It's finally got a home

I've spent the last few weeks cleaning and organizing sheds at the in-laws. We spread four inches of lime and rock chips in the floor of the big shed, then leveled, packed, and watered it. I think it made a pretty decent place to work.
Put the WD-45 in last weekend. Pulled it around the yard and got the clutch freed up but it never fired. Used the other tractor and blade to pull, push and wiggle it in. It just fit through the door but after a couple tries and a few nervous minuites from me we finally got it in. I'm eager to get started on it, just gotta wrap up a few other things and get some money for parts. Also gotta figure out where to start.
Later,
Brad

I'm thinking it's a fire problem. It's been known to have a battery charging issue. I'm pretty sure it's bad wiring, it all looks like crap. Hopefully it's not the alternator. A guy at work told me to check the points too. I'm not a great mechanic but maybe I can figure out how to do that.
And yes, you're right, the wood stove needs to be changed some. My father-in-law made it years ago. It works okay, until it gets really cold. And it takes a while to warm the building up good. But it's better than nothing. I wanted to try and move it over some but ran out of time this summer. It kind of sits out in the middle of everything and eats up a lot of space that could be used otherwise. But I've done a lot of work in worse places than this one.
Later,
Brad

Lightly passing some sandpaper between the points may give you a temporary fix. That is how I have gotten my wd to fire a few times. Quick and takes about 30 seconds to pop the cap, run the paper, and reassemble.

BTW... Not sure if sand paper is recommended by the professionals on here. It is how I would get it to start when I needed it right then.

Althernator/generator shouldn't prevent it from firing.

Edited by jkoby - 05 Nov 2016 at 1:17pm

Just don't use to aggressive of sand paper to clean the points, some thing in the 400 or higher grits. They do sell a points file run from about 7.50 to 10.50 depending on where you buy.

I had a double barrel stove that laid long ways that thing would heat the shop I had then 24x52 in and hour so I could work in a long sleeve shirt in January mid Michigan. Friend made one from a old fuel oil barrel, wrapped in soft copper and rain the water into some hanging car radiators with fans to heat his shop, size bigger than mine.

Good luck getting it running.

   Al

Thanks guys, I know it'll run, it did when I got it. But it sat all summer with nothing done to it. That's not good for anything. I think the battery is flat dead, due to bad wiring and not getting charged when it did run. I thought maybe that's why it wouldn't fire. Didn't get a chance to do anything with it today. Spent the afternoon running new wiring in the building. Thanks for all the ideas for wood stoves. I'm gonna make a different one by next winter for sure.
Thanks,
Brad

darrel in ND wrote: I know your post isn't about the floor, but does that lime and rock chips get hard like concrete? Darrel

Actually, it did pretty good. Like I said, I leveled it, used a small yard roller on it, and watered it with the hose really good twice. After a day or so it was hard enough you could hit it with your knuckles and it sounded solid. I probably could have spent more time on it and had a better result but that's no bid deal. It's not quite as hard as concrete, you can scrape and dig it up if you try. And some we did outside got messed up today while we were working. But if we get a good soaking rain I think it'll harden up more. It's kind of a poor man's concrete, I've set a lot of corner posts with it in the past. I'm pretty pleased with it in this application.
Thanks,
Brad