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Friday a friend and I went to Mennonite green house to purchase some plants, On way home I noticed a spray along side my pickup and it quickly became apparent it was from radiator. Pulled off the road at an intersection and discovered the petcock was missing! The petcock was plastic. Called two auto stores. One didn't have on in stock and the other assured me they did. Called my wife and she picked up the petcock and 4 gallons of water. When she arrived the petcock was the old style brass--the auto parts guy must have been a new hire or something. Called a friend and he thought he might have one but didn't. I ended up using my handkerchief, and stuffing it in the hole and used vice grips to help hold it in place. It wasn't a perfect seal as there were steady dripping. Left radiator cap off and made it ten miles to home-with a couple of stops to add water. The petcock just flat out broke--34 years old but surely caught me by surprise. Certainly glad I wasn't pulling the camping trailer. I caught the leak before engine got hot and had a wide pull-off close by. Never leave the house without pocket knife, (multiple uses) finger nail clippers (even good to cut small wires) and handkerchief (excellent for wiping grandson snot and now plugging radiator.) We had five folks stop and offer help. Two of them women, one person didn't have a full set of teeth and another knew my truck from the previous owner. Good folks. Told my wife later If I had know it earlier, maybe sitting along side of road with hood open was good way to pick up chicks! She doesn't seem to be too worried as her reply "You wouldn't know what to do with a chick."

Last night I installed the hitch I ordered from wheelhorsepartsandmore. Bolted up nice on my 1257 and seems like very good quality, I look forward to using it. Thank you @wheelhorseman .

That is a beautiful EXPERIANCED work of art. It took a long time to develop that much character. Show it a bit of respect.

I have seen them blow out. sign of a slow pressure buildup from a head gasket starting to go. I remember a Renault alliance coming into the shop with a melted overflow tank. The rad cap was on the tank. I was in a band about 35 yrs. ago and we had an old International bus. It developed a rad leak at about 10 PM and about 25 miles from home. I stuck a wad of Freshen Up Gum in the hole. We filled the rad with water from the beer coolers, some ditch water and about 6 cans of Genny Creme Ale!

Your transaxle has a dipstick, slow filling through that is one option. Some guys lube the gearshift lever, slide the boot up, loosen the dog screw, remove the shifter (it was in Neutral, right?) and fill there. If the boot is in bad shape, it the perfect opportunity to replace it!

And someone will be along shortly to let you know to jack up the front so the transmission will drain over the hump in the bottom.

The hand-held band saw has replaced the sawzall as my fav!

Fixed it for ya...

I’ve been up close to the full-size Case Quad-track and it is a beast--specifically designed for farms with soft or damp fields, it distributes its weigh widely and is less likely to bog down when pulling large implements . This operating scale model is an amazing piece of work!

The 312-H at my son’s place got it’s share of TLC this weekend. Saturday: take off the snow blade & wheel weights, sharpen and lube recycler deck and install Today: swapped in LED headlights, and a new battery (O’Reilly’s), rewired the power for the seat-back utility light, and installed a rear rock shaft (made by @JoeM & bought at the BS last year), lift cable, and sleeve hitch. Found a couple of item’s we’ll have to get to soon. Maintenance is never ending!

Started clearing out some brush and growth for a new shed location today. Used my nastiest bent up ground-down 42” plow.

Sometimes STUPID can be good. I bought a marketplace 310-8 for $175. It was advertised as not running and a locked transmission. I saw what appeared to be a like new 42" SD deck, so I bought it un seen for the deck and parts. The PO said the clutch is locked up and it will not start. He had called a nearby lawn and garden tractor sales and service shop that would pick it up for $150 but it probably needs a new $600 transmission and some engine work. He advertised it for cheap to make room for the new tractor he bought from the same dealer. The only problem was a worn drive belt that had allowed the clutch damper plate to fall below the damper piston. The piston then popped out and locked the clutch un the up position. Of course net being able to depress the clutch and close the clutch safety switch prevented it from starting. About an hour and a new TSC drive belt and it was mowing my yard. BTW, he had installed a new deck that was used one season before the tractor died. STUPID was good to me..

I burned some trash in the burn barrel yesterday same as I've been doing for 60 years. I came in, ate dinner and looked out about an hour later and saw smoke coming from around the shed door. I ran out and cracked the door to see black smoke and intense heat. Closed the door and ran to the other barn to turn on the hose. Lucky I had the hose nearby to water the garden. I cracked the door and the flames erupted in the front corner. It took about 30 minutes to get things cooled down enough that I could go inside and concentrate the water on the hot spots. This is a 30 yo T-111 shed that I covered with metal several years ago. So I had heat between the metal and wood that I was finally able to get the water on. Sure could have used you Don O. Mrs. K wanted to call the local Fire Co. but, I assured her I Got This. I'm guessing a spark from the burn barrel found it's way under the metal and lit it up. I had some vinyl siding stored overhead that all melted and covered everything. Shelves full of plant bedding trays, rope, buckets, everything plastic melted. Three square foot holes were burnt thru the floor and the corner wall where the fire started. Repaired the holes today. The lawn sweeper is really all that was lost. It was right over the floor hole. The log splitter and crab pots and traps were in the rear corner and were not damaged. Some of the plastic duct on the Trac Vac melted and the paint on the 310 was damaged. It may buff out with a buffing compound. This can of starter fluid was sitting here on the Trac Vac Briggs. Note the melted cap. Me thinks I was seconds away from a total burn down. The burn barrel has been relocated.

If it needs a part that’s worth as much as the tractor I’d part it out. If it’s rusted to the extent it’s worth more in parts than whole I’d part it out. If it’s a running driving tractor in savable or overall good to decent condition I wouldn’t.

The drain might be plugged with gunk so clean it all off good before trying to take it out. Make sure the allen gets a good bite so you don't strip it out. It might come out hard.

Should have called, this could have gotten much worse in a hurry. Glad you got it out but as a former volunteer fireman I can tell you they would have been glad to roll up on an extinguished fire and would help you clear out the shed to be sure there were no hot spots.

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Drain plug bottom of tranny you need a 1/4" hex (allen) bit

Mine seems to like the wood stove.

Maybe we got a couple!

May 19, 2004, Shrek 2 premiered in the USA with special early showings in Westwood and NYC in mid-May 2004, but its wide theatrical release across the United States was on May 19, 2004, with some sources mentioning May 21, 2004 as the main release, making it a huge blockbuster that year.

You better add a big one.

That's a good one to have around. You will find no mice nesting in your fan shroud with that one keeping watch. Our kids have a blue racer living under their front porch - see him/her in the grass sunning from time to time. And they have no mouse issues. It might be bigger than your black rat snake.

Why? If they haven't done anything in nine months and haven't kept you informed then I don't think YOU should feel any obligation to that shop. Bring it home and let us diagnose the problem with you. Even if you need to rent or buy a tool or two it will be less expensive and quicker than having those keep it.

Which "end" of Donkey?

Aka, " the patina of authenticity "

Donkey was the main character, wasn't he.

Love those movies! It is possible that it's helpful that I greatly resemble the main character.

This is my issue. We have a lot of snakes around me, and some are venomous. Aside from garters I am not great at telling the difference and so I try to avoid them all. The only ones I ever killed were stuck in my bait basket, and I know they were venomous. But I thought danger noodles were downed high voltage lines.

How bout a Nope Rope? Or a Danger Noodle? The poisonous ones I can understand the great aversion to. Snakes eat things we don't want around here, like rodents... and unfortunately other things we do want around, like frogs. Our rodents are targeted 🎯 by several means.

We could probably fix you right up if I would stop killing them. Note- King and black snakes get a pass. All others are legitimate targets. By all others I mean not black or black and white banded. We have several varieties of poisonous sneks here. Copperhead (bit me several years back), cottonmouth, rattlers, and coral snakes.

I take Bella for a walk at one of the many state parks within a few miles from home every morning when I'm not working. Yesterday was Dean's Cove on Cayuga lake and today Seneca Lake St.Park.

Glad you got it under control Ed. (But I'm still going to bust your nuts at the BS!)

Am I the only one who sees a ghost in that first picture?

FD Love to use their Fire axes! We had a big construction job going on at work and there was a staircase that was boarded up on both ends. A smoke detector tripped on top of the stairs and the alarm went off and here come Geneva's finest. We searched for the detector and concluded it was in the stair well. Those guys whipped the axes out like they were six shooters!

I finally got to have some plowing time

I freely admit the 12 yr old boy in me read the topic title and choked back a laugh and blew coffee out of my nose. I apologize.

Kind of like a dog that chases cars, doesn't know how to drive even if he caught one.

Those snow plows gotta go somewhere!

Maybe dialing back from 75mph will help your mileage?!

That is my favorite tool!

I picked up the boy from scouts last night and he was in the gym beating the crap put of some kid twice his size with pool noodle. I think this was a genuine game and he was just dominating, not an actual violent incident.

I'll accept that too.

I'm thinking the flywheel key sheared and threw the ignition rotor out of time.

I'd say both qualify. I mean really, even a foam pool noodle - in the right hands - is a danger noodle...

Wow. Parallel lives. The lot we bought to build on was densely overgrown and poison ivy heaven--we saw the perimeter and a bit of the wooded area but just trusted the rest would be ok. We knew it was once was the formal garden and rear lawn of a manor house that burned which lead to the property being divided and knew we’d become the owners of the 1880’s brick-and-stone water tower that served the property before the village had a water distribution system. Upon clearing the growth, though, we found some surprises: a hand-dug well almost 20’ deep, an adjacent underground pump room, and a 10’ diameter concrete fountain! There was lots of buried, rusty piping for irrigation, too. Only the pump room was unsalvageable, so we filled it with all the big rocks we found when clearing for our lawn and...then we put a deck over it!

All cleaned out. Next step is to pull the whole thing backwards a few feet for better front half access and get the rollers out. Reinstall the air cleaner and try to start it.

Did it fire at all? Onans will run on one cylinder if they have spark and fuel.

Extra small wheels too.

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