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Side shot Saturday... AND SUNDAY !
ebinmaine replied to Sparky-(Admin)'s topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
Yessir. Maine and Minnesota I think? Are the top two "winners" of dense populations of black flies every year. Obviously any states close to them as well. Timing varies a little every year. 2026 we got em around May 10th. The spring hatch lasts 2 to 3 weeks so they'll be back to nearly nothing the end of the month. - Today
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I sold mine for $50. It was in pretty good condition. Probably could have gotten more but the guy that made the offers was likeable enough, so I hooked him up.
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Side shot Saturday... AND SUNDAY !
Ed Kennell replied to Sparky-(Admin)'s topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
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Looking for a pair of 114263 seat springs used on 300, 400 and 520 WH. OK with good used .
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@Ed Kennell I’m glad to hear that you made a good stop on the fire, but I agree with Mrs. K and you should have called the FD. Never in my 38 years as an active volunteer fireman have I gone to a call and heard “You shouldn’t have called the fire department” We as firefighters are there to help our community in a time of need no questions asked. Thermo cameras help us find hidden hot spots to prevent rekindling of fire. Also happy to hear that you didn’t get hurt and have no major damage.
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Welcome to PA and clay...at least you do not have lots of rocks. Used my WH tiller and a Troybilt horse to make a much smaller patch. Used two bottom plow and a 40 HP Case DC3 the clay was about all she wanted the ntried to use two gang disc with weights on another patch. The disk just bounced along. When the neighbor farmer discs with a 100+ hp tractor you can hear the screeching. .Sometimes a raised bed is good idea Actually looking at your video not too bad for dry rock hard clay.. bit of moisture and many more passes,,,,
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@HyperPete this might sound crazy but it looks like the tines are on backwards? Maybe it’s just the video making it appear that way? Did you or someone replace the seal’s and perhaps put the tines on backwards? Can you post a video of the tiller turning lifted at an idle? Now that you have the first inch or two tilled up I’d do it again after a good rain. That loosened soil will help hold the moisture so the rain doesn’t just run off.
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Questions about the value of... stuff
nyquil junkie replied to nyquil junkie's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
Hi Joe! The Chucker is` doing great... we use it all the time, we'd be lost without that thing. Those forks you fabbed up for me worked out perfect. We should rebrand it a "manure horse". So, heres a good example. That 312A I got at the auction that somebody puled the steering wheel and shaft out of the dash (another thread) I took apart and beat it back into shape, reset the shaft and now it steers fine, but its not "perfect". Its useable. I know, I'm gonna be hard pressed to find anyone to buy this one, I'll be lucky to get $300 out if it, probably less. It fires right up and drives real nice, it has a mule drive on it, but no rear hitch and no deck. I might be able to put a hitch on it off one of the rollers. Even so, my point being.... this engine is perfectly intact, no smoke, looks unmolested. The engine is probably worth $300 then add on all the other fiddly bits that can be sold off. Its worth more in pieces. But... there aint nothing wrong with it. Why chop it? But if it wont sell, then it sits and sits does no machine any good. And as ya say Joe, selling parts only a niche market wants is a pain. Maybe I can trade it whole for something useful. Another option is, find a deck that fits it. Mowers here sell in the spring easy. Drawback is, thats going to cost @ $100 bucks, and it still wont be worth more than 400 so, factor in time lost in labor and..... well you see why selling the engine and a few choice bits is the quick easy dirty way to make it pay. These things are made like tanks, you'd think theyd be worth more. -
What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?
kpinnc replied to Ed Kennell's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
I have been behind a few days just due to the yard work around here. The (I really need to pick a model name/ number for this machine) best worker got some mowing in. The Vanguard and the modified 48SD really work well together. -
Ed, you got lucky. My grandfather lost his whole garage about 8 years ago when his 47 New Yorker backfired through the carb and blew sparks onto the cardboard he used to catch the oil drips.
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Exactly my point. Controlled burns prevent forest fires from getting out of hand. No underbrush, nothing to burn.
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What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?
kpinnc replied to Ed Kennell's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
Thank you. I needed that giggle! And your 312 looks ready to work now! Nice job! -
Hopefully they never do. The hippie tree huggers got their way in California and pretty much all forestry, including controlled burns, stopped. It is estimated that at the time the Spanish first made it to California a few million acres were lost to wild fires every year. By the 1970s is was under 200K acres. Since the controlled burns stopped it is creeping back above 1 million acres a year again.
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Burning trash might be a problem since we have no idea what chemicals are in our garbage. I will defer only due to that. But until the Forestry Service stops doing controlled burns all over my state, I'm still gonna burn brush as long as it's safe to do so. Right now it's too dry, but that will eventually change.
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I once knew a guy who frequently said "If it weren't for law enforcement and physics I'd be unstoppable!"
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Just tripped over the 701 motor I got from you at last years show. Still in the same place where I unloaded it last year . I really needed it, oh well it aint eating nothing. Hoping you might share some shade again this year if I'm able to make it? Just Remember I make a good canopy ⚓.
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What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?
8ntruck replied to Ed Kennell's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
I woke Morgan, the 14-8 up from his winter hibernation today. Mowed the lawn for the first time this year at our Michigan location. It was about a month overdue. Had to use 2nd gear, low range in some areas, the grass was so heavy. The blades on the deck were not cutting cleanly, making me think it is time to touch them up. Will have to take a good look at the spindles and bearings while I'm doing that as well. At one point, the deck stopped. Oh goodie, what now, I'm thinking. While I'm taking a closer look at the drive belt to make sure it had not twisted, I spotted the problem. A corn cob was wedged in the bottom of the mule drive. Easy fix. Fluids change is on the to do list for him in the not too distant future. -
The landfill at Yorkana pulled the methane off the enormous mountain of New Jersey trash and burned it in five huge leased Caterpillar generators with the power going into the grid. Those engines required a catwalk to service the valves and the oil pan was below floor level. They were finicky to operate with the quality and quantity of fuel constantly changing. My son and son-in-law operated these things. Well my son got a better offer from another company and SIL said he was taking the opportunity to go full time in his own business. That left the high priced keyboard warriors from Caterpillar to hang up their coats and get to work. In just a couple of weeks I heard the explosion at my house 6.5 air miles away. The generation plant was dismantled and never rebuilt.
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You are lucky that you didn't have a backflash when you opened the door allowing oxygen in.
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Side shot Saturday... AND SUNDAY !
lynnmor replied to Sparky-(Admin)'s topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
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I had to build a shield on top of the cabinet to protect it from the miles of pipe above. A roof drain pipe split once during a storm and we had water everywhere. And that boiler room is hot. The exhaust on that chiller runs around 1500° There was an issue once with emissions control and it got so hot it burned the insulation off of the pipe. It was glowing red!
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It's a chiller for comfort cooling. 454 Chevy marine engine on Nat. Gas. It runs when we need it. It's cooled by a cooling tower on the roof. We also take waste heat and send it to heat exchangers for domestic and reheat water. We cool the water to 45° and the AHU's in the bldg. discharge around 60°. Then the air is sent thru individual reheat coils in every room that set the room temp to the thermostat set point
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Not that flight, bur Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were very good friends and he was a part of the engineering team that developed the Tri-Motor.
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