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Just kidding! Dropped a whooping $10 on this pumpkin, plopped it on my yard art rig and called it DONE! That’s about all I’ll be doing this year

I don’t recall past years pumpkin prices. I assumed it was by the pound but instead the circumference was measured and that is how pricing was determined. Kinda thought $10 was a bit steep… but this was at the farmers market in town and all pumpkin proceeds (or profit?) goes the the local food bank so that made me feel good.

Cleaned up these IH wheel weights I picked up this summer. I use these as inside weights on my plow rigs, gives me an extra 50#’s on the rear. Went with red for this set. Last set I painted up are black and in my sons 314-8.

Just picked up this 312-8 from an older gentleman local to me. Plans are to use it to snowblow the driveway this winter, fix it up and make it look nice, and basically run the heck out of it when I need to. I feel like I got a decent deal on it- I got the tractor, blower, plow, deck and bagger for $850. I am going to play with it a bit more this weekend and see how it comes out. Thanks for looking.

@Sparky , Please ask @OldWorkHorse… I just somehow posted this… technology made me do it against my will . It is his post and his tractor, besides I could never fab up something that nice. And my solution to the light being too high would be to notch out the top of the door…

Well I took a road trip today up to Walton, Indiana just southeast of Logansport. I agreed to buy a 2004 42 inch tall chute snowblower based upon photos alone. Not always a good idea but I had a feeling about this one. Light dirt, no belt but all the parts including lift tube, flag. Etc. Turns out it was owned by a farmer that had a blacktop road back to his house . He had a 1982 c-165 hydro which had wheel weights, chains and a mower deck. But he told me he bought snowblower in 2004 and only used it five or six times! And the looks of the auger, nuts and bolts, blower chain, and paint said it was so. Here are some pictures ! I also got a manual and I did not know Toro recommended 100 pounds of weight in the rear wheels. Also like the grease fittings on the snowblower bearings.

The Ven-Track does a fair job, but we chuck punkins over a mile in Delaware. The national championship was held here for 33 years till a lady got injured and filed a law suit.

Nice find! You bought it at the right time, tis the season to go Pumkin Chuckin.

So he'd be the first to feel the impact of poor decision?

That describes a lot of us too, not just decals!!!

The clutch pulley mount arm was rattling against the belt cover. Awfully annoying. Investigated and found wear on the pivot shaft and the holes in the frame. I built up the shaft and oversized the holes in the frame and used bushings. Tightened things up nicely.

Yeah because people keep running them over with snow blowers on ventracs

$10 must be organic

We don't celebrate Halloween so we don't decorate for it but I do have a great appreciation for the colors of fall. Most years I'll get a hold of some gourds and lay them out and maybe some straw or dead corn plants as decoration. Quite a lot of work there Mike. One whole pumpkin. You get that done all in one day? I was thinking about buying five small ones for five front steps but I'm not sure I can handle that much exertion.

Here’s my smoker and grill

Exactly the right answer !

Don’t know why Redsquare kinda made me post this… said something about previous content being restored… I just hit post…

I still cherish the diploma I received from the squirelly professor for my rebuilding of a regulator.

They weigh about 45 lb each. Those carrying handles are great! No struggle moving them, and they really helped in getting them mounted. They also give a good place to attach bungees if needed to tighten the chains. In retrospect though, I should have used a couple of the garage door handles I have laying around instead of repurposing the wire handles from the buckets.

Installed my homemade wheel weights and chained up the C-125. Painted the top of the weights with the embedded brake rotor and concrete, but paint won't bond to HDPE so I opted for some black 200 MPH tape instead. BTW... I did not paint those wheels! Done by P.O. So no razzing please!

Been sitting in a barn for years. Got it fired up and added the duals

I just got this 1650 powered by K341. First thing changed out the carburetor. Oil we be drained and fluids replaced. I have it where it'll run and idle nicely will be replacing the forward PTO belts, found OEM 8 bucks a piece with free shipping. I have 900.00 into this with belts & Carb from (IsaveTractors.com) The carb I grabbed up earlier for another project and it wouldn't cooperate, so tried it on this and viola! Although the Snow Blower is nice enough for a single stage, I do not care for the exhaust coming straight outta the front grill You can see the blackened paint and all that heat on the right headlight and Drive Assembly for the unit. The Cab is nice enough, solid and the 3 pt cat 0 at 2000 rpm is a good helper, once I install the double 1/2 x 23 belts it'll be ready! Again the blackened paint and all from that poorly engineered exhaust, have to change that! True to Factory on this unit the K341 Weather protector between the Hood and Cab, just need to figure that out! lol The Deck is really solid and has the weird straight 3 blades with cogged belt Not rusted through and the blades are timed with the cogged belt. Finally a really nice set of Turfs

Me too. I only have 5 chain saws and 2 sawzalls. Light - 1. Door - 0.

@Horse Newbie Maybe it’s an optical illusion, but can ya drive outa the garage without hitting the door with the light??

When most people say they are going to "barbecue" food what they actually mean is grill. Hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks etc. are all grilled. Cooked quickly over high, direct heat. Barbecue is done over direct lower heat for long periods of time. Smoking, as mentioned earlier is low, indirect heat for extended periods of time. Sometimes days depending on the method.

You'll see throughout the site here that my Trina has a few different monikers. One is The Paint Department. She does all our painting. She has a neat trick for cold weather. Keep the part to be painted and the can of paint in the warmth of the house. Grab both and go outside to spray. As soon as you're done take them right back in and hang the part to dry. She can do this down to about 20⁰ or so but has to be fast.

Up here in Maine and Massachusetts where I come from a BBQ and a grill are interchangeable terms as far as the mechanism and methodology used to make the food hot. Heat source can be wood, charcoal, gas produced flame. The food being cooked is fairly close to the flame and it's the flame itself it does the cooking. I'm fairly new to the world of smoker foods but my understanding of them is that the food is a lot farther away from the heat source which is flavored wood chips of some sort that make a particular kind of smoke. It's the smoke that cooks the food and it takes quite a lot longer because it's a lower temperature. I'll be curious to see the answers from other folks.

Thanks for the video Eric. That Lombard log skidder looks similar to the Phoenix log Skidder. Wonder why they both made the steer guy sit way out front? Specially when you consider that these skidders where originally designed for winter use and would have had skis on the front instead of wheels.

Well done there! I do believe I have seen the "Shingle-majig" before on "How It's Made with Mike Rowe. Not for the faint of heart - I'm sure most of the operators were nicknamed "Stubby" Did you notice the guy in the green shirt around the 2 minute mark?? I asked myself "Is that Kevin @Pullstart???" Nah, not dangerous enough! Back in the 80's building gundrills, we had a large shaper of similar design to the one at the 4 minute mark in the Machine Shop. Only saw it being used 2 or 3 times - remembered two interesting things - first - it shook the floor as the cutter would rip a quarter inch slice of material off the work each pass. And, it gave off a distinct ozone smell from the 440 volt buzzing electromagnet that turned on at the end of stroke to pivot the tool up to be off the work for the next pass.

Welcome. As pullstart mentioned, using a two-stage on the "armstrong" lift is REAL WORK. Make sure you search for and get the OM and IPL (owners manual and illustrated parts list) from this site's files archive. Search using the model number of the blower. That'll show you how to correctly mount it, including the critically important load balancing spring.

I have done that in other instances here… seem to find my way back to it… I just hit “submit”, “save”, or whatever and let technology win !

WHY NOT?

This is so exciting

It's already to brittle to save IMO. Warming it up might help but once you mess with it, it will probably look worse than it does now. Maybe patina new decals ?

Today only one fella was here. He spent some time making all the side shed roof rafters. 44 of them ?? One each side for pattern and fit. Two of these piles.

Thank you all so much!!! You know you are getting old when you about forget your birthday!!! I spent the last two days at the tractor show grounds helping with kids day, awesome way to spend part of my birthday week!!! Randy

Definitely be a different type of party if we all went to @ebinmaine smoker party 🥳.

Now that mike is pure genius best Halloween decor I’ve ever seen I can tell it took some time to get it right

nORM, as you can see, grilling and smoking can get "Competitive!"

About $500 USD!!!! - and your Fire Box is probably on the right !!! No, seriously, what @OldWorkHorse has is the best of both worlds

Marv - I did similar on the 502 I was building this summer. Since there is no good way to lubricate this mechanism, I cut a shallow groove in the ID of each bushing to retain chassis grease. I also machined a counterbore in both sides of the frame leaving about .015 of the bushings sticking out and thinned the inside of the rod lever to get the roll pin to line back up.. Bill

So with my gas grill, charcoal grill, & smoker combo the to big sections are what we use as grill like @ebinmaine said direct heat from either gas or charcoal. And the small box on the very left is whats called a fire box. I use that to build a fire ive been using charcoal for a fire sorce but ill add half logs of hickory or apple ontop of the embers and close off most of the dampers and allow the wood to smolder giving off the large amount of smoke and flavor, most meats only accept so much smoke flavor hence why I use the charcoal for the heat and depending on what type of meat and size will determine how much hard wood I'll use for flavoring. Most smoking is done at around 225° fahrenheit or 107 celsius. The trick with most smoking is indirect heat and low and slow. Causing the meat tissue to break down and becoming very tender without over cooking the meat.

Not sure. I haven't had the chance to play with it much. I pulled it off my trailer and parked it. I am going to give it a good once over, greasing, and cleaning this weekend.

After some research I found that some added a cab for the steer guy. Kind of looks like it blocked the view of the guys running the engine as well as the side view of the steer guy. It does appear that they ran a steam line up to the front cabin for heat though.

Hmm, don't get me started on that character. As far as I know, no one actually met him face to face. He always talked about his Wheel Horses that he owned, but never posted any pictures. Mike McGuire @MikesRJ and I did some research and found that many of the pictures and info that he was posting were actually pulled from others on the internet without crediting them. Like many other frauds and narcissists, he seemed to evaporate into the ether, and I personally think that this forum is better for it. Some may disagree with me, but being one member who was personally denigrated by the man, I stand by my statement above.

Why ?

Me too! Wear a hole in the toe, “Darn sock!” and my wife rips it up and throws it away!