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First off no disrespect meant by "newbie" as I too am one newbie. Second I am no one to make rules but just pass on something that can't be thanked enough. I have found WHRS has guys from all around USA and some of UK, Norway and other places that are like me and love to help other members with problems with fixes, identification of parts/units, places to find needed stuff, and other concerns that may not pertain to WH. When I retired the first time I told those who asked "What are ya gonna do" I said, "I wanna get into helping people". Well went to school and became a certified medical technician and certified fire fighter and loved/hated taking care of hurt people, (by hated...to see the sometimes terrible trauma). These folks on here are like fire fighters puttin out our little/big fires and fixing our traumas or sending to ER or first aid knowledge. I would encourage all us to do our best to gather in a "return mode". Thanks for understanding I stand and remain amazed at our WH brothers (if they will permit that association)

Here's a few pics of the tractor, color combo courtesy of PO. (inner weights are bolens, outer weights are Jacobson) I had a 753 hanging around the house with a snowthrower I redid for about two years now. It motor started to smoke up a bit, but otherwise a decent tractor. A friend came over,drooled over it, and said "I gotta have it." (A friend who ended up with the bug for a roundhood obviously). He called me the next day and wanted to trade heads up for this tractor. The only issue with it was a starting issue, but once you get it going, runs fine. I thought about it, and said...what the heck. It'll spark up interest in me again for a new project. (I've been all camaro as of late). Turns out the battery was way underrated, and a new battery was all it really needed. I swapped to newly purchased rubber chains, as I have a stamped concrete apron just outside my garage door I don't want to mess up. Put weights on the outside and inside rims, got all the tune-up parts ready to install, changed the oil in the motor and crankcase, seals seem pretty good, and lights work. Will just clean up the wiring a bit. Snowthrower engages fine, will just lube and wax up for the season. Tires are decent, and the fronts are new. New reg/rect. Came out of the garage last night around 11pm, feeling pretty darn good. (beer may have helped), but was nice to work on a tractor again. The only snaphoo I ran into was a messed up woodruff key in back right axle. The axle is fine, but the hub took a little beating on the key slot. It should get me thru the winter, and figure I'd address it in the springtime. I got a new set of keys coming, and will swap sides to put the wear on the other end of the hub.

Chris: You will like the rubber tire chains on your tractor. They work great and I used them for several yeas now on the B-80 Wheel Horse and 42 inch snowplow combination. I am going to use the 1963 633 Wheel Horse this year with no chains but wheel weights . I think I have some photos of the B-80 that I will post here. This years snowplow setup on the 633:

Come on Steve! Heck, with those new eyes you've got you might see straight through the paint! I wanted to post this picture. I felt like it was Christmas day and I was opening a present while I untaped this.

X2 Sorry, still looking for the "Rough" part.

Hey Lane, I've have good success plowing with a roundie, and still do. I found that I lost the front end when it gets loaded up though. If you look in the pic below, you can see I hung weight from the frame just under the engine block. It helped out big-time. I've also added wheel weights to the front too. (not to mention tri-ribs). I don't loose the front end at all now. Yours should do well also. I was surprised how well a 551 pushes snow too. BTW-nice horses! Thanks for the compliments guys. (I'm kinda liking the white hood myself)

It really seems like a long time since I did my last update. Since it is Wednesday night, that can only mean one thing, Tractor Club Update!!!! The day started, as far as the club is concerned, over my lunch break. I met with a couple of very nice gentleman that were laying out the plans to give us a warm place to work this winter. The ball has been set into motion as they will be making some calls to their friends and seeing what it will take to get spray foam insulation up as well as a lower ceiling put in. I am overwhelmed by their generosity to say the least. Tonight the heaters were working as we had a great night to work with temps in the mid 50's during the day. Sanding commenced and the kids became encouraged as I mentioned that I will be getting some parts sandblasted to help speed up the process. We spent about half of our time sanding and the other half of time working on a teachable lesson. We hauled in a 12 h.p. Kohler that has a broken rod. We started taking this motor apart and stopped periodically to explain how each part worked and was able to produce the power needed to actually make the tractor work. It was just as rewarding for us as it was them. I am hopeful that they were all able to walk away with a little more knowledge on how a gasoline powered engine works. Here is a photo of the kids around the engine as they were removing the head bolts. And of course we can not leave out these professional sanding machines! Earlier this week I received a very nice surprise. A gentleman named Ron Greco, not sure if he is a member here or not, has been following our progress on the Wheel Horse Junkies Facebook page. He informed me that he has been very impressed with the work these kids are putting forth and has purchased a t-shirt for each kid from T&H Creations. The shirts should be arriving within the next week and will be a very nice and generous Christmas gift for these kids. They have no idea of what is being done, but will be so excited when they receive them. I can't wait to see their faces! Thank you Ron......very, very cool! This has been an amazing journey and I want to thank all of you for being such a huge part of helping shape these kids lives! Merry Christmas to all of you!

just finished a face lift on one of my 1886's. I love these tractors. they came out in 1971 and were a beast of a tractor. full hydraulics on front and rear, foot pedal hydro, three point. huge solid frame. this machine caught wheel horse with there pants down. who would of thought. bolens had those crappy tube frames. in 1971 all wheel horse had in there line up to compete was the gt14. to compete they came out with the automatic 18 (d series) both wheel horse and bolens used the 18hp kohler k482 engine. this sparked a little battle to one up each other. bolens ht20, then wheel horse d200, wh d250 then the bolens ht23 and bolens added an imported diesel model. this battle gave us so many models to enjoy. I own several of both models, I just enjoy the bigboys hope you enjoy the pictures brad

Thought it was about time for an update. With today being the last warm day we're going to have for awhile, I got busy, and painted most of the tractor, with the exception of the wheels, and the engine. The paint isn't perfect, but its shiny. I plan on working this tractor, and enjoying memories of Gary while doing it, so this paint job will be perfect for my plans. I used some orange enamel that I still had in the shop from painting my son Danny's Bantam tractor, and I mixed some IH red (left over from painting my Toro Groundsmaster) in it till I got a pretty close match of the Case orange. This worked great with my current budget! I did get a call from the machine shop today, and my block is done, so I'll pick it up tomorrow. It had to be bored .020 to clean up the cylinder. The throttle shaft in this carburetor was also worn badly, so I picked up a bushing at the local hardware, and after cutting it to the correct length, the shaft is now nice and tight. I'm really enjoying refreshing this old Case, as I spend a lot of time remembering all of the great times I had with Gary. Here are a few pics. Matt

And meantime the neighbors are wondering why that crazy foreigner is doing burn-outs on his driveway with yet another damn lawn-mower.

OMG...I have used up all of my likes today.

Must have missed this topic the first time around

i have bought quite a few duffers , sold them to get what i have now . I also sold a few that i didnt really wanna sell but i had to to get to what i ultimatley wanted . When looking , be prepared for longish road trips & dont be too dispondant when you get there it wasnt as nice as you thought , one day you will get there and it will be better than you thought . those are the ones that you keep & then sell on the duffers . iI bought one thinking is was really rough because the sale picture wasnt too good , when i arrived it was virtually immaculate , i still have it

I'm with the guys above on this one...it does have some nice parts...but if it runs good, it would be a great project to put back together. The Charger is a very nice horse. If you part it out...it is one more gone, and parts are out there to make a nice horse of this.

Success...I now have two crystal clear...about 20/20 baby blues. I can read street signs from a 1/4 mile away (this was driving me crazy)...and I need readers for newspapers (only like 150's) , but that is because they put in far-sighted lenses. It is truly amazing what they can do now...I feel very fortunate and Thankful. I really feel young again.

I got up to 7 and just did not have the room to hang on to them...down to 4 now and that is a good number for me. The ones I sold had Techumsehs on them... just kidding...they were good horses...they also had pull starts.

I started with 1, now have 9, and will probably have 6 or 7 by the time springs rolls around. I purchase at auctions and private sales, then after doing a little work on them, re-sell to make enough money to purchase what I really want. I currently have a C-120 auto, and a B-100 auto that will be gone by the time the WHCC show rolls around. If not, they are coming to the show and will be be sold there. My ultimate goal is to buy and sell until I can purchase a nice horse with a front-end loader.

How many fingers are you holding up? Also notice the fine photobombing by Scott!!

I painted red today! FINALLY! everything turned out real nice except for the steering shaft because it DROPPED while I was painting it. Here are some pics.

Yeah see there...you need all three eyes working good Steve.

wow, that looks really nice matt....... looking forward to seeing how it looks all together.

well the only one i ever sold i bought back the next year with lots of new parts & a giveaway price! last count was 27 horses with 10 used on a weekly basis

Nice looking 855. I kind of like the white hood on it!

Yikes! Craig, notice they put their mugs up there!! what about us?!?! Hey Steve and Mike...we love ya Man!!!

I have you down on "Santa's list!

I know I want another Mike.

Just missed the time window by 10minutes. That's exactly what I was going to type when I read Steve's post!!

too much and it's back to blurred vision!

Rough? are you talking trailer or tractor??

The tractor looks as if it's already been picked at. The cowl looks like it has been on some rough terrain by the notch wear. The hub showing is slid in, so that is a mystery. The blade has a lot of character with the hillbilly frame, If it fits I would use it as a beater or take the moldboard of and use/sell and take the frame for recycling. Myself if the engine runs and the hydro works just add missing parts and drive it like it's borrowed.

Congrats !!! Sounds like a little Rock-N-Rye might be in order

IOWA has the best dang wrestling team ever. Does their wrestling coach know anything about football??? I picked NIU this year to beat IOWA in the 1st game this season, and I was not disappointed. Rob, I know NIU did not play their best in the Orange Bowl last year (overwhelmed maybe), but they did make a game out of it near the end. They are looking for respect for the MAC, and I think they are going to get it this year. Out side of the Orange Bowl, their only loss last year was to IOWA...and IOWA was lucky to win that game...it was at Soldier Field in Chicago. Their football field in DeKalb, about 20 miles west of me, is about as big as the high school stadium here in Elgin. My prediction...the Big Ten is not going to look at playing NIU in the pre-conference games like it is a "W" for them anymore.

I'm all about saving the ones that can be.

My grandson got his first buck when he was 8yo, he is now 15.He has got at least one a year since then They live about two hrs from me in S. Missouri. Before his dad took him hunting that kid would sit in the house and do what most kids do all day. I would try to get him outside with me ,just go to the hdw store or something he would just not want to go out. Well that's all different now,he loves hunting, any hunting,deere squirrel,turkey,coon,even frog gigging. He can dress a deere or turkey,just amazing. I got him into fishing with me.When he was about ten I took him out for some white bass with a guide.After we caught about a hundred the guide started filleting them with a elect knife.My grandson grabbed a filleting knife to help,the guide said whoa,thats a really sharp knife.I told the guide,let him do it,he has handled a knife more than I have. What I am saying is, take your kids hunting,fishing any outdoor activity you do, it will stay with them for life. And by the way he hasn't got a deere this year,I know because he always texts me with a photo.

KInda like the white hood

In my experience you need to find a good used front wheel if the bearing will not stay tight. I had that problem and the bearings would wear out in no time. Damaged my left front spindle. I still used that wheel on the back of a wagon, but it was a big problem on the front of my C-120. If it's a worker tractor the bearings need to fit tight.

I buy, but haven't been able to sell any yet. I get them the way I want them and cant let them go. I have 9 now

Just a little thought for all you BG fans. NIU took down, well let's begin at the top, who was that team oh-yeah IOWA Chickens., Wait Haymakers, I'll get it right, Hawkeyes. Then Perdue < not saying that was a big issue. Toledo won against BG, but the Huskies, well they won. BG has not faced an opponent that has a QB like Lynch. Lynch, is right behind Winston for the Heisman...On top of that, they are ranked 14th.......I'm going to say this is a simple slam dunk for NIU....Not often I go out on a limb like that, but if you have not been watching them, they have an offense that is ranked in the top 10, and rushing yards in the top 5...On top of that, they have something to prove, from last year's Bowl game. Redemption is only 2 games away, and they can taste it.....

Almost done! Just need to hear back from a few people and it will be ready to send out!

when you are finished. Lacking a viscosity measuring device I have found that a good sprayable mix will take three seconds to drip from a stir stick, no more, no less! Since VOCs take longer to evaporate your finish will lay down better on a cool day and look better like Save Old Iron said. That was quite a tutorial he gave us! Good luck and keep us posted.

And it's not even "Talk Like a Pirate Day"

There should be no reason why you can't drill a hole for a cotter pin

Zane, don't let that discourage you, it's a simple fix. A decent welder will fix that for you in short order and it shouldn't cost much at all. You need to slow down a little anyway, so I can catch up, and besides, your project looks way too good anyway! If you decide to just scrap it, let me know, I'll come get it.

v out the cracks and weld them up. smooth your welds and paint it. you don't have to grind smooth the side in the pic if you don't care, just where the bolt heads are, the back where it bolts to the trans needs to be smooth though....... add a reinforcement strap like the later models used if you want. here is one I'm working on at the moment, its a later frame has the formed lines and this one had the lower strap. top and bottom holes were cracked badly so i welded them up and added a strap to the top holes as well......

Back in 2009, I came here looking for help myself, and I never left. Glad my little tutorial was of help to you.

Every year or I should say season change especially from fall to winter. We get a lot of post from new members and even some of us older members that just can not quite remember how a particular attachment attachés or works. Was thinking some of you out there that are video guru's might start a new section of "How to attach" videos. I know we post photos and that helps but a nice informative video would do wonders for new members that has just acquired a Wheel Horse and has no clue where to even begin. Anyway it's just a thought. I have no video equipment and have no idea what it takes to film and download on here. Maybe something that's not really feasible.

I have had a lot of postive feedback about this photo from our show............

fingers are crossed! Good luck, not that you'll need it!