What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[pkerot 73]

Thank you.  How do they get 8? Are they counting 2 speeds in reverse?

I got the engine turning  over with the key today.  No spark so I will look at the points and condenser next.  I expect my  inner tubes to be here Wednesday so it may be running and driving soon.

 

[Stormin 9,981]

6 forward and 2 reverse.

[ebinmaine 67,266]

7 hours ago, pkerot said:

How do they get 8?

 

2 hours ago, Stormin said:

6 forward and 2 reverse.

 

Exactly...

[953 nut 55,065]

On 3/1/2020 at 12:08 PM, pkerot said:

I knew I had to have it but I dont know why I felt like that.  Why do  you  guys like these

It is about the same as any illogical obsesion. If you have to rationalize owning a , or a customized shoebox Ford , or any other collectable you will find yourself in a straightjacket for sure. All I can say is that I enjoy them, they have never kept me from being able to put groceries on the table, and my wife has learned to not ask that question!     

[pkerot 73]

I was born in 1950 and my father bought a new Ford.  On a dark and stormy night 18 months later, someone left a dump truck sitting in the road out in the country. Dad couldnt see it in time to stop. I have a picture of 18 month old me standing in front of the wrecked Ford. I have been looking at that picture  all of my life. When I was 12, the neighbor boy down the street had a 1950 Ford and it was a Crestliner!  It had a smallblock Chevy engine.  When I was 13 daddy and grandpa drove me  over to San Angelo Texas and bought a 1950 Ford for me to work on. They paid $50  for the '50 Ford and drove it 50 miles to grandpas farm.

A few years ago, a guy asked if I wanted to buy 3 1950 Fords. The answer is always yes but no. I knew not to ask how much because I would buy them. Next year he asked again. I asked if they were the same cars and he said no. Then I forgot and asked how much? I couldnt resist the price, I think it was $100 each. Somehow I have  7 old junkers, then a guy said, Look at this ebay auction. It was a Crestliner. Ford didnt make many Crestliners and I had only seen that one in my whole  life. The ebay Crestliner was in Rogers Arkansas. I watched the auction and it didnt meet the reserve.  I emailed  the guy and asked if he was the guy who had throat cancer. Yes. He lived about 6 houses down from my  parents and I had been to his house, met his wife, etc.  I got that car. It runs and drives. Needs to be repainted

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by pkerot

[WHX?? 48,763]

 

Practiced my rite of passage as @953 nut says. Who ever has a press needs to mod it to get a dangling dash in! Best idea I ever had and good ideas come far and few in-between at this ranch! 

 

Roll pin was a bit of a bugger but I WON!!! 

Edited March 3, 2020 by WHX24

[ebinmaine 67,266]

9 hours ago, pkerot said:

Crestliner

Thanks for sharing that. A neeet car is a neat car and there's no two ways about it but when there's a storyline such as that behind them it's about 68 times more cooler..

[953 nut 55,065]

11 hours ago, pkerot said:

When I was 13 daddy and grandpa drove me  over to San Angelo Texas and bought a 1950 Ford for me to work on. They paid $50  for the '50 Ford and drove it 50 miles to grandpas farm.

Sounds like a family full of gear-heads.        I have had a lifelong fascination for anything with an engine, my only remaining street rod is a '48 Ford F1 that I built over 30 years ago, still going strong.

 

[Lane Ranger 10,945]

11 hours ago, pkerot said:

I was born in 1950 and my father bought a new Ford.  On a dark and stormy night 18 months later, someone left a dump truck sitting in the road out in the country. Dad couldnt see it in time to stop. I have a picture of 18 month old me standing in front of the wrecked Ford. I have been looking at that picture  all of my life. When I was 12, the neighbor boy down the street had a 1950 Ford and it was a Crestliner!  It had a smallblock Chevy engine.  When I was 13 daddy and grandpa drove me  over to San Angelo Texas and bought a 1950 Ford for me to work on. They paid $50  for the '50 Ford and drove it 50 miles to grandpas farm.

A few years ago, a guy asked if I wanted to buy 3 1950 Fords. The answer is always yes but no. I knew not to ask how much because I would buy them. Next year he asked again. I asked if they were the same cars and he said no. Then I forgot and asked how much? I couldnt resist the price, I think it was $100 each. Somehow I have  7 old junkers, then a guy said, Look at this ebay auction. It was a Crestliner. Ford didnt make many Crestliners and I had only seen that one in my whole  life. The ebay Crestliner was in Rogers Arkansas. I watched the auction and it didnt meet the reserve.  I emailed  the guy and asked if he was the guy who had throat cancer. Yes. He lived about 6 houses down from my  parents and I had been to his house, met his wife, etc.  I got that car. It runs and drives. Needs to be repainted

 

 

 

 

It was meant to me that you  those Cretliners!  No double about it !

g

[19richie66 17,500]

Nothing 

[pkerot 73]

953,your truck is  beautiful. and its the right color  This is my 1960 with 460.  My best friend Sam, says  he would never paint a truck that color. Thats all right Sam, the Beautiful women like my truck

 

Edited March 4, 2020 by pkerot

[ebinmaine 67,266]

34 minutes ago, pkerot said:

460

WOW

[Shed 248]

12 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Sounds like a family full of gear-heads.        I have had a lifelong fascination for anything with an engine, my only remaining street rod is a '48 Ford F1 that I built over 30 years ago, still going strong.

 

I have had a 1952 f1 since I was 14 I'm 33 now and it's still not finished maybe one day when my kids are my age 

[pkerot 73]

Quote

I had no spark so I took the cover off of the flywheel. I was going to look for points  and condenser but I found a rusty flywheel.  I  cleaned the rust off and have spark!

The carburetor is in the Berryman but I'm impatient so I poured gas down the sparkplug hole and  turned the key. IT RUNS!  And it ran for a long time. ok maybe 5 seconds but I was expecting it might spin couple of revolutions and die. It seems to run good.   I also welded a little on the muffler

 

[chip61 658]

On 3/3/2020 at 8:09 PM, pkerot said:

953,your truck is  beautiful. and its the right color  This is my 1960 with 460.  My best friend Sam, says  he would never paint a truck that color. Thats all right Sam, the Beautiful women like my truck

 

 

Love the truck and the color!! I have always liked that Ford bodystyle. I bet you surprise some people with that 460!!

[pkerot 73]

This is how the choke linkage connects on the GT2500

 

thanks Chip, the truck is not fast but it sure  will pull a load and lots of beautiful women tell me they love my truck!

 

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by pkerot

[cschannuth 3,816]

Had to do some concrete chipping and hammer drilling today at a construction site that doesn’t have power nearby yet. These little generators are so awesome because you can literally drive right up to where you need to work and the 14 horse Kohler uses almost no gas at half throttle and that’s all you need to power a couple of appliances off the generator.

[pkerot 73]

which generator are you using?

[Tractorhead 9,064]

1 hour ago, cschannuth said:

Had to do some concrete chipping and hammer drilling today at a construction site that doesn’t have power nearby yet. These little generators are so awesome because you can literally drive right up to where you need to work and the 14 horse Kohler uses almost no gas at half throttle and that’s all you need to power a couple of appliances off the generator.

 

 

Great Pict - think an absolute Calendar candidate.

 

i love it, to see Rig‘s used as they be planed or designed for 👍

[cschannuth 3,816]

5 hours ago, pkerot said:

which generator are you using?

3,000 Watt Wheel Horse. I’d love to have the larger one also. 

[pkerot 73]

thank you.  I went to an estate sale today and came away with a grand prize  

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Reworked today finaly the turn plow for my Horse.

a quick reuse of the changable front lift cylinder, i have moved to rear, give me the ability to lift the plow

easily forceless by hydraulic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love my Hydraulic possibilities, that make attachements handling much more easy.

and after final mounting except paintjob, i did a first „test plow day“ myself.

 

 

I try to plow 5 times the rows, each plow a bit deeper because of missing weight on the Rear axle.

 

 

 becomes too muddy to work seriously because on the beginning 

the soil was wet and muddy, and the deeper ground was harder than the top.

 

so it want diggin that deep into soil, otherwise it lifts the back of my Horse,

but with bit more Weight on the rear, it seems it will work.

 

 

 

[pfrederi 17,663]

I HATE painting.  Like to turn wrenches but I absolutely hate painting.  My painting is limited to that necessary for corrosion control.  Was trying to paint a fender for my GT-14 project this week.  Was actually a nice sunny day but cool.  Got some stuff done then the breeze kicked up had to move around the back of the shop in the shade to get out of the wind...but it was cold back there.  Painting wasn't going well and when i was repositioning the fender to get better spray coverage it slipped and landed on the work table.... May mount it just like this then maybe this summer take it off and try again....maybe....

 

 

 

[oldredrider 2,548]

Been there, done that. Hate it when that happens!

[squonk 41,020]

On 3/3/2020 at 11:59 AM, WHX24 said:

 

Practiced my rite of passage as @953 nut says. Who ever has a press needs to mod it to get a dangling dash in! Best idea I ever had and good ideas come far and few in-between at this ranch! 

 

Roll pin was a bit of a bugger but I WON!!! 

WHIMP!  I sheared one of those roll pins off with a 20 lb. puller and a 24" Crescent wrench!