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Yogi Berra once said, " Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't come to yours." Yogism I steal "isms" all the time. My son gets a kick out of them. Driving thru Buffalo I will say "You can't spoil a rotten egg ect. He calls them "Dadisms" I needed a belt for a project today. I went to TSC. As I was walking into the store I thought to myself, "Watch they won't have the belt." Sure enough an empty space where it should be. As I was walking out I muttered " I could have predicted that with a 10 ft. pole!" My first and my very own Dadism (Yogism)

Combined Toro Lower Lift Links to Snapper cat 0 3pt, couple 5/8 holes here an there. Also, some wedges to stabilize the lift links, (otherwise they would twist) Fabricating chains & clevis turnbuckles next.

Got a hair cut... I suppose now you are gonna tell me to get a real job...

I wasn't sure which category this should fall into so i'll post it here , mods please move if necessary . If you folks really want to see things "done-right" check out Squatchs' channel . I've been following him for over a year and I just love his attention to detail and the depth he goes into . Dozers to farm tractors , I just love the way he does things !

417-8 here. Four season tractor for sure. Loves to work.

Some right decent folks on this site ain't they?

That particular idler holds a memory for me. 2015 and I had just joined here. A real green horn. Scored my first Suburban 400 and needed that part. Met @Achto here who was building his rat rod at the time. Since it is a custom he had no use for it and sold it to me... 10 bucks I think. When I first met him I thought man this guy is a real dandy putting together a tractor like this. Never in a million did I figure eight years later we hang out.

Still doing small things to the raider project but getting closer everyday. It runs pretty good for a Tecumseh lol. Still have to trim new throttle and choke cables to fit and tidy up some wiring to my liking. The one picture is a little clue to yet another project I started as if I needed more irons in the fire. The last three weeks have been 70-80 hour weeks spreading fertilizer

Wish I was 35 again.

Lol Ed... Missus said I look much younger... felt so spritely I turned out the horses and cleaned out the stalls...

Sadly you have to watch human beings in general. Doesn’t matter what religion , race or ethnicity. Greed and avarice is not proprietary of any particular group. After all I have been the recipient of such actions by members of my own family.

Well almost one month later but today I finally freed up some time to get the muffler situation sorted out. My version 1.0 mufflers were custom built by myself. There were a few things I did'nt like. First they were too loud, they were crooked and third I just did'nt like the way they looked. Soo out with the old.. Some cutting.. And welding: Not my favorite subject, welding small diametre tubing but came out good enough. Test fitting the IH cub muffler. Looking good Chrome stacks (a.k.a. vacuum cleaner extension tubes) added. Drivers seat p.o.v. So OFCOURSE I wanted to know what it sounds like now right!? So I hooked up the battery and tried to start it.. *click* nothing! Battery flat.. so that's charging overnight, might try again tomorrow. Exhaust still needs some clamps here and there and I want to try and replicate some heatshields like on the original tractor. Might even add some flappers, we'll see. For now I'm glad I finally got something done one this machine. A lack of time and motivation have been a big issue in making progress on this project lately. Having tackled the difficult part on the exhaust helps with getting motivated to work on this project again.

Eventhough I'm outside of the US still wanted to take my time and write the following; Cool mug! I'll see myself out now. Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

I started to dig out some of the Junque I'll be bringing to the show. I'll bring the 953 if anyone is interested for $400. It starts and runs but smokes.. The pump and lift work. The Ross steering box could be rebuilt. The PTO lever support bracket is missing. Tail light and choke lever knob missing. Round fenders $40 PTOs $30 Spring loaded mule drive used on 520s with 60" deck $35 Older style frame mounted mule drive $30 New TORO #106636 mower blade set $30 Kohler, Onan, and B&S new parts. Please PM for part numbers and prices. Buckets of deck, attach-o-matic, lift levers, spindles, axles, seat, tire chains, belts, and other misc hardware will also be coming.

That’s better than a housing division in 5 years for 9.25 million…

The 417-A is capable of handling anything you ask of it, mine is my dedicated snowblower tractor. It has around 1100 hours of mowing time on it and now only sees a few hours a year blowing snow. It’s still going strong, doesn’t smoke and has plenty of power. I love the sound of it under a load, it sounds awesome! @whitewhiskers53What are your plans for yours? And yes we need pictures! Here’s mine.

If we knew who it went to we could form a posse & bring the PO to justice.

As long as diarrhea and electric vehicles share the same characteristics, it's not for me. with both you never know if you will reach your destination safely. I experience this every day when an e-vehicle creeps in front of me again, obviously with an almost empty battery. This technology does not seem to be mature enough for many people in long range to be suitable for everyday use. That may still make sense for short distances, but not really for long range.

I have to respectfully disagree for several reasons. First and foremost it's extremely important to remember that (to the best of my knowledge) you are a he and she is a she. Those circumstances automatically dictate that she wins. But.... In your clear concise inarguably accurate defense you're most assuredly missing at LEAST 4 tractors. You have a plow. (For Morgan). You pulled a cart. You have 3 mowing decks. These poor poor forlorn implements are awaiting a Horse of their own. Feel free to share my infallible incredibly logical arguments with your Other Half. It won't get you anywhere but do feel free.

. Not a great picture here at all, but Eric named after you know who has a collection of parts and soon will be wearing some blue engine tin's from Maine. The little guy has a four speed and an eight horsepower engine not original to the Raider Ten . The starter solenoid clicked but no crank. I took the solenoid off and drilled a tiny hole through the dome of metal and put some Deep Creep inside. Cranked and started right now. This is the second solenoid that responded to penetrant. I figure made in USA fifty years ago is worth bringing back to life. Maybe make this a run around rig. Pull the trailer. Attach an ice cream freezer. Spray the yard. At least the lift makes it easy on the old back....

good morning and thank you for letting me join, i picked up a 417-a yesterday ser # 3117ke01 1202 any info will help runs great looks like it needs nothing. pd $675

Wished I woulda known that back then Greasy Pete... he urged me to lube it with Cap'n... not a wonder how our bromance survived...

Contrary to some misperceptions, the Amish do pay taxes: state and federal income taxes, sales and real estate taxes, and public school taxes. They are exempt from paying Social Security taxes, however, because they consider Social Security a form of insurance and therefore refuse its benefits

Wow, a new kid on the forum.

Rubberized asphalt concrete (RAC), also known as asphalt rubber or just rubberized asphalt, is noise reducing pavement material that consists of regular asphalt concrete mixed with crumb rubber made from recycled tires. Asphalt rubber is the largest single market for ground rubber in the United States, consuming an estimated 220,000,000 pounds (100,000,000 kg), or approximately 12 million tires annually.[1] Use of rubberized asphalt as a pavement material was pioneered by the city of Phoenix, Arizona in the 1960s because of its high durability.[2] Since then it has garnered interest for its ability to reduce road noise. In 2003 the Arizona Department of Transportation began a three-year, $34-million Quiet Pavement Pilot Program, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration to determine if sound walls can be replaced by rubberized asphalt to reduce noise alongside highways. After about one year it was determined that asphalt rubber overlays resulted in up to 12 decibels of in road noise reduction, with a typical reduction of 7 to 9 decibels.[3] Arizona has been the leader in using rubberized asphalt, but California, Florida, Texas, and South Carolina are also using asphalt rubber. Tests are currently underway in other parts of the United States to determine the durability of rubberized asphalt in northern climates, including a 1.3 mile stretch of Interstate 405 in Bellevue and Kirkland, Washington[4] and a handful of local roads in the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2012, the State of Georgia issued a specification for the use of rubber-modified asphalt as a replacement for polymer-modified asphalt. In Belgium, tests in the ring of Brussel and in the F1 circuit of Francorchamp (see the film by Jean-Marie Piquint Rubberized Asphalt for Esso Belgium).[5][6] Two quality control requirements are necessary when using asphalt rubber: (a) crumb rubber tends to separate and settle down in the asphalt cement and therefore asphalt rubber needs to be agitated continuously to keep the rubber particles in suspension and (b) crumb rubber is prone to degradation (devulcanization and depolymerization) and thus lose its elasticity if asphalt rubber is maintained at high temperatures for more than 6–8 hours. This means asphalt rubber must be used within 8 hours after production.[7]

There certainly are - most in fact, but some of these guys are downright inspirational (or humbling depending on how one happens to feel).

My wife has some good stories. She worked in a state park down the road and the cops had to chase a car all thru the park. They went thru the playground and everything. 4 drunk Mennonite girls. Now she works in a thrift store. The Amish guys buy up all the romance novels whilst the teenage Mennonite girls buy up the shortie shorts and spaggetti strap tops!

Painted this old floor register today. It was a med brown. Did not prep anything. 2 coats of black and 2 coats of clear. First coat of clear went on as soon as I set the can of black down. It's dry to the touch a half hour later.

I don’t know any Amish or Mennonite families personally. The best personal example is of the Amish boy who hitches a ride to the Portage, WI show every year with some neighbors. He will jump in and help anywhere, no matter the occasion. Just won’t run the equipment. I know plenty of corrupt Christians, great Godless and otherwise. 4 guys can’t ruin it for the whole religion, just like the holier than thou folks can’t ruin my beliefs. I am happy to hear that such communities can run without a plastic card in their pocket and they can afford the things they commit to buy.

The 417s PTO was slipping a bit when the 48" SD chugged thru the too heavy grass. So, today I took the bell off and "machined" the clutch face. Then scrubbed both the bell and clutch faces with alcohol. Now she locks together like it's welded.

@WHX?? more than anything , I see the opportunity to hi temp re grease grease that bearing , thats why I like tractor supply pulleys , they regularly have the same size / type of pully with a much bigger bearing and rubber side shields . then its only a matter of getting a size to size bronze bushing to get an exact blot on fit . done that on all of my original whiney belt driven pulleys . you can always paint them red . pete

@c-series don I believe the 520-8 production number was 226.

It amazes me how good some folks are at abusing quality very expensive lawn and garden equipment . Leaving something in the elements probably one of the worst things you could do to something . Nice save

At $400 you CAN'T lose money on that. The front axle is worth most of that. The rear wheels are $100 more.

Well, obviously it has the forward swept front axle. Don't know much else at this point except what I can tell from this picture. Sounds like I should probably rescue it... I didn't have much time to look it over, and the guy was in a big hurry - he needed to finish mowing and drive 90 minutes up to North Indy for something. I'll probably give him a call to see if I can stop by again soon for a closer look.

Back in our Michigan base of operations - that's where the Wheel Horses are. Got Morgan the 14-8 woken up from his long winter nap. Just checked the oil & gas, turned the key and he happily cranked over. Took a little bit of cranking, 'cause I had run the carb dry last fall, but he fired up without any complaint. Since the front blade was still on him, we pushed some gravel piled up in a few spots in the yard that the snow plow left behind. Dropped the blade added the cart and played pick up sticks with the sticks that the trees dropped last winter. Next job was to mow. Well, the 42" RD deck was leaning against the back shed wall - behind the 48" project deck and the extra plow blade that will eventually get converted into a belly blade. Terrible planning on my part last fall when I put that stuff away. My wife walks up as I am trying to dig out the 42" deck and start talking about the changes we need to do in the shed to better organize it. This discussion leads to how many decks do I have, and since I only have two tractors, which deck am I going to get rid of. I says I'm not getting rid of any. She asks why? I says that they each do something the others can't do. She asks what do you mean? So I ask her why she has a bunch of embroidery hoops for her sewing machines? Well, she says, they each do something the others don't. QED, end of discussion. 42" RD deck got mounted on Morgan, we mowed the lawn. On the way back to the shed, I notice that the deck drive belt has flipped upside down in the PTO pulley. I also thought I saw some cracks on the inside of the deck belt when I put it on the tractor. Got to chase those two items down.

Well that doesn’t suck!

Not a recent picture, but this is when the GT-1848 was trying on it's new front shoes.

Just get one of these. You'll be a hit with the ladies!

Birds of a feather.

Ok you got me, I knew better but I went ahead and clicked anyways. 🙃

There's several things that I wonder about moving to EV's and if this is the way to go. My overall philosophy is that this should be 'market driven.' I am puzzled on how this is all going to work with the government putting in charging stations, did the government put in gas stations when we went from horse and buggy to gasoline cars? Another puzzle is the charging stations, one doesn't fit all makes, unlike gas stations where the nozzles fits all cars. Another thing is how they work in states like mine (Vermont) where it gets cold in the winter. I'm guessing that running the electric heaters will drastically cut their efficiency and length of travel before needing a charge. I have several concerns like many have mentioned about the mining and disposal of all the electronics and batteries. Like some of the other commenters, I'm a senior citizen, so I'm not sure I'll own one of these, but if I live long enough I may be forced too. Being an older person I lived through the 70s and that surge of going to electric heat. My house was built with electric heat in the mid 80s, and then converted to oil FHW heat before I bought it in 99, so that didn't work out then! I sure do wonder how it will be once everyone is hooked to EVs, then our monopolized electric utilities will be able to charge a hefty price to charge all of our EVs! C-85

Crikey! Five months on from my last post about this topic. Absolutely no interest from any buyers for our house. The housing market is pretty flat with all the doom and gloom about the economy. Especially higher priced homes like ours. We'll really its mid price but still a lot to commit to for most folk. So we've taken it off the market and are just going to enjoy this place now we have stopped home boarding dogs and it's become our home, not our workplace. If the market bounces back in a few years we can still look to move then if we want to downsize. On the bright side at least I tidied up my workshop spaces lol. Mick

Iventory cost $$$$ People complain how it costs more at a local store when they can get it on the net cheaper. Then they complain when a local store closes because they lost business to the net McMaster Carr has just about everything and you get it in no more than 2 days. Folks complain they are expensive There are a million sellers on the net that sell stuff cheap with free shipping and folks complain on how long it takes to get it.

Oh Man, why you doing this? Maybe nobody told you, a Wheel Horse is much stronger than your Body. Hey Buddy, quick healing and take care of you! Hope to see ya healthy at the Big Show if i can come. Actually i‘m still waiting for my Travel Visa, hope i got it soon.

I swapped a non running nearly complete Ariens S16H tractor id picked up last year ... for a Briggs and Stratton V twin 20 HP. I haven't heard the B&S run. It has good compression on hand turning. Supposedly around 400 hours on it.

sooo sad to see it in that poor condition. those things were $8000. in 1986 if i remember correctly. my local dealer had one. not sure how that equates in today's dollars but, it is a lot!!! good luck with it