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Of all the people I've helped with or hooked up a Wheel Horse with this lady makes me the happiest. Linda my wife's cousin... out there showing them whose boss. A text from her this morning --> "Started first crank and kicked ass! I am practically giddy here. Thank you so much!" Avon Mountain / Collinsville CT Blizzard Calvin 02/23/2026

The guy who did this video was in my High School graduating class...Elgin High 1967. Bob is the author and musician that put this video together. Sadly, he just passed a few weeks ago. The pictures are of most of us that went through the Service in the late 60's. These are friends that I still get together with, golf with and sometimes party with. We have lost a few of these guys, but the memories are still strong. I am in the last picture, back row, middle. Steve H. Thanks for watching.

Decided to make a mount a pressure washer for my gt14 works pretty good. Way better than pulling a cart around the house.

Ariens blower first and a clean up after with the 520-8…no problems. Maybe 12” and it wasn’t wet/heavy like I was expecting.

So I seem to have left y'all hangin' here. I found some time tonight to letter the hood & engine fan shroud. I wish that I had more to show but I've been dealing with O.P.S ( Other People's Sh..tuff). Got a Scrub Cadet that I'm painting this weekend and I also have a Simple-city paint job to get off my plate before I will get back to my own project. TTFN.

If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!

USA beats Canada in OT to win first hockey gold since 1980 'Miracle on Ice' - Yahoo Sports

When I got my first horse, iSaveTractors' parts and some of their videos accelerated my success. I just saw this post on FB and thought it was worth sharing here.

I tried this contraption a few years ago, worked pretty good.

No relation to @19richie66 I'm sure but every time I use it I think of him. It was FREE from a wholesaler for selling mini split air conditioners. Thought what good is it with a stupid metric crescent wrench head in our line of work. Supposed to be used for torqueing flare nuts for proper install of aforementioned ACs. 'Till I found they offer a 3/8 ratchet head. Found in the jungle no less. Bad news it only goes to 60 ft lbs but still. Measures in inch lbs as well. Has a visual & tone when torque setting is reached. Very handy for rod caps on a Clinton.

Since I'm on a small block kick this one in for somewhat of appears to be some leakage. Bit of oil wash but not quite due for serious motor work. Doesn' smoke terrible. Some others to get at first. Orginal gasket on left. Stens generic "graphite" one on right. Note the fire ring on orginal. Have not found a source for these yet. Anyone else? Didn't see any signs of of a blown gasket but bolts kinda loose. Probably could have just retorqued. Tempted to use orginal gasket over i know some have done it. While the head is off. I've got a few glassing pics and will do a mini instructional on it. I know there are tons on YT but... Back together ... nothin like a fresh head. New fuel filter & lines too. This was supposed to be in engines my bad... Mods please move.

About 10"s of wet stuff. Perfect for the 520H and 48" blade. About 2 hours an 2 gallon of fuel to clean up the neighborhood.

Yesterday evening my daughter wanted to drive the fastest tractor I've got. I told her to take the Bronco for a spin. I think she's hooked!

Rescued an orphaned snowplow today, guy threw in a set of tire chains (white bucket) as well. Was his father’s before he passed, his mom sold the tractor years ago, believed to be a 312-8, and the plow just collected dust. Today was the first time I drove since January 19th, day of my rotator cuff surgery, felt good to be back in the saddle.

Yesterday I got a call from one of my old snowplowing customers saying that there was a tree across the driveway and the new plow guy couldn’t get in. So I borrowed a payloader and pushed it out of the way and plowed the driveway. Then went past a friends farm and he was out with his snowblower, the thing is so bad ass that I had to pull in and tell him that!! Since I was already in the loader I drove over to my mother’s house and plowed her driveway. 50 years ago I plowed this entire driveway with Tonka payloader and Tonka T-9 bulldozer. Somewhere my mother has pictures. Recently I posted a picture of me on my Work Horse plowing in this exact spot when I was 14. My mother who is 87 years old and one of the funniest people you can meet, told me “Go stand in front of that thing so I can take a picture and send it to my friends!” After that I went to work clearing snow off of a job site with a D-5 dozer. So I thought I’d share some snow removal pictures and videos! IMG_1468.mov IMG_1469.mov IMG_1470.mov

@eo1bart, I tore one down recently that had water intrusion and too much damage to the bearings to justify repair. The diff is fine. You are welcome to those parts for the cost of shipping from NC if that's your best option.

Riding the storm out............

Took the 417 out but didn’t get far, something happened with the PTO. I’m not sure what but I didn’t feel like messing with it and this is a lot of heavy wet so I parked it. It was time for the Ford 545-C. Thank goodness I had it because it really made short work of it. After I cleaned off most of the driveway I moved the vehicles into the cleared area to clean them off. After that I wanted to clean that area again and the area where they were parked but the 545 wouldn’t start, so out came the 418-C for the clean up! Thank goodness I had a backup, and a backup for my backup 😂😂 All said and done we got about two feet of snow. Just came in to put a log on the fire and take a nap!

Settled on a Gloss Smoke Gray for the lower/wider stripe. If you’re wondering how I came up with this color decision…well it was in stock in my paint cabinet! Looks very different depending on the lighting. Last picture is what I started with.

Buck just missed this fate in Jack London's The Call of the Wild. Back in for elevenses (i.e. coffee break) after Round One. 16” drift in front of the garage door just a bit too much for the 854 & blade--not enough traction to move it more that a few feet. About 12+" on the rest of the driveway plus the “wall” from the street plow at the end, of course. With the tractor shifted out of the way, though, I could get to the blower. (I’d “retired” the ’73 Ariens blower two winters ago when the 854+blade was working so well. When I tried to start the blower during last month's 13-inch storm it wouldn’t. A snit at being ignored--which I deserved. Gave it some TLC and a carb rebuild and it’s back online.)

February 22, 1888 “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends.

February 27, 1960, Two decades before the famed "Miracle on Ice," another underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team in the semifinals at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. The next day, the U.S. beats Czechoslovakia to win its first-ever Olympic gold medal in hockey. Update: they did it again sixty-six years later.

He can do a better job sloshed than I can do stone cold sober ...

Another option is this brake cable from napa around $20 and you can get 2 cables out of it, by cutting it in half. It's handled everything I have thrown at it. Or since this is for around a 2004 Chevy crew cab brake cable you can get it for free by cutting it out of @Pullstart's truck

February 23, 1954 First mass inoculation against polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

And cardiologists the world over began making more money...

We got about 8" but its still coming down. Decided to plow w/654 instead of using 702 & blower cause snow was kinda heavy along with being windy.

This is about as clean as it’s going to get today, it finally stopped snowing at 3:00pm

Today it was hard to believe that there’s a blizzard coming. I went down to the ocean to check it out. It was beautiful! Monday the seas are supposed to be 9-15’! As I looked to the east I noticed someone stuck and close to the water with an incoming tide. I walked back to my truck to get my binoculars and saw the guy digging out with a DOG BOWL! So I figured I’d do the right thing and grabbed the shovel and two tire pressure gauges out of my truck then walked about a quarter mile down the beach. Where I was parked you can’t just drive on. When I got to this gentleman he was super appreciative and really nice. We dug and dug and aired it down to 15psi. As we were almost done another guy walked down the beach with two of those plastic board boards with the nipples sticking up that are supposed to help you get unstuck. Apparently this guys wife saw this going on and called him to come lend a hand. We jammed them under the rear tires and he was out! The owner of the vehicle was very happy with our help and asked for my name and address. Three hours later two nice bottles of wine were delivered to my house from the local liquor store with a thank you note attached!

Well I guess it’s been awhile since I last worked on this tractor. Over the summer me and my dad attempted to paint the hood. After the 4th try we kinda gave up. More wheelhorses came along but those projects are starting to get finished up. About a month ago my dad asked his friend who has a body shop if he would help paint the hood. We took it to him a few weeks ago and today we got the call that it was done. And WOW the hood turned out great. He even helped put the hood decals on! So finally we had a few things to do on it. Today we mounted the hood, and mounted all the heat shields. Tommorow we will put the latches on the hood and hopefully put the grippy tape on the floorboards.

They make back hoes too but that didn't stop me from building one.

If he finished that glass before getting it done. LOL

Make sure you drive it across your "yard " at high speed in transport mode.

This poor guy! https://www.facebook.com/reel/851244357807191/?s=single_unit&__cft__[0]=AZYmZYq9VJUVGOB6T_Q3TOMl7z5bBBdeaObNXYdwp4qzVM1q0bV4ZZmV0HPbgO4EYIdocxZ9LlvXIs_ig1cFRf9yK9u6z0TTXdybC8-uGNlT_NCxQZ7BaMofJJWw1t8RmrpzAXPuCl4e9L7CkLK6wskz7yNT_IAjyuTruMUklbFE8OT40hllZ06pT9MEDNOjgeI&__tn__=H-R

Really great to see her enjoying the tractor that you set up for her.

You know it's cold when you have to warm up the little propane tank with a heat gun in order to get a flame out of it! Used the torch to heat and re-shape that broken idler spring. Drive belt and tractor is back in business for now, although it will need some permanent attention when it warms up.

I broomed 1/8" off the back porch this morning...

Right now it’s almost like a white out, the snow picked up in intensity. Westchester county has a travel ban in effect until noon, which makes my kids happy since they work in Westchester! I haven’t started to clean up anything yet, except for a path for my dogs who are absolutely loving this!

Last night I took the 417-A with two stage blower out around 10:00 I got up at 6:00 and it looks like we have over a foot in the area that I cleared. I have my generator ready and plenty of wood staged for the wood stove. Now they are saying up to 30” possible! Although the two- stage is bad ass, I might have to bust out my Ford 545-C loader. However it doesn’t have a cab so that’s going to wait until it’s done snowing. Right now it’s a full on blizzard outside! After almost 40 years in the snow plowing business and now retired from it, it is really weird being home during this. There’s pros and cons to this. The pro is I’m home with my wife and granddaughter. Granddaughter is here because my daughter is a police/fire/EMS dispatcher and my son in law works for the town so he is out plowing. I don’t miss the anxiety of worrying about trucks breaking down or getting stuck or anything else that can go wrong. The cons are that I will miss a windfall of money I would have made and I’m in a very small way missing being out in a big truck with an 11’ plow opening up unplowed roads. There is a bit of a thrill doing that, but it wears off after hours and hours. Heading out to clear the driveway now, pics to follow….

Same viewpoint, with 12+ on the ground already. Still snowing very hard, hope you coastal guys are okay

I had a sudden battery failure in a large busy parking lot on Friday, a little old lady and a young chick with a jump pack both stopped and offered help. The dudes in the Silverado and Ram diesel idling nearby avoided eye contact. I had help coming but it was interesting to see who the good “guys” were.

My splitter can be positioned horizontally or vertically. I have never used it horizontally. It has auto return (about 5 seconds) which gives me time to position the next round. TSC 22 ton Made in the USA was $999 when I bought mine 30 years ago. Never failed yet.

Friday February 27, 2026 at Florida Flywheelers Show in Avon Park, Florida. More pictures from the show today! Met Art Fontanes today at Florida Flywheelers! Art was Senior Test Engineer for Toro at their Tampa Test Facility at the University of South Florida from 1987 to when he retired. Who knew Toro had a test facility in Tampa, Florida! Art had previously worked for Wheel Horse as a test facility engineer for two years at the South Bend, Indiana plant! In 1986 and 1987, before Toro bought Wheel Horse! Art is now retired from Toro. IMG_8689.mov IMG_8690.mov

They find me handsy. Is that close enough?

February 26, 1616, The Roman Catholic Church gives astronomer Galileo Galilei his first warning about promoting the belief that the Earth orbits the Sun—an idea for which he was later convicted of heresy. It took another 300 years for the church to admit he was right.

Yes there is. It's priceless and something that can't be bought or even given to you. "Honor is a man’s gift to himself" suggests that honor is an intrinsic quality, shaped by personal values and integrity. It emphasizes that true honor cannot be bestowed by others; rather, it is cultivated through self-respect and moral choices. This concept implies that a person's sense of honor is a reflection of their character and beliefs, guiding their actions and decisions in life." ( Search "John Artis" A man that did 15 years in prison because he would not falsely testify against his friend. Unlikely that many will recognize that name but will probably recognize his friend"s name ) And just to be clear, I wasn't always Peter Pan and certainly don't claim to be one now! But maybe it's a matter of making amends for being my angry younger self and for some of the things I've done. It was an act of kindness that effected me and it's doubtful that person even realizes they made a difference. I'm a slow learner when it comes to things like this. And I'd bet Don feels pretty good about helping and it cost him $0 to do it.