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well I also have this little ditty my 701 with stainless frame I started with this and after 5 months Brian

So I was missing the headlight contacts for my C-160 and bought some that were "sight un-seen" that turned out to be overpriced for being used and being junk. Bummer. So....., after seeing what they are supposed to look like I decided I would just machine the parts and make some new ones myself, for FREE. Lol. Now, I definately didn't "re-invent" the wheel here, but do feel I did recreate a "better built wheel" in my opinion. The stock parts didn't seem to have held up too well, so I used some better than stock materials to fab up my own. I used brass for the contacts and nylon for the insulator, both being turned from rod stock on the lathe. The brass contact is hollow and soldered to the wire and the insulator is essentially an odd sized nylon washer but none the less still had to be custom made. Anyway, thought you guys/gals might like to see what I came up with.

Here's my 4x4 C-101

I was born in 1944 in a small town ,Wellersburg, in the Appalachian Mountains of Southern Pennsylvania. So I was 6-16 years old during the 50's. Some of my memories are: The one room school house.... grades 1 thru 8 in the same room with one teacher. Eight rows of desks... one grade per row. The first grade had approx. 6-8 students and the eighth grade had 1 or 2 students. The Older students helped teach the younger students. My Dad and Granddad farmed 26 acres during the summer and worked 3 hand dug coal mines during the winter. The mines were dug into the side of the mountain at approx. 10 degrees. We laid narrow guage track and used ponies to pull out the loaded coal cars. The coal seam was 14-15 inches high. You would crawl into the seam dragging a chunk of wood and a wooden wedge . After digging a ton of coal and pushing it out to the cars to be loaded, you would stand the precut chunk of wood on end and drive in the wedge to support the rock ceiling. All work was done with carbide lamps. Baseball was the primary sport played in school. When the weather was warm enough, we combined our 1/2 hour lunch and 2 - 15 minute recesses into a I hour baseball game. Some time in the early 50's we bought a TV with about a 10" round screen. It was the only TV in town , and all the kids came to watch the World Series. We planted corn and oats on the farm to feed the ponies, that were also used to work the farm. We also kept a cow for milk, and a beef and several hogs for butchering. Hunting deer, turkey, grouse, rabbits and squirrel also provided much of our meat. We also had a large garden that provided all our veggies. We kept honey bees and had apple (pressed our own cider), cherry and plum trees for our deserts.. As a young boy, I looked forward to leaving this hard work and went on to West Virginia University were I studied Mechanical Engineering and found my way to Allis Chalmers Hydro turbine Inc. in York Pa. where I worked for 45 years designing and testing Model Hydraulic Turbines for most of the large power plants in the US....Grand Coulee, Hoover, Raccoon Mt., Bonneville,etc. I now realize the years I spent in that one room school, the farm and coal mines were the best years of my life and prepared me for life better then any University. Sorry for the rambling, but you asked for it !

here's my RJ58 custom stainless Brian

Post 'em if you got 'em... some picts of you and your pets celebrating the holidays here.

Tried to get a Sno-Pup video but it is almost impossible. Need 2 hands on the Pup. got a short vid of the C-160 in action. Had to run it at partial choke. didn't realize it until I got done that when I unplugged the battery tender I forgot to plug in the electric fuel pump. It was gravity feeding the whole time

Always been fascinated with things in miniature and seem to manage and learn all things practical with reasonable ease for most of my life. Ended up being a 'Tool Freak' and precision work like Model Engineering. This is my 1" scale 'Still yet to finish Project' - My recent excuse has been The 2 WHs taking up my time and getting the Workshop straight. I have a degree of reluctance to actually paint it due to the array of wonderful coloured metals and finishes, but I will. I also changed the design to improve detail which made more work for myself.. The not-so-good Pics were taken some time ago and some progress made. The Boiler has been Tested and Certificated for 50psi running steam pressure. I just don't learn do I !.

Well, I managed to get some of the sheet metal back on the tractor yesterday, as well as a few decals. I really like the way its turning out. I got the block back yesterday, so I focused on the engine today. The engine went together very nicely, and all clearances are within specs now. Sorry for how dark some of the pics are, but the flash on my camera died. Matt

Am I too late to the party? I know a few of you suggested my 4x4 C-101

Well heck i'll through my 1967 Diesel Lawn Ranger out there for consideration. It has a 7hp Yanmar Diesel electric start engine with custom foot throttle. I added a voltage gauge, hour meter, key start, master battery switch and electronic actuator to shut down the engine. I had to "shoe horn" in a battery under the seat as you can see in the picture. The fender and seat had to be raised up with stand offs to allow enough clearance so the battery terminals wouldn't touch. The belt guard had to be shortened and tilted up to compensate for the different engine location. The hood had to be raised and steering shaft lengthened to accommodate the engine. It took about 6 months to complete and a lot of fabrication. It's a blast to drive and really turns heads at the local shows. I reduced the pulley on the transmission down to a 2" one so it really moves.

http://www.bigrigchromeshop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=BRCS/PROD/MCLALL/TX-TLED-BA Double Bullseye LED - 16 Diodes Quantity in Basket:none Code: TX-TLED-BA Price:$8.66 Choose Your Color: Amber Red Quantity: Double Bullseye LED - 16 Diodes - Available in Amber and Red The flasher is an alternating electronic flasher.....rather pricey

SANTA OWNS A WHEEL HORSE!!!!!!

Here are a couple of videos and photos of our 1st snow of the 2013-2014 winter. Click for video click for video

man o man, you fellas sure have some nice machines. thanks for the pictures along with all your comments. I can see the problem with this hobby all ready. There are just TO MANY nice wheel horse tractors to choose from. Now I know why folks get a few of them. to enjoy them all.

I DID NOT GROW UP IN THE 50'S I GREW UP BEFORE THAT. I WAS BORN IN 1929 AND GREW UP LIVING ON MY GRANDFATHER'S ISLAND. IT WAS ONE AC. IN SIZE AND WE WERE THE ONLY HOUSE THERE. I WENT TO SCHOOL BY BOAT AND THEN WALKED 1 MILE TO SCHOOL. IT WAS ROUGH IN THE WINTER. WE DID NOT HAVE ELECTRIC POWER ON THE ISLAND. I AM STILL OUT ON THE WATER MOST DAYS. I HAVE BEEN FROM MAINE TO FLA. ON THE WATER. I AM 84 AND STILL PLAY WITH MY TRACTORS AND MY GO FAST BOAT. I AM ALSO A HAM RADIO OPERATOR. (W1RGW) I GAVE UP MY MOTORCYCLE LAST YEAR. I GOT MY FIRST CAR (1929 NASH WITH WOODEN SPOKE WHEELS) WHEN I WAS 15 AND IT WAS WAR TIME SO THERE WAS GAS SHORTAGE AND WE ONLY GOT 3 GAL. A WEEK. MY NEXT CAR WAS A 1932 HUDSON. SINCE THEN I HAVE HAD OVER 80 CARS.

back home yesterday & all went well with 7 hr surgery. Doc found a larger aneurysm that was hidden , he fixed that and a hernia as well Sore as hell today . Would like to thank all the prayers & support chasm

Hello all, just a few pictures before the snow falls, which I'm hoping it will be soon aha! I've got a make shift and do plough bracket I made for the cubcadet and I have the real wheel horse plough and bracket for the raider 10... Can't wait to get and do some snow pushin' then once all the snows come and gone the wheel horse will get a wash and a clean and all ready for the show season, and the cubcadet will go back to Orignial colours

Just wanted to share with everyone the new website my daughter made for me today to show off my horses and the ones i have for sale. Shes only 13 years old but shes already better with computers then i will ever be. http://jacksonbrothers3.com Let me know how you think she did... Hope i dont have to pay her.....

Not really a hobby, but when not messing on horses we are usually working at our blueberry farm. My parents own 20 acres of blueberries and it takes most of our time when the snow is not on the ground. We usually harvest Around 200,000 lbs of blueberries each year. We stay very busy in the summer. and this is what we harvest with. These machines are made here in the same town as us, they shake the bushes back and forth, and then the berries fall onto a conveyor belt that runs back to where you see us standing. We usually run the machine with 5 guys, unless it is the final pick when there is not many berries left. We run over everything 3 times with the machine. my dad drives it, I run one side, my brother runs one side....and two other guys each work on each side and grab the containers of berries and stack them on the trailers. The last picture shows part of our farm, tried to attach it the other way, but must of did something wrong. lol

need to check the dimensions on my c160 to see if they are the same, but the battery box on my 1057 uses a group 26 car size battery...... i wrote these battery specs/dimensions in my 1057 build thread, fairly sure they are correct...... Battery CA @ 32 Degrees F : 560 Battery CCA @ 0 Degrees F : 450 Battery Reserve Capacity : 55 i think it was 8.5" l x 6.25"w x 7" h... and here it is after some more 'friendlier' decals........

Is the cat's name Rudolph?

Here's my frame. Fixed up and ready to go! I think this will be just about as strong as new!! Just have to prime and paint the back again :(

Not a big update, done a bit of lathe work on the bushes for the intermediate tensioner. TV in the UK is rubbish on a Saturday night, so I've spent an hour or so on the ipad gluing pics together and making music. Here's another short video - sticking a big lump of metal on the front of a C-101. And then some extreme off roading, I quite like the idea of a wheel horse rock crawler....

Well if I had done it it would look something like this : I think yours looks great !

Ash be it wet or dry, is fit for a king to warm his slippers by.

This might be what you are talking about...

Where did you get the flasher? Napa has those LED lights in the HD line for about the same price. When I worked there we had a "Tin Can' alternating flasher for police and fire headlights. probably discontinued. Might have to do some investigating!

there's this one on the bay. maybe you can get some idea's from it.

Heres a shot of mine. GT14 with 16 hp. It has the independent three point so that means I can operate the loader, use the mid lift grader blade along with a rear back blade.

Wait, there is something called snow, that is supposed to happen in Cleveland? Huh, I never would have know that. It seems white stuff is evading us all together....

A friend of mine gave me this last summer. I will most likely will build a light box and put this In it on display. My friend has sold his dealership and has many tractors and decks, plows, snow blowers for sale. PM or Contact me for details. click on pictures or Link below to see his stuff.

I was thinking the same thing Craig. Yep, lets move on to January.

JDG i fully agree with you and its something that i also tell people. I got this tractor with a tall straight pipe and set one of my homemade mufflers on it. It will get bracing before it runs much.

What we like to refer to as an "isolated incident". If you can't reproduce the error or in this case, the flame...............this is a good thing! When my KT Kohler decided to get a divorce and go single, it was easy to tell it was on a single cylinder when I was checking for loose wires and the one cylinder jug was cool to the touch. Oh and the plug was as fouled and black as one could imagine. Lets hope that you can never reproduce that flame again!

I have my 857 tucked away for the winter. It is my favorite tractor but not one of my workers. I just like to stare at it and mow once or twice a month with it during the season.

Thanks for the compliment. Lol. I hadn't really planned on it. If I can find the right parts so that I don't have to machine anything then then I might consider it. I've found that usually when I have to machine something it really starts to eat into what you can make off a part. I've tried to machine small parts in the past to sell and it really becomes more of a hobby than a profit because of the time involved. Lol.

Thank you Gary,and John. I really appreciate it. You guys are what make this site the best. And stumpkicker if you read this send me a message how to contact me if you want a lift flag. I have an extra one. Everyone has been so helpful to me I want to try to help out someone else. If you send me the shipping cost I can send you the lift flag. It's up to you,let me know. Matt

I don't know about this Big Show leg contest. I think Steve has an unfair advantage. With all the shows he's been to his legs are known nation wide because he's been showing them off... Did you know that if you put your ear up to a person's leg you can hear them say, "What the hell are you doing?"

That's just not fair.

I've done a couple loaders, the first one was on a D160, it ran great but was a little too much around the yard. I later retro fitted that loader to a 520. My son liked it so much, I built him one too! The second one came out better, I was able to pick up a 520 roller with gear reduction steering for the build.

Dave...fun engineer...you are cracking me up. Take that Queenie off the wall and use it...what are you thinking... How you doing Buckaroo??

My Father in law grew up thru the 50's and 60's. He loves to tell the stories from his drag racing days and of just how different things were back in the day. I love too hear his stories. When he was 13 yrs old (early 50's) his father bought a brand new Dodge sedan. My father in law at 13 learned to drive that car the instant they bought it. His father couldn't get a license due to having only one eye and partial blindness in the other due to War injuries. At 13 my father in law drove the family wherever they had to go so long as his Dad was in the car with him. He was never pulled over, try getting away with that these days. From his stories it sounds to me like the simple things back then were a big deal, such as a trip out to get ice cream or a swim in the lake on the weekend. Simple things that most people hardly get excited about these days. He tells me when the new model cars arrived on the dealer lots it was a BIG deal and that a bunch of people would show up just to get a look see as to what was new and exciting. One of my favorite stories is how as a young kid he and his buddies would sneak thru a broken part of the fence of the Danbury Fair (he lives a mile away from where the Fair Grounds was) and ride their bikes around this huge place until old man Leahy would chase them off. In 1961 my father in law bought a brand new Ford Fairlane with every high performance option you could get. He took the car home the day it arrived and proceeded to take it apart to make it go faster. One day a cop shows up in his driveway requesting performance work be done on his squad car and that he would pay for the work out of his pocket. He explained that he asked around about who was the top Ford mechanic and tuner in town and everyone said take it to Joe Walko. Two days later when he picked up the car as he was backing out of my father in laws driveway he had this to say, if I can't catch yer ass the next time you run when I hit the lights for you to pull over I'll be back, and it won't be pretty. Father in Law still has that 61 Ford with only 2,000 miles on it and most of it from flat towing it to the track. It is MINT, he never registered that car. When he did flat tow it to the track, sneak it on the street or take it down to Moe's Shell or to do a few test runs over by where the Danbury Fair once was he would put a rear plate on it that said, "Lil Thunder" It hasn't been out of his garage since 68. (Personally, I'd love to see that car backed out of that garage and it's 427 once again make a Lil Thunder.) I can't imagine a cop showing up at someone's door too find out that the car that outran him when he hit the lights was nestled away in the garage. Instead of busting Joe he requested performance work on his squad car and paid Joe a good penny to boot! I guess something like that only happened in Danbury CT. Back then a big time racing town. Joe isn't in the best of health these days. I can see how his eyes light up when he gets to talking about the good old days. I can tell quite easily it was a lot of fun growing up in the 50's (and the 60's) and when we get to chatting it is like I was there also. I go to his house almost every day, my son's bus lets him off there. I can tell its a good day when the door is open to his garage and the 50's or 60's music is cranked. When the Steve Miller is cranked you know its a real good day. For us guys that weren't around back then its easy to get an idea of what it was like, just ask someone in the family that was there what it was like, they love to go back..

I want to thank all that have shared their stories. I really enjoy the nostalgia, especially today after I went back to the middle school where I teach. The students seemed to have spent their four-day weekend playing video games and texting. They won't have memories like ours. Thank goodness we didn't have "electronics" in our days. We would have been on the computer, probably reading and responding to a forum on garden tractors.

Good to read your stories and recollections of the '50's in the U.S. I won't hijack or detract from the subject of Neil's Thread , only to say that I see so many similarities of situations, morals, principles and values to my memories growing up in those years. Having been born in '52' , I just about made it into this world after the end of Rationing (except for meat products) and so mainly aware of the later '50's. The important thing is to record your memories in some form or other for your children etc. Trust me , they will thank you for it. I value dearly , my memories of time spent with my Maternal Grandparents. More so because my Grandfather spent his later years writing his memoirs. I now have his words (converted to Word Doc) of his life, family, events and experiences from 1895 (he was born in 1891) to 1985 (he died in 1992). I read it very often and take great comfort from it.

I have one. Currently my favorite tractor of all 10 that I own. Going to refresh it's smoking engine over the winter.

Be patient , Lil Tecumseh, and keep your feathers crossed . Maybe tomorrow ,You and Big Bro Kohler can play in the snow.

You can also break up the RED with some pin stripping...my Dad did all his horses and attachments.

Now that looks like a good, fun snow to plow...not like the lousy 1" we are supposed to get tomorrow. Hey...what is this plug for??? Good thing we still have gravity.