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Rylee and I had a nice trip to town today, about an 8 mile round trip. The parade was fun and the tractors got lots of thumbs ups!

Jay (road apples) and i both met at the BigShow our first year...we ran into Squonk..Wallfish and Stevasrus....just the right mix of pals...As a person..he was a life friend..and HE will be so missed...Jay....thank you for everything old friend.. We know your safe....❣😉

Wow! So sorry to hear this. Condolences to his family. I met Jay at the Little Guys show in PA in 2009. Later, at the WHCC he provided me details for mounting a loader to my 416-H. Always there to lend a hand. In the height of Covid, he and his brother drove down to my house to pick up some brake linings. I told him I could ship them cheaper, but he wanted to get out of the house. Jay, we will all miss you. Rest In Peace

Hauled some pea gravel today for the backyard garden.

I took this video mah' own self. What a piece of extreme machinery.

For those of you who might not want to do an e tank, don't have a good enough charger, or a good place to have a tank cooking, you can de-rust and strip paint with an office trash can and white vinegar. Plus your garage will smell like an Eye-Talin restaurant! I have this wheel I want to strip and paint. Not too bad a shape but bad enough I want to clean it up. This picture is how it looked after it soaked for 4 days. 4 gallons of white vinegar in my electrolysis /office circular file can. Put the wheel in Tuesday and pulled it out today. 5 minutes with the pressure washer

I got a real kick out of the ‘92 Geo Metro! It’s taken him about 10 years to make things fit!

I hope Jay, his family, and all that knew him personally and through Redsquare find solace.

I had spoken with Jay a few times, good guy, so sorry to hear of his unexpected passing.

And we followed up with a pork loin, stuffed with onions and garlic, dry rubbed and injected with salsa, topped with salsa, and smoked at 225 to internal temp of 145. Yum!

Just 'nother Kodak moment here... I gotta read this thread more often just good pics here and a good BS thread...

Used a 753 to peddle some sweet corn. Corn is the good stuff too best I ever seen...

Rest In Peace 'Apples. I had so much fun with him over the last five years and I only saw him at the BS. Wished i could find the pic where I photo shopped horse doo doo in the bucket of his FEL. I always enjoyed his pics of the wild life that was in his yard. Prayers for you and your family. 🙏 He had a horn on this tractor that winnied. Kids and us alike got such a kick out of it. Here's another one with his partner in crime right behind.

Spindles drilled and bolted now..

Primed for action! First coat of Almond Joy!

More expensive (but not by much) but cider vinegar seems to work even better. Don't forget to rinse anything off well then rinse with a mild solution of water and baking soda to neutralize the acid and then dry immediately or it will continue to rust. This method works great for the inside of metal gas tanks.

…..plus when you’re done you can add epson salt some dish soap and have a good organic weed killer to use around the house .

Rest in peace Jay. You will be missed.

How bout a handle from a croquet mallet.

No issues with the vendor. Just want to say they are a great to deal with and give all to the customer! What little issue i had was just a snafu with the computer and was solved with a phone call.

Coated it with etching solution. When it's dry. It will be time for prime.

Mike - plug up the holes and use can use it now for a salad bowl, with breadsticks and soup, of course...

Because I don't know when enough is enough I added more flames to Forsaken.

My dad was a Jack of many trades. He caught the last month or so of WWII and then stayed in Germany as part of the Occupied Forces. He wanted to join the Air Force as soon as he graduated High School, but was sent to the Army. When he returned home from Germany he attended Aviation School in Dallas, Tx and received his Airframe and Powerplant (A&P), Private Pilot and Flight Instructor certificates. He returned to the farm just outside the small town of La Grange, Tx. Over the years Dad ran a dairy, raised beef cattle and hay, did custom tractor work, fence building, contracted to built field terraces for the Soil Conservation Service, worked as a Ford tractor mechanic, worked in Bryan and Austin as a Aircraft Mechanic and contracted to fly pipeline inspections. He was a self taught electronics repairman and later in life as his health declined he did CB and Business Band and ham radio installation and repair work. But most of all he loved airplanes. Some of you may remember I previously posted this picture of him flying Santa to town and landing on the Highway to deliver Santa to the Fire Truck for the Christmas Parade. I believe the plane is a Stinson. Shortly after returning to the farm he laid out grass runways on the farm. He also built this irrigation system for the farm which used a 6 cylinder engine he converted to Propane. If I recall correctly, it had a 8" suction and 6" discharge and irrigated the 45 acres of hayland. In the mid-50's he built a large cinder block hanger and shop that could hold 5 private planes. In the picture below a group of pilots were assisting us to paint the La Grange location on the roof. On the backside of the roof (opposite "La Grange") you can make out the "Guenther Flying Service" name. 1964ish the City of La Grange, extended and paved the runway. For a $1 a year lease, the city could say it had a airport. It was a good deal for him too, as it gave his shop a paved runway. One skill he had, was he knew how to sew the fabric sox's and recover the older cloth airplanes. He also knew how to work on the aircraft with wood frames, ribs and thin plywood covering. He continued to do all sorts of work, but in the winter he would try to contract and rebuild a fabric plane for someone. Needless to say, as a youth I grew up around all kinds of equipment! @formariz I greatly appreciate your sharing the wealth of knowledge and experience. Your current writing about the " Carpenters Brace" has prompted me to pull out and clean up 2 Braces I had saved in a box in the barn at the farm. I can remember he built a cattle doctoring squeeze chute that was bolted wood construction. There was no electric power down at the cattle pens, so I suspect it was all built with a Carpenters Brace, probable one of these. These had been in my dads shop/airplane hanger when it was destroyed in a windstorm in 1979. Everything was moved to a barn on the farm. While all the other tools made it to his new "electronic's shop a few years later, these have sat there ever since. One is a Stanley No.66, 8" brace. I disassembled and cleaned it with scotchbrite and thinner and gave the wood several coats of linseed oil. The top pad moved very stiffly and when I unscrewed the wood pad I was surprised to find it actually contained tiny ball bearings. It just needed cleaning out years of barn dust. Its exciting to find such precision on such a simple tool, In light of the low quality found on many tools, The other Brace is a no-name, but I'm guessing dates back to the 50's, just judging on my dads age. I remember as a kid hanging around he shop and drilling holes in scraps of wood with these braces. it's interesting to lay they side by side and see the Stanley used heavier round rod, and the no name's top pad had no bearing or even a bushing. There also was a Stanley No. 78 Plane. I've cleaned it up and waxed it. Did these originally have 2 blades or did you move the blade from one position to the other? I suspect he would have used this to make a rabbit to flush some of the thin wood veneer or other task on the wooden plane parts.

So I live in the city. Across the street from me is a Pizza / Italian Restaurant. On occasion the owner drags to the curb some perfectly fine items. Not long ago he tossed out this nice bank of lockers. I cleaned them up and sold them. He saw me taking them and came over and gave me the combinations for everyone too. Today I dragged home this seems to be in good working order flat top griddle. 4 nice wooden chairs, and 3 shopping carts. The flat top was so heavy I had to hook the trailer up to my 856 to get it home. I Google it , they go for big money. I gave it to a good friend of mine who is going to convert it to propane for his camp. The shopping carts I think I'm going to try and make chairs out of them. We will see.

Very sad news. I have never met Jay but saw his name pop up frequently on Redsquare. From all the kind word which were said I can make up he was a great guy and will be missed. My condolances to his loved ones and to all of you who have met Jay and have to miss him now. Mark

I'm certainly going to miss you my friend, rest in peace, Jay. He was a good old boy, I too I'm going to miss our talks, always looked forward to seeing him each year.

Just like the sheet metal I decided to sand blast the frame and axles it takes some time but I think it turned out well. A coworker gave me the little HF 20lbs pressurized blaster and overall no complaints with it you just have to keep an eye on the dryer to make sure you don't get any moisture in it. I'm going to try and get the rest of the parts stripped off it so I can get some etching primer on it this weekend.

A buck an ear hear for corn. I think I could make some sort of pirate 🏴‍☠️ joke with this!

Just installed the newly rebuilt 16hp K-341 from richmondred. 2 hours of mowing followed by an oil change. I’ve owned a lot of nice Wheel Horses over the years….but this is my favorite. I keep wrestling on restoring or keeping it the way it is.

That is it. Handles now completed . Entire rope goes under chest . Cleats and rings are only to keep rope in place and aligned and have no influence on lifting . Rope can be used by two men on each side in two different positions depending on height needed. Chest now is still a bit from being full and at this point two men alone can barely get wheels off ground. Cleat keeps rope aligned on bottom Top position of rope for general moving using wheels or low lifting. Bottom position of rope for higher lifting

Looks like you turned it into Gold. Don't spray that on weeds in the grass (like dandelions). I still have brown spots where Chris sprayed a few weeds last Spring. Serious about that.

No that's a pitty. Jeffrey. He is waiting for me to start it so he can bite the tires.

Pulling loads of firewood around with the ‘68 Charger 12

Finally found a 1045! Been on the hunt for one for a few years now. Excited to finally have one.

@TonyToro Jr. and I worked on his new pulling tractor. Got the engine installed and some figuring out what needs to be where today. Tomorrow we will get it mostly finished up. He worked hard today. I guess he can take a little break…😂👍

That's just the kind of guy he was @Horse Newbie. We had to invite him to camp for victuals, Dan's pulled pork and smoked Mac n cheese... I told him to keep eatin i would tell him when he was full. ' Course he had to drag Madge along but it was all good. Camp dinner I'll never forget. He loved to give us the business about he only lived 15 from the show! I just noticed @Darrenw85 the pic on his trading card is the one with the apples in the bucket. That card I have and will go up on the honor wall in the shop.

One of them there multi million $ buck an ears.

Almonded and cleared.

Yes you are! Now we know your kyrptonite!

This topic is further proof that one never knows what kind of useful information is likely to pop up around here. I’m trying that weed killer for sure. (s)

make your own?

,,, he said confidently. Quick funny story about confidence. I was in a design review meeting at work to discuss an upgrade to an existing production machine, The conference room was packed - production, maintainence, and quality staff. Along with my Manager and Dave, his boss, the Engineering Manager. I presented the proposal and Dave was on the fence as to if it would be a flawless upgrade. I assured him it would, I had done one similar for a different customer 10 years prior that went well. Dave was still not convinced, so I asked him if he was a betting man. He said he was, I said "I'm so confident this will go smoothly, I'll bet YOUR paycheck on it" Jaws in the room dropped as it was a substantial wager - he made about 3x what I was making and we all got paid once a month. Got his approval to proceed - meeting over. I used to kid him after about paying up occasionally.after the install ...

The carpenters going directly to a power tool instead of having knowledge of hand tools is similar to somwthing i am seeing in mentoring the kids on the high school robotics team. I constantly have paper and pencil available, as I talk and sketch as we discuss design solutions. Most of the kids don't do that. Rather they go right to the CAD system and get sidetracked trying to run the CAD and worry an out precision rather than formulating a design solution. I am a firm believer that when teaching drafting, the students need to start on a drawing board before going to a CAD system. It shows up when they are fabricating components, too. I've educated many of them on the use and usefulness of a hand file - often saving parts that had a CNC oops that they were ready to discard and start over. Last year, they needed a curved piece of sheet aluminum. The slip roll the school had was too light to form the part, so they came to me. I ended up forming the part using the radius on the corner on one of the 10" square columns holding the shop roof up to make multiple small bends along the part by holding the ends of the sheet and bouncing with my body weight until it matched the wooden buck they had made. That about blew their minds. However, that lesson sunk in - over the course of the season, they made 3 or 4 more curved parts with that method.

Be careful that can come back to bite you in the @ss ... you don't wanna know what "her" tractor cost me...

Thought about that also after I heard the sad news. I think the best answer one can come up with is the one below.

Rest in Peace Jay. This is from 2014.

You may wonder what's a Bobcat doing in the picture?. Well, it's just about the best tire taker offer thinger I have ever used The newest tractor ,a sweet patina C160 auto, followed me home to keep the C160-8 company. The front tires would hold air for a half hour, so it's off to the tire machine.