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This is his “My bowl is empty -Give me pizza” look

Four hours of travel and one to go gets boring when there are no cows along the road to bark at.

very hard not to play when they ask . Trouble is this goes on all day.

These pictures showed up on my Facebook memories from 12 years ago. It was the beginning of the most amazing working dog I have ever had the pleasure of saying “she’s MINE”!! She could count, bring 1000 head of fresh weaned calves, work for others(if I told her she could)! Bring a baby calf along by nuzzling it, or rip the nose off of a bull that sulled up. Dolly is fun! Tators was AMAZING!

I'm working at taking the truck pan off and oil pump and switching it to the car pan and oil pump. It is a 4 bolt main engine with a forged crank

Pulling the nitrogen applicator units off the toolbar and mounting them back onto the planter. Next up: switch the planter back to corn and look it over for any additional repairs.

I wish I could get my Collies to play. They have never shown the slightest interest in tennis balls, frisbees, tug toys, etc. Shep loves to rip the squeakers out of stuffed dog toys, but that's about it. Chasing live animals is a whole nother story 😄 Look out squirrel, here comes the Elsie bullet train.

Spraying for stinkbugs in soybeans

They'll get bald fast enough when he gets it on the road

Needs to come apart to get to 572 c. i.!

Mommas gone off to graze after breakfast Babies being watched by a couple of babysitter cows.

I know exactly what you mean.

Found a Yugo with two 500ci Cadillac engines 🤣

Here is my motivation. I am trying to make it look as close to the original advertisement as I can. (Hopefully nicer) The rear tires match to a T!!

New shoes are on!!

Bedfords? They were GM (UK)'s truck line. I once heard them described as "not even a good poor man's truck"

This is why he gets the pizza. ….then at 10-10:30pm, he turns into a monster

Tim for the money...... and actual simplicity. A 5.3 and a 4l60e from pickup be slick. The units are low cost but the oil pans an accessory drives etc get $. Neighbors wife totally her 2000s tahoe. Him and his some swapped it all into a 1979 k10 4x LB. All at home...beautiful and run perfect. Anyways....454. Brother has a truck 454 in his 71 nova. Some snort alot of wt. Lost a bearing. Been hoping to put a small block in. The 454 smog is so lazy. Maybe a cam would help. 8.5 to 1 iirc. You do need pan. And it will be low. Dougs headers prob best bet. $ but cheap headers are a B. Before you spend too much just look at a GM or a reputable (not jasper or a slap it toether company) engine builder. Often its same cost and has some warranty to buy a built engine vs doing self. And they are tested and proven. Blueprint perhaps? Gm 454 may not be cheap but for turn key and reliable... Chip Foose has a YouTube vid about 70 chevelle. Swaps a 71 bumper on with the round tail lights.... gorgeous! Was better flow with the 4 rd headlights. Oh and I vote 5sp! 3.73 gears and bald tires

If we can finish this week off we’ll be about 2/3rds done. Headed to my rented land on the reserve today. Hopefully no one else has combined it before I get there lol. Hopefully the rain holds off for the next 3-4 days then all we’ll have left is canola.

Good signs, strange forged cranks were almost standard on all the 396/427's and they did come out on 454 but are fairly rare, good foundation in the bottom

That’s super interesting. I had never considered that - the bottleneck on axial flows. We were all cereal crops and you could always seem to crowd the back end before the rotor/engine pulled down. It was only if tough material where the front end matched the back end. We had a late 1660 with a Cummins and a 2188. The 1660 really felt that way - more engine and rotor than sieves. It was from the era where the 8.3 Cummins still ran really fast.

It originally had a hiniker cab. I need to replace it

Not as far as I know. Surmise the problem is the current regulator part. I have converted one. Used an electronic cut out (diode in a heat sink) and an electronic reproduction of the early Crysler alternator regulator. Had to reverse current flow through field coils. This is at least season 3 maybe 4. Still never had to hook booster or charger yet. Sits all winter. I did mount and have wires strung for a variable field resistor for current control. Have seen no need for yet.

Good eye Alan! I went back and looked and can make it out. Have heard about them in the past but it's been awhile. Should ask my tire guy about them but I'm pretty well fixed for tires now.

Brush hogged around the edges of my hay fields yesterday and today, waiting to see how much more the undergrowth will fill in before taking another cut this fall.

I'd say central Alberta is 1/2 done currently, been some good harvest weather this year.

I’m done for the year! started June 10th and baled the 3rd alfalfa/grass today. Dropped the load off at a customer so just have to drag stuff home and clean up. See what repairs can get done this fall yet.

Front tires are back on!

Those great big Yellowstones are some of the newer steamers built in the US & some of the last running (1941 - 1961). It must have been cool to see those thundering through the Range with a stampede of ore jennies in tow. Mike

Gone ashore in Two Harbors Minnesota for a bite to eat and the first cold snack I’ve had in a month. Seen some steam locomotives on display on the walk up town. Pretty cool. There’s a car show on down by the docks too. Tons of old cars driving around.

Here's pics of the information in my 915 operators and parts books. I found nothing in the service book I understand the 1460 used the same track as the 915.

Little poorer tonight now. Found a truck that was fairly clean and looks to be in decent shape. Local truck all its life as well. 2015 t800 13 speed manual with a 510 hp paccar. Hopefully it doesn’t let us down. Sure a pile of them on the road here so they can’t all be bad. Few more miles then I was hoping but it came from a good home I think. Just over 400,000 miles. Haven’t got it home yet as the dealer needed it to take some parts back to his place but hopefully have it here in the next few days.

Indeed they do. Gradually treasured memories will fill that space. It is obvious from the photos you posted of Feisty she had a special place in your heart. It is equally obvious abundant warm memories will endure. I am saddened to read of your loss.

You like crocs!!

Sons labs had puppies Finally got to see them Sure are cute

Shame it isn't under a roof somewhere.

I got a set of bucket seats nearby @Dave Downs today after a family reunion. Stopped at a friend's mom's house afterwards and saw the car she bought new ......needs everything I'm told . One owner 67 RS-SS though

@FarmerFixEmUp has/d 2 Chevelles but I think they were sb, block physically is very similar between bb/sb, maybe he could measure from the pan rail down to give you an idea for clearance? I ran an oil pan and pump pickup from a 427 gravel truck in my 396 shortbox but that vs medium truck to light but it gave me lots more quarts and oil volume and cooling, no fitment issues at all. You might not need the hydroboost unless you go too much cam then it could be handy? I would think any T400 would do you just might want to have a shorter tailshaft in a car, one of the corvette models had a better servo but can't remember what era, the 400's were simple and tough? Or you could get a built mechanical 700R4, no electronics, can put more gear back there and still cruise at reduced rpm on highway? If your going purist they were deep groove belt pulleys on LS6. Headers, mild steel rusts, stainless cracks, your not going to like the prices now, might look at ceramic coated, Hooker ain't what they used to be, luckily found a set at a garage sale that were tuned for $100, just have to see if they fit a C10 chassis. One of the supposed heavy hitters back in 80 was a local guy in a 70 SS454 LS6 but never saw that car race anything but it was beautiful, real dark blue with black stripes had the jacked up rake, great rough idle and I think centerline wheels until the day it came into a transmission shop my buddy worked at, they had it on the lift and it wasn't a 454 with the external weighted harmonic balancer, 396 or 427 who knows but it wasn't what the badges said. When I bought my 70 Malibu it needed exhaust and brake work so I took it over to a local shop and the owner invited me in to look over my new car more closely, he said it's really nice but it has auto wrecker paint marker on the backside of the front bumper so it must have tapped something but he said you got an awesome car. Then he said he was a GM mechanic in 70 when these came out and this guy bought a new LS6 and would bring it back in for warranty work so after a couple times he brought the mechanic in and said what's wrong with the car, nothing just like the last time, so the mechanic went for a drivability test with the owner, asking him if the car was better, how it seemed and the guy was still complaining so he said I see the problem pull over and we're going to switch, he revved it up to clean out the engine and dumped the clutch and pounded through to 3rd gear and now the owner was scared, he said you just bought one of the fastest cars GM makes, this is how they were made to be driven do you feel there is a performance problem with this car, never saw the guy again, he was driving it like granny everywhere.