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Working on the cooling piping and couldn’t resist mounting the radiator up! It’s almost like Christmas, I’ve near forgotten that I’ve already made up all the adapter plates and stuff is bolting on pretty darn quick!

Steering box bushing installed, put a .060” flange on it to hold the pinion deeper into the sector. Works mint with no binding. Steering box installed and clutch stops/trans brake all adjusted up real nice. Just have to weld the steering arm back on, it had been cut off and welded to truck steering box way back in the day when the original failed I would guess. Pops is taking on the sheet metal work and I’ll be free to finish the cylinder heads now.

Stopped at a buddies house Tuesday coming back from a parts run. His daughter and Son-in-law got him a Rat Terrier pup for Christmas. Now four months old, he's a pistol! Will get a picture next time I stop.

She’s back on her wheels. All bolted up hopefully for good to this point.

Front adapter plate finished and ready to install.

Looks like something off a fancy Scout. I like it.

Not as noble, but coming from a gassy family. ( A farting horse never tires so a farting man is the man to hire.)

Some more 3/23/22 work ! odds and ends routing Ac and heater lines under fender to leave engine bay clean propane equipment mounted on engine bay. Lift motor and switches installed trying on mud flaps for size tony

Cool looks like it's coming together as planed Nice work

My vote was west coast mirrors also. 😊

3/22/22 Guys , I been wrestling with steering wheels ! wanted original rebuilt but the off set creates a problem with room for driver being we have a new column . this what we have come up with. My alternate choice. It was the center hub that sold me so far ! tony

jeeper61, Creosote inside steam engines was not a problem. If they just sat and never were operated with a fire going, they possibly could have had problems with it, but most engines didn't just set there. They operated. When the engine is running and its exhaust is blowing up the smokestack with each stroke of a piston, it created a monstrous draft from the firebox, through the boiler tubes, into the smokebox and up the smokestack. We all grew up with the little engine that could... "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... Each word alludes to the four cycles of a two cylinder steam engine. Their pistons are pushed forward AND backward with live steam. That familiar rhythm is from two cylinders, each getting live steam and exhausting dead steam up the stack. That exhaust draws what is needed to maintain steam pressure. The harder the pull the harder it exhausts and the more it draws. When its load is lessened, it's exhaust is not drawing as hard, therefore it doesn't draw fire through the tubes as intensely either. This was what a steam locomotive looked like as it was really pulling the heat from the firebox and up the tubes. Maybe the engineer is racing that Desoto car too, here in Montana?? Creosote doesn't have a chance of starting inside that firebox. They do build up soot though. Now....... Water. That's different story. Some water here in Montana can be very hard on boilers. It can pit boiler tubes, and eat out the inside of boilers, thinning their shell. I don't know the story of this Russell steam engine, but it has telltale lime from exhaust it appears. This 30 hp undermounted Avery engine built in 1913 is threshing in South Dakota. The white streak down the side of the boiler barrel is from the safety valve above on the steam dome. An old friend gave me this picture of it and said the boiler was shot in three years, and the engine scrapped. That's BAD water. Our two engines are 113 years old, each. Still going with care and soft water. There are additives for boilers nowadays that help preserve them. Gary😉

I'd gathered a couple of photos to post here. And since I don't know anything, it's a good time to post them, I think? This is an old fashioned roundup and roping of cattle to brand them. Did I get this postcard here on this thread? I don't remember what I had for breakfast. Anyway, it is the Midland Gin at Midland, Texas. And Mom's sister used to live there in Midland, Texas. A 1934 photograph of Wyatt Earp. I'm not sure whether this gentleman is guarding his whiskey still in the Kentucky hills, or waiting for his boiler inspector? I'd love to own that flintlock blunderbuss he has though! A happy farmer in his sod hut in Canada, and packing a rifle. I don't know if he has a steam engine or a boiler inspector? These wagons pulled by goats were so neat! Mom, Uncle Jimmy and Uncle George with their weather(?) sheep pulling their less fancy wagon on the Hamilton Homestead about 1922. I think the dog's name was "Phydeaux"? A blacksmith shop, tire and mechanical garage, and I'd suspect with that (?$10,000?) Case eagle on a globe it could have easily been a Case dealership in North Dakota? A blacksmith sharpening plow shears with a trip hammer I'm not familiar with. I'm not sure what the occasion was here but there are plenty of horses and wagons lined up. This was obviously an Advance dealer? There are a few dollars parked here at this fancy barn. I see a Dodge Brothers Touring Car straight below the far ventilator. Everything else I see is 1917 or post Model T Ford's, except for the second Model T in from the right end, a 1914 Model T. I'll bet Roger knows what kind of hard rubber tire truck this is shown on "moving day." This teamster is hauling logs in to the sawmill with mules. The sawmill is powered by a Frick steam engine. A 12 hp Case engine is powering this sawmill. An Advance simple engine powers this sawmill. Okay, Non-Montanans... What kind of crop could this be with that shaped "straw stack?" Any straw I was ever around didn't stack up like that. Those men would be sliding in a "straw avalanche" with any crop I ever raised. That's a very early Nichols & Shepard engine turning the hand feed, slat stacker threshing machine. This not so great photo is of an early Aultman-Taylor bevel gear and shaft drive engine turning a hand fed, slat stacker (?) threshing or corn husking (?) machine. I just liked the setting here with that "Zig Zag" split rail fence. This 15 hp M. Rumely engine is threshing in 1903. Everyone including the cooks are posing. A Reeves engine fell through an iron frame bridge. It almost looks like they could just run it up the bridge incline and go on their way. But it could also drop from that end as easily. There is PLENTY of water on the crown sheet though. Often these engines were pulling a threshing machine that crushed the engineer when they fell and pulled the separator forward in the fall. I'm having trouble identifying this horsepower. It has the short fat boiler of a 32 hp cross compound but it has an exhaust pipe on this side, negating a 32 hp, and it is awfully short in the boiler barrel for a 25 hp double simple. And the barrel is too fat for a 25 hp cross compound. Oh well.... A An Advance straw burner engine is busy threshing in this photo. The aftermarket spark arrestor is for keeping the easily started straw ash ember fires. But it is inexpensive fuel to burn threshing. This is a fairly new Case threshing outfit. A 15 hp engine, wooden threshing machine and water tank wagon. This family and crew is posing with their Advance coal burner engine. I have been wondering what this big Russell engine is freighting? It appears the boss' son got to ride along this day? A big 32 hp Gaar Scott straw burner engine is handling some chore in Minnesota. If this is in fact an oil well, this late model 75 hp Case "bobtail" engine could get into trouble?? Roger... Is this an Advance Rumely Oilpull turning this threshing machine? I'm not able to identify it. An upside down clown in the smokestack of this big Nichols & Shepard engine has more guts than me, trying to stand on his head. I've fallen off of a steam engine and got a brain concussion. The only time in my life I've ever seen stars in the daytime! Again, Roger. I saw that 35 hp N&S you took me to see, that my late friend Danny Roen used to own. I've never seen a single cylinder 35 hp N&S. Could that be what this is? Those driver wheels are awfully tall for a 30 hp? I imagine it is a 30 hp, but... My good friend Roger beside a 35 hp Nichols & Shepard drive wheel. I'm guessing this is a 28 hp Minneapolis shown threshing? I don't know what horsepower this one is either Roger. You will have plenty to straighten me out on this post. I've never seen a steam powered pesticide sprayer before. A Geiser Peerless - "Wood conversion" construction engine. They had winches built into their framework. I'm sure this engine is European (foreign)? The motor (engine proper) is undermounted, but the fascinating part is that it is four wheel drive. I'm quite sure that firebox would be considered a "Belpaire" type? I've never seen another photo of this brand of engine before. I'm not sure whether this Best Tracklayer crawler with the front steering wheel is a 75 hp or not? A Rumely Oilpull is pulling this Deering combine. I would bet this lady driving this 8-16 IHC Mogul tractor happened during WWI when men were scarce? This IHC Titan is pulling a binder in a grain field. Whoever the husband and father is on this crew, has his family visiting. It looks to be set up for driving on city streets? A Waterloo Boy tractor is pulling this smaller road grader. A 9-18 Case cross motor tractor is on the belt powering something? A trusty (sometimes?) Model T Ford Touring Car of ca 1919 hauled somebody to the field. A John Deere D is pulling a John Deere combine in a grain field. When Holt and Best merged forming Caterpillar, Holt sold their combine business to John Deere. Here's a new one for me too. A Fordson "farmall 😁" and I'm suspecting this was in Great Britain? I don't know Now, somebody posted this on Facebook. The general consensus was that this is a "Johnny Cash" tractor? Many parts of it look IHC. This one was listed as a Minneapolis-Moline (Twin City) tractor. I was never really around them to run them. It appears to have quite a haying gaggle of equipment tied on too? Another "Johnny Cash" conversion. Somebody identified this IH Farmall M as having Case tractor wheels? I was fascinated by this LeTourneau 25 yard wagon hitched to this D8 Caterpillar. Gary😉

My wife got this one at our other place

Wasn't here at home but one county over by the other place. Hardly ever see an eagle here and this is as close as I have seen one period.

I took this a few years ago looking West from my deck . Mother Nature wss a little ticked off that day . 100+ mph winds and hail came with this storm .

Had to stop and snap a picture of this sunset on the way back to Station from an Emergency call .

Anniversary picnic a few years back.