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As much as I like the H16 the 1256 was on my bucket list for sometime. Those Wisconsin engines sound so sweet. I am going to repower my other H 16 with a 14 hp Wisconsin S-14D, same engine as in the large frame 1476.

I saw that, it is very nice. Is this a hard to get or is the Chevy Duramax an unusual model in the UK?

Beautiful pictures, somewhat unusual to see a big Chevy dually over there, no?

I've seen Bolens snow mobile hats, but never outdoor equipment hats. This one from the early 80's seem to show the newly designed Bolens QT16, and Iseki Bolens tractor, as wel as older ride-a-matics, walk behinds, snowblowers, and tillers. I got this from Canada

A much needed wash for some of the machines

I hope you got some fresh milk from your tea, lol. We had another little one born yesterday evening

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You cant find the wife model that has no audio, they discontinued them a half a century ago or longer

My wife's never says a word about anything I buy, in fact she encourages me always, but she doesn't drive, work outside the home, or go anywhere without me. Her domain is the home and mine is outside the home, I don't mess with her area and she doesn't mess with mine. Society has screwed up what smart animals can't, everything must have its proper place and an order must be followed, once those rules are broken chaos ensues.

Ouch. That thing looks deadly.

Sounds like you have a plan. Will look forward to pictures

This last week has been really bad. Pain has been so that one to two hours of sleep has been average going on two weeks. On top of that University screwed up the computer system and the federal scholarship money might be delayed until December. I had to take a leave of absence and go to work (Gasp!) until the money comes in. I have a job I started yesterday remodeling a basement, but today I took a personal day. I try and take at least 2-3 personal days a week, if the week was a wee bit longer I would insist on taking up to 4 personal days. After my 2 cups of coffee and milk and a couple of over easy eggs cooked into 2 slices of Wheat bread I made my way to the driveway full of tractors. I had so many different bits and pieces to do on each machine that the morning fog just allowed me for a few hours buzzing from one tractor to another. I got the battery charger on the Massey Ferguson 1450 and drove it about and left it running to charge the dead battery (lol), The drive about loosened the old girl up nicely and she drove like a S class Mercedes. I found my ferrules and completed my lift cable for the Allis 716H and installed the rear upper and lower lift parts and also got the grader blade installed. I put the battery charger on the Simplicity 7016HK and went to work on the two Bolens 1476, but then I saw the 1256 front tire had again gone flat (only on one side), so I removed the wheel and ran the round rasp through it real good and pushed a nice plug through it and reinstalled, so far the plug has held, back to the Bolens. The 1476 with the deck was acting and sounding funny when I raised and lowered the deck and I noticed that when I really got on the gas both tires would break loose and spin like I was off the ground, I was off the ground. Apparently the lift goes to ground level and below. When I lower the the mower deck to its lowest point it will lift the rear end of the tractor completely off the ground, enough for me to change a tire. I need to watch how far I lower the deck! I need to replace a few hair pins and clevis pins with bolts to prevent some of the lift mechanisms getting hung up by hairpins hitting each other. I also had to take the torch (I just like using the torch, even though I always burn myself) to one side of the mower deck front skid as it had been bent down a wee bit; all done and onto the the Bolens 1476 with the tiller. I made a belt guide the other day and that didn't seem to help at all, then today I noticed there was a belt guide missing on the other side as well. I found a 3/16 piece of round stock and threaded an 1-1/2" on one end and cold bent the belt guide end. Well that help a lot, but the rear tines are still moving with the PTO off. These are belts from a supply house, not factory replacement belts, the size is the same, but factory replacements are a matched set of three and made with a special blend of Kevlar and reinforced cord, but those are 50.00 for three, mine were 18.00 delivered. I still think I may have a adjustment problem with the belt guides, PTO spring, or PTO rod; saving that for a another day. The neighbor came over late in the afternoon and had a load of gravel to spread on his drive that the gravel man had brought. He took the Wheel Horse with the box blade and front blade and was not gone 30 minutes and returned with a big smile and 25.00, I didn't take it. I still need to remove my hydraulic valve from the Massey 1650 and add the extra valve so I can have a hydraulic center link to adjust the box blade or plow. The battery charger did its job (90 minutes on a 50 amp charge) and the Simplicity 7016HK fired right up, and after a 10 minute stretch around the drive and yard, she took her place with the herd. I still have the Massey Ferguson MF-16 in the barn, 5 different tractors in various stages of alteration/repair in the shop and 6 more non runners in the barn. I dissembled the Cub Cadet Q40 snow blower and will offer the parts on eBay. Later in the afternoon I went to town and replaced a GFI outlet on a friends porch and I am ready for a bite to eat here at 8:15. More pictures tomorrow or Saturday after a good scrubbing,

Four more heifers came home from their date with Hornsby McStiffy, MY 48 X was in a particularly good mood and made quite racket for sometime

Yes it happens on both ends quite frequently. In the US the chance that an item is within a 5 hour drive is slim, so most things are shipped. I always ask for full resolution pictures before the auction ends, if I don't get them I don't bid

Our postal system uses tracking numbers, so we can tell exactly where the package or letter is. We can tell when a label was printed, when it arrived at the postal facility, and when it arrives and leaves each destination, and even when it out for delivery. We also get a notification from the post office the minute the package leave the originating station that a package or letter is on the way. You are right about communication with most sellers, for various reasons they are not very good at answering questions, but one reason I have found is that the sellers don't know much about what their selling.

The number of basic safety precautions ignored in this video is unfathomable, We in the west could never survive these incidents without being maimed by attorneys and killed by monetary judgements.

Yes and No. The brochure list the HT-23 as the HT2300, but I missed the "Garden Keeper" nom de guerre. It isn't all wrong, the GT 180 was not a ST tractor, or suburban tractor which featured mostly Briggs opposed twins 14-16 hp, the smaller ST110, and ST120 have L-Head singles, but the GT180, would have been the GT for Garden Tractor, not GT for Garden Keeper, but I think someone was thinking of the Bolens Grounds Keeper when making the brochure. The 18hp GT180 would have been able to handle a larger lawn, garden, and a robust and rugged use than the smaller ST tractors, kind of like an in-betweener like we had before we was married, lol

The Brochure was rehomed to a Duratrac and Eleminator owner. BTW, Did anyone see the glaring mistake in the model designation on one tractor?

I had 7 messages about a bagger for grasshopper mower I posted it for a friend and I said such in the ad. In the first message I received I told the guy I knew nothing about grasshopper mower models and what would fit what, after 6 more emails of him asking if it would fit a different model, what size the mounts were, where it mounted, and the number of bags (showed in the pictures), I never heard from the guy again. No thanks, nothing. I refuse to answer any questions anymore, no one answers any of mine either.

As a eNay seller when a person buys an item I am asked to give feedback, which I do shortly after the person receives the item. I say thanks for the sale and payment and leave positive feedback, but there is a trend going on across eNay in which buyers are receiving the item and several days later, after receiving good feedback they are making a claim the item was missing pieces or defective. This scam has just hit me on a electronic miniature TV antenna/transmitter. The buyer saw that I had a best offer and made an offer of 30 percent less than asking price and even though my asking price was way below market value. I wanted to sell the item so I accepted his offer. 4 days later the person had not paid for the item and I emailed him to ask if he still wanted it. He replied he did, and would pay that evening. He did not do so, but paid the following day, nearly 5 days after cutting me down 30 percent. I sent him the item in its original box and with all the contents pictured in the ad and a week after he had received it, he makes a claim to eNay that it did not contain all the parts that were supposed to be in the box. I emailed the buyer and asked him if he received everything pictured that in the ad, and he said he did, but that there was something else that was supposed to be in there. So my point to eNay was that I sold him the contents of the box in which he saw before the sale and now he wants more? What he wants is the deluxe model that he didn't buy that comes with two of the items in one box, or he didn't really want to buy it in the first place

YouTube as an application that fixes the shaking, somewhat. Still a great video

A bad day at ploughing is better than a good day at work.

15 and 17 hp are Mitsubishi and 19-27 hp are Isuza or something like that

Myrtle is cute name, our dog is named "Refund"