What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[Ed Kennell 41,776]

10 minutes ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

. Since the starter only has the one pole does grounding the block serve as the ground for the starter? Thanks

Yes it does.

[ebinmaine 72,386]

@peter lena would be happy with this one.

I found a couple NOS choke cables in my stock and I wanted to run a little Lube down through them. Turns out my door handle is the perfect place to hang these where they can't fall through.

 

 

[peter lena 9,231]

@ebinmaine like that , hiding in plane site ! also like SUPER LUBE , SMALL BOTTLE ,HYDRAULIC  OIL , check out temp range , in a tough spot , like penetrating oil , first to verify flow / tracking , then SUPER LUBE , once you try , verify that , you are hooked . thank you for the shout out , BTW , can you send me your mailing address ?  pete  

[ebinmaine 72,386]

18 minutes ago, peter lena said:

@ebinmaine like that , hiding in plane site ! also like SUPER LUBE , SMALL BOTTLE ,HYDRAULIC  OIL , check out temp range , in a tough spot , like penetrating oil , first to verify flow / tracking , then SUPER LUBE , once you try , verify that , you are hooked . thank you for the shout out , BTW , can you send me your mailing address ?  pete  

 

Absolutely.  

 

PM sent.  

[adsm08 3,142]

21 hours ago, Racinbob said:

I'm thinking I wouldn't be comfortable living in a house wired by an electrician who learned the trade by plumbing anologies.

 

The place the analogy is most useful is explaining open circuit voltage. A lot of people can't understand how their volt meter says 12V, but the circuit won't operate. Of course voltage drops across the largest load, and if you have a corroded or chafed wire that may not carry a full 12V the disconnected end of the wire is still a bigger load, and so it will show all the voltage.

 

The comparison is to a crimped pipe. It might not allow enough flow to give you good pressure on your faucet, but if you just screw a pressure gauge into the end and dead-head the line you will still see the full pressure you should have.

[EB-80/8inPA 1,844]

23 hours ago, Racinbob said:

I'm thinking I wouldn't be comfortable living in a house wired by an electrician who learned the trade by plumbing anologies.

Or this guy (with all due respect of course):

[davem1111 2,155]

This isn't a "what I did with my wheel horse today" post (although I did some trail mowing with my GT-1848 after it cooled down a bit...)

 

Yesterday my wife and I went to our local county fair - lucky for us the fairgrounds is only 4-5 miles away.  They were having their tractor pull and we hadn't been there in quite a few years.  Turns out the sled for the big tractor pullers didn't make it there in time, so it was only garden tractors. I didn't get pictures of all of them, but I particularly liked this one (it took third in it's class) -  "Wicked Horse":

 

 

It had a V-Twin in it but can't tell what brand or size.

 

They had a lot of mostly big, some small, tractors on display inside a pole barn.  Here are a few pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thought this ice cream maker was pretty cool:

 

[davem1111 2,155]

On 7/2/2025 at 6:25 PM, Racinbob said:

...Rings pose an additional issue in that they are strong. Same jobsite, different day. I noticed a newly married apprentice wearing his wedding ring. I cautioned him of the dangers beyond the electrical. One day I got a call that he was in the emergency room. The first thing he said to me was 'you warned me'. He had climbed up some industrial shelving to get something on top. He jumped down, his ring got caught, it didn't let go until it removed itself from his finger. It peeled everything off his finger.

 

I'm a rock climber, usually twice a week at our local climbing gym.  I had been wearing my gold wedding band until another climber told me about something similar happening to someone he knew. Peeled the finger like a banana.

 

I wear a silicone ring now. 

 

Many years ago I worked in a printing factory. Wearing any jewelry or having long loose hair or a loose shirt was a big no-no there. There were plenty of older dudes walking around missing a finger or 3 who would promptly remind anyone who forgot this....-

[MainelyWheelhorse 1,458]

4 minutes ago, davem1111 said:

 

I'm a rock climber, usually twice a week at our local climbing gym.  I had been wearing my gold wedding band until another climber told me about something similar happening to someone he knew. Peeled the finger like a banana.

 

I wear a silicone ring now. 

 

Many years ago I worked in a printing factory. Wearing any jewelry or having long loose hair or a loose shirt was a big no-no there. There were plenty of older dudes walking around missing a finger or 3 who would promptly remind anyone who forgot this....-

My retired father worked and all three of my brothers work in industries, Welder/machinist and forestry/land clearing and firefighter/EMT where rings and loose hair/clothes are also heavily discouraged as well. There are stories I've heard where somebody lost fingers in a skidder chain, got caught in a lathe etc...I've heard the PSA's from them as well. I definitely like my Hannaford to go Shopping job, simple and straightforward. 

[Handy Don 13,972]

Well into stripping a late 90’s P220 off a 520-H that came to me as a parts engine with major internal injuries--one piston moves but neither the other piston nor the valves move at all. 

 

Not too hard to see how it came to its demise. Most of the airflow in the main shroud was clogged with grass and leaves--the rear fins were all but totally clogged and there was no gasket around the oil filter. Every nook and cranny atop the engine was littered deep with acorn shells and other small animal detritus. Most vivid is the differing states of the two heads with the rear one showing signs of extreme overheating. 

I paused to take a picture as I was draining the oil and chasing the holes to get ready to pull the flywheel--gotta make a puller plate today. Only have the electrical and governor parts behind the flywheel left to go, assuming they are usable. 

 

Edited July 4 by Handy Don

[Bill D 2,246]

33 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Well into stripping a late 90’s P220 off a 520-H that came to me as a parts engine with major internal injuries--one piston moves but neither the other piston nor the valves move at all. 

 

Not too hard to see how it came to its demise. Most of the airflow in the main shroud was clogged with grass and leaves--the rear fins were all but totally clogged and there was no gasket around the oil filter. Every nook and cranny atop the engine was littered deep with acorn shells and other small animal detritus. Most vivid is the differing state of the two heads with the rear one showing signs of extreme overheating. 

I paused to take a picture as I was draining the oil and chasing the holes to get ready to pull the flywheel--gotta make a puller plate today. Only have the electrical and governor parts behind the flywheel left to go, assuming they are usable. 

 

You may want to save the oil filter adaptor and pressure switch.   The switches go bad and leak and the adaptor gets stripped from people over tightening the oil filter.

Edited July 4 by Bill D

[Wayne0 1,163]

18 hours ago, davem1111 said:

 

I'm a rock climber, usually twice a week at our local climbing gym.  I had been wearing my gold wedding band until another climber told me about something similar happening to someone he knew. Peeled the finger like a banana.

 

I wear a silicone ring now. 

 

Many years ago I worked in a printing factory. Wearing any jewelry or having long loose hair or a loose shirt was a big no-no there. There were plenty of older dudes walking around missing a finger or 3 who would promptly remind anyone who forgot this....-

I worked in printing for 40+ years. Knew a guy with shoulder length hair (you know where this is going). Caught in a press, ripped his scalp off.

Another guy, cleaning a running press lost an arm when it grabbed the rag.

[adsm08 3,142]

43 minutes ago, Wayne0 said:

I worked in printing for 40+ years. Knew a guy with shoulder length hair (you know where this is going). Caught in a press, ripped his scalp off.

Another guy, cleaning a running press lost an arm when it grabbed the rag.

 

I'm near 20 years in auto tech. I have my wedding ring, I know right where it is, and I only put it on for special events (weddings, funerals, anything you'd get dressed up for). My wife is a nurse, who has been at her trade as long as I've been at mine, and has done time in almost every specialty except surgical. She is happy I don't wear it to work.

[davem1111 2,155]

1 hour ago, Wayne0 said:

I worked in printing for 40+ years. Knew a guy with shoulder length hair (you know where this is going). Caught in a press, ripped his scalp off.

Another guy, cleaning a running press lost an arm when it grabbed the rag.

 

I have more of a story that I didn't share before.  When I was born, my Dad was in the same hospital at the time, having a skin graft done on the palm of his hand from his belly. He had gotten his hand in the press, and luckily he didn't lose any fingers but lost a bunch of skin in his palm. One odd side effect was, because the graft was from his belly, he always had hair growing on his palm and had to shave it. He would freak out our friends when he offered to shake hands with them - he thought it was hilarious.

 

Oh yeah, and proper folding of the cleaning rag was a big deal. No loose ends that can get caught. I wiped those rollers many many times, maybe once or twice ended up with a rag going through but not a hand. "If it catches, LET GO IMMEDIATELY!!"  was the motto.

Edited July 4 by davem1111

[Ed Kennell 41,776]

Worked on the 314A that @c-series don gave me at the big show.   When I brought it home and unloaded it, the engine ran fine but it but barely moved.   I put it in the barn and planned to leave it for a winter project, but today curiosity got to me and I had to open it up.   Got the choke cable freed up and working.  Then pulled the tins off to find the problem that seemed to have the motion control system locked up.  I disconnected the link to the cam plate and with some cleaning and lubrication, got full motion from the cam.   The motion lever was still locked up.   Then I saw it, the brake pedal spring was missing and allowed the pedal to fall down and lock the motion control lever in the neutral  position.   Duh !   Added a spring to pull the pedal up and all is well.

 

[Ed Kennell 41,776]

OK, here's my wedding ring story.    

When I started working in the Allis Chalmers Hydro turbine lab, we measured test pressures with 200 inch mercury manometers.

This required climbing a ladder as high as 20feet many times.  I would run up the ladder, read the mercury level, and with my hands and feet on the outside of the ladder rails, slide back down fireman pole style.      Yep, one day the ring got caught on one of the thin metal angle braces .  I was lucky to be under enough control that I could stop before the finger was ripped off.    After the swelling went down, the ring was put in the jewelry box and not put back on until 50 years later when I retired.

When I did put it on I discovered it no longer fit my gnarly index finger but it did fit the little one.

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,120]

Jammed one more into the shed (7 now)

  Maybe room for one more. Tried to take a panoramic pic. 
 

[Ed Kennell 41,776]

Mike has his own Round Barn.   

[Ed Kennell 41,776]

Gave the 314A a bath.

 

 

No pic, but I tested the 700.   Hooked to a locust tree and she spins the tires in Fand R.

 

Gave the 312H a bath while I had the pressure washer out.

 

 

[GlenW 59]

Finished wiring a Kohler Magnum 10 to the ignition switch of one of the Raider 12’s. The engine was from a Cub Cadet that someone had on a wooden stand with the whole wiring harness, electric clutch, switch and ignition switch. Removed that harness and wired it up to the igntion switch that was in the tractor. So much less wire than what was on the Magnum when purchased. I still have things to do to it. But it’s progress.

Edited July 6 by GlenW
Added photos.

[Handy Don 13,972]

6 hours ago, Sparky said:

Jammed one more into the shed (7 now)

  Maybe room for one more. Tried to take a panoramic pic. 
 

Cool picture!

Haven't ya seen those lifts in the city parking lots that put one car above the other?  You could get at least 4 of those in there--probably fit 10 tractors!

Edited July 5 by Handy Don

[8ntruck 7,772]

9 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Cool picture!

Haven't ya seen those lifts in the city parking lots that put one car above the other?  You could get at least 4 of those in there--probably fit 10 tractors!

Look at the pictures that @Pullstart has posted of the insides of his magic barn.  He has heavy duty industrial shelving where he can stack them 3 high.

[Handy Don 13,972]

Finished up stripping a “for parts" P220.

When I got into it, I discovered it‘d likely been running hard and died rough. One piston is seized solid. The crankshaft is intact but the flywheel key was sheared and the camshaft is in three pieces as is one connecting rod. Musta been quite a bang. 

Good news is I”ve now got a solid muffler and known good starter, ignition sender/sensor, stator, voltage regulator, coil, and governor components all of which can port directly to our worker P218 should the need arise.

I’ll be putting the usable parts that I know I won’t need in a Classified. Free for pickup or for the cost of shipping. 

 

Edited July 6 by Handy Don

[squonk 43,714]

On 7/5/2025 at 1:16 PM, Sparky said:

Jammed one more into the shed (7 now)

  Maybe room for one more. Tried to take a panoramic pic. 
 

Going to have to start hanging them from the ceiling! 

[Wayne0 1,163]

10 minutes ago, squonk said:

Going to have to start hanging them from the ceiling! 

Ala @Pullstart ??