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Been awhile since I’ve been on here. My newest project. Raider 12 with a loader. Just got it running today with the hopes of bringing it to zagray.

I pick this up today. Needs some help but I have the parts. I have had many of this model 4 speed and 8. I have always enjoyed these eight speeds for sure grunt of power and pulling..This is my winter tractor for plowing. Needs some love. It has an over the big pond carb on it now. Runs ok but I have something for that. Hope you enjoy the picks.

Had to do some re-organizing to fit all the tractors in my storage building so a good opportunity for a photo shot was had. Herd safely tucked away.

Completed some edging or landscaping around part of the new shed. Wasn’t happy with the stones working their way out into the yard.

Custom Wheel Horse 1277. 16 hp Kohler. Homemade belly blade.

Here is some of what we went through to pull that quarter panel out. The bondo in one area was 3/4” thick! It mostly popped off that initial bare spot by itself. I sent Jada to work with a hammer and a puddy knife to pop the rest of the big stuff off. Then, we cleaned up some with a roloc disc, then wet sanded 220 grit. This is not the final product, just clean enough for the weekend date night.

Been super busy around the house the last few days as usual. We've been talking about cutting the sides down on the trailer. They are now 26 inches tall on the inside. Trina took the opportunity to try out her new spray gun. Definitely a learning curve but she's adapting to it quickly. Since this picture was taken she has repainted some of the black areas and we've replaced the lights and wiring harness. All new Grote brand LED setup. NOS from ebay. This tree is something we've been talking about snapping off for a couple years now. Sits right beside the house. Yesterday she sliced It Off a few feet above the ground and then built a platform feeder for it. She also reset one of our house guards in place.

Non running at the moment.

While Betty Crocker might have put them in her cook book, our Moravian and Czech heritage is rightfully credited with the Pig-in-a-Blanket. Czech immigrants called it Klobasnek or Klobasnikiky. They, as I am, are shocked and disappointed when I bite into this special desert and find it filled with a commercial hot dog. Much better when made with sausage that has everything but the pig grunt in it. The Czech variety also used a slightly sweet dough. I suspect those Wisconsin boys @Achto and @WHX?? would agree. So much for my rant @953 nut

This weekend is Prom and Jada is driving her date We did a quick spray bomb last night. It’s better than it was. It’s nowhere near perfect!

Just move the cradle with it. Should bolt right in. You may want to consider replacing the rubber mounts with solid ones. Likely because if they haven't failed completely, they will eventually.

If the phrase “pigs in a blanket” conjures up images of darling newborn piglets swaddled in warm fluffy blankets you are definitely not a foodie. National Pigs in a Blanket Day on April 24 is a holiday celebrating one of our favorite comfort foods — pork sausage (or hotdogs) baked in pastry. And whom shall we thank for all this? Start with Betty Crocker, whose cookbooks decorated every post-war kitchen — exposing young impressionable minds to this culinary delight. In 1957 she published Betty Crocker’s Cooking for Kids, with the first simple recipe for the taste treat, and the rest is history! From a child’s first flour-smudged attempts at cooking to chic cocktail party fare, and from fancy pastry crust to pre-made biscuits in a tube, pigs in a blanket are the ubiquitous snack for every occasion. Whether it’s a plain hotdog or a fancy sausage wrapped in your favorite dough, gather your friends and share memories of the first time you were introduced to pigs in a blanket.

I was going to save this for Dino Part 6 but wanted more opinions before I paint the Dino sheet metal. My first time on a HVLP spray gun. I used a mix of 12oz of gloss white, 4oz of gloss almond and 3oz of mineral spirits. I set the pressure at 60psi. Even at the max sprayer setting I felt that I should have had more paint flow but it was doable. I did the backside first for practice. I had a few spots pop up almost like there was a tiny drip of water. I did get a couple runs but it was the backside. The front was going better until I had a sprayer malfunction. The upper pin on the trigger fell out. A quick fix then the sprayer clogged up. I totally forgot to use a strainer so that was probably why. I'm thinking I definitely need to put a water strainer and a regulator at the gun end of the hose. I had 75' of air hose on it so it would be easier to control the actual gun pressure. The water separator is probably a no brainer. The front side of the wheels turned out pretty good and the backsides are acceptable. I'll show some constraint and not mess with removing the tire protection until the paint drys. I usually do that too soon and end up touching the wet paint. Any dos or don'ts guys?

This my plowing tractor. Fit up the mower deck to make sure it ran good.

Yes indeed sir... We always wrapped a sausage in a pancake.

The FEL looks like a Johnson Workhorse loader that has had some modification and a larger bucket. Here is a picture of Johnson - - - - loader that is.

Unless you have the good fortune to own the only Suburban that doesn't have a rusted up roll pin be prepared to administer lots of penetrating oil.

Look out moles, John is armed and dangerous.

What??? That Dewalt isn't a trencher???

I saw stones..... Then I saw a chainsaw. ...... I wasn't sure if I felt I should keep scrolling ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

All the stuff that's not fit to eat.

More like a member of PETA.

Forget what model. It is a yellow/white version of a 782 and has power steering. Found it…1864. 18hp Briggs Twin.

1974 Elec-Trak E14.

No tube steaks or dough in my Pigs in a Blanket. Pigs in the Blanket Aka Stuffed Cabbage Recipe - Food.com

I have a pressure regulator and a filter connected directly to my gun. Keeps water out & allows me to control the pressure with out walking back to wall. I'm guessing you have a gravity feed gun, the tip pressure does not need to be as high as one would think for good atomization, 30 to 40psi at the gun inlet on my gun, might be higher on yours. Best just to experiment on a scrap piece. As far as reduction, you really should not have to change the reduction from a standard siphon feed to HVLP. https://www.harborfreight.com/oilwater-separator-68246.html https://www.harborfreight.com/125-psi-air-flow-regulator-with-gauge-62695.html

To quote Dan Aykroyd in the The Great Outdoors movie " You know what they make those things of Chet? Huh? Lips & @--holes"

In 1976 I worked on the night cleanup crew at a Commercial Turkey Processing plant as a part time college job. Wore a yellow rain slicker and rubber boots for 4 hours each night to how waster pressure wash everything in the place, then coated it with iodine water. After they cut the main parts of meat off, the carcass was ground and pressed through a 0.005 ths screen (holes the size of a blond hair) The liquid tomato soup looking meat that oozed out was used to make every kind of lunchmeat you can name. Nowhere on the label did the Canadian Bacon or other products say it was made with turkey! Just injected a flavor to make it taste like what the label said it was. Yes them even made hot dogs out of the turkey tomato soup.

Scientists are still evaluating what is actually in one of these...

Or get a couple spacers and mount the engine direct to the frame... You may have to drill a new hole.. I didn't on this one.

I encourage you to have the new piston in the machinist hands before they do the final size honing. Even Kohler pistons are now made overseas and are in my experience are not to exact 0.010 over measurements

Got the beams leveled at all the support points so there are just some low spots to fill in on some of the beams I think I might even start laying down new floor on Saturday. Its definitely a incredible difference from what the floor was I probably had 6 inch variances in the floor to I believe I got it around 1/2"

1965 John Deere 110.

Roper…..? Conglomeration of left over parts and a mobility scooter lift.

That's me!!!! People Eating Tasty Animals.

Today, on this nice day, I got the cobwebs out of both tractors. I did some spring clean out in front of my house, swept out my basement/workshop as it had a bunch of mud in it. And took the chains off the 308. I’m thinking about putting AG’s or a wider tire for the chains, so I only need one set for both tractors.

While I agree with the theory for raising the axle, I have never done it nor had an axle pivot or spindle fail just by greasing them as they sit on the ground. Greasing regularly is far more important than the method used to do it.

Try @76c12091520h Brian. Or @Jake Kuhn Or CALL Lincoln at A to Z Tractor in PA

You should raise the tractor front by jacking the frame, jacking under the axle would still cause loading the weight on the center pivot. You can’t grease the front axle too much, it is the only way to flush the dirt and water out of these unsealed joints.

Early 60s Executive 8E.

Yes HVLP means low pressure and high volume. Also get your water separator and filter as far away from the compressor as you can. For small jobs I paint with the Rustoleum paint /clear method I've explained many times. Comes out good with nothing to clean up. I use a TIP Tools turbine HVLP set up when I do a major paint project. Sounds like a vacuum cleaner running and I can paint anywhere there is 110 volts

My 1962 Mo-Craft had a tired out K160 “small bore”. Since nothing is available for that model I bought a “large bore” K161 kit from I Save Tractors. Took both pistons and block to the machine shop. Machinist wouldn’t touch it until I convinced him they were same stroke and piston height. After checking the crank he was happy enough to bore and hone it to fit the new piston. The little engine runs just fine now. Gotta go. The wife just pulled a pineapple/coconut pie from the oven. That has priority over this forum!!

Nice collection of tractors there Cleat. Do you use all of them?

Wood Max. Uh PTO chipper? Very tame herd

Your not a true electrician unless you have a "Spool Table" once in your life! Friend of mine's Dad was a commercial electrical contractor. Did mostly factories and plants. Built large control panels. Well my friend got an apartment and the only furniture in it was his bed a couch, 4 lawn chairs and this giant wooden wheel table. 8 guys could play poker on it! Well as time went by when he came home from work he would empty his pockets of wire nuts , screws , wire ties ect onto the table. Eventually there was so much stuff on it yo had a hard tie looking across it. One day I came over and it was all cleaned up. I asked him where everything went and he said his father ran out of wire nuts at the shop!

AND try to get the genuine Kohler parts - some of the aftermarket cheap stuff is garbage...