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Was helping an acquaintance install some security cameras and found this guy sitting outside by his driveway. He told me he pulled it out of a barn a few weeks ago. I told him I liked it (and my kids would love it) and he said I could have it. “One less thing in my yard”. Definitely a shame to leave it sitting out in the rain so I loaded it in the back of my car and got it into my garage. Seems complete, engine turns freely and the lower deck isn’t even rotted. Not sure why someone wrote 68 on top, Model # says L-157 which should be a ‘67 if I understand correctly. Looking forward to getting her running and cleaned up.

Art Linkletter was a TV host of the programs "People are Funny" and "Kids are funny". He once clarified the difference in parental reactions between the first and third child coming in with a bloody nose. First child: "Get ice, get towels, get clean clothes, do we need a doctor?!" Third child: "Don't get blood on the carpet."

Not sure Kev will make it to 80 he is already springing too many leaks and broken bones the list goes on.

When I come in Mrs K .DON'T SIT DOWN Me why? Mrs K YOU'RE DRIPPING BLOOD Me where? With paper thin 80 yo skin and blood thinners, any bump causes a leak.

And anyone who really knows me, knows that for that very reason, I don't go anywhere without a couple if bandaids in my pocket.

Or... after the 5th (I'm number 5): Wait, who are you and why are you at our dinner table?

And once again... You got your weekly tetanus booster right???

Not sure if I read it on here or somewhere else... "When I come in from the shop with a bloody paper towel wrapped around a body part, the question from the wife is: "Bandage or Car Keys?" That one looks like a bandage job Kev.

$ 54.00 plus shipping and you can spend your time doing fun things.

When I retired at 62 and lost my Company group insurance, I used COBRA for 18 months, then had to purchase private health insurance. Mrs Ks policy ended 2 days before she was eligible for Medicare. I asked my insurance agent if I could buy a 2 day policy. His answer was, No, just roll her up in bubble wrap for 2 days.

Newest member of the zoo….. meet Ernie, our 2 year old bloodhound. My daughter couldn’t keep him after having the baby so I guess we adopted him too. This makes seven in the mix.

Oh yeah, I’m sure there was some on there! I prefer to rub it right into the wound, instead of through a needle

And again, and again, and again......

Here’s a little back story… I have no idea how their financials are looking after all this time. I know some of you have donated to the gofundme page, and we thank you for the monetary support! Declan truly needs a miracle. The docs are doing everything they can, but nothing is seeming to improve. things continue to be a one step forward, two steps back. It’s rough to see happen. It’s hard to hear of such heart break. Here’s an update from Ashley, my wife Taylor’s cousin (nearer to sister status) I wish. Still treading water. The oncologist did start a very low dose second round of chemo a couple of days ago even though they couldn't do a bone marrow to see how much cancer there is. They are afraid if they waited too long it would get uncontrollable. So they are doing low dose because he can't handle full dose just to "keep house" on the cancer. I found out only 500 kids under 2 are diagnosed with AML a year, so it is quite rare. And only 15-20% have his Kmt2A mutation. Because of his mutation, he will need a marrow transplant to completely remove the cancer. That can only be done on kids with fully functioning organs. He's struggling in that area. I just wish all of our wins would stay wins and stop the one step forward 2 steps back thing. He's fighting. Something little changes everyday. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst. I'm here. Staying hopeful. It's getting harder, especially with Christmas coming up, not having us ALL home under one roof. But I'm OK. The kids are OK. We are learning big lessons right now. The kids, and Josh and I will be stronger, better people for it. Gaudete Sunday. The 3rd Sunday of Advent. The Sunday of JOY. I would be lying if I claimed to "feel" joyful today. As I sit here typing, the oncology nurses are giving Declan his 5th dose of chemo during his 2nd round of therapy. I have had a hard time putting words to paper lately. Part of me wanted to wait to post an update, in hopes that we get "good news" to share with everyone praying for him. The good news has not come the way I have hoped...yet. Similar to my unmedicated labors for each of my babies, I have reached the point where I feel like I can't take it anymore. During labor, it always took my husband and midwife, encouraging me to renew my strength and push harder after reaching the point of complete exhaustion. Now, it is taking my faith, prayer, and whispers from Our Lord to get me through. While Declan is still in stable condition, not a lot has changed...which is very hard for me to write. Because of the comorbidity of his illnesses, we might get good news for one system and bad news for another. The complexity of his condition makes it very hard to give updates as they change on a daily... even hourly basis. Last week, he had very encouraging chest X-rays. His lungs began showing increased aireation, and the doctors were encouraged about the idea of challenging his lungs to potentially come off of ECMO. Last Monday, they were also supposed to do a bone marrow biopsy to check the level of lukemia in his marrow. Unfortunately, his fungal infection caused too much havoc on his little body, to the point where his blood pressure and platelet counts were not stable enough to do the biopsy. The low platelet count also caused all of his IV and cannula sites to start bleeding with any movement from him. They had to paralyze him for 2 days to get the bleeding under control...which was not good for his lungs. Also, his ECMO machine clotted and needed to be changed. The presence of the new plastic tubing caused him to have edema...once again, not good for his lungs. His need for high doses of epinephrine and norepinephrine to keep his blood pressures stable has made it impossible to give him feeds through his digestive track. (They can only give feeds if his EPI requirements are low.) The lack of feeds has caused his bilirubin to skyrocket even more. Yesterday and today, there was evidence of a "minor pulmonary hemorrhage" because of the amount of red tinged secretions coming from his lungs. They are treating it with inhaled cyklokapron through his ventilator. These complications have caused all of his lung aireation to dissappear, and we are back at square one with his lungs. All of these situations (and others I have not mentioned) have set him back overall. Now, onto more positive things: The unexpexcted emergency change in his ECMO circuit has seemingly been beneficial in fighting the fungal infection. Although we can not remove the cannulas in his neck, any fungus that had built up in the plastic tubing was removed. He has not grown a positive culture for the fungus since. When they made the change for the ecmo circuit, they did not have to do any chest compressions. His heart was able to beat on his own during the change. This was not the case during the last change where they needed to give him a lot of chest compressions for support. There are still no lukemia blasts in his bloodstream, and his good white cell count has recovered very quickly after the first round of chemo. Although they were not able to do a bone marrow biopsy, the oncologist, using a "poor man's view" of his situation, are confident that his lukemia is still at a manageable level. Their concern, though, is if we wait too long, the lukemia could quickly take over. Unfortunately, his body is too weak for full doses of chemotherapy. Fortunately, his lukemia levels seem low enough that a lower dose of chemo will hopefully still be enough to keep it under control. The oncologists decided to move forward with the second round of chemo at 25% dosing to "keep house" on his lukemia while we continue to fight through his other comorbidities. He remains appropriately alert and is constantly moving...like a toddler should. He responds to my voice and has been handling sitting up in his chair well. Unfortunately, he moved a little too much the other day and he had a major bleed around his cannula. They had to turn his room into an operating room for a few hours to get the bleeding under control. If someday he becomes a roller-coaster designer, he has a lot of experience with creating exciting "ups and downs"! On Sunday, November 27th, his doctor were pretty sure he had no hope. In their words, "his prognosis is atrocious." He wasn't supposed to live through the day and he had a positive turnaround that they could not explain. Here we are 2 weeks later. He is still fighting. He is still critically ill. I am exhausted emotionally and physically being on this roller-coaster everyday. Our family is going through a trial that we don't "want" to have to go through. But we are still finding JOY in the midst of this trial. While we are not smiling, our grief and tears are proof of love. While we wish this had never happened to Declan, it is making our hugs more tender, our "I love you" more sincere and raw. While we don't want to be one of the families touched by cancer, the fact that we are, has caused us to be the recipients of an outpouring of love and support from family, new friends, old friends, and complete strangers. The handwritten letters, meals, supportive comments, offering of prayers, and other outpourings of love and support is something we have never felt before. I know that Declan's suffering has been good for our souls. "Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is bring renewed day by day. For this momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen, but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal". 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 After I saw this morning's X-ray, I realized it was Gaudete Sunday. How ironic. I did not feel happy. But Our Lord whispers sometimes loudly and sometimes very softly. As I opened my social media to make this post, the first thing I saw was Fr. Hammond's homily from the Diocese of Nashville: "This is known as Gaudete Sunday. The Sunday of Joy. lt's a day when the insistent penitence and purification of Advent give way just briefly to complete serenity. It's Joy Sunday. The prophet says that those saved by the Lord will be "crowned with everlasting joy." What does that mean? What is joy? It's not the same thing as happiness. Hard as it is to say, we are not entitled to happiness. Now please God, we will be mostly happy in our lives, and it's good to strive for that. But if we're not happy from time to time, it's ok. It's to be expected. Happiness is an emotion: all emotions come and go, and life can be hard. Joy is different: joy is stable, joy abides, joy is durable. Because it's more than an emotion: it's a posture, it's a way of living, it's a fruit of the Holy Spirit. Joy is connected to things like hope, serenity, confidence, assurance. Joy is knowing how the story ends. Joy is knowing that, even if I'm not particularly happy right at this moment. everything will be all right in the end: God always gets the last word; life triumphs over death; and no cross lasts forever." - Fr. Hammond. Indeed. No cross lasts forever. Amen.

Got home from work and fired up Aiden’s 856 to plow. I just went out of the garage and then plowed out where I park to the road. It handled the 6 inches of snow we got no problem. Soft and fluffy on top. Melted heavier on bottom. I have to say I’m really impressed with this tractor. I have plowed my driveway with everything from a 753 to a bronco 14 with an 18hp vtwin in it and I have to say the 856 might be the best of the bunch. I left a bunch of snow for the boys to plow when they get home tomorrow from their moms.

"Cleanup in Aisle Five !!"

assembling a supplemental heat pellet stove

I've been meaning to post something in this thread for a long time, and just haven't gotten to it yet. My family and I have had several wonderful and photogenic pets over the years, and I'll get to showing you those one of these days. But this is a little different…. Over the past year or so, we've had the (mostly) pleasure of fostering several dogs for a local rescue organization here in southeastern Pennsylvania, many of whom would make a great addition to this thread. Back in April of this year, we started fostering a young adult dog named Millie, who we came to love almost immediately. She is almost 3 years old, supposedly a retriever/lab/terrier mix of some sort, long and lean at about 70 pounds or so. She's a gorgeous dog, extremely athletic (I can tell you stories), energetic, loves hiking, friendly, affectionate, intelligent, spayed, house broken, crate trained, devoted to her people, …. I could go on, I just love this dog. The story we heard from the rescue was that Millie was adopted at a young age by a young family with very young kids, and all went well until the couple broke up and the young lady decided she couldn't handle a very active dog as a single mom. We had Millie for about 4 months, the longest we've ever fostered a dog. During that time, we realized that Millie really needs to be outside every day, running free in a large fenced-in area, or taken for long walks and hikes pretty much every day. We don't have a fenced yard, but we did the very best we could with her, taking her for as many hikes and spending as much time outside with her as we could. With us, she went from not being very sure of water (so much for being part lab), to loving just laying down or splashing around in the middle of a cool stream. We took Millie to several "events", basically meet-and-greets with other rescue pups where potential adopters could meet her and ask questions. They didn't generally go well, because she's nervous around other dogs if she's on a leash (which she was) in close quarters. We always felt that she would have been fine if she'd been allowed to just run around and play with the other dogs without any restrictions, but that wasn't the structure in these events. In fact, if I remember correctly, there was another dog in the house with her previous owner, and I don't believe there were any issues. Finally, a young man met her at one of these events, looking specifically for Millie. He spent a lot of time with her and with my wife and daughter, asking lots of questions, met some of the other dogs, kept coming back to Millie, and finally put in the paperwork so that he and his fiancée could adopt her. They were approved, we all met at the rescue to turn Millie over to her new owners, it went well, and we left very sad. But it didn't work out. For whatever reason, the guy and his fiancée decided that Millie was just too much for them to handle, and they gave her back to the rescue, and she's up for adoption again. We were asked to take her back as her fosters, but after some very difficult discussions, we decided we just couldn't. She is now being fostered by another person at the rescue, and we understand that she is doing well. What this all leads up to, is that Millie is available for adoption, and while we can't take her ourselves, we really hope that she finds a good permanent home. This dog has so much potential, and is so much fun to have around, I thought I would post her story here on the off chance that somebody from RedSquare might be interested in taking her. I would be willing to answer questions, and put you in touch with the rescue so you can read and understand their requirements for adopting one of their dogs. There's no need to clog up this thread for this, so just send me a PM if you're interested. I have to be honest with all of you, Millie is a handful, and her boundless energy is not to be taken lightly. On her numerous hikes with us, she would spend the first half hour or so poking her nose at every hole or weird plant she could find, and she never met a squirrel or rabbit she could ignore. But at the end of the day, when we were all back in the house and settled in, she would be perfectly content to lay quietly on the floor near us and just absolutely chill. We made a lot of progress in training her to follow our commands, and she was generally agreeable, but I suspect she's slid backwards a bit with the latest events in her life and will need more work. Here's a photo of Millie that my daughter took while we had her. As it turns out, we'll probably be keeping her at our house again for a few days right after Christmas, so I can certainly update you and send more photos if anybody's interested:

When draining transmission fluid it is best to raise the front of the tractor as high as can be done safely. There is a hump in the bottom of the transmission that prevents all the fluid from getting to the drain plug when on the level.

I adopted Jeffrey from the city animal shelter. He was picked up off the street severely injured. No broken bones but ripped open on his left side rib area. He needed surgery to fix the damage and close him up. He had a sponsor at the shelter to cover his medical bill. He spent a month at the shelter healing. Then one night at a foster home before I was able to adopt him. He was 54 pounds when I got him, he is now 95 lbs. He absolutely loves people. Everyone is his best friend. He is very smart and listens well. I couldn't ask for a better dog. I recommend anyone who is looking for a pet to check out their local animal shelter.

My fingernail has almost completely grown back. It has be twenty weeks since i split it edge to edge with an impact driver removing screws. I marked on the calendar to see how long it would take to fully heal.

Got a set

I should be able to save the finger My wife knows the tone of “hun!” to know whether to come with concern or not. She learned that after about year .25!

I hope their oil is higher quality than their oil filters

The electric pumps must have a filter directly in front of the inlet. IMO, Any speck of dirt can lock up an electric pump.

Sounds like a great meal! My favorite meat is a back strap salt & peppered and cooked to medium rare, rest about 10 minutes and slice! It is usually the first meat that disappears at cook outs and family meals. The wife and I were talking about cooking one this week, she loves it too! Problem is I only have two loin roast in the freezer and need to add some this year. Hunting has been a little tough this year but I hope to add one to the freezer this week.

If you want to really baby those old engines spring for Amsoil small engine oil. Very pricey. If the tractor is going to be inside in a warm place use Rotella T1 30W. Much cheaper.

Because I hunt from home, I do not field dress my deer. I hang them ,cut the front legs off just above the knee, then case skin so there is no hair or dirt on the meat. Then remove the innards and wash out the cavity. If the temp is 40 or less, I let them cool overnight. Above 40F, I debone immediately and refrigerate. .I remove every speck of fat and silver skin from all the venison except the bologna meat. I also separate the rump muscles and remove the glands and tendons before slicing into the steaks. The ground meat is also fat and silver skin free as you can see here. I know this can't be done in most deer hunting situations, but I really feel these steps can help insure the quality of the meat.

That’s not as common as the 3 speeds with the shorter detent rod, but I could still see something wearing, or breaking by force…

Hey yall! Figured since Im so scarce these days id just add to the old 'pop in' thread. All the Horseys are doing great and are happy in the stables waiting to get wrung out. The off roader is still flawless as ever. I picked up a couple new toys over the last few months- things I have zero knowledge or experience with but always wanted. Of course neither were running- best way to learn, right? At this point we are all convinced I have ADHD with the way I 'squirrel out' and jump from hobby to hobby might as well roll with it, right? Hope you are all doing great and have a Merry Christmas!!

Quite a bit of cleaning and scraping and cleaning and painting done today. Lots of wire brushing and sanding. Again we have a Wheelhorse hanging mobile. Transmission case is painted. Before. After. Here's a good pair of pics that shows the work Trina did on the hood. Note the spacing between the cross bars. Dents and warpage. Here she's most done. Spacing is even. I ordered hoses and more from Lowell... ...and an engine gasket set from isavetractors.

I installed a pellet stove today. It’s on a t-stat to keep the basement 68 or so, and we’ll go from there. If we can take the chill off the floors, that would be nice! I’m building a bin with pressure treated feet next, 4’x4’x3’ to hold a ton of pellets. Literally 2,000 lbs, not just a lot. @ebinmaine @sjoemie himself y’all can figure out the volume in Rubik’s cubes! After the bin is built, I’ll build a chute out of 6” round furnace duct. The cap outside will be insulated to keep the drafts down and rodents out.

Assembled the altered 520H 1" spindles, rack & pinion and tie rods. Need to do a little fine tuning and then add spindle turn stops to front axle.

I think that could have come from any one of us.

That may have been me, if not I can certainly say that is the response I got from my little bride on many occasions! Hers was something like "do you need a band aid or go to the emergency room?"

Thank you Ed, pump has filter upstream of pump, downstream might be another filter however i assumed it was a check vlv!, the tractor ran fine till it stopped!,( upstream one looked very old, replaced it with new one, but moved it to between tank petcock and check valve( if it is a check vlv, i mean who puts two filter’s on system, (upstream snd downstream?) thats why i thought i was looking at check vlv right b4 pump, actually its screwed into suction side of pump.

Chasing this problem should be really basic -- start at tank, if fuel comes out move to next step - filter?, if fuel there then move to pump, if there (or not!) etc, etc. If you arent getting fuel from the pump, then it is the problem, either a bad unit or wiring to it wrong. At one of these points in the routing is where your problem is -- and as @ebinmaine points out there are some of the on line pumps that dont perform well. I had 3 of the most common type (read: cheap!), the round ones, that failed with in a very short time.

IMHO. Replace broken electric with new electric and make sure you go to a quality type pump. Point being, they can be bought on the interwebs for under 20 bucks but you do get what you pay for.....

I'm still trying to understand the reasoning for the one piece frame, fender, seat pan weldment that captures the fuel tank. I do like those tall 15" rears and the big comfy two piece seat.

Like cleaning the cobwebs off of another project tractor!

Seemed to be the best middleground between us metric and you imperial folks

We have had lots of threads about motor oil over the years and diesel 30 weight motor oil has been the consistent winner. Here are a few hundred oil related threads. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?&q= oil&type=forums_topic&search_and_or=and&search_in=titles&sortby=relevancy

You should place an ad in the Classified Wanted section here. That is a one year, one model guard - as are the double pulleys. There are no reproduction ones available, I believe. Be prepared to spend "Cubic" dollars if you can locate one... Bill

I do believe she does fine work! Very impressive!

I’m all for trying it any way, but Lowell’s is high quality stuff. One of the members all I remember was Indy WH (Steve?) maybe at Scott’s meet and greet told me he smashes two 1/4-20 nuts on the end of his cables with an anvil and heavy sledge hammer and hasn’t had one come apart yet. I’ve always wanted to try it.

Time for the Suburban to get some new shaft seals. Both hubs fought the whole way, but heat/quench worked pretty good! How old do you think the crusted oil is?

Soak it in vinegar to eat the rust right out of it. Run a wire trough it on a drill as suggested, resoak , redrill wire and repeat until it's 100% clean and then lube of your choice. Wire rope is what the cable was. 3/16" ??? maybe

Well... You could use your patented, world famous gas pressureizermabob technique... but please, no pictures... FWIW I've used an upside down pop bottle. Put small hole in cap, fill with your choice if rusterator oil, insert cable in hole and let drip over catch pan. Refill from drips and repeat... Or, you can refer again to picture above which, is really disturbing on many, many levels...

Jeffrey loves his Wheel Horses !!