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I see a bit of an opportunity here guys.... Any of you with time to spare and plenty of sun tan lotion could hop over to Egypt and give em a hand getting this bad boy out. Should be pretty easy, its only sand and with enough Horses she would pull right out; only weighs 200,000 tons. We could name our price! Plus, let Dan gerous know that there will be a sea captain putting his resume out there so he better look after his job. "Position Wanted, experienced cargo captain (and lookout) looking for work, happy to travel and drive your ship. Only one minor bump in 20 years of service" Mick

I ship brake linings, lug nut kits, and 9-pin connectors on a regular basis. I always ship via USPS because of the convenience and because their rates are still the lowest for small items. When you buy something from me, you are always charged postage based on what I am charged for the weight of the item. For example, a 9-pin connector kit weighs 2 ounces in the shipping envelope, with paperwork. I charged $3.00 (going up to $3.50). The post office used to charge me about $2.89. The difference is my cost for the envelope. Now to my point. If you mail a 1st class letter, the stamp is 55 cents. Each additional ounce is 20 cents. So 2 ounces would be 75 cents. Since my 9-pin kit weighs 2 ounces but is bulky, it has to go 1st class parcel. 2 ounces now, as of this morning costs me $3.49 cents. So as a result, I have to raise my prices to cover it. Still don't know why the $2.74 difference. But, then comes items shipped from China. I recently bought some fender brackets for my grandson's go-kart. They weighed about 1 pound. They were shipped from China to California, into the USPS mail delivery service, and on to me. Postage was free. Who picks up that cost? The USPS does and they pass it along to us in the form of rate increases as described above. Now up onto my soapbox It's time for the U.S. to stop pandering to China with free shipping. Make China pay whatever it costs, and make the U.S. buyers pay that rate. That will stop a lot of these cheap products from entering the U.S. postage-free and maybe our domestic shipping rates can go down.

Shifting fields, so been making 150 new pens for the pigs - these are some of the feed barrels being moved to the new location. They are slippery little buggers!

Ripped this botched up 606 with HY3 lift apart for a parts machine. Will be using a lot of the parts for my 657 build

A bit of time on the lathe and the next phase begins. Firstly the rear track just didn't look right, so I've added 2" either side and rather than buy spacers - which are expensive.... I made my own and there is the first clue to my something special with the transmission. you can either take a guess - or watch this space!

Just a share picture from today's trip into the city.

Many years ago the wife and I did a narrow boat trip over a weekend. Never crewed anything bigger than the little tub on a boating lake. And she presents me with a 60 foot long barge where you stand at the back to try and steer! I did the same thing as this guy, but I was trying to turn it round in something called a winding hole. As I sweated and swore trying to push the thing out of the bank (who knew what a barge pole was for) a wise ass walking along the tow path quipped "The canal goes the other way mate" I hate boats (Ships, sloops, subs, sailing dinghies etc al). Mick

I will skip the technical mumbo jumbo- it can get extreme, but tuning an exhaust is all about pressure waves. Basically- when the valve opens, a 'freight train' of air is sent rushing away from the valve and down a length of pipe, and when the valve slams shut, that freight train is still under motion, creating a vacuum at the valve. If the pipe length is tuned so that freight train is still inside the pipe when the exhaust valve opens again, it will help pull the next 'train' of dead gases out of the cylinder, picture train #1 hooked up to train #2 with a huge elastic strap and taking off. This is also where camshaft/valve overlap comes in- if both valves are open at this time, this 'train' helps pull the fresh intake air/fuel into the cylinder. To add MORE confusion, this same 'freight train' scenario can be used on the intake side, smashing two trains together to force mixture into the cylinder. Due to the extreme length of the pipes needed in most cases to accomplish this, there is a 'second wave', 'third wave', etc..that will allow shorter lengths and some effect. To take advantage of the first wave on our little one lungers running at 3600rpm, the intake and exhaust would need to be over 5 feet long!! ok, gonna stop there ha. Anyhow- VERY basically speaking, the longer the intake and exhaust and smaller diameter pipe, the better for torque and low rpms, and the shorter/larger diameter the better for high rpm power....and if you need to run a muffler, get that thing as far away from the exhaust valve as possible, to at least get a LITTLE help from a pipe. That is what the pipe on Hoss was built for. Plans were to wrap a pipe all the way down the side, back to the front, and attach the muffler, but in the end I'd still have basically NO intake manifold length....and this is a stinkin worker, not a record attempt Having at least a foot of pipe between the valve and muffler just makes me feel better.

To paraphrase Roy Scheider in Jaws "I think they need a bigger excavator"

Harness and saddle makers vise used to hold leather while hand stitching it.

Here the promised Pict‘s of my Rear end ( oh, sorry the tracta‘s not 😂 I used a 3/4“ Bolt got it from a local Agri Dealer. That is normally used on bigger three point Attachements. That idea comes from @Stormin but i liked it and copied it. With that Bolt i be able to mount both systems at once and they be quickly removed if needed. In the middle section i drilled a hole threaded and mount a zerk fitting, for regular Service purposes. Even after Winter all is working smoothly and easy. That spacers on the outside are normally inside the trailer hitch. I use them as centering points. Hope that helps

Captain claims a sand storm was to blame. Given the geography there... Is that like saying my boat got wet because there were waves in the ocean?

she’s a tight fit, need to get the exhaust fit in there a little better and the hood barely touches the air cleaner

My C175 is fitted with a Magnum 18 (original KT17 threw a rod) and after arriving at a friend's field with the tractor in the trailer, I tried to start it to go and do the job I had come to do. Clunk! Engine rotated a few degrees and came to a dead stop.....something was stopping it from rotating. Removing the flywheel showed that the alternator had lost a magnet or two which had dropped into the works jamming any further rotation...pulverising the magnets in the process. Problem: those magnets are not available as spares (well, I couldn't source any) and the only option available from Kohler was a complete new flywheel at great expense. Repair was possible however because luckily, I have a very well equipped workshop and so here's what I did (see photos): You can buy very powerful Neodymium magnets in all shapes and sizes (though I couldn't find the crescent shape required by this alternator). So, I machined up a Tuffnol ring that mimicked the original magnets and then milled recesses into it to accommodate the magnets. The magnets were glued in place using 24Hr epoxy and then the whole assembly was glued into the flywheel. The Tuffnol ring means the inner face of the flywheel is smooth...nothing can drop off and jam any more. The magnets are positioned with alternating poles, which means that the generating frequency will be much higher, due to there being many more magnets. I probably should have grouped them into groups of 6 of the same polarity (there's 36 in total), but I didn't think of that at the time. My approach was to simply fill the existing space with however many magnets would fit! The result is a more powerful alternator which may even be too powerful for the regulator as the ammeter always shows significant positive charge. I'm on the same battery (and regulator) some 9 years later. though..and it is still working well.

I picked up this craftsman grader blade for 125 on FB marketplace today. I am going to modify the sleeve hitch to fit one of my horses. I got a Sears 917. model number blade last year for my dads ST16 but will sell that one since he has a craftsman sleeve hitch to 3 point adapter. That way we can share this one. This blade is like new.

Anyone a Steve Darnell fan? He makes some awesome stuff! he’s also proud to do and act and dress however he feels... which is great.

Ok my turn. My SIL died in August lived in Cleveland Ohio. Did a change of address notice so all her mail get shipped to my wife. I had to pay $0.55 on my credit card to have this done. Now every morning I get a email from USPS with a copy of each piece of mail that will arrive at my house. What a waste of manpower. I don't need to know that Bed Bath and whatever is sending me junk mail about a sale which end 3 days before it got to my mail box.

Junk mail creates lots of BTU’s in my wood boiler.

He picked one hell of a place to try a three point turn!

Was making a trip into Brandon MB to cash in my penny treasure, decided to go off the pavement. Still trying to relocate that 63 ford pick up truck, I did manage to find the property it was sitting on but it's gone. Hoping the farmer relocated the truck did manage to get the owners name from another local farmer. Then a couple of miles later stopped a shot some pictures of this old Massey which is actually a Minneapolis Moline in disguise. Couldn't pass a landfill with out stopping in, small general electric repulsion induction motor, 8 PC towers 2 laptops and some other goodies. Passing through Rapid City the orange AC jumped out at me. Brandon, bank for the coin counter then over the Princes Auto our Canadian equivalent to Harbor Freight to purchase a one inch portable gas powered water pump to be used for a gold recovery experiment. Took a different route coming home when this old McCormick wanted to have its picture taken.

I used three washers spaced with drilled out 1/4" nuts. A 1" and two 3/4" it got rid of the high irritating sound.

Hey don't forget that junk mail rides in the same truck too! Then I throw it into their recycle bin and they pay to have it removed. They have a lot of work to do. Lots of inefficiencies and holes in the system.

Hob bet everyone is glad they don't live near @WHX24 so they can have some for themselves!

I used to live near to Hobbiton in New Zealand, we were the other side of the Kaimai Ranges.

to RedSquare! I don’t see what’s wrong with that pipe!

Kevin, glad to hear you spotted some tractors. Was Rylee able to give you some good pointers about shifting?

I saw two Wheel Horses last night in my trip to the city! It was pretty cool, one looked like a roller/resto going on. Rylee and I were on the bike, learning about shifting up and down for speed and braking. Well one of us was learning, one of us spotting tractors!

A couple years back I sent a new member here a bearing he needed for free and I paid the postage. Much like Bob's 9 Pin it cost several dollars even though it wasn't all the heavy. Tracking showed that it left our post office and arrived at the Greenville, SC facility and didn't move from there. The kid needed the bearing and since I had another I packed it up and requested that the post office give me credit on the lost package (it had been nearly a month). The rather arrogant postal worker told me that I should have insured it. Next stop was the postmaster and she was even worse. Told me that just because a package had been lost for a month that didn't entitle me to any special treatment. Never knew that expecting the post office to deliver a package was considered special treatment. I went to UPS and paid a couple bucks extra and the bearing was there in two days.

No Belts arrived today, so i tried a other rework with a followed Testride. Btw @ebinmaine i stick it with a selant, what can be easily removed. Look that nice Tacho, here in life speed. adjusted the Engine little up to 4000RPM. funny Ride.

Flugzeugmotor = Aircraft Engine 👍 47 litres something about 760HP torque over 2000 Nm.. Top speed - nobody had the Balls to ride it to it‘s limit.. 😂 nice Values..

oh believe me, I understand that! Though I’m a little fish in the Garden Tractor collector’s sea, I feel a connection to Elmer and Cecil every time I see this thing... along with all the others in the herd!

To add to the cold air theory, exhaust pulses travel rapidly and a negative pressure follows a positive pressure each cycle. Again, it is only an old theory but some believed that the temperature change happened even before the engine stopped. I did some racing motorcycle work in a previous century. One way to determine the best length of an exhaust pipe was to brush a line of cheap latex paint on the pipe and make a full throttle run, then cut the pipe where the burned and not burned paint met. Of course a relatively slow turning Kohler might need a pipe that wraps around the tractor twice.

I put this little thing together a couple years ago. Doesn't haul too much but it sure does look good!

https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/brutus The only BMW i wish to have for a ride 😍

Allis-Chalmers/Simplicity are the only other brand I use besides Wheel Horse. They are a really tough garden tractor that are built heavy. When I was younger, my Dad, my uncles, and myself would have “pull offs” on a smooth garage floor for fun. I had a C160 with 42” deck, Dad had an old B112 Allis with a 48” deck. My uncles had a variety of garden tractors from Wheel Horse to Cub to JD. Nothing would pull that old Allis. It won every pull. It did not have loaded tires, but my C160 did. I eventually added Wheel weights to mine as we got more competitive. We also moved to the lawn for a different surface because my uncles complained that the result would be different. Nope. The old AC would drag everyone backwards. I have grown up on both Wheel Horse and AC/ Simplicity and I like them both equally. Now, my kids love to try to pull me and I am really enjoying doing this with them.

Unless you need some dish or offset in the steering wheel, I'd be tempted to make an adapter for the hub and use it as is. It has a no nonsense, industrial, I'm here to work look to it.

Did they duck?

Ford ranger spacers... drilling rims to .5 inch is pretty much just shaving the edges of the stock hole.

OK people, we're almost there. Who will be the first to hit page 400? Limited today to filling the tanks on the 516H and C-125 so I could fill the cans before the storm. 2" of rain and still pouring.

Have a close friend that went to vegas accompany his wife on a business trip . He had a day to kill so he walked over to Count’s kustoms and said more like a tourist trap . Then hiked it over to Welder Up and walked up to the fence. Steve invited him in and let him hang around the shop for the day. Just acted like your average joe guy helping a friend wasting the day talking keeping him out of trouble .

Too bad my congressman is retiring. I could send you enough junk mail to get you thru a winter!

Kinda like a poor mans SuperTrapp.

In person, this is deafening. I don’t recommend it for a 16/single. It’ll change once I pull that engine off “Chief” and stick it in a plow mule. If you like the short look of exhaust, you could try the convoluted washer trick I did with my “Steve” exhaust build... These videos are before I started editing and crunching videos together. My apologies for straight cut videos...

Or maybe Brutus... 😎

Put many a race engine together and the only extra step was to crank it up for oil pressure, start it up / warm it up, idle to full throttle, change the oil, (hot), after the first start up. Do a burnout and take her down the strip. Don't baby it.........run it like you stole it. Those parts will never be in better shape or tolerance. Warm it up and open it up preferably under a load. Let r eat!

Took the blower off the C-160 today. It will snow for sure!

Just get a regular WH hitch and run both.

Worked on putting a layer of paint on some of the 1257Heavy project before weather starts to rain or cool off!

That’ll keep your foot warm...!