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Waldo would be proud, the flip flop kid struck again! Loading a sickle mower, I decided I should see if I can still feel my toes.

And this little piggie cried, "wee wee wee" all the way home. Could have been..."and then there were 4".

Trying to get some shade going around here. Will be 14’x36’ when finished. Can’t wait. I am trying to hopefully have an Eastern NC meet and greet next year. 🤞

If all of the upper steering shaft fittings and the steering block are in good order then shims on the lower steering shaft will pull the fan gear closer to the pinion.

Tie 'em down three more in the hauler... Who's the fruit cake hauling a sno mobile to a tractor show?!?!?

Last night I got the new steering wheel installed. I didn't want to drive a pin through it (steering wheel hole on the tank seems kinda breakable) so I used a bolt. The wheel was one of the splined ones still available online. Broke my 3/4 bit twice because one of the spokes stuck out a little inside. Getting past it was rough. Had to use a die grinder with a small stone to grind the end of the spoke down. Then getting the bit through was easy.

I shamefully admit that I had one of those as a kid and threw it away because I thought I would never actually mount it to my tractor. Now even though I have no use for it and seeing a few mounted up and running, I want one!😂

National Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelet Day falls every year on July 9. The holiday’s name is a play on “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” an idiom that warns people against concentrating all their efforts or putting all their hopes into one venture because they could lose it all. The analogy applies to omelets as well. Have you ever gotten so hungry that you crack too many eggs into the pan, and end up with a sloppy mishmash of an omelet? It’s irritating, messy, and wasteful. This special holiday hopes to discourage that. Eggs are more than food. They’ve played a symbolic role in many cultures and civilizations. They’ve appeared in festivals, ceremonies, and traditional celebrations. They represent change and growth. In America, the Denver sandwich was a favorite throughout the 1900s. The eggs delivered to the town by wagon freight tasted stale, so locals would add cheese, diced ham, green peppers, mushrooms, and onions, and place them between bread slices. Many people claim to have invented the Denver sandwich. Some say Chinese railroad cooks made the first ones. Others say it was cattle drivers from the American west. Later, a breadless version called the Denver omelet was introduced. Although it is still up for debate who the original creator of omelets is, their popularity is not. Tasty, nutritious, and easy to make, omelets will always have a special place on our breakfast tables.

For years I told every young person that asks about employment to get a government job. I meant any job, it doesn't matter because you will be way ahead of stupid schmucks like me that will work three times harder for three times longer.

I finally did an oil rehab on my 416h. Pete finally talked me into it. Does look a lot better. Also did a foot pedal control upgrade. Jury still out on whether I like the foot control or not. Nothing wrong with the product what so ever just personal preference

Not sure why, but the first thing I thought of was dropping cow "biscuits" in one.

For the brake shaft to turn, the rear wheels must as well. Unless the keystock is missing... If your belt guard is not on the tractor, the belt won't stop when the clutch is depressed. The belt guard supports the bottom of the belt so the slack transfers to the pulleys.

Straight SAE 30W. Rotella makes a very good oil for these old flatheads. Winter you should probably use 10W30 for easier starting.

We have a fridge clean out omelet for dinner every couple weeks. It includes any leftover ham, sausage, steak, hot dogs, hamburger, bologna, baked potatoes, onions, tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, and cheese.

It can be any or all the thing mention above. They changed the support at the top steering shaft on the later C series the upper bushing and the hole both can be worn. This will cause miss alinement with the fan gear. the 300 and 400 uses the same set up. this is what I did to my 300's. I used a 6472 flange bearing bolted in place on my 312-8.

Thanks for thinking of me. We're fine, but flooding occurred in several areas about us. It's amazing I only had 4-5" of rain, while 15 miles from me in 2 directions had 12"-18" of rain. Many of these 10-20" rain bombs fell in 3-4 hour time periods. July 4th morning the Guadalupe River flooded above Kerrville, Camp Mystic, other camps, RV parks along river, tent campers, etc. The 20+ foot flood wave made its way down the Guadalupe river valley flooding several small river tourist towns. It was caught in Canyon lake which was at roughly 40%. A One day flow time. At the same time this rain cell dumped 10 -18" on the other side of the hills into the San Saba river valley. This is thankfully a very rural area. While farms were damaged, no lives were lost there. That water 125,000 cfs peak made its way down the San Saba River to the Texas Colorado River and then into lake Buchanan which was also about 45% capacity. That was a 2 day flow time The Llano River water shed also had 10-15" of rain July 5th early morning in rural areas. its' 150,00cfs peak, 24 ft flood wave, made it way 12 hours to lake LBJ where I live. I worked with dams on most of these rivers. One of the dams I used to work with ( Wirtz Dam) opened five 30x50 floodgates to pass this water over about 12 hours.. The next lake, Starcke dam opened all 10 floodgates to pass the water into lake Travis. The next early morning July 5th heavy rains 10"-20" fell in the Burnet, Leander, Liberty Hill area. Several large creeks reached flows over 50,000 cfs then the gauges were washed out. An important commuter bridge was washed out on FM1431 between Marble Falls and Austin. The west end of this heavy rain was about 10-15 miles from us in the Marble Falls area. Sadly the Marble Falls Volunteer Fire Department Chief was swept of the road on his way to a rescue and is missing. His vehicle was found down stream and is demolished like it went through a car crusher. He was a wonderful person and will be severely missed. This rain fell in the creeks that flow to the Colorado river, Lake Travis and down the San Gabriel River through Georgetown to Granger lake. The flooding on these rivers covers about a 200 mile circle of the Texas Hill Country. The Hill Country is very hilly, thin soils on limestone and granite rocks. It is know as the most flash flood prone area in the US. A sad plus of the flooding is that several storage lakes were very low and caught 10-20 foot of water. All of theses storage lakes are usually feast or famine and refill with floods. Thankfully most of those floods are not as sad occurring as this one. Twenty miles to the SW of me the Pedernales River had a small rise also. Member @Chrishar lives in its area. So over a 2-3 day period we had five Hill Country Rivers flooding. We've seen lots of search helicopters coming from National Guard, Foot Hood, Coast Guard, private, etc. heading to these areas. Area churches and communities have set up shelters and collecting donations to cover immediate needs. It we be a long cleanup and recovery for these areas.

Are you at a new car dealership? Maybe the parts department? I get that it’s tough to change careers. Construction electrician for 24 years and it was starting to beat up my knees and back. Was doing jobs at a military facility for my last 8 years but thru a defense contractor, not directly for the military. The defense contractor approached me about being a project manager for them. I jumped at it and in my first week I was hiring my old electrical company to work for me. Kinda cool how it played out. So not a govt job, but close, and much better money to boot. Been doing it for almost 15 years now, physically it’s easy and I’ll have no problem working this one till I retire Good luck in your search!

It's your tractor used what ever shade of red or white you like. I have 6 Wheel hoeses two still has original red from the factory, two are Rust-oleum Regel Red, one Is Rust-oleum IH Red/,the other one is Rust-oleum Safety Red. Four have White wheels just what ever white paint I had., another has Black wheels and and one has Graphite.

Not a halfway measure for you. It may be a good idea to have it looked at professionally in case any remediation would help recovery.

No need to call, there was a box of bandaids that I JUST put in the back seat of the truck!

Sausage, mushroom and cheese omelets, are my favorites, yummy! @squonk and I eat breakfast at the Sunset Diner while at the Show and that's my preferred choice.

Well......its not a Wheel Horse this time. New Honda Pioneer. However.....there's a 1057 right in my town for sale....asking $400. Think I'll go look at it. The drive belt guard is missing in pic but it supposedly runs.

Wow, thanks everyone, that's a lot of information! I will have to check all these things out, I didn't even know there were parts down there with grease fittings as I am fairly new to these things but I will be digging into this soon! Love this little tractor so it will be getting the care it deserves!

They're great for composting seaweed for the garden!

With a bit of grease or Never-Seez on the troll pin a "C Clamp" can push the roll pin in without a problem.

Unfortunately the type of switch you are looking for is nearly imposable to find. It has a pair of 60 amp contacts to operate the starter rather than using a solenoid. My suggestion would be to buy a 103 991 ignition switch and a solenoid. The solenoid can be mounter on the engine and then two larger wires presently going to the old ignition switch would be moved to the two large solenoid terminals. A new fuse protected # 14 gauge wire would be added from the battery + to the ignition switch "B" terminal. An ignition switch pigtail as pictured below would make the job easier. The attached drawing will come in handy for this conversion.

Corn, Squash, Cucumbers did well and are done. Pulled them up last week and planted Peas and Okra. Three large Wtermelons on the vines, and 2 new ones forming. 3 or 4 Cantaloupe should be ripe soon. May try to plant a 2nd Corn crop, otherwise that area will be vacant, but still get watered by drip hose irrigation..

Took some massaging to get it how I wanted it. I wanted to retain the adjustment so with a little time and a few iterations I finally am happy with it. As far as the foot control I’m having a hard time getting it adjusted to it returns to nuetral soon as you let off. Install wasn’t bad at all just not there yet I guess

Returned home this afternoon after two nights camping with the 11 and 10 year old grandkids. We ate a lot of hot dogs and mac & cheese. All cooking was done outside over firepit or Coleman camp stove. No video games but we did watch a movie each night. We rode a few miles on bicycles. We fished, waded in the lake, skipped stones in the lake, took walks and engaged in conversation. Discussions included the need for flies (and the maggot's place in medical use). Wasps (these two have unusual fear of wasps) and what they are good for? They were in awe when one came inside the camper, and I was able to allow it to land and walk around on my hand before it flew outside without stinging me. Once question raised was "Will it sting me if I try to pet it?" Why does the "leaves of three--leave them be" plant (poison ivy) make us itch and a host of other question surrounding this plant. "How can that snake swim?" "Can we go camping again and stay five nights next time pawpaw? Not likely to stay five nights but we will go again before they out grow pawpaw. The cab of the pickup was mighty quiet coming home with heavy eyes and their heads bobbing with each curve. I think I wore them out--I was! If you zoom in, you should be able to see the rather large stone skipping. We settled for catching three inch long bluegill--might as well be record keepers.

If you happen to show up with no shirt on, I’ve got one packed for you! I apologize for not getting it shipped out to you! I have a real nice 702 I’m bringing to cruise on too!

@Pullstart

Oops, Bill types real fast.

If the vertical (steering wheel) shaft is lifting up and disengaging the fan gear, you may be able to loosen the set screw and tap the thrust collar up to prevent the lift. Chances are the plastic thrust bushing is worn out, but to replace that would require removing the steering wheel. Could also be the lower shaft is worn and moving or the ears on the bearing block may be broke.

Welcome! There is a shaft collar on the upper steering shaft that may need to be adjusted. Is there a lot of upward play when you lift the steering wheel?? If so, you may be able to remedy that by adjusting the collar position. One more thing... look at the frame mounting tabs on the lower steering block - the one with the grease fitting. Those ears break quite often... if they are broken, the block moves around when you steer.

You won't be swapping out the axles to widen an Eaton 1100 as @19richie66 did in this post but the steps for adapting the brake pedal and speed control linkage would be the same. Read through the thread and you will see how well Richie documented the process. Keep us updated as you go along and feel free to ask any questions that may come up.

Had it been any further back, I'd already have been on the chair of shame at the ER. All I got was fingernail and the end of the finger. ...and one ruined pair of shorts! Definitely would have made sense. And I hope your toe feels better soon. My apologies for hijacking the thread too. It happened about 10 minutes before I saw your toe! Needless to say, my mind had not returned to it's normal speed limit.

About as frustrating as removing a hub to replace a leaking axle seal.....

I've been lucky on most of my Wheel Horses getting the steering wheel off. That 312-8 I had to cut the shaft it had been stored out side before I got it. I cut it down low and added about 3" . You can see in that picture in the post above it's larger right below the battery support. It has the has the front spindle for 6" wheels and 8" wheel with 25" rear tires. The fender pan,. bracket and gas tand was raised 1 3/4". .

Actually my first choice, but my pins have a loop that is big enough to make contact with the fuel tank.

A pink one at that!

I’ll be there Thursday morning.

Heading out at 7am

It ain't much but the price was right....

Kohler Breakerless ign. There is a trigger under the shroud and extra wires from the stator that connect to it.

grandson just back from 3 weeks in europe , did all his travel itinerary on line , definitely going to repeat , met many people with similar interests , ideas . exhausted , but already planning another trip. figure with his welding craft and rating , at submarine finish grade , he is already signed up / hired at a metal fabrication shop in ohio , letting him do a wide verity of set up , finish layouts . be over tomorrow for lunch and talk , my granddaughter is now in england , / scotland doing a similar look around , with her collage , for 10 days . encourage / emphasize , what they are doing , wonderfull , back and forth talking exchange , very happy grandparents , pete

also just found out my other grandson in the marines , crew chief on a c130-j , is flying africa and related , areas , they do air- air refueling as well as , big freight and jumpers , seeing the world , pete

AWESOME! The Mackissic we restored here has earned a permanent place on the front of one of my own C160s for the foreseeable future.