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1960 550 and 61 551. First time these 2 have been run in awhile but both fired right up. I had forgotten how much easier these are to mount and dismount than the horses with running boards.

If I want a large rock all I need do is buy a plant in that size pot and ask my wife where it should be planted. Guaranteed there will be a rock about the size of that pot.

The whole eastern half of the state is that way Paul. My house in Northumberland had all sorts of rocks growing out of the ground, and this place, when they dug the footer for the garage, we hauled out a few loads of stone just like the ones you dug up.

Spent the day at the Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine show. Always good to find an example of my favorite WH 1054. Not a good show for parts but if you're into steam it is a must go.

September 5, 1976 Jim Henson's "The Muppet Show" premieres on television with Mia Farrow as the guest star.

Every time you start an S/G tractor you polarize it (applying battery voltage to the A terminal polarizes the genny.)

I thought that I would start a thread of this little tractor. Got a trailer hitch so I can pull it out of the container. Got some C-clips to secure the front wheels. Searching for a shift lever and now I'm working on the steering wheel. As it gets cooler, I'll get more done on this project. Gonna be a long term project. Thinking I'll flush the trans with diesel fuel and put Penetrol on the tractor for the patina. Looking at engine options. Liking the idea of a diesel or Predator just to get it going. More progress to come. Thanks for all the information and advice. The PC-7 will need more coats. Dave Dave

This applies to so many things anymore, not just springs. I get people all the time with high-miles vehicles asking why I want to just put a whole transmission in instead of rebuilding it. on you +175K vehicle, by the time I'm done going through the transmission there is almost nothing that won't get replaced, so you buy all the same parts, pay me an extra 10 to 20 hours labor (depending on the model), at $170/hr, and at the end of it only the parts I replaced get a 12 month/12K mile warranty. Or you pay $300 more and the whole unit gets 3-year/unlimited miles warranty and you get the vehicle back a week sooner because I don't waste three days on measuring for selective shims that the parts manager won't keep in stock. Replacing a whole loaded strut costs less than disassembling the old one to replace just the shock or spring, and it's a lot safer for the tech. A lot of engines you can't even buy the parts to rebuild anymore because the misfire monitor software has gotten so sensitive that minor variations in the cylinder bore or head deck can make the computer believe there is a misfire when there isn't.

Looking Good! I study these pictures to see what mine is missing. Gotta love those little tractors. Thanks for posting those beauties. Dave

Makes me want some crab cake eggs Benedict!! And a tall Bloody Mary!

When I replaced the diff & axles in my C-120 last winter I did it in a rush to get back to plowing snow. I didn't get a good seal around the case and It's had a slow leak that's gotten worse little by little. The last month or so it picked up a rolling whine (from a bearing I'm guessing) I had a C-160 Auto trans I picked up for $50 to steal the hydro lift off of it. A few weeks ago, I decided to break it down and go through the transaxle proper. Tonight I made the swap. No initial leaks or weird noises from a few test laps in the back yard. Tomorrow, I'll give a full shakedown and see how well the hydro performs and what leaks develop. I'm guessing axle seals at a minimum.

Sure hope my neighbor verified insurance when he hired these two pros to trim his hedge.

I’ve come to learn that there are no “natural” parts of our 0.6 acre property. Most of it was the formal gardens for a large estate that had been heavily landscaped. At one point i tried to dig up a section of lawn for a rasberry patch and found what must have been a low spot in the original surface that had been filled in with stones and covered with 6” of soil. I still don’t know how deep the stones go!

Mostly open shale here in Northampton County PA. Not a picnic digging in it either.

Where as I can did a 48 inch hole for a footing and not hit a single stone.

Our property is exceptionally rocky even for New England. At least you can dig a hole 🕳

Most of what I have figured out about Sunstrands came from Dave. RIP my friend.

you can do like the rest of us Wheel Horse owners do most of us has a lot more than one.. Buy another Wheel Horse that fits the hitch and snow blade.

Dave helped me 2 years ago with a Wheel a Matic leak with emails and pics. RIP Dave

Clean the mounting points of fresh paint, Try running a jumper from the regulator bracket to battery neg and see if it changes anything

A main breaker interlock is economical way of feeding your panel. I had a generator input receptacle in the garage that I'd plug the genny into feeding that top right switch. Depending on the size of your genny you might need to watch the total load. In a power outage I wasn't worried about the A/C or the dryer so we could run everything else. I just installed a Generac whole house and we've had two outages since and I just grinned as the generator did its thing without me having to lift a finger. The portable is now at our daughters house and I've set her panel up the same way. BTW, if you download the Generac Field Pro App you can access all the settings and adjust what you want. With an inverter you're safe. Of just make sure you get a portable with less than 5% total harmonic distortion. If they don't specify what the THD is, assume it's too high. We had a Powerhouse (Northern Tool) that specified under 5% and we were fine. The manufacturers are getting better about that.

Not sorry Wayne you know the rules ...

I spent an entire semester in college logic class with a professor who used the muppets in EVERY categorical syllogism... All pigs are pink Miss Piggy is pink Miss Piggy is a pig etc...

In the late eighties I crashed a party with some friends on an estate right on the ocean here in Southampton. Inside the home were the Muppets! Built into a wall behind glass in individual cases were all the main characters! I’m not sure who owned the home, but I have to believe that they were the actual Muppets. Given the fact that they were in these cases with elaborate woodwork and lighting in a multi million dollar home I have to believe that they were the real deal. Shortly after seeing this we got busted for crashing the party and were politely asked to leave which we did!!

Gotta like the Old Mil shirt!

This has certainly been a bad year for tornados across the country. Two separate EF2's missed our house by about a half mile, one north and one south. We watched one on the phone come straight at us and were pretty much waiting for the impact when it shifted just to the north about a half mile west of us. The houses on both sides of us were hit. Fortunately Starke County is extremely rural and both spent most of the time in the woods and farm fields. Other areas weren't so lucky. NIPSCO had it's largest power outage in their history with something over a quarter million homes out. It took them over 2 weeks to get to the 90% restored point. The complaints ran wild but people just don't understand what it takes. I know the linemen from NIPSCO, I&M, REMC and others did a tremendous job getting things back up. While not as widespread, it reminded me of the 2004 Florida hurricanes with 3 in a row impacted us.

RIP Dave. Sorry to hear this. Dave was one of the most knowledgeable guys when it came to rebuilding Sundstrand transmissions. His posts will be missed.

According to the NWS official report from the Binghamton office, my house was approximately 1mile from the center track of the EF1 and approximately 4 miles from the EF2. Both tornadoes formed within a couple minutes apart

I really debated on getting a genny. Haven't really needed one in 38 years. I went to get ice and was going back and forth about it. When I got the last of the ice the store had I said to my self, ok I'm going to try to get one figuring they were all gone. So after putting oil in it I realize I have no gas!!! I have 3 cans and when 2 get empty I go fill them. I have no idea how this happened so I went and filled 3 cans back at the place I got the ice. I'm filling the cans and I hear my phone go off in the car. I'm thinking my wife is texting me that the power was on. but no it was just hurricane activity on my weather app. I filled that genny to the top. It ran 4 hours. When I went to drain out the gas the fuel level was still in the filler neck!

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I faired fairly well, no damage to any of the buildings. Did have a large branch on the roof of the barn, got that down this morning. Other than that had 2 Ash trees come down, one fell on my neighbor's property it was a property line tree. The other tree was in the back yard and I've been cutting that up and burning the small stuff. Just have the main trunk left, and that's about 40 feet long. Power went out about 8:30 Wednesday night, but I have a generator wired into my main panel, got power back 5:30 pm but went out again until 8:30. A pole went down when a huge pine tree fell across Rt 89 blocking the main highway and a walnut tree took out the lines that feed the neighbors and my house. Been so busy didn't get pictures of that. Like @squonk said the lightening was awesome non stop all across the sky, never seen anything like it. Picked up 3 1/2 inches of rain. That EF2 passed 2 miles south of me. As far as I know, thank God, no one was hurt. And hats off to NYSEG, the firemen, DOT, and all those that cleared roads and got the power back on. Seneca County was under a no unnecessary travel restriction and even after that was lifted some roads were still blocked.

Great morning on the Chesapeake Bay with the boys. The blue claws were cooperating. VID_20260903_091532229~2.mp4

We moved the camper with my 1974 C160-8 Cinnamon Horse.

Yup... here's a way better idea...

My experience with “new” regulators is limited to exactly one, but I never got it to work properly. I eventually got an old one at the show that I could adjust and over time have dialed it in. The coil on the left (from the tractor seat) switches between start and generator mode. It switches over when it sees enough voltage from the generator. The one on the right manages the generated current going to the battery at its spring-tension-determined voltage. It opens and closes extremely rapidly--in effect delivering charging pulses to the battery. The manual @ri702bill linked gives the deets. Things to keep in mind... - a known-accurate voltmeter is essential (I recommend an analog since the sampling rate of many digital meters can be close to the regulator's “make and break” frequency which can cause very misleading readings even with the tractor battery acting as a large capacitor) - testing (or trying to adjust) the regulator connected to a discharged or weak battery is an exercise in futility. Just using the battery to start the engine draws out a lot of charge and if a coil engine is running, it is also drawing from the battery. It’s a balancing act! - on my adjustable regulator, when “close” to the correct setting, one turn of a very fine-threaded screw caused over two volts of variation in charging voltage so adjusting by bending the spring bracket on the “new regulator” had me frustratingly chasing my tail

I always said clean the carb 3 times cause that's what it took to stop my Onan's surging. Guess I'll change that to 7 times.

The weight box was made to connect to the subframe behind the axle. Bolt #6 holds it.

Mike just sent me a pic of Jumbo.

We were out about 4 hours, almost set up a gen. but power Co gave me a 11 3 0 am repair time and they came through at 11 20. Pray for our power lineman and personal, they have a very hard and dangerous job, especially after dark. I have worked in there shoes many dark and stormy knights and days and it is a very tough job, but for me very rewarding when we energized a section and the cheers where heard, made it worth while. Bob

1257 and C160 being Patriotic.

My clutch feet would be jumpy too if I had to drive on wrong side of road all the time. whoops I was thinking United Kingdom when I seen Germany in @Dirk from Germany 's handle .

Mounted some Vredstien V61’s and turned some silver wheels white.

Had a couple of my favorites out of the shop so I could cut some lumber. Looked too good to not snap a shot. You can see that the weather hasn't been kind to my grass this year.

Had the 1988 312 out today with a newly acquired dump cart (LTD-244). Found the cart at a local (mostly used) tool store.

EMP An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a short, intense burst of energy. It can damage computers, power lines, and electronic devices. An EMP happens because of natural events like lightning or solar flares, or man-made events like high-altitude nuclear blasts. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] I suggest a faraday cage while mowing.

Some old pics i found of the “hay maker”. I don’t normally mow wet grass, but when it rains for days and the forecast doesn’t look any different…