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God created the dog and said: 'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.' The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?' So God agreed. Then God created the monkey and said: 'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span.' The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?' And God agreed. Then God created the cow and said: 'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.' The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years.. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?' And God agreed again. Thereafter God created humans and said: 'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years.' But the human said: 'Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?' 'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.' So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren, and for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone. Life has now been explained to you. No need to thank me. I'm doing it as a public service.

Decided I wanted to find a lawn ranger project for my son and I, And with the help of a Master Horse hunter ( Denny Clarke ) heres what we found in Speedway, Indiana.

Good topic. A compression test is still a good test. I always do a compression test before a leakage test... lets me know if it's necessary. Usually you can diagnose bad rings with first a dry compression test, then add 2-3 drops of oil, and do it again, if your compression goes up, you rings are leaking, if not, the problem lies somewhere else. Also, as a rule of thumb, your first compression stroke should be at least 75% of the fourth and final compression stroke.

So in my front yard where the bird feeder used to be (till this morning) I have found rodent holes. They are to big for chipmunks and the squrrills live in trees. Got on google and it seems we have a brown rat living here....not good! So I started flooding the holes and sure enough out it came, all wet and unhappy! It darted under my front steps which are pre-cast and hollow. I hadn't seen the hole at the front of the stairs till now. After looking around I found the "backdoor" it was using as a second entrance/exit. I closed that off and went to get my C-165 and a length of pipe. Let it run for about 30 minutes occasionally letting it run at half choke for maximum exhaust stink, hopefully the little tresspasser was hiding under the stairs....if you know what I mean. I think 30 minutes of tractor exhuast fumes should be enough to do it in? Anyone have a similar experience. Mike...........

If they use hard surface welding it will be harded than original. We have it done on cranks and cam shafts all the time. I have seen the thermal spray welding process work, and its not supposed to weaken or distort the crank as other forms of journal welding might. I can't see anyone going for that much labor on a K181 crank though as they are still plentiful to find in good enough shape for an easy re-grind for .010 under rod. -Mark-

Lars.....Quit goofing around and finish that tractor already......and update the post too.... ....LOL

DID HE SAY BARK AT EVERY ONE???