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My two 701’s and my 702 out for some Fall air today! One day before Halloween! 🎃 The DePauw University McKim Observatory on the circle in front of my house has an Open House tonight! DePauw post: Saturn and the Andromeda Galaxy at McKim Observatory tonight! Friday, 30 October 2026 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm. If the sky stays clear enough, we will be looking at Saturn and the Andromeda Galaxy at this dark moonless Open House. For your visit, please note the historic building is not ADA compliant. The access to the building is a set of stairs up from street level, then three more steps up into the building. Inside, the access to the second floor is by a wooden spiral staircase with a conventional steepness. Also note that while McKim is an excellent example of a historic observatory, it lacks the modern convenience of a restroom. Parking is in the residential neighborhood. During your visit to our historic observatory, please refrain from touching the antique instruments. McKim Observatory Open Houses are Free!

Something got caught in the gear teeth. Open it up because you can't break it any more than all ready broke. Interested to know what let go.

Sometimes you just gotta keep your mouth shut and hand 'em the money!

While you have the transmission out, check the mounting plate for cracks.

314H is officially ready for snow duty. Weights painted and installed.

Gotta open her up just to entertain us, we all need a little tractor porn to start the day. We want to see Mike up to his elbows in gear oil and parts and pieces.

A couple pictures of this week's work in our Ky woods. The camper after we dropped it down the hill and got it back up the hill to the Mrs 8n approved level spot: A shot of the storage shed and the new camp bath house. The original position of the camper was just out of the left side of the picture. Oh, yea - the camper's toung jack caster wheel has been replaced with a foot. That, and the four stabilizing jacks on the trailer will go a long way to prevent the 'runaway trailer' syndrome we had the other day.

Actually, it was just a matter of flipping the tongue around to the other end. The spring latch had been assembled wrong and wouldn't allow the latch to hold. Straightening out the back end will be a challenge.

We've begun the construction of the building. Yesterday we moved all 7 of the heavy boxes across the yard with Cinnamon Horse and the black trailer. We opened and reinspected all materials. All fasteners, framing, and brackets were separated and laid out. Today we began by making the whole roof. Added the first vertical section of the legs and all the cross braces possible. There's a slight lean away from the picture taking position here so we got some paracord and tent cords and tied the frame to the ground at 3 places. Tomorrow we'll continue with adding more screws and then the lower section of the side legs. We've decided to order good quality properly fitting metal roofing instead of using the supplied small thinner multiple pieces. For a few hundred dollars investment we'll have a much stronger build and far less possibilities for roof leaks with the better fasteners and no horizontal seams.

Cinnamon Horse has been happily helping do some yahd projects.

We had an accident ! A great Halloween to everyone! 🎃 👻

At the end of their post, they should have put “While you are here, make sure to stop by and check out our neighbors really nice Wheel Horse collection!”

I got the wiring to my '72 C10's ignition switch wire harness reassembled today. I located the Packard 56 terminals at the local NAPA store and ended up ordering a roll over crimping tool from Summit Racing. They are selling it under the Painless brand. Works well. The crimp looks just like the factory crimp. It passed the smoke test when I hooked up the battery.

Today I finished my high voltage battery certification class. I got a 100% on the test, so I officially know all the various ways to vaporize myself working on e-lectric cars.

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leaf cleanup begins 2026 it had been a couple years since we last ran Comanche ( @Coulter Caleb’s 854) and so we got it out, dumped the fuel, cleaned the fuel bowl, fresh fuel and then fun! Zach loved driving the little tractor and I was reminded that is seemed like yesterday his older brother was helping with the same work and he was riding in the trailer they grow up quickly this guy looks right at home on the 62 year old tractor then big brother stopped by unannounced (I love it when he does that)! Zach asked Caleb if he would drive him across the backyard for “old times sake” (I’m not crying…it’s just the dust from the leaves🥲)

Well - ok. After planting over 50 trees carrying 5 gallon buckets around 2 acres to water was getting a bit old. Here is my makeshift 'Wheel Horse Watering Station' with parts I had lying around (no laughing). Please note the rubber liner in the dump trailer so everyone can be assured that no vintage Wheel Horse parts were harmed during the contruction or operation of this device. Works great. Another excuse to keep the B-111 rolling this fall!

I wouldn't worry about it.... just make it right and run it as a worker.

Haha! Good eye Bill. Actually was just running it on jackstands to see what the transmission would do and how it sounded (both were bad). Was hoping to find a sheared key on the drive pulley. It’s “plowless” now while it awaits surgery.

Don as i was moving them back in the garage yesterday a guy in a BMW SUV. Drove around the Observatory stopped , rolled down the passenger side window and took some pictures. He shouted out to me, “ Just had to stop and take some pictures of the Wheel Horses !”

My money is on the differential - as in one or more of the pinions decided enough is enough. You did not drop the plow first before all this? Very optomistic of you!

A 4 pinion transmission is VERY different from the heavy duty 8 pinion version.

Hope they make you stop at Yankee Candle in Deerfield too. Endless isles of ridiculous trinkets and candles! You'll love it LOL

Sorry, the plan is to head up this Sunday. I always go alone on my e-free fuel runs, but…wife wants to hit some deli up in Vermont and my mom is now coming. It’s gonna be a loooong drive

It is assembled backwards and upside down! No wonder the latch / release lever does not fit! Still worth $15.

I don't know if the intention for this thread was to post random funny signs or just for the "stay away from my tractor" signs, but I think I'll post some other funny signs here.

When replacing the key switch, did you replace it with the correct one. There is a difference between a switch for a magneto ignition, and a battery ignition. However, you said you replace the ignition coil and the magneto coil. There can only be one or the other. A magneto system has no ignition coil and vice-versa. So lets try to figure out what you have. Do you have the ID number for the C-145? What is the year? Which engine does it have? Do you have the spec number from the engine? I'm sure we can get you going if we have the right info.

Now there's a deal of a lifetime! Some people are so out of touch with reality

I have done a couple pumps with good results, the key is not getting the cast iron too hot and cooling it very slowly in the sand pile. With that said I can understand your hesitance to try it. Your , your choice. When I bought my first 953 the replacement springs weren't being made and the hydraulics worked fine so I just did as you suggested, run the lever by hand. Thirty something years later I am still running it by hand without a spring. It works well and nothing leaks after six plus decades and all is good.

@WHX?? and @sqrlgtr should be able to shed some light on the situation. They both have HY on their 1257s.

My 855 came to me with one of these on it. I'm not sure how to set up your pulley at the engine since the K181 is pretty different from the 10 and 12HP engines. I will say that the hoses from WheelHorsePartsandmore are a little problematic with a manual transmission. Unless I remove the shifter knob they interfere with being able to use 2nd gear, and are still hair short, meaning I had to do some abrasion mitigation at the edge of the fender pan. The originals were hose crimped onto brake line and much thinner than the ones Lowell sells, which is why his can be an issue. The originals were also not built as robustly.

This was late yesterday afternoon. The actual sunset was off to the left.

i just watched a couple videos of this tool -- plan to order if i am not successful one more day of penetrant and map gas heat -- and using wedge technigue to pry them off from underneath - - if not i plan to buy the heater tool -- just hoping it doesn't deform the collar on the top of pulley and make the pulley unusable????? thanks for info

upon your suggestion couple yrs ago i got two bars and try using them after penetrant and heat but bars still wont break the bond --

I have used those aluminum welding rods you can do with a blow torch. Mapp gas works better than propane IMO. Although I've never tried it for sealing a gas tank

All day long...

wonder if they had any trouble with it dumping unexpected?

Electric power washer off the road side. Complete with 2 hoses and wands. It works fine!! Much easier than dragging my gas powered one up the deck stairs.

I had the day off, so we got out there early. We were moving spots because I had to go look for a landmark that starts a trail to one of our stands, about 5, when we walked up on one bedded. Shot fired about 5:30. Deer located, but alive 6:15. 7:00: 8:30 (we had to get dinner) My dad is showing him how to skin it. We do know what we are doing, but the boy wants to get this hide tanned, and we don't usually leave them in any condition worth keeping. 10:00

This morning... He's a guy...

Mowed and chopped leaves with the 510-8 this afternoon.

Another shot of 701 but I was feeling pretty patriotic after making a new front axle pivot pin and making bushings for the wore drag link. Using my homegrown flag bracket and the bestest flag in the world. A special thanks to my shop fan for helping with the shot.

Wow, here's my Amish butcher's price list. I skin and debone all my deer, but I use the butcher to make me a 10 lb 5" diameter bologna for $7.50 and he cures two hinds for dried deer for $1.30/lb. This includes slicing, vacpac, and freezing. Yeah, I don't shoot doe till November. Then 50 yd head shots with the .223 WSSM.

The lightning in this backdrop last night was almost as incredible as the drones!

Not sunrise or sunset but this lightning has been going on for about 45 minutes and still going, Pretty cool to watch and the video doesn't really capture the "big picture" The tree frogs are quite active too!

This evening

The view out my mom's kitchen window. That's Lake Rohunta. Down in between here n there is a major travel route but you can't see the vehicles. My Ole Man Qball used to like doing the dishes and looking out .... 💜