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Another new to me toy this weekend was a Green Mountain Grills “Davey Crockett” smoker. We wired up and used the 702 cigarette lighter for a maiden voyage 6 hour smoke and managed to fit 3 racks of ribs in it. Saturday night dinners are a customary “bring a rack of ribs and a side dish” and pig out!

The grounds are huge! There is so much to see and do!

Happy 25th Anniversary Dan and Gretel! Thanks for inviting us to such a cool celebration!

I didn’t think we took many pictures Now to go through and edit all the video we took! Whew!

The show grounds are just amazing! I managed to chase the sun a bit and find a cool sunset picture.

What a cool place! “Unionville” is the show grounds, in Symco, but Unionville is physically larger than the town! It was so great to be there! My truck might have another 900 miles on the ticker, I’d have to look. We drove down through Chicago and met with the Dino to pick up this awesome 702, I dubbed “Steve-O-Two”. I mowed the patio at camp, then removed the deck and did some cleaning on it and tightened up the steering a bit.

People...

Was great to see you there.

Taylor definitely has a lot of work to do, full time job if you ask me.

I live in a Neighborhood on Lake LBJ, and have lake access through a dredged channel in my back yard. I've lived here 30 years. LBJ is a constant level (+/-6") lake built for Hydro-Electric Generation, Recreation, and later as a cooling pond for a steam electric plant. It is about an hour North of Austin, Tx. It is formed by the joining of the Texas Colorado River (not the Grand Canyon Colorado) and the 105 mile long Llano river. The area above Austin - San Antonio is known as the Texas Hill Country. The semi-arid somewhat desert looking limestone and granite hills also make it the most flash flood prone area in the US. Working at the 6 dams for 40 years, I'm still amazed at how fast a flood can build on the Llano river. After all those years working numerous floods, its just part of me to arm chair them now. Thanks to modern internet access to rain, streamflow and lake level gages. Last Monday the upper area of the Llano river at Junction and Mason had 5" to 11" of rain on top of 1-2" the previous 3 days. They are about 35 miles apart, and their gages peaked about the same time. The Mason gage rose from roughly 300 cfs to 58,000 cfs, 17 ft, in 2 hours and fifteen minutes. It rose 1 foot every 8 minutes. The Llano gage is about 30 miles below Mason and 10 miles from where the river enters lake LBJ. The area above the lake is ranch land. This flow entered lake LBJ Tuesday morning. The river bed and subsequent lake is quite wide. So the lake level never rose, but flow increased from standstill to a brisk walking speed. Two of ten floodgates were partially opened to pass this into a large storage lake (Travis). The majority of this water passed in about a day. Lake Travis is an 80 mile long 190 ft deep storage lake. It was 47 ft down and rose 7 ft. So this water was appreciated as it supplies drinking and agricultural irrigation water to central and lower central Texas. While 58,000cfs is a significant flow, back in October 2018 Lake LBJ peaked at 375,000 cfs discharge coming from both the Llano and Colorado. All 10 floodgates on LBJ were open for that one. That was the 3rd highest flow on record.

Great pictures !!! I will try to get some posted when I get home from work. I'm glad Mr. & Mrs. Pullstart were able to come the show and have a good time. My wife & I have pretty much celebrated our wedding anniversary at this show for the last 21yrs. For our 25th anniversary, we decided that we would like to renew our vows at the Unionville church on the show grounds. Kevin officiated the ceremony for us and did a most excellent job. Informal with a little humor yet staying mostly traditional. Thank you again Kevin, this meant a lot to Gretel & I.

Kevin - does that mean you, ya big lug ?? !!

I found a bed for my dump truck build. It needs a little love but has the look I want.

Got the 2nd K161 I picked last Fri. running. This one had been sitting longer. Had to un-seize the choke. It had no spark. Coil was connected backwards and I really had to clean up the points. I got it to fire but it wouldn't stay running. I finally cut loose and rebuilt the carb.

Thank you everyone. It will be a different birthday as I have been overseas for the last three weeks and I am here indefinitely since my father is not doing well. Lots to do and consider and nothing is easy or simple here. I miss the US my home.

haha, love all the commentary and suggestions. As suggested by Ed Kennell I cold bent it back in place. I used an old galvanized 6' fence post, slid it over the bent rod, and just applied force incrementally and it straightened out very nicely. No mother-in-law needed, fortunately, as she was busy 'helping' with other projects. As to the question 'what happened?' ... the chain on the rear tire apparently loosened, and as I was going up a steep asphalt hill, the chain lodged into the back of the foot platform and just drove the support rod down. Made quite the noise, took me a few seconds to realize what was happening. Thanks again for the suggestions and the jokes.

I was just gonna comment the same thing on this shirt! Definitely gotta show my wife lol

Tractors... IH was the feature...

They do show up for cheap at the auction. Maybe I'll get one for my 90th Bday. Course I'll need the DC model with camo finish and a swivel seat.

To properly clean the rear end it is best to remove the console covers, seat and rear fender then you will be able to get to most areas. Carefully inspect under the engine tins for grass buildup or rodent nests as the engine cooling depends on good air flow. You can see most of the way in by looking from the PTO side and shining a flashlight in between the tinwork and the engine block front and back. As you can see, removing some covers makes the cleanup job much better.

The tailgate has Cushman embossed on it.

Congrats to both of you on reaching this milestone. And fond good wishes with your renewed commitments. 👍 ❤️

We were super glad to make the trip! Only 860 miles on the ticker and well worth every one!

Great pics Kev n Jeff I got a few and will get them up. Didn't get any pics of Dan signing up for another 25 ... forgot my phone at camp... Maybe Cinnnndddaaayyy did. Way better show than last year and we appreciate you & Mrs. P coming all this way. Hope it was worth the it and you had a good time.

@Pullstart Did Mrs. P custom design her shirt ? Where are your scrapes and bruises ?

A vacuum pulse pump requires a flexible diaphragm inside of it in order to pulse from the difference in case pressure. That pulse is what pumps fuel through the check valves. An original pump with years of fuel (and especially ethanol) will most likely have a stiff diaphragm. Eventually it becomes stiff enough to resist the case pressure so it doesn't pulse, or pulse enough to pump fuel. The check valves inside also get dirty and don't seal as well. When the check valves don't seal the fuel will simply move back and forth inside the lines instead of only being able to move a single direction. (towards the carb) I'm not familiar with those particular pumps but they all work on the same principles. Most of those old pumps you can open up. Clean and inspect. Some you can change the diaphragm, some it's easier to just replace.

Thanks for the update. We try to keep the tractors running and the owners smiling.

A pipe over the end for leverage and some heat at the bend.

Happy Birthday @formariz, we are all glad you were born.

Ya think!? What about a PTO-driven man hoist with a remote shutdown switch?

That looks like one of @Pullstart's deluxe custom steel toed flip flop only versions... You get it for a good price?

Hung a stand in my favorite tree. Time for a new ladder also.

Excellent pictures !!! I think I saw a few that could be "Captiom This" pictures.

Sounds like it simply runs out of fuel when the carb bowl gets empty. Lack of or slow fuel supply can start at the tank. Clogged vent in cap Clogged screen on the shut off petcock Clogged petcock Dirty fuel filter Remove the fuel line at the input to the fuel pump and make sure you have a good free flowing fuel supply. If you do not, one or all of those four items may be the problem. If you do have a good fuel flow, we can then move on to checking the fuel pump and carb for problems.

Or brace it down from the ceiling, or something similar.

When he hopped off, he told me “I’m going to get one of these for my birthday. Or Christmas.” I made sure to inform his mother, so little man isn’t let down

Kevin tractors and kids are like two magnets coming togther.

Been a busy week. Our neighbor's friends hold his and her family reunions at the neighbor's house every year about this time. We open up our lake house to make extra bedrooms available. It turns out that my wife is a distant cousin to one of the families, so we have been 'adopted' into the families for this event. One couple arrives about a week ahead of the reunion to get everything ready. This fills up our schedule - tinkering with the lake house, shopping trips, community meals, card games, etc, etc. On top of that, our 50th high school reunion was this weekend with a mixer on Friday evening and the reunion on Saturday evening - about an hour drive away. We ate well all week, all of the reunions went well. Everybody is prettery well blitzed this evening. Looks like we are in for a couple of 'recovery' days.

Same problem here in PeeAaa. Only one antlered deer per hunter is permitted here but unlimited antlerless permits are available in some urban areas. The Game Commission continues to increase the quotas of antlerless permits in these areas, but it does little as hunting is not permitted in most of these areas, so vehicles are the primary control. I usually harvest one antlered and two antlerless per year. I feel part of the problem is the high cost to process a deer. When I am no longer to do my own butchering, I will probably hang up the crossbow.

So yesterday I installed the steering wheel. Today I just took a few minutes to put a little detail paint on it. Took it for a cruise .

I mainly took video, but need to go through my phone and the Mrs, and put it all together, and weed out pictures to post too.

With a 4 ' pipe , you should be able to easily cold bend that bar with 50lbs of force.

Agree with this with added notes: If the wear is on the wheel axle part of the spindle and the wheel is using bushings instead of ball bearings, then JB is just not the right answer at all. If you have ball bearings, then barely adequate. JB (or other epoxies) are hard but easily worn in places with intense friction and spindle axles have a LOT of friction. If the wear is on the part that pivots within the front axle, again, welding is the way--JB is just not going to hold up for long. Also, if there has been wear on the spindle, there has likely also been wear on the opposite part--wheel bushings or bearings, or the front axle. Be sure to look and consider

I’ll trade any ice cream for your company any time Kevin.

I just thought I would share this info from an old post to members who may have one. I found this info from TT interesting since I Owen a 1067. It was a farm tractor all of its life of hard work but it still has some good life in it. It is apart now for winter project clean and go thru. I hope you enjoy the post.

I enjoyed visiting with you as well Dick. I didn't see where your stroke has slowed you down much. Maybe limited you some but I felt you were doing very well. I see the oncologist and the surgeon on Wednesday. Hopefully they will release me to start playing iny shop again. We didn't contribute too much to the economy maybe a couple lunches for someone if they aren't too hungry. I don't worry about speed traps anymore I learned a long time ago it's not the speeding ticket that hurt it's the insurance premiums.

Me too. I plan on doing that this fall.

I can't honestly say I know enough about a CH to comment there. A little may be enough... or not. These NEED replacement by now. There are no known chemicals that reduce the damage done by ethanol to the rubber hoses. Your original 28 year old fuel lines are just not able to withstand the degradation caused by alcohol in the gasoline. An old saying I learned years ago. You can't do proper diagnostics until ALL maintenance is done. We're at a point where our machines need to be properly maintained repaired and retrofitted to using systems that can better resist the negative effects of ethanol. Is your pump bad? Maybe. Your fuel hoses could be cracked just enough that they're allowing air IN but not yet letting fuel OUT.