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I think we should have a forum topic dedicated to Bone Head Moves! Everybody makes them. Whether working on our tractors, our house, driving, whatever. Might as well share them and give others a laugh, that might be have a sour day. Might pick them up for a bit. Here is my "Bone Head Move" for the day. I have been waiting on parts for another Lawn Boy motor. They arrived yesterday. After disassembling the K-181, and running some errands, I decided to finish the rebuild on it. Got it all back together, mounted it on my temporary stand, hooked a fuel tank, and started cranking. Nope Won't go. This is unusual for me as I don't often have troubles after a rebuild. Checked for spark, got spark. Try with a little starting fluid, pops right off. Hmmm....not getting gas. Loosen the carb bowl a bit, just to make sure it's getting there from the tank. Yep, I can see it running out on the floor. I can see it, but I can't smell it. This motor happens to be from 1964. It runs on 16-1 gas/oil ratio, rather than 32-1 of newer mowers. . I don't have many of these, so I just have a little gas mixed up in a milk jug, for these older motors. There in lies the problem. I also have some Purple Power cleaner and water mixed up in a milk jug for my sonic cleaner. Ya know what? That stuff won't burn. And you can take THAT to the bank! Purple Power and water look remarkably like gas and Lawn Boy oil mixed together. After cleaning everything thoroughly, and replacing fuel filter, it runs just fine. A guy my age should not make Bone Head Moves like this, but it happens all too often. Share your Bone Head Move. Someone might need a .

Yesterday, it was almost 70 F outside. I dusted off the lawn chair, faced it toward the Sun, set up a folding tray with a pitcher of Margarita's and spent the afternoon Felicitated. Not necessarily because of the Margarita's but because it Felicitated my heart to watch my wife pick up all of HER dog's landmines from the Winter. BTW, my lawnmowing 702 felt Felicitated also.

Great idea and excellent one to start!!! Just last week... Changed leaking fuel shut off valve on my C 105... went in perfect. No leaks. Started right up. Then died. What?!?! Oh... fuel line should, perhaps, be reconnected to new valve... pump fuel bulb, Go to start...nothin’... oh, duh... perhaps new fuel SHUT OFF valve should be turned on... Runs great now...

I had a discussion with Rylee this morning about pollution’s effects on the subject of global warming. That helped me decide to use the 6-1/2 horse engine to go gather some field trash over the 7 horse engine.

I did some seat switching today. I wasn’t happy with the seat that came on my charger 12 I recently acquired. The seat on the lawn Ranger that I bought from Denny Clarke @dclarkewas in like new condition so I decided to put it on the charger. I had all the components to build an older style seat in a box on my shelf so I put it together and installed it on the Ranger. I like the look of the Ranger seat bolted right to the seat pan but it’s much more comfortable with the spring base Denny installed so I left it like that.

I once had a neighbor that was a Bone Head. Fortunately he moved . . .

Or when you are trying to get the generator started, and you are pulling your guts out............ then the wife walks by and asks what is the little red switch for? You don't know how bad I wanted to say that is the ejection button!

I got drills that wobble like that but it ain't for drilling square holes......most from operator error!

There's better ways including broaches but around here that task usually gets a drill and then a triangular file. More than two gets old quickly.

Not today. We had baby-back ribs, fried oysters, and broiled scallops.

Little Bobby cried when his big sister got into his Easter basket: Mom!!! Felicitate my candy!!!

Some of you such as @ebinmaine had requested a video of my adze being used. Did it using it for a raised panel done the traditional way here. Had to split it into a few videos since I have no camera man to follow me around. This is a special adze called enxo, which is only seen where I am from and it really originated from shipwrights. it is still today a tool found in many old carpenters' tool boxes and it is extremely useful. Once mastered one can take thin shavings such as with a plane or large amounts of wood such as when roughing something up as I do for the raised panels. One can also do curved work with it.

Deffenetly square drill bits. I mean if round ones cut round holes, square ones got to cut square holes right?

I'd say my most recent bonehead move would be the last time I started our nearly new Ariens snowblower. I've been known more times than I would care to admit to become 38% past flusticated after I realize that I did not turn the gas on. Well, I checked the ignition switch. I checked the gas coming in. I pressed the primer bulb recommended amount of times. Pulled on the rope. A few times. after about the third pull I began to become suspicious that I was doing something stupid but of course it's the machines fault. NOT MINE. So I pressed the primer bulb more. I double checked that I was in the correct position for choke. I was. I moved the throttle back and forth to be sure that it was engaging. It was. Pulled a few more times. Cough. Cough cough. Die. So I pressed the primer bulb more. And then I went back and double checked my triple checks which I had already quadruple checked. And I pulled on it a few more times. run run run dum dum dum dum down down. Die. $#@_&-/@#)$&(_$# You might say that I was beginning to become headed towards that point of flustication because I had put good money into this thing not too long ago and it was failing to start and obviously that's the machines fault. NOT MINE. What did we learn from this? It may have possibly been my fault that I had it on low idle and not high speed.

That is the place to check... If the dipstick is dry I wouldn't run the tractor. Stick a long screw driver down to find the fluid. Check the color on a clean paper towel Red use Dex/Merc ATF tan use 10w-30 motor oil. If it is that low I would change the oil and filter (Wix 51410)

Not sure about Glenn but if you want decals you want to get a hold of Terry the vinyl guy @Vinylguy

Thanks, i appreciate that. SIL visiting her Dad, that is Family, that changes a lot, Family visit is allowed under certain rules. But a Travel for Holiday‘s is actually with a travel ban. Ok i’m think loud - this is the big Wheelhorse Family - right... 😉 we will see.

My very good friend Nick Zoteck who at onetime owned an auto wrecker in Edmonton, me and another bud were handling the scrap metal from a large plant renovation and expansion we were getting full length metal trusses and I-beams and did not want it to go to the steel mill. Nick was the first cold contact when I told him what we had said he would take it all, when the first semi load arrived and we unloaded and payment was made immediately, said he would take more if we had it. Second load arrived and unloaded, said we would have to wait for payment, I told him we loaded it the first time and we can do it again, he points to the bottom desk drawer says have a drink and I'll be back in an hour. That was over forty years ago and we have been friends ever since and have had a few joint ventures that worked out well for both. Thia is Nicks Shuswap Lake property, he came out to BC for one of our joint ventures and purchased this BC property on his return trip to Edmonton. I'm here to help move some junk around.

My father sitting next to Ada Fox this is her 104th birthday as you can see their acting like a pair of teenagers. She lived to 108 and outlived my father.

If this is for a scrapper blade for a snow blade, I went with Stove Bolts from ACE Hardware. As much head as a carriage bolt and do not need a square hole. They are slotted screw and you can get them in 1/2 and 3/4" if you want.

Usually during a normal Winter I don't get the chance to hand wash and wax the truck in the driveway and go to the do it yourself car wash because of the cap, racks and pipe box cannot use the drive through. The weather today was welcomed and took advantage to clean up the 2013 Chevy 2500 HD. Snow piles still showing their presence.

There are metal working businesses that use a press punch.

Speaking of mixing up plastic jugs and substances looking the same... Empty windshield washer bottles come in handy for making up 50/50 mix of DexCool antifreeze. They also come in handy as 'portable urinals' for the garage. Guess what I did MORE THAN one time? (you don't lose points if you guess wrong! In fact, you can't guess wrong!) BUT... I have never once pizzed directly into the radiator!

After i have my plans finalized how to enlarge the Snowblower for the 656, i do today a little work on the Turbine’s bearing housing. The Turbine have allready a Bearing but it was previously made as a Front Attachment. So i decide to rework it and improve that for a Beltdrive system with a second bearing to be more stable even on a stronger Beltspan. To do that, i reactivated my 15year old little Lathe. She‘s just a tiny little one, but works so far after several improvements i have done to her. I begin with planing firstly the ends and after that i machined a second Bearing holder in it. Because the original bearing has few felt ripples, so i hammer it off and ordered 2 new bearings and decide to rework both sides, that the bearings will fit snug without too much pressure force. Before the bearing snaps hardly out and needs few hard hammer hits to become loose. That must be changed. Now it fits without too much force, tightener pressure with the fingers is enough, maybe a gently hammer tap will be needed, but they will now slide in with nearly no force. The opposite side with its new Bearingmount Where also the bearing fit‘s snug with a little more pressure than a gently finger pressure. Prewarming with the induction heater and they will flip easy in. To release the bearings against any span to the housing, i built a bushing for the inside 0,05 over. they should be fit between the Fan Shaft the both bearing inner‘s and the bushings and to the Belt pulley, so they can be tight mounted. My plan is to stabilize the bearings together even from too much side torque on a higher beltspan. New Bearings are ordered, hopefully they came quick.

Ailing family Stefan! We can’t go on without you!

Jim has got a bad case "bed pan head" in this picture

Pond Wheel Horse. Officially felicitating children both young and old, since 1948. Photo credit “Straight From the Horse’s Mouth” by Joe Martino

He had a stroke awhile back Dennis and is probably still trying to recover. I could really use a 701 dash so let us know if you succeed in getting ahold of him. Maybe we can cajole Lowell into taking up Glen's work if he no longer does. Ahem @wheelhorseman.....

Besides, if he made it... you certainly can!

Terry is the go to guy for decals. https://www.redoyourhorse.com/

At this point father is terminally ill with colon cancer, here he is supervising the work I'm doing on a Lincoln SAE 200 amp welder, one had a freshly rebuilt engine the other had a fresh generator..

Ney Ney Randy....the roach coach now.... couple o other idiots here convinced me to run out in this. Worse part not to mention diesel at 50 bucks a gallon I now have a full on tour age. ... did I say that right? Meaning the Missus, the dog and worse less space for horses and Kev offering to show how to load. Not even mentioning @Achto's out gassing. Oh my Lord! Oh well life's too short!

Ask and ye shall receive! First LED ornament test!

Not really work on a Horsie but I did replace the tool box on the Horsie Hauler!

Well.. I wish I could talk about life here in the machine shop I work at, but cant say much due to being aircraft related.. Just finished 'overhaul' of my 1951 Farmall Cub engine, it's been in a nice heated garage throughout the whole ordeal. Finally decided last weekend to get her back to the property she belongs on. Hydraulic pump on the F-Cub is a rather poor design, and has a literal O ring for an input shaft seal. No matter what I did, it weeped.. into the oil pan.. So it got a healthy dose of 30wt and that sorted the leak .. mostly. Won't hurt anything at least. Still 6v, cause it always worked fine.. Drove it onto the trailer no trouble, and hauled it off to my grandparents place.. It was 11* outside.. 45 minute ride. Climbing onto the seat I accidentally grabbed the lever for the hydro lift and moved it. It's quite sensitive and even when in good shape they lug the engine a bit. Nice tight rebuilt motor + 30wt in the hydraulics, trying to move the lift, below freezing, with a 6 volt starter.. You can imagine how well this went. Got tired of smelling burnt insulation and decided to just pop start it.. off the trailer. Those cubs fall to earth right quick when there's nothing holding them up.. did get it rolling fast enough to fire up though. Some years ago when i first bought my '85 Ford, I had the top of the 4 speed pulled apart to change the oil. Tremec never installed a drain plug on my model.. Had the front spindles apart at the same time and was waiting on bearings. Truck was up on stands. Friend dropped by and wanted to hear it run. Let my foot off the clutch and forgot it was in gear on account of the tranny being apart.. again with the gravity? Had a '74 Ford LGT tractor and I think Eric was lucky enough to see the aftermath of it's adventure. Grabbed the mail for my grandfather from the top of the hill, and started down. Jumped out of gear so I let it roll a moment before remembering it had no brakes. Plowed it through the back wall of the garage and into the basement. 1913 Associacted 1 3/4hp hit and miss. Smelt an awful funny burning smell and shut off the spark, but it kept on running. Just had it apart. A smoldering shop rag was still in the bore, and it seems somehow it actually was running like that. 1928 Model A Ford pickup truck I was working on for a family friend. Not entirely my screwup.. No spark. Tore the distributor apart, all 4 parts of it.. filed points, no fire. New condenser, no fire. Tear apart the security wire to the switch, I have power. Or ground as it was, positive ground and all. Take the cap and body off and turn the engine over with a plug hooked right to the coil, good fire. Throw some little piece of wood out of the bottom of the distributor.. Reassemble, nothing. Went round and round with it for a whole afternoon. Turns out the housing was warped and the little piece of wood Farma Brown put in there served to keep clearance between the points and the rotor. ..Still in there and serving admirably. 1921 Evinrude ELTO, belonged to a friend. Called a 'knuckle buster' due to the open flywheel and starter knob that spun around at the top. I had never run one. No throttle, only a fuel mixer and spark advance with throws in either direction. No reverser or clutch. All you had to do was set the timer forward or back, and flip it over compression. Do make note of the decal being wrong, and that if started quickly, your boat may jump back onto the trailer in a scalded hurry.. 1926 Maytag gas washing machine. Was showing her off at a show, kicked it over and it sounded odd, but was running. Close enough for the very engine that taught so many little children to curse.. Went to demonstrate the wringer after washing a few towels. Put it in gear and tried over and over to thread the cloth into the rollers. Took a moment before I realized it was working backwards. Timing had drifted and it fired off in reverse somehow. Had no way to pull the flywheel on sight, and after attempting several times further to start it the right way, I gave up and belted the whole unit to my WH Electro 12 that was also present. That Kohler idles a lot faster than the Maytag runs wide open, you know.. Finally gave up and left it static display. Made enough of a fool of myself. Working with the old iron I mess with so often makes for some pretty easy opportunities.

At the end of daylight-savings time last fall I set all the clocks ahead one hour. Since everything was shut down it didn't make much difference at the time. Guess I was practicing for this coming weekend.

Punch press, broach or slotter. The punch press uses a fixed size punch and die. The broach is also restricted to the shaped size. The slotter pictured can be used to cut square or rectangular holes of any size on the fly. Punch press for production, broach for low volume and the slotter for one offs.

That would be called an "Iron Worker" had one at the exhaust factory... Can shear angle ,T and flat iron, cut/notch square/rectangular/round structural tubing, and if course punch round or square holes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworker_(machine)

This is the expansion plug knocked in to the bearing plate side of the crank case camshaft pin hole. Mick

Thanks Garry, you may have posted a link to the wiring manual though... [never mind, that link takes you to the page to download all] This is what I found in one of the sections, think it was the second one down on the page: I'm certain that it applies to ALL though. Definitely agree about retorquing after taking a spin around the neighborhood! I said 30 ft-lb because I might have seen that in the service manual, but of course, when in doubt use the standard torque spec charts for the size bolt.

Does a lengrhy convo over beingcount as ?????? I guess ya have to take intent in there somewhere...any lawyers in the group?

Carbon looks best in a set of new tires...

<------Someone is now calling me a "Senior"

With the hub set screws you need to be careful when tightening them. If you tighten the first one to the torque value, you will then work against it being tight when tightening the second one. You will actually loosen the first. Tighten them in increments. This is one of the reasons they get wallowed out.

You're welcome. I learned this the hard way when I first got my machine back in the last century. I was tightening them every time I used the machine. Eventually one of the hubs became so wallowed out I had to replace it. I know others may disagree with this, but my opinion is that after you install the new seals (for which you can use the hub as a 'slide hammer' to install them) is to use blue loctite on the set screws. This is what I did when I replaced the hub and torqued to 30. It's been at least five years (maybe even seven?) since I've done that and they have not loosened again since.

Wheel Horse 1988 520-H model 31-20OE01 I see the part. Yes my local hardware store should have that. Thank You

Brothers from other mothers. There's gotta be a loop hole there someplace. Sure hope it works out for you. You can have the spare bed in Jim's camper, I'll crash in my tent.

Today‘s check @ Homeland Security Page say’s the Travel ban from Germany to USA is still active and extended. Even if ESTA is allready approved and even if vaccined, as long as the travel ban is active no guarantee to pass the Border. The German USA embassy told me the same, this will maybe happen til end of May / June. Actually nobody can say if it‘s possible or not to Travel. I Think i have to wait until the last minute. I will upgrade my ESTA before but a flight will be booked in last minute, When no rooms can be found i will sleep in a cheap Tent for a night, if the travel ban is gone til end of May. If this year the Big Show for me is definitely not possible, i will delay it to next year. Than hopefully completely without all the Dang Covid thing for us all.