I took the deck off... I don't think it's going to be mowing grass with it not on it...
One thing is to race it I'm going to have to get a brake setup and also lower the seat, steering wheel, and controls... another thing is it doesn't have any gears the transaxle is single speed, the gears come in the form of a "variator" pulley, basically when you add more tension to the first belt it causes the variator pulley to decrease the input pulley diameter and increase the output pulley diameter, I have considered ditching the thing and replacing it with a jackshaft. And one more thing I gotta freeze the front suspension (a pivot bar) because when I take a turn the outside front corner dips and lifts the inside rear tire off the ground.
I also came up with a twin engined four wheel drive go kart that looks like an old Indy 500 roadster using lawn mower parts, haven't built it yet probably will when my financial situation is better...
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
NWP SWPI took the deck off... I don't think it's going to be mowing grass with it not on it... One thing is to race it I'm going to have to get a brake setup and also lower the seat, steering wheel, and controls..
OK!! This is starting to sound like fun!! Go for it!! Worst that can happen is that you inhale some burnt rubber smoke, and if you are a drag racing fan that is a great smell!
Let's see.... I'm buying an adult tricycle.... used lawn mowers are cheap.... Ed explained how the gears work....there is already a big space on the back where the basket goes......OH, and straight pipes - no mufflers!!! I want the neighbours to hear me coming! Better buy a heavy duty helmet!!
Steven, I'm not mocking you. Could be some serious fun coming your way.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
It's all cool Dave, my go cart idea was to have two opposed twin Briggs as the power, put that through a bunch of pulleys, jackshafts, and a mower transmission, whoo whee...
Ken Happy Birthday, have they checked your thyroid lately?
The plugs between loco and tender on a Bachmann are tiny or my fingers are too big. The Lenz decoder works OK, it is a bit noisy at low speed. Tried to remove one of the trucks and the screw unscrews but does not come out nor does the truck. I was trying to see where the wires enter the tender, there are some small plastic sleeves over the wires (think a micro cigar band) that don't seem to have a function. I was wondering if they were there to protect the wires as they pass through the tender floor.
Saw a Central of Georgia loco at Horseshoe just now.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Ok done with the rain. 8 is enough (inches that is)
Had the severe stuff move through last night. serveral reported tornados lots of roads underwater. They sounded our tornado sirens about 5 mins after the bad storms had moved through. The city will be installing the flood gates in the floodwall today as the Ohio river is rising faster than expected.
Time for a nap.
Howdy. Our trip in AZ is a good one.
MLC .. 8”! Wow. .. I’ve not heard back from our neighbors but hope there is no damage at home in KY.
Ken. Happy birthday late.
Everybody. Cheers
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
LIOJN was at zoo last night.
New display featured Bagettes... says they were bred in captivity.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Garry,
It appears the worst went North and South of you. Murray got hit by a torando on it's South side. Fulton Co had reports of tornado. Union City TN got a tornado ( same one that hit Murray). At least the 8" was not all on one day. 8 since tuesday or what ever day it started. The same usual suspect roads are undewater here. The sun is out today (sun? what is that?) They were not going to put in the flood wall gates, but changed their mind. Dam gates are open full bore.
nap time.....
Well the weather people called for a "storm front" last night, wasn't much of a storm, tonight they are calling for another, sometimes I the local weather man is cuckoo!
BroadwayLionNew display featured Bagettes... says they were bred in captivity.
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-Kevin
Living the dream.
Hey all. Lousy day. Long day of work, and it ended up with me having an anxiety and asthma attack at the same time. Just overwhelmed and too much put on me at once. Ugh. The Sooner the better for greener pastures.
Literally the only good thing that happened to me today was getting a Wheeling high hood GP35 I needed....now I need just one more, and I'll have all 11 Wheeling high hoods on digital memory card
108 is the last of the Wheeling high hoods to wear the original W&LE patch. This was also taken at Sudan Viaduct this afternoon.
I just hope after tomorrow things start going the other direction.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang a Crown Royal with a chaser and Rick and Steven what they like. Yes Flo leave a stein outside for Ulrich. Ulrich yes we still think about you and miss you!
BigDaddyhave they checked your thyroid lately?
Henery thanks for the suggestion! As a kid my folks where told I had a under active thyroid. As I grew the subject stop coming up, guess it got better? I all so wonder if my Testosterone has dropped? But then again something still work like I was 18 years old.
Work Front Nancy was pretty tame today, think it is because she appreciated me more after working with Keith Saturday. For my she gave me 3 bottles of Budwiser (sure they where left overs) 2 cans of Herring and a big can of Sardines and a flower. Hum flowers? Wanted to ask her did you happen to go to a Funeral lately? This is a woman that has taken the Christmas cookies given to the sales people from the venders and re-gifted them to her family?
BBQ is done, and so am I.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening diners,
Storm front two is here.
The go kart I mentioned I'm going to build I want it to come out somewhere between these.
Evening all ...
I'm celebrating so Flo, Champane for everyone !
Just finished wiring my shop and assembling my "NEW" workbench.
Get a good look at the bench .... it will "NEVER" be this clean again !
Final picture. This is what a "Happy Camper" look's like....
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Brother Elias,
Have the Brothers been giving the Baker grief again??
herrinchoker
Good morning from the snow covered West Coast of Canuckland. Had a good dump of snow Friday/Saturday and had to dust off the snow shovels. We have years where it never hits freezing and often have no snow at all. Made the kids in the area happy, even the grown up ones, judging by the size of some of the snowmen that have been built.
Belated to Ken. Let me spring for a couple of Beers, one for your Birthday and the other for interest for being late.
Steven, my neighbour and I have the traditional first cut of the year drag race down the street every year on our John Deeres. It is silly fun hitting those breathtaking speeds of 10 kmh. There is a small race track not far from here where the kid's race go-carts and small open wheel cars. I know nothing about it, other than there is a lot of smiles from all involved when I have made brief stops to see what was going on.
Little Timmy, Congrats on the Manbuilding. Looking forward to progress photo's. By the way, you look just like a guy I use to work with, I really did a double take.
The kid had spring reading/study break last week. On Saturday he took the train from Ottawa to Montreal with four friends. He thinks the train is the absolutely the best way to travel, he loved it. Other than tourists excursions he has never been on a train to actually go somewhere. They stayed in a beautiful home they got through Airbnb for two nights and he flew home on the Monday.
In March his hockey team is flying him from Ottawa to Edmonton for a three day hockey tournament, so while he was here he had three good games with them to get back into shape. His eight pack has gone down to a six pack. After playing a lot of hockey on Saturday he left for Ottawa on a 2230hrs flight and when he got to Toronto his connecting flight to Ottawa was canceled due to freezing rain in Ottawa. So they put him up in the Hilton in a two bedroom suite, gave him two taxi vouchers to get him to and from the airport and $150.00 in food vouchers. He had been up 30 hrs by the time he got to his room and that included a lot of hockey, so he ordered room service and went to sleep.
This morning he got up and used his vouchers for breakfast at the airport at Tim Hortons and had $80.00 in vouchers left over. So I asked him if he went and bought outrageously overpriced socks and underwear at one of the shops at the airport. He said, "no, I gave them to a large immigrant family I had been talking to that had just arrived and were waiting for their connecting flight". They had their first introduction to Tim Hortons he said. He then said, "that's what you would have done Dad". I shed a few tears over that, I don't mind telling you. I am so proud of that kid.
Spent all day Saturday and Sunday working with a bunch of kids from my Daughters School. There is a big Physics competition going on and they had to build either a catapult, trebuchet or a giant slingshot. They drew up plans for the slingshot, it is awesome, Somehow the plan now incorporates a velocity gauge as well as an angle of attack adjustment. The finished project has to shoot a tennis ball at least twenty meters. The big prize is if they can drop it in a garbage can with accuracy. We hit the can at fifty metres 80% of the time. The Bat workshop has developed a bit of a reputation for innovative ideas at the school. I have put together some weird stuff at the request of some of the teachers over the years.
Well time to go clean up the workshop, it is going to take awhile.
Aunty and three troublemakers.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMAN This morning he got up and used his vouchers for breakfast at the airport at Tim Hortons and had $80.00 in vouchers left over. So I asked him if he went and bought outrageously overpriced socks and underwear at one of the shops at the airport. He said, "no, I gave them to a large immigrant family I had been talking to that had just arrived and were waiting for their connecting flight". They had their first introduction to Tim Hortons he said. He then said, "that's what you would have done Dad". I shed a few tears over that, I don't mind telling you. I am so proud of that kid.
You have a very generous and caring kid there sir. There are many people that wouln't have been that generous.
Hobby Front: Turning plastic into masonry. (Got an unpainted stone wall passenger station with a stone chimney via an Internet auction. It will end up as the station for the new yard that I'm building.) I am using quite a few of the craft acrylics that I have to paint them. I did purchase one additional bottle as I needed a color I didn't have. All the colors I use are inspired by looking the facade on one of the buildings here in town. (The rocks are mostly what appears to be sandstone with a few appearing to be shale.) The base layers are Apple Barrel Sandstone and a few stones are painted AB Candy Pink (the one I purchased to represent the shale). The sandstone rocks got highlights of Folk Art Cinnamon and Coffee Bean. Those rocks will also get highlights of FA Raw Umber and few will get spots of FA Lipstick Red. (A few of the sanstone rocks on the prototype building have spots of red in them.) The pink rocks will get highlights of FA Parsian Pink, the already mentioned Lipstick Red and AB Barn Red. The windows, doors and the trim of the station and the seats on the passenger platform with the standard MEC Green. All of these areas call for the use of my detail brushes. I will also need to paint the roof on both the station and the platform. However, I haven't decided what color that will be. As for the rest of details, the colors are still up in the air. (And yes, I took a picture before I started and will post both the before and the after.)
Afternoon diners,
This afternoon I got some stuff I've been putting off/not had time to do done, one was opened up one of the P42s I have and removed the motor and it's mount in preparation for a decoder, the other was took the transaxle of my JD RX75 "Green Machine" pulled all the gears out and put it all in a bin of hot water with dish soap and laundry detergent, trying to get all that bentonite grease out to rebuild it and fill it with oil for better performance...
Gibe me a bowl of soup and a hot Toddy, I feel the crud coming on.
I don't want the crud. But when you work around germs all day you are bound to pick up the crud.
Our Museum opens back up friday. Lots has been done to the o scale layout.
Spent about an hour cleaning the bentonite grease (aka the ooze) out of my transaxle, got some more to do tomorrow afternoon.
Good Evening,
Henry, nice loco you have there. Low end Lenz decoders are noisy. That is the one used by Bachman and my experience with them is that they buzz a lot. To remove the trucks you must take the body off the tender. I have had the same problem taking off Bman trucks and I found that I had to hold the small nut with pliers as it was just spinning around. You should be able to get a small sound decoder in there as Bman is usually just plug'n play. I put a MRC decoder in a Decapod I used to have and its tender was about the same size. I just drilled small holes in the coal load for the sound. I put an ESU select into a PK2 0-8-0 and it was an easy install plus great sound and motor control from a very small decoder. I also see that TCS has a custom unit for Bman 4-6-0 on the ModelTrainStuff site.
Nothing new here. Off to the Doc's first thing tomorrow as my wife seems to have low blood pressure. I haven't been having a fun time this year as it seems we are having one issue after another. We had planned a trip to Africa again but may have to cancel. I hope not as this was supposed to be my turning 70 special event.
Have a great evening. Time for tea here.
CN Charlie
CN charlie,
where do you go in Africa? I had a college prof that loved Africa. However his plane hit the side of a mountian in Africa. I have always wanted to go visit the area that the "Africam" is at.
NWP SWP the other was took the transaxle of my JD RX75 "Green Machine"
I fixed up, not totally refurbished, a JD RX95. Got it for nothing. I spent about $150 on it, turning it into a reliable mower. I ended up giving to a neigbor, who needed help.
Those Kawasaki motors are good. Parts are over the top in price. It's same motor that is in my JD 165's, I have 2, both from the mid 80's.
If you scroll through my Photobucket long enough, or click on other hobbies, you'll see my summer time hobby. Old lawn tractors. I don't have pitures of everything.
The two pictures are of my JD 210. The first pic is when I bought'em both, mine is the far one, without the deck. The second pic is what it looks like now. They have a Kohler 10hp. in them, 4 speed geared trans, with the variator. I love the variator.
My son has the one with the deck. I use mine at our place in northern WI., for hauling stuff, mainly wood.
Mike.
My You Tube
Flo, what Brent bought me some Thanks Brent! I will buy a round for the gang, give Go Cart Guy and Rick what they want and leave a stein outside for Ulrich!
Brent Good for your son! I have helped out a few down and out people my self when I could.
Work Front, think I had a good day? Company has a new program if you sale a close out iteam you get a 20% spiff. If I understood the policy right (with this company I never know for sure) I made a extra $165.00 in spiff!
Later, Ken
Has anyone given any thought to the location of the March Diner?
How about Baton Rouge?
The Huey P Long bridge sees a CN, UP, and possibly KCS traffic.
Another choice would be Vicksburg, MS specifically the Old Vicksburg Bridge, which sees to my knowledge KCS, UP, and NS trains, I don't think Amtrak or BNSF travel through there.
The weathers great down here right now, the humidity isn't to high and the temps are in the 80s as highs, don't wanna be here in July or August, humidity and heat combined make for a wall every time you go outside!
Mike, I gotta get some of those lugs for the mower I use for cutting the 8 acres, those turfs are not cut out for the ground softness on our land.
My favorite JD machine of all time is the "New Generation" tractors of the 60s I have heard of JD dozers with the same model designations as some of the tractors, I wonder if they're based on the tractors or are completely different machines all together, another project for the files is to get a JD 110 lawn tractor make the grille area more resemble a 2020 or 4020 and then give it caterpillar tracks, maybe even a dozer blade... ahh so many dreams...
The 110 is a classic, with the round fender. So are the full sized 4020's from the 60's. Had one of the first of those on a farm we worked in Iowa. All of the neighbors showed up to check it out. Thats the look I always wanted to recreate.
The owner of the farm also bought the 5 bottom mounted plow to go with it. It made fast work of the 80 acre fields we had, in 5th gear. You couldn't catch it. Previously, we used a JD 70, gas, with a 4 bottom, and a 620, which barely handled a 3 bottom. It was a great utulity tractor, but not a work horse.
I have a belly grader I'm going to mount on the 210 for grading our drive, up north.
I was also going to mention, I've become the neighborhood guy for getting mowers going in the spring. 95% of the "It doesn't start! It ran good when I used it last!" problems are from ethanol gas. If you run it through on a regular basis, it's ok. If your small engine equipment sits for months, like seasonal equipment up here in WI., it's bad news. Stabil helps, but not the answer.
Good luck with your tractors. I have as much fun with them, as I do my trains, in the winter.
Mornin' Folks
Just a little night cap before I hit the lower berth.
Those Deere's are great, Mike. Here's my dependable 212 that I talked the seller of the house I'm in now to make it part of the deal. We knew all about "Going Green" before any environmentalists used the term!
Deere_212 by Edmund, on Flickr
This was in '82. Years later when I bought a new tractor I gave it to one of the guys at work for his kid to use in cutting the grass to make a few bucks.
A couple months later I asked him how his son was doing with the Deere and his grass cutting business. Oh, he says, I cleaned that baby up and sold it for $1200!
So it goes...
Cheers everybody,
Ed
mbinsewiIf your small engine equipment sits for months, like seasonal equipment up here in WI., it's bad news.
Typically not a problem for us in Arizona.
Richard
Mornin'....
Flo, I could use another pot of coffee for my R&GV RR Mug please!
Those little thingies ain't no John Deeres! This here is a REAL John Deere! This was the 3rd. tractor I drove as a kid. I was 6 years old, and absolutely loved it! What a sound.... "Putt Putt Putt Putt!!!"
Two years later I was driving the BIG! John Deere of my Neighbor... That one was the biggest thing I could imagine it was a John Deer 60! 60 horses under the hood and it sounded like "Putt Putt Putt Putt!!!"
The best handling tractors though were the Fords... Even a little 4 year old boy (me) could handle the 8N. BTW, the second farm tractor I drove was the old Alice Chalmers B.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Afternoon,
A nice day here, about 30F and sunny.
Moelarrycurly, We have been to Kenya a couple of times, mostly in the Masa Mara reserve, Tanzania to visit the Serengeti, Rwanada for the mountain gorillas, Namibia for the desert, and the last 3 times to Botswana in the Okavango delta plus a few different reserves in South Africa. I googled the Africam and it said that it is located in Kruger National Park. We haven't been to Kruger but we were on a reserve right beside it. Kruger is a 'public park' which you can drive through in your car. The area we were is a private reserve so only vehicles from that camp can use the space. It is called Mala Mala. The game viewing there was the best we ever encountered but it is very expensive camp so we won't be going again. Africa is truly an amazing adventure. I am very afraid we will have to cancel by the end of this week which means we will lose some money but right now I can't see how we can proceed. At least we will get most of our money back if we do it now.
Well time for lunch and then we have to take Robbie to the vet as he has a lump on his back we are worried about. At least the appointments with our Doc went well this morning.