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I’m going to frame it to add to my display! And when not displaying I’m going to hang it in my bedroom. Okay, the second part definitely won’t happen. My wife would kill me. Although I may do it just to see the reaction 😜😂

Picked up another rider tonight. 3 pt hitch, sickle bar mower and all.

If they both have Kohlers, keep the C-120. If they have Tecys, send them both down the road.

So a couple of weeks ago I went to pick up a Sears tractor that my friend purchased. After we loaded the tractor the owner asked if we wanted some other things he was going to put to the curb. My friend took a pair of rocking chairs and I took this home made watering cart. The man made it to water a small garden he had back on his property. It came with a hose you attach to the valve. I took the hose off for the winter. The price was right but the color is wrong ! Just another thing I have no use for but hate the idea of it being trashed. Last picture is of the Sears my buddy bought. The cart in the background.

This is what I see on the other side of my ice cream bowl 🤣🤣

That's a tough one, right up there with would I rather have my hand chopped off or my foot...

The green appears to know its place

This found its way on the back of my truck today.

I guess I just have an obsession. Mostly spending money on it because I want to go to the show this year (first time) and bring it with me. And also because its never leaving my side (was my dads.)

I also fixed the free JD cart I got last week…tubed the tire and cleaned up the axle (it sat buried in the dirt for like 3 years!). Hooked it up and took it for a drag! My B-80 is not happy right now, and I hope @nylyon doesn’t strip me of my Admin title !

I never went to college, more than a few apprentice classes for tool and die. One was a welding class, but I had been welding for a handful of years previous to that. My HS graduation open house funded a brand new Lincoln 135Plus MIG welder, tank and safety supplies… nearly to the dollar. Most people thought I was nuts buying a welder with “good money” but I feel like I made the best open house money decision of my class! I was telling Rylee, once you learn something like a skill, nobody can take it away from you. Sometimes you’ll get rusty if you don’t practice often, but like riding a bike, it comes back quick.

I recently bought this two page magazine ad off a well known auction site. I thought I had all of the 1978-79 advertising and then this came along! I’ve never seen it before, maybe someone else has?

Its just a hand cart he modified. Pretty good welder, lousy choice of color when he repainted it. Im going to have to buy some Regal Red this spring and pick up a red ratchet strap. Maybe even pick up some Wheel Horse decals from @Vinylguyto put on the sides of the barrel. Or..... put a JD decal on it and sell it off at an inflated price !!

Just fill it with manure!!!

you just committed a sin and a crime lol you should know better

Love the look of the two piece seat on the B-80/8 speed…but it’s too close to the steering wheel. I’m a long legged galoot ! You purists should look away! Drilled out the seal mount as far back as it would go. Got me another 1-5/8ths”.

My last year of teaching high school tech ed the students would take a water bottle and flip it and try to make it stand up. Drove me nuts until one day I had an epiphany. As a mid-winter assignment I broke to the class into groups and said they had to design and build a machine to would flip a water bottle and make it stand on the floor. I had a huge pile of cardboard from an appliance store and they could use as much as they wanted along with glue and screws. They worked and problem solved on that endeavor for three weeks. Amazing what they came up with. At the end of the year they told me it was the hardest problem they ever had to solve. Teamwork, leadership research and problem solving. I love seeing this in education as it pulls together so many facets of what has been taught.

I'm sure all of those metal shavings and grinder wheel bits were good for his tootsies. Goes to show you how people with enough intelligence to make an engine out of a compressor have zero common sense.

Are they both autos? 10hp is a little light to be paired with a hydro, if straight up comparing. A hydro robs somewhere between 2 and up to 4 hp. In that case, if everything else is equal, I'd keep the 120. Of course this is a "blank page" comparison. Mechanical condition would be the primary driver for me. Good luck. Sometimes it feels like choosing between kids or something.

So this little fella decided to adopt us recently. I was in the barn in the almost-dark feeding the pig, and felt something rubbing against my leg and heard purring. We haven't had any cats around for several years, which I was okay with, at least not having any in the house. However, this is probably the nicest cat I've ever known. He followed my son from the barn and walked in the front door of the house like he owned the place. He's just a bit under a year old. Had him neutered this week, and the only problem is our one dog hasn't made friends with him yet, but a bit of time should take care of that. His name officially is "Nikolai" but my son calls him "Gert". He's a "keeper", or at least, he thinks we are....

Of the centerfolds I've seen in my life that's one I would hold on to

Rylee is practicing her welding skills today. Her challenge is to build a marble drop. It needs to take precisely 10 seconds to complete. Penalties for too fast or too slow.

@The Freightliner Guy i cant believe it im almost 14 and i cant even weld. You never know when an opportunity will come your way. I had the good fortune to be mentored by the owner of a metal fabrication shop when I was 14. His shop was about a half mile up the road and he had seen me out in the barn working on a '31 Chrysler I was attempting to install a '53 Chrysler Hemi. He stopped by to check on it one day and told me I had good intentions but it was never going to last being bolted together with 1/4"-20s. The only power tool I owned was a 1/4" drill motor. Long story short he called my parents that evening and offered to let me help out in his fab. shop on Saturdays. I was too young to get a work permit but could learn a lot and he figured I would be helpful to have around. When he got finished with the day's work we would take some scrap pieces of steel and he began teaching me to weld. Over the next few months my ability with arc welding improved and he let me use the MIG welder too, wow, what a game changer. He would find some scrap with holes drilled in it and have me fill the holes using 6011. What I didn't know at first was the he was changing the setting on the welder before I started and I had to figure out what amperage was going to work best. Within a few months he had me running overhead beads and and figuring out how to run a bead where you couldn't see the joint. Then came the payoff. He was repairing a tow truck and when he finished it he went down to my house and towed the '31 to his shop. We began prepping it for motor mounts and fabricated a cross member with very sturdy motor mounts and a removable transmission mount. Wow, that was a big day for me. Being fifteen I didn't have the finances to complete the '31 but did change out the rear end and we fabricated a drive shaft, got it running and drove it in the fields a bit, no brakes, loose steering but at 15 those are unimportant. Once I turned 16 and got a driver's license I worked in a gas station week nights and continued working Saturdays at the fab shop but now I was getting paid and working on customer equipment.

That’s one idea…I’m also trying to see what the JD enthusiast’s are paying for trailers like this. Might be a nice way to get some funds for whatever WH project I find next

Horses drag deer through the woods all the time. Completely understandable.

what the heck Mike?

It has been said before - "Once the dream dies, the game is over.... for good"" Don't allow anyone to stomp on your dreams....

Wait, aren't you the nightowl trying to make a snowmobile engine drive a Wheel Horse at ridiculous speeds?

It’s the stickiest kind of knowledge that any of us can acquire--especially the learning from mistakes part!

The axle is induction hardened where the bearings ride so cutting a continuous keyway would have to end there. The older 953s had a long sleight key-way and one of mine wouldn't budge. Lots of PB Blaster for several days, six ton hydraulic jack puller, no luck. Other hub had come off so I opened the case and differential and pulled the offending axle with hub. Figured the press would do the job but no luck with red hot heat and my twenty ton press. Took it to the machine shop where they have a 200 ton press and they heated it up and there was a very loud bang as the pressure was applied, the hub cracked the full length of the keyway; got the axle out! They "V" notched the crack heated it up and welded the hub up, They didn't charge me anything for the hub repair since they broke it. Needless to say I have recommended them to lots of people.

I guess you could invite a buddy over, chain B-100 and C-120 back to back and have a pull-off. Winner stays and looser goes to a new home.

Maybe an extended family member can “use it”, and love it and never let anything bad ever happen to it so that when they are “done” with it you can get her back. Only mechanically inclined extended family, of course.

LEDs are really bright, and light on amp load. And they last forever. Plug and play. Just run a ground jumper from the hood to the frame at the pivot. That will keep them from flickering.

It’s been a couple years, but during the big ‘rona shutdown she had that helmet on a couple times too Here she is on her first tractor, Screamin’ Jimmy the Commando 800 after we build the dual stacks for it.

I know what you mean. This one would crawl in my pocket givin half a chance.

Back in the 80's I took an Adult Machine Technology course for a year at night offered by the local Vo-Tech. We had 2 women in the class of 24 - their math and problem solving skills were superior to most of the guys there ( a lot were just squandering Uncle Sam's coin on the GI Bill - sorry IF that hits a sore spot on some....) they showed up prepared, not hung over...

i can 100% believe that they do a better job I've witnessed it before from irl to on YouTube. and my aunt when she was working on stuff and as a little kid she always helped around the shop helping fix while her family would give her crap about how since she's a girl she didn't know anything or should be around this stuff but her family realized how helpful she was and how she could know whats wrong when everyone else was confused. so i agree they can do anything we can do if not better Kollin

She turned 13 around Halloween. She experienced welding when she was 10 or 11, but her size made it difficult to hold the MIG gun well. Now, she’s big enough to do it well. This isn’t a woke statement, but I believe that girls can do anything boys can, if they put their mind to it. My FIL says most of the female welders in his fab shop are better than the boys, they have better control and steady hands, along with a sense of pride that comes from a mainly male dominant industry.

The compressor into an engine or the flip flops?

Yes, tobacco barns are open to create air flow. As steep as this land is, I think it will be pasture for cattle or goats and this will be a cheese barn.

I too find the .003 to be curious. That small of a gap just doesn't seem right. Just to deviate a bit back to 2011. I experimented with a modification for points on a K-series engine. This mod allowed you to actually adjust the points with the engine running. It was a bracket that mounted on the engine, and then you used Chevy points that had an Allen screw, spring-loaded adjustment. The experiment went well, but I found that it was not practical for everyday use. Guys were using them for pulling tractors and cleaning the whole set-up after each use. In winter, they were prone to getting wet since the cover could not be sealed against the weather. I shelved the system and went back to regular Kohler points. For more info go to: https://mwsc.co/collections/k-series-engine-parts/products/points-bracket Here is a picture of the points: You can find the discussion here at https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/topic/23910-kohler-points/?tab=comments#comment-210266

@Pullstart my grandson is at welding school in ohio , 9 months in , has to re certify at every stage , more than learning from each step. accepting responsibility , learning from every mess up , realising its not going to kill you . sure RYLEE has a confidence and insight from all her mistakes , thats what its all about . like I have said to dan , you want to deal with issues / problems , like a duck to water , the more you practice that , the more confidence you will have . great to have a welder in the family , pete

This is for her Mondays Homeschool Academy. This is from her teacher. “This is awesome! You definitely have a chance of winning the 1 pound chocolate bunny for the winner :)” I didn’t know a pound of chocolate was the prize!

GE 4411 tractor headlight, I forgot the taillight number. Just pop the rear lens cover off and pull out the bulb to match it up. Any auto parts store should have them.

You can try to dribble a little gas in the carb to get the engine running. This will cause a better pulse for the pump. I have to do this to my 520 every spring to get gas up to the carb. As I run the carb out of gas before storing for the winter. Some times I have to repeat the process 2 or 3 times. One other option would be to hook a line to the pump from an IV bottle to get fuel into it to prime it. Many members here have switched to an electric fuel pump on their 520's as well, faster start up's, less hassle.

I think you will find a Kohler will run with a wide variation in points gap. Remember unlike a Briggs or Tecky the points run off the cam which means the crank turns twice to the cam's once. The points on a Kohler are open for MOST of the 4 cycles. They only close briefly to close the coil Primary circuit. The key is when they open to induce that spark. I had a 301 in the Skonkmobile. Ran great but it was LOUD! I tried about 5 different style mufflers. Nothing worked to my satisfaction. After digging into it I found the spark was happening after TDC. I set the points with the meter and it became a lot quieter. Last fall I decided to replace the points and cond. on my 857. Set them with the meter. I don't remember what the gap ended up at. After starting the engine I connected my timing advance light. If I advanced the light 8° the spark flash lined the spark mark on the flywheel with the engine plate mark. We haven't gotten any snow to speak of so the tractor has been sitting. I went out a couple of weeks ago and with out pulling the choke or throttle out I turned the key and it started on one revolution. It has never run this good since I've had it.

And the prize is??? ..... priceless. Dad and Daughter, the transferring of acquired learned skills - that right there is QUALITY family time, Kevin....

I love your dogs Don... Here's my Lucy playing on a tractor...