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Prepare to be WH amazed. If it's WH, it'll be there. And hang out for the ice cream social and cruise night Fri evening. Time will go by so fast that you'll think you time traveled and missed a day somewhere so try to soak it all in. I'm fairly easy to find if you see the bike, so stop and say hello. Your welcome to take it for a spin too. What all is needed when I arrive there? Nothing except you're expected to have a good time. Park and enter the area. Is there a fee? Nope But as mentioned it's always a good idea to join the WHCC. I’d like to bring my 1257 to ride around on, maybe. Definitely bring it. It doesn't need to be a trailer queen resto and most tractors there are workers. I’d also like to try and meet most of the good people from this forum but I only know user names, is there a spot “red square” usually has? Spread all over but you'll be able to run into many I look forward to the show and see all the stuff and tractors. Bet you won't be able to see it ALL I’ll be there Friday and then go back to the hotel and then come back Saturday. Hopefully that’s ok. Absolutely. No admission, no tickets no nonsense. Park and walk or ride right in.

I figured this group might a good source of information since we have an appreciation of old metal with patina. My Son In-law gave me this relic he found while doing demo on an old house and barn he bought. Does anyone here have any interesting insights on this 5-gallon milk can?

I’m usually along the back wall of the exhibition building. However this year I might just bring stuff to sell? But you can find me walking around talking nonstop about Wheel Horse Tractors. Oh wait, that doesn’t really narrow it down to much now does it? That could be most of us here on RS ! Or how about this? That’s me on the right with my Work Horse GT-1800 and on the left is the guy that makes the show, the Master of Ceremonies Wild Bill Pearson.

Here is a started guide for finding where a few of us are likely to be hanging out if we are there at the time you stop by.

I'm with @rmaynard. Ellisco was in the oil can business. https://www.ebay.com/itm/117140017505 https://www.ebay.com/itm/377047761911 Brief history. Ellisco oil cans were produced by George D. Ellis & Sons Inc. of Philadelphia, a company founded in 1843, with the "Ellisco" mark used starting in 1920. Known for durable 5-gallon galvanized, often fluted (ribbed) metal cans, they were staples in the 1920s–1930s for distributing fuel and oil to farms, businesses, and early service stations.

Being in the hobby of hunting and collecting oil cans, an item like this shows up occasionally. However, it's always been described as an oil can. I did see one in a shop in Pennsylvania. painted red and with a price tag of over $100.00.

1st time I've seen someone have that break! Might be a good time to change to a home made foot control.

And the second was received with the notice "Postage Due", probably

And the first letter mailed that day still shows "out for delivery" on the USPS website...

I would guess that disassembly and reassembly will take more time than the cleanup and welding. Here is an intact control arm for reference. You might just choose to pick up a replacement depending on what you find when you look at the rest of it but it shouldn't be a catastrophic failure IMO.

Wheel Horse garden tractors were not matched with a deck when shipped, you bought the tractor and chose a deck at time of purchase/order. The 6" wheels were/are required when the tractor is equipped with the 37" cutting deck. The 37" deck has two blades with the left blade offset to the front causing interference with the 8" left front tire on sharp left turns. The lower horsepower rated tractors were more apt to be purchased with the 37" deck than the 14 horsepower and up units. Now why in the world my 1990 416H tractor was factory equipped with 6" wheels is a mystery to me.

I saw that several were listed as oil/gas cans, but ChatGTP argued that they were often re-purposed as such but were originally for dairy, The fact that it was painted red leads me to believe it is indeed for oil or fuel.

They are not worth much, they were used by farmers to transport their milk to market before tanker trucks came to the farm. Back when a farmer could get by milking twenty head. In 1960 there was 400 farms selling milk in Berkshire County Massachusetts now there's three.

I recently got a few milk cans and know nothing about THAT hobby…

That poor snowplow

If the bowl vent is plugged it will do that too.

We normally set up in the inner loop. The first canopy on the right closest to the concessions stand. Position 1. Look for a big gray Coleman canopy and a tall ugly guy.

April 16, 1900 US Post Office issues its first stamp booklets containing 12, 24, or 48 two-cent stamps.

Keep the grass cut and avoid bushes the deer have been brushing themselves on. Use a broadcast spreader to apply Spectracide Triazicide insect killer to areas where you will be likely to go for a walk or work outdoors. It isn't as effective as Diazanon was but that has been outlawed for a few years now.

Lol - having a bit of fun debating with AI this morning. Neither ChatGTP nor Microsoft's CoPilot are willing to abandon their insistence that this is a milk can, citing significant design differences between dairy and oil cans - even after presenting them with these photos.

The MILK cans we used prior to going to a bulk tank were twenty five gallons. They were kept cold in a tank with circulating cold water and the buoyancy provided by the water made them a bit more manageable for one person to move them around. We had a hoist to transfer the 250 pound filled cans to a truck.

The patina seems to be mostly original. The pictures don't show the red paint that well. I think I'll give it another good scrubbing with commercial Dawn, then wipe it down with oil to see how well it presents.

Yeah, I could see where that would attract a more lucrative collector. There are a few guys around here that have mocked up vintage service stations. You can tell when you drive by that money is not their main concern.

you could get the 37" deck on the 400 series also if you ordered it, it just came with the 6" wheels. An optional bagger kit was for the 37" deck.

I guess we can say the same thing about the 73 no name 8 had a totally different rims and tires on them with extended axels.. Also, If I remember correctly. They only had a 3 bolt rims and very small tires front and rear.

What's the exact fuel pump you're using?

Same with the hubs Another thing to look out for when you take the tranny off is the mounting plate for it, make sure it's not all cracked and everything

I can tell you already that your hitch pin is definitely gonna provide a good time. Soak/ heat, soak/ heat, repeat... Don't hit it very hard either.

Actually a commonly used style seat nowadays. I have two myself.

Grafted a craftsman seat mount and new seat onto the 520H. Had to do a little chopping and massaging on Craftsman seat mount but just bolt on for the 520 so if somebody decides to give me a pristine 520 seat I can convert it back . Sure sets better than the busted up original one.

Great timely question. I’ve just had the 4 cylinder Rosa Master injector pump on my 40 hp Oliver TLB rebuilt. $850 Ouch. It’s 60 years old and I’ve had it for 28 years, so I suspect it’s never been rebuilt since original. The shop said it was completely gummed up- worst he’d seen in a while. It had started taking longer cranking to start. It has a 11 gallon tank and I fill it with a 5 gallon jug, so it stays 1/4 to 3/4 full. It can sit unused 2-3 months. But I do try to start it for a short run maybe monthly. it has a primary and secondary filter. I change the secondary which is also a water filter about every 5 years I’ve probable changed the primary filter every 10 years since it gets so few hours on it. I guess ill change both more often now. I’ll have to check if they change the diesel to a winter blend here in Texas since we stay warmer except for the infrequent freezes.

So Chuck had to wait until more were installed before it ever rang?? The Telemarketers were most likely the first to call around the 17th!!

April 15, 1877 World's first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr.

Good luck with all your projects. Just take your time and enjoy what you’re doing.

I plan to come up with a way to make a bracket that goes into the 2 inch reciever. I fure having the weight put down on the whole trans is way safer then on the standard pin hitch.

Now drain the transmission and see if its still full of gear oil, oil and water, or pure rusty water. if it had a lot of gear oil oil or at least oily water soup you might align the forks and put the shifter back in to verify how the transmission works. Then decide if you do a diesel flush or a full rebuild. If it's all water and rust, rebuild it. PS put a new rubber boot on the shifter whenever you permanently reinstall it. That's where they get water in these transmissions

Your 5053 transaxle will be very similar to the one in this thread. Before you dive into it I would suggest you drain whatever is in it now and add a couple quarts of diesel to clean up the gunk.

Mine is easier: KIAK Keep It Away from Kevin...

K.I.S.S.

The 854 got a spiffy new set of adjustable tie rods commissioned from @ri702bill. Beautiful craftsmanship! Much improved steering now that the toe-out has been corrected. When giving it a test ride, I discovered that the tractor's left turn radius is a few inches tighter than its right turn radius when the spindle arms are hitting their respective stops. Only quirk is that the ball ends that I sourced have SAE threading on both the male and female parts, but the flats are metric! The shaft flats are SAE because Bill turned them from SAE hex stock.

Not much- But finally got time to get the second front wheel done today. Gonna be a meaty front end on this tractor!

I made this one to be my avatar but it looked so cool I had to come back here and ad it!