WaterfowlForum.Net

It's not threaded. It's a bolt on application, with a small gasket. Thought about just cross-threading a modern one into the hole, but not sure what sort of clearance I have on the inside.

assateague wrote:It's not threaded. It's a bolt on application, with a small gasket. Thought about just cross-threading a modern one into the hole, but not sure what sort of clearance I have on the inside.

If only you knew somebody with a welder......

Holy shit! I forgot about that!

assateague wrote:Holy shit! I forgot about that!

More than one way to skin a cat.

Probably 6 ways to rig a muffler onto an engine.
DUCK TAPE IT!

assateague wrote:Ran the tiller for about an hour last night. Still need about 10 more hours, probably. But the muffler finally rusted off. Completely off, so I stopped after a bit, since it now blows an open header directly across the vent holes in the gas cap lid. Midst stop for fear of danger, but because if that bitch caught fire, I'd have to buy a new rototiller, and I don't want that to happen.

So far, no luck finding a muffler for a 1968 Montgomery Ward tiller. Will keep looking.

You have a welder don't you? Put stacks on that bitch if it comes down to it.

When AT gets done...
[attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1396538310997.jpg[/attachment]

Went from this, which was for about 9 years or so after the guts blew out:







To this, yesterday. But it was loud as heck, and there was a good possibility is ruin it by catching fire to the fuel line or gas cap vent:






Just picked up a $4 muffler, and the threads were a just a little too small, but was the closest I could find. Cut a thin strip out of a scrap piece of tin, and used it like a shim in the hole. Let the threads grab, and it torqued in there pretty good, to the point it wouldn't turn with a pair if channel locks. We'll see if it holds.

Motherfucker looks like a hot rod now.

Nice. Wish I could find an el cheepo tiller that just needed a little love.
This is the wrong time of year to be looking.

That one was free. My kind of price.

Grandpa Gabe me his last year. No telling how old this thing is but it's heavy as fuck! The frame is all cast iron.


[attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1396572420442.jpg[/attachment]

Is that a tiller?

vincentpa wrote:Is that a tiller?

Only one tiller around these parts.

Eric Haynes wrote:

vincentpa wrote:Is that a tiller?

Only one tiller around these parts.

Or

That's more like it

My tiller goes on the back of a tractor.

I hand tilled my garden once. Never again!!

Anybody know exactly what this is? It took over pretty thick last year.

[attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1398370942514.jpg[/attachment][attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1398370999583.jpg[/attachment]

A weed.

What Capt said.

Do the roots connect just under the surface? Otherwise, it just looks like bermuda grass.

assateague wrote:Do the roots connect just under the surface? Otherwise, it just looks like bermuda grass.

Nope, all tap roots. Was trying to get it in the picture but wasn't clear.

Do they pull up easy? If so, we have them here, too. I just run my wheel hoe through and they die really quick. No need to pull them, just run a rake through and the sun on the roots will kill them.

Yeah they pulled up very easy. Good to know will give it a shot. What about everything that grows around the plant?

Tilled my big garden last week with a tiller almost identical as assa's.
It took me a while of fighting the machine to stop and drop that rear thing all the way down. As soon as I did that it went from hard and wrestling the machine to simply walking along side it using one hand on the on-off lever.
Tilled up the entire garden in about two hours and 3 tanks of fuel. Half the garden had not been tilled in about three years, maybe four.

Planted four rows of corn already and will stick in another four every week or two.
The first four rows was about 200 seeds. If I only get one ear per plant that's still quite a bit of corn.
Should end up with about 16 rows total.

Planting tomatoes today or this weekend.

Getting my garden tilled this weekend. I need to make a mad dash to the FIL's to get some horse shit before the guy shows up to till....

Do have all my tomatoes, peppers, and onions started though. Didn't have enough window light to start the beans, jalapeños, and peas. They might just go into the ground to start rather than peat pots.....

Hopefully my wife doesn't start comparing.

[attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1401232541017.jpg[/attachment]

I need rain.

assateague wrote:I need rain.

Just got 3.5" of rain in last two days. Corn has tassled out here.

My corn is about 6" tall. Won't get any til mid July. Can't plant until mid April at best. We had snow in the middle of April this year. Weird spring. Late, then moist and cool. Been dealing with fungus issues.
Not looking like my best summer and it ain't started yet.

assateague wrote:I need rain.

I need sun!

capt1972 wrote:

assateague wrote:I need rain.

I need sun!

X2. And warmth. Still calling for a heavy frost tomorrow night. This is way past rediculous