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Maybe I’m a traditionalist, and I like round balls over sabot slugs. I’d rather eat a quart of cherries than to be forced to eat watermelon any day. Nonetheless, my grandparents’ old front yard should be an orchard for all the various shaped seeds my cousins and I spit at each other, or did long distance competition shoots!

Jammed one more into the shed (7 now) Maybe room for one more. Tried to take a panoramic pic.

Worked on the 314A that @c-series don gave me at the big show. When I brought it home and unloaded it, the engine ran fine but it but barely moved. I put it in the barn and planned to leave it for a winter project, but today curiosity got to me and I had to open it up. Got the choke cable freed up and working. Then pulled the tins off to find the problem that seemed to have the motion control system locked up. I disconnected the link to the cam plate and with some cleaning and lubrication, got full motion from the cam. The motion lever was still locked up. Then I saw it, the brake pedal spring was missing and allowed the pedal to fall down and lock the motion control lever in the neutral position. Duh ! Added a spring to pull the pedal up and all is well.

This was the largest mountain I've tackled in several years. I feel GOOD! 7.09 miles. 2050 feet Elevation gain. Substantial !! Here's a passel o' pics...

International Cherry Pit Spitting Day, celebrated on the first Saturday in July, has made us realize more can be done with cherries than just eating them. This year it is celebrated on July 5. Cherry pit spitting is the act of spitting out remains of cherries from one’s mouth to send them as far away as possible. Thousands of people, comprising contestants and spectators around the U.S., gather at specified venues to participate and witness this exciting holiday.

@Pullstart's a good Michigan boy... Michigan cherries Yum!!! Cherry trees big deal here... kinda like curd trees in Wisconsin...

OK, here's my wedding ring story. When I started working in the Allis Chalmers Hydro turbine lab, we measured test pressures with 200 inch mercury manometers. This required climbing a ladder as high as 20feet many times. I would run up the ladder, read the mercury level, and with my hands and feet on the outside of the ladder rails, slide back down fireman pole style. Yep, one day the ring got caught on one of the thin metal angle braces . I was lucky to be under enough control that I could stop before the finger was ripped off. After the swelling went down, the ring was put in the jewelry box and not put back on until 50 years later when I retired. When I did put it on I discovered it no longer fit my gnarly index finger but it did fit the little one.

Donna saw this on instagram. It might be useful for you folks with long driveways.

I have never been in a Cherry pit spitting contest but I have done my bit of cherry picking on three cherry trees my grandfather had. He had 1/4 acre of strawberry plants we weeded in early spring. But I have participated in the WATERMELON SEED SPITTING Contest as evidenced by my ribbon! There are the kinds of exciting and entertaining events we now spend our retirement time on in addition to the Wheel Horse tractor Shows!

Just ain't right ... 'course coming from a guy that don't like mushrooms...

I couldn't find any Flex Seal. I was told it was all shipped to Michigan so the Emergency Depts. there could quickly seal up head wounds from tractors falling from shop ceilings.

Finished up stripping a “for parts" P220. When I got into it, I discovered it‘d likely been running hard and died rough. One piston is seized solid. The crankshaft is intact but the flywheel key was sheared and the camshaft is in three pieces as is one connecting rod. Musta been quite a bang. Good news is I”ve now got a solid muffler and known good starter, ignition sender/sensor, stator, voltage regulator, coil, and governor components all of which can port directly to our worker P218 should the need arise. I’ll be putting the usable parts that I know I won’t need in a Classified. Free for pickup or for the cost of shipping.

Put the boat in the water, first time this year. Took a sloooow ride around the local lake with my wife. Taking it up to Maine next week and need to be sure it’s “OK”..you know how boats can be Nice restaurant that you can pull up to.. maybe next time. Note: I’m wearing a Wheel Horse shirt, always representing!

Oh and another marketplace find is this very nice condition double scissors lift. It let lifts from about seventeen inches to sixty four or so rated 660 pounds

Got you covered!

I'm pretty tired but considering the last several years I'm doing quite well.

Incredibly busy day today!! I was so tired from hiking yesterday I was in bed and out cold by 7:30 PM. This morning I was outside in the barn by 5 AM. After the shelf moving project I built this wall for the new workshop space AC.

I’m the father of a young experienced driver, who had an accident at the big show. Luckily, it was between a tractor hood and a camper owned by one of the board members. Luckily also, my daughter was uninjured. When I approached the owner of the camper, his first reaction saved the day. He asked how she was. He asked if she would be willing to get back on the tractor and drive safely. He never wavered about his wrinkled camper side skirt. Her experience grew that day. I’m glad I never make a mistake I don’t learn something from…

Yep more for us ... Cherry pie & ice cream ...

This comes up frequently. Pulling in low 1 or 1 it will pull a lot... stopping, as mentioned-not so much. Something else is where's the weight? If it's above the rear axle you add to the problem... I pulled my train fully loaded with kids and occasionally adults. Easily over 1000 lbs. Hitches all below or at axle height, Dead flat paved street only... First gear. Never any issues...

It it's a typical horse wagon with tall iron tired wheels it's going to be hard to stop once moving. The tall wheels makes it easer to pull but also harder to stop. Your 856 is a tractor with clutch and brake on a single peddle. it's out of gear when applying the brake. Wheel Horses don't have a lot of stopping power.

Fates of the Declaration signers: (From the interwebs) Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

Cool picture! Haven't ya seen those lifts in the city parking lots that put one car above the other? You could get at least 4 of those in there--probably fit 10 tractors!

I always have plenty of both, but I gotta go with waddamelon!

Gave the 314A a bath. No pic, but I tested the 700. Hooked to a locust tree and she spins the tires in Fand R. Gave the 312H a bath while I had the pressure washer out.

Now some paint and good for another 55. Shifting seems less jumpy too!

After 4 years of using a 20" table mounted slide rule to calculate the water HP, brake HP, and efficiency of model turbine test data, I entered the computer world in 1968 with a WANG programmable calculator. It used a cassette tape.

There is a thread on here somewhere, a member ?? @SALTYWRIGHT had a hitch made for the rear of his WH to haul garbage cans.

Todays experiment- posting a picture from my tablet. Unlike all of the young ones out there, my working experience with computer operating systems is from the stone age - punch cards, paper tape, Fortran IV, and IBM OS2. I'm barely literate in the current world of Bluetooth and Android. Already done - Bluetooth transfer of the photo to the tablet from my phone. Looks like i got it figured out. While out shopping yesterday, we treated ourselves to a new piece of Lodge iron:

@Chrishar, there have been a number of members who’ve posted various repairs to this sort of two-piece tank, which BTW is the correct one for a 704. Search for “gas tank repair" Most common issues are with three areas that may or may not need work: 1.The seal between the two parts. Fixes include: a) using a process of cleaning/etching the inside and then applying a fuel-proof sealant (Red-Kote is one brand) or b) carefully separating the two parts (13 screws!) and applying a new gasket (which is, remarkably, available on the ‘bay!), or c) having a very competent welder of aluminum “glue” the two parts together. 2. The hood thumbscrew sockets on the sides. The best solution for fully ripped out sockets that I’ve seen is to embed stainless T-nuts (flange toward the tank) in JB Weld which is tightly filling the remaining cleaned cavity. Be sure to have a greased screw in the T-nut to prevent the epoxy from getting into the nut’s threads and to hold the nut straight while the epoxy sets. 3. The bottom fuel tap (leaking). Too many options for a quick list. The easy one is to simply remove, cleanup, and replace the nipple. Thread tape is NOT a good idea on fuel systems.

There is an interesting history to tractor safety that invokes the FORD and FORDSON tractors in the 1920’s. The first FORD tractors were not made by Henry Ford and his company. They were made by Becau the FORD tractor name was used legally Henry Ford had to use a new name , hence FORDSON came on the market. Farmers in Nebraska were concerned about the safety of the FORD tractor and convinced a Nebraska legislator to create a safety test field program/project at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln . The Larsen Lab at University of Nebraska in Lincoln has a lab and museum which houses old tractors that were part of the testing process. https://tractormuseum.unl.edu

Using the information from the posts above send a PM to: @76c12091520h Brian Badman. He should be back after the holiday weekend. If he hasn't got em CALL Lincoln at A to Z Tractor in PA.

this year was my first time at the show and i had a lot of fun will come back again and maybe bring it too

That ain't the worst price nowadays. I remember before covid they were 40 -50 a pair.

Got it on the trailer with a vise grip holding it together. Going to the welder tomorrow.

My 704 had a leaky gas tank. After removing all remnants of gas, a simple soldering job fixed it. I sold it 2 years ago. Fellow that bought it, restored it beautifully. He said that next year he will probably bring it to the Big Show. I hope you do the same.

Flex seal? I believe if you spray it in a woven pattern, it’ll give better holding properties!

Maybe try and make it fun with tractor games, prizes or something like that so they will WANT to attend. A kid sitting through a lecture about safety is like trying to sell them life insurance! LOL

I can hear it now: “Who are you to tell me my kid can’t drive the tractor without taking your ___ course? He mows the lawn at home all the time!" Probably a party pooper, but I live in a litigious world. To me, rules that apply to everyone are easier to accept and enforce: - safety session is mandatory (driving is a privilege, not a right) - liability waiver is mandatory (hold organizers harmless and accept personal responsibility for your child and self) - no wristband, no driving - shared wristbands get confiscated - non-compliance gets you an escort out of the show

You could use Kev to demonstrate the consequences of unsafe practices.

Don, it's a shame that you are not there to watch, much less participate. Somehow, the event has managed to happen at least 25 times without serious incident. I have seen minor things and near misses, but what tractor driver hasn't had a few of them in the normal course of day to day tractoring? Violaters of safety rules are warned, then asked to leave. Things seem to go smoothly. As Charlie Culley says at the start of the day on Friday, "your first accident will be our last". Now if they can just get the music to play!!!!

Hummm. Once we get built in our Ky. location, we will have a long driveway. That looks like it would be easily fabricated to fit the 3 point on EJ, the 8n.

I marvel at the pace of change. The first computer that I programmed was a Clary DE60)--32 words of memory--each program was a stand-alone tool. My new mobile phone has 128 Gb of memory (i.e. 2 billion times as much) and has an entire ecosystem of globally available tools (apps). In 1964 I marveled at having a video call between two hard-wired terminals across the NY World’s Fair grounds. Now my grandchildren assume that the only useful real-time communication is via FaceTime--even if they are in a car traveling down the highway (on a voice-only call one asked “Where are you, Gramps, I can’t see you?"!

I got a free pellet stove. The exhaust port was carboned up really hard stuff, so off came the forced draft fan near the exhaust port. The feed auger was full of pellets that got wet and swelled up. I finally drilled out the base of it to use a rebar to pulverize the now solid mass and she cleaned out. At the opposite end of the exha ust fan there was a clean out which probably was never accessed..The scraper removed enough to fill a pie pan which probably explains all the crud and crust at the exhaust. Not too bad working in front of a squirrel cage furnace fan. These things list at over three thousand. They have more system controls than an Englander, so maybe because they have thinner heat exchangers they might put out more heat. Anyway, the thing is cleaned up enough that I will no longer look like a coal miner....

Interesting you ask that... the tractor, brakes, transmission etc is exactly the same as a C Black Hood. I never "tested" the concept... but I'm thinking no...? Not thinking the drive belt would hold? I pulled it with both my C-105 and the E-141's and noted no braking difference... I no longer have the E-141's or the train...

Not true Mike ... idiot flipped one of them high speed s x s at a show and went to the Show went on and the sad part is they just let the rest of the idiots keep on ram rodding. Thanks for the comments fellas Really ... Wonder if their is away to become a certified instructor like hunter's or snow mobile or boating safety. Have to look into that.

Nearly every machine I have started like this. To me at least, the finding and modifying parts to complete the build is the fun part. Absolutely none of my tractors are original. Some have only small differences, some are cobblepots. Any new ones if I get any will get the same treatment. I look forward to your build progress!

My old pond pump that has been going for 20 years needed a service. I lost the filter basket long ago and just used it to pump water for watering the garden. So I decided to have an afternoon in the machine shop modifying the pump by making a filter mesh for it that's easy to remove for cleaning. The outlet pipe was also the wrong size for the size of hose I have, so I had to turn a new adaptor out of black nylon. I also moved the power box and tidied up the wiring and hoses around the pond Bit of landscaping to be done and it will look better.