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It’s been a slow project but finally on the home stretch. A big THANKS to Wallfish for getting me going with the bones of this really cool saw. With his advice I was able to harvest an engine and a few other parts from an old Orline Mustang. Original paint was too far gone for a refresh so it was time for a complete restoration. Webhead is fixing me up with a hook screw for the muffler since this saw has the little exhaust collector extension and it needs to be about 3” long. I was able to find some cable conduit in the right diameter and made a new throttle cable for it. Hopefully when Titch has some time maybe he can get a decal made up as the finishing touch. I had forgotten about the bark rest piece until Wallfish reminded me and of course I’d already finished painting everything else so that piece is late to the game but drying now (it’s already 104 in AZ so dry time should be faster). Finding a good paint match was a bit more challenging than I thought it would be, must have gone through about four different reds and 6 yellows but I think I landed on a pretty good match all said and done. Yellow is really hard...

Ken managed (at a safe distance) to appear out of hiding to cut my grass and display some seed drills and push hoes

Thought I would add a couple more photos in different lighting. When I looked at it his morning without the lights on it actually looked much better for taking pictures. I think these show the yellow much better- it has just the right hint of red in it.

Big job on! farmer Friend let us have a play to set up and test plough. Only another 30 acres to go! Oh and he has now told me that it has only been cultivated twice in 5 years as it is the heaviest wettest field on the farm. video-1587900855.mp4

They all do on those. I was gonna knock the roll pin out and swag the pipe a little to make it fit tight but never did it. Ha, see you are babying that thing already with the cloth. Are you wiping it down with a diaper yet? That's the only thing with doing nice restores, it's a PITA to baby them so they don't get scratched up. Then it really sucks when they do eventually get scratched.

Nice bit of ploughing. Well turned over and very little grass/stubble showing.

Hi Alan Ken has been in hiding Barbie is after him ha ha ha

NICE! Makes me want to paint mine yellow instead of all red. Or better yet, I want my parts back now!