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She made one special for me

Gettin there…..

Nice show! Got to put that on bucket list. The local steam show is this coming weekend. They got 100 acres and tear up about half with old equipment. I plan to make it out and if I remember to get pics. http://nationalpike.com/index.html That old hemi brought back memories. My Dad and Uncle re-ringed one in the backyard when I was about 7, one spark of my interest in mechanical things. Those belt driven shops are cool. I was good friends with the caretakers son of the local one about a mile away. Those private visits were nice got to mess around a bit with the blacksmith stuff. This one was built around 1900 and shutdown in 1965. Owners just locked the doors and left. It is like stepping back in time. Lots of hard work in those places. https://riversofsteel.com/experiences/tours/machine-shop-tour/

You just retired and you're losing it already.

Nice work! We’ve built our own exhaust systems many times here, but I can’t say I’ve built my own muffler ever. @Achto has built some… Here’s one we pieced together during Covid times…

More show pics... EB might like this first one... Wild Bill with his ride around Simplecity

New here to this web site and new to a just purchased 1995 Wheel Horse 520H. There is so much info here that by the time I read thru everything I'll have to go back to to the beginning and start over. I have been looking for a Wheel Horse in my area for quite some. Recently found one for sale in Dunn, NC., about an hour away from me. She ran good on trial so we loaded her onto the trailer. Brought her home, checked all the fluids and what not, and then proceeded to mow. Afterward it was to time to clean her up and take a few pictures.

I'll plead the fifth Randy but in my defense I just came off a eight day show run with @Achto ☠️ 🏴‍☠️... Saw those Rob ...thanks

Buckrancher's wife Joe makes them, you should know that Jim

My first thought would be a farrier's tool - used to pry old horseshoes off when re-shoeing a horse? (an actual live horse, not a wheel horse, of course!) Edit: But then again..... I could see it being used to re-shoe a wheel horse too....

Surely not an expert, but FWIW my stingy, penny-pinching alter ego says “if it’s still working and seems like it’ll do the the job, keep it!” 😁

A post on the baffle that I made for one of my stacks.

What that 73 no name should look like. I this one for a franky. Had a rebuilt motor that was never fired! Only a three speed but not a deal breaker

This might be the closest I’ve gotten to building a muffler I guess. Cut and convoluted washers welded into a tube system hushed it quite a bit.

Huh… didn’t even see that warning. I stopped chewing on tire tubes a few years back so I’m good

The 14" bore by 14" stroke produces 150hp and 5000 yes 5000 ft lbs of torque, I'm quite sure it would not even know that 60" deck was attached to it. Bad part might be that the deck would not extend out past the rear wheel, or the front wheels for that matter. BTW at 5000 ft lbs of torque, this gives the Case 150hp steam tractor the highest factory torque rating of any tractor ever produced to date.

I'll throw a few of my pic's up. First up this little Avery. This Rat Rod / doodle bug was quite interesting. Really liked the rare engine that was used in it. A great cut away display of a threshing machine. It was powered by small gas engine for slow speed movement. Another builder reaching for the extreme. There were a lot of really nice Case displays. One that caught my eye was this Case automobile. A pic of the 150hp Case steam traction engine hooked on to an eliminator.

Very cool. One question - Can it handle a 60" WH mower deck?

Always a fav show of mine and this year no different. I joined last year as a member of the club and did abit of work on the grounds. Next year maybe abit more as I ease into it. This year they had the BIG 150 Case brought in. More on the history of it later but they lay claim to the biggest steamer in North America. Lots of it on FB for you FBers. So story has it ther was none remaining out of nine or so built but a privateer copied a remaining boiler. Got the orginal drawings from Case and built one in his garage. Well maybe not his garage but had to buy a machine shop and a foundry to build it. @Wild Bill 633 help me out here on the factuals. More show pics to follow... Club says about 4000 to come in through the gate all weekend on an average show... this year hopefully 4-5000 a day for Case feature.

There is an Amish community here in Pennsyltucky that has a part time "dentist" that works cheap, I think the only tool he has is a Channelock.

My dentist has one of those.

Chisel used to clean up the bottom of a blind mortise?

Search for Dorman 85668, you will find prices from $3.43 and up. The contacts are plain brass, so use an anti-oxidant like NO-OX ID. Be sure to cut the connector strip on the bottom side just like the original. There is a cover for the fuse block here.

That’s one of my favorite words. I’ve worked it into conversations at work several times. My penchant for sesquipedalianism often results in floccinaucinihilipilification of my thoughts. It’s one of my abstruse perseverations. steve

Got me - some type of prying or lifting tool - the center of the radius shows wear where it was bucked up against a fixed object......

Because of how I wanted the muffler to sit the intake into the muffler is pretty close to the exit. So I gutted the muffler and made diverters and baffles to direct gases towards the rear then back towards the front and exit. I wished I took pictures as I was building but I got in the zone and just went with it

Nope didn't get a good look at that. Appreciated the concept, kinda fell short on the finish work though.

As long as they are not loose or stiff use em. The fact that they are greaseable probably saved them

According to PartsTree, the Kohler 45 015 09-S head is listed for either the K341 or the M16

My feeling is that Wheel Horse researched, tested, and developed mufflers that they thought were the best design for a particular model at the time. I really do prefer the Nelson's on my C-series. Unfortunately, that muffler's no longer available. If they were to be reproduced again at a reasonable price, I would buy a couple.

I found a piece of 2” aluminum tubing to slide inside the heavy pipe that holds the fender on. A couple bolts here and there and a spit shine and it’s ready for Thursday’s show!

wallfish you been hanging around out there?.

The square pan seat and oil bath air cleaner are worth it. So #2 and possible #3 within a week. I’m going to have to keep an eye out that you stay on your end of the state. Not that I haven’t put on a few miles rustling tractors.

Just some off the cuff ride around shots.

Mick, it is always hard to let go of our pets. We didn’t have any pets for quite a while because it was so hard when we had to make those kind of decisions. I’m sorry you and your family went through this.

Not like I prefer to stick up for Uncle Jim, but I didn’t know that either Randy!

Sorry, Mick.... it's never easy to let them go. It's like a curse, that our furry best friends don't live nearly as long as we do.

Lost our little Lasa Apso Charlie this morning. He was 16 and had a few health issues. But he was still enjoying life until some kind of stroke hit in the early hours. Emergency vet advised euthanasia and we took that option. So tough on us but Charlie was in distress and I could not allow that. He was our lovely little snow pup, white as snow when we got him as a puppy.

Working on my next two victims....

I know what I could use it for. Removing patio blocks or bricks from the ground. Maybe fixing paving bricks in the old days when they had brick roads...or even cobble stones.

The only way to fix that is to split and open up the trans. The axle needs to slide through the differential gear and then the snap ring is put on it to retain the axle from sliding out. Having a loose snap ring inside that trans could cause havoc as the old one must still be inside there. @stevasaurus has a bunch of info and videos in the transmission section to help you out. Best to look through them an familiarize yourself before beginning. It's also going to be helpful for anyone answering your questions if you can tell us the model of the tractor. There's a plethora of different WH transmissions.

What do you use to scrape out the bottom of your mortise holes?

Looks like an old-style manhole lid pry bar, but i'm thinking too short...

I would just clean that old u joint up, check for wear, regrease and ride it. As long as all the bearings look good will probably last as long as most of the new stuff.

@Pullstart greasable fittings are good , make sure you you have a green grease flush out of seal areas ,verify smooth solid function , would also give that , center carrier bearing rubber contact areas , some super lube , lubricant , also lube the center mount bolt threading . thats what i would do , pete

Don’t you have a winch on one of your tractahs? Winch it as far as you can get it, put something under the wheels and reposition. Winch again..

to the from PeeAaa. Nice 520H. You may want to move the belt in to the larger pulley on the PTO. Spin those blades on that 48"er a little faster for a nicer cut. No sweat for the P220 Onan. Plenty of advice on here on ways to keep that rear cylinder from overheating.