I'm really wantin a a good mig welder too.

Been lookin even the little Millers are like 650 I think minus the tank. I think TSC has some of the small hobarts for 525 is what I think they are so I believe thats what I'm leanin towards.

Would come in handy when I start buildin a pull lawn mower

 

I've thought about the hobarts from tsc as well. I want to get one though that is a 220v. I've got my stick welder for any large stuff, but I also want to be able to weld larger with the mig. My dream welder is a miller with mig/tig/stick and whatever else they can throw on it, maybe a plasma all in one machine!!! Yeah, that would be nice.

KVD, you gonna make a pullin lawn mower? I have not been to see any of those but have seen the guys with the little racing lawnmowers over here in Mt.Pleasant. I started to build one, but as with anything to make it "competition legal" it was gonna cost a fortune. So I took an old 125 Honda wheeler and cut off the front and rear axles, fabricated them onto a lawnmower chasis and lowered the mower, it's about 3-4 inches of the ground, maybe a bit more. I have a transmission for it, just have to get a gear made to go on the tranny, find tires. I have a 18hp v-twin to put in for the powerplant. Not gonna hop it up or anything, just leave it stock, then run up and down the driveway for fun and maybe take it over to Eagleville for the tractor show in September......some year!! I actually found a chain for it the other day at work, it was an old chain off a piece of something and it's the perfect size for my mower/racer!!

 

So you guys want to plan something for the end of summer, maybe end of August or September? I know in the first weekend or second of September is the tractor show in eagleville and I hope to be there. Any ideas on a meet? I was thinking about a wrenching session and grille out, although I don't have anything to wrench on? I might be getting some nozzles soon though. If not a wrench session something else? What location? I know I figured we would move it around to help out so let's here some ideas. Heck, I'm even up for just going to a public park and sitting around grilling and chatting.

 

Sounds good to me. I'm down for just chillin. Buddy of mine that came up there with me to the dyno day (deereguy07) is slowy buildin a pull truck out of his 96 and we really can't figure out how gut the afc of adjust the rack/govern travel. We have made a 100 plate (soon to be 0) and slide in full forward and got the valvebody in so now it's bout time to come up with some cash to really start buildin it.

Dodgeguy, yeah I been thinkin bout buildin a pull lawn mower based off a John Deere 110. I'm not sure how long the rear end will last cause I'm really wantin to run an twin cylinder 500cc Kawasaki ninja motor on it.

 

Looks like it's just me and you KVD!!!

I've always wanted to build a 4 wheel drive pullin garden tractor, just for the fun of it. I was actually thinking about usind a Geo metro engine and trans, but my mind got side tracked when I started to think about the front and rear differentials and what, how to make it happen. Another one of those things I'd like to do but I always seem to have less money than time. Need a good couple of numbers on the lottery tickets.

What's new around here, well installed my new Diablo power puck and I like it. Trying to get all the speed/racing out of my system this week so I can make the long journey to upstate NY to pick up my daughter and see what kind of fuel mileage gains I can get. Other than that same ol' hum drum.

Is anybody out there??

 

Hey hey, im here. Id be up for just a chillin type get together at like a park or something. Grill some food and just hang out.

 

KVD i've got a 937cc motor out of a suzuki rf900 that i'd sell pretty cheap, heck i'd sell the whole bike, he was in well, a van fire so you'd have to get creative with some wirings but i've personally owned one of these in great running condition and lets just say when i gunned it in 1st it could lift the bike and my 235lb frame up without a ton of effort!

i say the meet should be north nashville depends where we are at with the sale of our house but i could definately find somewhere for us to hang out, and would be glad to do some grilling as long as my grill doesn't make any interstate travel!

 

Yeah shoot me a price on that motor, the bigger the better.

I wouldn't think the wirin would be to hard so really all I need is a way to start it.

 

I'm hanging around out here too. Tac

 

Anybody plannin on goin to chapel hill this next weekend????

 

Details?

darncharacterlimit

 

Its a big pull over at the high school every year, and it's a big pull. Mid South pullers and another group (can't remember who it is for sure, I'm sure it's Ken Ten but it may be) over lap in there season so both of them are there at the same time. Some really big names are there, but I've seen any diesel trucks there but it's usually pretty good if you get there early enough to get a good seat.

I'm thinkin about goin, not sure if I'll make it. Girlfreind been on a trip all last week so I'm sure she will want to do somethin this weekend other than go to a pull.

 

I wanted to go to the pull this weekend, but it just did not happen. Had a couple of cars I had to get fixed. All the times I have been sick lately, family visits, out of town I have not got things done as I should have. One more car to fix tomorrow and then it's back to slow time at my shop.

There is a pull in Tanner, Alabama next weekend, I think at the high school. Tanner is near Athens. Im gonna map it out and see how far it is from my house, I would like to go. We have not been to any pulls this year, last year we made 6 or 7 of them. My wife works on saturdays so its hard to drag three kids in a regular cab truck any distance, or the supplies needed to support 3 kids for 5 or 6 hours at a tractor pull!! I prefer the small town, bring the tractor off the farm pulls when it comes to toting the kids around.

 

Yeah I'm goin to Tanner Friday night, there pullin semis. Never seen it before in person so I think it wil be pretty cool.

As far as drive time, um I'm bout 2 miles for the state line of alabama and to go to tanner it's usually bout 35 minutes maybe 45 if athens is backed up some cause tanner is right out of athens and right before you get into dectaur, there's always a big sign and you can see the smoke and lights form the road.

 

Hey KVD I think they are pullin the semis saturday night, at least that is what I saw on the schedule. I'll have to look again and see, maybe I'm wrong.....would not be the first time!! I'll probably come into Tanner from the west since I am west of there. Friend of mine says that's how he gets to Decatur.