Where the hood at.

Oh, here it is.

Hoodlum's log, supplemental.

Painting complete. It needs to dry for a day or three before I mount it on the frame.

Dents in the hood.

Work continues on the hood. I'm trying to do a better job of this than the fender.


I didn't get quite enough filler in here.



After filling the little dents with a little more bondo, I re-sanded and sprayed a little primer. It was too cold to paint it at night, so hopefully I can do it tomorrow.





Slight bump here. Not too bad though.

Throwing a little light on the situation.

Work continues on the sheet metal. This time it's the hood.



When I got the hood back from the welding shop, they filled all the holes except this one. I'm pretty sure it's a bullet hole from a .22 rifle or something like that. I don't mind, gives it street cred.


Primer where possible, bondo in the low spots. Tomorrow I'll sand and add more filler if necessary.


But as the nights are getting so long (seriously, I took this shot around 4:30pm) it's time to add the headlights. I've been dragging my feet on this for a long time, not sure why exactly.


No flash on this one, they seem to do a pretty good job lighting the way.

Enthusiastically scratching.

Thought I'd give the disker a try, given that it's a semi-nice weekend.


This is a patch of dirt at my parent's place. It fills with water in the spring and doesn't grow anything except dandelions because of it.


Max attack angle, max down pressure.


Did a pretty good job. I wasn't able to do the middle because of the turning radius, but it worked pretty well.



Also fixing up the remaining fender. Body filler and paint, doesn't look great. I may have to make fibreglass ones from the one good fender one day.

Implementing the hitch.

I've been scouring the yard sales and online sales listings lately. I found that I can usually buy used equipment a lot cheaper than building it from scratch. Sometimes I even get really lucky and find something perfectly suited to what I have.

This is a Massey Harris brand cultivating disk. I think this is the one that was marketed around the same time that my tractor was back in the 40s. They go together perfectly.



I also picked up a chain harrow for cheap. I ordered this middle buster online, this is the only new device I'll have.




Got my sheet metal back from the weldor's.




I welded on the bracket I made a while back, to complete the frame for the hitch.



Now I need to make a lift mechanism and finish fixing the sheet metal.

What a tool.

Things have slowed down a bit lately. Winter rapidly approaches here in the semi-frozen North.

Still, I've found time to get a few things done.

Got the holes drilled for my hitch, and I bought the lower arms.


Top link too. Need to make a mounting bracket for this guy.


Now, to make the hitch useful, I need implements. I found this cultivator for 150 dollars, which I think is a pretty screamin deal. I couldn't buy the steel to make a comparable unit for that kind of money. Some nice folks in Okotoks sold it to me.



The mounting brackets for the pins are bent, but I should be able to fix that.


One of the tine springs is broken, but I should be able to weld that up. I may not even bother, I should have enough as it stands now.


I also purchased a potato plow, or 'middle buster' online, but that won't arrive for a couple of weeks.