it looks like that was made from Maybe 1965 to 1967? Z front model. How's the seat? That's one of only about three types of garden tractor I would own that isn't a Wheelhorse.

Can’t let EB take all the flack--I was an enabler of his getting that collection! It’s a testament to how rarely they break that they seem to accumulate!

EB's a dip stick hoarder ... start calling him dipstick ...

No wood trimmed steering wheel. Leather wrapped chrome 3 spoke steering wheel with 4 holes in each spoke. No such standard 420 that I am aware of. $ 8000.00 with 48'' side discharge deck and misc other items. blah blah blah.

Cheese corn Sylvia ...

@rmaynard Happy belated birthday Bob, looking forward to seeing you at the Big Show this year!

As mentioned in a PM earlier, Happy Birthday, Dan! I got me a bar and chain today, I hope you like it!

Went out after work with the boy and we sent the model rocket up a few times.

I will do picture updates very soon. Tonight it got a rear bumper, a new trailer light plug and head lights. Tomorrow the exhaust will be welded and I will tidy up the wiring.

Looks like my tractor too! That was at @Pullstart plow day. Whos that guy lookin on?? Bet he's sayin what a couple of morons!

I've have been working on the barn a bit just nothing picture worthy until now. Got all the beams cleaned off, nails removed, and leveled out. Next moved the stack of 2x10's I had in the next section of barn, to be able to take the floor up. And no they are not nailed down and yes I am going to stagger them. With the lumber out of the way I was able to take this last "wall" out

@Tonytoro416, Here is what I worked with. A couple of text from Jim.

That's a lot of love you are putting into that old girl! Love it. Can't wait to see more progress.

Ebinmaine, I'm sure we could work out a trade so you do have a blue one!

I have reservations on what I’ll do with it. I needed another round hood like another hole in my head. This 701 double pulley engine will be the second one I’ve come across now. If it runs well, I may shelf it. I’ve got a yank start K-181 that came from @wallfish last year that I’d like to put to use. You know, one less battery I gotta maintain… although I just got two good used batteries from @Bow_Extreme a few weeks back. This one is actually kind of rough. The square seat pan has been welded up crudely, the belt guard is worked on pretty hard, the hood has been welded and has a couple funky holes in it, etc. I haven’t checked out the steering, or transmission. There’s a boy across town who watches my YT videos pretty religiously. He’s got a C-101 that he was pretty proud to show me. Funny thing, his mom and Mrs. P are real good friends from school. When I stopped by to visit him one day, it was like he was star struck I’ve thought maybe I would find something I have and see if he wants to come work on it with me some day. At the end of the day, send it down the road with him. This one? Maybe Jane the Commando 6? I don’t know.

Maybe a Kohler powered ambulance