The Score Of The Day Thread

[DbltreeBelgians]

That is a score @UncleMoustache free seeds and you had so many that you could share.

I've been posting about this all week, but today was the day I was finally able to get out of the house and go get my new to me Stihl MS362.  I tried to pay the guy's asking price and he gave me $25 back, even after I had asked him to hold it for me until i was out of quarantine.  There have probably been better deals on a 362, but for me it was the score of the week.  This thing is 10 years old, at least since the date of manufacture.  Maybe it sat on a shelf for a while.  It is in like new condition and I love it.  

Glad you're out of quarantine Bill. 8)  That's the real score of the YEAR!!
I hope the kids and dad are doing well also.

Brent

[firefighter ontheside]

Thanks Brent.  Dad is doing well too.  He and I were out cutting some logs today to check out the new saw.  A few days ago he said that his sense of taste was gone, but today he said its back.  The boys are doing well.  Sean was completely unphased by covid.  Liam has been sleeping a lot, so today I made him go outside on a few walks and get some fresh air.  He will go back to school tomorrow.  Sean can't go back until next week.

[DbltreeBelgians]

That's good news Bill. Found out yesterday that one of my firefighters is in the hospital with it. I knew he had it early last week and told him to go get the infusion. He told me "I'll be fine". I called him today and he could barely talk but again told me "I'll be fine"

Brent

[DbltreeBelgians]

Sorry for the hijack, now back to your regularly scheduled programming 

Brent

[Corley5]

Going to look at a possible score in the AM.  I'm thinking it'll be good 8) 8)  More to come tomorrow ;) ;D

[Old Greenhorn]

Going to look at a possible score in the AM.  I'm thinking it'll be good 8) 8)  More to come tomorrow ;) ;D

Now that's just cruel! :D :D ;D

[nativewolf]

Don't let @bargemonkey see this thread...opps too late

[hacknchop]

Good eye on the barn, it's really neat! If I'm remembering correctly it was built, maybe as a warehouse, for the Miami and Erie Canal that ran kind of right through the FIL's property from the mid 1800's through the early 1900's, there is an old lock a few hundred yards from his house (not on his property) that we've checked out a few times.

I was visiting friends in Ohio 10 yrs ago and my friend the now late Charlie Skiles took me to see a park which was all about the Miami and Erie Canal had to either make a donation or pay a small admission cant remember which but it was very interesting to say the least, i wonder if its the same place you mentioned near your in laws.

[BargeMonkey]

Don't let @bargemonkey see this thread...opps too late

😆🤦‍♂️.... I wear a yalmuka under my Deere hat, I sniff the scores out... I think I'm buying 2x 460s and a Hood, when it washes out the Hood was FREE... 

[biggkidd]

Great thread I love cheap junk to other people that's often gold to me. For example I have been wanting my neighbors old 1970 D4 ever since we moved here 14 years ago. Then one day he mentioned he was tired of trying to find someone to haul it. I asked haul it where? He replies to the scrap yard. I said NOooooo I want it to use. I knew it had problems but I also knew it had some life left in it. So I asked what he wanted for it and about fell over when he answered $800. I drove it 1.5 miles down our old logging road home after replacing the leaky fuel filter and jump starting it. It runs and works BUT needs a head gasket among other things. It has an external water leak from the gasket I believe. I've been using it as is and keeping water in it. lol  

ETA: It paid for itself the first afternoon I had it and cleared about a half acre.

[mike_belben]

One mans trash...

[Walnut Beast]

Is another mans' treasure....

[aigheadish]

@hacknchop While it's possible my guess it it's not exactly the same place, the specific lock I'm talking about is basically in someone's back yard. I'd imagine there are remnants of the canal all over though. 

[Corley5]

  My new to me firewood processor engine.  I get everything from the engine mounts up and radiator back to the Love Joys.  Sweet running 30hp Kubota diesel.  55lbs of oil pressure when warmed up.  No more Honda gas engines.  They're pulling it tomorrow and I'll pick it up then if our schedules work out.  The engine was installed on this CRD processor to replace an 80hp JD.  It was never right after that.  Too much pump for this engine.  The fella retired and my buddy bought the machine.  He's in the process of retrofitting a Deutz f4l912 from a Ditch Witch on to the machine.  They're pulling that engine now.  When done he's going to flip it.  This Bota will be just right on my Block Buster.



 

 

[Southside]

Very nice - guess in a way that's better than the full size, working, original, Pac Man game I envisioned you picking up at a yard sale.   :D

[mike_belben]

Heck yeah congrats on that gem corley

[Corley5]

They got it off this afternoon and I ran back over to Afton and retrieved it 8)  I figure to make a stand for it out of the processor scrap tubing from last spring and set it off independent of the machine.  I need to check the mounting pattern of the pump.  I think it may be a direct bolt on to the bell housing 8) 8)   I can do away the jack shaft and Love Joys.  As I remember the Honda has a 1 1/8" crankshaft and the pump is 1" so I get two different coupler halves.  The Bota has a 1" diameter rubber mounted drive inside the bell housing.  That's a 1" shaft stubbed out of it.  It would be too easy to pull that shaft out, slip the pump on and bolt it down.  I've got my fingers crossed.



 

 

 

[Corley5]

Pac Man was restored and worked for a while but he's down again.  Waiting on the insurance company again and still : >:(

[mike_belben]

Looks like an SAE-A pump mount from here

[Ljohnsaw]

my neighbors old 1970 D4

Hmmm, no pictures, so....

[Corley5]

Looks like an SAE-A pump mount from here

SAE B on this engine and the Honda/present pump  8) 8)The Kubota has a Lovejoy torsional coupler on the flywheel.  If my pump doesn't have a 1" shaft I should be able to get the right coupler.  There's a chance the pump may have a 7/8' shaft.

[biggkidd]

my neighbors old 1970 D4

Hmmm, no pictures, so....

So it's like that huh? lol 


 


 

[mike_belben]

If it steers.and pulls, thats a $10k machine here, problems and all

[biggkidd]

Well like I said it's already paid for itself here. I cleared another place beside my house and  I am now getting 2 more hours of sun on my panels. That's worth a lot to us. Plus to be completely honest it's a fun toy. I know when I was a kid I always wanted to play with full size tonka toys and now I can.  8)

thats a $10k machine here

That explains why one fella already tried to buy it for $7500.

[mike_belben]

Keep it until its dead dead.  Given enough time youll get your 7500 in a meticulous partout.