[sixball]

Looks great from here! A useable piece of equipment, good job!

[Essex_29]

Yes, that looks really good!

[sammons]

Lol "Houston...  we have a problem". The 4" of rain we had this week done her in. l started digging the tunnel in 1983 collapsed about 7 feet long  out of the 15' running length. I noticed a couple years ago that the water coming of the nieghbors round top had started to run under my deckagon grainery, last year i could see under it was going down the 15' deep main shaft. Put it on my mental things to do list. I relaced all the timbers in '98, the hard clay down there was still perfect. Haven't looked down there since 2007?

Saturday morning i had a hole about 3' outside the grainery. I called Tom and he happened to have about 7 yrds of dirt on his '58 Viking so he dumped that out lastnight. Came over about noon with his Case "Construction King" backhoe/loader. Not near enough dirt to do the job. I started throwing tire/wheel combos down the main shaft while he made a quick sand damn in the creek bed and started moving sand up. Put 8+ yards in, pushed down worked around and got all except the last 3' out of 15'. It was hard as a rock on the northend where the water hadn't got. Pushed a bit of sand into it, tamped everything down with the backhoe then the dirt and packed it.  15 yards of fill, problem solved

[sammons]

With the chassis swap on my old mower complete, i started cleaning things up. Got a quick buff on paint, still have to wax it up. Decided that all the black plastic stuff needed dyed. No matter what i put on it, (Back to Black, vinyl dressing, silicon, etc), nothing lasted more than a week and back to fade. So i pulled them off, scrubbed it all and dyed it with Duplicolor's vinyl/fabric dye. Much better, hope it lasts a while. With a white paint pen i actually got the numbers painted back on. Don't know if it'll last but sure looked better. Got my new Marylin Monroe steering wheel knob on the fresh refinished steering wheel😁

[TFoch]

Looking great!

[sammons]

Gonna be nice this spring to mow with everything on the chassis tight again. The steering was severely worn, hard to turn and wondering and to mention front spindles bent. The deck lift arm was shot also. Donor was a fairly low hour one. Now i'll have to finish putting donor back together, it will just pull my trailer.