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I was informed by an attorney who works for a certain company headquartered in Bloomington, MN that as long as it was non-profit / not for resale / personal use that it was fine with them. From what I gather, they are not interested in granting permission to small-time individuals making "trinkets and do-dads". (no money in it for them) I ask that that can of worms not be opened and discussed openly on this forum. It could potentially jeopardize the manufacturing of certain items that assist in the repair, refurbishing, restoration, and beautification of equipment. Remember the old saying - "loose lips sink ships". :silence:

"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." take the dipstick that shows no oil level - put it in the "other K321's". If it doesn't indicate an oil level in the "other engines" then please consider the source of your stupefaction may be that you possess a 'stick of insufficient proportion.

I'm pretty sure dipstick stretchers can be attained if you visit the proper website. You might also want to check your e-mail spam folder for persons offering pills that allegedly accomplish similar results.

Sure sounds to me like some shenanigans have happened in the past with that dip stick. Or a dipstick used the wrong stick, so to speak.

My Kids sure love their Red Square hats!! And of course they can't wait to get out the Lawn rangers this spring as they each will have their own to drive. :)

Pic. of the best hub puller in town.Dont know way first pic dint work. Jake

I had the 1958 Wheel Horse RJ out yesterday with the 42 inch Snowplow to clean off the drive.

Another 8 inches here in the uk last night. The most I've seen in one drop for a very long time. Here is halfway through a 2 hour clear up.

Ah Ha, Watson! A Teflon dipstick! Personally, there are a lot of dipsticks going around here!

Maybe the Oil doesn't like being with that stick (been waiting a long time to use Craig's Smiley). Maybe the part numbers on the dipsticks are different :confusion-shrug:

Here's what I used on my 60" blade build. Blade down Blade up

Not sure what she could do considering I never sold any of these and only made this one for my daughter... Worst she could do is write a song about me :laughing-rofl:

Its probably not a copy write issue if it's photos was taken by you of tractors cars etc...BUT, it is a copy write issue if you take a photo of famous people..Such as this photo of Taylor Swift..I took the photo and modified the photo into a scroll saw woodworking pattern and cut it out on wood. If I sell this piece without written permission Taylor Swift could sue me for it.. There was a huge discussion about this very topic on one of the scroll saw forums as a few of us do picture-to-wood-portraits.. I stopped doing them of famous people when I found this out..I do still make custom ones from personal pictures such as wedding couples and family photos etc. Kevin

Thanks Andy, Pm and email received. Thanks Stephen, lol yeah she sure has evolved since I started the build. The belt was coming off at the belt tensioner and occasionally the rear trans pulley when the belt decided it wanted to be even more of a pain! Good thinking about the L shaped bit of metal, I'm hoping it won't be needed now but your idea is stashed away just in case it is needed. Thanks Brad. After Mondays fun and games with the drive belt jumping off too many times, the time had come to get it sorted (again) so I could enjoy all of the engines power without the belt jumping off.. Part of the problem is the tensioner pulley.. The small lips each side work just fine if your using a standard length drive belt, but a belt that's twice the length is a bit different and bounces around a lot more.. I guess you can guess where I'm going with this A spare pulley had some extra lip welded on.. Cutting the two rings of steel took quite a while to machine to size and shape.. Sorry about the blurred photo, my brain must of been having a bad focus moment! Andy (the good chap that he is) sent me a couple of WH belt tensioner photo's to give me a few ideas.. Thank you Sir, you inspired me to come up with this idea.. Simple really, a bunch of bearings bolted above the belt with a strengthening bracket behind.. Now I know it's starting to look like I'm getting a dexion fetish, but I wanted to see if the idea worked before cutting up good steel These bearings do not put any tension on the belt, they are just there to stop the belt jumping up and down so much.. While this was going on Pete was busy working on axe head number 2.. It's almost finished.. Soooooo.. With the drive belt sorted and Pete finished playing "mad axe man" for the day there was only one thing left to do... Yep, go for a drive It's made it this far.. I might of got a bit carried away taking photo's at this point.. A couple of action shots And of course..

Here's my snow team.

Next, I went about painting up the weights and got everything mounted. The end of the barbbell shaft was drilled and tapped for a collar that held the weights on. So I took advantage of this and used it to secure the weights on. That's all! Just thought I'd share it. Turned out pretty good and added 125 pounds to the rear end of my D.

Got my little round hood fitted with a snow blade today, it does pretty good for as small as it is, for small snow falls I'll play with this, but bigger snows I'll use the 520, the hyd lift on this is nice, I can pick the front tires up about 3/4" off the ground for good down pressure, and still raise the blade up about 6" off the ground.

Here is a pict of my snow team.. Raider 10 whit blade going to order me chains to it.. and a 312-8 whit tall shoot blower.. here is a pict of the chains im going to order me..

here is my c141 automatic with a tall chute blower, 140 lb wheel weights on the back. (this is the one that was giving me trouble during the storm saturday all is well now) this is a 314-8 with a 42 in plow. put the front weights on for this storm, help steering alot also have rear wheel weights, 150lb of suitcase weights and then another 30 lbs of plates on the plow to scrape better. you can just see the plates in the picture

Here's my heap big Indian Chief from Tippecanoe today.

**Update** Finally a quick storm dropped 4-5 inches on Eastern Pennsylvania. Grandson was thrilled, '85 416-8 was assigned to the task. Pushed snow back 'n off some grass, making room for another event. So far, no need to mount the blower. At 5-years old, he can't reach the pedals. Low-low gear, walking speed, how exciting can that be for a little man?

C 160 with two stage blower early hours December 2012

Just got in from plowing..right in the middle of the storm here on the CT coast. I picked up a 75 C-100 this fall and got to break it in tonight.. Wet and heavy snow coming down a a good clip the whole time. Looks like about 8 inches as of about 8 pm and probably almost half of that fell while I was plowing. Whatever else falls will have to wait till tomorrow. Nobody else to take pictures so this is all ya get.. Didn't look too bad out of the gate.. Now it looks bad... Running out of room already.. Had to dismount for this picture... Let it snow, let it snow, let it....OK enough already...

well i decided it was time to stop messing around and get started on tearing the 1054 apart. ive been wanting to get started on it for a few weeks now but just couldnt bring myself to stop riding it and start rebuilding it. everything else that needs fixing is better done with it apart, the rust in the back as well as the normal wear everywhere there is movement or play etc. this is going to be a worker rebuild. all the rust, dents and holes not needed will be fixed, but im not getting carried away with real nice paint etc. its going to be powdercoated as much as possible, it will still look nice, just with the process of powdercoat theres no filler or hi build primer etc. so the metal substrate has to be really good or its gonna show. and this tractor isnt perfect to start with so we will see how it turns out. i am gonna try to make it look nice, but i also want to use it and have some fun on it too. here it was a few hours ago..... how i finished up tonight..... the 875 is just looking on, as bit by bit the 1054 slowly disappears.....

So I finally got started on my first ever restoration project. My Lawn Ranger. I have wanted one of these for a very long time and when I finally found one I bought it without even seeing it, had it shipped over, and have looked at it ever since wondering where to start and what to do. Well I thought the best thing to do would be to start to take it apart, which I have done. I have included pics because I know you like pics and it should also help me put it back together. Things seemed to go relatively well up to a point, which is were my questions will come in. Firstly in the final photo in this first set, what is the metal outlet that appears to have wings? Is this for fuel? My engine and fuel tank do not have any fuel lines so I have to work this bit out.

I just bought a 520HC and want to know how many others there are on Red Square.

Here's the next 2 http://youtu.be/VGBRaJ9QKiw http://youtu.be/3f1CBFY5tRU

Mowerman, that is some fantastic work! I agree that most cnc work is not handmade. On the other hand, if the same piece you made was programmed by hand at the controller of a cnc and not with AutoCad or other modeling program, it would probably take much more time to make one than by hand and give you a serious headache in the process! Been there and done that. Following pieces would be a breeze tho.

my driveway is 400' long with a 50'X100' parking area, planning to pave it eventually but for now i'm tired of pushing my gravel into my yard and scratching up sod here and there when i plow snow. so i got an idea. here are some pics of my driveway. i took an old moldbord that was bent and wore past the wear plate bolts and straightened it, and welded a piece of heavy wall pipe directly to the front skin and the back channel. then cut caps out of 1/8" plate and welded them in place. by the way i also had an old rough looking pre 73' short frame i got free some time along the way and decided it would be good for a second plow to use on my C-series tractors. so i cut it and added a piece and fish plated it, and added a cross bar at the correct lift point.] then needed to lengthen the pivot point for the angle lever. just used a piece of 2"X 3/8" plate welded over the original bracket adding the additional 2" needed. also the short angle lever needed 4" added to it so the throw length would be increased thus decreasing the lever travel so as not to contact the running board rod or the PTO. and here we are. got snow today and other than primer and paint, which will come after the maiden voyage, its ready to push snow, and ONLY SNOW! I will let you know how it goes.

Before anyone else does it, I will insert the because this topic has been beaten to death many times. I dismounted my tires from the wheels of my 701 and discovered that the wheels were not the same color as those of my 1968 Commando 8, or any of the other wheels that I have had powder coated. Below is a picture of the rear wheel and a sample panel of powder coat color RAL1013 which I and others have matched to the "linen beige" wheels from other horses. So my question is, when did Wheel Horse start using the "linen beige" color? I know the 701 is a unique machine, but did they use a different color on the wheels for this one? The inside of the wheel is the same color as the outside, and it is original, not repainted. The previous owner says that the wheels, tires, and tubes are original.

Who is Taylor Swift? :ROTF:

Just what "Smo" stated above. The Xi is in many ways a better tractor. Heavy and it could have come air-cooled or with the Kawasaki Liquid-cooled engine plus possible power steering. But formost is the attachments. The attachments for the Xi series are not plentiful since the Xi series didn't have the run over the years that the C-series, 300, 400 and 500 series tractors enjoyed for decades. Many including TT who's opinion I value will say the Xi was Toro/Wheelhorse's best tractor ever made but there are still those pros and Con's. Your 417 has an Onan onboard and with it that "stigma" of expense if anything does happen to it. Since you have a blower a deck and a mid-grader for 1500 bucks, I would shoot for it and if you have to, sell the 417. But only if the Xi has low hours, was cared for and those attachments for the Xi are in good shape.

It's a Wheel Horse thing! Andy

Size does matter, length being the key factor! :ROTF:

After some inspiration from a few members for wheel weights and chains, I decided to put my thinking cap on and design some tire chain tensioners and wheel weights for my D180. I found some spring type tensioners from a few vendors on ebay, but decided that none of them had enough springs to do an adequate job. After some hunting, I ended up finding some springs at Home Depot, but they ended up being too long. So I cut each of them in half, then heated the end and formed a new loop in which to pass a 1/8" vinyl cable through. Purchased 4 springs for each wheel, which gave me 8 springs per wheel when I was through. Ended up with just the right amount of tension to tighten the springs equally all the way around. More to follow... Seems I can never add more than 4 pics at a time.

:wicked: Any more pics on progress?

Ken, What did the other headlights look like? i am looking for something for my 701. Jim

Well that didn't last! Cole really didn't like the white walls, I'm not too sure I did either. Not too sure we liked the black rims either, Cole said it looks kinda blah with black rims, seat and pipes? Soooooooooooo, third time stripping these rims down to repaint them! Sooner or later we'll get it right. I have some spare time at work at the moment between projects. My shop at work is finally spotless so I offered a full restore top to bottom. (so long as Cole pitched in when possible) Cole looked at me and says, Dad, thanks but no thanks, I like the rust! Ya gotta love that. I do have a 633 that I could do a full restore on but for some reason I can't get motivated on that one. Might send that one down the road and find another project.

I need that!

I have never had an encounter with an attorney that ended well. Which brings to mind an old joke; What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A GOOD START. No offense intended if you or anyone in your family is an attorney. I'm sure you have heard them all.

A little prompting talking about his favorites.

Did you send it to Stevasauras? He's wondering what snow looks like! :ychain:

Be patient, take your time. It is just plastic, so don't force it. Like Bob and Duff have already said, the instructions are pretty good -- if you didn't get them with your new pump, say something here and I'll send you a copy of mine. The only problem I had with mine was that I cut one of my fuel lines a little too long, and eventually it stressed the outlet fitting enough that fuel started leaking there. It was easy enough to fix, and it's been working well for over two years since then. That all being said, I still don't trust the plastic pumps. :)

3210 i sent you a pm. but the good news is after cleaning out the valve replacing the seals and putting it all back together again it works. it lifts and lowers with the solid lift link that was on this tractor it will pick the front tires up off the ground. thanks for all the help guys she is up and running. now i just need some snow to put it to work.

I'm not concerned about what people will think of my ultimate color choice. I simply posed the question, "when did Wheel Horse start using the color linen beige for the wheels"? Kelly has answered my question. Thank for all the other responses. :)

If you had put some spacers on the bracket for the C-160 you would not have to remove it to mow.

I remember those back to back storms too, not last year, but the year before...Dec '10, Jan '11 snow season. The single stage on my 520 had our little driveway looking like a tunnel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu48aGgLkzw&list=UUd_ptV1TUpPlW1VhCjxez_Q&index=40

Finally got some snow worth getting the 314-H out for. Here are my photos from this morning. Thad (Ohio)

I think my one is even happier than yours!