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Couldn’t get a good rear shot because of the sprayer, maybe I should have saved this for front end Friday ! I know it’s not a Wheel Horse but I figured you guys would like it. This tractor belongs to a friend of mine who has many Case and International Harvester tractors. Most of which are in this condition!

@Darb1964 so there is a family thing about moving s--t around.

April 2, 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" album goes to No. 1 and stays atop the charts for 31 weeks.

BUT top shot is Tuesday.

Picked up this ultra rare 520-H, these are a limited edition with only 100 in existence, and I have #77

Put the new shoes on the horse today since the wheels were good and dry. Wheel weights back on tomorrow. And a nice straight hood is in the works. Some minor body work and then prime and paint. Old one has major damage.

I have the Northern Tool one for smoothing out and planting the junior plow field. Works better than a pallet or bed spring. Real reasonable at the time. It can be flipped over for the spikes up or down. You can also add sections to it to make it bigger. Kind of a PIA if it gets all tangled up.

They are a great piece of equipment for final finish before planting. They do tend to plug up easy if you have a lot of trash though (loose grass, leaves, etc) 1- moldboard plow 2- disc harrow 3- drag harrow or chain harrow 4- plant Would also be useful as a finish tool on gravel as you suggested.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever lined up Frank with a 953 or 1054, but I found this photo opportunity pretty cool. The comparison of the two is similar, but so different!

The gravel part of my drive my go to is a mid mount on a short frame for tight turning. If I was a better operator one can even crown the gravel for run off.

There is many uses for a chain drag harrow, my grandfather would use one to distribute cow manure in fields he temporarily had cows in.

See if you can find an electrical conduit lock nut to add to the fitting before you install it into the block. Install the fitting as far as it will go into the block and then back it out at least 1/2 a turn so the fitting is loose. Using a hammer and punch now tighten the lock nut against the block. Fitting is now tight. If you remove using the reverse sequence once a year it will likely never be seized again. I always apply graphite to the threads as it seems to help. What the lock nuts look like available from Home Depot or the like. They are available for all common pipe sizes. This is a procedure I learned from a small engine repair shop that serviced thousands of small engines a year. It was part of their regular service.

I would if @Achto would quit borrowing it ...

Delores (orierdon spelling) of the cranberries did a cover of go your own way. Just as good or better than the original. Its on you tube.

I also have #78, and it is RedSquare’s 20th anniversary this year. What should I do with this one?

He's got more $$$ in tires than all my toys are worth combined! And we now have a clear winner on the wide tires!

Not exactly a Wheel Horse attachment, but the MF GC1720 I just bought came with a chain harrow. I've never used one, but I think it will be a useful for maintenance on a gravel driveway. Anybody out there used one of these?

At Florida Flywheelers this year on Rodney Burger's. 701 with the CBR-327 Front Chain Drive Cutter Bar I refurbished a couple years ago. We had a lot of visitors looking at this while we demonstrated how it works.

Even though, this was an April's Fool joke, Toro did use MTD back in 2006 and 2007 to make a line of lawn and garden tractors. Toro stopped making both the Classic Wheel Horses and the Toro lawn and garden tractors in 2006. So to fill that void, the contracted MTD to make the LX line of lawn tractors. These were made by MTD with the Toro name on them and painted red in 2006 and 2007. I run across some on facebook marketplace from time to time. They looked a bit like what the MTD built Troy Bilt tractors look like.

I closed the deal on this today. Only had time to work the paperwork and write the check. Supposed to be raining here for a few days. Won't be able to try it out for a few days.

different big wheel tractor operated by my daughter

Go to Tractor Supply and get a 5L820 and a 5L810. Use the one that fits best and return the other and you'll be fine. It's a Hydro so you don't have to worry about clutching.

Perhaps the Forum Administrators or other members can help clarify this issue? the B100 Tractor is listed as manufactured in 74,75,76,77............there were 36 inch mower decks listed for those respective years as models 5-0721; 5-0621; 5-0722; 5-0622; 65-36ms01; 65-36xr01; 75-36ms01; and 75-36xr01. Also perhaps, 76-36xr01 ???? there were "next generation" or "successor" 36" rear discharge model decks including later in the 80's --- eg: 36 inch r.d. models 05-36mr01,and 02,03,04 etc Can the 36 inch decks from the 80's be used on the B100 of the 1970s? Are they compatible? Thanks, Bill

It's not for everyone. Is there any music that absolutely everyone likes?

That's even better! Here is the 71 Raider painted with IH red.

Nice ballons!

580lb at max lift height, 760lb at 1.5m lift, and 920lb opening force at ground level - per the manual, if I'm reading the chart correctly.

Well we were able to put together an interesting group at the big show on Friday. @Lane Ranger, Chris Frock , Josh Aungst, and myself got our tractors together for some pictures with our extremely uncommon CBR-327 front mount sickle bar mowers. It was very cool to get 4 of these together in one place considering how uncommon they are. Thank you guys for bringing them along. For those of you that may not know, these sickle bars were made/sold in 1961 and early 1962 based off of paperwork I have found. They were similar to the prior CBR-32 sickle bars used on rj/suburban tractors but used a floating chain drive system and different hitch to be mounted on the front engine round hood tractors. I know of around 8 to exist personally. I’m sure there are more but still very uncommon.

I sharpened blades of my 42 RD deck. Who knows when somebody did this before but blades (aside from some dirt,oil and surface rust) looked as new. Oregon 91-804 as we speak. I used butane small torch, 1 1/8 wrench, another diy flat wrench to install blades, and some brutal force to unscrew the nuts.

Well we have moved into the new property and put the wheelhorse to work. For doing nothing but checking the fluids it was doing pretty good. It had something goofy going on with the idle speed and the choke. But it was running and I had work to do so I let it be for a day or two and it ended up not starting. Simple fix. They had used way too much RTV under the air cleaner which obstructed choke movement which caused it to slip the cable loose which caused it to be stuck “closed ish”. Once again I have a lot to get cleaned up on the new property to get it halfway functional so my fix was a quick temp fix. I used grease to seal the air cleaner and used electrical tape to add a little grip to the cable. I also adjusted the idle and she runs like a top now.

Hi all, I am working on the 856 doing some upgrades, didn't plan painting. The whole thing is orange, it looks factory just really faded and PO painted the hood and fenders silver should i try to match orange color or paint her red .

The light has never come on at all so probably not or isn't connected correctly. As far as the battery test, I used a multimeter and put red to red and black to black set to vdc, got a positive of almost 12 volts, when I reverse the probes red to neg and black to pos, it shows the same voltage as a negative, telling me the POS terminal is actually positive.

This is a list put together from the Attachment Interchange. It lists the deck (2) that replaced the original (1) and the deck that was available when the Interchange was created (4). What is missing are the decks (3) between (2) and (4). They are listed but you have to follow a deck year by year to find the others. Mower DNA 1972 model 5-0620 replaced by 1973-1974 model 5-0621 1975 model 5-0622 1976 model 65-36XR01 1977 model 75-36XR01 1977 model 75-36XR02 1978 model 85-36MR01 1979 model 95-36MR00 (Blades up to this point have the 5/8" x 3/4" double-D center hole unless the spindle has been upgraded) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (These decks used blades with a 3/4" center hole) 1979 model 95-36MR01 replaced by 1980-1982 model 05-36MR01 - Last year for bearings with 3/4" ID 1983-84 model 05-36MR02 - First year for bearings with 17mm ID unless older spindles were updated. 1985 model 05-36MR03 1986-1990 model 05-36MR04 1991-1993 model 05-36MR05 1993-2006 model 78305 Note - 17mm is .669"

is scotch brite ok on the mating surface? i wanted to get the little bit of graphite off

Aww I'm just picking with @ebinmaine. ...But have been looking for the right shade of orange for a tractor for years. One of these days.

I think they are

thanks for the tip, I will do that, I planned on doing some pulley swaps anyways for a bit more speed. Might end up with a custom pulley size anyways but at least I know now to try and get the pulley from him with the axle!

There fixed that too...

We visited Salzburg, Austria seven or eight years ago. I was amazed at how much of the Sound of Music is still part of it's tourist venue. Salzburg is the location where the movie was made. Very interesting part of the world.

Here we go, got them both done. Going to pull the front axle to check on the axle pin and spindles see if I can tighten things up.

I found a chunk of 1/2" thick x 2" wide steel bar and made two more spacers. I now have the rear hitch spaced down 7/8" I now have 4-1/2" of lift on the blade and still have some down float when fully lowered as well. Not a lot when compared to my big tractor and it's cat 1 three point hitch but better than it was. Hopefully now I can move it around the yard in the summer without ripping up too much sod.

Today I put the 417-A with blower away for the year, so I had to move some tractors around. Figured I’d snap a few pics, couldn’t wait for side shot Saturday to post 😂 Sorry for the grease on the front wheel of the 418-C I removed it immediately after I took the picture 😂 I figured I’d say that before one of you wise guys said something about it!!

Everyone see colors differently and it depends on what light is hitting it also. I painted a Chevy truck 57 Chevy Red and under a street light at night it looked like a Pumpkin! To me Sunrise looks too orange. I use Regal.

Got one tie rod done, my son came over with his girlfriend's car (she said it's making a clunk clunk, click click sounds,) well the ball joint was toasted, front rotors and pads, oil change. So didn't get to make two. The steering wheel was brown rusted, well I stuck it in sonic cleaner was evaporust, came out pretty clean.