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Morning to all, To continue the dedicated day topic trend, thought it may be interesting to invite pics of your ride's 'Posterior Perch(es)' . Post them all. It doesn't matter if they are smart, shiny, custom, dusty, crusty, tatty or rusty. Plenty of artistic licence here. Just added a Backrest to mine, but looking for another- Enjoy your Sunday! . Regards

Sorry Craig, I got side tracked. I went to feed the neighbors dog and chickens while they are on vacation. Then I heard Mrs K yell "put the burgers on". Good guess Digger, but no cigar. It did only take about 15 minutes to finish the project. I picked up another tractor at the Fawn Grove Show yesterday.....pics will be on the show post. Anyway while loading the tractor, the trailer tipped and launched my card table and contents on to the trailer. No. the trailer wasn't hooked to the truck, and the card table was over the trailer tongue so no one could trip on the tongue. This is about the third time this has happened to me. So, today I fixed the problem. Now, If I can only remember to lower the stabilizers when I unhitch the trailer.

Sooo about three months ago I had a friend of a friend pass to me the most needy Wheel Horse GT14 Tractor I had ever seen, it was completely taken apart every single part had rust and two coats on oil paint one blue and one yellow. parts were missing and of course there was no labeling of parts or assembly there-of. All wiring, gauges, rectifiers were removed and non existent….. still the machine was calling to me to try and do the almost impossible...… My thanks to Aldon for parts and support and Kyle for Technical help and shoulder to cry on. …. The only saving grace of the entire project is that the engine and tranny were indeed still good...… in fact the only remaining issue I have on the machine is that I cannot free-up the relief valve so that I can move the machine w/o power..... I think this might be stuck forever … but not the end of the world.

ok the 953 is just about complete and finally got my seat back after a long wait but she did very good quality and now i think i have the only 953 with a extend seat lol got the pump resevoir filled up too took it for a spin so here it is all i lack is getting the head light lenses now..........................ebin we'll see you at the owls head show the 21st

Lined em all up, now the selection begins

Admittedly I have had a more then one Wheel Horse dropped off at my house for me to keep BUT as far as having a good neighbor ........ well let me tell ya' a story about mine. For 10 years now this neighbor has been calling the county about me for frivolous reasons such as my L-82 Corvette that was in my driveway the license was out of date and the window trim on my house was rough looking. Small things I know but when the complaint to county was about all the Wheel Horses in my back yard of which was not against any county laws but I was told to do something about them. Now the young man from the county that was checking on this issue knew about Wheel Horses because he has his grandfathers Wheel Horse and wanted to fix it up (what other house could he stop at for that kind of information or parts). He told me to take all the tractors out and he would come by to make sure the yard was clean and take pictures of everything gone for his files. Then I had to put up a privacy fence, yes folks at 7 feet tall ain't many guys in the NBA that can see over this fence ! Now these tall fences ain't cheap either as it cost me over $5000 and this was at Christmas time too. For tractor storage while the fence was being built I had to take load after load of Wheel Horses 3 counties away to keep at a friends house to get them out of sight . Once everything was done with the fence I brought them all back home of which this took a total of 6 weeks. So ifn's ya' got a neighbor who is willing to give a you a Wheel Horse watch out for the one who want to take them away. Wild Bill in Richmond, VA

Hard core

Look what happens when you feed the horse at the fence......HE FOLLOWS YOU HOME !! 312 Hydro, 42" Deck, and 42" snowblower

That square tubing comes in handy Dick. I used a lot of it on the Low Rider.

That is a great gift Denny! Looks awesome and fresh Magnum Power to boot Looking at those monster tires on the back, I was thinking that if you put @ebinmaine‘s front tires from the Patriot Horse that you could probably cross a lake without sinking

Almost loaded!

Take me to your shed.

That smile is priceless!

Bet you wouldn't forget a second time.

I'd be more worried about forgetting to raise them when leaving me thinks!

Sorry I missed you Jim. I got set up early Friday and the storm rolled in about 10 AM with 80-90% storms forecast for the rest of the day. So, I put the tarp on, went home, picked up Mrs. K and we spent the rest of the day visiting a good friend that has been hospitalized since Jan. Saturday was a good day...sales were brisk. I had this extra cash in my pocket, so I brought this C-160 auto home. I just sold mine at the Big show? It needs some TLC, but it runs, drives and has the goodies.....hyd lift, sleeve hitch, good original seat, straight tin, and pretty tight steering.

Don’t let him fool you them are just what’s at the house there is a secret shed off site with more treasures in it. Only a few know the whereabouts of it, very similar to area 51. I have heard that you have to wear a blindfold if he takes you to the shed!

Kind of looks like your running a dealership or something...

A buddy who lives a couple of blocks from me came over today and asked if I'd like to have his old tractor.... Of course I would! One of the P.O's. used to pull this thing when it was new, my buddy has owned it for several years and mowed his yard with it until the deck wore out a few years ago, it's been sitting in his garage since. He told me he put a new engine in it about 10 years ago.

"Special Part No. 100-234-Preparation WH"... It was a special option on some models... Didn't sell too well so the Ponds discontinued it...

My two piece seat, not original but I think it looks great on my Commando 8.

This seat cover came with a 300 series that is long gone...but the seat cover I kept

If Tecky says detergent ,I'd use detergent. Change the oil often and I don't see any problems. I went thru 4 Tecky's in 11 years in the 60's. What do I know?

New hoses on the C-160

I mus say the transformation is fantastic. I can only imagine how delighted your wife must have been when you first brought it home!

If the Freee Wheeling Valve is stuck, just take it out completely and clean it up. pics here:

Quite a lot done this afternoon!! I lifted the rear of the tractor off the floor one side at a time with a long board and Trina put the rear wheels and tires on. Then went to the front. My honey put the new dash decal on provided of course by @Vinylguy. While Trina was doing seven million other things (including grinding the rust off and painting the utility trailer) I spent several hours this afternoon building a wiring harness. All new wires... All full copper strand with heat shrink at the ends. The wiring is from a spool of 7 conductor trailer wire from a popular jungle website. Also installed exhaust, gas tank with bracket, throttle and choke cables. Where we're at today... Note pooped out dog.

ill be there

FYI Red Square Members: Glen Pettit is selling a very Nice Wheel Horse Custom Tractor Cover fitted for the C Series and 300 Series tractors . He asked me to post pictures of his new Tractor Cover on Red Square. Mine is placed on a 1975 Wheel Horse B-80 so a little more room in the cover! My 314 with tiller is not at home right now so could not tray it out on a 300 Series Tractor. These are verty well made covers with Horse Head Logo and Wheel Horse printed on each side. Glen is selling these for $55 and they are well worth it. Also includes a Bag to store the cover. Glen gave me an update on his health and rehabilitation - he is hoping to be able to walk and drive again by September.

http://www.pharostribune.com/news/local_news/article_2f4b0a2b-f148-5c9f-a869-7d4e188f5c5d.html Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche and Fiat. While those brands are most often associated with cars, for Cass County resident Dean McCloskey, they’re part of his vast tractor collection. And they’re just some of the makes from over the past century and across the globe lining his large barn and yard. “I’ll guarantee you that you’ll see things out here that you never knew existed or never heard of,” he said as oldies played on the radio in his shop. McCloskey said he strives to track down lesser known brands, some of which he added are one of a handful ever made or even one of a handful in existence. He has tractors hailing from across the U.S. along with France, Germany, England, Italy, Russia and Sweden. The wheels on his Japanese rice paddy tractor are equipped with paddles to make it through flooded rice fields. His tractor made in Swaziland in southern Africa was designed to replace a team of oxen and be able to haul over 1,100 pounds of produce to market. Then there’s his David Brown Cropmaster from the 1950s, built in England and sold in Canada. “That thing just runs like a sewing machine,” McCloskey said, adding just about all of the tractors in his collection are operational. He finds many of his tractors at auctions. His Fiat implement from the early 1960s came from a junkyard in Illinois. Another one of his tractors was made by Sears. McCloskey said his father, Allen, who lives in Galveston, started collecting tractors “by accident” in the late 1950s and early 1960s. “I learned a lot from my dad and he’s learning a lot now,” McCloskey said, nodding toward his son, Cole, a walking 13-year-old tractor encyclopedia. With ease the teenager lists when and where the tractors in his dad’s collection were made and who their companies’ founders were along with highlights and lowlights of the firms’ histories. One of McCloskey’s tractors has to be steered with one’s feet. Made by the Friday Tractor Co. out of Hartford, Michigan in the 1970s, it keeps the operator low to the ground and is ideal for tasks like vegetable patches and strawberries. Cole pointed to the tractor’s other components, including its cultivator handles, clutch, gearshift and hydraulics. “You got to have about eight hands to work everything but you can steer it with your feet,” McCloskey said. “It’s quite a contraption to drive.” McCloskey’s 1920 Rumely Oil Pull tractor has to be started with a large flywheel on its side. Cole called it a “prairie tractor,” a type of implement he added that can have front wheels taller than him with rear ones higher than 10 feet. “They made some big, big tractors back in the day made for busting the prairie sod, the land that had never been plowed before,” McCloskey said. “It was hard to till up, it was hard to get a plow through it because it was just as God created it and the soil hadn’t been loosened up.” McCloskey said his father, a welder, restored his first tractor for a company that asked him to so that it could be put on display at the county fair. It was a circa 1919 model by Reliable Engine Co. out of Portsmouth, Ohio. The machine requires more than five steps to get it started that have to be carried out in a specific order, but it still runs. “It took a lot of trial and error to find the correct sequence and the correct pattern and it’s something I got to teach him,” McCloskey said, nodding to Cole once more. The company McCloskey’s father restored the tractor for ended up giving it to him after the fair and the collection “snowballed” from there, McCloskey said. Despite his large fleet of implements, McCloskey does not farm. But he enjoys studying the variations across the different designs and ways engineers from various countries and eras have gone about conceiving farm machinery. “There’s different features about each one that are either better or worse than the rest,” he said. He also enjoys the challenges that come with restoring old tractors, which he said often require an extensive search for parts and sometimes even making them himself. “One of the best attributes to have in this kind of hobby is patience because you can’t just expect to go to a local NAPA store and find piston rings for something like this,” he said, pointing to his 1969 Lamborghini R230 DT tractor. “You can have the best set of tools in the world and the best technical library but if you don’t have patience to work on some of these things, then this hobby is not for you.” McCloskey also likes finding out as much about his tractors’ histories as he can. “These things will be around rusting away for forever,” he said. “But unless you know the story, then they don’t really mean too much.” He’s part of a group that shares that goal — the Tip Wa Antique Tractor & Engine Club. It’s having its 15th annual show this weekend in Walton. “It’s a way to relive that history and to show people that some of the equipment was a little more crude back in the day than today’s tractors that have air-conditioned cabs and GPS, radios and all that stuff,” he said. “It’s just a way to make sure that that’s not forgotten.” Reach Mitchell Kirk at mitchell.kirk@pharostribune.com or 574-732-5130.

Here we go.

Selection process over, loaded a couple for @prondzy .

Got a little bit done on a Sunday morning.

Good idea with the seat. I’m 6’1” and found my 1054 to be a bit “cramped” .

Originally they were Bostrom (UK) in the 70's Craig, and fitted to many Imported WHs assembled in Belgium for European market.- They had an international patent. They were taken over by KAB (UK) and the design is little changed where they are still made as the KAB P2. Yes, the cost has risen a lot over the lsat 5 years or so, but very popular and comfortable. Hi Pete, thanks. I'll send you a PM with clearer pics of my set up, but the tractor is a 1974 C-120 and yours must be the later 'Ironclad' late 70's model. Cerainly easier in open style. Regards. Richard.

Kohler K Series manual states use detergent oil. For everything. Good enough for me.

Hoping today.... Not to tough to do. She's pretty much always happy. It's a good life.

Stevasaurus, Thank you for the manual! The trans is out and laying on the floor of my basement. Everything was pretty straight forward, and I only ran into a couple of snags. It would have easier if I had taken the hi/lo shifter off before trying to drop the trans, but I was able to get it out anyway. I tried to drive the roll pin out while it was still in the chassis, but never got a good angle on it. Regardless the trans is out,and I learned a few things in the process. Tomorrow I plan the pressure wash the case, as it is pretty greasy. Once that is done, I’ll Split the cases and the fun begins... I have already started searching for the bearings and gasket you specified. Since the trans was fully operational when I pulled it, I am hoping it needs nothing more than the basic maintenance items. The lube I drained from it looked pretty good. Got my fingers crossed! Thanks for your help!