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I really like the rotavator, would be great in between rows, very compact design with a nice beefy engine for its size

You take really great pictures, I'm lucky to get one in ten that look that good.

Very nice work there, very nice. I wish I had a lathe and could learn to do this type of work, it would be invaluable in making spares

And a beautiful name to boot, thanks for the identification.

Would you ask her? I'm afraid if I do I may face repercussions, lol

Well they are actually fairly clean except for some recent saw dust in cutting down the damaged plum tree. My newest addition is a red XL-76, its a 58.1cc saw made from 1974 to 1984 for the Canadian market. It came with its original 16" sprocket tip bar and good chain. This is my first, but not last, Canadian made Homelite made by Terry Industries of Pointe Claire, Quebec. The top row are 58.1 cc saws, the second row is 77 and 82 cc saws, and the bottom row are 37-41 cc Models EZ, Super EZ, and Super Mini SL. The bottom row saws are about 11 pounds while the second row are 14.5 pounds, and the top row come in just under 14 pounds. Many of these models were made just a few years with two only being produced one year. I have another 25-28 models yet to acquire. Is 40 chainsaws too many? I might be able to cut it down to 35. My wife is a Saint, truly a Saint.

Hoping this brings me luck. He first landed on the front of my new van and stayed there a while before lighting on the garage wall

We saute the yellow squash and zucchini with a little olive oil in one of our three air fryers (best invention ever, real fried chicken without any oil), or we cut them up small with tomatoes, onions and cucumbers and add a vinaigrette oil. We (the wife) also make zucchini noodles and put Alfredo or primavera sauce on them, carb free Italian.

The tomatoes keep coming 12 cherry tomatoes again today and 8 Romas. The zucchini, squash, and cucumbers are really starting to produce. This picture is of Saturdays picking, but I had not picked in four or five days.

I put up tarps on three sides of the fence to protect the corn, but that didn't stop two tornado's from sucking the kernels off the cob, the green beans never produced a bean, the peppers and onions didn't produce or grow, but the radishes, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers did exceptionally well. We are getting a dozen cherry tomatoes and four or five Romas a day off three plants. I have four more Roma plants just starting to produce and ttwo beefsteak plants also ready to produce. I also have 5 other varieties about 6 inch tall and doing well. We got over two dozen large zucchini's this year and four or five times that of the yellow squash. I only had four cucumber plants, but we have gotten a couple dozen, about a fourth of them are odd short fat ones and the rest are beautiful 9 inchers. The two watermelon plants have produce four large Black Diamond melons over 25 lbs, we got two and the raccoons got two.

You think there is alot of plastic on garden tractors, take a good look at some of the farm tractors made today, all the "sheet metal" is plastic.

I picked these shelves up for 160.00 with looking casters. I'm going to order one more shelf, but for now its housing my old Homelites pretty well. I hope to have 40 more old Homelites of different years and models, so I may need a few more shelves. I'm not sure I risk asking the wife to park her car outside to make room for shelving and chainsaws. I already have three more than when I took this photo.

You might consider buying another machine with the parts you need. The word "pricey" seems to be particular to each individual and when the concern is about the cost, a hobby like collecting or restoring old tractors/cars is not going to be cheap or free. The market drives the prices and if you say that Chevy S-10 parts are pricey (I don't know why anyone would really want to collect them), since they made millions of them, then I'm not sure your definition of pricey is what others may hold to be true. I've have found those brackets for as little as 20 bucks on eBay and has high as 100 for new reproduction or pristine examples. I sell rear three point hitches for nearly 500.00 off parts tractors and cant keep them in stock, the same hitches new on most garden tractors cost more than that. When they no longer make a tractor or the parts the demand is going to set the prices. You could collect Sears tractors, the parts are much cheaper. I can part out a junk John Deere 317 for over 1500 dollars and since I don't collect John Deere tractors it funds my hobby of collecting tractors I do like nicely and people I sell the parts to are very pleased to pay the price and get the part. Keep searching, but the parts are only going to go up, as will car parts, but ultimately if a person is concerned with the cost of collecting vintage or antique machinery it would seem to be a bad choice of hobbies. I hope my honesty doesn't offend in any way, as it is not meant to, I'm only trying to express my take on things for people to consider.

Part number would help. Some one on Red square makes them and sells them on eBay if I'm correct in assuming which brackets you mean. It would seem attempting to purchase a set on the other side of the pond would become a very expensive proposition just for the shipping and customs charges alone.

Yes, it is a "shaggin waggin".

Just an F1 tornado, winds just over 100-130 mph. My neck, back, elbow, knee, and shoulder are twisted up after the accident, the last thing I want to do is clean up storm damage, re-roof buildings, and replant the garden, but it has to be done, nobody pays me to work and I wont work for anyone.

The drunk driver that hit us rear ended my 3/4 ton van going over 100 mph, both our seat backs and seat belts broke and the heavy rear hitch was forced into the gas tank. The whole van buckled from the bottom and there was a 12 12" rise in the middle of the van floor. We were forced to borrow on the wife's 2013 Dodge Dart (12,000 miles on it) in order to get another van for me to drive. I found this one about 120 miles away, its a 1998 Mark 111 Dodge conversion van with TV and game console, front and rear heat and air, electric fold down rear bed, and just about every option one can think of, with a 140,000 on it it was a good deal for 2400.00. So far I'm getting 19 mpg on the highway and 15 mpg in the city on a 318 c.i. V8

I spotted these two just outside the patio door this morning. It was nice sight to see after the uprooted trees to my right and left and the missing roof from the well house, shop and barn. Recent tornado's also took all the corn, but spared most everything else. The bad luck started about two weeks ago with a drunk driver hitting us and injuring both the wife and I, and has continued ever since, yesterday we lost our 12 year old miniature schnauzer . I'm really hoping for better weather than two tornadoes a week and near misses on the road everyday.

He's even driving on the wrong side of the road, lol

I had something similar happen on my 42" Bolens tube frame deck. Someone had reassembled the arbor shaft and bearings in the opposite order and grease could not enter the bearing area, as the grease journal was blocked by a bearing, once the arbor was reassembled the proper way the arbor shaft was able to be greased. The prior spindle rebuild and repair prematurely failed due to the negligence of the previous mechanic. I call this Machinery Forensics, and much like these medical crime dramas on the TV, it takes an autopsy from a machinery detective to find out what the guilty party did to cause the machine to fail. I see this scenario play out on this forum more often than many other forums, because often you blokes want others to understand what happened, what caused it, and what the remedy is.

More Homies come home to roost, this makes 10 with a couple of more in the post. The first on is 1980 Homelite Super EZ Automatic, 40.9 cc, 16" power tip bar and auto oiler. The second saw is a 82 cc XL-903 made in 1969 only, 20" power tip heavy bar, and auto oiler.

Neat bit of machinery. https://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/d/mini-crawler-loader/6242674451.html

Very unusual to see the creeper gear and Hi-Lo options on a Cub https://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/d/cub-cadet/6241563105.html

You may be able to buff it out with a good wax.

Your friends Rollo is much older as the the first picture shows a mid to late 60's Briggs and the engine on this beast looks to be a late 50's Briggs or Wisconsin.