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For 30 years I painted everything from anhydrous ammonia plants to kitchen cabinets and it never failed that a guy in a suit or a housewife would asked me "did you put on two coats?" I goy being to the point where I would say, no I did not, I am cheating you, and by the way I thinned the paint so much that it should fall off by the first dew or in just after I cash the check, which will before the ink is dry. When they would get in a huff, I would ask them how they would feel be accused of cheating, I don't take it well and was more than willing to leave right then and get drunker while I fished.

Primer isn't as hard or as durable as top coat, sometimes I 2 coat primer, sometimes not, but I always 2 and 3 coat the top with thinner coats

I hope everyone knows that the chip auction is a parody, tongue in cheek fun.

It came that way, like a sign from above, I pulled it from a bag of Sour Cream and Onion Wavy Lays on Christmas Day. I feel that someone might want this as a an addition to their special religious shrine.

Very nice Chris, even in its state it epitomizes strength and toughness. It surely is both of those things. I believe I did upload a couple of manuals for the 1556 as well. Glad to be of any help I can.

That it does, she needs the tin sorted out some, but all in all very little rust and all complete. I have a beautiful deck for her as well.

Those are hubcaps on the rear. Right now I am trying to collect all the tractors I can, and while they are available, after that I can start into them. My next project is to get the Wheel Horse D160 back together. I'm going to find a fabrication shop that can recreate mufflers for the Bolens 1476 and Wheel Horse D160, and maybe a few others. The D160 can use a IH-1 muffler from the big red cub tractors with a chrome Harley heat shield that looks almost exactly like the original. I can cut 4" off the same muffler and use it fro the D160, and use a anodized heat shied from a off road bike that will look very close to factory as well. It'd going to take some time, I have my Senior semester coming up along with my Capstone project, then I apply for my teaching certificate. This fall I will teach and work online toward a Masters degree. When I start to work in the fall I will have both funds and time to do more.

My late Christmas present, also got a nice little Heavy Duty dump trailer to pull behind, 325.00 for the Bolens and 100.00 for the trailer, 400 miles round trip, 28 gallons of gas at 1.52 PER GALLON

yep, fill 'er up.

Really superb job guys!!!!

That really stinks. I think when they catch these thieves you should get first crack at softening them up for rehabilitation.

Yeah I don't think the FE35 is common here in the states, I see many people looking for the TO35?, I think that's the one. I have never seen a FE35 here, but that doesn't mean much, I never seen a Red Headed Nymphomaniac Eskimo girl whose dad owns a liquor store, and I even put adverts in the paper.

You really pulled in a great haul Joe!!! That Ferguson is a great collector machine

Touche', That it is Norman. Many service manuals call for the removal and replacement of axle pins at certain intervals, but we all know that will not often happen.

Thanks for posting this. I had downloaded some of these plans and lost the website, now I have the rest

Many times I forget how lucky I am to live where I live, even though our area of Oklahoma is fairly wet (Green Country) in comparison to other parts of Oklahoma, the climate is generally dry. It is definitely much drier than the UK. I understand that it may behoove owners to alter original designs improve a machines condition and extend its existence. Good Luck

It may be that the IH had not considered the conditions in the UK as that was not there main market and a grease point was not cost effective. My only point, because I'm old, is that once repaired it would last far longer than me. It may also be possible the pin froze for lack of use or sitting rather than being in operation as most pins I see over here fall out or get very loose if the tractor is in constant use. My Allis 416 nearly ruined the axle by the pin wearing out the bronze bushing between the pin and the axle, same for my other Allis.

The tractor is over 45 years old, the pin froze due to lack of maintenance, not poor design, In my opinion attempting to unengineer a design may produce unwanted results. I have seen hundreds of attempts to redesign an original component or machine, and it often produces less than optimal results and definitely can lower the value of an original machine. I understand your frustration in having to exert such effort to remove the pin, but do not make the mistake of blaming the builder when it was the owner/operator who is at fault. International Harvester put these tractors through a 24 hour 7 days a week proving grounds, they tested it with the latest equipment, they put it through hell and more, they used proven designs from decades of tractor building to produce this machine, nothing on it at the time was substandard. Altering it to modern standards of today may not be the way to go, just food for thought.

I don't know how you can say it better, at least in my opinion. I'm never satisfied with even my good two part paint job as being that close to factory, but at least for now I have slowed/stopped the deterioration.

I'll take it, can you send it to me in by post office? lol

The adjustable legs are a great addition!

Ewan's right, sometimes we use the word patina, when the real word is rust, be it mild or excessive. Patina affects the surface like tan or weathered skin, while rust is a cancer. Sometimes it takes youth to say what the older man would rather not see or face.

I wish you two were closer, i'm looking for some one to fab up a original muffler for my Wheel Horse D160 k341. I found a chrome heat shield from an old cycle, just need a 8.5"x4" body with an inlet and outlet centered out the ends, a type 1.

You fellows over there are getting hammered like the middle and southern region of the US, and now southern South America unbelievable, devastating, and historic floods. Hopefully you won't be getting the tornadoes like our south. Dozens of people have been killed from Texas to Illinois, and thousands of homes have been flood or destroyed by tornadoes. In Oklahoma yesterday the western half of the state received almost a foot of snow in blizzards that produced 8 foot snow drifts, while the eastern half of the state received between 3-15 inches of rain! This El Nina thing needs to move on. http://news.yahoo.com/northern-england-floods-prompt-emergency-government-talks-103245228.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35188059 http://www.newson6.com/story/30831924/eastern-oklahoma-braces-for-heavy-rains-storms-flooding-and-snow http://news.yahoo.com/photos/severe-flooding-in-south-america-1451232939-slideshow/

Take lots of close-up pictures of everything you can Ewan, that way you can reference it. I always forget to take pictures and have to buy another tractor to put mine back together, at least that's the story I've been able to get away with for some time.