100 was on support duty for some chainsaw work in dad's yard. Yes that is a school bus seat, 8hp motor, oversize rears, and driveshaft out of Lord only knows what. Hey, this things been on work detail for the last 20 years!:biggrin2:

These are SWEET look'n Cubs!!! Nice guys!

I have been working at my cab on the 982 that I have modified. Didn't like the slanted front on the Sims cabs - so its now vertical like they should be in my opinion.
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Nice 100, John!

The 982 cab is looking good, Mike!

While I had the fender pan off the 1641 to replace the fuel lines and fix the deck stop I decided to do something to the rusty pitted footrest. I have a small sandblaster that I went over them with the sprayed the with Rusty Metal Primer. I found some Rustoleum Marigold That looked close so I painted the bottom and sides with it. After it dried I taped off the footrest area and sprayed two coats of Rustoleum Truck Bed Coating on it. After the last coat I removed the tape and the liner had wicked back under the tape and it looked like crap. I just decided to spray the whole top side with the bed coating. It's hanging in the laundry/mud room drying now. I didn't actually do all this today. Painting in the winter without a heated shop is a PITA. I bring the part and paint in the house, let it get warm, take it to the garage and paint it then bring it back in to dry. The next step is to hunker down for the complaints about the paint smell. Picture of the footrest before the coating shows the pitted top. Picture of them hanging from the cabinets in the laundry room drying. I probably won't put them on till tomorrow.
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Had to troubleshoot my non-charging issue with my 122. Ended up re-wiring most of the tractor while I had it apart. :)

Yes, all the wires are the same color, which isn't perfectly ideal, but I had the wiring on hand already so stuck to this as a free upgrade.

Jury is still out on if my charging issue is fixed... not been able to go back out to check on it since re-wiring it. Maybe tonight... My luck, it'll be the voltage regulator.


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I'm going to have to give myself an unsatisfactory grade on this project. After about 2 hours of drying the coating had cracked and was lifting up. I took a putty knife and pealed it back off. It was stuck better over the primer bu came off easily over the yellow paint. All the products are Rust Oleum so I think it must be something I did. The paint was on a full day before I sprayed the coating, who knows. Think I'll wait for a warm day to try again. Or I may abandon the Truck Bed Coating all together. Picture after scraping it all off.
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is it just me or does that top pic look like the tractor is bending around corner.... like it was stretched for widescreen lol

It does like fish eye lens or something. :biggrin2:

Pretty close... :D Used my iPhone's panorama feature to get the photo while sitting about 1' away from the tractor.

thats the nascar edition, only mows left.:biggrin2:

What did I do?

Well I am thinking of selling a # 109?:bigthink:

Nik

Got the snow cleared, round 2.

Cleared 'Round 1' of the snow. got about 7" on the ground, probably another 5" to go before this snowfall passes.
I just wish these Cubs had more front weight. With the plow straight and pushing straight the tractor does great with the wheel weights and another 150lbs on the rear hitch. Get a lot of snow in the plow when it's angled and there's no steering. Today's snow was heavy.. that made it worse.
With the 20MPH winds, sitting on a tractor beats trying to snow blow the stuff.
My neighbor was totally white, head to toe, as he quit after blowing half his driveway.

UPDATE: we totaled about 2 feet of snow. As the evening went on the total snowfall for our area kept increasing.
Got out there around 6:00a.m. with the Blower and Tug and made it all nice. The Full moon and the lack of wind made the whole experience very pleasant. Not sure if the neighbors like to wake up to the sound of a tractor but, at 6:00, they should be up too.

Didn't get any pictures but plowed our drives with the 149 then went to the neighbors with the 169 and cleared the drive for them.

Loaded up the wood box the other day before the next cold snap set in. Much easier to get around with the 782 & chains vs the 100 and just turf tires - kinda like slicks! The 100 is parked until the snow is gone unless I buy chains for it.

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I put one in sick bay. Gonna see if it runs. New to me 2182. Red cousins in the back ground.
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Hauled the parts tractor out behind the shed, until I'm ready to dismantle it. You can see the aftermath of the Michigan SNOWMAGEDDEN! I think I'll start sharpening the blades for the mower deck!
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Wow Dirty Steve, what an awesome shop! Only in my dreams.

Looks like you guys got off real easy MWShaw, this time.

I think we may have had some flurries?

Forecast for this week has a few days up in the 40s.

Pretty thin winter here.

Great pics, guys!

I love those red cadets, gotta get one:Announce:

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The old cover that was given to me with Tug was in bad shape. It really went South when I tried to pull it off after it froze to the Hood. I had an old Boat cover that had some good sections of material left so I grabbed the sewing machine and had at it. Even sewed an adjustable strap to keep the cover tight even on windy days. It's no Martha Stewart job but we will see.

Got Big Red out to do some yard work yesterday. :beerchug:

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Good to see you're getting some seat time in Allen:beerchug:
Where's the snow?:biggrin2:

Thanks Todd! We got some flurries this morning, does that count...lol? :beerchug:

Nope, gotsta be enough to push...:biggrin2:

Knowing about where Alan lives, the day he gets enough snow that needs to be pushed, it will probably make national news. :biggrin2: I will further venture to say given the tires on that 982, he'd be towing kids on snow sleds all over the place (at least that's what I'd be doing)!

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added a 2" sq tubing bumper and LED red/blue strobes on the back, do a lot of snow blowing in my area , last winter almost got nailed by a car, guy was day dreaming, hard to take pic with both colors on, only blue was on when pic was taken

Good idea but I would switch the lights to amber, red and blue might get you in a little trouble with the boys in blue since those colors are reserved for police use only. I know its just a garden tractor but the right cop could push the issue if he wanted to.

You hoser, he's in canada. I doubt they'll care, I've never even seen lights on Dudley's horse eh. :biggrin2:

Bill

lol, i didnt even notice he was in canada.:biggrin2:

Picked this up for the 1772;
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Real nice 551, got it from the original owner. Just have to put a 7" pulley on it, to make it think it's a 450!

Then spent some quality time with the 1863, taking the rest of her clothes off.

Poor girl is going for a ride in the truck, to visit the scrap yard, a visit she won't return from.
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Her organ donor form has these going to other OCC members (I think).

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Todd, we got more flurries yesterday. Wish I could get enough snow to play in. The 982 is ready with the rear blade! :beerchug:

Got to push some snow today.
It was a heavy wet snow.

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Good job Diz:beerchug:
Holy smoke, you plowing the county roads?:bigthink: :biggrin2: Send them a bill:biggrin2:
Boy, it was some wet heavy snow by the looks of it, but nothing the cub couldn't handle...:beerchug:

Thanks zippy1
I like to keep a clean road out in front of the house :biggrin2:
It was a heavy snow, even made the 169 bark pretty good :ThumbsUp:

Great action pics, Diz!

Had more limb duty with Big Red earlier.

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982 is looking good Allen! Hope you are not overworking her with that big payload :ROTF2: