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My lunchtime walk pays off again....

A modified hydro control to make it easer is always better. I did the same with my 89 520. Longer hand lever and straighten the pattern with just a half notch for natural.

So I have been working on this chicken tractor coop I thought I would share with you guys. The coop is from vevor not sure I can fully recommend it as it's not that great, but it is cheap I paid about $180 for it. However I also bought the 4x4's which were about $70. And couple bushings, bolts, and screws The coop I had to add some additional bracing with some old galvanized water line piping I had pulled out of the house and barn. Cut those to fit and used self tappers to attach those. All the metal I used, I already had laying around, the wheels too. I have not yet attached the "hitch" to the front of the coop yet. The other part goes to the sleeve hitch on the Wheelhorse so that will lift the front. It's all getting painted regal red! I am thinking about enclosing the coop more but have not yet decided if I will used this for the egg laying hens or if I need to build a actual coop and possibly use this for broilers. I had been thinking of building a coop into the bottom of my barn but reconsidering that now, due to dust from the chickens and I have a concrete pad they would be pooping all over.

Good grief they are throwing C160s away up north!

Not that it looks like the issue with the 314H has been resolved I'm a little more motivated to tweak a few things on it. My wife will be pretty much the sole operator so I need to address things with that in mind. I prefer a foot control but she is fine with the hand thingy. Totally unacceptable was that you had to push the lever down and then back to reverse it. It was awkward. This bracket was the culprit. It served two purposes. To block the motion lever forcing you to push down to back up and to hold the neutral safety switch. If I was the only operator the bracket and switch would disappear. But remembering that she drove a hydro through a fence gate and managed to clean out the hinges I figured I should leave it on. I pulled it off and made the modification and this is the result. Depressing the brake centers the rod on the switch arm. The result is a much smoother and easier forward/reverse motion. If I do put a foot control on it I would need this modification anyways. Another thing I'd like to replace is the 'fat' steering wheel. She said she likes the feel. I'm here typing this so obviously I refrained from comment.

I never received any shipping or order updates, but there’s a pile of tires at my back door!

4 tires just delivered!

Let's start one what with all the old coots here ...

Dragging this old thread up because I messed up and used my 701 air cleaner on this little guy, and I don't have another short air cleaner. A full width can will fit but it's really tight and would rub the hood alot. So knowing this machine will never see mowing duty, it's air filtration is easier to modify. I bought a motocross air cleaner for about $8 and modded it to fit onto the Kohler carb. Turned a little adapter out on the lathe and it bolts right up. Clears the hood by 1/2 inch with no issues. Still gotta make the footrests...

No problems at all. I'd say a super kick butt deal.

You guys are all nuts... except for Brian ... $100 non roller all day up here. Brian for saving.

Someone say someone needs some loading help?

Just to the right as you come in. It's not much but there will be plenty of guys around more than willing to help get a tractor on or off.

Well . . . . I do that too but there is no commemorative day for that as far as I know.

I do this every day Here I thought he was gonna talk about getting up every night to pee...

Hug this one! LOL Actually he's really docile and laid back but just looks mean. Yes he's big, and bigger than our dogs are.

I call this one, Sunrise over crane. This is my beast for the day.

Don't tell me you used that bus!

Of course I am a fan of Vanguards up to 23hp. But the majority of your list all look good to me. Maybe not the predator as a first choice (just my personal opinion), but they do at least have a large aftermarket mod supply...

Very cool!!! Maybe you and @Pullstart can race them...

Just got this one. 1965 L-155. Needs some tlc, I cleaned the carb and got it running. It has an external coil conversion, which I like, makes replacement a lot easier. The 4th photo is not mine, is just for reference as I am looking for the air filter that fits in that housing. The parts manual doesnt show an air cleaner, at least the manual I downloaded doesnt.

Today I brought home my new toy! It's a Mahindra 3015 4x4 tractor, with a 3 cylinder 30 HP 1.5L diesel with 1300 hrs. The 3 speed hydrostatic transmission is simple & effective. The 3 pt hitch allows me to use numerous attachments, like a backhoe, tiller, post hole digger, etc. It's got mid and rear PTOs rated at 25 HP for powering implements. It needs a $15 water pump / alternator belt (got it), a coolant flush / change, and grease everywhere. It lifts 1300 pounds which is just a TINY bit more than the Ark500 on my 1973 1-0440. 😉 The first task will be to remove a fallen ash tree once the lawn dries a bit Oh, despite being about 1000 pounds over it's capacity, the Ridgeline handled it with guts to spare! I'm glad it was only 36 miles over flat roads, however.

I have 5 K341s and another coming soon. A 12 HP, a Magnum 16. ALL will have the gears removed as I go through them in the next few years. I can certainly understand someone installing new shafts, bearings and gears. But I don't mind the change in vibration.

Hope that they put the 23x9.50-12’s at the same price

I got the balance gears ⚙️ outta the rebuilt K341 I picked up from @Bill D a few months ago. I had to clean out the holes 🕳 with a wire brush and drill bit. Then I used a 1/2" x 4" Grade 8 bolt as a driver. Worked SLICK. Gotta remember that.....

Proof of concept.

You can also scrap that bracket completely and add an 8 speed style clutch switch. There is a cutout on the left side of the hoodstand for it. Splice in some longer wires and your all set. This forces you to press the brake to start the engine.

My tracking shows delivery: Tomorrow, May 31 between 2:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.

How many hours a year do you put on the C-195...How old are you? Change the oil stay off steep slopes for extended periods and you can get another 1000 hours out of a KT.

For quite some time I've been wanting a way to monitor my BP and pulse on both a daily basis and in particular, while exercising. Such as hiking. Trina bought the same blood pressure monitor that her traveling nurse uses. Wrist-mounted detector with velcro strap. Obviously medical grade. Yesterday afternoon after I was moving around quite a bit I took my blood pressure and it was 124/80. Likely would have been a fair amount lower if I had been resting as I should before taking a BP. That's a good strong 20 points or more lower than I've seen it in the past before I lost weight!

Denali awaits all cats for their morning "hug"... says they all taste like chicken...

Those are easy to find. K&B always has em

I asked my model engineering group about the stone and they advise its definitely a window sill. This is a similar piece from a demolished house. You can see the sloped surface to let rain run off. This is a photo of the original building the was on our garden site. You can see it had bay windows on either end and this is a sill from one of them. Most every building in the area was built from natural stone back then, quarried locally. Brick was for factories and low grade housing. The carved holes in the top of our stone are for staples to join the blocks together. But the one near the broken end may be a Lewis hole, a slot cut to lift the block without having to grip it externally or sling it. Fascinating to see how engineers from Roman times came up with an idea that is still in use today and has never been bettered. By the way, your ten pin bowling balls are picked up in a similar way. Friction between the holes and your fingers is enough to lift the odd shaped object. "What have the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the roads, sanitation, public order, water, vineculture, ..."

Because it's the best excuse to put tri-ribs and ag tires on them

Alex would win! Mine gets stuck easy!

Aren't those little bitty shafts cute?

That is a good first step. Look at the wiring to the switch @gwest_ca posted. That should be how the ignition switch socket on the 312 switch is presently. That wiring arrangement is NOT what you need for the 103 990 switch but the wires can be relocated to make a working ignition, charging and starter circuit and get you out of the shop and onto the lawn with the C. You should remove all of the wires from your five terminal block (see YouTube video below) except the "Start" wire. Now insert the wires in the order on the left diagram. Using the diagram I furnished earlier the wirer to the center terminal of your rectifier will go to the "R" terminal of the block, the accessory wire for lights and hour meter will go to the "A" terminal, the red wire coming from the battery via the solenoid will go to the "B" terminal.

@ebinmaine you’ve saved another one!

I've purchased pedal motion controls for our 312-H and 518-H++. When I install them, i plan to adopt the “modified plate” idea that @Lee1977 & @Ed Kennell have done while leaving a stubbed motion lever in place so the “neutral” switch won’t need a mod.

That K-341 by its self is $300 no questions asked. The only reason I get these for cheap or free is either they don’t know what it is or, I’ve got a friend who’s got 40-50 and he’s getting out of it. The only ones down here that go for insane prices are D series. You could get one for $2000, and that’s the cheap ones!

@Lee1977 nice save on that ! adapting to a problem , is whats its all bout , once you verify what's intended , your mod fit , is the deal , pete

Thanks for the fix Bob. I got rid of several of these tractors with this awkward motion control lever. I do a similar mod to all my hydro console cover plates when I add the foot control.

The 16+’ wide frame, and the ability to lift only about 4”, really reminds me that my yard isn’t so flatlander after all… It high centers on a popcorn fart!

I agree with both above. Easiest: keep watch for a direct replacement Kohler 19 HP. Literal bolt in with no mods. Next in line to me would be either Briggs Vanguard or a flat twin as mentioned. "Out of the running" IMHO: predator. Yeah they're cheap and available and easily modded.... We give enough money to that market already. I have - and will again - spend twice the money rebuilding an old Kohler before I'll buy a new cheap copy. Most interesting? Definitely something unusual like the Wisconsin V4.... Lots of Cool Factor there. But the PTO situation could be a deal breaker.

As a reaction to Pullstart’s post…I can’t decide….

@Mickwhitt I was playing with rocks today, too. Our house in Missouri was built in 1914 by the owner of the local brick yard. It is a brick veneer building that has limestone lintels over the doors and windows. Most of the longer lintels were broken, allowing the bricks to settle. When we rebuilt the front porch, we ended up removing a large amount of bricks and replacing the lintels when it all went back together. The result is that I have a pile of cut limestone old lintel pieces. Today's job was to load some of it onto the utility trailer for transport to our woods in Kentucky where they will probably get used in building projects there. I got four pieces 4" thick, 8" wide varying between 3 and 4 feet in length. Oh, yeah - I don't have any neat lifting machinery. They went onto the trailer using the ancient technology of inclined planes, pulleys, and leverage. There was room on the trailer for more, both volume and weight, but my back informed me that the trailer was as full as it was going to get. I'm guessing that there is about 1000 pounds of rock on the trailer.

Still haven't forgotten about this tractor its in so much better of a place then it was before, dry and completely out of the elements. Been so busy with other things I just haven't been able to do anything yet.

I didn't go all fancy like he did, and build a tractor into it haha.

Had a nice morning at the community garden. One of the ladies found a piece of rock sticking out of the grass, it always catches the mower blade so I decided to pull it out and fill the hole. Two minute job...... Turns out the rock was a bit larger than I anticipated. So I dug around it and exposed more of it. Then a bit more of it.... We tgi know it's a window sill from the old house tha used to be on the site. It was demolished in the 1960s. Having got it out we needed to shift it. So the old Roman rollers came out and we made like the Egyptians to move it across the garden to a shrub bed where it can rest till we find a better spot. Not exactly the small rock I was expecting, a carved piece of stone from the 17th century, buried for sixty years.