This is where I will be putting photos of upgrades and activities until I get them more organized.
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ANOTHER BEFORE PICTURE
You might notice that one front tire sticks out more than the other and to make matters worse, one rear tire is almost 2-inches wider and filled with liquid. This REALLY offended my sense of symmetry and balance! Good thing I didn't do anything too crazy before I discovered only one rear tire was filled. Flipping over in a turn would have ruined my day for sure! COOLANT RECOVERY
A closeup of my coolant recovery tank. I used a small plastic jug with a screw-on lid. Made a bracket that is captured between the jug and the lid. Drilled a 1/4" hole in the top for the line from the radiator, and mounted it using some existing holes in the battery tray. Now I don't have air in the system and I can easily keep an eye on the coolant level. SOME IMPLEMENTS
The bush hog in the background cost me $200. It needed a lot of cleaning up. There was about 20-feet of nylon twine tangled around the blades. That was a real challenge to remove since it had been melted and fused into a solid mass of plastic goo! The scraper/snow blade I made from some scrap aluminum and steel. It can be set to five positions; two right, two left, and straight, or I can turn it around and push.It's light duty but had already made several trips up and down our 750 foot gravel drive when this picture was taken. It should work great removing snow. BUSH HOG
SUMP SLUDGE, YUCK!
My lift started acting up. I changed all the fluids when I got the tractor so I knew it had good fluid in it. After checking everything else and then doing a little exploratory surgery, I found this mess. There is about an inch of gook in the bottom of the sump. This is where the pump gets it's supply of fluid. It is hard to believe it worked at all! At this point I decided it was easier to pull the PTO shaft and drop the pump so I could really give it a good cleaning. That was all it needed. SNOW PLOW?
This is my 21-HP Craftsman lawn tractor, wearing it's winter accessories. This is what happens when a redneck watches Monster Garage, grin. It actually worked better than I thought it would, even with the wet snow we get in VA. Our driveway is over 700 feet long, so it took about 3 hours to clear 8" of snow. I wouldn't want to try this in Montana! BETTER SNOW PLOW
The Craftsman is officially retired from winter chores. I may eventually decide to get a set of tire chains, but this should work much faster than the little Craftsman mower! DILLON DOG
Dillon Dog is part Husky so he really likes the colder winter weather. He might have had almost as much fun playing in the snow as I did. BACK HOE
Here is the tractor with the backhoe attached. More photos,descriptions,and plans for the backhoe are on theBackhoe Page.
TILLER
This is a Howard Rotavator Tiller that I got for the right price, FREE! The tines are original and still have paint on them. Somebody got this and must have found out that the 8N is geared too high to use it. Looks like it had very low hours before it was parked and left to rust. Since I have the Sherman transmission in my tractor, it may give me enough optional gear combinations that I can get this to work for light grading. But I am going to have to do some rust removing and fixing first. It also looks like a few brackets are missing. Probably get to spend some more time in the shop making those. MY SECOND "NEW" TRACTOR!!
This is my 1952-8N. I have added a page showing step-by-step photos and descriptions to better document my repair procedure. You can find them HERE. SEAT TIME!My sister's kids came out to the house with Grandma on 16 DEC 2006. They were visiting from Germany for the holidays. This was a lot of fun! Everybody went for a hike in the woods too!
Grandma with Daniel and Lizzy (probably hoping her little brother doesn't run over anyone)
A little light work dragging a stump. Gravel WorkThis is precicely the kind of work that I really appreciate the Live Hydraulics upgrade I bought from Zane. The extra plumbing for that shows up in some of these photos. We had 18 Tons of gravel delivered. The ground was too wet for the truck to spread it all the way down the hill, so we were left with about 8 tons in a big pile.
I was a little worried but started dragging the pile down. Once I got my blade to go over the top it was easy.
That homemade snow blade is really not strong or heavy enough for this kind of work, but it did ok after I added the length of steel tubing and a couple of lead bars to help keep it on the ground. This is the first time I can say that spreading gravel was actually FUN!
Sharon had some fun too!
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