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@Tonytoro416 you have won the mug! Please pm me and we’ll work out the details. Congratulations!

All you need is a plastic garbage can, battery charger, wash soda, chunk of steel and some wire!

Being tilted "on a bank" is probably causing the float or the needle valve to hang up in the carburetor bowl, and he's not getting any fuel.

My 2 cents: squonk is on the right track here. I'm a painter, it's what I do. I have a wall full of PPG certificates ( for whatever that's worth ). It puts me at unfair advantage in that if I want to paint something I just mix it and go. However, that doesn't mean that I never pick up a can of Rust Oleum. Rust oleum never dries , or put in different terms it never gets hard. If you're going to clear it do it right away. There is no reason to wait. When you wait to recoat Rust Oleum after it initially flashes off , you are re-activating the base color which leads to the cracking , lifting mess that we're all too familiar with. And yes you can coat Rust Oleum with a 2K ( hardened clear ) while the base color is still slightly tacky, I do it with some small parts occasionally with no side effects , but never a hood , fenders , etc.

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.

some of you may remember me, I haven’t been around for a while. Sold off my last wheel horse a while back. And I’m down to my last garden tractor. My first. My bolens 1050. I haven’t had too much time for anything tractor related lately. Between starting my own business, and a sudden change in interest. I realized my tractors were being neglected. Since I’ve been spending so much time on axes and saws. Anyways, I just want to thank y’all for having one of the nicest communities online. I hope to one day settle down and have another wheel horse or two, but that time is still far off. Thanks for everything ~Mike

Well I did it again before yesterdays buy I have 2 520H one dedicated blower with cab and the other well I was going to put my loader on it but now I think I will put it on my new 522xi. This is a very clean machine and has 1200hr on it and a two owner unit with me being the third. It included all the manuals and spare keys as well. Seems to need a tune up but maybe it’s just more quite then my 520’s are. I will be doing a full maintenance one it before trying to fix the kwik-way on it as it was for a 520 so will be some fabricating involved. See pictures below. This is the way I picked it up should clean up nicely after a good bath.

Another 5025 going together!

Thank you sir. seems small maybe to some but I’m pretty jacked up about this. I have never won anything and for this to be something a member made it’s super awesome

Couple of 67’s…original 867 and a modified 657.

@jeremi3210 @Shynon Good Morning, Ladies and Gentleman, this is your captain here, preparing for take off. This should be a short flight, cruising at approximately 562 ft. above sea level. We’ll be arriving in WI with a slight tailwind shortly wheels up. Over.

Starting a front tire swap for the 414. The front wheels are not correct and have some sorta spacer to make em fit. So the shot tires on the correct wheels need to come off…out comes the Harbor Freight tire remover/installer. What do you think the crap is that’s in the first tire? Old tire sealant? I scraped out the wheel and it looks like it’ll clean up with some elbow grease.

Worked the charger 12 yesterday Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there too!

Just read this little article about the fact that my own Hiram Maine is the town that gets the most precipitation in the state. Whoooduhthunkitt. https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-rainiest-place-in-maine/ @OldWorkHorse @Oldskool @AHS @JCM

Serviced my 42" Recycler deck ; this has been in use since 1996. 27 years of weekly use, just common sense maintenance , no oil soak downs, no fancy coatings ,only cut when its dry (mostly) . I replaced one spindle belt about 8 years ago, the front rollers once, and one set of gauge wheels.....best quality of cut deck Toro / Wheel Horse ever offered.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. 💐

1981 C-105 1977 B-80 2002 315-8

The wheels actually cleaned up pretty well. This is after a good ol’ scrubbing with simple green. Next weekend will be sanding and wire wheel work and then get some paint on em!

@Achto / @WHX?? as you probably know by now , I am in the other zone when it comes to a nagging problem , more often than not , the original functional set up was correct , it was the build cost pull back that made it a problem . after correcting the intent , its the detailing to that , that make things work with solid reliability . thats why I suggest on a recent pick up , take advantage of what works , and enhance that function . just my own 2 cents , think I used to work in Wayne's world . pete

So the yellow and white tractor(my grass cutter), was needing her deck blades sharpened, oil and filter change, chassis lube, and the air / pre-cleaner filter serviced. When I backed her out of the stables, proof was left on the floor… Slid the deck out from under her belly, but before I got into the blade sharpening and spindle lubing, I decided to service the tractor first. So in my usual fashion, I went a little past an oil change… I figured now would be a good time to remove some of the grime … I wound up with the air filter back plate off because I couldn’t get to some of the grime. I wound up making a gasket that goes between the backing plate and the carb. Since I was this far along I dropped the carb bowl and emptied that out. I used Lucas Red Tacky grease to grease the wheel bearings, front axle pivot shaft, steering knuckles, and all other grease fittings… Got the grease gun hung up on the grease fitting on the steering gear box and didn’t think I was gonna get it loose… Didn’t finish the tractor service much less the deck…

This weekend was the Scott Air Force Base air show here in O’Fallon, IL. What used to be an almost annual event has been pared down in frequency over time, but it’s always an impressive showing of the men, women, and equipment that makes the US military the mightiest force in the world. The headliners were the US Navy Blue Angels with their locally-manufactured (Boeing- St Louis) F18’s but the other demos were equally impressive. I especially liked the F22 and C17 demos. I didn’t choose to spend much time watching the events through my viewfinder so I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but I did snap a few. My wife and I attended both days since we really wanted to see the Blue Angels perform and Saturday’s performance was cancelled due to an epic storm at showtime. We live close enough to the base that we could have watched from our backyard, but it was worth enduring the 86 degree heat and extreme humidity today to see it up close. Scott Air Force Base turns 106 years old this year. The last show was in 2017 at the 100 year anniversary. I believe it is still the only major military installation named after an enlisted serviceman, Corporal Frank S. Scott. Scott was the first aircraft casualty in the US armed forces, having died in an aircraft crash in 1912. The base is the home of the Air Mobility Command which coordinates and controls just about every logistical movement of materiel for all the armed forces. They are the FedEx of the military. Not many assets are stationed here as the base of 15000 people is largely administrative, but blue and white C-40 congressional delegation planes and a fleet of KC-135 refuellers along with an assortment of small aircraft call the base home. We’ve been fortunate where I work to have had projects run out of Scott through their medical evac wing and KC135 programs. I know these events happen all over the US each year and if you’re given the opportunity to take in such an amazing exhibition I encourage you to go see how some of your tax money is spent. Steve (the last picture is of the F22 flying with a P51)

Being a 314-H, it should have a Magnum 14 on it. Not sure if he's using ethanol-free fuel or not, so it's a good idea to drop and clean the sediment bowl on the carb as well. And though it's more expensive, ethanol-free fuel is worth it. Ethanol wreaks havock in an aluminum carburetor. Over time, it will destroy it. I don't care what some may say, water and bare aluminum do not like one another.

All machines running, one with replacement ivory inserts for this antique lamp.one of course running the last few percent of the gt14 dash.. And the middle one a tray of 50 gargoyle/grotesque pendants for the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Assylum!

Congratulations @Tonytoro416

Front wheel work in progress on the 414.

Mothers put up with all us butt heads, and the rest too! Thank you Moms, have a Happy Day!

For improved steering with the loader on your 16 Auto try a set of tri-ribs up front. I also agree with Eric that the Carlisle Tru-Powers are great rear tires.

Birds of a feather.

Plunge ... I got an itch... scratch my @$$ please...

Got part of removing grass build up from the underside of the deck today… would have finished it if I had not broken the first paint removal disc on my right angle dye grinder… I was using a rubber backing pad and I should have been using a plastic one. Naturally this sharpen blades, clean underneath, and grease the spindles turned into the underside getting prepped for the POR-15 treatment…

Aww crap!

Ain't small to me at all. Those mugs are super cool. Trina and I have a couple of matching coffee travel cups. @19richie66 does excellent work. Congratulations!!

Congratulations!!! @Tonytoro416

I get dibs on the first to look in magic buckets

I would reset them like this

Small 4mm adjustment of the lower mounting holes.

Reading all this I think what we should be doing is going by our own experiences on learning how to live with them and not some stupid reality TV show.

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...

Wish I was 35 again.

Carb and head removal on the free 310-8.

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

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

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.

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.

No kiddos home and no baseball tonight so I finally got some time to work on my friends basket case c-105. Happy to say I got it to crank over and now have spark. Hate the tractors with all the wiring. Bring me back to the good ole days.

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

My wife responded to a local social media post. Garage sale in a neighboring town that I wanted to visit anyway for the farm store. Got some goodies for $25. 8 speed trans, heavy hubs, wheels tires and chains, plastic weights and a fuel tank for a C series. The lady says “my husband told me if you want the rest of the chassis for it we can bring it to you.”