What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[ztnoo 2,298]

I sense the sweat equity/increased value equation being ciphered here.......

Edited May 1, 2019 by ztnoo

[WHX?? 48,833]

44 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

I have all kinds of things I want to do but this house keeps haunting me. This is the last  MAJOR project  

Thought you were moving Ritchie? 

[19richie66 17,508]

Hope to hit the market by june 1st  

[adsm08 2,081]

2 hours ago, Herder said:

Indoor projects have stall work in the shop here as well. 

 

I have the opposite problem. I'm behind on dishes and laundry because the weather has been too nice and I'm trying to get to my outdoor projects before it starts raining again. That and I make the kids get off the couch and play outside, but since they are 3 and 6 and we don't have a fence they need adult supervision. Now if only I could find an adult around here.

[Lee1977 6,673]

10 hours ago, adsm08 said:

 

I have the opposite problem. I'm behind on dishes and laundry because the weather has been too nice and I'm trying to get to my outdoor projects before it starts raining again. That and I make the kids get off the couch and play outside, but since they are 3 and 6 and we don't have a fence they need adult supervision. Now if only I could find an adult around here.

It's a shame you'll have to stop playing with your tractors and be an adult for a while.

I'm a little behind on the dishes, way behind house cleaning  and the yard need mowing before the rain on Friday.  Some of it 's not going to get done.

[ebinmaine 67,659]

Trina and I have both tried being grown ups in past life situations. Neither one of us enjoyed it so, as stated several times in previous post, we have reverted to the age of approximately 5.

 

[adsm08 2,081]

1 hour ago, Lee1977 said:

It's a shame you'll have to stop playing with your tractors and be an adult for a while.

I'm a little behind on the dishes, way behind house cleaning  and the yard need mowing before the rain on Friday.  Some of it 's not going to get done.

 

I actually don't play with them that much. I did rush to get the 855 running and useable after I got it because I need to turn around and get the JD listed for sale to get some of that money back where it belongs in my emergency savings. Just like a lot of other things I have that are of antique age I consider it a tool to do a job, and if this one hadn't had a plow with it I never would have looked twice.

 

Usually the kids follow me around in the Power Wheels truck while I mow, or play on the swing-set or trampoline if I'm in the back yard. My wife has been going in early on Mondays to get caught up on some extra work caused by a change of ownership at her company, so she has been getting home by 3:00 on Mondays, which was when I got my mowing in this week.

[Lee1977 6,673]

17 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

I actually don't play with them that much. 

You can't make us believe that, wanting to get rid of a JD for money we can believe. Turn that JD money into another Wheel Horse is what the rest of us would do. 

Edited May 1, 2019 by Lee1977

[Achto 27,609]

After waking my Raider 12 plow tractor up from it's long winters nap. I was going through it doing PM's when I noticed that the top of the battery was wet. I freaked out a little, thinking that battery acid was  chewing on my year old paint job. I started pulling the battery out so that I could get it warrantied when I noticed one little drip of oil hanging off of the back of the hydraulic pump right above the battery. Turns out that it was hydro fluid on top of the battery, not acid. 

 

I have never been so happy about finding an oil leak!!   

Edited May 2, 2019 by Achto

[WHX?? 48,833]

On ‎5‎/‎1‎/‎2019 at 10:34 AM, adsm08 said:

I actually don't play with them that much

Use that JD money to get a tub and you will playing with it more!

[peter lena 8,638]

herder, did you put in a metal tub? when i did mine over i used a metal tub and  lexan  wall paneling with a gel coat finish . that way i can use boating wax and cleaner on it , i also use the 303 boating finish spray on for quick and easy clean up. finish a shower with a wall squeegee, makes keeping it  clean very easy. pete 

[andyk 78]

Adjusted the valves today.

[rjg854 11,387]

Bought a 48" dozer blade today.  I took it off it's long frame and swapped it for the 42" on my short frame dozer blade.  The '68 Commando 8 handles the 42" with no problem at all, so I want to try the 48" and see how well it will handle that.  If and when the snow get deep I use the 16 Automatic w/ the blower anyway. I'm sure it will do fine,  those 8hp Kohlers are plenty powerful. 

[WVHillbilly520H 10,373]

Put a correct set of gauge wheels on the 48" deck of the 315-8 in WV and mowed for the first time this year at my parents place.

[ebinmaine 67,659]

@WVHillbilly520H

Right pretty property your folks have Jeff.

[WVHillbilly520H 10,373]

@ebinmaine, it's like time has stood still still mowing the same piece of property 40 years later on a different Kohler powered garden tractor.

[adsm08 2,081]

After mowing I cleaned up the garage, pulled it inside in preparation for some work I'm going to do over the next week, and then sat down to work on the first real electrical issue I have found on this tractor that I bought as "not running due to electrical issues". I rewired the lights, and cleaned up the contacts on the switch, inside and out, and now all three lights work. Purists might object to some of the things I modified, but I don't care.

 

I didn't like the way the PO has used only 74/148 of an Equus africanus asinus when he re-wired the lights. I'm sure it was closer to factory than what I did, but I didn't care for the lack of any way to unplug the lamps from the main wiring, or the fact that his system appeared to have pulled apart when the hood was opened.

 

 

That's how I did it. I added an inline, two-pin plug, and then soldered both pins of the tractor side to a single wire that runs back to the switch. The connectors came from one of the cruise control jumper harnesses that Ford used during their massive recall about 10 years ago. Any time I am at the junk yard I'll comb over every Ford SUV and pickup I can find from 95 to 05 looking for those things, I usually can buy about 10 of them for $20, and I get a matched pair of connectors, one or two fuse holders, about 4 feet of wire, and a foot or so of conduit tubing from each one.

 

I also had to repair the socket for the RH bulb, because the wire was broken off from the little center contact. I got my ingenosity out and made a new one.

 

 

I'll do a more detailed write up on that in a bit.

 

 

 

I also re-ran the wire to the rear light as well, because there was a large, exposed, unsoldered splice in the wire and it was getting crappy. That one also got a dedicated ground run back to the battery negative because it would come and go based on how I shifted my weight in the seat, and so it seems like my seat pan isn't a good ground.

 

I also changed the oil.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 5, 2019 by adsm08

[pfrederi 17,741]

1 hour ago, rjg854 said:

Bought a 48" dozer blade today.  I took it off it's long frame and swapped it for the 42" on my short frame dozer blade.  The '68 Commando 8 handles the 42" with no problem at all, so I want to try the 48" and see how well it will handle that.  If and when the snow get deep I use the 16 Automatic w/ the blower anyway. I'm sure it will do fine,  those 8hp Kohlers are plenty powerful. 

 

When it comes to plowing 8 hp is more than enough...you run out of traction long before horse power

[JCM 9,181]

It's nice to see that green lawn down in VA, up here in Maine still cleaning up after winter, took the 417-8 out to stretch her leg's and oversee another tree coming down, this was actually last Sunday, enjoy the pics.

[Shynon 7,459]

Loader valve rebuilt,  mounting up new hydraulic cylinders. 

[Terry M-(Moderator) 2,175]

That one looks nice Lane!

[ebinmaine 67,659]

My honey and her mom are using her 867 to move some Stone here in the yard

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,659]

They've now moved down deeper into the same spot.

There was a pile of loam under the rock.

Trina's using her favorite new toy to spread the loam down the hill a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,659]

And to round out the day...

 

Trina and her mom made these raised garden beds then placed them where they've been clearing and reshaping the side hill all day.

Quite a project !!

 

 

 

 

 

[pfrederi 17,741]

24 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

And to round out the day...

 

Trina and her mom made these raised garden beds then placed them where they've been clearing and reshaping the side hill all day.

Quite a project !!

 

 

 

 

 

What kind of wood are you using for the raised beds???

 

Rained sprinkled showered all day here.