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A small church in our association is needing some work done to it's one hundred year old building. I was asked to lead a team to start repairs. Helpers has been pretty sparse so most of it was done by me. I didn't attempt to work on the gable ends without someone there to help with the 28' ladder. There are three pictures. One is the back of the church after I scraped the paint. Two is finished paint on the back--window is still needing paint removed from glass.--Helpers don't seem to have steady hand to cut-in paint but I'm appreciative of the help. Notice how far from level the side room's ridge is. The 2x4 rafters on the main building probably have an 8" (or more) belly. The last two paint jobs were done by folks who left overspray on the windows and storm windows. A church member believes it has been fifteen or more years since last paint job. The window sashes were almost bare of paint so it's likely been 25 or more years since they had any freshening up. Three is me power washing the front of the building. I scraped the paint, Power washed, spot primed bare wood then top coated. The helpers mainly focused on windows and yard work and helping me move ladders and tools. In addition to painting, I've made several repairs. From replacing siding ( that I made out of cedar), making new metal window drip cap, replacing three window sills. I'm doing my best to make the building more resistive to water invasion. I found it interesting that none of the windows has sash locks. In other words, until the storm windows were installed, all a person had to do was raise a window to gain entry. Interesting side note: The church is getting new roof because of hail damage. The roofing supplier loaded the roof pretty much at the the top of the valley where the side room is attached to the main roof. With the belly in the main ridge, If I was the roofer, I probably wouldn't have allowed the supplier to load in one location only. At least spread it over a larger area. A member and I measured the ceiling to floor height after the shingles were placed upon the roof. Once the new roof is installed. We'll measure to see if there was any deflection in the ceiling to floor measurement.

September 30, 1960 "The Flintstones," the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres on ABC in the US.

I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner. I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked,"If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?" "No, I had to stop drinking years ago," the homeless man replied. "Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?" I asked. "No, I don't waste time fishing," the homeless man said.."I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive." "Will you spend this on hunting equipment?" I asked. "Are you NUTS!" replied the homeless man. "I haven't gone hunting in 20 years!" "Well," I said, "I'm not going to give you money. Instead, I'm going to take you home for a shower and a terrific dinner cooked by my wife." The homeless man was astounded. "Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? I replied, "Don't worry about that. It's important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up drinking, fishing and hunting."

Today would have been @Stormin's birthday, we miss you.

A man is driving up a steep, narrow mountain road. A woman is driving down the same road. As they pass each other, the woman leans out of the window and yells "PIG!" The man immediately leans out of his window and replies, "*****!" They each continue on their way, and as the man rounds the next corner, he crashes into a pig in the middle of the road and dies. If only men would listen.

My new to me D160 came with a paint job that I think was done in a hay barn. If you ran your hand over the hood it was ruff. You could feel and see all sorts of imbedded dirt in the paint. I took some #2000 paper and did a light wet sand followed up with a orbital polisher and it came out shiny and smooth as glass.

When I restoed a 1067 PO had converted it to solenoid. I was on the fence about going back to original since I am a purist but what the heck it was considered a custom anyway so just cleaned up with new wiring. Good decision since it's a go to tractor. Can then use the very common $10 four term switch and they last forever.

None of them are suitable for a wheel horse, they are too wide and as bill already mentioned they would get in the way of opening the hood unless you mounted them a couple feet out front. You need to get off Facebook and get out there in the shop workin' on whatcha already got.

wheelhorsepartsandmore.com sells them, but the price is a bit steep. There is a thread on here about someone converting their setup to use a starter solenoid and less expensive switch

If you were to add a starter relay, then you will be able to use most any key switch that has an M terminal.

Throttle Cabel positions,seat pan and footrest suggest 1960. Way overpriced IMHO. Hood chopped and not original motor hurts it bad. Looks like mowing deck might be a 61? I do like the rear tires though..

And that keeps the wiring short in length and tidy. I added mine on the 854 by making up a plate and mounting to the tail of the S/G...

I've got quite a few for rolled roasts if you have the patience to bone it. Was always dad's favorite. He always got ticked off with my 7mm-08neck shots. Yep or x bow. Problem with this time of year is getting it cooled down without a walk in. I plan on taking a pick up load to a donation place once it cools down out. They pay the butcher 135 to cut & wrap all you gotta do is gut it and get it to them. Problem is here the nearest place is hrs away. They recently upped it from 125 to try and get more processers to participate.

1960 Suburban 400 with a butchered hood!

Home made & fenders are off a orchard special fer sure.

C'mon over Sylvia I got 12 doe tags. Ducks in a barrel too.

Yeah that might take the purest right out of me ...

They are out there but yes $$. Couple of used ones on fleabay but a roll of the dice their any good. Bar beat me to Mike's thread.

I thought of that too. His are for a battery ignition not a magneto.

The commando 8 is alive and done it bought some memories back driving it around today

Heck I got a neat birthday present. Decide to share it with my Lawn Range L-107 that Father bought in May of 1967. @stevasaurus She has been sitting for a week or so and the terrible Techy started on the first pull

Lots of stuff. Kind of sad, though - I started putting summer away. Put the pontoon on the trailer & unloaded the stuff off of it in preparation for winter storage. I pulled the pedal boat out, washed it, and put it in its winter quarters. Opened the fill valves on the paddle boards in preparation for winter hibernation. On the up side, i took a kayak out around the lake, and got some Wheel Horse seat time moving the pontoon trailer and pulling the pedal boat up the hill from the lake. Still, the empty dock at sunset is a sad sight.

As he say in England - "Now don't that just sucketh!" Like going to a Buffet and there is nothing on the Doctor approved list to eat!!

OK, you made me look; First Network Color Cartoon Series: The Jetsons premiered on ABC on September 23, 1962. It holds the distinction of being the ABC network's very first program broadcast in full color. However, according to AI, and we know that must be true, The compatible all-electronic color standard we use today (NTSC) was approved in late 1953, leading to the first major coast-to-coast color broadcast: the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954. The First Special: Premiere aired as a one-hour special featuring star hosts like Ed Sullivan and Arthur Godfrey, though it could only be viewed in a few select cities (Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York). The First Series: Shortly after, on June 27, 1951, CBS launched The World Is Yours!, which became the first regularly scheduled color television series. The Technology Limit: These early 1951 broadcasts used CBS’s mechanical field-sequential color system, which was not compatible with standard black-and-white television sets.

I may be all wet on this one, but... I believe this was the first program to be aired in color.... But not many folks owned a color TV set then.

Less expensive, more reliable and gets the high amperage wires out from behind the gas tank. This drawing uses the 103991 ignition switch which can be found at any auto parts store.

It looks homemade but the fenders look stamped. The person with the does not know.

That’s a monster! What’s the price of admission? Those oddballs are so cool!

Neck just above shoulder. Really no meat loss. .350 at 75 yards and 25 yards. I have had good luck with this method. Very little tracking.

To me the 3 piece trans (a plus to me), footrest, clutch pedal, steering wheel looks to be in good shape, lift arm and quadrant, seat, fenders and seat pan, wheels and tires (if usable), front axle, clutch pulley belt guard (if still There) plus running engine (looks to be a HF predetor). I wouldnt care to have maybe 300/350 in If it was in close proximity to me, but I'm a sucker for the little Suburbans. Here is a pic of my 550 Suburban with a HF Predetor engine swap and it worked out great, but I would have preferred to have the original Lauson engine back on it and still might convert it back one of these days. I still have original motor that came on mine, but PO busted the block trying to get exhaust pipe out.

Random thoughts with @Pullstart…. Sylvia did you make high shoulder shots? .350 or .450? How much meat loss from the bullet? Would you have the room to double lung shoot the deer and let them run a bit and drop? I love an easy track job. I also love meat. I’m just curious as to your methods, or reasoning. I’ve done both.

Happy birthday Paul and many more!

Here you go Bar post 25 ... that round hood you need ...

It looks like any of them will interfere with removal of the hood....

Happy birthday @pfrederi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL !!! We are the same age Mate !!

Stainless steel hood mounting hardware ready to be installed. Hood ready to be installed. Tractor washed up and ready for the hood to be installed. Hood installed.

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.

Hoisted the 48"SD up to see if I could get the broken bolt out of the spindle. I got lucky. A few taps with a punch and it spun right out. Threw a patch on the left rear corner. Sharpened the blades. Finish scraping, wire brushing and oil down for the winter.

Early doe chili for dinner!!!

PM me your adress i will send you the Oring you need Dash# 116

And here's our little monster. He can eat up to 5 of the larger food cans a day

My cat Charlie is 17. He gets up a 4 am everyday and wants to head downstairs for a drink and his breakfast. We have a gate across the stairs so our young foxhound Faith doesn't come up the stairs and jump in our bed in the middle of the night. So now my body is trained to wake up around 4AM. We have a motion light on top of the stairs. Charlie turns it on and I get up. If he doesn't get up I lay there and wait for the light to come on. At 5AM the light comes on. Today it was 5:01 Faith is waiting on the stairs landing wanting to go out. So I got to "sleep in"

Our county has a feral program where they trap them, spay and neuter them, get their immunizations up, and adopt them out for free to farms and anyone who will take them. They notch one ear so they are easily identified if they return to the wild later. We adopted three and they were intended to be barn cats. Clearly these people never met my wife... And these little turds can tell time too. Here they are waiting for dinner...

Hate to say this but Beaps is right. Now truth be told I am not a cat lover but I hate mice worse. Not that i don't have and feed a few barn cats. But absolutely no cats in the house. I'm weird... I absolutely adore the smell of cow$hit... can tolerate pig$hit but the smell of a cat box has me reeling. I've had literally thousands of cats come thru the ranch in the last 40 years. Some die naturally in old age some at the hands of owls and other natural predators. Some even at the hands of me. I cherish them all but the song birds think I am an a$$hole. What you are doing is a good thing EB. Sitting on porch tonite... cocktail in one hand Tom in the other. Then there's Pearl... pretty much worthless but does bring in a mole or a pine squirrel from time to time. Can't look at her without getting hair.

And the best part Karl, is that when you come over in April you can take it for a spin . You too can be the coolest for awhile . I will be takin up a collection for gas money as I only put about a 1/4 gallon of gas in it and it takes like 43 gallons it seems to fill it ...or somethin like that. Might have to work overtime this week to "fuel it up". Mike........