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I had the same thing years ago that I picked up somewhere. Used it once and finally scraped it. Now that I am around the house a lot I've been getting rid of a ton of stuff at the transfer station in town and donating clothes and some really nice Winter jackets some never worn in Town as well. I just have accumulated WAY TOO MUCH STUFF. The time has come to let it go.

This was an old horse drawn bog that was on the farm. Dad had taken it apart to use some disk. I selected some of the better parts and made this. Trying to reseed some bare spots on a bank. Used this to catch some of them before thay washed away.

Same here. I'm going to retire ( again) at the end of July and it's going to start then

I’m with you Jim. That’s why I think I’m just going to bring stuff to sell at the Big Show this year, and not bring any tractors. I just have too much stuff that I know I’ll never use and other people can.

Nice! About 10 years ago, A local notorious former Mayor died. My coworker asked me if I thought the funeral wound be that week. I replied no, next week for sure. They need to bring up that special machine from Jersey to dig the spiral hole since he was so crooked they can screw him into the ground....

March 26, 1812, A cartoon titled “The Gerry-Mander” in the Boston Gazette introduces the term “gerrymandering.” It refers to Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry, who signed into law oddly shaped district boundaries to help the incumbent party.

No worries man. If you get bored, come on out to my place. We've had a couple of pretty harsh winters including a major ice storm a year or two ago. LOTS of damage to smaller trees. We've also done several forest clearing projects and many of those branches are still waiting to be shredded. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say I could run my chipper 8 hours a day for a month straight and not be caught up.

We've had a lot of high winds this year. At this rate, I'll still be cleaning up 'til the 4th of July!

I’m not the original owner. I found a guy a few years ago near Germansville, Pa who did home / estate cleanouts who listed it for sale with a bunch of other stuff including a 520-H. All low hour stuff sitting in a garage for many years. I sold off some stuff but kept the 418-A. I try to put a few hours a year on it to keep it running good. Always use ethanol free gas in all my stuff and it makes a huge difference in performance.

That's to hold the smaller U1 battery in place in the tray. I haven't gotten around to swapping out the smaller one that you gave me. EDIT: oops, I thought you asking about the foam in my picture.

I hope to be starting a topic in Other Brands. Stay tuned

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Nice repurposing.

Anyone still have a toad stabber?

That is a good friend of mine in the video that lives a couple of miles away. Neat to see posted on here.

Not even if you shake it like a Polaroid picture?

'Member these cans @Achto? Pencil holder now. There is actually a collectors thing in them like beer cans. And people think we're nuts for collecting tractors!

A few years ago someone here posted that they had (if I remember correctly) a 418? that belonged to Eddie Murphy, yes that Eddie Murphy. It was not for sale, the gentleman wanted to hold onto it. Now I’m not exactly in the position to buy another tractor right now, but I have a 418-8 and a 418-C so to complete the 418’s a 418-A would be nice. I was just wondering if anyone remembers who that was that posted that? And if in fact it was a 418-A? If so and it were ever to come up for sale I might be interested in it. As I remember it was in very good condition and given its history it would be cool to add to my collection.

Here is my 418-A. It now has 138 hrs and it is such a smooth running machine! It is a bit dusty still holding up.

Rear fenders done with Penetrol. This pic is after a year of application. No slime and any dust blows off with a leaf blower. This is a pic after a month after application. Here's what they looked like before anything was done.

March 25, 1993, Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, worried that his status as a high-school-dropout-turned-burger-mogul sends the wrong message to kids, earns his GED diploma at age 60. Local high school seniors vote him "most likely to succeed."

Fixed my issue. Indexed the eccentric to match my other tractor, it was almost 180° opposite. Took out the linkage rod, greased both rod ends and lengthened the rod slightly. I now have full travel in both directions and forward speed has improved.

My shop towels get burned generally.

Oh that's typical @ebinmaine exaggerating about snow amounts... it's been sunny and high 60's all winter at his place...

After further review the gear was welded on a replacement axle. PO neglected to put in keyways. Brings up another question. What could the PO possibly down to damage the original axle? Gotta remember this is just a 3.5 HP tractor that would have been have to be abused in a odd way to damage the original. After talking with Tom current plan, which may change, is to turn off the inside weld which wasn't much anyway and use machine bushings to space it from the inside of the casing. Last pic show where the weld & gear was mashing on the inside of the case. Maybe replace the axle bushings which are the same 1503 ones as on a three piece RJ/Burb tranny. Slap it back together and pin the right hub to the axle and let the left side free wheel. The way the PO did. Just not worth the time and effort to put back as orginal ... at this time anyway. This girl is just going to be a show piece and probably the only time driven is on and off the trailer.

Chain case apart today & unmounted tires. Rears are shot but rims really need cleaning up and I have some ags that were on the flame that should work good. . Wasn't gonna take the case apart cause the oil came out pretty clean. Glad I did jack shaft & bearings was plugged solid with old crappy grease. Will take longer to clean everything up. There is no case gasket listed but someone tried to seal it up ... PO or Ponds??? Not sure what do do about the hubs and sure is a mystery why no keyways. The sprocket doesn't look like it was taken off and put on a different axle. The axle and the sprocket are listed as one part in the IPL. Kinda crappy lookin welds if still factory. @jeremi3210 suggest cutting some keys in with a dremel but that might be beyond my skill level. Need to talk with @Shynon yet he's been in a few of these.

Rolled into the Delaware Beach house yesterday amid heavy rain and warnings oy 75MPH winds. Lucky the winds peaked out at 45MPH but the temp dropped to 28* this morning. I made the girls (Mrs. K and her two sisters) a deer hunters breakfast this morning. Venison scrapple, sausage, and puddin with home fries and eggs. Then took a walk on my crowed beach to walk off a few cal. t'wis a short walk at 28* and 45mph wind. 98.6* in the tub warmed the old bones up.

Ok got me diodes all pointing in right direction, carb adjusted, sediment bowl straightened out, added an extra clutch spring and adjusted brake. Drove around barn a couple times seems to be good to go. Had every intention of a new restoration on this one but have decided to turn my attention to the 520H instead. The 520 is just begging to be straightened out and put back to work.

Just drop it off at the Big Show. I'll get it to the right place.

@WHX??I printed directions to my house, so if you don’t mind dropping that off I’d really appreciate it. Hell, I’ll even buy you dinner!🤣

Years back I came home and handed her a snow shovel Her "What's this for?" Me "You wanted me to get rid of the tractors so I sold a couple. Now WE need to do the snow by hand" She doesn't really pay too much attention to my tractor hobby anymore! Maybe flowers would've better but...

Several years ago I accidently cut the end of a finger off. ER was able to reattach it and gave me a prescription for pane relievers. The pharmacist told me anyone stupid enough to do that had better stop and buy some flowers for the wife to soften the blow. When my wife got home and saw flowers on the dining room table she said, "what did you do wrong this time". Guess she knows me too well.

Oh boy !!!! New information for me to work with. Just wait until TSC gets their baby chicks in. Guess who's gonna end up with some dropped off at their house.