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I ordered a new seat from Tractor Supply and installed it. It fit right on my seat supports and is a great upgrade from the original 35 year old seat. This one adjust with a lever and has great back support. It appears to be well made and for $84.99 a great deal!

how about when your grandson drives his 520 HC to school parking lot

You go to the grocery store and park next to this.

As many of you know I have a 1045 that only came with one of the original front tires. Been searching everywhere. Even placed a wanted ad on here. Well I tried something I never done before. I placed a wanted ad on my Facebook marketplace and groups. Bam didn’t take a day. What was strange though was what machine these were on. It wasn’t a 1045. To the best of my knowledge the 1045 was the only WH tractor to use them. They are WH branded. Anyone know what machine this is? And how and who would have done such a thing I ask myself. Oh the mysteries. Oh and a hell of a price for these rare guys too as a bonus. Certainly not free but decent price.

Picked up my venison bologna at the butcher shop this morning, then stopped at the Post Office for my mail. Gotta watch where you step in these country parking lots.

When I was in high school there was a designated day in the spring when students could "Drive your Tractor to School". We had to use the dirt roads even though it was further so we wouldn't wear out the tires. Probably safer than the two lane paved main road too.

In PA it's even tighter. It's "vehicle" (motor or not). Back in my day I arrested have arrested people on a bicycle for DUI. Before anyone judges that, think how stupid (or drunk) you would have to be to get that kind of attention on a bicycle. And I drink, so I'm not sensitive about alcohol. Anyway @rmaynard I love that you live in a location that you can still see that as I do! They aren't doing that in Portland

Not what I did to it, but what I got for it. My 1533's came in so we can get the C-160 tranny back together. And I picked up a nice 36" mower deck for it. The 48" that came on it was patched in a couple places, rusted through in the corner and bent up some from a rough previous life. I planned on using it as is until something good came along. Well it came along. The new 36" looks as good as any that I have found of this vintage. I'll take it apart and give it a deep cleaning, geese the spindles, sharpen / balance the blades, and get a new belt on it. There is a small amount of surface rust on the underside that I will treat with Rust Reformer. Does the undercoating that I've seen some people do really help?

Felt like a good painting day, got these 11 year old steelies with snow tires cleaned & painted up before our winter/snow hits.

Tractor Supply had it for $75 off online. After asking on here about it I jumped all over it. Had shipped to the store and I installed it in probably less than twenty minutes.

hello, Concept of community is not usual in France . Some differences are dificult to explain in few words . I send u today pics of the house i bought 18 months ago I'm working on it to live-in soon. So there's not many time for old mecanics projects....(actual home at one mile) Houses where i live were builded 200 ou 250 years ago , It's not really very old but house like that have soul .

Got a call from my buddy who runs the local tire shop today. A Wheel Horse guy needs a wheel for a 6-12 tire (5” wide wheel). Come to find out, it’s for a 1045! He keeps the tractor in NC and hopefully soon he’ll join here. We looked all over the shop for a spare skinny wheel with no luck. Just before he left, I looked up with an idea and ended up selling him a wheel off the yard art. I replaced it with a 7” wide wheel and 23-7.50-12 tire. He’ll be able to work his tractor down there this winter and I wrote my yard art off as free! Win/win!

Crappy post Ed.

I learned this from my little nephew. “I’d punch him in the nose!”

Does the cop ticket the car too, 'cause the car is running on alcohol enhanced gas?

So in a few more years you've been drinking, your sitting in your car while the car is going down the highway in the self driving mode, cop pulls you over, do you still get a DUI?.

But don't put it in the oven after washing it with gas as @wallfish does. Seriously, Bob's brake lining work so much better than the one that came on my 310-8 that I changed it even though there were no problems with the old one.

First I would suggest you do an autopsy and determine what made it lock up. A flywheel magnet coming loose would lock the flywheel and not require an engine rebuild. What was going on at the time it locked up? Was the oil level good? Will the crank shaft move at all? Start with removing the flywheel. If nothing looks out of place there then remove the heads and take a look at the cylinders.

Amazon wants over $20 for four, other places only had a large assortment. I just needed one so I checked several places; good hardware stores, auto parts, and a Kubota Tractor service center. None had this large. I don't know why this axle shaft key way is so much larger than the originals; I think it's over sized. I finally found one at a John Deer tractor dealer and service center. And they gave the woodruff key to me. Not sure why. She was a very friendly parts person so I had to show her a picture of the C-160 like it was my grand-child.

I have just gotta find this mysterious hole in NC where these tractors all went! In all seriousness, they used to be everywhere. The last few years they have become unicorns. I'm glad someone found another one!

Is that why your grass has so many circles cut in it. Don't blame dogs running around chasing squirrels.

Ford 8Ns 3pt hitch with a cross bar held a case of beer nicely (in those days cases were wood) Local guy would wear out his tires running back and forth to the store getting beer. he had had several DUIs and no longer had a drivers license but a farmer and tractor was OK.

The company I started my engineering career with was a subsidiary of Goodyear. A story came out of the Goodyear AG tire development group about a farmer that was experiencing wear issues with his tractor tires. The tire dealer reported to Goodyear that he had supplied 2 sets of tires because of excessive wear. Goodyear sent an engineer out to interview the farmer and see what the actual work invironment was like. Supposedly, the engineer arrived at the farm, knocked on the door, and the farmer's wife answers the door. When asked if the farmer is home, she answers "no, he went to town to get coffee, you can find him at the diner". The engineer asks which diner? She says, you can't miss his tractor parked out front. The engineer catches up with the farmer, buys the coffee for him, and they talk about the tractor tires. Turns out that nothing about the field work the tractor did was unusual. This confused the engineer. He asks the farmer why he happened to drive the tractor into town that day. The farmer says "I drive the tractor into town every day for coffee because it has air conditioning and a better stereo than my truck". The farmer didn't get any more tires replaced by Goodyear.

Used in context. Ebinmaine is not exactly known for being expeditious on tractor builds.

It has the original 3 piece trans in it. I was thinking of attaching a square plate on the rear of the suburban frame and bolting on an 8 speed

My experience shows me just when I think I've got the 2 link V bars tight they move again. Look at what the pros use. Loggers. Skidders. On a front axle with twisting motion of steering and adding heavy weight.... Diamond pattern chain. Hands down. They're more expensive. Worth it.

I use bait packs in my barns and machine sheds. Tomcat. Comes in large bucket and has enough product to kill the mice and rats all winter.

Just 'cause you live in the Munster Mansion Jeff...

Simplicity?

If this is her first time spraying with a gun may I suggest some practice. You have picked a complex part for a first spray, it has flat, vertices and upside down surfaces. Get some large cardboard and practice painting it. Also some scrap angle iron or 2x4 to simulate the parts your painting. Since your boy paint large sheet metal Adjust your spray fan width To a medium narrower width then adjust your trigger pull so your not putting out so much paint at the narrower width. I like to do 3 coats. 1 a light tack coat, 2 a almost full coverage coat in a cross wide direction and 3 a final full coverage coat going the long direction of the part. Let each coat dry to a tacky / not wet state before the next coat. When spraying I half lap each pass. With your practice painting if your getting orange peel after the 2nd or 3rd coat add a little more thinner to the paint so the spray droplets will lay down /flow together. I’ll encourage you to use some enamel hardener in your paint. Also have a small 2/2” or 2” paint brush ready if you get a run. I dip the brush in thinner, wipe it half dry the lightly brush out run. Brush is also good to hand paint those backside of small surfaces the spray can’t get to because you spray is straight line,it doesn’t go around corners. Who am I kidding, I’m no expert- go watch some YouTube videos

... and the Rhode Island coastal version - Seagulls (aka "Skyrats") can never pass up a chunk of a clamcake. Now, if by chance, someone were to put half of an Alka-Seltzer inside the clamcake..... Seagulls can't burp.

Got a pic of the model and serial off the Lawn Ranger it's a 1967.

I'm a big advocate of spray foam. Efficiency wise it beats the snot out of the other types of insulation. But I'm talking about the good stuff professionally applied with the proper equipment. Definitely not the stuff out of the spray can. It might have it's place and I just finished using some of it but for the most part it's junk. I don't know about the bigger kits from the big box stores. I do know that one of the biggest foam contractors in the country based in Florida had 'portable' that they would use for tiny jobs and to go do a touch up on a finisher larger project so they didn't have to mobilize a fully equipped truck. I don't recall the cost of these units but they provided a finished result as close as possible to a truck project. These weren't routinely sold to the public but if you were an employee or a friend.............. There are so many factors to consider. First, as Steve said, a house should he sealed for water and air from the roof down and the walls from the outside in. But most of us are dealing with existing conditions and there's just so much we can do short of the things they do on some of those HGTV shows. Kevin, if you're feeling air infiltration you need to seal it. If you know that water isn't getting to it go ahead and seal away. The moisture in the air trying to come in will be blocked and it won't condensate as long as you add the proper R-value to the inside after sealing it. All factors need to be considered with each situation. There is no pat answer. Another consideration that Steve mentioned is access for future work. No, you didn't plan it out so well that you'll never have to add or change something. That just doesn't happen for any of us. Professional spray foam is still superior but only you can decide what you want to do there. One of the most important considerations is fire. Some foams can be almost explosive. The fumes will kill you with a few breaths. Make sure you've researched the type you're considering and the need for a fire barrier. Example. This house we're in right now has Ice Block basement walls. That's a steel structure encapsulated in polystyrene. Per code there MUST be a fire barrier. There was none. The sellers were having trouble selling the house and it didn't make sense with the market. All they would say was that potential buyers wanted a finished basement which also didn't make sense. This house was built in 1998 and how they got a final certificate of occupancy is a mystery.......well, not really. Somebody knew somebody and the inspectors here don't care. Even the home inspectors caught it and that's where the previous deals fell through. I did my own inspection and saw the issue but I knew it was fixable. Within two months after moving in and 70+ sheets of drywall later and we were code compliant. Even if it's a small foam project be very aware of this. No matter what the can says take a cured piece of the foam and light it. You'll find out real quick just how flammable it could be.

We've run gears in worse shape with no issues.

As a matter of fact, I season all of my cast iron in the oven while my wife is away. She goes to lunch one day a week with neighbor ladies. That's a window from 11:30 am until 4:00 pm. I've also cured paint in the same oven, but that really stinks.

Some times I do dumb stuff & make it look good.

I took the burs off of those gear spline ends. Considering the wear, you had mentioned that if it has a problem staying in third gear that the wear is the cause but you thought it looked ok. Should I shim the input to make third gear tighter? If so should the shim go on the end closest to the pulley or the other end to make third gear tighter?

I stuffed paper backed insulation bats in each one on my old house. Cheap, easy, fast, effective.

Lot of guys around here have had DUI's on riding mowers.

Hollow aerator spikes make good gasket hole punches. I have several different sizes.

Down here it's not all that rare to see a Toyota in a parking lot now days.

My problem with foam products, they do not let you ever do any work if some things need it. I subscribe to the theory that when building anything, ALWAYS make it so you can get back in it and work with it. Foam sucks for that. Just insulate with the Pink batts. You really need to have a certain amount of air circulation or you will have mold and rot.

As long as it has a FEL the groceries can get home.

Whatever happened here ?

First coat of white primer.

All good suggestions! I think I have enough at the one end to tap forward on with a chisel. I'll trying tapping down on the other end. I have used heat successfully on axles like @Pullstart said, but this one I can't get far enough away from the gas tank to feel comfortable with that I do not think I have enough to grip with a vice-grip. I hit it with some penetrant until I can get back to it. I guess International did pretty good with radiators, because I can see by the mounting hardware on the underside (which is a bear to get to and off) this radiator hasn't been out in over 80 years unless it was early on by a dealer!

In a town in Northern Michigan a handful of years back, we followed a drunk lawn mower operator down Main Street on our way to the parts store. At the time, it was funny. Looking back, it was kind of sad that it probably had to come to that, with a lost, restricted or otherwise license… or no vehicle.

Around here that would have a manure spreader or a honey wagon behind it!

Those tires say it’s got a lot of road miles on it!