Recent content by gemutlich

Another nice find, Kirk! Makes me want to look for a 9N myself...

Those are lead blocks, former counterweights, I forget their exact weight though I believe they’re right around 80lbs each At least the first one is, they sure seemed to feel heavier by the time the last one was set!

And the white oak, sorry I didn’t grab pics before we layed it up…

And sometimes easy to forget, centuries of old growth trees both standing live, dead, and fallen rotten along with their stumps & roots had to be removed before they could start pulling stones & rocks, man I can’t even imagine Picked up the white oak planks for the bed and the two pieces for...

Sacrificial runners are a good common-place idea to save your metal for sure ‘Cal, they’re on my old brush hog for the same reason if it ever kisses the ground Restoring this old piece is more a sentimental mission for me, and something that will probably see more mileage on a trailer going to...

Six years have passed and as with all of us, much has happened hasn’t it? If you’re reading this, I deeply hope you and those you care about are doing well - and if you haven’t spoken with some of them in a long time, please take a moment just to let them know you’re thinking of them I...

Heya guys. I'm trying to track down a good condition instrument panel for our VAC-14 Case and I'm about out of ideas. The VAC instrument panels all rot from the battery shelf down, and although I can find decent VAC instrument panels the difference with the -14 panel is that the steering...

Aftermath, the clean-up: That was the first of 7 such trees we lost in that macroburst a few weeks ago, 3 of them being 200+ year old Maples

Evening, Gents. Finally broke down and bought a drawbar to tug this stone boat of ours. Drove up to MacFaddens in Sharon Springs NY for it yesterday (Friday). Drawbar, Front mount clevis, pin and retaining clip all came to 100 bucks. In installing it earlier today, I noticed a difference in...

Tossing around the idea of replacing the rear rims on the 641 with new, and a little wider while I'm at it. Have an unjustifiable want to put 13.6 Goodyear turf tires on the back... Looking at Steiner https://www.steinertractor.com/WHS013-rear-rim-12-x-28?&TF=76B28A681CAB their price on a...

Man, y'all had me crackin up! Turnkey, I mentioned skidding em out on the snow because it kept em clean so the sawyer wouldn't lose it over how the dirt wreaked havoc on his equipment. A stone boat of this design could absolutely - much like an old car hood - be used year round to do the job...

For those of you not from New England or "Stone Central" lol: Stone-boat - Wikipedia So, many years ago an old-school retired farmer friend and tractor "mentor" of mine used to use an old Oliver OC-3 (man, I wish I had that old crawler)...

So, figuring after nearly 8 months that either no one reads the wanted to buy forum (though with over 3800 views to this thread I guess that ain't it, lol) or that no one had any 6x16 steel wheels collecting dust in a corner somewhere that they wanted to sell, I took a drive up to Jeff Gibsons'...

Been awhile since I've been able to spend any time on this old Ford. Guess my Wife was feeling guilty ( yeah, right... :D ) about putting me to work on other things because while I talked about it a few weeks ago I never expected this hydraulic top link to be sitting next to my chair when I...