120 grader, Before and After pic's.

Mark,
Welcome back. Glad you made it back from Iraq and thank you for your service. Boy, I wouldn't even call that maintence what they did. That is a shame to treat a machine like that. We have talked before as I think you were looking for a hood for it. Did you ever get one? Try sizing your pics. for a 800x600 size. These came thru small and I had to enlarge mine. Machine is looking good. catskinner

Maybe you can help me out with the sizing. I tried to do it but I just get a smaller section of the photo. How or what do you use for photo sizing? Oh, and thanks for the compliments. My brother and i keep getting a little better each time we do a grader restoration. We've done a 12, 8T, a 12, 70D, and a 12E and now this one. Lostsa practice. Girlfriend thinks I'm nuts though. Oh..how'd like the broken cab windows. Let the snow and rain into the cab for over a year..they didn't even throw a tarp over it! Ghad..just thinking of how they let it go makes my blood boil. 😠 You should see how the town garage looks...well, maybe you shouldn't. That would make you wrench in disgust too.

D4Doug,
I would like to see your Cat D4 7U and i wonder if you can make big picture of ur Cat D4-7U? Thanks😄
FarmerD5

Hi Mark,
A lot of hard work and dedication there....you'd never know the story from looking at your handiwork after you got through with them. Good work😄 😄

First, good job. the grader looks great. Second, thank you for your service to our country. Third, doesn't your town have voters, or a town council that this guy answers to? Sounds like time for a job change...
Ron in CO...

Really nice work on the graders.

I have found that there are other, easier to use photo resizing programs, but if you don't have anything else, use MS Paint. It is on every(?) windows equipped computer in the All programs/accessories/paint.

Open your picture with "file"/open
then click on "image" at the top.
you want to resize/skew
use the same % on both height and width to keep the proportions the same.

It doesn't hurt to crop it first if there's a lot of background that isn't important, that way your picture stays as large as possible.

Check the finished product for size by clicking on image/attributes and adjust as needed by resizing again if necessary. I think 800 pixels is the maximum width for the bulletin board.

Save the resized picture with another name if you don't want to overwrite the original on your computer

I see you have done a 12E before. Do you have an oil pump for the 99E D333 engine sitting around anywhere? I need one to finish the reassembly of our grader.

Lets see..two posts to reply to. First one. Brunswick Maine is a heavily democratic town. Not just democrat, but liberal, socialist, totaletarian town. Better know as the Peoples Republic of Brunswick. The Town Council is made up of mostly women and a couple men who should be women. (and, maybe are). Budgets are of no concern and taxes are through the roof to pay for everything under the sun. Public discourse about how the town does business is not tolerated well, and is almost always disregarded. For instance. Recently the council got an ear full from a couple of conservative residents and now the Town Council is considering abolishing the public comment section of the Town Meetings. If You were to go down our quaint old "Maine" street, you'ld see the following...atleast three coffee shops with menues written on a chalkboards and names of things you've most likely never heard of. You'ld also see a few deli's and restaraunts...with chalkboard menues. Then you'ld see college students from Bowdoin College...mostly female and some male...again, little difference between the two here. The rest are wearing wool sweaters and torn jeans and even though its about thirty degrees out during the day, they still wear flip flops. They all need showers and have greasy hair too. Oh..and there are rainbow stickers on a lot of store windows. The other bureaucrats are mostly from other states (New York, New Jersey, etc.) and have no concern for the future of the town based on a historical perspective. Best I can tell is they're screwing the place up as much or more than the place they left. Ever wish people would just go back to where they came from? So i hope You get the picture of how Brunswick Maine is. Just guess what state our public works director is from? And Town Manager?😉

The second post. I'm sorry but I don't have an oil pump. Easy enought to get used though. Call Rays Equip. at 1-800-723-7279 or Weller Tractor at 1-800-255-9325. Oh and thanks for the lessen on MS Paint!

Hi Mark,
Gees, and I thought the left coast (Santa Cruz) was bad. Got nothing on your town😊 even if it is the lesbian capital of the USA. Makes it tough coming off a service tour, just like us veterans coming off the Viet Nam era. Hang in there and ignore the bastards.
The politicians and two bit lawyers haven't ruined it all yet. there's still a forum of real people out there, Thanks for your service.
Grader looks great😄 😄