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While this has nothing to do with the Christmas Holiday or our 's, it's comforting knowing the United States Marines are watching out for all; overseas and at home. He "slipped and fell" off the curb. Did it snow in Georgia? 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - I love the Marine Corps! Thanks guys!

I would like to add THIS IS NOT ME, I don't work that way, first in line gets dibs, then if that person passes, next in line, then I wait for payment for a reasonable amount of time, and normally if I don't receive payment in a fair amount of time, I send a reminder asking if they still want the item, then I ship soon after getting payment, I do charge the Paypal fees to the buyer, they add up fast with the amount of items I sell, and they charge the fees on the total including shipping that I don't make money on, at the end of a year the fees can be very high on all the items I have sold, and asking each person to pay them, in my eye is better than me paying ALL of them. I normally figure my own shipping cost and do not charge any extra, for packing or any thing, but if the buyer wants to send me a label prepaid for shipping that is fine. If I worked that way I would be out of business in no time, a good seller/buyer relationship is a must.

Hi, John's mum here, just wanted to say a big thank you for your help so far, John has been so excited to get replies, and we are relieved as we didn't have much of a clue where to look. We think it has a Kolher engine in it. I will try and upload the photos, if it fails I will take the kind gentleman up on his offer of help (thanks for that). All three of us would be grateful for any help or pointers you can give us to help with this. He is hoping to take it to local steam rallies in the summer. http:// [url="http://"]http://

Well heres a couple links to vids I posted...anyone who says these D series machines cant push snow is way wrong. I have no weight other than my butt and the factory weights on the back. 2 psi of air in the back tires and 25 in the fronts. I have few issues with traction, even on the private road in front of the house which I plow in its entirety. I dont know how it would act with 24 inches but it handled 7 of heavy wet snow without an issue....other than the carb/fuel pump and thats got nothing to do with anything other than a very tired engine that needs some serious TLC....

Meet Widestride. Modified C120 for logging work over rough terrain. Agri tyres to go on and independant rear brakes. Holds its course on steep banks and steers good. Very stable tractor, pulls a 4x5 4 wheel trailer and soon to be log skidder. Deciding whether to put rubber fenders on all round or leave it as it is. When all mods have been made i will tear it down for paint. Can anyone recommend a reliable 12volt winch for the front.

This is the biggest snow fall here in two years. I started out with the blade but now I think it's time for the blower.

Got 5.7 but the way the building are laid out here, the wind dumps alot of snow on us. Still have 2 to dig out

Here she is... It can even be used as a belly mount Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2

Here is another idea. This is the muffler setup I put on a Charger 12 I restored a few yrs. ago. I never smelled when I got off this tractor. The muffler was off a Cub Cadet 122. I agree with Kelly, a stack setup can look good if done right, most times they aren't though.

Who doesn't like Pics! 704 plowing: C-160 blowing: I know not but Elvis moving the piles back!: Scars of battle:

The best advice I can offer comes straight from the board rules :

Thank you Stigian, it kinda is art, just with metal as a medium. Kerry , I put this aside because of time and money, I bought stuff as time went on, then I had a pile of parts, so do like I did buy a piece at a time, it will happen. Well it's a mini update, I had other things to do today even though I'm on vac. this week, but I ran to the steel yard and picked up some stock I could not find here or used elsewhere, when I got home I had a plan in my head and scratched out on paper, I will never run a rear PTO, so I did not need to copy the orig. to a T, but still needed the top link to end up in the same place, I bought some 3/8" thick stock, 3" wide, and some 1.5" x 1/4" thick angle iron, and a piece of 1.5" wide 1/4" bar stock, (that I ended up not using) my first idea work so that was not needed. upper 3 point mount in kit form. The orig. cross piece was one piece with bends on the ends but I have no good way to bend 3/8" thick steel, so I cut pieces to weld together to form the cross member, these are the end pieces, I welded them together, so when I drilled them I had a perfect copy for the other side, and only had to lay it out once. These are the upright pieces I built out of the angle iron, again welded together to drill and grind the profile on them. I had the cross member tack welded, and the uprights need to be 1.25" apart so I found a socket to use as a spacer it worked out real well, I mocked up the upright and centered it, then tack welded it, After tacking everything, I removed it to finish weld it, but I know I was going to put some heat to it, so I dug through the scrap steel bin, and found this bar stock it was a tiny bit narrow but I weled it so the tabs would not pull or push as I welded them up solid. Here it is welded up, I think I over welded it, but I know it will not pull apart. Here it is back on the tractor, if you look in the middle of the uprights I added another cross piece again probably not needed but I couldn't stop myself. And with the top link installed

I'm voting Pork Chop #1 for this winters' Snow Removal Champion. :woohoo:

Stevebo, Rustoleum suggests less than one hour or more than 24 hours between coats on all their rattlecan products I've used. The trick I've found is to let the primer "flash", wait an extra five or ten minutes, then start applying light top coats, letting each flash and waiting ten or fifteen minutes before following up with the next one. If you put the coats on too thick, sure as the earth is round the paint will alligator or crinkle on you (ask me how I know! ). Controlling the thickness of the coat from a can does take some practice, to say the least, but it is doable. Kevbo, "flash" means to let the paint dry to a "dull" surface finish - not glossy like when it's first applied. This is easier to judge in primer and matte or flat finish paints like primers. In gloss paints, you can see a difference in the amount of shine as soon as it flashes - very subtle, but visible. Just my own experience, and good luck! ~Duff

Got about 7" here. the 18 auto will be going to work in about an hour or so. Hopefully my lil guy can get a video of it workin on his iPad for me to upload later, but heres a couple pics from the weekend when I got her ready....

if i got an NOS tractor i would build or have built a wagon using wheel horse frame and axles and strap the NOS tractor o it so i wouldn't have to push it around, i could pull behind 1 of my other tractors. but i would definitely preserve it for future generations is that not in someway what we are doing by collecting them in the first place, with aside of the pleasure of getting to use some of them . i have several low hour machines and i hate putting to many hrs on them but luckily for me i have enough that i can switch between them and not put a whole lot of hrs on any of them. i try to find well used tractors for workers and keep the low hrs one, less than 500 to 600 hrs ones for show. more hrs than that and they become workers eric

My kids have grown up around my race cars all their lives, and know what a 3000lb car can do, and they respect them, the tractors are no different, they respect them, and know how to drive them, and have been since they were big enough to operate them, my kids this year started pulling farm tractors, and at one show a guy there told me and my son he was to small, then the president of the club stepped up and told him he has watched my son at other pulls and can drive the tractor as well as most of the adults there, he got to pull and took a trophy home that day, even against the guy that said he was to small, my son was 12 at the time, and was pulling a MM in the 5000lb class, I'm not saying ALL kids can or should drive tractors but some are brought up from the beginning around machinery and know the dangers and how to use the machinery, I know adults that should not be allowed to drive a tractor.

Well, I finally got the 1954 Massey Harris Pony started, after two months of work! She's good looking, but the 6 volt system usually turns everyone away... Still gotta get some pictures of the 'horses' though... Spenser.

Kelly, I have delt with you a couple times and you made things happen when I REALLY needed them. Thank you, you are a good man. Don't worry about your rep here, I think others feel the same and know this would not be something of your doing. :thumbs:

I went back out and tinkered a bit more, none of the bolts are real tight, because it all has to come back off, but I installed the rest of the 3 point, and plumbed the lift cyl. I need to have new hoses made one needs a 90 deg fitting not the 45 that is on it, and they are not quite the right length, but it is what I had here, and it tells me what I need to have made up. The Brinley A frame adaptor came with a big Bolens I bought this summer, I planned on building one, but this came along so I don't have to, I do need to buy new lower hitch pins for it, but TSC carries them. now with the 3 point sticking out back it's over 7' long now, this thing keeps getting bigger, but I like it.

I don't think the problem is with the lever. I'd say the rod between the lever and the quadrant needs to be longer. Here's a picture of my 6-2111 blade: The lever is almost vertical when the blade is straight.

I should keep my mouth shut, but that never happens.... If we put a "minumum" age for driving garden tractors because of the mentality, coordination, and other things that have been mentioned above, then we should also have a "maximum" age for the exact same reasons.....I'm just saying......... :angry-soapbox:

Ouch! That's some snow! Yep, snowblower time fo' sure! :woohoo:

Holy cow! I've got a college degree and that exam whipped me royally! Funny, though, from what I recall of being in school in the 8th grade in 1964, a lot of the material this exam covers was stuff we had at least gone over. How times have changed! Duff :thumbs:

I havent been on in what seems like forever so I just wanted to throw a couple pics up of the 18 auto with the blade on. Supposed to be a white Christmas here in NEPA. If I dont get enough to plow Christmas morning, I should on Wednesday/Thursday with the first Nor'easter in 2 years. I guess we shall see how it pushes with the 29.5- 9.50 R-3s on her....

I always wondered who he was talking to..... :scratchead:

Some great info. there. One thing I would add would be that if you have an underground pet containment line such as Invisible Fence buried in your yard, you need to be cautious. A couple years ago, I used a pull-behind aerator in my yard and found out afterwards I had cut my fence with it in three places. It was a system I installed myself, so I had to fix it myself. The neighbors got a laugh when I was crawling around on my hands and knees looking for the wire breaks with an AM radio and headphones. -BK

Ryan, could you post a picture of the failed unit? I don't have any experience with the GT's, but I fab my own tie rods for 300/400-series machines out of readily available parts from McMaster-Carr, partly because some of the originals I had were worn, but mostly because I like a little toe-in on my tractors' front ends. Duff :thumbs:

You gotta watch those curb's they can be pretty high. :laughing-rolling:

I agree, Maturity level has alot to do with it. When I was young we had to learn to run equipment on the farm and we all started very young. I was operating tractors and milking cows at 8 years old. More out of necessity than anything else. But here is a thought for you. Check with your local 4H club. They have a tractor safety training class that covers riding mowers all the way up to the largest machinery out there. And they work with various age levels. Plus, as a side note. This may just interest your children into joining and learning alot of different things and experiences. Good Luck

Just a short video from last night. Battery died on phone before I could get more.

just read through this whole thread, have to agree, different situations for different kids. some grow up in an environment where they are around farm machinery/gt's from a very young age and i think it the minimum age thing is going to be a lot less for some than others. maturity level is going to vary. just like that of adults................ one thing that hasnt been addressed is this..... i think they should have to pay for their own gas, i could easily end up broke from a weekend of kent burning that stuff like theres no tomorrow............. :twocents-02cents:

Here is my latest with dual's just waiting to push some snow. Its snowing right now so by morning I will get to use it.

How about 1 dual?

Here is my boys first wheel horse! I think he will love it. In a few years i will get him a real one.

About 7" here in NE Ohio. My D180/blower setup didn't even blink. I want more, too! My only regret is that my drive is too short. I was done in 15 minutes. Was considering moving on to the front yard, but thought the better of it. My neighbors all have gravel driveways or else I would have been over there, too!

Any luck!!!??? Sorry Don, The last week got away from me...holiday rush and all. Yeah, I got it. Talked the guy down to 155.00 and came with a spare NOS belt . Had to let it sit a few days, but saturday night me and a buddy mounted it and fired it up...runs great....and it dosnt look like its been used more than a few times. Guy I got it from claimed he only used it twice, then got a plow for his truck. If we get half the snow tonight/tomorrow they are predicting (10-15 inches total) , she'll get a good christening. Thanks again for the help GMR I'll see if I can post some action picts tomorrow night

Rolling, Plugging & Spiking are really three entirely different operations: Using a 2-300# Lawn Roller will level & flatten-out the lawn, smashing clumps of dirt or small hills, works best with moist soil, best if driven slowly, some rollers also have small spikes on them, to do double-duty; A Plug Aerator removes 1/2" plugs of soil, about 2" deep, drops and lets them break-down on the soil surface, the hole lets water, air & fertilizer in, most of us use a pull-behind plugger, a commercial power-driven plugger does a much better job, but $$$. A Spike Aerator will slice a lot of small slits, thru the thatch into the soil 1-2-3" (weight & slow speed gets it deeper), lets the above in some, very easy to use, some of us will pull this for every 2nd or 3rd mowing, especially in the Spring and Fall. None of the above work on hard dry soil.

I use a powered plug aerator in the fall after I'm all done with leaves, then fertilize with a time release winterizer fertilizer. Doing it in the fall gives the plugs a chance to dissolve over the winter so you don't have to worry about running them through your mower deck. I would like to do it again in the spring but it's always either too wet or too late and the grass is already growing. I roll in the spring to even the ground out and knock down the high spots.

I'll remind you... :ROTF: :ROTF:

I personally hate it when I see something stuffed and mounted and never used for it's intended purpose. You go to a big museum and see a steam engine or other item cosmetically restored (painted all pretty) rotting away from the inside out due to disuse, if they would actually fire it up once a month or so it would actually last longer and look better. Plus the fact that seeing a piece of equipment being used for it's intended purpose tell a much better story then it sitting under a roof somewhere collecting dust and rust. Fill er up run it but use it lightly and clean it after use to keep it showroom condition.

Just picked up this blower for my D180 about a month ago and spent some time doing some basic restoration to make it usable this winter. Plan to take it all the way down in the spring, but this will do to get me through this winter. Looking forward to some snow!

:WRS: PChop and that's a heck of a Christmas Present, wish I had one of those! By the way, I set one of your pictures as your profile picture!

I like plowing snow.

I can see it has a 8hp engine, so it's a B-80 they never made a C-80 if you look under the fender you can see it has a tool box not just a fender support, toolbox was 75 and older, on those tractors the fender flipped up, in 76 and newer the fender was solid mount, and the seat was mounted on a flip up, last year for the chrome hood ornament was 76, a few ways to help tell the years. And to tell it's a 8hp from these hard to see pics is the coil is mounted on the back of the engine on a plate sideways, I can kinda see the riser plate under the oil pan, and the exh. comes straight out the side not at a angle like the big Kohlers.

Oh...so there's the reason it doesn't snow on the east coast anymore.

Im a welder by trade but not a very good body man I was thinking of welding the crack and making a patch for the holes on the back part the slits in the front dont seem to line up to good when I pull it together I makes a big bulge so I dont know if I should cut it out and patch or try a hammer and dolly im set up for tig and have a good mig machine so i can weld it up i also have another hood thats in a little better shape but the back by the sterring shaft is cut out and i would like to try and fix this one for my rat project and learn more about body work but i dont want to ruin the hood trying

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