Recent content by bird dogger

RCW, it sounds like all that's left for you to do is make it official and set the date!! You won't regret it for a minute. I learned early on that nobody has your best interests in mind better than you yourself. Whether pertaining to the retirement date decision, what to do in retirement, and...

Cant beat the price of these old planters! This one was free. Circa 1930s Cockshutt "Black Hawk" 4 row planter. It Essentially put the 2 boys through college with their 2.5 acre sweet corn patch....along with some elbow grease, arguing and a few fights in the middle of the field over the...

How true!! Or it sure seems like it, anyway. It's comparable to putting your thumb in a bucket of water. Pull out your thumb and see how long it takes for the water to fill in the hole left behind. :ROFLMAO: That's about as long as a person will be missed these days, once you pull the plug...

I walked out the door of the shop at age 62 after 42 years at the same company. Had no plans in the making. Just walked out after giving notice. Was worried about what had just happened after the door closed behind me.....for about 5 minutes at most!!! That was 8 years ago now and I've never...

See Post 9912 here....that prompted the rebuild of my Howard J rotovator. Crappy welds on the main drive shaft had finally broke...alowing the drive shaft to just spin inside the main tiller tube. See Post 9972 for my repair job on that broken weld on the main drive stub. Here's some...

Bill, that's already turning out to be one nicely restored grader!! Especially with your improvements added! I don't have much use for mine anymore (see post 17) but when its needed it still works great....still in all its rusted glory! LOL! I do need to replace the wood and straighten out...

Bonny, on my old Howard Rotovator that I inherited and needed rebuilding: Parts, such as the drive gears were no longer available. But were easily replaced by using "weld on hubs" with the same size "weld on sprockets". I'm sure I have pics somewhere that I can post for you. Also, if I...

Certainly top notch work!! No doubt about that!!

cpy911, Welcome to OTT. You'll find lots of great information here!! My B2650 does everything you're looking at on my 19 acres that I live on. Plus, I mow another 2.5 acres on another investment property that I own. It's also used on some trails running through 50 some acres of woodland near...

Mine does the same thing also. I keep taping it up, but eventually it's going to start leaking. @Fordtech86 That's a great idea. I'll be doing that when mine finally fails. Thanks!!

Dusty, There is no doubt that having a grapple will make easy work of clean up duties! "BG" (before grapple) our two young sons and I would cut, load, and haul the brush/trees and then unload at the burn pile. When the boys graduated and moved out, I bought my EA 55" grapple. Now "AG" (after...

Now that's what I'd call an "Industrial Boot"!! :unsure:

They do make it look so easy. :ROFLMAO: It was/is hard to judge the size/materials just from the pics of your parts. But I was thinking along the same lines as you....using .023 wire at a low setting to start. But first, dial in the settings right on a practice scrap piece of material before...

I've never had reason to try it.....but I've heard you can run a bead of weld around the inside of a steel bushing or broken bearing race that seems to defy all other methods of removal. The cooling weld will shrink the inside diameter of the bushing/bearing race and break the bond between the...

That is very cool!!