The Daily Yardman Thread

[willys55]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

I collect mostly hand tools designed for auto and truck repair...I have quite a few old farm tools and implements as well. I don't really latch on to many antiques because they are out of my price range...sometimes I can be a cheap bastard. I did just pick up this nice Allis Chalmers rivet driver a week ago, circa 1950.

 

[willys55]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Doc,

Things are looking up! I took the slick over to my neighbors, (he's the one who pulls up all the lobster traps every morning, he's also nearly 20 years younger than I am) we clamped the chisel in his vise and then both of us muckled onto the new handle and twisting with all our might got it loose. I spent another hour fitting the taper into the socket and then dropped the end of the handle on a section of rail Road track I keep around as an anvil, allowing the weight of the slick to seat itself. The handle went in all but 1/16". I figured that was alright so I am now applying several coats of urethane.

What sort of old (I assumer they are old) tools do you collect? I also collect vintage block planes. I recently added a nice Stanley #65 like this one: https://www.ebay.com/i/132271014480?chn=ps&dispItem=1 I paid $5 for it, but after looking it up, I felt bad, so I'm going to give the guy $20.

Here's a picture of part of my collection in my shop window.

Roger

that is some collection Roger

 

[willys55]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Solution: the admins need to make you a moderator. Then you can delete all the spam when you log on in the morning! :thumbsup:

if they ask me, I will accept. Death to all Spammers, ARGH

 

[Roger B]

More Movies!!

if they ask me, I will accept. Death to all Spammers, ARGH
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PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN - Another great movie, (although this last one certainly did not use Johnny Depp to his full advantage!) I can see a pirate now, a patch over one eye, a peg-leg and a hook for his left hand, waving it around as he says" Aarrrgggh maties, . . . Ye best be mindin' ye britches, there be buggery about!" . . .

Oh, me father was the keeper of the Eddystone light
And he slept with a mermaid one fine night
From this union there came three
A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me

Yo ho ho
The wind blows free
Oh for the life on the rolling sea

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

I collect mostly hand tools designed for auto and truck repair...I have quite a few old farm tools and implements as well. I don't really latch on to many antiques because they are out of my price range...sometimes I can be a cheap bastard. I did just pick up this nice Allis Chalmers rivet driver a week ago, circa 1950.
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Now that's a fine looking device, but how does it work? All the rivets I've ever seen used required a ball peen hammer and a dolly to support the head. The rig you have looks like it crushes the rivet with the turn of a wrench..

Interesting...

Roger

PS. I love old farm implements and tools.. When I first cut hay I used a scythe and a hand pulled dog or drag rake. Now there's a job that really sucked!

 

[willys55]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

the tool is used to press out the rivet on a sickle bar assembly...one end presses out the out rivet the other presses the new one in

 

[willys55]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

john deere version

 

[bertsmobile1]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Doc,

Things are looking up! I took the slick over to my neighbors, (he's the one who pulls up all the lobster traps every morning, he's also nearly 20 years younger than I am) we clamped the chisel in his vise and then both of us muckled onto the new handle and twisting with all our might got it loose. I spent another hour fitting the taper into the socket and then dropped the end of the handle on a section of rail Road track I keep around as an anvil, allowing the weight of the slick to seat itself. The handle went in all but 1/16". I figured that was alright so I am now applying several coats of urethane.

What sort of old (I assumer they are old) tools do you collect? I also collect vintage block planes. I recently added a nice Stanley #65 like this one: https://www.ebay.com/i/132271014480?chn=ps&dispItem=1 I paid $5 for it, but after looking it up, I felt bad, so I'm going to give the guy $20.

Here's a picture of part of my collection in my shop window.

Roger

My blood ran cold when I saw that picture.
I can still feel the steel rule come down on my nuckles for sitting a bench plane on its sole plate and the nasty glare from my wood work teacher.
Then the penalty of having to lap every bench plane blade on an oil stone then a water stone then reassenble all 200 of them before I was allowed to go home.

 

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

WELL,WELL, WELL, if it ain't the guy from "down-under" ..!! I know you've been busy helping out the "lost-souls" on the forums , but hell bert, ya need show yourself at "home" ( here) once in awhile. ..:laughing:..:laughing:

 

[7394]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Yep school wasn't all fun & games.