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found another , empty parking lot , not far , walked it for a bout a half hour , also had the raised post bases that you want , for leg / hip flexor stretch , that you want to regularly engage , similar to standing hamstring stretch with step ,https://www.hingehealth.com/resources/articles/hamstring-stretch/ , that lets you explore your range of motion , both legs , your body tired response to that , is telling you of positive effect . all of of my daily related walking's result into a solid nap . my hartford healthcare , print sheets , show you how , initially difficult , but daily gains have brought me here . also floor / mattress exercises are a regular for me . also prefer ice gel packs , to pills , have a regular step / by step , I do . when I get out of my car now , its entirely different , ease of motion , always pick up on any change / good / bad , reference , then kick your self in the a-- , pete

I’m one of those guys that paid up for a nice 420-LSE, didn’t overpay but I believe I paid what it was worth. As a matter of fact it really wasn’t for sale, but the original owners widow wanted it to go to someone who would take care of it the way her husband did. She knew what it was worth and we both agreed on a fair price. Personally I never thought I’d own an LSE, but when one becomes available to me with 17 original hours and it’s signed by the man himself Cecil Pond I knew I had to do whatever I had to to make it happen. I sold some things that I wasn’t using anymore, and worked a little harder to come up with the balance. Would I lay out that kind of money again? Probably not, but I am a Wheel Horse collector so to me this is the pinnacle of my collection. I too see some of the prices people ask for these things and just shake my head! Since I purchased my first Wheel Horse brand new in 1984, I’ve bought a few, had some given to me and even had three left to me by two separate gentleman in their will! I’m not in this hobby to buy and flip them to try and make money. As a matter of fact I probably should sell a few as having twenty is a little ridiculous! However, this is my hobby, it’s what I do and having nice tractors makes me happy 😃. When it does come time to downsize I would love to give some of them to a kid who could properly take care of them for the next generation to enjoy. And the rest? Well I’ll worry about that when the time comes. God Bless everyone…….

When we were having site prep work done for our house the deer always congregated each morning checking it out. They have a pathway near the edge of the forest behind the house where we see several passing by most days. Love seeing them but the are a bit of a PITA when they eat out flowers in spring and summer. Oh well, guess that is the price we pay for living in their space.

The above information and the “Frame” 56A gets you the correct mounting and motor design.

I've had the hiccups for the past 28m hours. Yesterday afternoon I was texting a buddy and trying to text with hiccups is a pain in itself. They are currently coming and going and don't seem to be as severe as when they started. Last night about every two hours I'd wake up with the blasted hiccups. Shortly after midnight, I googled "cure for hiccups." sip ice water, gargle ice water, eat a spoon of dry sugar (not that fun to do) and none of them worked. There were other suggestions such as pull tongue--didn't try that one. The doctor sites on internet suggested visiting doctor if persist more than 48 hours. Come Monday morning, if I'm still plagued with them I'm making a trip to local doctor. This afternoon I watched our six year old special needs grandson. If I would hiccup loud enough for him to hear, he would try to mimic me--Only good thing to these miserable things!

A teacher neighbor asked me to help her with a team of 5th graders trying a Destination Imagination project. There were only 4 students but my esteem for teachers dealing with whole classrooms full of this age group went up several notches. These youngster have a LOT of knowledge and boundless ideas but they are so in need of guidance in how to frame a problem so it can be solved and then work through possible solutions. It was a tiring two hours but I saw glimmers of progress.

Darn... I should have autographed the WHrat Whrecker before I sold it to @Pullstart for a bottle of Wheel Horse whiskey and future rights to add a wind noodle and bus seat to it... I'd be rich!!!

Went for a x-c ski out on the lake with Mrs. Sylvan... beautiful day!!!

If you love the crunch that comes from salty roasted nuts embedded in a buttery hard sugar bark and broken into multiple pieces, you’ll be excited to celebrate National Peanut Brittle Day on January 26, 2025! Filled with peanuts, almonds, or pecans, this classic candy is a timeless treat perfect for any occasion! It's theorized that peanut brittle made its way to the U.S. through Irish settlers coming to live in the New World around 1830. Around 1890 a woman in New England might have created peanut brittle by accidentally pouring baking soda into her taffy mix instead of cream of tartar. The term "brittle" appears for the very first time in print in 1892. The history of peanut brittle is tied to Tony Beaver, a lumberjack folk hero. In the story, Beaver creates peanut brittle when he stops a flood using peanuts and molasses. No one seems to know where it came from or who made it first, all I know for sure is I love it.

I think they are after the buds on the tree tops. Back in my youth and wood burning years and good health I always cut my firewood in the winter. My ten acre lot was full of maple and the deer loved the tops. They know when they hear a chain saw good eating is to be had.

Yesterday afternoon wife and I were bringing in firewood when we heard a big boom in front of the house. Mixed in with that boom was the sound of a speeding car and other sounds. Went out front and found a mangled 3 point buck and enough broken plastic to fill a trash can. No cars stopped and each one just smashed the plastic into small bits. I went straight to my Amish neighbor knowing he would make the best use of the deer and he immediately dragged it home. Upon further investigation I found the deer tracks and another crash scene, apparently the buck was struck in front of my other house and recovered only to be taken out by the next idiot. Men, women, children, deer, groundhogs, cows and any other living creature doesn't stand much of a chance with the current crop of idiot drivers. I should note that I live along a straight road where you can see 1/4 mile in each direction. More on cows; less than a month ago the Amish cow next door escaped the fence and crossed the road and took a considerable hike, all of the Amish in the area were away at a holiday party, so we had to rescue the runaway bovine. A young couple and the FedEx guy saw the issue and stopped to help, all other drivers were pissed and pushed right thru as we were guiding the cow to the only gate and back home. So my wife and I are risking our lives on the road saving a cow that doesn't belong to us and making the road safe again while taking blasts from horns, middle fingers and such abuse.

They've been coming closer to the house lately. Sometimes we see several in the yard

Well phrased. I wish more humans could understand that!

Before you pull the trigger on a new motor, make sure the capacitor isn't bad! Cheap fix if it is.

Trina went out the back door with the dog yesterday afternoon in broad daylight. The red arrow points to our new forest access path. There were a minimum six deer standing there checking over the work site. 😅

Replace it with a Tecky! Or I'll talk to my boss. We got a 60 HP motor sitting on the floor that was ordered in error about 25 years ago for an AHU that's not there anymore!

Made our first long trip with the new truck this weekend. Our niece turned one a few months ago, and her favorite thing to do when she comes down is to go out to the farm and see the cows, so for her 1st birthday we gifted her two heifers. We finally got around to delivering them this weekend. Close to 300 mile round trip. The stock trailer that dad brought us full of stuff when he delivered the truck belongs to my sister, so Saturday morning we loaded the heifers and headed that way. Truck did great, but did NOT like pulling the trailer into a 40 mph head wind most of the way. 8.7 mpg going up there. Reset everything this morning when we headed home, haven’t filled up yet to figure exact mileage, but the dash showed 14 mpg coming home empty.

Just a measurement across the lugs from the edge of one lug across the other would be sufficient, thanks!

Spent the morning fooling around with the Bolens. Soaked the rear hub with penetrating oil and freed up the "Controlled Differential". It spins freely now. Can't figure out why there is no return when stepping on brake pedal. Then again, who needs brakes anyhow. Just noticed the front tires and wheels don't match but not a big deal. All 4 tires hold air. If I still have it in the spring time I will change drive belts. Hard for me to work on it now in the snow and cold in my driveway. Next I will tighten the hub all the way to engage both wheels and see if it makes any difference when driving and or pushing it around. Still for 50 bucks I'm not complaining.

Don't let @Pullstart see that.

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I had to stop heating with wood about twenty years ago because of MS. I tried pushing through it but started becoming dangerous for me to run a chain saw and my wood lot was remote and my wife worried about me. I miss it big time, it was my escape from working in a paper mill sixty hours a week and good hard work was always enjoyable to me. I was clearing a lot that I was hoping to build on and getting fuel to heat our 1830 drafty home, win win. I don't think it was cost effective but nothing like wood heat. Wood stove out, pellet stove in, bought from a friend I had worked with and went into business selling pellet and wood stove. It's a MT Vernon free standing stove and it has been awesome. I'm sitting by it now unfortunately watching my wife bringing in pellets for the week ahead, it needs cleaning about once a month, I can do that still and I can usually get the forty pound bags up and into the Hopper, it holds two bags and that lasts two days unless very cold and windy like it has been lately. I've replaced one fan in the twenty years I've owned it and that was this year. I have it professionally cleaned. I did short out the mother board two years ago because I forgot to unplug it before cleaning it, reminded by my Bride just now walking by me with a bag of pellets while asking me what I was doing. " THAT WAS AN EXPENSIVE MISTAKE DARRYL " I was recommended to burn only softwood pellets and that struck me weird but I took the advice, I was gifted ten bags of hardwood pellets a few years ago and they caused big clunkers every bag. Could be because my stove is set up for softwood not sure but it works so good I didn't mess with it. I have an oil furnace also for back up and hot water. I've over time insulated big time and that has made a big difference, now that building isn't going to happened and 40years of living in this old home we couldn't move now we love the place. We closed on it two weeks before getting married so we didn't have $ for a hunny moon. Is it less expensive than oil? I don't know because we've never just heated with oil. My wife pays all the bills so I'm not sure what pallets are going for and now is not the time to ask.

Should have put trailer hubs and wheels on the D200 years ago...almost like power steering....Hasn't solved traction problem pushing into the pile

Just make sure you get the correct frame size otherwise should not be a problem finding one. I would first definitely check that start capacitor there known to go bad.?

Fixed it for ya Bob.

Looking at those new prices I would be inclined to just get a new tool or, even better, check the facebook market thingy, craigslist or whatever you have locally. Those 56 frame motors are extremely common. There's many variations that would easily work with no modification or just very minimal. Maybe you could find a pretty used up tool with a good motor. I'm sure Trina would be happy to mount it for you.

Once you have given a Wheel Horse a friendly name like "Fred" it becomes a member of the family, can't just sell a family member! You shouldn't have any problem finding someone to adopt Fred at your next tractor show, they are not very abundant on your side of the pond.

Was it me, I'd find all the current members over there and send each one a PM advising of your intentions and potential asking price. As you know already, actual ownership doesn't matter. Appreciation of the brand and the friendship base does. I for one will be very much looking forward to seeing your posts.

I got the new hubs installed on the 854 and made it look cool for about half an hour.

Right after Pam and I married, we added onto our 4 room house. When the mason laid up the fireplace, we ran two extra chimneys. One for the gas heat and the other for a wood furnace. My father-in-law had a hedge (Osage orange) row that supplied wood for the furnace. There were times when Pam would be cracking open windows in winter because it was a bit warm inside for her. Well, those days are gone. When I built our current home twenty years ago, we went gas. There is nothing like wood heat. Gas is a far second place but still much better than electric heat pumps. (We have a hi-bred dual heating whereas the heat pump cuts off at 27 degrees and our gas furnace takes over heating the house.) We utilize the gas fireplace pictured below and keep that room warmer than the rest of the house. I took this picture about 15 minutes ago. Reason we gave up on wood stove/fireplace is this is our retirement home and cutting wood doesn't sound as much fun as it once was. We don't have available wood supply and buying wood isn't practicable. Setting the thermostat at 72, sitting in the recliner then watching the flames come to life seems to work for us.

I was told to try yelling into a colander, but it only strained my voice.

I tried all the exercises to get rid of hiccups, nothing really worked for me so I had to turn chemicals. A shot of pickle juice works good for a minor case, add 12 drops of Tabasco sauce to that shot for a more severe case. For a real extreme case where the first 2 don't work, I resort to a 1/2 shot of bitters. Extreme and harsh tasting ,but never had a case where bitters didn't take care of 'em for me.

This weekend evolved a bit of side tracking. Saturday I took on a job painting the inside of a 26 x 26 x 12 garage. After spraying 10 gal of primer and then spraying 20 gal of paint, back rolling and I don't know how many trips up & down a ladder. Need less to say, I was all in all done for the day. Not the best pic, but it did happen. With making extra tractor $ out of the way, I moved on to my projects. First project this morning, get some heat in my work beater. For the last few weeks the temp gauge has hardly moved and the temp at the heater vents has only been reaching an average of 74 degrees. Perfect for traveling in sub zero weather. A new thermostat and now the temp gauge runs more towards the center and the temp at the heater vents is reaching 134 degrees. MUCH BETTER. Should make my commute more bearable, Now on to some tractor stuff. First off take care of the previous repairs that were done to the 3/4" foot rest bar. Not poo pooing the repair, it kept the tractor in service. Not sure what happened to render the need for the pipe welded over the right hand side. Guessing the left side must have broken free of the frame. After a bunch of grinding the old bar was out of the way. New bar burned in place. Just to make sure there will not be future issues with this bar, I also added some gussets to it. After that repair I still had some time to degrease and blast a few parts. All the excitement that I have to share for this weekend.

Fine print just below gas meter: "Hauling heifers may impact gas mileage. Multiple heifers even more so..."

I'm not sure how to determine what size they actually are, as I already have mine mounted on 8.50 rims. I've mounted plenty of tires in my day and I can tell you - you won't get the 8.50 Deestones to seal without a tube because they are too narrow. However, with a tube they seem satisfactory for my needs. Knowing what I know now, I probably would have went with the 10.50s

Whew, limited governor action. I was afraid that would bring out the political police.

I'll have Denali ask him next time he comes over for happy hour...

Thanks for tagging me @Wayne0! Hey Jim… could you try asking him to jump in your trailer when you come for plow day? There will be a couple bottles of Wheel Horse Whisky waiting for you!

Self-important people are easily able to rationalize their exemptions--often by creating their own facts or interpretation.

Being turned into lunch might just be the price they ought to pay for eating your flowers! That, or helping pay the property tax, lol. This comment was red meat for the hunters in the forum, fwiw.

That was my cure for years. But when my kids would get the hiccups, I would make them stand at attention in front of me. Then I would tell them to go ahead and hiccup. Invariably they could never hiccup. Done until next time. Same son now insists that drinking a glass of water through a paper towel works. I've never tried it, but like the standing at attention, I think it's mostly psychological.

Wood Pellets about 17 million BTU/ ton Anthracite about 24 million BTU/ton Last Fall $365/ ton delivered

100% unintentional.

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I've been experimenting with plow shoes some. My experience shows me that the small circular skids are absolutely useless on aggregate surface. They dig right in hard. Asphalt/ concrete you'd like them for saving the plow but I prefer the driveway scraping of a fully dropped edge. For a gravel/stone etc surface you'll need long feet to keep the plow edge up. To discourage the plow from digging in - tilt it forward.

Hi all. I'm thinking about selling my C125 Wheelhorse, Fred. I simply don't have the space to use it anymore now my community project has ended. Plus my journey along the prostate cancer pathway has shown me I may need to get my ducks in a row somewhat. Lovingly restored, engine rebored and rebuilt, fully road registered. No deck but has a home built plow frame. What is the best way to sell Fred over here in the UK? I'll be using the funds to buy a new model tank which I will post about on here, no longer being a Wheelhorse owner. Best regards Mick

A good body shop tech told me decades ago that "painting" is approximately 95 to 99% NOT painting. IE, prep work is nearly everything. They used to practice and teach on bent crashed ruined body panels. Another good tool is a paint can. That round surface can be tough to master for some.

So a day in the shop saw me make a full set of four new hood catches. I leaned a lot from making the prototype and was able to speed up the process. I made them a bit smaller too and they look good, well they all look similar which is what I needed. Painting the finished model is my main worry at this stage. I've never looked at such a complicated project in detail so I'm going to do some research. I bought an excellent book called How (not) to paint a locomotive. It's a model engineers bible for how to approach painting. The guy who wrote it spent six years making and building a working steam loco before tackling the paint job. He had to strip it down completely to paint and rebuild it as he went. It took him two more years to do that! He let's you in on all the pitfalls and errors he encountered along the way. I've only scan read it so far but it's really opened my eyes. More reading and a lot more work to do before I need to start spraying. Mick

Nearly all the folks I've talked to about a pellet stove and owning one like them a lot. Some consider them to be the best thing since @Bar Nuthin's sliced bread. Some have a nice open fire to view. All seem to throw good strong heat. My parents had a pellet stove for years and loved it. But..... The biggest concern I hear about can be serious and should not be taken lightly. Allergy sensitive people or those with preexisting breathing issues need to do careful concise research about which pellets are OK for them to use. My mom has those above mentioned breathing issues... but oddly enough it was my FATHER that couldn't get the flippin' pellet dust out of his system. He tried for several years... bunches of different brands and types of pellets. Expensive. Cheap. Local. Import. Soft wood and harder types. Some were definitely better but none were completely trouble free. Eventually he had to admit that he just couldn't use a pellet stove. Another thing to consider is whether a power outage is a problem for the particular stove you're looking at. I've heard that some pellet stoves can be turned manually at the feed auger for use without electricity. Most can't. Also, accurately add up the real world costs of buying the stove, the pellets and the electricity to operate it. Folks are REALLY confused about life when I explain that we spend LESS on our electric heat than we ever had on our oil heat. Pellets will be more price competitive than oil heat as a whole consideration. Then consider the manual effort involved. Some people want to use a calorie. Some don't. Some can't. For those incapable of handling the materials every day it obviously isn't practical. Would we have one here? No.. but we have a 10+ acre forest full of fuel for a wood 🪵 stove. Would I advise a friend to get one? Absolutely, given the correct amount of careful research.