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Last night I installed the hitch I ordered from wheelhorsepartsandmore. Bolted up nice on my 1257 and seems like very good quality, I look forward to using it. Thank you @wheelhorseman .

May 19, 2004, Shrek 2 premiered in the USA with special early showings in Westwood and NYC in mid-May 2004, but its wide theatrical release across the United States was on May 19, 2004, with some sources mentioning May 21, 2004 as the main release, making it a huge blockbuster that year.

Which "end" of Donkey?

That is a beautiful EXPERIANCED work of art. It took a long time to develop that much character. Show it a bit of respect.

Donkey was the main character, wasn't he.

Love those movies! It is possible that it's helpful that I greatly resemble the main character.

Fixed it for ya...

I’ve been up close to the full-size Case Quad-track and it is a beast--specifically designed for farms with soft or damp fields, it distributes its weigh widely and is less likely to bog down when pulling large implements . This operating scale model is an amazing piece of work!

The 312-H at my son’s place got it’s share of TLC this weekend. Saturday: take off the snow blade & wheel weights, sharpen and lube recycler deck and install Today: swapped in LED headlights, and a new battery (O’Reilly’s), rewired the power for the seat-back utility light, and installed a rear rock shaft (made by @JoeM & bought at the BS last year), lift cable, and sleeve hitch. Found a couple of item’s we’ll have to get to soon. Maintenance is never ending!

Sometimes STUPID can be good. I bought a marketplace 310-8 for $175. It was advertised as not running and a locked transmission. I saw what appeared to be a like new 42" SD deck, so I bought it un seen for the deck and parts. The PO said the clutch is locked up and it will not start. He had called a nearby lawn and garden tractor sales and service shop that would pick it up for $150 but it probably needs a new $600 transmission and some engine work. He advertised it for cheap to make room for the new tractor he bought from the same dealer. The only problem was a worn drive belt that had allowed the clutch damper plate to fall below the damper piston. The piston then popped out and locked the clutch un the up position. Of course net being able to depress the clutch and close the clutch safety switch prevented it from starting. About an hour and a new TSC drive belt and it was mowing my yard. BTW, he had installed a new deck that was used one season before the tractor died. STUPID was good to me..

I'll accept that too.

This is my issue. We have a lot of snakes around me, and some are venomous. Aside from garters I am not great at telling the difference and so I try to avoid them all. The only ones I ever killed were stuck in my bait basket, and I know they were venomous. But I thought danger noodles were downed high voltage lines.

How bout a Nope Rope? Or a Danger Noodle? The poisonous ones I can understand the great aversion to. Snakes eat things we don't want around here, like rodents... and unfortunately other things we do want around, like frogs. Our rodents are targeted 🎯 by several means.

Being present for young peoples’ events often has deeper impact that you might think. Well done.

Wow. Parallel lives. The lot we bought to build on was densely overgrown and poison ivy heaven--we saw the perimeter and a bit of the wooded area but just trusted the rest would be ok. We knew it was once was the formal garden and rear lawn of a manor house that burned which lead to the property being divided and knew we’d become the owners of the 1880’s brick-and-stone water tower that served the property before the village had a water distribution system. Upon clearing the growth, though, we found some surprises: a hand-dug well almost 20’ deep, an adjacent underground pump room, and a 10’ diameter concrete fountain! There was lots of buried, rusty piping for irrigation, too. Only the pump room was unsalvageable, so we filled it with all the big rocks we found when clearing for our lawn and...then we put a deck over it!

We could probably fix you right up if I would stop killing them. Note- King and black snakes get a pass. All others are legitimate targets. By all others I mean not black or black and white banded. We have several varieties of poisonous sneks here. Copperhead (bit me several years back), cottonmouth, rattlers, and coral snakes.

Started clearing out some brush and growth for a new shed location today. Used my nastiest bent up ground-down 42” plow.

Did it fire at all? Onans will run on one cylinder if they have spark and fuel.

Extra small wheels too.

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My suggestion would be to get that thing home and away from that abuse. An easy check of the ignition timing is described in the service manual.

Aka, " the patina of authenticity "

I'm thinking the flywheel key sheared and threw the ignition rotor out of time.

I'd say both qualify. I mean really, even a foam pool noodle - in the right hands - is a danger noodle...

When I moved in with my future wife I had to clean out a shed to put my 4 wheeler in. Her Father and Brother had it filled with half empty spray cans. Took 2 trips to the dump with my utility trailer to get rid of it all!

HAAAA, i do that too! LOL

This afternoon at work I got a Focus that wouldn't start. Starter ran, but didn't engage the flywheel. I took the starter off and a pressure plate finger came out with it. That will be fun to find out what broke. Tonight was the last meeting, and Spring awards ceremony, for our local AHG troop. My daughter, my son's GF, and two other girls from our church are all members of this troop, so I enjoy going to those events.

All cleaned out. Next step is to pull the whole thing backwards a few feet for better front half access and get the rollers out. Reinstall the air cleaner and try to start it.

Hello I successfully removed the B100 muffler pipe adapters. I used D-40, low heat, a pipe wrench, and gentle knocks. Thanks to everyone who helped with this topic previously. B100_Muffler_pipe_removed.mp4 B100_Muffler_pipe_removed_v1.mp4

I take Bella for a walk at one of the many state parks within a few miles from home every morning when I'm not working. Yesterday was Dean's Cove on Cayuga lake and today Seneca Lake St.Park.

Slow race. Look closely, it is moving. They gave him a disadvantage, he started close to the finish line. IMG_5693.mov

That Power King was custom built (using factory Power King parts) for the sloooow race, his total reduction ratio is 7780 to 1. 😳

Only five - ten yards or so Joe. Last guy to cross the finish line wins. If your tractor stops rolling you get black flagged. Hydros generally rule. I did it once on a six speed in 1st/low with the idle turned way down to chug chug and still got beat. Imagine it didn't do any favors for the motor being splash lubed. Would be another good tractor game at the BS.

Why? If they haven't done anything in nine months and haven't kept you informed then I don't think YOU should feel any obligation to that shop. Bring it home and let us diagnose the problem with you. Even if you need to rent or buy a tool or two it will be less expensive and quicker than having those keep it.

This was a perfect color/sheen for the black part of a Black Hood tractor.

No like Snek.

Check gas cap vent...?

Started putting Epump on 312-8 today. Got bracket made to mount pump behind motor. Found break in sheetmetal that holds seat gas tank bracket so got that straightened out, then pressure washed machine. Put new bushing and fuel cut off in tank and got new fuel line run. Got hungry and had to quit for the day. Also had to get home b4 warden got in. Had a visitor while working today and he/she exemplified the ol saying meaner than a black snake, it would run dog then dog would run it funny as he77.

No better response than that Uncle Jim!

But our Kohler powered Wheel Horses will still be around. The Tecky powered ones, maybe not...

Lol ... You younguns stick to tractors and let us old coot worry about the chicks ... we got nothing to lose...

You get to talk to the guy with the Lennox Kitty Track Jeff? Is it for sale???

I remember the mystery of the green plastic. Looks great!

I've had two of them.

After mowing this morning did some maintenance on 654. Have had to tighten left rear hub set bolt a few times- seems to keep coming loose. Gave it a much needed wash too. We've had so much rain & my back yard is really wet. I usually dont take off the wheel weights & 100lbs that I put on hitch for winter plowing. Decided to take all the weight off to help from making ruts in grass. Of course it would help if I lost some weight too! Its not much of a looker with its crappy paint job but its really a good working tractor.

Meadofield: You have a gift. The quality of your work is A plus. I wish I had half your talent and you have all the right equipment to do the job. Always enjoyed your post.

Now that's a proper start!

A bit further, it’s been good weather for painting! Never thought of using marinara Looks great as always!

I wonder if one could be made with the right dimensions and stuff since you at least have the front nose part of it