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I like makin' stuff... Of course half of what I make doesn't work.

I have this rack on the back of my Raider, I cut it down so it's the same width of the tractor.

My back yard is fenced in for the dogs. My shed is back there and inside is a WH cart. It's a pain to get it out and open the gates for any small job like carrying tools for anything to do in the front yard so I have this little Toro cart that stores easy, dumps and is cute as a button! If it fits it ships!

The one on the right was not originally built for this but the left was.

Please stop giving me ideas.

I put a seat cover on mine that is nothing but pockets on the back. If what I need won't fit there I hitch up the rolling toolbox or my trailer. But a carry basket thing would be cool to have. Like the ones on a farm ATV.

Broke out the HVLP sprayer today and mixed up some Regal Red. I thought for once I'd get a hood done right on the first try. ...well of course not. The side facing the sun got a little too much from the idiot running the gun. 6 inch long sag. I wiped most of it off so it would take less sanding to fix. Rustoleum has a "gooey" thing that automotive paints do not. Even thinned down it splatters a bit. Getting a coat to the "wet" look is tricky without laying too much. Gonna take some practice I guess. Heckuva lot of work just for some hardener. And just to do something right for the day I finished the steekers for the engine.

Yesterday Trina was around the house and heard what she figured was a catbird. Being interested in birds as we all are here she went looking around for it out the windows. What she found wasn't a catbird. It was a little orange kitten. Obviously very timid and likely wild, it was not approachable. Trina left an open tin of my sardines out. The kitten enjoyed them. Trina and I both thought we oughtta try to catch it and then consider keep vs adopt out. We have several excellent shelters around and a great organization called Friends of Feral Felines. She went to town and bought a small animal trap and some food. We set the trap and left it out overnight near the last known kitten location. Side yard. Then.... this morning rolled around. You can see the silver of the trap kind of set behind that big rock there. Yesterday Trina set that hoping to catch the orange cat that we had seen and heard. This morning we got up to find the trap had a dark animal in it!! Obviously not an orange cat. So I went outside and discovered a black kitten. There was also several other cats around. If you zoom in on that trap a little bit you can see a dark colored lump at the upper right and an orange colored lump right between the trap and the rock. They are having some breakfast that I put out after I discovered there were more cats out there. Soooo... this morning Trina set to making a kitten cage out of scraps we had laying around. Use what ya have! This is built with old ballusters and some hardware cloth/wire mesh. See the former deck gate at picture left. Handles added for ease of humans. The hinge is a piece of black leather. Here's the black kitten resting in its temporary room. We've since added a piece of carpet to block our neurotic dog from seeing the cage occupants and also covered the whole kitten capturing set up with a pop up. We left the black kitten out in the forest because the other two (that we've seen) have been coming by to visit so we're hoping to catch all three.

This is waaaaay to wide. But if it was cut down to be the same width as the tractor . This is Tony @Docwheelhorse at a show a couple years ago with the platform thingy mounted on his tractor hauling back an oil can score

Man did I play that over and over in the cassette deck of my GMC pickup ! My musical tastes have mellowed some since then..

June 20, 1988 Guns N' Roses' biggest hit is widely considered to be "Sweet Child o' Mine," released as a single in the U.S. on June 20, 1988, from their 1987 debut album Appetite for Destruction, becoming their only song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

I just get texts about my unpaid parking tickets or car related issues with the Maine DMV. Which is kind of funny as I don’t own a car… I did have someone get my debit card number a few years ago. They made an attempt to try to buy Netflix and a few other random things. One call to my bank and that was resolved. My bank’s pretty vigilant about scammers. If I buy something in a place that I don’t usually go sometimes my debit card won’t work which is a good thing as it guards against a potentially sketchy transaction.

Bought this last week not running. Got it running at the show I was at. Thought about a clean up and flip. Then today... new drive belt, took off pump belt, oil change, transaxle service, basic wiring job so I had crank and on/off and charging. Threw a bucket of suds on it... stood back and went nope.... not for sale! LOL Tony @wallfish @Retired Wrencher @Sparky 20260620_142318.mp4

Happy Birthday @c-series don, we are all glad you were born.

Send me one I could use another mouser.

Ok here we go Don since I am out of RS jail ... Madge ripping Don a new one for cutting in on a tractor buy. Denny @dclarke refereeing. Don being admonished by Wild Bill @Wild Bill in VAfor being late to the parade and having a speck of dust on his tractor. Me thinks he even got a ticket for that one!

Happy Happy Don! See you in a couple days! Crap my name is not in red and I can't attach pics ... Be right back.

Just an idea for @adsm08 💡

Pivots in the front. No suspension.

Last morning on the Bay.. The horseshoe crabs having a planned parenthood meeting this morning. Barkley's ready for a ball game. Heading Home.

You will find him either eating or nodding off under my canopy!

Wow that seems like so long ago. That was the last big show I attended. I hope to get back one day. Family reunion on the same weekend this year. And who on earth let me get in the front row? Good way to ruin a decent camera!

If I can’t carry it, the trailer gets used. The smaller stuff goes in a bag and then on the trailer.

So you sayin' we need to take more tractors along ???

Yeah, I have a trailer, but I'm thinking of something just to carry little hand tools mostly that doesn't use the hitch and is more or less always on the tractor and available. Sometimes I find things, too, (mostly trash) that I want to pick up while mowing.

Happy Birthday @Mike'sHorseBarn, we are glad you were born.

What? No WH parts in the build??? I expected to see a C 85 hood latch... or two.

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉

The 5 drawer carts use the same base plate for the wheels. This could be much more.... capacitive.

If yo do get an external resister be careful where you mount it...they get hot and they do not like to get wet.

If you do the resistance check on the primary windings and it reads 1 ohm to 1.5 ohms then you need an external resistor. Until 1973 when Chrysler went to electronic ignition they had an external ballast resistor mounted on the firewall. Ford and GM had their resistors in the wiring harness. You should be able to buy a Chrysler resistor at a good auto parts store or on line IF you need one.

Happy birthday Don!!!

Happy Birthday Don...

Happy Birthday Don

I would test your old coil.. Note secondary should read 6000 to 10000 ohms

I was shorter that year!

HAPPPPY BIRTHDAY

But half does!

Unfortunately this photo and may other got Photo Bucketed.

Like a spring chicken !! Is gonna get a good polishing tomorrow so she's ready for the ball.

I goofed off all day. I scheduled today off about a month ago to do a bunch of work, then finished it all last weekend. Went fishing for a bit, worked on the boy's tractor for like 10 minutes, actually got to mow today, took the doggos for a small hike, but they are small doggos. Right now I'm watching Ghost Busters: Afterlife.

Funny you should say that. My wife hates when I do the same thing. Usually, I will let them go on and on, then when they take a break to get their breath, I just say Hello?

It wasn’t what I did today, but over the weekend. My wife and I took our camper about an hour away to the east end of Long Island, to Montauk,NY. We got up early Saturday morning to catch the sunrise at the lighthouse. It’s a beautiful place to camp, right on the beach! In the village of Montauk I stopped to take a picture of The Memory Motel. Yes the one The Rolling Stones sang about! As they said The Memory Motel, it’s on the ocean, I guess you know it well! Technically it’s not on the ocean, it’s probably 1000’ away 😂

My daughter has a tumor in that area as well. We found, what we consider, the best surgeon at Yale New Haven. Long story short, she did not have surgery and we are monitoring the tumor with 2x / year MRI’s https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/sacit-omay/