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I finally had a chance to go pick up my new sign, it still had the original divider paper from when it was new. I did not get the box but I believe it was never installed because the nail/screw holes do not have any paint missing or show any signs of wear.

A local dealer had a sell out today. Got a bunch of parts and a ton of belts. Also a lot of books and brochures. Many pics to come and a lot will be for sale once it's sorted through! To give you an idea on how many belts are in that box, the box is 3ftx3ft

You guys got Sparky wound up enough he double posted!

Started another Loader project yesterday, C195 and Brantly loader, The brantly's are a rear bird. The loader needs some work on the cylinders and 6 new lines. The C195 is going to get a full paint make over when the loader is finished. will keep the pics coming as I progress. Had to move all the tabs for the angle braces and for the new lift cylinders, the new cylinders are 4inches longer so it will lift over 6feet high now. , worked 2 days on the underside bracket. Should get the pump mounted this week. lots more to do.

So I put in some driving time on Saturday, and wouldn’t you know it, some Horses followed me home again! I ended up with a patina’ed 1973 8hp and a 1974? B80 with a coat of peeling house paint. Neither are running at the moment, but the engines are free, everything is there, and the metal is straight. I also ended up with a snow plow, mowing decks, a tiller, and my father in law got a brinly plow and a Wheel Horse brand discer. I also met Joe in Polo, IL, and I will definitely have to stop there again.

Dang!! Double posting is also not allowed Squonk!! 🤣 Fixed it!

Saw this in town this morning. What a curious thing! Mike

Well buoys and gulls... We've got some top shelf Show-n-tell for ya today !! I write "we" because my amazing honey helped out A LOT today!!! Have I mentioned how awesome she is ?!? Worked on the wiring a bit more. Hoping that's done for now. The other day I was fiddlin' with the ground cable and the upper end came unpastedized. Not a huge shock (see what I did there...) considering it was a badly done home-made piece. Sooo... 3 new battery cables went in... The double zip-tie between + & - is to keep them from moving and also keeps a piece of plastic between them. Scored a name brand solenoid for about 25 bucks Right front tire had a gash big enough to throw a cat through so I changed that out today. Super cool part was I had an original front wheel from the B80 on hand that had the same tire. Spindle has a fair amount of wear just like every other thing on this rig. You can see here that I drained the ummm... stuff... out of the rear axle/transmission. I did refill with about 1- 1/2 quarts of diesel and spun by hand a bit in each gear and drained it again. Same color but much thinner like diesel shoulda been. I'll likely repeat this a couple more times.... minimum. Other concerns there though. One hub is floppy loose and the other you can see in the next pic has been beaten by a PO. so ya' know that ain't comin' off easy. And... the wheel with the tight hub won't come off. Sprayed Penetrating oil all over the place and closed the shop up. I'm thinkin' I'm gonna need to split the trans soon and replace the wheel bearings. The contents of the following are self descriptive as each before and after. ALL done by my honey... And... She worked on the seat cover some more too !! Cut the whole seat piece. Then cut it in the middle and spray glued it. Then trimmed around the edges to shape it.

Grandson Jake rolls a strike at Canaan Valley, WVa. last week. My boys have rented a ski lodge here for the past 16 years.

Well guys—IT’S Alive and hopping once again!! After some simple investigation, we found out that the PO had hacked off the green wire from the key switch and spliced it to the light blue wire to the solenoid!in doing so, they must’ve changed out the key switch until they were able to get that green on the momentary contact spade. By cutting that green wire, that removed the entire light circuit plus power to the hourmeter and voltmeter! Then they eliminated the mag kill back tot the key switch because of changing the switches and so they drilled a hole in the dash and installed a mag kill toggle switch. Essentially the only functioning electrical was the newly modified start circuit and the toggle switch mag kill! I’m not sure why they did all of this but it gave me another opportunity to tell Caleb about the importance of doing things the right way!!! He also got to use some of the electrical tools and straighten out their mess. We fixed the green light circuit first and he was stoked when the key was placed in run and the switch flipped... Even Zach was excited! After checking all the fluids, topping off the fuel, priming the system—it was off and running! Caleb was stoked to be driving it around the yard! That thing seems to run really well and it is SUPER FAST! A couple points of concern that I need to address yet...it only seems to be putting out about 12.5v on the charging circuit. I need to investigate that further. Also, since we have a brand new primary drive belt, I was looking underneath the back of the tractor and I noticed that it was developing a stripe in the middle of the outside/backside of the belt. I looked and noticed that it was riding on the lip of the tensioner pulley—any ideas what might be causing that? Overall—we are both excited to have it up and running!

Just a heads up....I ain’t for sale! 😂

I'm glad you guys like my video. When I bought this tractor if was shortly after a near tragic accident and buying this nice ole black hood definitely picked my spirits up and help get my mind off of some bad things going on in my life. In the video clip at the tail end I was suffering from some temporary nerve damage so I had my arm in that sling so it wasn't just dangling all around. Here's the story. It's a long one. On a beautiful day in early may of 2006, I hopped in my '86 GMC 3/4T RWD 350CI with a holley carburetor, thrush glass packs and a four speed, drove to my buddy's house after school and get some good food in town and we didn't eat lunch at school in preparation for this. I had just turned 17 a few weeks prior. When I got to his house he was shaving for his new job at Burger King and while he was shaving his neck he asked me "Carl if I were to accidentally slit my throat open right now what would you do?" I said" I don't know, probably call 911." We went upstairs to his room to get his football so we could play a little catch before we went to go get food. He hopped on his computer to check his MySpace. I was looking out his bedroom window at my truck that I had for about a week now and I was imagining all the great future adventures my best friend and I were about to have in it when I turned around to the sight of him waving his 20 gauge Mossberg 500 across his room and when it was pointed in the general direction of my heart, I heard a very loud bang. My ears were ringing and I was overwhelmed with the smell of gun smoke. Time stood still for a moment, as I looked at the wall behind me and didn't see a hole in it. I turned my head around, looked at Ryan and realized that I was hit in my left shoulder. Next thing I knew I was down on the floor in between a wall and couch with blood gushing out of my left shoulder. I quickly realized judging by the sound of the round and how it hit me that I was hit with a deer slug at point blank range in a vital area of the body and I'm going to be dead very soon. I was shocked that I was alive and awake for this whole ordeal. Ryan called 911 and they instructed him to put pressure on the wound. The pain from this pressure was terrible. My left arm was numb and I couldn't move it. It felt almost as if it was shot off. My lung somehow got punctured by the slug so my lungs were filling with blood and I felt like I was drowning in my own blood. The back of my t-shirt was completely wet and soaked from my blood and it is the absolute worst feeling of panic laying in a pool of your own blood knowing from your deer hunting experience that I don't have long to live and I'm going to die. No one should have to experience this feeling ever. It's the worst. It felt like forever but a Sheriff arrived, took a quick look at the gun, and then moved Ryan and the couch aside, knelt over me and put pressure on the wound. He kept asking me my name and address and I kept thinking "can't you just look at the I.D. in my wallet". I here that's how they try to keep you conscious. I told him that Ryan shot me by accident and asked him I was going to die. He said that the paramedics would be here soon with oxygen and I'll be fine. I heard some more radio chirping in the background and the paramedics came up with a backboard and oxygen. They put the oxygen mask over my face and I went out like a light. This happened on a Wednesday afternoon after school. I have really scattered foggy memories of the next four days and I really didn't come back to full consciousness until Monday morning. What happened during these four days has been told to me by friends and relatives. I was Mercy Flighted (helicoptered) to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. I "died" a couple of times on the helicopter ride to the Hospital. Workers in the ER really didn't think I was going to make it. The paramedics report estimated that I lost at least a liter of blood. The surgeon quickly got to work. The round was fired so close to me that the surgeon took the wad out of the wound. The miracle thing is the main artery and vein that went through my shoulder from my heart to my left arm were intact. If those were damaged that likely would've been it for me. Instead the surgeon had to repair a lot of smaller arteries and veins that were damaged. He didn't get all of the lead out for fear of causing more damage. To this day the x-ray of my left shoulder is pretty scary looking and you can see pieces of bone and slug fragments in there. During this time a lot of people came to visit me at the Hospital but I have little to no memory of them. I remember someone saying "your sister's here." She quickly flew up from Georgia where she lives to see that I was alive and doing okay. My ex girlfriend and some friends visited me but I have no memory of them or the things I said to them. I was swelled up like a balloon from all the fluids put in my body and I was very foggy from all of the different medications put into my body. I had a dream where I woke up, tried to rip every tube and sensor out of my body, and get out of there. My Dad and the nurses had restrain me. It turns out that was real but it felt so much like a dream when it happened. I had another dream during this time where I was being pulled into some light by an angel figure. Was this real or not? I really don't know because my memories are so foggy of this time. My Dad got really upset at my best friend's step dad and told him that we could never be friends again and mainly blamed him for all of this. When I fully came to it Monday morning I still had my left arm but I couldn't move it. I had sensors connected to me, a vacuum pump draining the fluid in my left shoulder, and a couple of drainage tubes inserted into my left lung and every time I coughed, nasty red stuff would come out. Doctors told me that most of the nerve damage is temporary but there will be some permanent problems. The surgeon had to cut out half of my left clavicle out to do his repair work. On Wednesday I was blinking and noticed something off with my right eye. When I closed my left eye I couldn't see much out of my right eye. I only have a pie slice of peripheral vision in that eye to this day and you can notice it if you look at my eyes in the video that they're looking at different places. The doctors told me that because I lost so much blood, your body shuts things off to conserve blood. Unfortunately the blood got shut off to my dominant right eye and the optical nerve cells didn't make it. I was very bummed out that I'd never have depth perception again, shot a gun right handed/right eyed again, or look someone right in the eyes again. I was very disappointed that I couldn't drive my stick shift truck. I was in the PICU for 7 days. The doctors sealed up the would then moved me to the adolensent unit for another 7 days. It was this point in my life when I realized how much my Dad who had to travel a lot for work so he was frequently not home and often not home on my Birthday loved me. He was always by my side in the hospital and only left a couple of times to grab a shower and fresh clothes. He and the steady flow of visitors I had provided me with a lot of comfort. I was released from the hospital and missed the rest of that school year. I had a tutor help me so I could pass my final exams and move on to my Senior year seamlessly. One day over the summer after this I was laying in bed and I could just twitch my left thumb. This was a great sign in an otherwise terrible summer. Ryan lived with his Dad senior year and went to a different school. At the beginning of my senior year my left arm would just lay on my desk and not move a lot. By the end of senior year it was moving more naturally like an arm would. The physical therapy was very painful to get the range of motion back in my left arm. It took years to get the strength back in that arm and the sense of touch back in my left hand so I could pick up heavy things and thread small nuts and bolts with my left hand. Before this accident happened I wanted to be a carpenter but not having my left arm changed my career outlook. Ryan plead guilty to a second degree assault charge and had to serve 60 days in jail for this. Looking back we were both so reckless with our firearms and I just as easily could have done this same thing to him. I wish I had talked to the DA and lowered the charge to a misdemeanor and Ryan could have done community service instead. At the time I really blamed him for what happened and why my life sucked so much immediately afterwards. I loved shooting my guns, working with my hands, and driving my stick shift truck and this ruined all of that for me. Eventually, my arm came back pretty well. My left deltoid muscle still doesn't work and is numb so I can't fully raise my left arm all the way up like my right but this isn't something that I notice a lot anymore. I converted gradually to shooting left handed which limits my firearm selection a little but I am enjoying the hobby again. I sold the guns I had after this accident but around the time I was 20 I bought a left handed savage .22LR bolt action and got back into the hobby again. Five years went by without talking to Ryan and one day I received a friend request on Facebook from him. I didn't think much of it at the time and promptly accepted. He messaged me right away asking how I was doing and wanted to meet up somewhere and catch up. This was a pretty awkward meeting. He had a son and a steady girlfriend. Our lives seemed pretty different. Some months went by and he split up with his girlfriend. We were both a couple of single guys in our early 20s with time on our hands so we started hanging out, going on adventures, and going out to bars together. It felt awkward just at first, but we soon became best friends again and it felt just like old times. We're still best friends and I just hung out with him yesterday and we shoot guns together every now and then. His family is forever grateful that we became best friends again. It really helped ease his guilty conscious and helped take away the dark cloud that loomed over my head regarding this whole ordeal and helped turned me into a happy confident young man. We had a couple beers together one night and had a man-to-man talk about this. That's when I realized just how much of an accident this situation was. He never meant to point the gun at me and pull the trigger. He was just waving it across the room and pulled the trigger at the worst time. The gun almost jumped out of his hands. He has no clue how that deer slug ever got into the chamber of his gun. He normally kept it unloaded behind his bedroom door. He always tells me if he could trade places with me he would, but while what I went through was bad, I wouldn't want to trade places with him and live with the guilt of nearly killing my 17 year old best friend either. After high school I went to RIT for one year as a mechanical engineering major, dropped out to go work full time at my uncle's machine building business I grew up working for, but when I was 21 I started a job as an overhead crane and hoist service technician. I learned and saw a lot during my 5 years at this job, but one great thing about it was the physical rigors of the job really helped strengthen my left arm so I didn't feel so weak anymore. One day I met a gentlemen at a factory that taught Hunter's Safety courses in the area where I lived and he asked me to come guest speak and tell this story at his courses. I have been doing so for about the past five years and the people in the audience really stay tuned to every word of this story and it really drives home the point of why you should treat every gun as if its loaded, know your target and beyond and never point it at anything you don't intend to shoot. Ryan and I went through that hunter's safety course and thought something like this could never happen to us. We thought that if we knew the gun was unloaded we could point it at anything we wanted to. We could not have been more wrong. I'm sorry that this a very long post, but this story is too deep to tell the short version of. I hope you pass it on to the next younger generation of hunters and firearms enthusiasts.

Great haul!! One thing now matter how many be;ts you have on hand you will not have the one you need today

Tonight was one of those nights characterized by too much excitement to see JackRabbit “hopping” again. Caleb and I worked to rehook all the electrical connections that were previously taken apart leaving the bypassed switches still bypassed for the time being. He hooked up the hour meter, voltmeter, light switch, key switch... and installed the dash. Next came the new seat bracket and tunnel cover. Before long we had installed the side shields and adjusted the floor boards. Caleb was so excited to be getting his tractor together after nearly three months apart that I even began drinking the “kool-aid” and ignored some things that I would generally do. We installed the seat, connected the battery and we were ready to start it. So we had a complete tractor, I turned the key—nothing! I kept it in run position tried the head light switch—nothing. I got out the multimeter—had 12+volts on the battery and at the hot side of the solenoid. It was 7pm and the family hadn’t had supper and everyone was starving. We left for McD’s and I have some trouble shooting to do. The volt gauge doesn’t even flicker when I turn the key. I suppose it could be the ground. I need to follow the hot path though to the key...updates to follow

Had some time today, soldered in the threaded insert for the fuel bowl. Threaded the block for exhaust.

I've seen him eat, you couldn't afford the upkeep!

What took you so long... had to think it over?

Well, Emory's Lawn Ranger saw the light of day again. I pulled it apart to put in a trans that I got from @oldredrider, tires from @limited12, wheels from Miller tire, hubs from eBay, and a sanding with clear coat. Check out the before and after pics. I also tore down the deck that came under Emory's Roadrunner. Gonna put it under Coyote and put it to use. I had to cut out 5 sections and graft in new metal, make new baffles, fill a few holes, wire wheel the underside, etch prime the new metal, and put rust converter on the underside. After it cures, I'll seal the seams with polyurethane sealant and beeline the underside. A couple of the spindles are corroded, but have 3 boots holding them, and I have 2 new pulleys for the spindles.

Hello everyone my name is Tom and I live in UK. I'm not new to small tractors but new to this forum. I hope you can help me with your valuable knowledge about WH. At this moment in the stables are two GT14 P.S. I apologize for my poor spelling but English it is my second language, not an excuse and I do my best if any errors will happen please let me know. Regards Tom

Due to a parts deficit I was unable to do any assembly this weekend. Instead I worked on the weights for the front of the tractor. I have some 8x8x3" counter weights laying around, they weight about 50lbs, but this size was hard to work with. I took one of these blocks and cut it in half to make two 4x8x3" blocks. I then made a bracket to mount it to the tractor. This bracket was made from a piece of 1/4x2" flat stock. I took the two 4x8x3" blocks, drilled my mounting holes and soften the edges up a little with a grinder. Here's a pic with every thing mocked up. I'm hoping that this will be enough to hold the front end down while plowing. Hopefully I can make more progress on the assembly next weekend.

hey hey hey I'm already working on that GR listing one... hush hush now!

Jim, she does not generally hire out to the public. I could attempt negotiations and advise of outcome later. As to the nice couch being in the workshop. Actually, I used to have two workshops. Note, used to have. I now have my one Workshop .... the shed. The one that I "used to have" is downstairs in the cellar. It's part den, part workshop. That has been commandeered by my honey. I am okay with that for the most part. Especially when she does most of the work on my tractor. She still "let's" me use the downstairs workshop occasionally. ..

I installed the led lights in the blast cabinet, hooked all the airlines back together so I could work on the 854 hoods and one of the air line quick connects was leaking and I didn't have a spare so I turned off the air compressors and decided to install the fuel pump on the 854 6 speed. Ran the fuel lines put gas in the tank and started it up. Runs great but now I have one oil leak instead of several. The fuel pump is not sealing I'll address that later.

Maybe If you know someone in the area who might be interested,PM him/her. Guys here are clever and diligent enough to find it if their looking.

Wow Carl—what a story! Thank you for sharing the long version because I have taken a lot away from it. As a youth pastor at our local church, I’m going to share your story with our teens this upcoming wednesday night. First, because we have several 17 year olds represented and young people have what I call “a super man complex”. It is that feeling that they are invincible and that causes a unique (narrow) outlook on life. I had it when I was young too. I don’t look down upon them but look for opportunities to share with them a bigger picture. Next, I feel that it is beneficial to realize that life is a gift and it can be over in a second. It is important to be prepared for what is next. Also, we need to keep short accounts with those family and friends around us—we never know when it will be the last time that we will see them. It is never to early to tell those close to us that we love them and better yet show them through our actions. In addition, I see that life goals and aspirations can change in a moment. You had a direction and a plan for what you wanted to do and in a moment people were trying desperately to keep you alive. Your whole life changed and yet it wasn’t over. Sometimes when individuals go through a dark, life changing event, they can’t recover to the point of living with a “new normal”. I also find it awesome that your that your life was spared because God wasn’t finished with you on this earth. We never know when our time is up and so it is important to live every day to its fullest potential. Finally, it should go without saying that firearms safety is absolutely important. There is no fooling around with them. I never place the fault on the gun for an accident but when that trigger is pulled, you can’t undo it and bring that bullet back... Yes sir, thank you for sharing this difficult story and being so transparent with us. I’m sorry that you had to go through that difficult valley in your life but it appears that you are a stronger person because of it.

You need the shaft as well. The bottom end and gear are different. Length will likely be a bit different as well so your steering wheel may sit up just a little higher.

No pics unfortunately, but back in the day (30 years ago) I lived in a converted chicken coop on a local farm. It was actually very nice and the rental rate was right... Boy did I get some ribbing from friends on that choice of housing...Why did Jim cross the road?...There he goes running around like a Jim with his head cut off...Fox in a hen house... You get the picture... It's long gone now - rows of cookie cutter houses... Great idea for a thread - look forward to the responses!

Hi. I recently found a 1987 312-8 in a friends barn that had been sitting forever. I plan on joining my local pulling club this year and having some fun. I have cleaned it up and added a few mods but still need a hitch and a few other things. Thanks to this site I have found a lot of useful info.

Hey guys, @wheelhorseman, @WVHillbilly520H, are these wh disc ? Picked em up in hickory,n.c. today for $100. Took a chancce. Got the sleeve hitch set up for $80. Found that on the carcass I originally went to buy the steering wheel and rear rims. You just have to look for this stuff, and once in a while you get lucky!!!!

Here are a couple of photos of my ditch mower. The state thinks I need a canyon for a ditch, so after a year of weed eater tourture, I decided that there had to be a better way. I just took an old lawnboy and made a new aluminum deck with open ends, then made a frame and arms from square tubing. A harbor freight winch raises and lowers the arms with the control switch incorporated into the tractors motion lever. On the right side of the tractor, there is a car battery, onboard charger, and 200 pounds of steel which all serves as a counterweight. This was the sixth year I've used it and have had really good luck so far. The only thing I want to change is to make the unit quick tach so the tractor could be used for other things.

Nice progress! Maybe she'll let you mow with it in a few weeks!

That was kinda what I was thinking also. Don't seem to be too much wheel horse action here, the same 10 different tractors have been posted for sale for the last 6 months it seems like

Great Stuff..With the belt guard and PTO bell off take a yardstick and lay it next to the hydro input pulley the idler and the engine pulley. Something is out of line. (try this with idler up and also down (engaged))

I have no doubt countless people here have no clue as to this text coding and its meaning. I didn't. Had to Goggle it. That doesn't generally aid communication and understanding of questions and statements here at Red Square. Just a suggestion from a texting dufus....... I would suggest keeping everything clear and understandable for the masses, whether in a subject line, or in the body of a message. Just on man's opinion.......

Well said Josh. Nothing else I could add other than glad you are still here Carl. There was a wheel horse out there that needed you. 👍

Ummmm.... I think the admin said we probably shouldn't do this.

Question for @wolfpack. What type of device(s) are you using to post? PC, tablet, mobile phone? I ask because I use a PC and a mobile phone which are VERY different in screen layout. I rarely use my phone to post new topics because it's inconvenient and I'm not sure I can even use tags then... No worries... we'll get you fixed up.

That's pretty cool. Looks like my daughters chalet at Deep Creek Lake, MD. Never thought about snow bowling, but the lay of the land lends itself to setting up a couple of lanes. There's always a stack of split firewood under the deck for the renters to use. All they would have to do is make they own bowling ball. Going to show this video to them when they come over tonight. Thanks for posting Ed.

Here is a picture of my 42 inch blower (horizontal shaft engine) Just used two days ago still has snow in her

Ad for a Model 50 engine from Gladden.

When speaking of old iron, you can't leave Bolens out of the picture, nothing stops this "BEAST"

I used the Rustoleum stuff you can get at Lowes. I've used it for a couple of years now and it seems to keep the rust at bay as long as you wire wheel the metal really good first and topcoat it with something. I used another brand on a VW Thing I did and it's held up great. Only time will tell. Topside of the deck ain't gonna be real pretty thanks to my welding skills or lack of, but hopefully I've added a few years to its life. Got it and Roadrunner for $50 at the Big auction last fall - and people laughed at me!

Good documentation. That is the exact process I had to resort to remove one of my pins. I used a 4.5 X 1/32" cutoff wheel instead of a sawsall. I am left handed, but I drilled from the right side also so I would be driving the pin toward the larger side of the lug with less risk of breaking the case.

I knew Aldon was moving but didn’t realize it was to Craig’s magic shed.

I wonder how much AMC Rules paid for Aldon . or did he come as a free part of the tractor purchase.

So you bought Aldon?

Very nice looking machine, your upgrades look awesome on it. Welcome to the forum, I'll warn ya like I do all the new members, they're nasty, mean , no help people on this thing, I was so taken back by it that I became a supporter because I couldn't believe how mean they are. Even after all this I'm still in shock, so be forewarned. Look around at all the different posts and you'll see for yourself,. They won't help ya with anything, no information, nothing, (my fingers get tired every time I do this...) Looking forward to the progress on your machine. Chris

I'm not understanding... on man's opinion?