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Probably the afterburner. :)

OK heres a pair...............[ IMG] My dirt puller and pavement puller

The simple answer is red. The longer answer seems to be a mystery. I think that it has been discussed that they wanted the tractors to be similar to International Harvester red. Each vendor that provided paint from year to year had a slightly different formula and therefore a different color. I can't tell you how many times people have said " I have an area on my tractor that has never seen the light of day, and it matches such and such color". Well your untouched color is different from my untouched color. Therefore, as the general rule here on RedSquare goes, paint your tractor whatever color is pleasing to you. There is no Wheel Horse color police that is going to ticket you for the wrong shade of red. The only requirement is that it be RED, and sometimes that rule is slightly bent.

How about something like this that would pin or bolt in where the hitch mounts, it would just rock back at an angle against the case?

Recently purchased a B-80 got good deal on it. Bought a Laban model 425 sickle mower 48 inch cut of evil bay. Lol im trying to retro fit it to the B-80. Got it attached and lifting good only thing is I need a 152 inch v-belt Wichita I have to order Thursday no biggie. Buy my question is that I used a shorter belt which has it sitting was forward from where it needs to be but do all sickle mowers shake your molars out of their sockets? I have tried all different rpm and the best is just off idle. It seems to mow ok in first gear. O its only a three speed no high low selector. So is this it just the Laban mowers or do they all shat you out of your seat thanks josh

Update: I paid a visit to the machiine shop and spoke with him about my issue. Turns out that he has offered to regrind the crank, re-size the rod and even assemble the short block gratis. He said he feels bad about what happened and wants to make it right. I may have to wait several weeks, but it will be well worth the wait. Thanks, Tom

you mean like this

:scared-eek: Wooow!! Thats a very cool toy! You can call it whatever you want to call it, I'm just glad you posted pics. When I was a very young boy, my dad had a tank, and I can still remember telling the kids at school " My daddy has a tank" , and having them call me a liar. You should have seen their jaws drop, when they came to my house one day, and we took a ride in it. Matt :flags-texas:

Interesting observation Josh, never heard of 'em doing this shat before either. :scratchead:

yeah, my theme lately has become what ever decent, horizontal shaft, i can find within 150 miles at or under $150........................ its the 150/150 theme.........

Those are Nice !! What's the t-handle for,a parachute? :ychain:

If it has a round hood, then I like it. I think the theme of my collection is more accidental than it is intentional. While hanging out in my little Horse Shack with my 10 yr. old son Cole he came up with this. He says, "ya know Dad, Wheel Horse kinda started with the RJ 35 we have and they kinda ended with the 520 that we have" Yup, right or wrong I'm going with that.

If your gonna pitch that High Back Slider, Pitch it this way.... I like the looks of a Low Back, but getting to that age where I appreciate some support!

Yippie ! . Zeek has fired up the Ole Thread again. I've been counting the days for when we get another fix of your Raider 12 adventures. If it is anything like your Tranny Rebuild Thread, I'll be glued to RS waiting for the updates. Glad your back on stream with it .

Don't forget pedals. :teasing-poke:

At one time Toro had 2 reds but a grand master standard was not available. Typically a paint vendor would call on an account and develop a good relationship with a customer at which time would be given a chance to bid on the paint. Since the master standard is usually not available the paint vendor is given a color chip sprayed out from the current supplier which may or may not be a good match but the paint line supervisor had the say so usually. There are hundreds of different ways to make colors with different pigments and all the different coatings types. I can tell you when we sold the Toro plant in Evansville Indiana they used a very good true 2K polyurethane that was 3.5 VOC. It was tough as nails along the lines of powder coat when fully cured which takes up to 21 days to achieve all the properties. This was very similar to automotive quality without the automotive price. Most of the cost of Automotive price is the extremely tight tolerances in the bases to make the color 1 quart at a time where on the industrial side we shade using a color computer and routinely make large batches up to 300 gallons at an industrial store with a product service room. Price dictates paint quality. Smaller quantities and restoration type markets as you can imagine are a really small market segment. With raw material costs at a premium paint companies are only making paint that are sold and very little effort is spent to make a specific paint to sit on a shelf in some store to eventually go bad and have to be disposed of which costs more than the raw materials did to make it in the first place... When I get back to work I will get what numbers I can dig up from the Sherwin-Williams OEM side of the business and when time permits visit one of our Automotive stores and see what they offer in a single stage product.

Restoring my grandfathers 875 was it for me. I remember plowing snow as a kid with this little gem. While doing the restore,and searching the web, I found a lot of great info! like I couldn't have finished the tractor without the great info from this site! Then I got bitten and decided I needed another! but I needed parts to fix this one and I decided I needed a parts tractor Then the tractor on evil bay, and the craigs list find. Well you get the picture. I am currently up to 8 and one is being sold to a buddy, but all are operational and will start without any extra effort.

Hi. I'm Aaron and I'm an addict. lol I'm curious as to what tractor started the craze. I remember very clearly seeing a nicely restored 1960 suburban at the tractor show in georgetown, oh and thinking man, I have to have one of those. With a few months of searching craigslist I found a rough and totally unoriginal 1961 401 suburban. Now I have two suburbans but my favorite is still my 1958 Bolens Ride a matic, She is my all original barn find from the original owners that I am currenty restoring! So lets hear it.

what size engine do you have in your b-80? that ain't no 8hp!

It's looking great, Mike! Keep up the good work! Matt :flags-texas:

Attention all clutch springers and shaft twisters....Chris is bringing his belt to whoop ya with!!

I set the wall on fire! not the garage... for those who want to see the flames (after he had thrown the tub at me) :*****:

Since my collection is one single B-100, the story is pretty short. In 1993, I was driving my wife around to yard sales when we came upon a sale that included a tractor. Turned out to be a 1977 B-100 Wheel Horse with a mower deck, 42" snow plow and a dump cart. The owner let me drive it and I decided then and there that I had never been on any rider that felt as solid and strong as this. I asked my father-in-law to come along later that day and take a look at it. When he saw that it was a Wheel Horse, he said "I don't even have to look at it, buy it. You won't regret it". He said "that tractor will be around long after I'm dead and gone". Later that month he died. Sixteen years later, the old B-100 is still going strong, and I expect that one of my three grandsons will still be riding it long after I'm dead and gone. There has never been a day when I am on that tractor that I don't hear my father-in-law saying "you won't regret it". I don't. Thanks Jerry! Bob

Why do I collect Wheel Horses? Because I am a collector and appreciate quality! When I bought my house I knew a garden tractor would be a nessary tool and a quality garden tractor could be found. Being a diesel technician I know machines must be built well to last and I am cheap so buying repair parts is not part of my creed. A trip was made to a local Wheel Horse dealers "back lot" and a old round Lawn Ranger with mower deck, snow plow and tire chains was discovered. It was amazing that a tractor so small would have a cast iron front axle and transmission. The dealers mechaninc told me the Lawn Ranger did run and was used to plow the dealerships driveway in the winter. After shelling out $200 the Lawn Ranger was on it's way to a new home. Now I have been tought by my father to restore things, he once said "Anybody can have some thing new but if you have restored a old peiece then you will be the only one with one". I located a dealer up near my in-laws and stared to purchase parts to restore the Lawn Ranger, another place I looked for N.O.S. parts was right though the Wheel Horse company of which I still have those connections today! These connections gave me dealers phone numbers that might be able to help me locate parts for the Lawn Ranger (this was before the internet). At the dealer near my in-laws a second Lawn Ranger was found in the "junk yard", this rusty Lawn Ranger was purchased and became the Mighty Lawn Ranger Six Speed! The quality in these small tractors was just astounding and would do any task that was they were asked to do. At this point the collector in me came out and any thing I could find that was Wheel Horse was soon in my hands. This picture is titled "Some of the Stuff" Wild Bill in Richmond, Va.

Well Steve, You have seen some of my collection and have even been there when some were purchased, but I like the low hp models Tecumseh powered tractors. You can get a lot of work done with only 6 horse power! I also have certain models that appeal to me and would like to find. 1) The POWER HOUSE models. 520-8, C-175-8 and C-160-8 (single cylinder Kohler) 2) The early Hydrostatic Transmission models. 875 and 1075 3) Tecumseh H-60/H-70 Powered models. 605, 606,607, 657 and WORKHORSE 700 4) Six Speed model. 867 and Raider 9 5) Round Hood models. 854, 552 and 502 6) RJ and Suburban models. 551, 550, 1955 RJ-35 and RJ-25 I am not too sure my collection is a "theme" ...... well I do know my neighbors certainly don't call it that! Bill in Richmond, Va.