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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 .

Friday a friend and I went to Mennonite green house to purchase some plants, On way home I noticed a spray along side my pickup and it quickly became apparent it was from radiator. Pulled off the road at an intersection and discovered the petcock was missing! The petcock was plastic. Called two auto stores. One didn't have on in stock and the other assured me they did. Called my wife and she picked up the petcock and 4 gallons of water. When she arrived the petcock was the old style brass--the auto parts guy must have been a new hire or something. Called a friend and he thought he might have one but didn't. I ended up using my handkerchief, and stuffing it in the hole and used vice grips to help hold it in place. It wasn't a perfect seal as there were steady dripping. Left radiator cap off and made it ten miles to home-with a couple of stops to add water. The petcock just flat out broke--34 years old but surely caught me by surprise. Certainly glad I wasn't pulling the camping trailer. I caught the leak before engine got hot and had a wide pull-off close by. Never leave the house without pocket knife, (multiple uses) finger nail clippers (even good to cut small wires) and handkerchief (excellent for wiping grandson snot and now plugging radiator.) We had five folks stop and offer help. Two of them women, one person didn't have a full set of teeth and another knew my truck from the previous owner. Good folks. Told my wife later If I had know it earlier, maybe sitting along side of road with hood open was good way to pick up chicks! She doesn't seem to be too worried as her reply "You wouldn't know what to do with a chick."

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

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!

Maybe we got a couple!

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.

The hand-held band saw has replaced the sawmill as my fav!

Which "end" of Donkey?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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 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.

Your transaxle has a dipstick, slow filling through that is one option. Some guys lube the gearshift lever, slide the boot up, loosen the dog screw, remove the shifter (it was in Neutral, right?) and fill there. If the boot is in bad shape, it the perfect opportunity to replace it!

And someone will be along shortly to let you know to jack up the front so the transmission will drain over the hump in the bottom.

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Mine seems to like the wood stove.

You better add a big one.

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.

Aka, " the patina of authenticity "

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

I'll accept that too.

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

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!

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.

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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Given the value to a healthcare facility of extremely short downtimes and aggressive preventative maintenance this seems like cheap insurance!

That's a good one to have around. You will find no mice nesting in your fan shroud with that one keeping watch. Our kids have a blue racer living under their front porch - see him/her in the grass sunning from time to time. And they have no mouse issues. It might be bigger than your black rat snake.

That is my favorite tool!

Plugs that seem to fire on the head will actually not be firing when they are under compression

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.

I picked up the boy from scouts last night and he was in the gym beating the crap put of some kid twice his size with pool noodle. I think this was a genuine game and he was just dominating, not an actual violent incident.

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!

Found this on the net and close buy. A little ruff. Also has a mowing deck and a snow blower attachment. The deck and blower I am selling. I have two walk behinds. In the end most likely will end up as a plow tractor for the winter months. It is real dirty from the mowing. But i have time to make it right. Here is a few picks.

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.

The 89 and 90 inch belts were cheaper than the 87 and 88. The 87 works and I have adjustment in the top link. 89 wins by a buck fitty

I have had several WD-40s give out while half full. I clamp them in a vise, drilled a 1/8" hole in them with the hole facing away from me just in case and once I know there is no pressure I drill another hole opposite the first and pour the fluid into a plastic trigger spray bottle.

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

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.