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I've been helping a buddy get his place cleaned up. He had a large log pile from where he had some trees cut, and had a bunch of over grown mess at his property line. We spent about 3 good days working over there. Heres a couple pics from the work we got done. About half the pile showing here, and g...

That feller has some cool stuff. Look at his other auctions....

Now....Thats an interesting machine.

Interesting find on ebay this morning....



http://cgi.ebay.com/John-Deere-420-Craw ... 4aa4314fe5

gus wrote:I have a Shiloh Sharps rifle....100% American made.
Gus

Gus, you are a lucky man to own an outstanding weapon. I've been drooling over them for a while now. That Sharps is on my list of gotta haves....Think I'm gonna have a custom built first though. (If this crawler doesn't break me )

Willyr wrote: This is nothing new, just more companies are embracing it.

Nothing lasts anymore. Seems like everything made is "throw away". When it breaks, just buy a new one.....I hate it. They all seem to say "Made in China" too. Bugs me...

Trane comes to mind....

9hrs away....dang. Looks like a good one.

Thanks for the reply. Thats interesting, I may try it and see where I get with it. My bolts are closer to 3/8 I think, I've looked at so many they run together on me at times.

Great work so far Mark. I have the same problem with the bumper on my 420....I have one hole and the rest are broken off. How did you get yours out? I see you said "I already heated and removed the broken belly plate studs in the chin" Only thing I know to do is drill and tap....gonna take a while t...

I have a Miller Spectrum 2050 plasma cutter, I have a gouging tip for it so I can cut the junk welds off the original frame. I also have set of O/A torches, I do not use them as much as I use to now that I have the plasma. I think that copying the original design will best possible way to go. I pla...

When I can get my tractor to start again I will take the blade off to show all the wonderful spaghetti welding that I have. Too bad I dont have a cutting torch to remove it all. Sigh, lifes challenges. Sounds like mine. :roll: I used a grinder on all of it....a set of torches is in my near future a...

Got me a couple 1 1/2" wrenches at TSC too....Next on the to do list. Almost out of adjustment, gonna have to get some work done on them. The Grousers are in pretty good shape though.

I may have to take a road trip up to Mr. LaVoy...My wife wanted to go on vacation anyway....

Draco, Welcome to the board! Always happy to see new members, especially young ones that get in to this stuff. I only wish that I had gotten in to it much earlier, I would know more now. :lol: There are no "dumb" questions, ask away. None of us know all of it but together we have a great time figur...

Thanks for the replys men....What Willyr said made a lot of sence. I had a good bit of "slop" when the blade was raised....I did a little work on the old girl an found that a LOT of stuff had been "fixed" with whatever was laying around (I guess). Dan, thats some serious beef you got on that blade. ...