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Thinking you're 23. Realizing you're 53. Guessing tomorrow will bring on more pain.

When I semi- restored my 1984 Work Horse GT-1600 and my 1994 520H I used Rustoleum Regal Red in a spray can on the 520H, and I believe Rustoleum Smoke Gray on the Work Horse. I did not clear coat. 1. I was going for darn good, not perfect. 2. I will be using them. They will get scratched. 3. They will get washed every so often but, they will not be left out in the weather. I think they look pretty good for a $140 520H, and a free Work Horse. I did have the wheels powder coated Gloss White… I just like white wheels. On some white works, others not… to !!!

Hey Dan! Let me know tomorrow if you need this thread moved to the bumps and bruises section

Love those pics up above! Got this ol girl moving under her own power on Saturday! Plenty of adjustments and finishing touches, but the shakedown was pretty much a success!

Had a @Pullstart moment did we?

I'm just gonna say... oh balls...

Added some color. Still have to square up the one on the right and build frames for them.

I know that the North Wilkesboro speedway had a Wheel Horse dealer billboard.

Amazon anywhere from $25 and up DB Electric about $35....all claim one year guarantee. I have had a couple of cheapies that failed fairly quickly. The return hassle is not worth it. I pay more about $70 from my local starter generator guy. (Who admits that during COVID he had a hard time getting good ones) but if his fail I just drive over and he will replace it...

I used Rustoleum IH Red and acetone with a hardener and you could move the part in less then an hour. I did wait a day or so before putting them back together. I fixed three of the worst damaged places and painted over a lot small dents. I looked on youtube at several places on how to mix the paint, everyone was doing something different. I got my mixing cup and started poring got to 4 so I looked at the cup and picked 4,2,2. I had two types of hardner her and couldn't fine the one I wanted. the one I was found was Omni MH 284 (Undercoat hardener). I was ready to paint so I used it. I got a textured finish but it hid all the small dents down each side of the hood.and a long shallow crease down the center.

Tim's tractors don't just look good in pictures. They look like "new" in person, and the Work Horse at least (I didn't drive the 520) drives like new too. No rattles, squeaks, nothing. The steering is tight, the clutch has no slop. Makes me think that is what a new machine was like at a dealership back in the old days.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes fellas. Was a good day. Homemade pizza 🍕 with my sister for supper!

Some more sandblasting and primer. Blasting. I obviously need some better dust extraction. Blasted and degreased. Zinc primer is on.

I was also walking and measuring the barn roof for steel. I took a moment to appreciate the beauty of the land!

Yesterday, I checked my food plots and was amazed at the size of the turnips! The water hole is proving to keep itself full with all the rain we’ve been getting, and the vegetation is filling in as well.

It's Monday, but that's close enough. Had a couple out getting some fresh air today.

Got some fresh paint on a set of wide and narrow rims!

NEVER GIVE UP !!!!

Next week, Rylee starts her first public school day in 7 years of home school. I was signing her up for wrestling team stuff, handing in her sports physical and whatnot last Wednesday, and she decided she should join the football team. They welcomed her as the school’s only girl player, and tonight was pictures. I’m not a football fan. She never has. Proud dad tonight, walking to pictures with her Marine uncle (last day home on leave from base) and her big sister. He was the quarterback of his team, and now she’s a running back here. Though I kind of resented the majority of players in my school, I’m excited for the days she gets to wear her game jersey to school to walk the halls with pride!

I agree. I didn’t drive them, but I know someone who did.

Well guys it's home got new fuel lines put on it. Changed the oil. It needs to run a bit but has a surge so going to work that out.

thanks for all the tips and after I posted this I started making a list which covered most of the above.. thanks for the steps and one lesson learned is not to leave it outside for a night again..

Will do. I plan to have plenty of vodka & tomato juice to get me through the morning.

Not a @Pullstart moment . No bandages , or SWHMBO shaking head or giving the look..

Dry it out... Blow it out... Sunshine... Try again...

Note to defensemen on opposing teams: "Be afraid... be very afraid"

This old Kohler service manual covers the generator and regulators.

Well, labor involved in the asphalt job, it was a $32k deal I think. Materials for the steel were $12k. Of course there will be other costs, but a great deal considering I don’t believe in the integrity of shingles, period. They are set up for failure eventually. Steel may age, but will still do the job.

Storm damage on the other side, and hail damage all around. There is a certain amount of stone impact sights per 10’x10’ square that qualifies. Note, not every insurance policy is the same, from company to company. Ours is 6 hits per square, some are up to 14 per square. Our insurance paid us a sum to get it replaced. I opted to do it myself and upgrade from shingles to steel.

Don’t be so modest! Those machines are wonderful restorations indeed!

Once installed, do check your voltage at the battery at half to full throttle. It should be 13.8 to 14 volts. There was a post a while back how to adjust the output.

Clear coat only lasts one of two ways: 1- Your machine is stored indoors out of the sun with rattle can clear. Otherwise you're lucky to get 2-3 years out of it. 2- You have high end automotive clear (there are "cheap" grades too, see #1) applied to a solid base coat. Even then the skill of the painter will play heavily with the results. As has been said already, paint without clear can be compounded periodically to restore if it fades or oxidizes.

Except for the logo, I love it. Most comfortable seat(s) I have. Thought I could remove the logo, but it's embroidered. Got a unlabled one on the 523-H.

Happy Birthday you old Coot

Yeah right! That's why we're going to vote you in as the Captain of the factory correctness police! Your first assignment is to go over these. Let me know your assessment of anything out of place.

You guys are brutal. While it's possible that the clerk's inability to make change is a harbinger of the collapse of society, there may be other things at play. Maybe they were nervous. Maybe they were having a bad day. Maybe they were new and were still learning how to do the job efficiently. Maybe their manager stuck them on the register with insufficient training. That's pretty common in this day's "see one, do one, teach one" environment. I took a LOT of math during my education and yet I don't remember being taught how to make change. Maybe it happened sometime in elementary school as a means of removing some of the abstraction from arithmetic, but I don't recall it being any sort of formal lesson to learn for a career behind a cash register. I would think it's more the responsibility of the clerk's manager or the store's proprietor to make sure the clerk is competent (or is capable of becoming competent) at the activity than it is for schools to teach this particular skill. After that, it's like anything else that takes practice and repetition and the learning curve can be different for each person. A huge chunk of my job is figuring out how to set up and "do the math" behind what gets churned out of our factory. This involves easy stuff like addition/subtraction/multiplication/algebra/geometry/trigonometry but there is a lot of "real math" in a day too. And yet I still have to take a few moments and think through how much change I am going to get back when I pay cash at the fast food place. I'm just not practiced in that developed skill. As I've gotten older I've often fallen into the trap of thinking that the younger generations aren't as good as we were when we were their age. But as I watch my 16 year old daughter - who is way smarter than I ever was - make some of the dumbest mistakes imaginable I've come to realize that as a kid I was undoubtedly a complete idiot too. And at a lot of things, I'm still that same idiot. I might be unique in this. I feel that the most indelible learning comes from pain and struggle. More politely, this would be called trial and error. Thankfully it usually happens when we are young and our brains are malleable, but it sometime happens when we're older and less flexible and nimble. If someone is making an effort it's better to have patience than to share in their frustration. Even when it means they struggle giving us our $2.08 back (which I'll freely admit would have flummoxed me). I find that I lament a lot of things about society these days that are certainly analogous to the difficulties we see in making change as a cashier. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation seem to have taken a vacation from the written word. General civility and acceptance seem to be in short supply. But I think a lot of this is just perception and things today - with some exceptions in the political realm - aren't all that different than they were decades ago. Steve

ummmm that’d be me!

Great to hear from you and your continued progress. Prayers for a full recovery. Tell you Physical Therapist that some wrench motion exercises would be very motivating.

The old Wheel Horse dealer decal adds a lot to the history of the Wheel Horse. Here is some of mine. 1) Ray's Lawn Mower Shop, he was a Wheel Horse dealer for a long time and had tons of parts. The dealership got sold to a younger man who deals in used Jeep parts now. I bought several tractors from Ray's and even donated one. (It was a Bolens) 2) Innerst Auto Co. located in south central in the town of Jacobus, Pennsylvania 3) Paul Sawyer's Lawn Equipment in Mechanicsville, Virginia. This used to be Pohlig's who opened up selling Wheel Horses in 1961 and then sold the business to Paul Sawyer who used to own the Richmond International Speedway (NASCAR track). On the wall of his office was a picture of him surrounded by little pictures one of which is of me and one of my Wheel Horses. Both Pohlig and Sawyer were truly nice guy Wild Bill in Richmond VA

Some more detail work. Got a free afternoon and spent it grinding filing and priming the grille and upper grille for the mini IH 1468.

US fanny pack UK bum bag US onesie UK romper suit US jello UK jelly US pinkie UK little finger One that tickles me with Australians is the word ROOT. To them it is really rather a reference word for the sex act. One of our best cricketers is called Joe Root which must sound odd to our kangaroo riding friends. Also if I was looking for something I'd be rooting around in the drawer. The image that must conjour up in an Auzzies mine. Finally on the upside down people, I saw a piece on their television news about a hotel room that had been trashed by wild birds that had flown in and messed everywhere. The lady whos room had been messed up was pretty upset. The newsman said I wonder if its the first time she's had a cockatoo in her bedroom. Think about it.....

I say you chaps, there's nothing wrong with the way we Englishmen speak. After all is said and done we invented the language, it was you folk who messed about with it and came up with hood for bonnet and trunk for boot. Not to mention the Australians who have butchered and mispronounced our beautiful language. You should try some of our dialects, Yorkshire (my particular one) can be pretty opaque, even to English folk. "A wa gunnar pop darn to't footy field to watch raggy lads lakin but it were rainin so I took dog off" Translates to.. " I was intending to visit the local football park to see my team playing but due to inclement weather I decided not to go." We watch a lot of US cop shows and are fascinated by all the jargon and abbreviations. We use a lot of TLA's in police work (three letter abbreviations) but you guys go nuts at it; POTUS foxed me for some time. Any more requests to decipher English into Americanese then just let fly. Mick

A little late to this party, sorry. I'll get some pics of my trucks and post them for you guys. For now though, here's a pic of my freshly painted and buffed 1966 Chevelle. Just got to put it back together and it's finished for this year. I'd like to have it in one show before Winter. The interior is new and it is powered by a 454 BBC with a Muncie 4 speed. Runs great !!

UK - Old Fart US-Waldo

I can only assume this is probably where the term came from for the more modern Snowmobile....? Super cool setup. I've always loved the videos of those out for tail rides.

Happy Birthday, Jim!!

It sure was hot, but ohhh was it ever good! Good thing Poos Poos makes little poops, that shovel was MINT like a one owner round hood driven to church by Granny on Sundays!

.......'er in my experience....most young employees......

I used both an angle grinder with a cut off wheel and a reciprocation saw with a 18 tooth good quality metal blade. Used a fern-co ribber connector.

It’s a great day to check the food plots. Jackie, the ‘47 Pond Lever Steer felt like stretching his legs! We had a couple inches of much needed rain yesterday and the clover, radish, turnips and rape seem to be flourishing!