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Hi Wheel Horse friends! I haven’t forgotten the best internet community bar none. I’ve been preoccupied with a truck I bought two years ago and to say it has caused pain, heartache and at times joy would be the understatement of a lifetime. But alas, it is almost done. Hope you like it!

315-8 with a 42”sd….

Almost done.

Lol till you have a door on a eve side blocked and everyone forgot how to use a shovel but you!

A little more progress today. Welded up the axle. Still need to clean up all the welds. I also machined the axle pivot pin sleeve and cut the hole to mount it in the axle.

Cleared a little brush today...

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Those should do great, I looked at them but the largest I could find were 16 x 650 x 8. chose these 19 x 7 x 8.I'm real happy with mine.

By the way, this was last fall to give an idea of what I’ve been doing… IMG_4095.mov

Well. This is my haul for the week. I have already made pudding and jam. My bride made fig and walnut pie. Open for suggestions. I made fig rolls with fig, water chestnut, beef liver, wrapped in prosciutto and pan fried. Tasty but not well received by my bride.

Two words, Bad Ass!

Well for $125 and a trip to staten island. Id say its coming along. The piece of stainless steel that she came with for a hood had to shape up and give sharper edges and trim for air cleaner and exhaust. Just need to strip it finish the cut edges and paint it almond.

Hey @JCM, what's that on the front of the 417?

Got 2 K 181's running today.

Same goes for solar panels, you don't want the snow to pile up and have them not producing electricity but when they warm up just a little bit the avalanche is coming. We have an array of solar panels on the second story roof of our church and a standing seam metal roof with snow/ice bars. The snow cleats on the solar panels are six inches taller than the panels and spaced six inches apart bot when the thawing begins that just breaks the snow into smaller ice bombs that go right over the bars at the edge of the roof. We have to put out drums and caution tape anytime it snows.

The house is fine, the barns will get steel. I won’t add any dams, I want it off asap. We had steel on our old house. Other than cell reception, I loved everything about it!

A table top by 4 E's custom resin and woodworking (can be found on the booky face) incorporated a large 11.75" 3d printed Wild/ Classic logo! Beautiful stuff!

Those are the reasons why that truck will be in your heart forever. The old blood sweat and tears passion of doing it. Looks great too. Those old step sides are cool trucks

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

When you have some serious work to do, it's tough to beat a well maintained 520 Wheel Horse.

It looks like the fuse is in tact as it should've burnt open at that little thin spot in the middle. Could it have been heating up at that connection because of corrosion causing an arc fault? Maybe clean those connections up? If it's cooked then I'm with Dan and would go with a modern type of fuse replacement. Or, just use "tin foil" like the old one basically was for nostalgia purposes.

First thing this morning took some scrap wood from the roof work on the abode to the tip. Though tips are called recycling depots now. Back home and reloaded the trailer with old roof tiles, some scrap metal and two 5/8th x 4' x 4' ply sections I've had doing nothing. Then up to the farm. The ply will make a new floor for the transport box. Scrap metal in the skip and tiles went to fill in a field gateway.

Give it a good bath and ask another hundred. 😄

Yep... only drawback is snow/ice slides. Cell service sucked to begin with but steel roof didn't help. Still need a land line.

For the record... We went with a metal roof specifically for snow removal. No heavy weight setting up there. No ice jams.

Looks pretty good Kevin! Just one question... What's for dinner tonight?

SWEEET! nice work. when i was in high school my first truck was a 65 chevy fleetside long bed. straight six, 3 on the tree. great memories! i like the wolfs head oil sign too. i remember that brand. regards mike

That looks real nice!

Trail cam at Pullstart Stables...

Put new blades on the C-145 36RD deck and promptly proceeded to dull them. Sticks and stones may break my bones but do worse to new blades. Hats off to Brian @76c12091520h for getting me a NOS set. Check out the box! Nothing works like a horse!

Thinking of asking 500 for it but might be shooting myself in the foot! Ran 3 years ago. Sorry about the pictures but "the help" is afraid of spiders.

I was up on the roof last week measuring for steel. I ran across a couple things that seemed like they were a bit out of place. I’m guessing the mouse was dropped by a bird. The clay, I wonder how long ago it was blasted out of the sky.

My old grill was staining my patio with rust, it worked fine but the lower cabinet was rusting. So out with the old and in with the new! Used my C-141 8-speed to carry the old one with a free/ it works sign on it, up to the paved road where it will be gone by lunchtime!

Most of us can not afford a copper roof, but here is a testament to metal roofing. A St. Mary’s Cathedral, known as Hildesheim, had a copper metal roofing system installed on it in 1280 A.D.; the same exact roof is still there to this day.

Mount for a front tine rake @ineedanother

There isn't enough material on the planet!

So what you're saying is once Trina gets time

Had a long day today made a 500+ road run and came home with two new to me wheel horse, they were in the same family from the get go. This all started because I was looking for a replacement steering wheel for my Grandson's model 400. So I have what looks like a 1960 400 with no motor in it But a Nice Clean wheel along with the shift patter plate and throttle/choke handles, Ser# 38062. 2nd looks like a 1960 400 with a tecumseh with electric start and pull start , and it runs and no smoke, Got a mower deck in good shape for it's age, got a push blade and mounting parts for it all so is in good shape for it's age, then got a box with odd and ends that will come in handy at some point. It's patter plate has Ser. # 28057 and only the throttle handle . After seeing what I was getting for the money I would have gone farther. Now to get things cleaned up and stored away till I get a need. So I have 3 cub cadets and 3 wheel horses and my wife hasn't put her foot down YET. Joe

Here’s my things in a roof story. Years ago I was brush hogging some woods with my Ford 545-C for a customer when all of a sudden there was a BANG and the brush hog started shaking violently. I thought I hit something or wrapped up a cable? I got off and looked underneath and noticed that one of the blades was missing! Then I noticed a slice in the side of the brush hog! I figured that the blade couldn’t be too far away after that so I looked and looked but couldn’t find it. There was also a gentleman with a weed wacker with a blade on it doing around the trees. He helped me look to no avail. So I had to get new blades and go back to finish. Probably over a year goes by and I run into the guy that owns the neighboring house, he’s a friend of mine. He says “Hey wasn’t that you that brush hogged my neighbor’s woods a while ago?” I told him that yes it was me, why? He then told me that he found a blade stuck in the roof of his house 😳 right above his kitchen sink window while cleaning his gutters. He said that it just tucked itself under one of the tabs and didn’t do any damage. He pulled it out and kept it to show me! His house was probably 80-100 feet away from where I was working. To think there was a man working nearby when this happened! Since then I will not allow anyone anywhere near where this type of activity is taking place. I’m glad nobody got hurt! And that’s my story!

I had a Silver Wing GL 500 for a couple of years. Poor mans Gold Wing I called it.

I cleaned the 42" RD last week and tackled the 48" SD today. Little more work to drag the 48"er out from under the 417A. Sure glad I have hydraulic lifts to put it back on. Did the Greasy Pete thing to the mule drive bearings. I know, it's not Lucas, but it is green , tacky, and high temperature.

Jim, its good to know there are others out there who are as gifted as I am to dull a new set of wheel horse mowing blades in record time !! Carry on my brother Well done.

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

My dad bought a 1947 Pontiac coupe in 1960. The car was $750 . It had low mileage and was painted red underneath and on all the wheels. It was a display car in the 1947 Chicago auto show. He owned that car from 1960 to 1968. My mother drove this to work for several years. The thing I remember most is that we drive this with a trailer to Portland, Oregon and back to Gary, Indiana in 1961 to visit my mother’s sister’s family. On the way out we had water bags hanging from the bumpers (they had real chrome heavy bumpers back then), extra fan belts and plenty of tools. We camped every night on the way west with a 9x12 tent that had a kitchen attachment and front porch! The tent ⛺️ got set up quicker and straighter as we made our way west. The 1947 Pontiac was a tank. The seat in back was big even with four kids in it. My brother and two sisters had plenty of room and yes the center vent on the dash and hood opened up plenty of air flow going down the road with no air conditioning. Going up the Teton mountains west of Jackson Hole, Wyoming the gear shift handle came off in my dads hand making a turn on a hairpin curve. The pin holding the shifter handle had sheared off! We quickly turned into a logging road turn off. Dad got out his tool box and found a screwdriver that fit into the short flange the shifter had fallen out of! That’s how he drove it the rest of the way to Portland, Oregon before he had it repaired at a gas station ( the kind this did more auto repair than sold gas )! Not many pictures of the Pontiac but here are a couple. The middle two pics were taken opposite each other !