What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[Gregor 4,846]

52 minutes ago, nyquil junkie said:

  I need to get it out of my way sooner or later.

 

 

Lord I am glad you are in Pa.  My wife is even gladdier!

[squonk 41,150]

19 hours ago, WHX24 said:

Got the cart today Billy....fits fine. Some assembly required.   Helmet must be on the slow boat from China yet. 

The whole setup will be good enough for what little welding I do and the women I go out with!

I'll do a thread in tools I get a little practice on it. You guys can critique my beads. 

So how long did it take Dan to put it together? 

[squonk 41,150]

50 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

 

Here's my $10  Junk Yard   weld cart.

 

A scrapped pressure washer with a frozen pump.

Awesome Ed! When I had a welder I found one of those fiberglass janitors carts with the bag and everything in the trash at work. I think a disgruntled housekeeper just shoved it into the dumpster and left. Made a great welding cart! 

[squonk 41,150]

Not really work on a Horsie but I did replace the tool box on the Horsie Hauler!

 

 

[krystolo 504]

I changed the plow blade to the midmount grading blade.  Woo hoo!  That thing is amazing!

[Pullstart 62,905]

I gave blood this afternoon, no heavy work.  Trail ride!

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,592]

43 minutes ago, krystolo said:

I changed the plow blade to the midmount grading blade.  Woo hoo!  That thing is amazing!

Here's one of the videos of my Trina using hers...

 

 

 

 

 

[nyquil junkie 225]

6 hours ago, pullstart said:

looks like lots of usable parts there, rather than scrap 

 

I guess I should disassemble it and sell the parts.  Or sell it as a rolling pile....which is less work.  The engine and the rims are probably more than the scrap value.

[krystolo 504]

6 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Here's one of the videos of my Trina using hers...

 

 

 

 

 

I love this!! 

[krystolo 504]

Just now, krystolo said:

I love this!! 

Making progress!

[ebinmaine 67,592]

3 hours ago, krystolo said:

I love this!! 

Thanks...

If you want to waste some time there's more short videos of us doing stuff with the tractors and various outdoor things on the channel. 

[cschannuth 3,816]

I did some seat switching today. I wasn’t happy with the seat that came on my charger 12 I recently acquired. The seat on the lawn Ranger that I bought from Denny Clarke @dclarkewas in like new condition so I decided to put it on the charger. I had all the components to build an older style seat in a box on my shelf so I put it together and installed it on the Ranger.  I like the look of the Ranger seat bolted right to the seat pan but it’s much more comfortable with the spring base Denny installed so I left it like that. 

Edited March 10, 2021 by cschannuth

[Gregor 4,846]

Both tractors look great. I see one tractor with what looks like a Kemp stack, but maybe you made it yourself. At any rate, it looks very, very close to the hood. It might be farther than it looks, but I assume you have had no problems with too much heat on the paint and decals?

[Pullstart 62,905]

I had a discussion with Rylee this morning about pollution’s effects on the subject of global warming.  That helped me decide to use the 6-1/2 horse engine to go gather some field trash over the 7 horse engine.  

 

 

[Gregor 4,846]

I guess wen can assume walking didn't occur to you.

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

How very carbon conscious if you...!

 

[johnnymag3 2,520]

Carbon looks best in a set of new tires...

[krystolo 504]

Put in a new battery, switched the ground cable to the other side, cleaned her up a bit, tried to grease up anywhere I saw those knobby things (lol), bought some proper clevis pins and cotter pins for the implements. 
If you use the clevis pin, do you still need washers?

Thoughts on lithium spray on lubricant for mounting hardware lubrication?

[Tractorhead 9,064]

After i have my plans finalized how to enlarge the Snowblower for the 656,

i do today a little work on the Turbine’s bearing housing.

 

The Turbine have allready a Bearing but it was previously made as a Front Attachment.

So i decide to rework it and improve that for a Beltdrive system with a second bearing to be more stable even on a stronger Beltspan. 

 

To do that, i reactivated my 15year old little Lathe.

 

 

She‘s just a tiny little one, but works so far after several improvements i have done to her.

I begin with planing firstly the ends and after that i machined a second Bearing holder in it.

 

Because the original bearing has few felt ripples, so i hammer it off and ordered 2 new bearings and decide to rework both sides,

that the bearings will fit snug without too much pressure force.

 

 

Before the bearing snaps hardly out and needs few hard hammer hits to become loose.

That must be changed.

 

 

Now it fits without too much force, tightener pressure with the fingers is enough, 

maybe a gently hammer tap will be needed, but they will now slide in with nearly no force.

 

 

The opposite side with its new Bearingmount

 

 

Where also the bearing fit‘s snug with a little more pressure than a gently finger pressure.

Prewarming with the induction heater and they will flip easy in.

 

 

To release the bearings against any span to the housing, i built a bushing for the inside 0,05 over.

they should be fit between the Fan Shaft the both bearing inner‘s and the bushings and to the Belt pulley,

so they can be tight mounted.

My plan is to stabilize the bearings together even from too much side torque on a higher beltspan.

 

New Bearings are ordered, hopefully they came quick.

[cschannuth 3,816]

6 hours ago, Gregor said:

Both tractors look great. I see one tractor with what looks like a Kemp stack, but maybe you made it yourself. At any rate, it looks very, very close to the hood. It might be farther than it looks, but I assume you have had no problems with too much heat on the paint and decals?

Both are Jim Kemp stacks and the one on the lawn Ranger is pretty close but Denny put a heat shield on it and it hasn’t done anything to the paint. The one on the charger is about an inch away and it gets pretty warm but so far I haven’t had any issues. I have one on my 606 that has a predator engine and it’s only about a quarter inch away from the hood and I haven’t had any issues with it either.  It doesn’t seem to run as hot as the Kohlers  do.  It’s been on there for about 4 years. 

[WVHillbilly520H 10,373]

On 3/8/2021 at 7:31 PM, WHX24 said:

Got the cart today Billy....fits fine. Some assembly required.   Helmet must be on the slow boat from China yet. 

The whole setup will be good enough for what little welding I do and the women I go out with!

I'll do a thread in tools I get a little practice on it. You guys can critique my beads. 

As I said the new set-up still waiting to get gas, but I did get a much better ground clamp for it just need to install it now. You can see that the welder sits about an inch forward of the top shelf the only issuse with this is you can't lift the side panel to check the spool the way it sets, a small angle bolted to the front will cure that.

[haydendavid380 759]

3 hours ago, WVHillbilly520H said:

As I said the new set-up still waiting to get gas, but I did get a much better ground clamp for it just need to install it now. You can see that the welder sits about an inch forward of the top shelf the only issuse with this is you can't lift the side panel to check the spool the way it sets, a small angle bolted to the front will cure that.

I've been really impressed with the titanium welders. Got one of the little flux core ones to supplement the giant heavy duty stick unit we have. Much easier to use and will do 90% of the work.

[WVHillbilly520H 10,373]

13 minutes ago, haydendavid380 said:

I've been really impressed with the titanium welders. Got one of the little flux core ones to supplement the giant heavy duty stick unit we have. Much easier to use and will do 90% of the work.

This is flux, solid mig (with gas of course) and aluminum spool gun capable to, 120/240v switchable.  Got one of the "old" stick elders here too.

[Lane Ranger 10,968]

Picked up tree limbs and plowed some ruts at moms house today!

[chip61 658]

I decided to cut the hydraulic line at the swivel and have a new one made, only problem was my hack saw was in my truck at work. For some reason I grabbed a pair of channel lock pliers and found a very small spot next to the swivel that looked like I may be able to grip (vice grips hadn't worked). Much to my surprise it moved! Put it on the replacement trans, using the good end (plenty of room at valve to get a wrench on the "bad" end). Not much room to work in there, but I finally got everything positioned away from the steering sector. Hope to have enough free time to get it finished by weekend so I can start work on the C160. (several leaks I need to find on that)