Leaderboard

Another 3 point build because of course I needed just one more... This tractor is much like several others I have, being a mix of parts to make it how I wanted it. Frame and tranny from a C-120, sheet metal from something in the 60s, front axle and rear wheels from a 520, V twin Vanguard engine, LEDs front and rear, and pretty much anything else that could be upgraded has been. The 3 point isn't by itself, and the dash tower, lifting mechanism, and toolbox were greatly overbuilt to take the weight of the rear lift. Anyway, another custom in the Herd!

Built this for my son to play with. Made to look like a 1962- 1964 but actually a 1967 L157. The dash tower/ tool box was cut and welded up to match a set of Suburban fenders. Also added an 8 speed transmission and Kohler K181 because I'm allergic to Techumseh. Changed over to 6 inch front wheels and added running boards for safety. Also has a reciever hitch integrated into the toolbox.

Test fit and ran this little 3k WH genny this morning. Needs a little body work on the top cover but other then that it was complete and unmolested. It was a good find and runs good.

Work started Friday of last week on my new workshop. Friday the footing was dug out, inspection on Monday, and then framing started yesterday. Everything is delayed about half a day due to the weather last Thursday. Proposed finish date is before Thanksgiving. Roofing went on today: And of course the kids had to climb. The inside wall will be attached to the old roof, and the whole roof redone: I've had issues with the scale. I measured the footprint in the shop at work before settling on dimensions, but without anything there to give a sense of scale it feels "wrong". So I got out the tape measure and some cinder block and started adding some points of reference. The two blocks against the wall are the foot-print of my bigger (home) tool box, approx 6x2. The other two out farther are roughly the spacing and position I want for the lift. With those in place it is starting to look more like how I'd expected size-wise.

I have had this metal building steel around 40 years decided to make a front weight out of it. Got it cut out and tacked together. Turn into a joint project with Kevin as he welded it up. Had enough steel left so I cut another one for Kevin. It has around 2" of sheet lead inside. Best guess it weights 50 #.

Don't talk Ed outta selling it! 🤣 I need it & I dont want the price to go up!!

Well that should guarantee near record snow fall this winter in Felton PA

Took the Ber Vac off the 520 and got it loaded for the trip to its new home tomorrow.

Used the sweeper to get most of the leaves, then the recycler on the 416-8 and finally the push blower to get the leaves off the lawn, just in time for the wind tonight to put them all back.

Excellent find. Always thought that would be a handy implement to have......

Yep, not a blowable snow for 10 years. So it's going to NE Ohio to take care of the snow coming off the lake. Now I can plow the sloppy wet snows we get in the warm cab.

Not a problem Paul. I have enough firewood and deer sausage stockpiled to keep me warm and fat till spring thaw.

You guys can have it down there. We are more prepared than we ever have been before. I have enough plows to set up at least four tractors. I also have the two stage snow blower. And the Ariens commercial walk behind. Bunches of shovels. Even extra help this year. I'm hoping with all that, we just won't get any snow.

About the only thing I'll use heim joints for is tie rods. I actually use 3/8"-24 threaded rod with female heims. A chunk of 1/2" OD x 3/8" ID tubing cut to length cleans things up. Getting the tube length proper for correct alignment (correct enough for these machines) isn't a problem. I've never broken the lighter rod.

I've done both. I like the look of a solid round rod with internal threads. I don't have a metal lathe and my drill press has a wicked wobble I have not fixed yet. I've had different people here on Red Square make them up for me on different occasions. I have also used threaded rod/ all thread. The one word of caution I'll say about that is, most of your standard issue hardware store or Big Box store material seems to be grade 2 or grade 5 at best. For our usage on rough terrain that is not strong enough. Special order grade 8 or even harder. Just wanted to mention why I source mine from McMaster Carr. I can't speak for quality one way or the other for the ones on the jungle site. I do know that the ones I am purchasing are between $8 and $11 each and they are USA made with very fine tolerances. IMHO Jeff Bezos already has way too much money. I only buy there as a last resort.

Just got out our Honda track snowblower that my grandpa uses around his house, Didn’t run it out of gas or anything. Have it one light pull to prime it then one real put and it literally fired right up!

Today is Election Day. Please vote. Regardless of your political beliefs. Billions of people around the world do not have a say in how they are governed. We do. Millions of Americans have lost their lives defending our right to vote. Honor that. A Republic, if we can keep it. Ben Franklin

Super awesome! Looking forward to seeing this developing!

Canned pumpkin pales when compared to the real thing. The texture of canned pumpkin is like eating paste whereas the real pumpkin pie has a texture. This past weekend we entertained my wife's family. I helped by making the pies. She made the rasin pie but I made the chocolate pie, apple pie- from mom's canned apples and cherry pie from cherries I gathered last summer. I made the homemade crusts from scratch. Someone commented about me making pies. I told them if I can build a house, I can surely bake a pie. Happy Eating!

I’m not sure if you settled on a price yet @Ed Kennell but I heard it’s supposed to snow like crazy in Ohio this winter. Especially in and around the Chardon area, so………..🤣

If it's important, it gets delayed. Ordered parts for a Hobart dish washing machine for a school on a Monday before T giving. I needed them at our door by midday Fri as the school was closed and we needed to take apart most of the machine so we needed a closed kitchen. Hobart ships UPS and usually it takes 2 days. Fri came and no parts. Monday came and no parts. Following week came and nothing. I finally called. They said they were sent. So I reordered them and got them within the 2 days. We had several buildings on Campus. We check them all for the lost parts. Nothing. 2 month's later I get a call from another school district where we have a behavioral health satellite office. We found a box here and wonder if it's for you. It says Hobart on it. I go get it and the address label is for this office. I peel the label off and the correct address is on it. someone at UPS decided the address was wrong and changed it. It worked out as within a couple of days I needed those exact same parts for another machine.

I'm still kickin' about. Been busy as a Bee doing all kinds of stuff on and around the house. Besides that I've spent some free time on the 585 again. Trying to work out the lighting on it and tidy it up a bit. Old headlight fixture, pretty good condition considering it's 40 years old, but I only have this one and they are NLA.. So I copied the design (a bit) and made two new ones. Not too shabby. The two tabs sticking out get bent in front of the light to "fix" it in place. The fixture attaches to the front grille with two springs a foam/rubber sealing ring and a few adjusting screws. I have yet to figure out exactly how to copy that! Next up on the list is fixing the front grille.. they are available aftermarket but pretty pricey.. about $350-$400,- shipping and import/tax not included So I'm going to attempt to repair it myself. After my roof I said I would'nt do that fibreglass stuff again but here we are Current (very sad) state.. tips and tricks are very much welcome! P.s. I'm looking for a piece of material as shown below. Anybody what this specific pattern/style of plate is called? P.p.s.. Also looking for a drill and tap set for standard American/English threads. What sizes should I be looking for? At home I've got a set with drills and taps for M3-M12. Is there something similar available in the non-metric flavour? Thanks for reading/viewing! Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

I changed out a seat on the workhorse from a Kubota seat to a Michigan style seat. The kubota seat angled down in the front to much. Tomorrow new points and condenser in the 416 snow machine.

Got the pumpkin ready for the Thanksgiving pies.

Great advice! Put jumper battery on, no change. I got the bendix to move with screwdriver then lubed the shaft with dry silicone. Back in action!! Thanks to all the comments

I still vote on the first Tuesday of November, in person. Only one time did I use the absentee ballot and that was during my tenure in the military, and I did vote early one time because I was to be out of town during the election.

Even Honda clones are very good engines. I've had one on a gokart I bought for my daughter almost 20 years ago. If it has gas in it that thing still starts on the second pull. Very smooth runner too. Those 45 degree engines all seem to be great for thier size.

Kevin: Isn't It Funny How All Available Spaces Tend To Be Filled Beyond Capacity For Ease Of Movement???

I have no clue why I got on the Hemi spelling yesterday. I was on a roll trying to say how I did the conversion. Maybe Hemi is the plural of Heim.

Tools Tools Tools! I plan on starting to hoe out some stuff soon and putting it on Marketplace. Duplicates. Air tools, Metric swivel impact sockets, Flare line wrenches and the like. Stuff I haven't used in in years and don't apply to working on these tractors. I'm going to be 67 in a few months. Once I hit 70 I hope to downsize even more so my wife and son don't have to deal with it

Hemi is Dodge Right? serious upgrade to steering as well!

The hard part of welding mufflers is the rust on the inside The muffler on my C81 had seen better days with small holes and cracks. But I decided to try brazing holes and cracks. Brass especially likes clean medal but no good way to clean. My brazing was not nice and flowing, more of a dab, cool a tiny bit, heat dab, cool. But I got it sealed up.

@ri702bill that’s EXACTLY what I was going to say. As much as I’m all in favor of American made, I have a few of those Honda engines and I must say that they all start right up every time.

The engine on the portable generator at my son and daughter’s camp stopped working. After too much time spent diagnosing, I finally realized that the intake valve was frozen open. It’s an old Tecumseh HHO55 and just not worth the cost/effort to repair. I had picked up a lightly used B&S 6 hp from a failed generator for very short money so yesterday was “move the generator” day. I knew that getting the stator off the tapered engine shaft was the real tricky part. I’d seen a YouTube vid where they press off with a push bolt; a process very similar to removing an electric clutch from a WH. Our (bleeping) stator, however, did not have internal threading for the push bolt! It took a day (age does that to one), but it dawned on me that I could tap the hole myself. so I did. ⅜”-24 in the 21/64” bore. I inserted a 5⅝” x 5/16” rod into the bore up against the end of the engine shaft leaving room to thread in a 1-½” bolt to push it. I wanted to have the push bolt thread in at least ½” before contacting the rod. It didn’t take as much torque as I expected and it popped right off. I had piled a soft support under the heavy stator to catch it when it came off since any damage would’ve defeated the whole job! Here’s the tapered end of the engine shaft, nice and clean. Those four bolts holding the generator base to the engine gave me some resistance but I won. I’d already checked over the new-to-me engine so it was only a matter of installing all the generator parts. After making sure all was aligned and spinning freely, I was able to start and test it. All good!

Got the shed built today! Now the chore of moving everything out there hopefully before it snows. Gonna have to wait till spring to spread stone around shed & under lean to. Probably do some landscaping & a ramp at the front

And speaking of two wheels… bought another two wheeler, rode it home this morning (now that was cold!!). Used the heated handgrips…very very nice! 2013 with only 5900 miles.

You sure do not want to run them very fast because they will shake themselves apart. I mow at just a bit above idle for that very reason.

Yesterday I closed down the garden for the season. Pulled the plants that were still standing, chucked them onto the ground then used the 520H with mower deck set at a low height and ground them up. I'd rather do this than put on compost pile where I might spread disease to next year's crop. I gathered the okra, green beans, jalipinos, green peppers but didn't have enough for anything but stir fry. Cut up some smoked ham and onions harvested earlier and those with the forementioned vegtables made a pretty good supper. Also fried a skillet full of green tomatoes. Suppose to get into low twenties early next week so may cover the turnips and see if they can finish growing. For some reason--probably really hot and dry this past summer--some of the plants didn't do so well especially the second planting. The picture is my gardening set-up from earlier in the season. The closest raised bed is asparagus (I've seeded it with spores from morel mushrooms in hopes that perhaps/maybe to harvest morels from it in the future) To the right is thornless blackberries, then the green cattle tubs one with mint for iced tea and the other for plants that climb the cattle panel arch. Finally the main raised garden with another cattle panel arch and cattle feed tubs. Beyond and out of picture are two peach trees and three cherry trees that I hope start producing next year.

Done this back in Sept. done this by jerking a weed eater under a fence by the string end (wasn't running) The little metal line cut off blade get me good. Then and now pics below. Still hurts every once in awhile. 12 or 14 stitch's cant remember.

I saw a new posting in 'bumps & bruises' and immediately thought that @Pullstart had done something again.

I second that source for quality parts. It's similar to what we eperience with front wheel ball bearings. Different manufacturers market them in an array of prices. A Design Engineer I worked with had a poster in his cubicle that read "Cheap is not always good... Good is never cheap. Pick one"

I have never had a delivery problem with UPS - United Parcel Service. Amazon - While not a delivery service outside their sales, they are remarkably reliable... freakishly good and instant information on where your package is... USPS - Consistent delivery problems... first class, parcels... matters not. I avoid USPS whenever possible.

Yes Dan ! The British invented the reel mower. Old timers at various mower shops and golf course maintenance barns used grinding compound to sharpen us the blades. Various ways were used to grind the blade with attachments and tools that cleaned and sharpened the blades on the reel. When I bought mine it was in much better original shape than the NOS one Jim has but I never sharpened the blades while I owned it. I did use it thought one entire summer and it was amazing as a grade cutting machine.

I certainly don't speak for the PO but I get ours through McMaster Carr. Dozens of types and sizes. I use the 7/16" double male for tie rods. The plow rod I built was outta 1/2" or larger. Don't recall but I can check tomorrow.

Hmmm... looks an awful lot like a Honda GX engine......

I’ve got a reel mower sharpener bed I’ve never used. @WHX?? @Achto I got it at the Portage auction a few years back. Didn’t know what I was actually bidding on but it was a good deal! I swear I don’t WANT to be a hoarder…

Took my last ride of the season today, it was cold AND windy so it was a very short ride. But I ended this season with 456 miles pedaled total which is a few more than last season..that’s a plus!