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I got to play in the snow today!!

A Guy with 25 plows is complaining about a little snow!

Hmmm....did I already open one of these today? Or was that yesterday?

There is your first mistake Plunge. Yah when I retired i was gonna do side work but a vendor's rep told me to just walk away from it all. So I kept my licenses & credentials up to date and all that good stuff. Even kept my company truck well stocked with tools & parts. Said I was just gonna do the easy stuff for the nice blue hairs that I would eat off their kitchen floor. Well that worked for awhile but then the nice blue hair would give my number out to the neighbor who has 30 overflowing cat boxes lined up in front of the furnace and those stairs.. True not crapping ya there Then it started cutting into my time at the love shack, & FISHING! No mas I said the rep was right. Gave all my tools and expensive combustion analyzers , parts ... everything to a bro I apprenticed with and now has his own successful HVAC biz. Told him to outfit a promising newbie. I other words I learned treat your retirement like you did your work. Do it right ... projects, hobbies, teaching the recliner a lesson and fishing! Yeah I get long time customers and the cash is nice bbbuuuttt I stashed coin away for retirement & learned to say no and have a number my back pocket for the bro you know and does good work. Oh and Plunge to help you remember what day it is ...

Always found the history and the engineering of tractors/machinery kind of interesting. A number of years back at some of the tractor/engine show in the area I vaguely remember hearing about 'Wain Roy'. Turns out that Wain Roy invented the backhoe in Hubbardston, ma in 1947. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZOD1yOfys just looking to share info and to appreciate another old finn in making advancements in machinery/equipment.

@ebinmaine Remembering your Dad on his Birthday...

This is kinda scary. Picture of the shirt I put on this morning. Long before reading Richard's daily.

Since 2016, National Periodic Table Day has been celebrated on February 7 to pay tribute to the chart pasted in science classrooms that saved us from flunking high school chemistry! The idea to dedicate a day to toast the periodic table and its scientific inventions was conceived in the clever mind of a chemistry teacher, Mr. David T. Steineker, and we cannot help but assume that he had some sneaky ulterior (read: academic) motives behind it. Whatever the reasons, on this day, we celebrate and glorify the periodic table and its scientists in being the critical building elements (literally) for the continuing discoveries in science. John Newlands was an English chemist who published the first periodic table in 1863, which organized 56 elements into 11 groups. While Newlands’ periodic table was slightly flawed, he was the first scientist to introduce the ‘Law of Octaves.’ National Periodic Table Day, thus, honors the scientists who created a simplified model that gives us an easy reference and helps chemists anticipate the behavior of elements within a glance. An experimental physicist Henry Moseley discovers that each element had a separate proton number, leading to the addition of 4 new chemical elements the modern periodic table in 1913. The first Attempt at Making of Periodic Table took place in 1817 when John Dobereiner organizes elements into a triad (groups of three) based on similar properties. In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev published the periodic table containing 60 of the 100 elements we know today, arranging them according to their atomic masses. Scottish chemist William Ramsay discovers four noble gasses (neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) and wins a Nobel prize in 1904.

Today, I stayed warm, and did some grocery shopping, Then, did some plowing. I’ve got an early shift at work tomorrow morning. The old 308 did it again.

If that’s an SD deck, lower it to 1” and engage the PTO and see what happens to the snow!

I’m a copycat @SylvanLakeWH

Hi everyone! I've been following this page for years, and have belonged to the Facebook group for many, but I finally decided to join the forum today. I currently have 2 machines. A 1997 312-8 that my grandfather purchased new, and a 1998 312-8 that I bought off a friend of mine a year or so ago. The 98 has been retrofitted with a recently rebuilt Kohler Magnum 16, and it's quite a beast! Pics below of both.

Then my wife would loose control of my life and I would become responsible for my own forgetfulness. As long as we have "Front End Friday" and "Wide Rear Wednesday" etc. on here I will be OK.

Condenser

Too tall of stature--puffff. Eric is scared Trina would hand him a shovel if he had a cab. She'd commandeer the Wheelhorse and he'd never get seat time.

Guilty as charged!!

Only 4" here. 0-82 inches here... Its all a guessing game !!

I’m ready for mowing season please!! I say this as the weather guys are predicting up to 10” of snow this weekend

Pretty much my wife and my conversation every morning. She refuses to use the "pill" dispenser and keeps ALL of her meds in the same bottle. "Thats for OLD PEOPLE" she says! I don't know how long I can keep her straight.

Never had an issue with carriage bolts used as studs on a Kohler head. As Taryl says; "It's not the space shuttle, it's a lawn mower! "

Lots of them at the Hartford Civic center when I lived in CT. All the big names in the early 80's ... Kansas, Rush, Van Halen, Ted Nugent, The Outlaws. Yep them was the best... Flying Dutchman in Charleston SC ... we knew where all the great places were all up and down the east coast. Given the time we had in off crew on the sub we hit em all.

This is all I remember of high school chemistry class:

Finished a partscaster tele, something like 15 years in the making. 2 bucket list amps acquired, an AB763 dripedge Super Reverb, and an AA165 dripedge Pro Reverb.

If you do not need to use the top of the stud for any other mounting purpose, then just replace the stud with a grade 8 bolt. Most cylinder heads use a bolt instead of a stud and nut. Note - No split lock washer should be used on head bolts.

Two of my favorite songs , White Rabbit and Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane. Grace Slick was special. My brother in law was at Woodstock and is proud of his ticket stub he still has as proof he was there. He drove from Eastern Ma to Max Yasgur's farm all alone in an early Triumph spitfire. He was in one of the Woodstock movies crossing a road and always made sure we didn't miss him. We had to watch closely, if we blinked , we missed him . Thanks @tunahead72

I have a Word document on my laptop named "Concerts Attended", which lists as many of the various concerts and shows I can remember attending over my lifetime. I just counted, there's over 160 shows listed in that document -- so THAT's where all that money went! I have some great memories from those shows, most of which I can actually recall on a regular basis. It helps that I have a wife and one especially good friend who can help me fill in the details when I need them, although I know for a fact that I can't completely trust THEIR memories either. Lately I'm quite happy to attend just a couple of shows a year, almost always in small venues, mostly small local restored theaters (I have no interest in large crowds any more). I wanted to attend Woodstock in the worst way... I was 16 at the time, heavily into the Jefferson Airplane (still am) and badly wanted to see them play live, but cooler heads prevailed and I wasn't allowed to go. In retrospect, I'm almost certain it was for the best.

My wife keeps my appointments in her smart phone, mine doesn't have that feature.

Today did a few things since we had a snow day. Brought the tractor out of its resting spot and pushed it in the middle of the garage. Then didn’t really like how the floor board on the belt side came out and painted that. Also stripped the stickers from the motion control plate and sanded that and painted that also. Then installed the belt guard and loosely installed the floorboard. Hope to have that whole right hand side of the tractor done this weekend.

Installed the muffler stack today and a new shifter boot. Getting ready to sand blast the mower deck and paint it. I figured I would start with that before I work on the tractor tins. That way If it doesn't look good I won't care as much. Learning as I go. I still need to make a brace for muffler and may shorten how tall it goes. I had a piece of 8 inch so I used that for now.

Best part is the Chevy RWD transmission that's having major issues was a joint project with Ford. So Ford has the same defective transmission in all their RWD stuff from the Mustang to the F-150. I'm not a Chevy guy, but I'd rather have an old Suburban like that than anything built today.

Okay @JCM Jim I had to go deep into my tee shirt drawers to dig this baby out from a concert I went to in 1987! During the search I couldn’t believe how many Wheel Horse Collectors Club shirts I have collected over the years!!! Anyway I’ve been to my share of concerts as well. Springsteen, John Mellencamp, and Tom Petty all of which I’ve seen several times. The Who at Giants stadium. The Doobie Brothers and Foreigner. The “King” George Strait. Bob Seger. I saw follow Long Islander Billy Joel at my high school! Yes! Back in the mid nineties.It was called a Night of Questions and Answers with a Little Bit of Music. Just him and his piano playing songs and taking questions from the audience, it was very cool. He lives about fifteen minutes from me now, and right around the corner from the late Jimmy Buffet. That’s when I learned the term Real Estate Novelist is just something that he made up in his song “The Piano Man”! I also remember one of times I saw Tom Petty at my local college and he was so F’ed up that he could barely sing!!! People were booing and actually leaving! Looking back I guess I am fortunate to have seen all these concerts and hopefully get to see a few more.

Paul Harvey never interviewed Trina. .... that I know of.

2025, for sure!! Dang COVID got us all last time. thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!!

I have sent that question to the WHCC. I'll let you know when I get an answer. to the

According to the manual, your points should be set a .020. .025 maybe too far advanced timing for a good cold start. I turned a hard to start K91 into a 1 pull wonder by static timing the points. I now use this method on all my Kohler engines that have points. https://www.mgonitzke.net/cubcadet/tools/static_timing.pdf

Well said, Happy Birthday Qball

Use a piece of 5/15 all thread rod if you can find it in grade 5 or higher. The torque on the K181 is low enough that grade 5 is more than adequate. @squonk is actually close to right (scare), with the torque on a K181 being 20 ft/lb even a grade 3 is in the upper ball park.

Lol ... Cindy is my pill dispenser and before she dumps them in my hand she always says what day it is ... we've been known to get our days and nites mixed up!

Thanks Jim.. much appreciated! 💜 (Purple was my father's favorite color....)

Happy Happy Andy!

Eric looks like you have some snow there. Just wondering why you do you that BIG blower that you and I have for that much snow. Or did you just want to get some seat time in. Any way Nice job.

The only top name concert I’ve been to in a big venue was ClintBlack at the Austin/UT stadium. Back in our younger days we went to a lot of dances at VFW, Knights of Columbus, County Fair Hall etc. These featured local/regional bands and a lot of them were very good.

I'll quote myself. In another thread about concert goers I was asked by JCM post pictures of instruments I might have. I've got a hammered dulcimer--about the only thing I can play whereas you'd recognize the tune. My banjo mentioned above. Below is one of mountain dulcimers I made probably about 1995. We were living in the Philippines and our neighbor had a mango tree cut down. I used my chain saw (I found out it was Illegal to own in the Philippines without being registered with the government due to deforestation) ripped it into boards, planed it down and ended up with the dulcimer in the picture. The larger sound holes are lower United States. As you can see, it's home is in our garage. I forgot the pump organ I undertook as a project last year. I may have written about it somewhere on this site but basically I took it apart, replaced leathers and felts as needed and patched up the billows cleaned the 122 brass reeds. The organ is fully functioning

Slow day at work, so I got my own car in to change the oil, planning to cut the rotors for a vibration and found they were shot. .001 inches above discard. And I found a bad tie rod end, so two new rotors, two tie rods, and an alignment later my $30 oil change turned into $250. Can't trust those dealership guys, always trying to upsell something.

I can see power angle in your future !

That's fine for some. As far as HOME shop stuff. .... I never WANT a day off. I wish I could be here 7 days a week.

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I would say it is a " colossalless plow!