Pullstart 62,834 #3 Posted June 26 Loaded up Tuesday, coffee ready for Wednesday morning, and road trip pics of Bryon and I’s travels. We were the first ones to the hotel so we snacked and watched the masses roll in. 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #4 Posted June 26 My first time meeting Stephan face to face! Our usual Wednesday night Italian Village dinner plans got interrupted by a bunch of other people filling our normal table, so we split and scrambled. Brian and Jo, Don, Bryon, Stephan and I enjoyed a little time to chit chat and pig out at Hickory Ridge. My family and I ate there one year after the show, I knew they would not disappoint. After supper, festivities at the hotel under Steve’s awning! I was pleasantly surprised, that Stephan brought me a Bavarian flag! 4 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #5 Posted June 26 Thursday morning’s standard procedure to hurry up and wait… The club’s insurance policy doesn’t kick in until 9am, so there is never a need to think we’ll get in before that. It’s still a perfect time to start mingling, finding deals before they are unloaded, etc. 4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #6 Posted June 26 Here’s an awesome picture of Jeremy and Stephan. I purchased this Lawn Ranger from Don for a song and dance practically and Jeremy reminded me how he’d been looking for one for his grand daughter. He really sent a big package deal home with Rylee last year, so I passed the LR on to him! After we set up, I hitched a ride from Karen, who was hitching a ride from Jim. Stephan met kind folks along his journey, and he received birthday gifts along the way as well! Ed Dog made a good handful of these cut out horse heads. Once again, Bob Hunter knocked another paint job outta the park! 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #7 Posted June 26 There were plenty of young kids active at the show this year. One little man was busy buying up all the wheels in sight! Don had a set for sale for $20 and the little man offered him a 5 dollar bill from his wallet. After some hard negotiations, Don offered them for free and helped to load them up. Once the freebies were loaded, that dude offered the $5 to Don again for a second set! Score! 5 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #8 Posted June 26 Here are a bunch of random show pics. That narrow front had some cool rear hub wheels I want to say sourced from a Jim Dandy tractor. I like ‘em! 4 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #9 Posted June 26 (edited) Here’s my tractors and parts haul for the year. I feel like I did ok. Hindsight, I’m glad that I offed the Lawn Ranger, we were pretty well packed in on the way home! I picked up this Raider 12 for my brother in law. I have a couple various tillers and his soil is quite sandy, so the one I have with somewhat worn out tines will do just fine. He paid $200 to have his neighbor come work up his food plots this year, so I figured I’d send him a tiller tractor to do it himself and save some coin. The best part about it, is part of the @roadapples collection is in my family, and will have a purpose. I bought two sets of wheel weights, one from @rjg854 and one from @squonk. The hundred pounders will be added to a plow tractor for sure! The two smaller ones might be stacked left side on “Seven Fifty Me” for some offset weight of the sickle bar. I grabbed two 8” plows, one complete and one moldboard only. They will be for house spares for plow days. There’s a cheap unknown brand front sickle bar mower…. It needs some repairs and maintenance, but it operates freely! I have another set of sickle bars, one Wheel Horse with a frozen wobble box and one Allis Chalmers style. my new favorite mower, 753 sickle machine. I’ve added the hood and seat now. A cool round hood pull behind tiller, equipped with a fine example of a mouse house! It pulls over well but has no spark. I’ll either get it running, or replace it with a vertical shaft something else. I just want to use it. I traded Richie a GT14 grille he needed for a 3 point GT14 lift bar. Back in 2020, @ronwh sent me a 3 point kit with no lift bar. I built a lift bar for some friend’s kids and that machine has now come back to me. I’m looking forward to what’s next. Guy Meyer sent me home with an 8 speed transmission from Mr. Jay’s collection, and I have a couple recoil parts here that I need to tune up. Edited June 26 by Pullstart 5 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #10 Posted June 26 The generosity of Wheel Horse people, both friend and stranger, is like none other! There was a free pile, I found some cool belts that I could use, a carburetor and a recoil housing, Lane gave me a starter/generator bracket, and Mr. Richard gave me a handful of tools from his collection. One of the belts I scavenged from the free pile was purely because the part number search yielded it was for a 540 rpm front PTO kit. Lane introduced me to Eric Van Luke (I believe) and he mentioned having two different 540 kits. I was excited to gift him the belt, and to find out he was missing that piece to one kit! 4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #11 Posted June 26 And @wallfish. Where do I begin? He’s so cool, to offer such a prized possession! He reached out to me, offering a @Pullstart 12 hp Kohler to me, when Chuck Foose nabbed Richie’s before I saw it in the classifieds. Offering, that is, for free! Communicating back and forth with John, I put together my old C-101 roller, painted some parts and left others the way they are, built a muffler, cleaned up a carb, and we put together a sort of bucket list machine! I have always had a thing for the B-60 Pullstart “B/C” series machines. Well, we built a B-120 now! Argh! It’s a brute! I have some work to do to make the recoil work well, but it starts and runs so excellent! I need to clean the tank out again, or keep replacing fuel filters, but it is a keeper forever! @Tractorhead, ‘Fish and I worked a bit on Thursday to get it going and it was my cruise machine for the weekend! Notice the “keyway” used to attach the drive pulley. Apparently some knuckle head forgot to pack one, and he was too stubborn to walk around and buy one, so he made one. Kind of. It’s an eyebolt lag screw, hammered square, and lightly zip tied on. I need to make the change there, to a normal keyway, so I can assemble the PTO properly. 4 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #12 Posted June 26 And finally, this K-181 from John as well. He offered it to me for sale before the show. I had a starter type that I bought from JoeM a couple years back, and we decided we’d stick them next to each other for sale for his asking price, and see what one sells and what one I keep I ended up selling mine to Racin’Bob the day before I left, so that settled that! 3 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 6,998 #13 Posted June 26 I like the welded chain muffler bracket. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 16,994 #15 Posted June 26 You're more than welcome Kevin and that's just more proof that engine went to the right person and where it belongs. UGH, not more advertising of the episode of drinking gas! LOL Maynard and Squonk are going to enjoy that! 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #16 Posted June 26 40 minutes ago, wallfish said: You're more than welcome Kevin and that's just more proof that engine went to the right person and where it belongs. UGH, not more advertising of the episode of drinking gas! LOL Maynard and Squonk are going to enjoy that! I got a good kick out of my recordings at home… “A very nice gentleman named John”… followed by “we should disconnect the points and see how many times he pull starts it!” “A portion of the following program has been previously recorded. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 16,994 #17 Posted June 26 2 minutes ago, Pullstart said: “A very nice gentleman named John” Oxymoron 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,064 #18 Posted June 27 @wallfish and @Pullstart it was a pleasure to work once with you Guy‘s. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,834 #19 Posted June 27 I know not many people here use TikTok, but I can show the kids on tractors there, where I get in trouble with that on YouTube. Here’s a Big Show Parade, kids included edition! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNYVk5Kn/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,064 #20 Posted June 27 Took me a while to made this on Iphone but it seems it worked. 3 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Bill in VA 1,452 #21 Posted June 27 Steffon, Great video and pictures! Wild Bill 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,064 #22 Posted June 27 It was a pleasure to met you „Mr. Victoria Secret“.. 😎😂😂😂 Hope i can made it once again! 👍 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rjg854 11,359 #23 Posted June 28 13 hours ago, Tractorhead said: Hope i can made it once again! 👍 We hope you can too 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 16,994 #24 Posted June 29 (edited) On 6/26/2024 at 9:46 PM, Tractorhead said: @wallfish and @Pullstart it was a pleasure to work once with you Guy‘s. You fit right in our little tractor world Stefan and your smile was contagious as covid. So glad you had a great time and we definitely need you to come back as soon as possible. I truly enjoyed your company and feel honored we could tinker on some machines together! Thanks for sharing the video! It appears you got the WHOLE experience of what the big show is all about and why we go. (And for anyone that wasn't there, yes we got that big 2 stroke Kohler fired up and running. For anyone that was there, you probably heard it from where ever you were. That thing was screaming loud! 8000 ish rpm and a short open pipe! FUN stuff) Edited June 29 by wallfish 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,064 #25 Posted June 29 5 hours ago, wallfish said: You fit right in our little tractor world Stefan and your smile was contagious as covid. So glad you had a great time and we definitely need you to come back as soon as possible. I truly enjoyed your company and feel honored we could tinker on some machines together! Thanks for sharing the video! It appears you got the WHOLE experience of what the big show is all about and why we go. (And for anyone that wasn't there, yes we got that big 2 stroke Kohler fired up and running. For anyone that was there, you probably heard it from where ever you were. That thing was screaming loud! 8000 ish rpm and a short open pipe! FUN stuff) I have to look, somwhere on the iphone must be a evidence video.. 😂😂😂😂 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
