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Thanks for the birthday wishes guys! I’ve not been around much lately largely due to my Dad’s health. He’s currently battling lung cancer. I’m lucky enough to be able to take a few months off from work thanks to the Family Medical Leave Act. Please keep him in your prayers as he goes through chemo and radiation. I truly love all of my wheel horse brothers and sisters!!

Working these out today. Looks to be a busy week. I enjoy getting these out. I plow to one side then blow it on the side lot. This blower is rated at 50' in light snow. But I am getting to the age where it is a little much for me. Meaning it is 6` long and it is a young mans game, but this thing moves the snow. Hope you enjoy the picks.

Thought I would show you a tap wrench I made this weekend. 1st tool I have made with my machine tools.

I finally was able to get out and use the c81 this weekend. Always fun to get some seat time on “old reliable“

Look! That's our Kevin promoting job site safety.

Thanks to @KAA 1973’s screw machine link, I found this guy on YouTube that builds some awesome stuff! I see @AMC RULES has seen him before too... I have a limited firewood supply and have been thinking of ordering a semi load. I believe the going rate for logs is $1600 / 12 cords’ worth of firewood. A simple processor would be a great addition to the farm! I’d like to see more of it run by one power source, but the design is great!

@pullstart from what I have seen I think you have what it takes to make something like what’s in the first video, but we may have to call or at least make sure Mrs. P is there to make sure your, you know in good hands.

Surprisingly, the 656 will move more snow than you might think with that plastic snow plow. Unfortunately, some wet snow and some snow banks kind-a did a number on my 3/8" eye bolts. Guess they just weren't made for that. It was time for a re-design. With a little pipe and a few bolts, I think it's much more rigid now.Of course any good plastic snow plow needs a precise, carefully calculated amount of weight, to make it work properly. Mine turned out to be a 42" cardboard tube, filled with bird seed. It took me a long time to find a program on line to figure that out. A plow this nice needs a better system for lifting. I am working on that. It just might be that I over built the frame mechanism, and I might break my plow. Time will tell.

The diesel shop teacher next to our auto shop always used to say “If you come to me and say Mr. Armentrout, my safety glasses got ran over, I’m going to respond why didn’t your head get run over too?” I know most the safety rules, just don’t always remember the, in the heat of battle!

Anybody else caught the sticker "This machine has no brain use your own"

Power washed some parts and my newly acquired GT 1800

Well, I'm not quite ready to sweep the earth. A friend of mine (who is not into garden tractors at all but knows that I am) showed me a that was for sale on Face Book. I told him that I really didn't need another tractor but I did like sweeper that was on it. Next thing I know he was asking me if I wanted to buy the sweeper because he just bought the tractor. He also asked me if I could look the tractor over for him, which I was more than happy to do. The tractor is a 1267 that has been the unfortunate victim of PO's that were obviously "shoe men". But I've done more with less. Any way on to my gain from this acquisition, a Mars sweeper.Who ever owned this sweeper before sure loved the crap out it, as the broom is really warn down. I found some posts on the forum about the Mars sweeper but seems there was not a whole lot of info. The price was right on mine though so sooner or later this thing will end up on my "resto radar". Mean while I will do my research and see what I can do for replacement brooms. I will also be wanting to add some casters to it for height adjustment, I'm thinking caster with pneumatic tires so it can be used on softer surfaces if need be. I would gladly welcome more info on the Mars sweeper, if any one has some. Thanks.

You should have seen all the PPE I donned when I was pulling out all the old fiberglas insulation! Tyvek disposable overalls duct taped to gloves and boots, full face respirator with P100 canisters, tyvek head covering duct taped to respirator and overalls. Good thing it was not hot out! Don't know about videos, but I could take a couple photos I guess... I once used bubble wrap as a padding underneath a Halloween costume (Frankenstein's monster) and I have to say ... it purt near kilt me! I could not believe how HOT! and I mean HOT! it was inside that costume! Bordering on heat stroke hot. Nearly passed out, had to strip it off QUICK! I did win the costume contest though, it was worth the $250 in the end.

And has fumble fingers! I remember dropping my Fluke down inside a wall. Sawzall time!

I sure do have point of view pics looking out over the hood! Great idea for a thread Jim

Put the Blower and chains back on the 314 today! Worked like a charm still gonna get wheels loaded for more weight but still not disappointed with how she preformed on her maiden voyage in the snow! My other half even wanted to try it out! (Slowly getting her addicted to wheel horse and she dont even know )

314-8 with blower.

Guilty here... but the battery didn't explode. Probably a good time for this: ASSuming we're talking about NEGATIVE GROUND, reverse the below if POSITIVE GROUND. ALWAYS disconnect the negative when working on the positive! When removing a battery ALWAYS remove the NEGATIVE first. ALWAYS remove the POSITIVE last. When installing a battery ALWAYS replace the POSITIVE first. ALWAYS replace the NEGATIVE last.

Ripped the 310-8 parts machine apart!

Nice Meter!

saw this on FB https://www.carvideos.tv/news/3926/canadian-turned-his-lawn-tractor-into-this-screw-propelled-death-machine?fbclid=IwAR2VtB-7CrP9VSWKcZdn8QBrEO6xxaTzma-NBV0FQ3V2lWkdF7zEun210e0

Looking at the forecast all the way through to next Wednesday...gonna be cold. I know temperatures like this are nothing for you folks up north, but it’s downright cold for here. Not even halfway through the first day and I’m already ready for our 60s to come back

Almost there! Still a little tweaking on the outer frame, then to work on the lenses once i get some clear filament.

And just remember... if it functions great! But, if it doesn’t quite “work”: Quando omni flunkus, moritati. (Translation: When all else fails, play dead.)

your air quality is good!

I run spark plugs for a long time, this one ran in my trim mower for maybe 20 years but I replaced it needlessly.

I can't see your video but this is what I did to one of my Chargers. Made a new pivot pin and drilled out the axles to 7/8" then pressed in two sleeve bearings from Mcmaster. . In my case the front hole in the frame the pin rides in was also wallowed out so I welded a plate over it with a true 3/4' hole and I made my replacement pivot pin a bit longer to fit in it.

Keep it away from Jim. He'll either get is arm stuck in it trying to get that UEI meter out after he get the leads all tangled up or his shoelaces will get caught!

Really there's only 10 Randys here ... Pullstart just being a smart @$$ and going AGAIN!!!

There’s a dude down the road who spends a day or two every spring with a shop vac along the edge of his driveway.

That's one thought that I have for it. It would also be handy for getting the gravel out of the lawn and back into the driveway/ roadside in the spring, I hope.

Here is my splitter, if you haven’t seen it before. I’ve got a feeling I could add what it needs to be a self contained unit.

something is up with the clutch pedal placement - at rest it appears to be too far toward the rear of the tractor could be due to the floor board placement can't recall for sure but I believe the pedal rests on the front part of the floor board inside cutout - if so might need to move the floor board up and/or in in to get the clutch pedal to the correct position ... again can't recall - would need to look at it to be sure or possible the clutch rod or similar adjustment is required note the clutch pedal placement on the 312-8 pictured below

@WHX24, I don't think that the modified HF engine on my Rat would be able to handle this broom. After a resto I'll drop it off so you can use it to clean the kitchen for Cindy. I like to bring a over to my Simplicity buddy's place from time to time. I like to remind him how much easier it is to work on a compared to his Simple City's.

agree I also have a 312-8 with 8" wheels and the longer spindles (pictured below) the tractor is lifted approx 1/2 inch in the front - and easy to lower the front of the deck if you desire

It covers the hose clamp on the rope.

I wouldn’t mind the cold so much, but the ice gets real old real quick. Worked one rollover yesterday morning due to slick roads, and three more accidents already today. People here don’t seem to know how to drive when it gets like this

I don't know about needlessly. I'd say it was at least getting fairly close....

I would recommend pneumatic tires for your casters. I use mine in the spring to get the stones out of the grass and back in the driveway and the dirt road I live on. The ground is soft and bigger casters are better as this thin is heavy and the electric lift doesn't respond quickly to any dips or bumps. Wish I had better casters cheap chinese tires do not hold up.

I’d like to see Uncle Jim get something else stuck, keep it unmanned in 3rd gear wide open again when he pushes it out! Maybe the brush would clean him up a bit!

I hated the safety posters around college and work. Mangled hands and eyes with acid in them. But I did learn from them.... I had a 12v truck battery explode right in my face when I was discharge testing it. Thought I'd blown out the hydrogen from the cells but its tricky stuff and up it went first spark. Luckily the casing ended up stuck in my hands not my face, the acid went straight in my eyes. Id seen a photo of a guy who had got a drop in his eye and ignored it overnight. Lost the sight no bother. So I ran straight to the toilets and put my head in the pan and flushed, several times. I got a bleached fringe and my overalls rotted but my sight was saved. Next day the workshop had goggles at every battery charger, eye wash stations everywhere, the whole 9 yards.

There are those who would refer to those type behaviors as the natural culling of society.

There does seem to an abundance of them

I kinda did the same thing as you Jim, I flipped the tension plates over as they seemed to have more bend than the way they were, that helped my situation, I had also installed a new cam.

Awesome stuff! I imagine it would clean some fresh powder with ease!

You can flip that over to use the top side edge. I never did any additional support on the back of the added extensions so you might want to take a look at doing something if they're being bent back.

I wish! Far from it! 68 ! Or, 18 with 50 years experience! 😄

Mounted & wired some cab lights on Denny. First pic just the Par 36 @dclarke had in her. Second pic these things will blind you ... you can't look right into them... like looking at a weld arc. The rears...

Great forum you guys have here! So many really useful responses in such short time! So as I mentioned I have an old piece of a receiver hitch extension in my shop and some angle. Went out there and came up with this in short time this morning. The angles are 3 x 3 x 1/4 which is overkill but there is room and its what I had. Didn’t want to go thinner (though looks like most people did and no problem) because the bolts from the plow mount will hold this on the axle and the bars for those bolts are 1/4 x 1” or so. May rip them down to 3x2 or 2x2 or so if I get inspired and plasma cutter will do it. I have a Chinese plasma cutter that is able to cut 1/4 but I haven’t yet learned the patience to do it well (go slow). Cross tube is 1 1/2” with 1/4 walls so very heavy and fits inside the piece of receiver hitch so I am going to notch out the sides on the front end of the receiver tube to just leave the top and bottom of it so I can weld all around- cope it over the smaller tube. Should be really strong and plenty high. Braces to lower pin will be incorporated once the top piece is together.