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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.

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

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.

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.

Not sorry Wayne you know the rules ...

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.

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!

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.

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

Mike just sent me a pic of Jumbo.

The 800 Special has a Peerless transmission and the bracket from WHP&M is made for the Wheel Horse Uni-drive Transaxle. Not sure it will work for you, call Lowell and see what he has to say.

Dave always had the answers, pictures and parts to keep us running. Rest easy Sir.

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!!

Didn't you have one on a horse?

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.

Crazy as it sounds, I’m pretty set on custom headers, and a 6 into 1 collector, and make it sound more European. It’s a challenge, I guess.

I have heard of conflicting ideas of an ideal rear suspension. If it blows up, we’ll look at the idea of a narrowed solid rear axle. No worries. I have seen lots of v8s in these cars, online. That’s like gospel! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

Glad you didn't get hit worse! Dad and Mom gave us a 5KW gennie 20 years ago for X-mass. They are both long passed now, but it was the best gift we ever got. Being on a well, it saved our butts many times. Hot water and stove is on propane.

Glad you guys are doing well, now for the clean up. In 2004 while living in Florida we had a Hurricane with imbedded tornados come through. There was a twelve foot space between the house and my workshop so I parked my truck there for protection. A twister came through and stripped all the leaves from a large banyan tree in the back yard, nearly all of them were deposited into the bed of the truck. Mother nature cleaned up that portion of the debris for me. Unfortunately one neighbor's pool enclosure ended up in my back yard and the majority of the other neighbor's shingles were in my front yard. Neither of their home owners insurance companies would cover cleaning up my yard and since the debris wasn't from my house mine wouldn't pay for removal. The trusty 1055 with landscape rake took care of the shingles and a metal scrapper hauled off the pool enclosure.

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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

September 4, 1888: Inventor George Eastman gets a patent for the roll-film camera and registers the famous trademark Kodak.

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

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 .

1257 and C160-8 sporting there wheel weights.

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.

As usual I'm a day late & a dollar short but here's a couple...

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…

It’s kind of fitting that my niece’s animal horse trailer is behind the mechanical horses. And unintentionally they are in order of year too. Starting from right to left with the 78 and ending with the 92.

Went out for a test drive.

Many times I have posted in here that in the 38 years I have lived in my house the power has hardly ever gone out. and when it does it usually less than an hour. That all changed Wednesday night. We had severe storms forecast. The weather pattern here is usually a storm will go north or south and sometimes even split and we get nothing. My wife was working. She was due to get out of work at 8:30. They decided with the lightning flashing like the flashbulbs at a Super bowl kickoff it was best to close early. At 8:20 I put the dog out quick and the rain started coming. I saw her pull into the driveway and got the dog in. Opened the door for her as she got in the rain came. Just a hard rain then at 8:40 the wind picked up. I watched my weather station wind speed and it was a constant 20MPH + with a 38 MPH gust. Then the power went out so that died. I watched out my bay window and I could see the rain whirling around with each lightning flash. A big pine tree's branches were banging on the house. By 9:30 is was over except for some more lightning. I looked out and saw neighbors with flashlights looking around. So I went out and found oor doggie flag on the ground. Pole holder snapped off. A couple of tomato plants knocked over and a medium sized branch on the ground. I figured no big deal. Morning came and still no power. Went outside and saw the debris everywhere. We got lucky. Neighbors not so much. I saw a street sign that was about 20 feet from my house blown down from NW to SE. My tomato plants blown down from SW to NE. The flag w to E. Neighbors flag pole from n to S. I drove to the north side of the village and it's nuts. They took the brunt. Turns out there were 5 Tornadoes in NY Wed. The one that hit me was an EF1. Another formed about 7 miles west of me that traveled about 7 miles SE was an EF 2. I saw a pic somewhere of a large camper flipped onto it's roof. I think we were on the south edge of the EFI but the EF2 was just a few miles south Kept getting updates on when power would be back. It was getting later and later. I decided to go to Horror Fright and see if they had any genny's left. They did so I bought the bullet and got a 2000 inverter model. I figured if I bought it power would be on when I got home. Well it wasn't so I set it up. Used a Bill's Mafia table to keep the rain off of it and ran our fridge, tankless water heater and charged the wife's phone all at the same time. Really needed that shower!!! @rjg854 add your pics! I may never need it again but NY is beginning to become another Nado Alley. I figure if having a Genny keeps the power out cooties away it's worth it. Pics of the hood and surrounding area We're right in the little yellow circle. This is a pic from a weather guy south of me. He screen shotted this off of a video he took. I think this is the EF 2

Today I learned of the passing of another long time member of the forum David Luzier @daveoman1966 passed in November of last year, may he rest in peace. https://www.miznerfuneralhome.com/obituaries/david-luzier

One of BBT's favorites. I saw it occasionally but my father had news shows or something that were in the same time slot. Great show.