Leaderboard

@WHX24 and other folkses. Here's some pics from the digital camera gifted to Trina a few months ago. Been fiddling with settings and learning how to get out of it what she wants. Here's a few pics of animals she's taken. You'll recognize a chickadee. The other bird is a redpoll. A type of finch that isn't super common in Maine. We had a flock of them hang out for a couple weeks recently. Both were on our side deck. The deer was in the section of forest just beyond the fenced in area this evening. It moved just as she hit the button but it came out ok. This camera is another instance of the generosity of this here 🤡 crowd. Thanks Jim.

I made this video for another post and thought it may be useful for it to be here. Many of us sometimes need to glue two boards together particularly edge to edge. No need to feel helpless if a jointer is not available. If one has a hand plane it can be done easier, safer , quicker and better than with any machine. It is not only simple but also an enjoyable task. The longer the plane is the easier that task is, assuming of course that the board is longer than the plane. One chooses the plane accordingly. Most of us will only have one plane most likely a smoothing plane about 9" long. Not a problem it will just take a little longer and one just has to check board a little more often. During this process what happens is that plane will first cut the high spots, just riding over the low ones. Eventually plane will take one continuous shaving from beginning to end. If for example it is an 8" board and the plane is anywhere from 18" to 30" long, the board then will most likely be straight or close to it when there is a continuous shaving. If the plane is shorter than that it may most likely be a little high in the center. A little hollow in the center is desirable so when clamped in center, ends will easily come together. By "hollow" I am referring to about 16/32" or 1/2 sixteenth of an inch. Board has also to be square. That is also easily achieved by using the lateral adjustment on the plane as needed. Just a couple of critical ways of handling the plane need to be followed as illustrated on the video.

You have to make a lot of changes to make it work. My hitch is home made. You can get by with out changing the rocker are as it can't be moved on your model because of the gas tank. I do know the clevis hitch will hit the receiver hitch You will also have to change the braces to the receiver hitch and cut the tube off the clevis hitch to make it work. I can still install the original WH hitch. The easiest fix is another Wheel Horse. I just had one when I did that.

Took a cruise today with Rylee on the WHRat, me on Poppy with the sleigh in tow. We’ve had my 2 yr old niece since Wednesday while her mother gave birth to another beautiful baby girl... so lots and lots of tractor rides! A few spots of 3” deep sugar snow, turned the WHRat’s duals into snowball rollers!

More trailer photos with the exception of the sheet metal skid pulled by one of our 1054’s!

@David414 Thank you for the tag. I’ve been married for over 30 years so I’m not used to people asking my opinion, ha ha. I have a slot hitch tractor, a clevis hitch tractor, and a couple that have a receiver hitch. I don’t have the clevis tractor nearby but I can tell you something that actually works well for me is a slot hitch with different adapters. The slot hitch and the bottom of my receiver hitch are both approximately 10 inches off the ground. I would assume that the pin on my clevis hitch would be similar height. To me, that would create natural interference if you tried to have the clevis and receiver hitch on the same tractor without some modification as you’ve stated already. Depending on what you’re going to use your single tractor for, the slot hitch might be just the ticket for you. I have different adapters that I slide in and it can be used for anything. It would not be as robust as the receiver hitch for towing because the cable basically supports the weight from the tongue but it is very flexible. In fact, when I’m towing a small utility trailer I insert my ball adapter and back up to the trailer with the hitch adjusted down low and once the ball is under the trailer hitch I simply lift up on the lift arm and it hooks it up without me even having to get off the tractor. It’s just a thought. If I had one tractor, that slot hitch with different adapters would be my go to.

The rear clevis hitch is mainly for "gardening" implements (ie 10" moldboard plow, cultivators, disc, rear grader blade ect) that do do weight all that much with the most forces being produce by the moldboard plow for turning fresh sod over to start a garden, think of it more as a fairly simple lightweight 3pt hitch set up (the drawbar pin either side 2pts and the cable 1pt) and the drawbar pin is your fulcrum point allowing the implement to raise raise and lower for transport or use and to follow (float with) the grade of the terrain without having to keep making "lift" adjustments. The single point pin in the factory application is positioned "level" with the drawbar pin but swings throughout the axis as it travels lower for "sinking" the plow below grade or above for transport, and technically most implements will be "level" to the drawbar pin for their intended purposes like the rear grader blades. I am sure others will be along with a better explanation. Now as far as keeping the receiver hitch and using this as well maybe a cable completely from the rock shaft through the trans tube back to the rear rock shaft location then using a solid idler shaft with a pulley down through the receiver ( drill through and tube guide here as well) to the clevis hitch pull strap? @Handy Don what's your thoughts on this idea?

The way it usually goes here, is that you can almost bet on one more dump of snow, some time in March, before it's officially over. Most assuredly if your remove your snow removal implements.

Hard to believe this was almost 4 years ago! Me, Trina and her mom were moving the 3/4" stone from the driveway to the backyard for what would become the fire 🔥🔥 pit area. 26 foot diameter circle with a stone wall at the high side and stone/log retainer at the low side. That tractor is the B80 that started it all for us. Eventually would be repainted to become Patriot Horse. The trailer is the predecessor to my orange cable lift dumping trailer and this project was a huge impetus for the tilt mechanism. Hey @squonk. Sandals! We've had a lot of great times in this stone circle. Everyone should have a gathering area and a 🔥 pit.

A couple of 400 series in the garage last Summer for some needed painting and maintenance after acquiring both. Come on Spring.

Removed the plough/dozer blade of the C-125 this afternoon. Don't really know why I bothered putting it on. Snow as such is pretty scarce down here on the plain. The 125 has been a bit of a pig to start lately, so to save the old back and knees,it was up on the table to check the points. Found they were a little tight so set to to adjust them. What a PITA they are to set. Anyone who has do this will know what I mean. A right fiddle. It seems to be starting better now, but I'll see what it's like tomorrow with a cold engine.

Who does that Randy ? Doesn't everyone have a tractor for every implement?

I could become a vegetarian if PORK products were declared to be vegetables! Bacon, sausage, pulled pork, baby back ribs, pork chops, ham; you know; all those vegetables.

Ok I called it a hood, not a bonnet. So, mine rattles like a tin outhouse in a thunderstorm. The top surface flexes and bounces up and down at tick over. I'd like to brace it to stop the vibration, I have some deadening material that sticks on to the underside but do I need to make some kind of brace to stiffen the panel before I glue this stuff on. Its a problem as I can't stand my gin glass on the bonnet 🙄 Mick

Now you done did it, opened up "Pandora's Box" most will be wanting your secret recipe for a 3pt rear hitch. BTW good job good engineering and final assembly on that, this is what makes this hobby and forum so great many many ideas to solve a problem.

The hospital called, They want their stretcher back! If you think a is bad to set points on, Try a Power King with a loader on it.

Mount the 2" receiver on the front and the clevis sleeve hitch on the back?

Okay fellows, You guys came up with some very insightful and possible answers, but what it was is quite simple...a man was walking his Chihuahua down the street after eating at a Mexican restaurant, the dog farted, and this was the aftermath... The dog and the man both survived...the man only receiving minor burns on his feet, and having to buy new shoes and socks...the dog was found 3 blocks away, unharmed, lodged between two branches in a tree, with singed butt hair...

24175k44 self gripping vinyl edge trim

Well wanted to update I did take a job with samson exhaust in avilla. but the pay was really poor and it was repetitive work i am use to doing 20 things at once and i have trouble staying focused when doing the same thing a million times. SO I left that place and I had a job offer with the old cooper tire in auburn. It is a shipping receiving job and a lot better pay an benefits. The place got bought out and was expanding during covid. https://continentaltire.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7YyCBhD_ARIsALkj54q2tWiWvC8x2mVjwLvfSD3GRpXiCrfJCCZBYSW6nTJAPkKty6IpFX0aAjbsEALw_wcB Now all I am waiting on is the specifics! Fingers crossed

I'm wearing a heart monitor today, I think it just dialed 911.

That's why Scotty perfected the Warp Drive!

Apple fritters,eggs, puddin sausage,, maple syrup, and home fried taters and onions Beer can chicken, old mill, and shine nuff said

I'm a Milwaukee believer, but I also have, and still use my Ryobi tools in the shop. They are good for the little jobs I do, but if I was still working construction I'd use the Milwaukee. The batteries last a lot longer, and are better for more rugged continued use. The warranty on the tools is very good, I've had to have some of them repaired. I've never had to pay anything to have them worked on. Just depends on how much and how hard you want to work them. Ryobi is good considering the price and if you just need them now and then. As far as having a tool that takes a beating and continued use, like I said I feel Milwaukee is the way to go. That's just my Everyone has their own preference, kinda like what color red to use on their tractors

Alabama, In Laws lived there 25 years ago and while on a visit, I took my daughter and went for a drive. Found all kinds of roadside BBQ places and that was when you could pull up to a speed shop and find a cool nascar place. Just walk up they took you in and showed you everything. When we got back 6 hours later, my mother in law was so pissed, (cause we didn't take her with us). Oh, don't wear a white shirt!

Buried power cable failure. We had one near where I worked as a cop, report of fire coming up through the pavement. Pretty spectacular in a country where our last active volcano was witnessed by didlosaurs. Lol

VERY similar to the one I have on order to be delivered and built when the snow goes away.Mine will have the entire front open.The 3 other walls will be fully enclosed.Mine will be 44 ft long,21 ft wide.Center area 12 feet high with the 9 ft high lean tos.Only going to use it for equipment storage.No electric.Crusher run floor.Delivered and built for just over 10 grand.

I suppose anything that doesn't give me the runs, guess that leaves the above list out.

I put the ad on hold, no one did anything wrong, there’s a lot with this collection and it needs more time to get properly sorted. Stay tuned.

What about one of these...

Nice photos @ebinmaine...! Nice pic @WHX24 - Was that taken through a scope...?

Fiddle away EB .... thing about these cameras is soooo many settings to get rhe right pic. I tell Cindy is just keep hammering the button & chances are yer gonna get one pic comes out good, focus and what not ... rest can be deleted as easy as they were taken. Throw a little shell corn out or those sunflowers for the deer .... that gets them to stand still. Took this one just a few days ago but no idea what's with the blue hue.... was broad daylight but taken thru a window??

My knowledge of the universe is somewhat limited. I know the sun rises in the East and sets in the West and the deer don't move much during full moon. My first Grandson, now that's a different story. He played with planet mobiles when he was a baby and had a projector light that displayed the universe on his bedroom ceiling. In a couple months he will graduate from Penn State with a BS in Astro Physics. He has worked for PSU for the last two years analyzing Hubbell photos of brown stars. He analyzes and catalogues these new stars.

Don't think all the galaxies are heading away from us per say, just bugging out from wherever they and we were. All expanding and at some point Andromeda and the Milky Way will cross paths and collide! Though that word connotes major trips to the body shop I gather that it will have little effect due to so much space between everything little is expected to hit anything. It's all hard for me to comprehend. Not sure we need science fiction to be amazed. Nature is pretty amazing to me as is.

Installed a new 340 cca battery in the 315. The old one was getting very weak. Now she fires right up like it used to

Not a receiver or clevis hitch, but it does go up and down!

Two minute job to cut and stick three sheets of this stuff into the inside of the bonnet. Its only 2mm thick and is a kind of bitumen adhesive with a foil top layer. It worked a treat and took out a lot of the panel bounce that was bugging me. You can see it still allows the steel to flex but it has killed the noise very much and im happy with the results.

Okay all you engineers, physicists, and scientists, take a look at these pics I took at work today and tell me what caused this damage to a concrete sidewalk...

Meh... And all this time I thought 's were the center of the universe...

Milwaukee...

Yeah, but radiation poisoning finally caught with him. OSHA eventually shut it down.

When the battery died on my lithium ion 18v Dewalt the other day and I had to wait awhile as i had neglected to put the second battery on the charger I got to thinking. This is my 3rd dewalt battery drill the older ones still work but one was a 12 volt and the next a 14. The batteries on both are weak and expensive to replace. Went to the tool chest and pulled out my Milwaukee old fashioned drill .. you know the kind you plug in. Have had that for almost 30 years still works every time and doesn't get tired and cost way less than the 3 dewalt replacements and a few batteries. 90% of my drilling wire brushing etc occurs within 8 ft of an outlet...I think the tool manufactures have hoodwinked us in to spending a lot of money.....

Especially when a digger/backhoe takes a “bite” out of one! ⚡️🚒🚑🏥⛪️⚰️🕳 or if you’re very lucky, you may only need this 🚽🧻🧻

I think with Covid still affecting people’s traveling plans it’ll be easy to score a hotel...even close to the dates of the show I bet there are plenty of vacancies.

Get a cup holder and some earmuffs! Could be the pivot point holes are enlarged, if so drill them out for a brass bushing to tighten it up.

The answer to this could take up a lot of space. But for me, as an entree a Maryland Lump Crabcake or a grilled medium-rare NY strip steak is at the top of my list. I no longer drink alcohol, so my favorite drink is water.

Please forgive me @ebinmaine for the above comment but @WHX24 has been quiet as of late with his comments, someone had to take his place.

Extra spicy Jack in the Box burger maybe?