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So, I work for one of the largest leather companies in the Country. Very high end, and very expensive. This is one of the original horses that leather calf hides were kept on from waaayyyy back in the day. They are well built and have been around since the early 50's. The wood ones are slowly being replaced. The original owner of the company would die if he knew these were getting junked, (he sold the company a few yrs. ago for a cool 80 million.) I have been re-purposing some of the wood horse's when I have time and this is what I came up for this one. The tops of the horse's had a 8 inch round piece of oak (cut in half) that I removed and I'm looking for something cool to do with them, something will come to me. My wife thinks I should take the wheels off but I think they are too cool to take off.

I acquired my C-125 about a year ago. The tractor it's self is in pretty good condition for it's age. The cutter deck was something else though. So a bit of rebuilding had to be done. First strip the deck. Deck was used as pattern for new top Then old top cut out. New top welded in and painted. All re-assembled. I fitted two new spindles as they got damaged getting them out. Also renewed all the bearings.

Hey Duff...5 years...special...Happy Anniversary :happy-jumpeveryone: You are one of the best.

Better get the Tecky's fired up before it get's too cold!!! :ychain:

Ok here is the difference in the big base block and the small base block, there is a exception to the rule and I will show that in the pics. Small base block, these are the engine like the K241AS any big Kohler that has "AS" on the tag means it is the small base block, this is the style block used with the shaker mount engines. This is a small base oil pan This is the big base block oil pan, used on solid mount engines. This is both pans lined up on top of each other, see how the big pan will not bolt in place of the small pan. Small base block with oil pan setting on it, there is no place to bolt the big oil pan to this block. Small base block setting on big base oil pan, again no place to bolt pan up. Here is a exception to the rule, I have seen a few but not many blocks set up to use both style oil pans, this one is a JD 12hp you can see it has the small pan AND the ears to mount to big pan. This is a big base block with a small base oil pan setting on it, see where the block is machined out so the pan will not seal. This is the bottom of a big base block, this one is drilled but not tapped in the 4 corners where a small pan would bolt, most I've seen are not drilled, I guess you could drill and tap the holes or on this one tap them, and find a way to seal the ends of the pan at the block, but with the ears on the block, I'm not sure it will bolt in to the shaker mount with out hitting the mount plate for the shaker style tractor. Ok I said it might not fit, and I just had to know, so I went back out to the barn and mocked up a big base block on a small pan and set it on a shaker plate, 3 of the 4 bolts will fit tight but fit, one of them will not, as the engine moves on the rubber mounts the bolts that holds the plate in place through the rubbers do not move, so the ears on the engine block I'm sure will hit at least one bolt if not 2 of them, one on each side, even more so if the rubber mounts are in bad shape like most are.

My wife is a goldsmith so she made this one for my brothers birthday.. can be used as a keychain or pendant it is not cast .. it is sawed from a thick silver plate, so this is really handwork it's only made ​​two of them as it is relatively expensive to make them

'Ow do all. I live in Cumbria near Silloth on Solway I've had my C-125 Wheel Horse for about a year now. Great machine and I'm well pleased with it. I did have to rebuild the deck due to tin worm and am now in the prosses of making a snow plough/dozer blade for it.

Just looked out the window, it's been snowing for an hour now. Last week, hurricane Sandy hit the east coast, this week it's a nor'easter that's coming a shore... Geeze O' Man, I'm not too sure I'm ready for four more years of this crap...what will they think of next? :confusion-shrug:

Winter is coming and that means less time outside and more time in the shop so I decided to get some toys to entertain myself and the kids one of them is a 60 in 1 multicade stand up arcade machine with all the classic arcade games like Pac-man, Frogger, Centipede, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong....and a whole lot more. This reminds me of the old days of going to town with a pocket full of quarters finding the local arcade and spending the afternoon playing games, now days the old school arcades seem to be extinct. The other toy is a Double Diamond 25 cent slot machine that was retired from a casino since most machines now are computer controlled and not the reel type. I am still searching for a bar style dart board and a megatouch touch screen bar top game I also have another stand up arcade game that I am going to get converted to about a 300 in 1 the screen in these is anywhere from a 19 inch to 25 inch LCD monitor so the image quality is excellent and you don't have to worry about screen burn.

HI guys, stacked up some horses today. We were just out of room in our side of the barn for horses, 50x50 was too small! We purchased some pallet racking that we put along on wall and it worked out very nicely. we have a forklift so the ones on the skids will come right down and to get the ones not on skids down we just have to put a empty skid to the edge and roll them on. There's still about a dozen horses at home and some are going to stay outside but this is way better than what we had before. Here are some pictures of the horses stacked. ~Jake the mess we had some room!!!

I AM JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ready for snow here in Nebraska!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Put a hitch on it and some "picnic table" seats and tow us around at the show in June ! :)

Thats good stuff Rich!!! :ROTF: :ROTF: Matt :flags-texas:

If you can fab a spot for a fridge,microwave and porta-potty ,you'll be good for days. Normally,I wouldn't wish a blizzard on anyone. But for you Duke,I'll make an exception! Your new rig is just screaming for the "Mother of all Snowstorms" just so you can show that beast off! I have this picture in my head of a local news chopper filming at night. It's cold and the entire town where you live is paralyzed by the huge storm that dumped tons o' snow hours before.The searchlight pans from side to side,and the news crew spots a lone ,unidentified vehicle moving in the night. At first they believe it is a UFO. But no ,as their eyes adjust to the glare of lights and strobes,they see snow spewing as high as the chopper! As the pilot swerves to avoid the plume,the cameraman zeros in on the "Snow Chucker" decal.......... Film at 11 ! Super job on your SC ! :bow-blue:

Thats what it looked like when I was plowing the garden last saturday with the 520 :laughing-rolling:

Craig, try to keep that white crap over there. I still have my mower deck on... -BK

Arrgg! Where is MY snow???? I want snow toooooo :occasion-snowman:

Very nice setup there Jake I was looking for pallet racking but couldn't find any within my budget so me and the kids built wood shelving for the horses and my pole shed looked like yours does in the third picture but now a year later and it is filled up again, the shelves give me 90 feet of storage space for tractors side by side and 45 feet of top shelf storage for large bulky items like you have done but now my choices are to build another shed or start culling the herd I like the forklift it sure would beat pushing them up ramps by hand or trying to use my old Farmall H with no power steering and no live hydraulics. pictured below is one side of the pole shed, on the other side we built it one section longer each section is 9 feet long since that is the way the shed poles are spaced

I thought I'd pull this thread out of the mothballs long enough to show you guys what came in the mail today. I got my issue of LAGT Magazine in the mail today, and there was Danny's tractor sitting right next to the Lady Ranger! (whfan74, or Scott). My son was so excited he took off with the magazine to his friends house to show them. This really is a priveledge to be in LAGT, and a real honor to be sitting next to the Lady Ranger. Both tractors were built for our kids, and I can't think of a better thing to do for our kids in these days of hi tech stuff! I would like to say a special thanks to Kate over at LAGT, who is sending me some extra copies, which is good, because Danny is going to wear this one out! Matt :flags-texas:

It sat out in the cold? freezing temps? the trans could have water in it, not uncommon, and it froze, there is a drain plug at the back on the bottom near the end of the hitch, remove the plug and see what comes out, if it's fluid you have a trans stuck between gears and the shifter will have to come out to realign the forks, but if nothing or water comes out you may have a froze trans, if so you will have to heat it up to melt the ice and fill it back up with gear oil.

I'd try it, At 9hp at 3600 you will notice a differance. but diesels are torque not so much hp engines. Check the crank size to see if you need to change the clutch or not

Thanks Kelly. I got in touch with fourwheels0, and I'm slowly getting pointed in the right direction. There are no points. I found a reputation briggs dealer that helped too. I'm just return to straighten the wiring out. I want to learn enough, so I too can help others here. It's an addiction. Sent from my 1100 special.

Absolutley beautiful. You tell her that's enough to take your breath away ! ! She is so talented.Its no wonder you've done such a great job on your tractor Just to keep pace with her. JIM @ DEE In Texas

I've been meaning to do a post like this on the oil pans, and the lack of interchange, and I did get my boo boo fixed up, I hit it against another engine digging the block out. Maybe I should put this in it's own topic, so it can be viewed for what it is, and not high jacking this thread.

Talk about having a long run time! 11 gallons. Wow. I think its a great idea, but I think some Red paint is in order. Matt :flags-texas:

wow! This one is bringing alot. It has a hole drilled in it and has no handle and already at 320. Must be someone who really wants it.

If you want enamel to dry quickly (at least as fast as chemically possible) SPRAY IT ON AS THIN AS POSSIBLE. Technically, enamel doesn't dry - it cures. Curing takes place in the presence of oxygen. If you spray on a thick coat of enamel, the top part of the thick coat (exposed to oxygen) starts to cure. The paint underneath this curing "skin" is not exposed to oxygen and cures much , much slower. Weeks, maybe months. Spray on thinner coats, let dry a few days, rough up the thin coat and spray on another thin coat, etc. Chemical hardener works to accelerate the curing process. Heat has some effect on the drying process but may not speed up a thick coat due to the lack of oxygen under the top cured skin of the thick coat. Rattle cans tend to dry faster as they put down a much thinner coat of material (lots of oxygen available to a small amount of paint, so curing is fast). HVLP guns can lay down much more material in one pass. Thick layers look better but dry slower. Go with several thin coats. The first coat from either a gun or a can should be a light "mist" coat to dry as quickly as possible and form sticky surface for the next "wet" coat to cling too. That's it - all I know about about getting an acceptable finish without waiting weeks to dry.

I apologize to any lawyers out there!!! They are not stupid.... Sorry! I spoke out of frustration. I will continue to work on using the wiring diagram and testing.

Awesome Jake. Hey Kelly, are you looking at that concrete floor??? :bow-blue:

This year I got lucky and Sandy blew most of my neighborhoods leaves into the next county!! There hasn't been one leaf in my yard for a week!! But I use my 417a with a blower bagger set up and it works great!

Wow...like you guys have built the tower of power right there buddy. Really looks awesome.

If god wants them moved? He can do it. Otherwise, they are stayin" where they are til spring when I mow next. We had snow yesterday. It all melted, but it made me think. Leaves and grass are done. Plowing the gardens on saturday and then only thinking about snow removal and keeping Anheuser-Busch employees busy.

I'm ready for snow

I did not need another horse but could not pass up this deal. Paid $550 for this 1991 416H with 42 inch snow blower, ATV tires, cleat chains (removed), FMC cast iron wheel weights, solid with no dents 48 inch SD mower deck (not shown), and plow hitch on back axle. The twin ONAN has 705 hours and starts and runs perfect. I normally use an Ariens 1032 walk behind but will try this if we get snow this year.

The heavier the better. My first Wheelhorse was a Charger V8 which was one of the earlier verticals. I plowed for years using a 42" blade. But it did have an Eaton trans which may be more robust than what you have now. Now I have a 314-H. I've outfitted it with liquid filled ags and push a 48" blade. Once we get daylight I'll find out if it can be stopped. We got 12" since last night and it's still snowing. The hydro is particularly nice for quick direction and speed changes plus it has a hydraulic implement lift. If you select a smaller tractor, consider finding a 42" blade. If you think you'll want to upgrade to a blower, ... I have no direct experience with that. But they're heavy so I think they would work better with a heavier tractor. What kind of snow do you get in Webster? 12" is a whole lot in Chicago, but I think the folks in Buffalo would rightly say "that all?" -hank