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Wanted to do something a little different on this one.. it was a fun little project and thanks to @Pullstart for the Kohler carb idea it runs great agin. And always @Vinylguy with the high quality vinyl to finish it off! IMG_4460.MOV

Well today we joined the loader club. The boys and I did a 5 hour round trip run to the eastern part of the state to pick up this loader. Still unsure of what tractor we are going to put it on and it’s going to need a couple hoses replaced before it’s usable. Boys are super excited and both want it on one of my tractors so they both can use it some day. Will need some pictures of the front end and how the rods attach at some point. It came with the sub frame and a weight box.

OK Prof... you got my interest... my 1st horse that started all this madness and 1st true love that never sassed me! Looks to be fairly all there too! You need anything you gimme a jingle... I know the horse inside and out! I did a full thread on this resto. Warning ... you get it running and look down that long hood things might happen...

Love to see everyone snowblowing tractor,plow tractor 🚜 it's been lots of snow work in Minnesota this year and I'm having a ball.... had a few brakes downs but we loving ever bit of it 🌝👍happy 2023 season letsgo to work

I first brought this poor little orphaned Horse home about 3.5 years ago, gave it a good walkaround and look over then, but never did anything else with it before trading it to a friend of mine. Turns out he never did anything with it either, and a couple months ago it made its way back to me. Going to move the Farmall C out of the barn tomorrow, and drag it in out of the wind to see what its gonna take to get it back up and running.

I'll be your wingman Jim. I've never had any issues with what I use. I'll stick with Valvoline products but there's plenty of other good stuff out there.

Here's my snow crew. Only got to use them three times this year, that was around Christmas time. Snow melted a few days after Christmas, been getting nothing but rain since.

I have the same exact loader on a C-141 8 Speed. I’ll be glad to help you in any way I can. Just let me know!

Got the differential and axles all buttoned up and properly torqued. Started cleaning the "wide side" of the transmission case so we can get that back together tomorrow.

We ain't greasing the space shuttle here. Use a good quality grease. sit back and have a beer!

I bought some used stainless steel steam table food pans many years ago . They will last forever and are handy for cleaning parts as well as draining fluids. They are easy to clean as well. Look for them at auctions, or online, usually they can be bought for less than plastic trays.

From a few years back when we still had some snow.

Here is mine western Pa.

I've used the same old steel porcelain coated cooking pan that my 96 year old Dad used ... probably going on 75 years of continuous old oil duties +\-... works perfectly, holds 5 quarts, fits under everything, pours just as nice with used motor oil as it did for Grandma's cooking oil leftovers, cost nothing, will absolutely last forever... I plan to make it available to my kids in the will... Not sure exactly how Dad originally borrowed it from Grandma but, I'm sure he had full permission...

It's going to go back together with a repower eventually. What stalled this here was I had swapped to a trans I had rebuilt and I missed something, it is stuck between hi and low. I'm sure it will be an easy fix, but instead I just rolled it into the back of the shop so I don;t have to look at it for a while. The magnum went onto a blackhood "ol' Roy" that is taking a COLOSSUS amount of time to go together too.

Nice find! The bracket for the support arms is probably still on the seller's tractor or the tractor this was last mounted too. Not too big of a deal to make something. You'll also need to make something to hold the hydraulic pump too unless they gave that with the loader

Well as you know I've been experimenting with trying to cut keyway grooves in the axles. I made some interesting headway and I learned some things. IIFF I was a better woodworker with much more precise tools I believe it could be done using a pair of boards correctly cut and a grinder that could be clamped in place. Because I am NOT a woodworker by a long shot and/or have the right tools to make a very good jig I've decided to scrap the plan for now. So.... I disassembled an 8 speed that will be rebuilt for the backhoe knowing it had good axles. I'll put the good axles in the Hydro open diff because the Hydro diff is rust free. No Limited Slip Differential for this machine... But that's ok because the 8 speed 8 pinion is VERY stout. In other news the Local Restoration Department has been cleaning up and painting the flywheel. What should the timing marks look like?

Exactly. I've had no issues in over 6 decades with what I use. Keeping things lubricated is 99% of it.

My C-145 automatic patiently waiting for something

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the slippery one ...what's wrong with the off the shelf farm & barn grease?

My two working girls are dressed for the winter dance - 854 with the blower, the C81 with a 48" plow.

Sorry for the delayed response, I had to run to the hardware store to buy some chain and a lock! Can’t be too safe these days!😂

Perhaps he could run faster than her - but could he outrun the rolling pin when she chucks it at him??!!

Yea it's been awhile since we've had any decent snowfall, 2" January '73.

I’ve had a total of about 15-16” but it’s all gone now. When I moved to Michigan in 92 sleds we’re all the rage. I got a 4x4 quad instead. Some mocked me but I thought to ride the sled a few weeks out of the year was crazy. Now everyone has a 4x4 UTV/Atv of some sort and much fewer sleds. Got to go another 200 miles north if you really want to ride It’s gotten warmer ever since the mid 90’s here. But the summers are still just right. Pure Michigan

Story of my life, running ‘round in circles! Put it that way, it’s not so satisfying!

Nice find! Here is a link to where I rebuilt the front bracket on an ARK 500. I’m not sure if it’s similar, but shows quite a bit of detail.

This one reminds me of my c195 I have sitting in the barn maybe we pull it out 🌝

E-141 and C-105...

Has a customer (teacher) who came into the Napa store and wanted to drop off his used oil. We had a 55 gallon drum out back. I say sure just leave it by the loading dock. I go out back later and there are 32 qt. bottles of used motor oil that I have to dump and dispose of. Next time he comes in I sell him one of those 5 qt. sealable drain pans. He comes back in about another year with the full pan and about 22 qt. bottles of used oil.

We only got about an inch and it wasn't below freezing when it came down so the sun is doing my snow removal.

Not a chance that the loctite 680 would be of any value in this case. It is for bonding cylindrical parts that were well fitted.

This is Trina's go-to worker Pigpen 867 and our commercial grade Ariens snowblower. Her tractor has a 42" plow, steel weights front n rear, and Limited Slip Differential. Here's a pic of my 1975 C160 Automatic I used last year. It's in for restoration right now and will be out back in play when done. This has a 60" plow, fluid filled and steel weighted tires all around.

I use the - always plentiful - 5 gallon plastic buckets and cut them sorta like @peter lena - one short to catch the lawn equip and another to catch the cars/trucks. I live on heavily wooded 5 acres and have a constant supply of fallen limbs/debris, I get a nice pile of that and use the old oil to assist in burning it. I had a very surprising thing happen a year or so ago - My F150's tranny went out and I only had to remove the pan to replace a valve ... the tranny held 9 qts of MERCON which ford stresses to use it only! Quite expensive too... Any hoo, as I went to burn the next pile of brush I poured the used Mercon on and ---- whoa, it dang near put the fire out!! did NOT want to burn, had to keep dribbling conventional oil on to finally get the brush burned

Here's some video of what we've seen. Been the warmest winter I remember but we still have had a few snows. I haven't plowed but Trina has. Turn the VOLUME UP for this one:

Yup - along with buggy whips, distributor machines, spark plug sandblasters, and drum brake shoe re-arcing machines. I still do have a half gone tube of breaker point cam / rubbing block grease - I use just a film on the tip of the pusher pin when installing new Kohler points....

That's so that Superman can't see the copper. He's a big scrapper ya know. If he sees copper wire in your house he'll rip it out and scrap it before you know it! Seriously... I've never heard of such a thing. Wonder if it's for direct burial in the olden days? Or maybe for use in a nuke plant. Like I said... no idea!

You can't use them Don maybe best I just come... best have that planter under lock and key tho...

This is the first winter I can remember that we haven’t even had a trace of snow by now. I have a snowplowing business and only went out once the Friday before Christmas to do a little salt sanding after it rained and we had a flash freeze. My 417-A with a two stage blower, C160 with a blade, and C-141 8 speed with Sweepster C-48 rotary broom are collecting dust waiting to be put to work! I really don’t even like snow anymore but we all know that moving it with a Wheel Horse, be it blade, blower or broom is fun!!

Neigh. Mounted the plow and blower per seasonal protocol, but haven’t needed to use either one. Yet.

Here is the first idea of a centering jig to recut or re chase the threads. After inserting a slightly sanded down 1 1/4 PVC pipe, a thinwwall 1 1/2 barely slides over,but s trifle loose. The fie is a trifle loose on the outside pipe. I think that the caulking tube can be cut apart and used to shim it to good effect. Then the die should remain square with the threads. Tell me what you think. Ok on editing ,although the pictures are out of order, I am very happy to report that the axle threads are repaired and the retention nut threads on by hand. After viewing some vids of people replacing brakes and bearings I saw that Dodge or Spicer improved the design of the retention nut. My truck has this cheap nut that relies on plastic inserting on the last few threads and some lame wedge made from stamped metal. If the bearing gets hot it all goes away and the live axle can come out of the splines. The updated model has a much better system with a full metal key and much better keeper. Going to a Dodge website for the updated part number and hopefully O'Reilly will trade it back for a better part

Yeah, that Thor guy is a bit of a hoarder... that 418 was a flawless mower for me for 5 years, was looking a bit too long in the tooth so it came apart last summer for a refresh and ended up donating it's magnum to a horse with an eaton 11..

Congratulations! Those are near extinct nowadays. Well done!

The key to A GOOD oil drain pan is how well (or poorly) it can be drained into your larger recycling or collection container without leaving a spill that would rival that of the Exxon Valdez. I have one I use a lot - it has a drain shelf for the used oil filter - nice. BUT it makes a giant mess if you use the corner lip to empty the full pan - the oil runs behind the lip and down the side. I have to place a larger secondary pan on the ground with the smaller recycling container in it.