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FYI - Just saw this on FB. Glad to see it's a technical issue and not a personal issue. I was starting to get concerned.

Last Monday I painted some wide rims for the back of a lawn ranger ivory white and then last night we mounted some 18 9.50 8 field master ag tires that we got for free back in June because our township was doing a tire clean up day and someone got rid of four of those tires so we snagged them up.

Today I started getting ready for winter.

I’ve plowed with the GT-1600 (Kohler 14 Magnum swapped) for many many years. Thinking I might try my 520-8 with the swept axle (also a Kohler Magnum swapped rig). Started moving tires and weights and lug stud kit setups from one to the other. I swapped those rears without removing the 75 pounds of cast weight per wheel!! That was a chore!! Still have to decide which 48” plow this new plow rig will receive. I have a couple 5 sectors, it’ll definitely be one of those. The GT-1600 looks funny back in its regular tires/wheels. Not sure what will happen with the GT-1600 now, backup plow rig? Maybe sell? Maybe???

We are pretty faithful to the Florida Cracker Kitchen in Brooksville, FL. With the exception of snowbird season, the crowd is very local. Heck, we even get cowboys and ranchers at the Webster FL location next to the cattle auction. I'm grateful places and people like this still exist. Brooksville is what we call the "Mayberry" of this area. We live 25 minutes NE of there. FLORIDA CRACKER - The Original Floridian

Sumin different 701 engine I got from @squonk at the big show, and yes that’s exactly where it’s been since I unloaded it from back of truck.

Gonna need dna testing to verify human remains or plastic... Rules are rules...

GT-1600 8speed with Kohler 14

I couldn’t decide between the two. C-141 Automatic Frankenstein.

Just in time for Halloween VID_20251023_182838325.mp4

Some current full unit view pics for posterity.

The top is before and the bottom is now

Good to hear from Zeek. I thought you only ate pork from all those wild hog hunts.

Put the newly painted vredenstien tires and wheels back on the C-160 today. I dont know why they appear so white in pic. The shade is more like the back wheels. Its Rustoleum Canvas white which I went to after they quit making the Navajo white which I liked just a little bit better.

@SylvanLakeWH stopped by for some Mexican food and some seat time plowing the side of the garden! Saddle up partner!

I will mention several great eateries. Great locally owned family seafood market and restaurant in Milford, Delaware. Medings and Son Seafood. Best pork schnitzel ever. Gasthof Pfleger and Son in Graz, Austria. And it's not on the menu, but if you ask politely, Herr Pfleger may offer his home made ice cream and raspberry syrup desert. Deep fried fresh from the lake perch. Au Lac on Lake Geneva Lausanne, Switzerland. Bib eye steak. Bud and Bettys Bar and Grill in Terry, Montana. I remember Bettys reply when a newbie asked for a pork chop. Betty said you can have a rib eye, T-bone, or porterhouse. I don't allow pigs and chickens in my kitchen. Bud was a 6' 6 tall Swede teddy bear that poured a free shot of Hot Damn Schnapps every time our 9 man crew of hunters walked in. Betty was a 5'2 little fireball that kept the ship afloat. That bar was full of Beam bottles and the back room was the meeting room for the Eastern Montana Cattlemens Assoc. Lining the top of the walls were pine wood plaques with every members brand burned in the wood...probably 50 -60. The lower walls were decorated with Russel paintings and Remington Bronze Statues. I ate here every day for a week while mule deer hunting from 1995 - 2005. Sadly Bud has passed and the Bar is closed. Bud pouring our Hot Damn The Pa Boys

Does this meet the "no humans" requirement? Maybe the October page?

Here you go - Dad's 702...

Slap a tube in it...be fine

I think this tire has another 40 years of use in it

In 1979 we took our honeymoon trip in our new CJ5 on the car ferry across Lake Michigan, north through Wisconson, across Michigan's Upper Pinisula, and south across the Mackinac Bridge back home to Lansing. Mostly, we drove back roads. I have no memory of where in Wisconson we found this restaurant, but it was the best meal on the trip - a mom & pop place called Eat. Excellent home style meal, great pie.

Control cabling is now good to go as well. Full range of motion for the choke and the throttle. Had to re-position the choke bracket on the CH from the Cub location to its perpendicular location on the air filter housing. Throttle was also flipped around to pull from the opposite side of the engine vs the Cub setup. The CH control bracketry makes this pretty simple to set up and modular for different applications.

There, fixed it for ya...

That's the @Pullstart signature move, he can move even faster if the slag gets into his boot.

Sorry, I was too busy looking for a fire extinguisher small enough to fit in your ear... You can move fast!!!

thanks to @Shynon selling me this mower deck and bagger system back in 2021–it still works great! Zach drove Blackbeard hauling full bags back to the compost pile. A cool addition to the 523Dxi is the color matching zero turn take off seat from a Ferris. It works AWESOME—so comfortable. I sound like a broken record but I still can’t believe that a 9 year old (Zach’s age at the time) did over 80% of the restoration work on his tractor!

Our local go-to eatery is the Gazebo Creekside Restaurant. Hardly a week goes by without us eating there. The Muffuletta is my standard order unless it is Wednesday when the have Lobster Bisque, soooooo Gooooood. Save some room for dessert, they have a great selection.

Great time today Kevin! Thanks a million for bringing the plow back from @WHX?? plow day, the help today and your welding skills!!! I'll post up hitch fabrication details on the C-125 Blackhood restoration thread... Looking forward to plow day 2026!!! Oh, as you can observe, gonna need a wee bit of weight up front... IMG_3634.mov

Andy: was that the RJ for sale on Marketplace that was in Downers Grove, Illinois? It was bargain basement priced but you got a good one!

Duh, I didn't even notice the seat and decal were different in the pictures . The hydraulic lift lever was what I was getting at.

What about dogs?

The logic is VERY sound.

Within the first year when it opened, we were working down in LI and just happened to find it. Maybe you might know of it Don, Majors Steakhouse. Probably the best steak dinner I've ever had as the butcher would carve off your selection of meat right then and there. Back then it wasn't as fancy as it appears now by looking at their website. We're blue collar working class guys and certainly wouldn't meet their attire restrictions now. We used to go there and sit at the bar sometimes too. Seems they fancy'd up quite a bit since then so they must still be doing very well. https://www.majorssteakhouse.com/

I couldn’t see their prices on the menu. I guess it’s one of those “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” kind of deals.

Here's the rest of the photos

can this tractor e identified by this number thank you

Wheel Horse frame axle steering and transmission were painted as an assembly. Most were painted red. I don't see a problem if you want to paint the the steering shaft black as it is not exposed in a complete 520.

I can relate. In college I took virtually no interest in EE stuff. Not so much a lack of the capability to understand and I didn’t have any trouble getting through my required minimal introduction, but just not particularly curious about what they studied. Then to find out that they actually USE imaginary numbers in their math and i cemented my attitude that it wasn’t for me. I’d never use it… Huge missed opportunity. 25+ years into this gig, my responsibilities at work have drifted into electrical projects. Our primary EE developed health problems and suddenly retired about the same time we really needed his expertise. The young guys seemed to lack any real understanding of what we were trying to accomplish and the tight timelines meant I had to get out the books so I could be conversant with and keep honest the outside firm I’d hired to do our electronics designs. It also doesn’t help that they (young guys) only wanted to focus on the software aspects of things and are all too keen to ask Ai how to do something rather than give it any thought of their own. Anyway… I don’t know what happens to a brain over time, but this time around not only was the material interesting but it was - for unknown reasons - much easier to absorb and understand. I’m generally perspicacious, but transient electrical concepts eluded me the first time through but now it seems easier. Who knows why, but there’s no doubt that things gel later in life. Whatever it is, I think our innate learning timeline isn’t quite aligned with our educational opportunities. But again, there’s only so much time… You mentioned anatomy… My wife is a doctor. I don’t remember what year in med school she had anatomy, but second year sounds about right. She liked it well enough and has indicated it was incredibly interesting, but she had no interest in being a surgeon. While a major part of her training, it likely didn’t rank at the top of the list as key in the treatment of her patients as other parts of her training were probably more prominent in her specialty. I think at the age (24-25) when they take anatomy, the students have matured enough to appreciate the need to be thorough and complete even if they’re not going to be cutters in their career track. So they take it seriously and treat it as a fundamental building block. Maybe coincidentally, I think that’s the same age where the typical brain finally develops sound decision making and impulse control. Before that, we’re all impulsive animals. This probably goes back to the initial point about missed opportunities. It’s hard to think of it this way, but even med school is a gateway and requires a wide range of things to be covered. Chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry, virology, psychology, plus all the individual treatment specialities…they cover a huge breadth because the graduates will fan out over countless disciplines where their education will continue. As an aside, we’re old enough that she went through that system when it was still quite brutal. I wouldn’t believe how little sleep those new doctors run on if I’d hadn’t witnessed it myself. To this day, I still feel guilty if I feel tired after a long day at work as I remember she’d clock more hours on her feet without sleep in two days than most people will do in an entire work week. All while running the brain at 100% and not taking any breaks. 48 hours straight was the norm…and I mean straight through with no more than an occasional pause to eat a candy bar or use the bathroom (probably at the same time🤢). And that went on relentlessly for the better part of three years. The point of all of that was to make medicine automatic. And it worked. I guess given enough time, anything can become automatic.

Definitely a 1962 and a nice find. Model Year Description Type Engine Model HP Drive Model 502 1962 Lawn & Garden Tractor 502 4-Speed Tecumseh HT55C-3088 5.5 Wheel Horse 5025 The 502 is kind of a more rare tractor as we just don't see as many of those pop up (or the 552 ) as a 702. Probably because not as many were sold or they got trashed because the engines gave out. "Rare" doesn't necessarily mean it's worth a million $ but maybe the right collector may want it. The engine was changed as many of those original Tecumseh engines from that period gave up the ghost long ago. That seat is a more modern WH seat and it would've had come with a square metal seat.

Actually looked at the transmission fluid and it’s very clean. Not sure if the filter has ever been changed though. So definitely still going to change both