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Another project going on here simultaneously with the yoke is another batch of hand planes .I just get bored with myself and am always looking at something else to start, always having at least two things going at the same time. This is a batch of 39 planes which are my signature tool and used to be carried many years ago by a prominent tool company in NYC. I have made quite a few of these in the past and it’s something I always enjoyed. Why 39 asked my oldest grandson. Well, I think 40 would put me over the edge and discourage me. With very few exceptions all the work is done with hand tools. The exceptions are due to the quantity being made so it expedites things a bit, otherwise ye olde shoppe gets backed up. I have been at it for a little while and I will demonstrate the process as I go along.

Found a praying mantis on the shop floor today. I don't have much of a project going other than trying to solder some LED lights to make them blink or represent a campfire for the model train layout. I wrote "trying" because, it's getting harder to see where to solder and then my hands don't seem to be as steady as I need to solder these tiny connections. Thus I decided to take a break and that's when I found this praying mantis. It was probably 3~3 1/2" long. This bug entertained me off and on all afternoon. It didn't seem to have any place to go and spent most of the day on the spare folding chair in the shop. The most it moved was when I put it on the back of my hand and it would immediately crawl up the sleeve of my flannel shirt to which, up near my shoulder, I would allow it to crawl up onto the back of my other hand where it would start it's journey again. I killed a fly and a fed it to the mantis and a dying cricket as well. As I watched, it would use it front legs to hold the back legs and bring them to his face for grooming. It's days are numbered because we are expecting low twenties early next week. I zoomed in close and made a video of this creature so that the grandkids enjoyed at supper this evening. They were fascinated and so was I.

Took the 60” off and cleaned/oiled it and wrestled my new to me 44” two stage on now just gotta weight the rear down and hope it wards off any snow lol

The even crazier folks like me have even started the festivities on Wednesday!

National Saxophone Day is celebrated on November 6, on the birthday of Antoine-Joseph ‘Adolphe’ Sax, the inventor of the saxophone. This soulful instrument has a rich history and musical range. We love the saxophone and what it brings to both the classical- and jazz music worlds. This incredibly unique musical invention is the only instrument to be created by solely one person as well as being the woodwind family’s only brass instrument. Through the ages, the saxophone has a long legacy for its contributions to music by the likes of classical saxophonist Marcel Mule and the famous jazz musician Charlie Parker to name a few. Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1841 and patented it in 1846. Born in Dinant, now known as Belgium, this Belgian inventor is also famously known for his several near-death experiences in his childhood. To name a few, he survived falling down three flights of stairs, a gunpowder explosion, and swallowing pins in watered-down sulphuric acid thinking it was milk! Despite all these misfortunes, he lived to invent the saxophone, which would become a great modern contribution to the music world. Having studied the flute and the clarinet, Sax invented many musical instruments before the saxophone. He created various ‘sax’ brass instruments including the saxtuba, saxotromba, and the saxhorn. However, these instruments never received the same popularity in the musical community as the saxophone did and quickly faded into non-existence.

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.

I believe it’s the 26th and 27th this year. But for some of us really crazy people it’s turned into Thursday,Friday and Saturday. Not just Friday and Saturday! Usually by Saturday after my wife leaving me there for the three days she says “Haven’t you had enough of this?” And my answer is always no!

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.

Hope she didn't marry you for looks cause you may be in trouble after she got her vision fixed.

Took my wife in for cataract surgery this morning, now that she has a patch over her eye she is going around the house saying ARGH Shiver my timbers Yarrr and the cats won't come near her.

Realize that the word "plane" has been associated with the tool much longer than there was even the idea of an "airplane" . Having said that, yes it does fly. It glides effortlessly across the face of a board making it "flat" and in the process creating shavings to "fly" out of its throat.

The 21st is Father's day so the 26th and 27th

@Beap52 you're lucky... if she was courting you and had succeeded, she would have eaten you.

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.

Looked on the WHCC Facebook page but found nothing. Going further down the internet search options I found this helpful AI offering. Don't think AI has their s**t together. The Wheel Horse Collectors Club has not yet announced its official 2026 show schedule, but some dates are being discussed or tentatively planned for later shows, such as the Third Saturday of September 2026 or December 13, 2025, and January 10, 2026. You can stay updated by following the club's social media or checking their website for announcements. Could someone who actually knows fill us in.

No... it was for his tractors...

swapped some Deestone 8.50's for some Carlisle 8.50's raised rear of tractor a little over an inch.

Post holes are this deep: The original shop was roughly 23x25, with about a 7 5/8 overhead, pretty standard 2-car garage. The addition is 20x30 with a 14 ft overhead. Very little tractor stuff will happen in the new side. This is intended to be my automotive work shop, I've had the lift for a few years already, with nowhere to put it up. The new construction is primarily for the lift, but tool boxes, a work bench, and a few larger pieces of shop equipment I have will go there, and a tire mounter and balancer will be added when I get my year-end bonus in February. Anyway, today's updates: Siding is 3/4 of the way up. Got a call from the company the builder uses to do concrete, they are having to cut off work farther north due to the weather, and so the floor pour is getting moved up to next week.

Weatherman says there may be snow this weekend. Not sure I believe hime, but figured since it was close to 60 degrees today, it was a good day to clean the snow pusher!

Yes Deestones run extremely small, i sent a set back this year because their 23x10.50-12 measured 21x9.50-12..

I made one out of a .50 cal ammo can that mounts on the front tachomatoc and rests on the plow frame for down pressure. Pivots up and down with the plow. There is a thread on here somewhere. Found it.

Function breakdown Cutout Relay: This is a one-way switch that closes when the generator is producing more voltage than the battery. This allows the battery to charge. If generator voltage drops below the battery's voltage, the relay automatically opens to prevent the battery from discharging back through the generator. Voltage Regulator: This is an electromagnetic switch that turns on and off at a high rate (50-200 times per second). When voltage is high: The regulator's magnetic field pulls its contacts apart, inserting resistance into the generator's field coil. When voltage is low: The magnetic field weakens, allowing a spring to pull the contacts back together, removing the resistance and allowing the voltage to rise again. This cycle constantly adjusts the field current to maintain a steady voltage, typically around 13.5−14.2513.5 minus 14.25 13.5−14.25 volts, regardless of engine speed. Current Limiter: This function operates when the electrical system's load is high and the battery is low. The current regulator engages to limit the current flowing through the generator's field, which protects the generator from being overloaded. My guess is that your Cutout Relay is stuck / burned together.

The Kohler Magnum series was a continuation or improvement on the K-series. Good engines, as good and if not better than the K-series. The Command series replaced the Magnum series and was also great engines. The only Kohler engine series to avoid is the Courage, with its plastic internal parts.

Awesome. We like bugs here too. Trina's really good at zooming in for the right shot. For scale, the "rope" is a shoelace.

As they say “Vote early and vote often” 😂😂😂😂

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

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 #.

1 - Does not sound like you are over stressing the machine at all. 2 - Filling through the dip stick hole is what I do. If you drop a small hose in the hole while filling, this will let the air out so that it does not bubble back on you. 3 - 2 quarts is a little over full but not a huge deal. 4 - The heat generated in the manual tranny is not that significant. The foaming may just be inherent of the type of oil. My fav is Lucas 80-90w. But most heavy oils would be a good choice. When you drain the old oil out, you should raise the front of the tractor as far as you safely can. There is a hump in the bottom of the tranny that prevents about a cup of oil from being able to drain out.

The Imperial measuring system uses some really weird units but this is the first I've seen " ⅝ of a kid"

Back when I was a volunteer fireman (1970s) the fire station was used as the polling place for our community. That meant that the ambulance and a pumper had to be moved outside and someone from the fire company had to be there the entire time the voting was taking place. I volunteered for the last couple of hours (6:00 to 8:00 pm) and helped the election volunteers tabulate the vote totals and load the voting booths (remember the old style with a curtain behind you and you pulled the lever) onto a trailer. This was and still is a very conservative area and when the votes were tallied there was the expected spread of votes for republican, democrat, libertarian, and one vote for the communist party candidate. We had a good time speculating who had voted communist.

This is something I posted before which describes the original idea of making this particular plane about 38 years ago. There is also the first prototype which resides now in my son’s house along with a large part of the family’s tools I already passed on. The second prototype I still use today.

Cool, @adsm08 plenty of room for tractor projects and other stuff too.

Oh, man! And here I was berating myself for having a box with four hitches taking up shelf space! BTW, I guess this means you have working forklift again?

@Achto, please check me on this, but I seem to recall that... One of the relays in the regulator effectively switches the S/G between S and G. Normally, it switches over when the generator coils of the S/G are putting out a threshold voltage sufficient to charge the battery--around 13 volts. The spring on that relay pulls it to S when there is low or no power from the generator. If it gets stuck in G it could keep the S/G spinning after the ignition is off.

Richard Daley’s Chicago mantra. Our county switched to electronic voter tracking three years ago. You sign in using a stylus on a tablet and the poll clerk compares it to your registered signature on their laptop screen. Prior to that there were big bound pre-printed books; one for each district for each election (~150 districts). You checked in by signing in ink in your spot on the page. The county keeps a secure storage area with thousands of those books from over 100 years of elections!

It’s great to see you active Cas!

Congrats! What is the size of the old shop, vs the new?

Another suggestion on wiring - Your WH did not come with an inline fuse to protect the starting and charging systems. DO consider adding one - a blade style in a closed weatherproof holder- especially if you are going to keep the OE ammeter. When those fail, it can result in a direct short to ground, and then things "heat up".

Good move Mike. But as you know you see something on the net say to your self Man I would like to have that. It’s like collecting tractors I believe it’s the same sickness.

Got it. Perhaps a "when you have the time" project would be to fab a pair of homemade weights using the WH spacing. Both my 854 and C81 have a dedicated set of barbell plate weights - different hole spacing. I have a guy locally that buys & sells used gym equipment - his selection of incomplete weight sets is rather extensive. Tapping cast iron is a chore - the grain structure of those castings is quite coarse; much more difficult to drill & tap than Machine Tool fine grain castings. I recall using a carbide masonry bit to get the holes started...

just curious -- how deep in ground did posts have to be?

The one disadvantage to Vanguard engines (if one exists) is that they are much lighter than a Kohler. Since Don and I both have more than one machine with a Vanguard in it, the box makes sense that it can quickly move from one to the other. Also mine have 1 inch spindles and none of my wheel weights fit.

***Update*** Sprayed seafoam in intake, put some in gas take and performed a slight adjustment to my idle screw and main throttle screw on the carb and she runs perfect!

The early parts of construction can be very deceptive. You’ll be fine! Forty years ago we built our house. I was a newb and taking on the GC role for the construction. After the foundation hole was dug and the footers were in I got in my head that it just wasn’t right. After getting my wife to help me climbing in and out and measuring everything, at least three times, I realized that it was EXACTLY right. After that, I tried to be a little more chill and it all worked out!

I'm pretty excited for this. It's something we have been planning for about 15 years, since we bought our first house. I've been working with the builder since February, and it's finally coming together.

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

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.

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.

Gave a 867 a bath before the washer goes nighty nite for the winter. What a greasy pig!!!! Pullstart brought this over from MI and I know fer sure we overpaid. Was having seller's remorse from sending another one back to Shynon but I needed his tool box worse. The crap was two inches thick on the motor & frame I kid you not. Spread the stuff out on the blacktop and walla ... seal coated. Never even tried to start it but probably wouldn't have taken much. Head gasket is blown among many other things. Nothing cobbled too bad that can't be reversed & strait sheet metal. good ags & orginal fronts in good shape. No sure what to do with it. Mechanical resto is right up my alley but missing lots of paint and don't think a touch up of rusty primer will do or look right. I've got a freshened up 181 shelf motor that is gonna go in it fer sure so partially dissembled it on the splash pad gut to get more crud off.

Installed led lights on the 702. There were holes on side of hood from prior lights that musta bern installed. Switch filled an existing unused hole already in dash. Snowblower installed & working so if it all works out good I'll use it as my light duty snow removal machine. Still will put the plow blade on the 654 when I'm finally done mowing for the season.