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Well i thought the D had finally met its match, but there was no way i was shoveling my 400 foot long driveway so i managed to get the horse out of the stall to see what happened. Please dont tell it i doubted it cause believe it or not we are making progress! still not to the end of the driveway, had to come in to warm up, but i think we will make it. This thing never fails to amaze me, although i do wish my snow blower was working, think with this much snow it would be more efficient then the plow! Snow is finally starting to let up a bit, but has not stopped.

Poor plow. Had it running but it sputtered out. Figuring it is pretty wet. Jim

We are current unable to get out of the house. Gotta be 3' or more. Here is the front door and rear deck. Jim

Hmmmm.... I guess we've got some work ahead of us. Still snowing.

Been lurking here for a while. Here's a quick video of my 416-8 throwing about 6-8 inches of snow this morning. I went out yesterday at 8pm, 12:30am and again at 9am.... We probably had a little over 2 feet.

I think I got jipped, I only got 20 inches, The snow at the end of my driveway was up to the hood though, The 520 busted right thru it. I took a video and If I can figure out how to upload it to utube I'll post it.

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It's my turn to stop asking questions and make a real contribution to this awesome forum! Brought my first horse home three weeks ago (beautiful '92 312-8) and haven't REALLY had a chance to use it. So when this storm started to brew up earlier this week I was pumped to put the horse to the test for the first time. I decided to set up my camera and tri-pod and catch the action for all you guys by making a timelapse video. I hope you enjoy it! Round two of blowing coming up in a few hours....the real snow is just starting to fall Click on the black box and it will bring you to my website where the video (should) start to play automatically.

Last project of 2012

First pic was 8AM yesterday, Second around 12:30 yesterday. 3rd this morning. Avg around 32". Jim

Finally shook on a deal for this Big Boys tractor (No offense to my Lawn Ranger) $700 for it and the tiller, plow, disc and blade. Will need a tank and who knows what else. But I am extremely happy to be getting it. I will be picking it up after tax season. Probably wont get to powder coat till next winter anyway but I am hoping a new tank and a tune up will have it mowing this summer. My name is Vinylguy and I am a Horse-a-Holic. :ROTF:

HERE"S MY C195 Brian

Figure every one like pics! Here are my "WEENIE PICS!" Since I didn't get as much I'm officially a WEENIE! :) This is what I woke up to: Officially 9" at the "Airport" I measured the ground but forgot to take the pic. Hard to get action shots when you're steering and running the hyrdo! Tall chute really blows! Took off the blower when done and switched to the blade. The infamous "Sno-Pup! Sure is handy around the trailer and garden. Cleaned this area with it.Even got an action shot which is real tricky. Running 2 cycle racing fuel thru the Tecky. Smells like your burning NITRO!!!! :) Broke out the electric "Chief" for our skinny walk between our front porch and flower bed. Anything bigger really tears things up. This blower never fails to start! Even Elvis got in on the action cleaning up what the state left me.

Just ventured into the garage for a peek at what we have. Looks like its about 15" deep and its still coming down heavy.....and its suposed to continue till mid morning!! This will be a job for my walk behind blower fer sure! Pics of course.................. Mike...............

Here's some quick pictures of the day

A friendly word of advice for when you attempt to get this running..... Remove the drive belt - or at least jack it up and block it so the rear tires are off the floor. The early hydros have the uncanny ability to take off when ever they desire, and I'd hate to find out that you got ran over by your own tractor or that you had to chase it for three blocks. Once it's moving under it's own power, never let it running unattended unless you have it securely blocked/chocked to prevent movement. Do not trust it! Edit: If it still has an ID tag, it will be here:

Heres this mornings pics. The Wheel Horse didn't (couldn't actually ) leave the garage for cleanup untill my Gilson had cleared the driveway first. Spent 5 hours clearing this mess with my son out with me the whole time. I should have cleared the driveway last night and not "saved all the fun" for today . My son's Nissan Altima is under that pile of snow in the last pic!! Mike...............

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Unbelievable comments! So what do you see when you view 50 to 100 miles of glacier ice that both North and South Pole explorers from the 1700's to the early 1900's traversed that doesn't exist today. Where thousands of miles of polar ice is simply gone and time lapse photography shows, just in decades, the retreat of polar ice. I guess these scientists are just full of crap. After all, just like "expert witnesses" in jury trials, you can get someone with enough grant money from the right side of the issue to discount what the left side is saying! Are there people cashing in on the hype? Yes! Absolutely! Can we change or reverse the effects? Nope! Not overnight. Not in 10 or 20 years. It took centuries of burning fossil fuels for heating and transportation to create this cycle of warmth. And a billion + Chinese just starting their industrial revolution will keep it going. Cutting grooves in a cyl head for a few more MPG's? I guess it will have to be on MS-NBC for the left to believe it and Fox news for anyone on the right to believe it. Me! I'll believe or disbelieve any issue or event after I look at the devil in the details and not what is spoon fed to me by a talking head in two minutes or less or documentaries produced with grant money from each extreme. It seems no one sits in the middle with common sense open-mindedness anymore. The US is like a battery. Polarized!

There are 3 parts to the kit needed to install a blade on a 520 with the swept axle, the rear extention mount, the center lift relocation mount, and the handle that is bent backwards to clear the PTO when angling the blade, as for the 3 and 5 hole index, I'm pretty sure a few years ago I looked and you can NOT drill the extra holes to make a 3 hole a 5 hole if you do it will leave very little material in between the holes, I know my 5 hole index in the last hole sets the blade on a tighter angle than my 3 hole index.

Here is a pic of my deck/picnic table as of 10:45 pm.... still coming down preety good too. Tony

I'm posting this one for my son Ryan, this is his 1974 B-100 auto, we fixed this up for him a few years ago, it has a 8hp instead of the orig. 10hp that was blown up, but he is bugging me to put a 10hp back in it, this started as a $25 beater, this was not a full resto, but was 95% torn apart blasted and painted, he drives the snot out of it in the summer at all the local tractor shows, and does very well with it in the tractor games. What we started with And what it ended up as Winning his first trophy, he has won a few since then, he polishes and cleans it for every show in hopes of winning again.

Alrighty...I'm game. Here's my 753 and single stage thrower. It's about 6inches of heavy stuff moving thru the chute. I rebuilt the thrower right before last winter, and it didn't snow last year. :*****: The first one is a video, the second is a picture. Seems to do pretty well. This is used just for clearing a path from my wood pile to my living room. I use my an 854 for the driveway, etc.

Well here's my before picture; Taken just after dawn this morning. Should all look different at dawn tomorrow. Joe

Up for consideration is a 1987 416-8 with a factory Ark FEL and homemade backhoe.

What is Snow Anyways? Who Needs It!! I'm building A SUN MACHINE!

Value also depends on how many times you use the word "RARE" in the description. Here's a constant: They're never worth less than scrap price. :hide:

A few months ago I rescued my buddy's WH for $200 that had been sitting in a barn for a few years. It has a newer HM80 that seems to run great. So this winter I'm doing a restore; so far I derusted the front wheels and added some try-ribs. Last week I sprayed the black engine pieces with some Valspar IH red.

This is my 1965 875 Wheel Horse .. This will be my way that I will get around the tractor shows ... I will ride it this year and then I will rebuild it next winter .. It has a good running 8hp Kohler engine I am just cleaning it up and going throw it from front to back ,, So far there is no broken parts ..I need to clean up the wiring on it .. I can't wait to drive it around !!!!!! I like the look of it too !!!!

Unfortunately, it looks like we will be hearing and seeing a lot more from Ray. Seems there is a serious side-effect from using deer antler spray that didn't show up until after the season was over.

now van you had one but now i've got it it's a 1267 though. Anyway nice horse Jay

It looks like the one that MikesRJ posted in that link. Thanks Terry.

For consideration is an original unrestored 1989 312-8 that I purchased new in June of 89 along with a 42" S D Deck, Chrome Wheel Covers and a Vinyl Tractor Cover made by original Cab company. This Tractor was mainly used for mowing and also snowplowing for a few years, currently used with a front mounted Dethatching Tine Rake as evident by the Transport or Lever Bracket above the left front axle. The only parts that have been replaced other than maintenance items are The Seat, 2 Front Tires, Clutch/Brake Interlock Switch and upgraded Footrest Pads to the Deluxe Pads. This Tractor has had a very good life in the Garage when not in use and has served me very well, currently with 514 Hours. It is hard to believe I have owned this for almost 24 Years and is also responsible for starting my wheelhorse addiction and shares Garage Space with a 1984 C-165, 1986 417-8 and a 1991 520-H and by the way the 520H got quite a workout here in Maine Today. Thank You for your Consideration!

I took these while inside the cab this morning there was more than a foot of snow for this time out not the best pictures luckily the snow was not heavy, would have been alot worse we ended up with about 27"

I bought a Direct Lift Pro-cycle/atv lift 2 years ago- its the best shop investment I have ever made. Its rated at 1,000lbs lift but it will do more -I've done an easy 1200lbs with it. Under no circumstances will I ever work on another tractor on the ground again. The cost is worth the bodily pain saved in the knees and back. The Pro-cycle gets the added wings to make the table 4ft wide so its perfect for my 4x4 builds. You can see the removeable ramp in the first pic- its off in the other build pics. Its easily removed so you can get up close to work on the ends. The walker hanging up in the top corner in last pic is what I will use from not buying this lift sooner !

Thanks Terry!

Let's see some video's of moving the white stuff now that we're starting to get some. I loaned my C-121 with blower to my bud Jon after he fried the trans in his plow truck and broke the front axle in his backup truck. So now we are left with P'Chop's Ranger to take care of our drive. We got 6" today and it's snowing to beat hell right now. Here's a vid of the C clearing at Jon's tonight. I think he wants to claim it now! :banghead:

Was workin on one project,set my adult bevie down and thought this up just now.Should I fab some inner fenders and a seat perch and finish?

yes, totally agree kelly. different animal, but still paint and still the same results as you mention- sometimes we need to recoat a piece for some reason or another, light mils, junk in the paint, whatever, and need to scuff up the powder, technique either makes it or breaks it on the recoats.. nothing like having a hot job that needs to go out in an hour and theres 'finger sanding' in the paint....... :hide:

We have been using them for ever in body shops, the red is a bit course for automotive paint, we use them before primer, but we use the gray for final scuffing before paint, now this is not a substitute for sand paper, it will not make things flat or sand out imperfections, in fact if used wrong it can create imperfections, they are made to ruff up a surface, so the next layer/coat will have something to bite in to, they work well to get in to tight spots and groves, we use sand paper for every thing else, every tool has a use, use it right and it will do it's job, use it wrong and it may bite you in the butt.

I have never seen the blade pivot thingy with the 5 holes, so I might be completely wrong here, but I seem to remember reading or hearing that you couldnt just drill another pair of holes to achieve the same thing. Something about the spacing being off, and to do it you needed to weld the existing holes and redrill. :scratchead:

How wicked is that to see a London Taxi in US , would be great to have a pic next to a wheelhorse tractor

I too suffer from a worn out back, so on my longer term projects I need something to lift them up a little. These small wooden stands are the ones that get used the most: Years ago I built this to work on the RJ58 I used to have. It worked great for that, but it's not so stable with a bigger tractor on it. And one day I am going to do this:

well i'll take a stab at it. This is my 400 suburban. I bought it cheap from my local dealer, it was out behind his shop covered completely in vines. I pulled the vines back and knew I had to have it. It looked like crap. some would have left it there to rot. Took dad and I 4 years or parts gathering, E-tanking, sand blasting, priming and painting to make it look the way it does now. I do have a plow blade, sickle and a mower deck that need work for it they should be done this summer!! thanks for looking.

all painted up. looks great on the tractor, thanks again scott!!!!

I'm certainly no expert in bearings but even where the markings on a standard bearing aren't readable or are missing then bearing stockists measure the critical dimensions ID, OD and depth, whether it has a flange or not and in this case (I think) the fact that it is a thrust bearing. If you look at the temporary factory work around diags, even with a ball bearing that was available at the time, a washer had to be added to take the thrust forces so I'm guessing the bearing they used would have collapsed without this. Costs may certainly prove to be the death of this investigation but it's worth persuing none the less as there are other obsolete and pretty much unobtainable bearings e.g. front wheel bearings for a D series. The issue is that WH used some bearings in their designs that were non-standard, a practice also evident in the automobile and motorcycle manufacturing industry leaving you no option but to buy replacement parts from them. We need to see this through to a conclusion either way. Andy

1977 B-100 8-Speed

Hope everyone and their family's that are in the path of this blizzard will be safe. This is a serious storm. I know you guys that live in the north east are use to getting a lot of snow but this thing looks dangerous. Good luck !! :hide:

here is a cool idea that utilizes your floor jack to do the lifting

They got it out!!!! So on with the boring I say!!!!!! :)