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That is a 4 wire regulator - 3 are visable, one is under it. Is that one intact? Remove the regulator cover and observe the contact arm area of both relays inside.One is open with the key off, it closes to allow charging. (It MUST open when off so as to not discharge the battery). The other is the one opening & closing rapidly when running. With the engine running, it should spark at the contacts in use. If not, it needs to be cleaned. All that arcing is normal, but burns and erodes the contacts. Disconnect the battery! Lightly file the contacts - do not use sandpaper! Some folks use a crisp new dollar bill instead. Hook the battery up and see if it charges. IMHO - the wiring is old and painted - there may be corrosion where the wire terminals connect to the tabs & the S/G. A good cleaning is in order too.

I mucked out the cab of the truck today. Hasn't been done in a loooong time. Much more pleasant to sit in now. Also worked the lawn restoration a bit. The grass has started to grow, but it is nowhere near a lush covering of grass. The seed I used was a mix of different grasses. One of them is growing well, the others are more like green fuzzy on the ground. I mowed it earlier this week with the deck at transport height, I mowed it again today with the push mower. I got the leaf blower out and blew about 1/2 of the straw off, hoping to get more sunlight on the green fuzzy type of grass. For good measure, I spread some more grass seed around. Got a few weeks of good weather left, hopefully some more grass will get started.

Scored a FREE vintage Coke cooler and unloaded it with the 520 FL. It cools but the wiring is pretty scary so replacing.

I am in total agreement with you two on keeping a roof over stuff. If it's got wheels and tires, I want it under cover. When our kids had a carport installed. I laid 2x6 treated wood under the runners. I felt this kept the metal runner off the gravel and hopefully last longer. Our camper's carport is bolted down to the cement pad. I park the camper on rubber mats. I hope this is better on the tires than parking on cement for months on end. Great project you've got going on.

I did put the original rear tires back on and ran a rag of WD40 across it and now I want a set of ag tires. LoL. Going to look into adding hydraulic lift since it's doing so well! Might even go for sending off the motion lever and PTO lever in for chrome. 😁. Got a few pics and a cold start, no choke. VID_20261004_125013.mp4

A guy in my town posted this for sale, $100 Not really practical for my yard (not to mention lack of storage) but I thought is was pretty cool!

The temperatures and my schedule granted the trip to a processor buddy. I’m glad I jumped in the old plow truck, I smoked a little deer on the way home last night. The plow mount took the hit, and there were no marks on the truck. It’s been quite some time since I was involved in a car deer accident.

NOS ? Think I would throw some cash at that.

Three blonds are sitting by the side of a river holding fishing poles with lines in the water. A game warden comes up behind them and says, Excuse me, ladies, I'd like to see your fishing license. said the game warden.But officer, replied the second blond, we aren't fishing. We all have magnets at the end of our lines and were collecting debris off the bottom of the river. The game warden lifted up all the lines and, sure enough, there were horseshoe-magnets tied on the end of each line. Well, I know of no law against it. Take all the debris you want. Then he left. As soon as he was out of sight, the three blondes started laughing. What a stupid fish cop! The third blonde said to the others, Doesn’t he know that there are steelhead trout in this river?!

We've had good luck introducing winter Rye in the past. Grows well in the fall.

In October of 2025 we bought ourselves a new camper. Smallest least expensive model we could get and yet still more than we needed in features. We had it tarp covered last winter and always intended to build a hard sided structure. Both Trina and I are firm believers that campers (and many other things) should be protected from the sun and precipitation as often as possible. After waiting patiently for about 10 months to get an excavator here for site prep, we're finally ready to get our part of the building process going. The camper living space box is approximately 13' long by 8' wide. Add the hitch and we need a 16' minimum storage length. After a fair bit of reading and searching we decided on this metal framed unit for the beginning of the structure. At 14' x 20' this will be more than large enough for the camper trailer and several extras. Other pieces of equipment and tools will also be stored here. Once the above pictured structure is built we'll add the rest of the metal to fully enclose it. There will be large doors both front and rear. Here's a few pics showing the proposed location of the new camper cover building. This would allow us to drive a tractor out the back side of the building because it's about 8' from the drop off by the trees. It would also allow us to drive a tractor along the right side of the building and be able to use the ramp our excavator operator left for us. That ramp is to the right of the 3 trees at pic center, and curls around to the left and behind them. This pic shows proximity to the house. Better zoom. The openings of the ends are 14.3' according to the online pics. 20 foot front to rear. 14.8' to top middle peak. The blue flags are for the Code Enforcement Officer to see so he knows we actually measured. Not guessed. 75 feet is the minimum amount of setback. We'll have about 79' to the angled support leg closest to the road. Today I ordered a set of 16 mobile home anchors. These are USA 🇺🇸 MADE. 30" depth with a 4" round fan width. By the chart I found we should use 12 of them for a 130 MPH wind resistance. If we get a realistic half that it'll be fine. One big thing to figure out will be how to open the front for the full 14' wide and 13 ish foot tall door.

Interesting design. Thanks for sharing

You will find a wiring diagram here. Click on the tractor to see it. This older Kohler service manual has a good section on the starter/generator and regulator.

I have a newer 3 point version of that for my Massey. They’re a nice chipper.

On a drive in the country a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another. 'Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about,' said the city slicker 'but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?' Time, answered the farmer. 'What does time matter to a pig?'

#41 off the assembly line

A guy heard What's New Pussycat song by Tom Jones on the radio one day. It went earworm and stuck in his head for several days. Out of desperation, the guy goes to his doctor for some relief. The doctor says, 'oh, you are suffering from Tom Jones fixation syndrome'. The guy says, 'wow. Never heard of that. Is it rare?' Dock replies: 'It's Not Unusual'.

Perfect for this topic!

Again, posted this elsewhere on the site, but it really is perfect for Front End Friday!

Now this is definitely a “side shot”!! I posted this elsewhere on the forum but just realized how perfect it is for this topic

No, I didn't bid on it, I wasn't even at the auction when it started. I was looking for a specific item, and I wasn't impressed with the items that might have filled the bill. There were a lot of other things my money would have went for over the Wheel Horse, but I was trying to be picky and was only going to put money down on what I came for. The Ford 640 would have been a nice buy, or the Massey Ferguson 35, but I wasn't in the market for another tractor.

I went looking for a decent reversible scoop, and saw this:

That's why you need a different implement on each tractor - then they all have a specific purpose.

No

Can confirm. I have quite a few.

Shoddy Wiring But 14HP, Hydro, Good Seat, Front Carriage Where is the picture of it in your garage Horse do like company, haven't you built that bunk in the garage yet Who am I to talk, there's a Black Hood on MP for the last few days 2-3 miles from me. My wife actually spotted it on MP before I did. In one sentence, she asked if I was going to look at it and wasn't I going to sell some of the ones I had

Wire brush and some heat paint and turns it into a going to town rig! that muffler is worth 50 clams itself

Any pics Dale?