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Well I'm befuzzled as to what's going on. Let's add more confusion. We had a different flavor in the cabinet with the same bottle. Maybe a regional thing? Dang! You guys were getting me excited thinking I might have an oil producing tractor. I was already throwing stuff in the back of my Ranger getting set to move to Beverly Hills.

Today’s letter is “R” realizing rapid revisions result in rewards Rock Island responded Rock Island Tractor During the final quarter of the eighteenth-century millions of acres of land was put into production so demand for plows was tremendous. Plow companies by the dozens popped up looking for a piece of the action. For quality manufacturers like Rock Island plow prosperity was assured. Rock Island saw a need to diversify and broaden its product lines due to market saturation in plow manufacturing. The 1900-1912 period saw a wide expansion of the Rock Island product lines. In addition to the usual tillage implements, they added such diverse items as manure spreaders, litter carriers, and other machines. Existing lines were broadly expanded; the 1912 implement repair catalog was a big book of over 400 pages. Rock Island began looking for a tractor to add to the line in 1913 and began selling a few Heider tractors that year. The following year Rock Island entered a contract with Heider to sell their Model B tractor. In January 1916 Rock Island bought out the tractor department of Heider Manufacturing Company and moved production to Rock Island, and retained Henry Heider as a consultant to their tractor division. Earlier models had friction drives allowing seven different speeds. Moving the engine drum forward and the tractor went forward – the further ahead, the faster it went. Slide the drum backward, and the tractor moved backward. Neutral was in the middle. It could pull a 3-bottom plow and 10-foot tandem disk and has a 4-cylinder Waukesha 323 CID engine. Henry Heider resigned his position with Rock Island in 1922, but the tractor line carried the Heider name until 1927 when Rock Island introduced its 18-35 gear-drive tractor. Rock Island’s 18-35 appeared in 1927. Its robust unit-frame design carried a Buda four-cylinder engine. Two years later the G-2 tractor was introduced. In this series the 15-25 was a kerosene-powered model, and the 18-30 used gasoline fuel. Except for this difference, the two G-2 models were the same. In 1937 J.I. Case Company purchased Rock Island Plow Company. This gave Case additional manufacturing capacity and additional implement lines.

Bob's got a oil mine! Almost as good as a philosopher's stone!

The only person who has gone to Hawaii to "work" more than you is Steve Douglas in the old "My Three Sons " TV show!

For you Ed, you drink the oil. It'll keep you regular...no, that's Castor oil, not Castrol oil.

I didn't read the entire thread, but should I be using the sugar free or the regular Juicy Juice in my Onans? I guess the sugar free is best for the Eatons, right?

Was able to mow for the first time with our 314H. Still need to get a new belt for the pto to deck, but it mowed great and after adjusting the carb again, it ran pretty good 👍.

Copper is the active ingredient in products that are sold to clear tree roots from drain pipes.

Seeing that bottle of used oil reminded me of a customer we had at Napa. We had to accept used oil for recycling because we sold oil. We had a 55 gal drum out back. when full or DC would pick it up and drop off an empty. One Saturday this guy who was a HS teacher comes in and buys a couple of quarts of oil for his mower, boat and tiller. He says, where can I get rid of the old oil? I tell him we can take it. Few hours pass and he's back. He has COUNT THEM!!! 65 1 qt. bottles of used oil. I'm like WT...........? I have to dump all of them then haul those empty bottle to the dumpster! I sell him a 1 gallon self contained with a funnel used oil container. I tell him when it's full bring it in and I'll dump it and hand it back to him. About a year goes buy and another Saturday here he comes with his full oil container AND ABOUT ANOTHER 15 QUART BOTTLES OF USED OIL!!!

Okay, so you piqued my interest. Here is a Juicy Juice bottle from my fridge. It's not full, so I poured the contents into a pitcher. Then I took a 1 quart pitcher and filled it with water. I poured the contents twice into the J/J bottle. As you can see, there is room to spare. My conclusion is, never give up that engine. Its making oil.

I had an opportunity to play with this mower a little bit today. Had no spark so I pulled the flywheel & cleaned the points. Still no spark. Pulled the flywheel AGAIN ( what a dumb design ) & cleaned the points. This time I used a multi-meter to ensure that they had good continuity to ground when closed. FINALLY obtained spark. . Cleaned the carb. Fixed the recoil so that it would retract the rope all the way in. Pulled the rope several times, flooded it a few times and then found the correct choke & throttle settings to get it running. It runs pretty good for a Techy, drives well, would even mow if I could figure out how to adjust the deck belt. Transmission has some weird aspects. When in neutral you can not push the mower, push the clutch in and you can easily push it where ever you want. With the engine running you can put it in neutral, let the clutch out and the tractor goes no where as it should. Now back to my search for a service manual for a model #3970 so that I can figure out how to adjust the belts.

Was Cruising the spring steam show today. The spring show is a throttled back version of the show in the fall but none the less I did get a few pics. General Lee was there again and I noticed it had the shows cast autographed on the sun visor. Some Wheel Horses lever steers Wheel Horses

My neighbor lady decided to try hand at planting a tomato this year. She was told that if she took about a 4 foot stick, wrapped copper wire around the stick, stuck it in the ground near the tomato that some how it would produce a full lush plant with great fruit production. Her husband was telling me about this wonderful scheme. I told Joe that here in Missouri we call that a lightening rod! Apparently, Joe told Cindy and today he told me that when the weatherman forecast a lightening storm earlier this week, she took her copper wound stick inside! Not sure if she protecting her stick or the tomato.

You really have to chew it good before swallowing, then it will kill the tree roots!

coasters and keychains

Make sure Granny's chair is bolted down good!

It's the difference between weight and volume. They switched from one to the other when the Queen passed away.

Selling an 856 tractor only. It runs really smooth, and the transaxle is solid. Has the original Wheel Horse branded front tires. Has a rear quick hitch for snow blade/tiller Can be delivered to the Big Show in Arendtsville, PA for a $100 deposit or prepaying. 300 firm Video of it running

Ignition component over heating then open? After cool down starts again.

@Heatingmanthanks... its a few old huge lylac bushes with some kind of vines mixed in. It sorta evolved over the last decade of me trimming and then put the 4x4s in. I just used left over stuff i had lying around ...treated lumber and screwed rough cut to it. It actually has a metal ròof plan thats below the canopy and above the rough cut slabs. It's not close to being done, but its intended as being a little outdoor pool house, but i have too many tractors for a 10x20 shed lol. Not a bad problem to have tho

Forgot the tin foil strips and metal colander hat...

I'm making a lot of progress installing my SMS-50 sickle bar on my 953 I still need to figure out how to hook up the lift I used a 1/2 inch steel plate for the rear support and a 3/4 inch steel axle I found on amazon. I also used 3/4 inch locking collars on the axle at the front and rear and also on either side of the sickle bar frame. Am I doing okay so far? I'm open to comments and suggestions good or bad. I'm using the outer pulley on the PTO because that is the slowest speed and I read in another post if it runs too fast I can blow out the wobble box.

@cleat Well what if I told you that I had one off a GT-1800? 😂 You’re welcome to it but unfortunately getting the engine out of where it is now and getting it in my shop to get the pulley off is something that I don’t have time for now. If you’re not in a hurry, like another month or so I would be glad to help you out.

Took a 551 steering link to Bill the Welder and got the oblong holes repaired. Cleaned the old dried out grease from the pivot bolts and added new grease fittings.

Me an Greasy Pete coat our mowing decks, spare tire wheels, boat trailer springs and the crabgrass in our stone roads.

Lemme get my shoes off you wanna do math over 10 Bob... Like your idea tho. I would just drain the old oil into my recycle jug but then mark a clean juice bottle with the amount needed to F on the stick. Fill the clear bottle to the mark then to the engine. I buy oil by the pail 20 tractors to feed ya know! No more add check ... add check ...add check without over filling. You know the only goal I have in life is a oil change without spilling a drop! Then again draining old to a known oz jug might give one an idea of oil consumption in those smokers.

Could be a vacuum lock in the gas tank. Try opening the gas cap when it quits & see if it will run again. Could also be over heating, remove the engine tins and clean any debris out of the cylinder cooling fins.

I got more then I paid for it ! Then again I got it for free !

I represent that...

Always good to be prepared in the event a burnout gets out of hand!

Uhm... buy 4 's of course...

That’s a new fandangled pea shooter! Chick pea, pea gravel, etc. load it, point it, run it over, hope for the best. It’s like the ole’ saying… ready, fire, aim!

Helping out building the fence. Pretty sweet to just haul all the tools and concrete around in the trailer. Then just park it in the garage till I get back to it. life is busy, so going on a month or 2 now working on the fence in spare time.

Finally found manuals for this thing. So to adjust the belt for the deck - it's as easy as turning the white Insta-Hitch knob located on the front of the mower.

Rear discharge deck. Click on the fuzzy picture of each to see the belts Side discharge same belt as rear discharge

Actually Bob, the nearer you are to the equator, the larger things get and the more things weight. I'm surprised you did not have an issue when you lived in Florida?? It could have been the "Peninsula Theory". You guys have probably never heard of that.

Sent ya a message….

The chart below will give you the information you need, it is a free download.

That joint end into an adjacent slab is almost a guarantee crack off the end of the cut... Bingo.

Our concrete guy put control joints in our driveway. Some were tooled and between the tooled joints he saw cut one to split the space between the tooled ones. I think it’s like rolling dice- sometimes they work great, other times not. As you can see in the pic, we did not have 100% success. Most of them are working so far. I checked the tooled joints and the cut joints every day after it was first poured. In a few days they were already doing their job. We did put fiber in it, no rebar, no wire… The pic shows where the driveway went from double wide to single wide going towards the road. The cut mark coming in from the left “split” the wide area.

Parts are slowly starting to come out of the E-tank and getting cleaned up as time allows. I have one side plate clean (you can see it in the top left of the pic below). I love the E-tank for cleaning old rusty parts. I tried for a bit to remove the bearings, but wasn't getting anywhere. I decided I should order a blind hole bearing puller instead of screwing around with rigging something up, so that's on the side burner for a few days. I also made a change to my E-tank yesterday. You can see from the pic above that I was using some old mower blades as the sacrificial anodes and the orange sludge is disgusting.....as are the mower blades when I pulled them to scrape the rust off. I had read that graphite rods work better as the anodes as they are highly conductive and won't leave a sludgy mess. So I bought a set off the jungle site and rejigged the E-tank to get the mower blades out and graphite rods in. This is the result after a few hours. Bubbling like crazy, yet still nice and clean. I should have dumped the tank and started with a fresh solution, but I was being lazy and reused what was in there. I'm very curious to get out there at some point today and see how things went overnight and see what the graphite rods look like. I have read that they will deteriorate like any sacrificial anode, but at a much slower rate. I guess time will tell.

@cafoose @Pullstart I'm not sure of the differences in the SMS-50 vs the one I rebuilt but here's my tread with some great input from various members. Maybe there's something to help. Sickle Bar Finally - Implements and Attachments - RedSquare Wheel Horse Forum

Really digging that open front shed in the background.

Thanks. Just wooden Poker chips.😁 I was thinking about making some coasters. May try that tomorrow.

More work done on the new workshop. Ceiling lights in. Back end wall on.

We are here to help as needed, glad you found us.

Pulled the left rear to try and repair a slow leak. I was a bit surprised to find the logo on the filter. Even more surprised to find it on the three new OEM filters I purchased. Not as cool as @Bill D 's red but still cool.