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And this years Candidates for the grill, rotisssery, big hole full of coals, smoke sausage, pan sausage, chops, steaks, loin roasts and more. Only one big boar in the bunch (I think) therest are ALL groceries...😜😋😜🤣

Hey rob, a good friend of mine over in the USA told me you need some assistance sourcing parts… I may be able to help you. First of all, what year is your 420, any idea? If you don’t know, take a photo of the frame (vin) number and post it here, we can find out the year via that. sam

here's what I know..about 6 months before you reach eligible age...your phone will start to ring...and your cell phone, and your mail box will have daily stuff in it. I swear ta God.. I get 11 calls a day wanting to sign me up...most of the calls are some crap indian or asian sweat shop call center. I've told them to stop, I've ignored them, I've screamed colorful language at them.. my cell phone will ring at the same time my house rings..unbelievable abuse!! yeah.. I already talked to my company benefits person.. I turned 65 Dec 1st.. I'll sign on to Part A at no cost as I still have my employers insurance program. maybe then, they'll stop calling me...oh wait.. my wife is next in April...the horror continues !!!

Tires came, hope to get them on the rims later this week.

Wonder- I always butcher my deer as soon as possible, especially if it's above 40F. The enzymes in venison age it over twice as fast as beef. I use an electric fillet knife to cut my steaks. Way easier and faster when the meat is less than firm. Other than inside the body cavity try not to get the meat wet. It's not like poultry. Use a damp sponge to get any hair off. After wrapping the meat we put the packages in garbage bags, put in bottom of cooler with ice packs on top. If at home they go in the freezer. When freezing, don't leave in a box all piled up. Spread the packages all over the shelves to freeze them faster. Meat that is too slowly frozen develops ice crystals in the meat which puts very small cuts in the meat. This results in bloody steaks when you thaw them. You will notice that fresh cut or flash frozen meat won't do that. My very best tasting venison is that which has been butchered and froze in 3 days or less.

Transmission installed this morning. Took me a few tries to get everything in place and lined up to get the shift fork pin slid down into place, but I finally got it together. Replaced the 05-08 1st gear set with the 09-up as always, even though the original looked to be in good shape.

Heeeeeeyyyyy Sam! Glad to see you back!

I love the dogs looking at the hole like "WTF did you do man?"

Thanks. I can see right now y my fan doesn't work. The green wire to the carb heater is burnt. Noticed that when I replaced the carb.

G'Day Robb !!! ---- Welcome to the forum --- @SamUK is our UK go to guy , hope to see him stop by soon as we have not seen him lately , whilst we wait maybe we can have some " Tea and Cookies " !!!

That's what I'm talkin about!

Free factory service manual is available in PDF format in the toolbar at the top of the page

I think the 2015 has a better front push bar on it. I think I'll have to push over less trees with the 2022.

Our local Vances Outdoors sold the Ruger American on sale for $199 in January 2020. I just left the dentist without crying so my wife bought me one in 22LR. I am impressed. Here's 5 shots at around 52 yds with CCI SV. Best thing it doesn't suffer the dredded first shot flier like other 22s I own.

yeah they are a bit of an old school tire themselves, while the mud bugs are still my go to these are not a bad tire at all. I actually looked for a set of the HL MST first, but none were to be found, very similar tire just some slight alterations were made by Deestone for HL.

This morning I got the crankcase 1/2 cleaned up well for the 500 motor I started tearing down. I've gotten lucky so far and haven't had a 500 motor with the drain bung busted yet (knock on wood). Just about every 420 motor I've rebuilt has had a busted bung. Interesting since they're the same design (flawed). Anyhow, got the cases cleaned out, transmission gears, forks, drum cleaned as well. Installed rear crank bearing back in the case, then the crank and balancer (pics show timing marks). Then I set that job aside, polished the float needle seat, in the TRX250A carb on my bench, put in a new float needle (had to rob one out of another carb kit I had), and put a new bowl gasket in it. Will check it after work and make sure it's not leaking, and if not, will put the air box etc back on that machine. Then I had to quit for the morning and go to my real job.

Back when I was looking at a new Rubicon I thought I didn't need EPS until I tried it. No way would I buy a machine without it.

Mine came like that also, FS with EPS, I like it for some of the rough bush riding I do, especially with the diff lock on.

yeah I don’t really agree with the idea of not offering a true base model, but I guess the EPS must be popular enough of an option.

I'm not the best butcher but I do my own hogs, currently. If all I'm doing is deboning and keeping just few specific parts, it's not as hard (obviously). I have a table, my knife set, hose, etc. I'll set up some music and the other fellas will probably sit around and critique my every move. Good times!

Really a pain to do more than coarse butchery in camp. Guys wanna drink and talk and some don’t know how to cut! i hated going to a pheasant camp that used a dirty shop workbench as a cutting table. Guys there never cleaned their pliers🤢 Ideally you have a good clean cutting table, sanitizing agents, gloves, knives and sharpener, paper and tape. The team I’m on is real good ( I’m the newby). I bought a used cutting table and replaced the poly boards—it gets packed into the trailer.

well...... i can thank this one femal for my extra high jiuce bill.....so i can relate, to what your saying there bro.

learn it, before ya get sucked in by the gov. hype.. then tell me what ya found. Advantage Plan, i wish i had the words. i know the gov. is playing me.

friend pinged me yesterday.His dad passed away.. he was more than amazed to learn of all the guns and ammo that his dad has stashed. I have purchased the Colt AR off of him, so he reached out to me to let me know he had come across a little over 1,000 rds of 223 for it. He's trying to be fair and is asking pretty much market price for brass range quality ammo $450 for the 1,000rds. I don't actually "need" the ammo, but I don't see prices coming down much anytime soon, and this purchase doesn't include sales tax, etc. I'm definitely on the ledge on this one. I've never paid this kind of $ for ammo, but I also realize it is a new day and unlike waiting for a school shooting market panic to calm down, this current state of affairs could run a long long time. On one hand, I like having the cash tucked away and at my age, even if we get into a shooting fight, I'll not survive my current inventory. So I guess this same ammo would surface yet again after another old man passes away (me) and my kids are standing at the door to my closet also amazed at what they find. so, opinions. Should I grab this case? Mind you, I am already sitting on a couple other thousand of that caliber,so it's not like I'm not prepared already.

I thought you were going towards “we’re building a kegerator out of the old one”

My dad's A had the wide front end and it was offset I'm guessing for cultivating. My friend's C has the tricycle front end but other than the front end it looks like the one in your picture. I'll take some pictures of it when I get over his way if I don't forget about it. I don't get over there very often but if you're interested in it I'll make sure I go over there to take some pictures of it for you. He's located in Taylorsville, Ky. The front end loader isn't much. It has a narrow bucket and doesn't have the right hookups for it. It's pretty much rigged but it seems to work. It just has up and down and a manual trip for the bucket.

post some pics if you can ... if she's in good shape ... she'd be worth $800 or more easily ... and like an old school honda ... will only go up in price ... we've been offered $2500 for our super A .. she's not the best looker .. not beat up ... no rust still has the cultivators . just faded paint. ... but shes not out in the weather, and still runs like a top, and has never been wrenched on...

I'm drawing a blank ..(on what they looked like) .. i believe they were first on the market in 1927 ...in a tricycle configuration, those were sure enough a collectors dream! you could try google image ... for information... that's a tad bit before my time... lol

Yeah the VP was the electronic rotary. I had an 01 with it and Dad has a 99 with it, he still has his. Never had much issue out of them, I had an aftermarket lift pump on mine and an edge tuner, his is all stock. They switched to that pump in the Dodge cummins mid year 1998. I guess the 5.9 used in other applications continued on with mechanical pumps? I honestly have no experience with them. The White is a 1998 and used a Bosch A inline pump, rather than the P7100. I guess the P7100's were more for variable throttle vs. fixed throttle like a farm tractor would see. I think 6000 hours is respectable too, especially considering you have an engine producing 430hp in a marine application. If it can survive that amount of power like that they must last. along time in a farm tractor set at 150-250hp. Some provinces up here they are starting with that too. Stricter on the emissions. I think this emissions stuff is just something we are going to have to learn to live with. Honestly a lot of guys hate on the DEF fluid but prior to that when they were trying to meet emissions with only the DPF and SCR and other crap they seemed to be much more problematic and overall just worse off. Using DEF seems to make life easier on the rest of the emissions gear, like I said my 2015 ram I've never had an issue with the emissions and it's never done a regen that I can remember either. I remember years ago looking at the intake and exhaust on the 12 and 24v dodge trucks, the huge muffler and resonator, and the small factory filter, couldn't wait to put a flow through 4" exhaust on and a big rig air cleaner. I thought those were choked up bad, and changing that stuff did make a noticeable difference. I can't imagine what a difference you'd feel getting rid of that crap on a new diesel. The whole exhaust is cans and sensors from one end to the other.

thanks mac. GREAT read! i never had 1st hand dealings with the 8.3 ... just alot reading ... books , and hearing the local diesel shop (Dixie diesel) wrench on them often, the vp44 was the electronic controlled rotary pump ?? 6000 hours is good IMO ... agreed on the 6bt ... excellent engine .. my 12v has the p7100 pump ... (knock on wood) not a single issue ... agreed .. diesels weren't meant to be choked down with all that emissions mess... I'm glad i dont have one... here if your truck doesn't pass emissions testing because of a delete ... you can't get tags .. and your truck is recorded in a database ... and you have to pay to have all the emissions mess put back on ... in a certain amount of time ... and, with the laws now, i don't know, what other strick regulations they have for deletions. i don't think i need to google this after your post ... maybe not even bing lol...

yea, they had a strange looking cab .. i never heard anything good about the 8.3 cummins ... seem to be bad about tossings a rods.. i believe I've heard the words case cummins a few times in the past but ... never have layed eyes on one ... IMO the 5 9 12 valve was one of the best engines cummins came out with , well that and the big dog 885 CID .. and for the rest of those computerized junk.. like the 6.7 ... they can have those back ... as there very problematic.

we have very few rotor rakes here it's mostly wheel rakes , and a few tandem bar rake rigs .. that's a good looking classic 135 massy ... i couldn't sell it ether.. lol, my father feels the same about his ford 4000 ... the family will have it when I'm six feet under ... I'll make sure of that myself! seams like i recall reading something about a deal with AGCO, and white , but, the only time i ever saw a white tractor (pic) .. was at the Louisville farm ... and that was years ago.. but it looked deferent from your pic (which looks like the massy 4wd cab tractors we have here now) but there not powered by that great 6bt cummins ... at least not the ones I've delt (very few) with aren't .. but IMO the 120 -200 horse plus range should be!

thats about how it is here now ... i recall back when ford played with idea of putting a 4 banger Perkins engine in the small ranger pickups .. i believe some were actually turbo charged .. anyways ... yeah that 375 is nice! do y'all still have that 135 .. we had a 175 ... nice two wheel drive open station .. i hauled many a load of tobacco with it ... years ago.

yeah the 375 is nice, we had 2 identical at one time bought them both new in the 80’s, around 1998 we put an aftermarket cab on one then sold it around 2007-2008 I think. But still have this one, less than 3000 hours on it. Open station tractors from that era aren’t uncommon here but 4wd was just starting to become a thing. Now everything is 4wd with a cab and if it doesn’t have a loader on it people don’t know what to do with it. the 1105 is a mean machine, never noticed much power difference with the straight pipe, all it really does now is run the silage blower no tillage or anything. We had an 1135 for many years too but sold that a few years back when we replaced it with a 3650 Massey, which we’ve also since sold. The 354 is a good strong motor for sure. Can’t complain about them.

that massy 375 4wd is rare down this way, i dont think I've ever seen a massy open station 4wd .... around here it's kubota .. that's taking over ... no real farmer here wants to use / pay for the push button deere s and i recall us talking about the 1105 ... 354 turbo .. plant .... i see y'all did the same as i did with our 1130 (straight pipe) it made a big defrence in power ...

We have plenty of tractors here, 11 I think. Newest is a 2014, most are 70's and 80's vintage, couple from the 90's. Mostly Massey/AGCO and Case/David Brown. Don't like Deere much.

i shelled a lot corn with one of those 6620 446 turbo ....engine, eaton 4 speed ( hydro trans) ... basically all mechanical with just one magnetic clutch ...did you ever have any dealing with taking out the filler plates ? .. doing that job will teach you a completely new language.. lol ... and of corse the old saying on those were ... the combine was built around the radiator... and it pretty much was ... but those didnt have half shafts ... like some of the other models did back then.... i believe the 6620 ... was the best out of all three.(At least that was word from the JD corporation) .. 6620, 7720, 8820

Ahh, see I really want a loader. I would have been better off buying a tractor with a loader than trying to find a loader separately now. Swept back you mean the front axle, right? Mine's straight across, so I guess that would make it a heavy model?

well,, most are taught what to think, instead of how the think. by the TV shows they grow up with, some by teaching of a narrative. indoctrination at pre-school levels. tiss terrible. i think kindergarten is overrated..