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

I have lived in my home since 88. House is on a main highway. Thought I'd seen everything. But tonight took the cake. Wife heard a noise out front when cooking dinner. Someone was broke down along the side of the road. I finally look out and there is a 4 x 8 trailer with a couple of tons of pea gravel on it. The right side tire is flat and off the bead. 2 guys standing there and lets just say English isn't their primary language. I go out to see if they need help. I ask " where's the spare?" They say " the house. " Someone is bringing it. I look at their jack. It's a 12v POS. I offer to help with my jack and impact. Spare arrives. It's the wrong one. It's a 15" and the trailer is13" So off they go. They come back about a half hour later and he's got this little bag.I'm thinking, that ain't no tire! He pulls out a Gatorade and 2 CANS OF EXPANDO FOAM!!!!. I ask where is the tire? " Wal-Mart didn't have it " I tell them to go to TSC. I Tell them about 10 times. But this guy is determined to use the foam! There is a chunk out of the tread and a slit in another spot. He tries to filling the slit and empties both cans into this tire. Another guy shows up with another trailer and they shovel half the gravel into that. But they also move the remaining gravel to the opposite side of the trailer and towards the front onto the tongue. Tow vehicle is a mini van. When they lowered the jack the foam squirts out and the rim is on the pavement. He drove off with it like that! I don't know if I will be able to sleep tonight because I can't stop laughing! Look close at the tire!

Flywheel has been cleaned up and painted. I screwed bolts into all 8 threaded holes to keep paint out.

Mrs 8n and I took a couple of lawn chairs out to the end of the dock last night to watch the height (darkth?) of last night's lunar eclipse. Got a bonus of seeing a couple meteors as well. We both noticed how much ground lighting has increased over the years - she has been visiting this lake since the early 60's, and I've been visiting since the mid 70's. Got 5 yards of topsoil delivered today, so I got a few cart loads moved with Morgan, the 14-8. Nice weather to do that sort of work. I listened when my back said enough was enough - just a few years ago I'd have told it 'na, we can move a couple more loads'.

1257 and C160-8 sporting there wheel weights.

August 29, 2008, Taking a calculated risk to appeal to conservative voters, Republican presidential nominee John McCain sets the political world abuzz when he announces the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Around here we have R90, recreational fuel, boats, motorcycles, lawn mowers etc, 90 octane. I add standard sta-bil to mine to help preserve the octane a bit longer I've found it runs better than not after it's set for a while.

Hold on! All that beautiful machine work so far and then this?????

The fender probably cut the tire with all that weight. Lucky they're not shopping for an axle. I'm surprised they didn't shovel the gravel into the van

At that price point the “fun” part of the hobby is over and it’s become an investment/business dealing or a huge gamble. I’m plenty happy with all the $300-$1000 rigs I have here.

I changed out my seriously compromised spring shackles .This is what was left of them . Only a bit of metal holding the truck bed under tension. An amazing amount of completely Bluetooth metal was in left . I had to grind out the bottom of the shackle to get to the rubber to burn it out so the base of the shackle could be cut and separated from the bushing. The bushing around the bolt was split so I flipped it over and ground away the other side to free the bolt. Knowing what I know now It would only be maybe two hours or less to do it all. At least the replacement shackles are powder coated

Calling Charles Darwin, you missed one!

Personally I wouldn’t let anyone near me when I was brush hogging after an experience years ago. I was cutting some light brush and had a guy with a weed wacker with a blade on it doing around the trees. All of a sudden it started shaking really bad, my first thought was that I sucked up a cable or wire rope. So I shut it down and lifted it up to inspect. As I was walking around I noticed a 8” gash that looked like a mouth opened up in the side of the unit. When I looked under it I noticed that one of the blades was missing! That explained the opening in the side of the deck. I quickly realized that could have severely injured or even killed the guy with the weed wacker. I looked everywhere for the blade, but couldn’t find it anywhere. I figured it probably buried itself somewhere in the underbrush. At that point I was done until I got new blades. Here’s where it gets crazy. A few months later I ran into the guy who owns the neighboring property. He said hey was that you that cut the underbrush on my neighbors property a while ago? I said yes, why do you ask? He said he found a brush hog blade stuck IN THE ROOF of his house!! His house was maybe a hundred feet away from where I was working but the blade was in the second story roof. It didn’t damage it, somehow it got stuck between the layers of shingles. When he noticed it he went up there and just pulled it out. He told me the blade was broken right at the mounting hole. I got really lucky that nobody got hurt or killed. Ever since then I would not allow anyone anywhere near me when I was cutting brush. I can’t imagine the energy that piece of steel had to punch through the deck and still travel that far and high?!

The SNL parodies by Tina Fey of her were outrageous!

The majority of 953 hydraulic cylinders are easily disassembled by removing the hoses. Once the hoses are unscrewed the clevis can be unscrewed from the shaft, the front guide can be removed by applying a little air pressure to the place the hose had been connected to on the rear head and rear head can be removed by clamping the cylinder in a vise and using a long bar through the 3/4" hole to twist it a bit. This manual should be helpful.

754 is kind of a rare tractor and a collector's item because of the reason stated. There wasn't very many made. Most people may not know about them but a 754 is a real WH factory tractor which is basically an 854 with a 7hp engine

Got the M37 engine block back from the machine shop. Hot tanked, magnafluxed, line honed, bored .020", new modern hardened exhaust valve seat inserts installed, valve guides checked (still within new specs), new camshaft bearings installed, block decked .040" to produce about .022" quench (piston height above deck, which is recommended for the Ricardo-type combustion chambers), three-angle valve job using my new valves, including 21-4n stainless exhaust valves. I'll be doing the assembly work myself. They also hot tanked, magnafluxed, and milled the head...just enough to get it nice and flat. I had them resurface the flywheel, which was in excellent condition except for some surface rust. The shop also did a bunch of rod and crankshaft work for me. However, I am currently reconsidering my approach (possible upgrade) for the rods and crankshaft. More on that later. Also received more parts for rebuilding the transmission. I think I now have all that I need to proceed with that task. It's been so dry here lately that the lawn has stopped growing and our Wheel Horse and its blue New Holland twin are gathering dust for the moment. Even though our well has never gone dry, I don't want to jinx it by watering the lawn, so for the time being, 'brown is beautiful.'

Are you telling me that the anti-petroleum "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you" crowd is showing favoritism to the corn farmers even though it ended up driving up gas prices? Say it isn't so.

Alcohol in the gas has basically nothing to do with emissions. It does not impact 4 of the 5 gasses directly, may reduce Nox some as it burns cooler, and if the whole life-cycle is looked at is a net carbon producer vs straight gas. It is partially to try and reduce fuel prices as it is cheaper, but it is largely a give-away to corn farmers.

I hunt and eat only morels. On January 3rd, I posted under gardening showing what I am hoping to be my home grown morel patch. It seems that I have been able to grow morels. (I thought I did a follow-up of my harvest this past spring but don't find it.) I have been pouring the water, from which I wash my morels in, along a fence and found two one year, the next year five and this past spring 15. I've even found where folks are making a slurry to help grow morels and have been using it the past couple of years. The first picture shows plastic cups I put over the mushrooms to protect them from critters. (If you zoom, you should be able to see more plastic cups covering others.) I discovered that mushrooms grow. I've always believed that when I found a morel, that was it's full size. When i found these morels, they were probably 1" tall and ended up ~4" tall eight days later when I harvested them. The cups kept them really fresh. Second picture is a morel just before harvesting. My problem is that nearly all of the mushrooms are found on my neighbor's land. He now has cattle there and I'm considering of asking a favor if I can put up temporary fence in the mushroom patch next spring. We have lived in this house for twenty years and have never found a morel until three years ago-after seeding the patch for past five years. I wouldn't likely eat the mushroom that Ed (or whatever his name is ) has found. I've got a friend who tried other types of wild mushrooms and says nothing tastes like morels and decided their not worth hunting

This is another reason to never go on Facebook, bunch of jerks who don't want to buy your stuff, just give you a hard time. OK, the serial number falls within the numbers listed for an 854 or a 754, in fact your serial number IS listed as a 754. Is this the absolute gospel, no but it is a point in your favor.

On some of my tractors I sit on the side of the seat and swing my leg over the steering wheel. Most know I'm vertically challenged

In 64 there was a shortage of 8 HP K 181's.So WH built the 854 model and put 7HP K 161's on them and calledthem 754's

I also added a weight bracket to mine.

Yep dealer converted tho. True I quit Harleys and took up much cheaper horses because prices got nuts.

I have 2 tractors that are only used in the winter, other than that they sit. I add nothing to the non-ethanol fuel and never have a problem starting them. I do put a maintainer on them every couple of months to keep them charged but that is usually only for a day, at most. They crank a bit at start up because I always shut of the fuel at the tank and run them until they run out of gas.

Hasn't been any leaded gas for many years except possibly aviation fuel.

Certainly pucker stuff! That ground is pretty common here in Greene Co. Pa. The farm boys here can make you nervous in these hey fields. I have frontage that is about the same and I have just about 40' of it that I can't mow. I slide to the ditch. There is a lot to learned for the vid. The best tip is keeping your front end higher then the rear wheels, very important. Notice when he is coming back around the tree and the front dips down how the machine starts to slide. The duals are a big help and he is working those turning brakes like a real pro. Lifts that brush hog just at the right time too! Wondering if he has filled tires? Good vid I probably would fill better in a smaller machine tho! But those days are over I would pass, lol.

RG would have fixed that with duct tape! As far as rate your hack, I give them 3 out of 10 but have to take away 4 because they did not use duct tape! Silver is specially formulated

I'm lucky to have a couple of stations across the Hudson from me that sell it. About 8 miles each way. Typically in the $5+ dollar range these days. Cheap piece of mind in my opinion. It's nice to have something with two year old gas that starts on the first pull. I put 1 oz of marine formula stabil in each 5 gallon can before I fill up.

I just saw this. I was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor back in 2015. Mine was pressing against my optic nerve which affected my periphery vision. Mine was the size of a golf ball. I have been taking medication every since to shrink the tumor and keep it shrunk. As long as I stay on the medication, my numbers come back good, but the times the doctor took me off it, the numbers weren't so good. Luckily my vision has came back, maybe better than it ever was.

On my 95 Chevy, I have a cb mounted on the top headliner where the windshield and roof meet. As for the antenna, I have the mount on the side of my toolbox, and when not in use I keep the 4’ antenna off, but if I ever wanted to I just screw it on the mount. Cobra 29ltd cb and firestick antenna.

This belt works great on my 310-8. I don't know if the 520 requires the 83 1/2 ", but the belts from TSC are returnable for a 100% refund.

I hope you’re kidding about that!

Eric that is not a bad price for what you’re getting. I am getting ready to make a N/H run my self.

Just saw on Facebook that the buyer was asking if a predator angine would be a good engine to put in it instead of getting the original one running

That was supposed to be part of a Dr Seussian rhyme like what Sylvan did. I wasn’t commenting on emissions. I’d go back and try to fit something in about cheaper gas but that doesn’t seem to flow as well in the context of the rest of the rhyme.

What grows under your nose? Tulips!

Have you considered using vacuum storage bags? Al of the oxygen will be removed and that is what makes things deteriorate.

Heck, I am 5’ 13” (6’-1”) and I do that on most of my tractors. Certainly don’t like kicking it into gear with my big feet while trying to not fall off.

Heat pump installed just needs covers on charge lines installed. Here is the spec sheet. SB_TW24HXP2A1DITW24HXP2A1DO_20260211.pdf

Definitely agreed. If I can find a decent looking metal single antenna that works ok - on the mirror bracket - for a low price - two could happen. From what I'm reading that could be a tough catch. Good signal needs to happen above the vehicle roof line. I wouldn't even be using the radio that often but the particular person I am would want something capable.

Another huge trash night score... Honda engine. Fired up second pull... I am sure the pump is shot, but who the hell throws away a running Honda engine? My next project...

A bit more progress… Breaking out the drive First part of the intermediate drive and 4WD selector First view of the output My awesome son milling me the dog clutches on the gears out of gear in gear Axle with steering added - tie rod on the bottom as need to get the drive out, and a Suburban is a very low frame and pivot point.

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.

Pricey maybe..but how many originals are out there for sale? How many have been restored (ruined) by a rookie with a rattle can, how many have cut hoods to accomadate a Predator motor etc. Its genuinely rare if you ask me.