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Every part media blasted before paint. Wheels and Spindles changed to 8" Pretty much a 'New' Horse

Ever use her bathtub for washing a bear hide you are prepping for tanning? Oh,and I've been married to her for 57 years. That bear grease is really tacky stuff. Our bathroom was 5 years old, so I just put in a new one.

I gave up...had mine blasted and powdercoated...worth the coin to me...

They make the rocking world go round! got the 24-12-12 Carlisles mounted with a set of Farmall weights on her. I really like the way they look on this tractor. I think the added stability will be good when I get the loader on as well. For perspective, the 23-10.5-12 Deestones.

I had Grey @Wheel Horse 3D print up a few things for us. Trina and I were jabber jawing about everything and nothing one day and door knockers crossed through the conversation. I figured I'd see about a Wheelhorse piece. Today Trina spent some time sanding and priming it. She left texture some places and smoothed out others. For scale, the backer is approximately 4 x 6 inches

Hey all, I was given a couple of 48" decks, was told there junk, I could use for parts. Started stripping them down and the next thing you know this is what I got. Didn't get many before pics.

Another product of @Wheel Horse 3D Grey. EXCELLENT work. Trina requested a pair of 7" tall gargoyles to put outside somewhere. Here's the results after she's painted them. Gargoyles were commonly used in medieval times. Their two main purposes were to scare off evil, and to divert rainwater. ... The word "Gargoyle" originates from the old French word "Gargouille" meaning "throat" but which also describes the gurgling sound of water as it is coming down the downspout.

Front mount hitch on my 1267

Been married 5 years. She filled up the sink for me.

Took the past week off and went to FL. Had a great time with the wife. Got to spend time with my best friend from high school and spent a day at the Sun n Fun Air Show, but when we came back, it was Welcome to the Jungle! I had planned to mow prior to leaving, but weather and parts delivery didn't cooperate. So today I installed the new deck belt and installed the deck and got to work. Took 3 cuts with a lawn sweep between cuts 2 & 3 to get it back to where it should be. Then I see there's a 60% chance of snow on Tuesday. Ugh!

Moving half the farm so have been doing a lot of fencing lately. The little C125 and it's trailer have been invaluable as my mobile tool box, and for dragging hundreds of meters of water pipe and electric fence wire about the place. Had all the tractors out today taking down a section of pens so we stopped for a group picture!

Moved a few yards of mulch.

Mowed an acre today and "Connie" didn't even flinch with this job. Can the K301 can handle a 48"?

Dragged out the Briggs powered walk behind... did a carb clean, replaced rotted fuel line, oil change and evict mouse even though evictions are currently illegal. Well Mr. Briggs and Mr. Stratton want to challenge Mr. Pearson to his low idle challenge... I personally don't think a Tecumseh could idle this low TURNED OFF... LOL Hope to see all of you in June. I know Bill doesn't come around here often.. Maybe he will see this. Tony 20210418_095557.mp4

Set up a swing set for my wonderful daughter! And put a new exhaust on mean green! The grass chute on mean green is a modified wheel horse chute so still has some WH relation!

Changed the engine and transmission pulleys on the 854. Now I've got a fast little tractor.

Putting the decals on the 876. Wasn't sure where the one on the rear was suppose to go, but I did a search, and found it located at the bottom. I hope that's right. This cover plate was missing when I got the tractor, so I made one. Don't know if it's right, but it works. Of course I ruined the decal when I tightened the bolts. I thought having a flat washer under the head would prevent that, It didn't. I'll have to see if I can get just that decal. Then I got to this decal and didn't know where it was suppose to be. A search didn't help. Anyone got a pic?

You created a monster, Eric will have designer spindles painted up in three different colors.

If you need to clamp round bar and don’t have any “V” blocks, cut some angle iron the round bar will sit in, position one piece with the “V” upwards weld another piece on either side with one leg of the angle sitting flat and facing outwards. Drill holes in the ‘feet’ to suit ‘U’ bolt clamps, etc. You then have an improvised “Keats” block which can securely hold round bar, tube, for drilling/welding, etc.

Yup... And FREE...! Thanks big brother! 1 flat but I’m thinking easy fix... (Agrifab 17 cu. ) but soon to be 5th car SL&WHN RR on the way! or maybe a working rig... we’ll see.

Or use the @pullstart method , wrap your finger around the round stock and let your finger slip down a little as you tighten the vice quickly . Nice red color on the round stock and a flat finger to boot.

Or soon will be !

Hmmm... those pics appear that you're doing this at the kitchen sink? You must be a bachelor! I wouldn't even get two steps in the back door carrying that wheel!

Received the wheels from @pullstart! So happy to get the tires on them and get going!

Yeah but I got the best one. Rest are 🤪

Better?

Worked on the 1257 Heavys battery box and reinforcements and worked on organizing the work side of the shop.

Picked up a couple deals today as well. Snagged a seat bottom to start ousting together a new seat for the 160. Found it on fleabay and the guy was semi local and got it for $20. Also picked up a really nice clevis hitch kit for $175. Even came with the original installation instructions. With regards to that, I did my best to search if this was in the manual section, and I couldn't find it. If it would be of use I can scan copies and send them where ever they need to go.

Come do my lawn🤣? Mine looks like sand.... 😞

Everything you do has a measure of risk involved, the degree of risk you expose yourself to is your choice. In the '60s I lived in SC and the helmet law was if the operator or passenger was under 16 they needed a helmet, over 16 I guess they figured you were hard headed enough you didn't need one.

My wife and I took a canoe ride today - 1st of the year. Paddled across the lake and followed the shore line back. We saw a bald eagle and a pair of swans. Lilly pads are starting to sprout from the bottom of the lake, marsh marigolds are blooming, and May apples are sprouting in the woods. While walking the dog this morning, I saw a log in the pond next to the trial with about 15 painted turtles lined up on it sunning themselves.

The transmission is in. Now I can get onto more tin work.

Don't forget to stop at the end of you driveway!

Changed the engine pulley, went from 2 1/2" to 3" The transmission pulley, went from 4" to 3 1/2" Nice increase in overall speed, didn't have to change the belt length, but had to modify the belt cover a bit by moving it more to the front. All that was required was to relocate the holes that holds it in place. The hardest part of the whole job was getting the pulley off the transmission shaft.

THANK YOU GUYS! THIS IS A GREAT PLACE! I must have missed seeing the hole for the pin- under the tractor and trifocals can be difficult.

Front thatcher

It looks great and the direction of the bolts in the differential is correct. Excellent giving it a test run before installing. Smart. I have a bench and an electric 3 hsp motor that I use.

All clean and shiny.

Thanks !!!!! Gonna get some seat time today on the C-160

I hooked mine up to the pto on my 314 and got some speed in it to make sure everything was doing wat it should b4 I re installed it. Also how I clean them out fill with diesel and just set it up to run for a bit and work on somthing else while I wait work smarter not harder lol

@OldWorkHorse ok. Yup that's how I have them. It's been apart. Everything looked good . Relubed and tried again. Its together. It seems to be fine now. It even shifts lol

Just got one... Works very well.

A late start to my day & had to quit earlier than I wished, but I was able to make some progress. First thing on my agenda was to pull the head and de-carbon it. I was happy to see that there was little to no piston wash when I pulled the head off. There was also good cross hatch on the cylinder walls. Engine looks much better with a nice clean head free of any paint or crud. Tins back on the engine and the dash tower installed. I had to walk away after I came to this point. Hope to be able to get the wiring done tomorrow. Waiting for a couple of parts yet other wise I would be able to button it up the rest of the way.

Did some experimenting with the big drill press and a cross slide vise I picked up a year or 3 ago. Never tried to mount the vise so that was interesting. Got that figured out and put one of the meaty hex rods in it. Checked level/plumb 7 ways to everything. Drilled a hole in one end of each rod and then tapped then for 7/16-20 thread. That's the smaller of the 2 rod sizes. Smooshed the drilled tie rod into the vise and ran a tap into it. Used the nice fresh no idea how old this oil is cutting oil. What with the rod being so high out of the vise and the vise itself being... "Not expensive".... There's a tiny bit of off parallel from the rod to the rod end. All told it was a great experience. Another tool for our home use. Now I need to figure out how to clamp round material. If anyone has suggestions I'm all ears.

Started out my day polishing up the old switches. Then it was on to getting the wiring done. Wiring is one of those jobs that consumes a fair amount of time with little wow factor to show off. I will start pictures with showing the dash all put together. I neglected to look for a 10-0-10 ammeter but I can live with the 30-0-30 meter that was on the tractor when I bought it. I ordered Willy's Jeep throttle & choke cables from I had to install some 3/8" x 5/8" x 1/4" bushings in the dash to reduce the holes enough to install the new cables. I do think that I'm going to be very happy with the locking mechanism on the throttle cable. It's not a pinch locking system, instead it has a ratchet mechanism. 1/4 turn allows the ratchet to catch, 1/4 turn the other way releases the ratchet. I tried to find these again so that I could post a link, but of course I can't seem to find them again. When I tried to install the locking collar on to the steering shaft it would not slide over the paint that was on the shaft. To make the collar fit I had to sand all of the paint off from the shaft, put every thing together and then cover the tractor up and respray the steering shaft. Currently I am 1 sediment bowl away from being able to finish the project. A bit bummed about the sediment bowl thing, but hopefully it will show up in the mail this week. Until the part shows up, I'll leave you all with this last picture.

Don't be so quick to discard your inverter if it should stop working, they're fused protected but it takes a bit of work getting at them. Some are soldered to the board while others are plug n play. Remove one end of the inverter, a couple of screws from the side of the case which also acts as the heat sink then the board slides out. What I'm looking for is blown fuses and bulging capacitors.

That should be the direction of nuts. (Sry for whoevers photos I stole) edited by Stevasaurus...@OldWorkHorse yes, the picture is correct. The exception is 10 pinion Limited Slip...the nut go down in those.