What ya working on?

[hillman]

35 minutes ago, MT Matt said:

I had a 76 that looked just like that except the rims were stock. Had the thing repainted three times and he could never get it right. It bubbled each time.  He even had a paint rep out. So since I moved 1600 miles away, I got it as was. Fun little car but shortly after I got married it went down the road. I didn’t miss it much. Salt in Missouri did a number on it. It had a 350 and four speed. 

I see a lot of them with bad frames.

[mike newman]

...been busy on several different Excavators for the last month....basically  shifting  a 'river bed '' off some very productive flats...that normally grow maize..

..there are three big wheel tractors with 18 ton rated trailers  to cart the gravel back into some form of 'stopbank''....

..because of the idiot beauruocracy down under..in respect of the rivers  (and every where else, for that matter...)..landowner is no way allowed to build a ''stopbank''  as such...without a screed of conditions, including planning /consent etc by ''experts ''....Given the ''experts '' in this case have the apptitude of a puddle.....it is all a waste of time..thus..one is allowed to build a ''meadow bank''....which is basically a hump in the paddock, on which grass is grown...and it must be well away from the river etc...So for a month I have been scraping the gravel of the maize paddock and a huge ''meadow bank '' has been created....

Then there is tons of silt heaved up in windrows with the 30 ton 'Doosan "...the silt is carted waay up the farm and placed  in a great ' canyon  '  that the river created.....So all but 5 acres of the flats will be recoverable...

Been loading out mostly with a 20 ton Volvo..very nice Excavator...a lot to like about it..

pictures show the maize stalks  under the gravel...gravel varies in height  from 6inchs to three feet deep...just keep scraping untill we see the maize stalks...

...to  keep to the IH theme....no close pics of JD's are shown.....the green tractor is a indeed a ''Green Belarous.''....a less than affectionate term ,coined by the operators....but there is the old TD8....the last model that the UK produced...power shift, and ''still doin' time ''...pushing silt of the dump face ..

Mike

 

[DT Fan]

Metal prep and paint. 6 more split weights and a toolbox to go. Stupid rim took forever to get ready for paint! Would like to paint a few suitcase weights too but may run out of ambition.

Oh, and got the first new rear on 756D. Hopefully get the other one tomorrow, rim needs another coat of paint yet.

[midnightman]

Thought I had the 8240 ready except for the last couple checks. I knew the clean grain chain was getting near end of life as was almost at the end of adjustment. Top sprocket however was done. So it got new sprocket, bearings, and elevator chain.Found this issue when I went to close the concave. Bracket behind the worm gear shaft cracked at the thinnest part allowing the gear to move out of alignment. Fabricated a u shaped piece from 3/8 plate and slipped it in on top of the original, pulled everything back into alignment, and managed to get in there to weld it in.

[MT Matt]

7 hours ago, mike newman said:

...been busy on several different Excavators for the last month....basically  shifting  a 'river bed '' off some very productive flats...that normally grow maize..

..there are three big wheel tractors with 18 ton rated trailers  to cart the gravel back into some form of 'stopbank''....

..because of the idiot beauruocracy down under..in respect of the rivers  (and every where else, for that matter...)..landowner is no way allowed to build a ''stopbank''  as such...without a screed of conditions, including planning /consent etc by ''experts ''....Given the ''experts '' in this case have the apptitude of a puddle.....it is all a waste of time..thus..one is allowed to build a ''meadow bank''....which is basically a hump in the paddock, on which grass is grown...and it must be well away from the river etc...So for a month I have been scraping the gravel of the maize paddock and a huge ''meadow bank '' has been created....

Then there is tons of silt heaved up in windrows with the 30 ton 'Doosan "...the silt is carted waay up the farm and placed  in a great ' canyon  '  that the river created.....So all but 5 acres of the flats will be recoverable...

Been loading out mostly with a 20 ton Volvo..very nice Excavator...a lot to like about it..

pictures show the maize stalks  under the gravel...gravel varies in height  from 6inchs to three feet deep...just keep scraping untill we see the maize stalks...

...to  keep to the IH theme....no close pics of JD's are shown.....the green tractor is a indeed a ''Green Belarous.''....a less than affectionate term ,coined by the operators....but there is the old TD8....the last model that the UK produced...power shift, and ''still doin' time ''...pushing silt of the dump face ..

Mike

 

You are a busy beaver Mr Newman!

[5488ih]

Getting new rims & a set of 520 85R 42” Firestones.

[Sledgehammer]

Cleaning up about 900 bricks for re-use on a little project. Got 102 clean so far. Can do about 30/hr give or take a little. Hammer drill and a brick hammer. Using a concrete chisel for the holes. 

[oleman]

21 hours ago, Sledgehammer said:

Cleaning up about 900 bricks for re-use on a little project. Got 102 clean so far. Can do about 30/hr give or take a little. Hammer drill and a brick hammer. Using a concrete chisel for the holes. 

In 2003 I was working at a Church project, a church originally built in 1896 was getting a  steeple. I got a brick from the foundation corner where the new steeple was going in, nice souvenir, hand-made brick dated to the 1890's. 

[Sledgehammer]

36 minutes ago, oleman said:

In 2003 I was working at a Church project, a church originally built in 1896 was getting a  steeple. I got a brick from the foundation corner where the new steeple was going in, nice souvenir, hand-made brick dated to the 1890's. 

These were laid new in 1949. My Great Grandparents home that I now own and live in. We had a brickyard in town beginning in 1903 and operating until 1979. These bricks can still be found many places in the area. I do not know if the bricks in my home came from there as mostly the marked bricks are pavers but they also made many styles unmarked. 

[Cool1566]

My father in law has several bricks labeled the same as yours, Todd. 
Neat peices of small town history. 

[Rawleigh99]

Preg checking the 1966 Case 930. I'm. LOL PTO went out and I am finally getting to it now that it has cooled off! I'm not much good in hot weather anymore.

[Alan Dinan]

Just finished up tomatoes for the year. Wife and I did 60 pounds, made pasta sauce, chili sauce, salsa, stewed and juice.

[DT Fan]

On 8/27/2025 at 7:39 AM, midnightman said:

Thought I had the 8240 ready except for the last couple checks. I knew the clean grain chain was getting near end of life as was almost at the end of adjustment. Top sprocket however was done. So it got new sprocket, bearings, and elevator chain.Found this issue when I went to close the concave. Bracket behind the worm gear shaft cracked at the thinnest part allowing the gear to move out of alignment. Fabricated a u shaped piece from 3/8 plate and slipped it in on top of the original, pulled everything back into alignment, and managed to get in there to weld it in.

Here's the one that came out of my 1460. Let's say I've learned a few things to look at in a potential combine purchase!

[766 Man]

39 minutes ago, DT Fan said:

Here's the one that came out of my 1460. Let's say I've learned a few things to look at in a potential combine purchase!

Somebody got their money's worth out of that sprocket.

[Alan Dinan]

52 minutes ago, DT Fan said:

Here's the one that came out of my 1460. Let's say I've learned a few things to look at in a potential combine purchase!

Just flip it around, Mike, you’ll get a few more $$ out of it!! lol 😂 

[DT Fan]

6 minutes ago, Alan Dinan said:

Just flip it around, Mike, you’ll get a few more $$ out of it!! lol 😂 

Why didn't I think of that?

[Ry Stoltenberg11]

Broke the steering on my kubota bx2200. Asked around to see if anyone has had this problem, but now it has to go to the dealer 

[Sledgehammer]

Worked on cleaning up 3 trees. Two ash and a large white oak hat had died. The oak is 59" across at 4' off the ground. 

[MT Matt]

On 9/1/2025 at 7:26 AM, Alan Dinan said:

Just flip it around, Mike, you’ll get a few more $$ out of it!! lol 😂 

I think it has been flipped twice already!  🤣

[Sledgehammer]

Here is that same tree with myself and the family for scale. I'm 6'2" with boots on and standing on a lower spot than the wife/boy. 

 

[yellowrosefarm]

2 hours ago, Sledgehammer said:

Here is that same tree with myself and the family for scale. I'm 6'2" with boots on and standing on a lower spot than the wife/boy. 

 

That's a big-un for sure. What did you use to cut it down?

[1480x3]

On 9/1/2025 at 8:33 AM, DT Fan said:

Here's the one that came out of my 1460. Let's say I've learned a few things to look at in a potential combine purchase!

20 minutes with a welder & got er rebuilt

[Sledgehammer]

2 hours ago, yellowrosefarm said:

That's a big-un for sure. What did you use to cut it down?

We had a large excavator just beyond it cutting a pond dam for future repair. They pushed it and sawed it with the mechanical advantage. I was at work so I'm not sure what they had for a saw. 

[IHKeith]

 

Getting ready for the local demo derby this Sunday, I’m running a 1980 Buick and my friend/employee/right hand man Bob is running a 1988 Caprice.  His has a spicy 350 and mine a moderate 383 SBC.

The 70 Coupe DeVille is a customer’s, he spun a couple bearings in the 472 last fall.  I pulled the engine in the fall and sent it to be rebuilt, the crank and rods were heated and too damaged to use.  I had a 75 500 engine and we used the crank and rods from it.  The rebuilt engine is all freshly machined and balanced, 10.5:1 compression, mild cam and Edelbrock intake, it should have noticeable power increase last a long time.  The exhaust manifolds were problematic for leaking on this car for the past few years, now the manifold and head are freshly machined flat.  The used crank measured OK and looked good, the engine it came from was clean inside and appeared well maintained, there was enough wear in the cylinder bores and lack of crosshatch that you could conclude the engine had considerable mileage and wear.  The crank was reground  to ensure a brand new surface.  I am excited about this project because it’s the first brand new 55 year old engine that I have installed.

 I have done various degrees of new and old parts, even with a fresh engine, sometimes aggravated by something like an old leaking header or exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, warped used aluminum intake, poor carburetor, etc.  I rebuilt the carburetor and made new dual exhaust just before he blew it up.  

[iowaboy1965]

5 hours ago, IHKeith said:

 

Getting ready for the local demo derby this Sunday, I’m running a 1980 Buick and my friend/employee/right hand man Bob is running a 1988 Caprice.  His has a spicy 350 and mine a moderate 383 SBC.

The 70 Coupe DeVille is a customer’s, he spun a couple bearings in the 472 last fall.  I pulled the engine in the fall and sent it to be rebuilt, the crank and rods were heated and too damaged to use.  I had a 75 500 engine and we used the crank and rods from it.  The rebuilt engine is all freshly machined and balanced, 10.5:1 compression, mild cam and Edelbrock intake, it should have noticeable power increase last a long time.  The exhaust manifolds were problematic for leaking on this car for the past few years, now the manifold and head are freshly machined flat.  The used crank measured OK and looked good, the engine it came from was clean inside and appeared well maintained, there was enough wear in the cylinder bores and lack of crosshatch that you could conclude the engine had considerable mileage and wear.  The crank was reground  to ensure a brand new surface.  I am excited about this project because it’s the first brand new 55 year old engine that I have installed.

 I have done various degrees of new and old parts, even with a fresh engine, sometimes aggravated by something like an old leaking header or exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, warped used aluminum intake, poor carburetor, etc.  I rebuilt the carburetor and made new dual exhaust just before he blew it up.  

What style cam did he go with? I see lots of guys having trouble wiping lobes on new flat tappet cams. Everything from low zinc in oil to improper break in to bad metallurgy from Chinese products being blamed. Are you concerned at all?