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Spoiler Alert !! If you still believe in Santa Claus, you should stop reading now. Many have said that this is the model that "They should have made". It's built from what I consider the best features from several eras. I give you the 595-HD ... The chassis started out as a C-195: The 520 hood was just a LITTLE short to fit the chassis: The 20hp Onan had to be relocated to keep it centered under the hood louvers: The gear reduction steering had to be stretched a bit also: Stock width wheels? Not exactly... 52" Hi-Vac deck converted from a zero turn model: Size comparision vs a stock 520: It's got to be real... The book says so

'Twas the morning after the storm When out in the shed The horses were all stirring Ready to be fed When all of a sudden I heard such a clatter I ran to the shed To see what was the matter As I opened the door To my surprise I did see Li'l Techy anxiously Waiting for me Full choke, quarter throttle And switch on to run The little horse was ready To go have some fun As we cleared the drive way I heard him say MERRY CHRISTMAS to all Have a GREAT DAY

Jeez...and I thought them Ct guys were bad. Now we got these Jersey guys sneaking across the border, rustlin' all our horses too.

This is my dog..i don't have any pictures of him from christmas He is a 7 year old Collie.

this is ludo, our 160lb great dane with my wife from a couple of years ago.

Here's 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.

Hello fellow WH enthusiasts! I have finally decided to refurbish my C 141. Seems like a big project but I want to do a frame off restoration and I'm looking for a good supplier of parts. Looks like everybody here is very good about helping. Looking forward to getting started and being a part of this great forum. I live near Anderson Indiana. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

While plowing yesterday (and again this evening), I heard a "squeek" sound once in a while. When I pulled back into the barn, I jacked up the front end and spun each front wheel to confirm my thought and yep, I was right! Front wheel bearings! I removed each wheel and 1 bearing in each wheel was shot, but not the axle or wheel...lucky me. All the bearings, races and seal still have TIMKEN and NATIONAL numbers on them so I plan on locating repair parts tomorrow! I will try to remember to get photos of the problem and repair tomorrow.

Hey Eldon it's about time you crawled out from under that rock you have been hiding under the last few years Brian

Well, here is a video in the dark. I think the four flashing at the same time is the most visible. The SilverStar 1156 bulbs that I put in the headlights wash out the flashing LEDs just as I thought. My goal was to put them inside the headlight bezel for a clean look. I think that I might try the Blazer C535A for the LED instead. They are visible in the daylight at least. Click for video

Mineral spirits are the very lowest quality thinner you can use {plus several 'types' of mineral spirits exist}. Most types still contain paraffin wax which may have contributed to your adhesion problem. First step to recover your [arts would be to wash the parts in a bath of Dawn dishwash liquid and water. The dishwash liquid will break down the film residue and leave you with a useable surface. Do not sand the parts with this film still present as you will embed the film into the primer coat. Once the parts have been de-waxed and dried properly, scuff the parts again with a new scuff pad (cause you wouldn't use a worn out 400 grit paper - right?). Wash the parts again in the dishwashing liquid bath and dry. Then try any further experiments you wish. Bottom line, stay in the 'family' of paint products you started with. Beyond the wash etch primer, stay with the Acme 1 product line. You went off the reservation by using mineral spirits.

me and my boys

Craig, its like American Express. I never leave home without it!

My other hobby is boats....buying, selling, repairing, and getting my own on the water. The boats I buy typically have problems such as bad motor, rotten transom, soft floor, bad outdrive etc so I get them cheap and have a friend that has been in marine repair his entire life so that helps for parts and repair tips. Pictures are of a few that have been through here in the last year or so, I keep the ones I like the most for myself so currently my boats are the 21ft blue Four Winns cuddy, 18ft offwhite/brown Starcraft and the 26ft red/white Searay I am into these 3 boats for under $2000 total, the Searay is getting parted out in the spring and will be a huge money maker. The yellow Hydrostream was my go fast boat that I had to let go when the kids came along and a 70mph speed boat was not a good idea.

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

since brian is hogging this month all to himself and nobody else is posting up their tractors (and theres quite a lot of very nice customs by members on the forum)............ edit: i see that fireman just got one in before i finished this post....... i will post one of mine...... most of my tractors have small custom fabrication but look basically oem, the one that stands out the most i guess is my 1057, it sort of fits into this category.... not what you would call a full custom or whatever, but it has a few non oem details, first and for most would be the vinyl 'blackouts' on the hood and seat pan. another not readily noticeable custom touch is all the cast iron has been smoothed before being powder coated. and speaking of powder coat, all the paint on this one is powder, everything, which means all of it had to come apart and be painted individually, because theres a lot of parts on these tractors that doesn't like to be heated to 400 degrees f for 30-60 minutes....... heres some pics of my 1057......

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

Here are 3 PDFs. I have included Motion Industries catalog numbers and the size of the bearings in each attachment. If you click on this link, it will bring up Motion Industries web site...type in their catalog number for the bearing or seal that you are looking for. It will give dimensions, a picture and an approximate price. You can also order online. Most of these bearings are also available from your TORO dealer and NAPA. Hope this helps... https://www.motionindustries.com/motion3/jsp/mii/productCatalogSearch.jsp The 1st PDF is the WH # 5003 and 5010 RJ and 3 piece suburban transmissions. The 2nd PDF is the 3 and 4 speeds...WH # 5007, 5025, 5046, 5048, 5049, and 5053 transmissions. The 3rd PDF is the 6 and 8 speeds...WH # 5086, 5073, 5091, 103907, 103916, and 103918 transmissions. 1. UNI DRIVE TRANS 1.pdf 2. UNI DRIVE TRANS 2.pdf 3. UNI DRIVE TRANS 3.pdf Bearings and seals for a #5058 bevel gear transmission. differential carriage bearing (2) WH #1533 From Lowell outer axle bearing (2) WH #1526...KOYO #B-1816 outer axle seals (2) WH #1213...SKF #11050 mushroom gear rh WH#1532...KOYO #M-16121 mushroom gear lh WH#1530....KOYO #B-1612 seal brakeshaft WH#1232.....SKF #9815 cluster gear shaft bearing (2) WH#1529.....KOYO #M-12121 input shaft WH#1508 (1)...KOYO #B-1212 input shaft seal WH#1303....SKF #7410 spline shaft bearing WH#1531...KOYO M-10121 case gasket...#3912 Here ya go...KOYO is the same Torrington numbers. 5/8" input shaft seal 103916 transmission WH # 100442 = Timken 340387 = very similar to original seal. (SKF/CR 6105)

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

Mike started a while back with his flashlight collection - I was kinda hoping everyone would sorta continue with their own other hobby to add to the list. I think it would be fun - so I'll try to get things started with -- my other hobby is building and sailing wooden boats:

Hey everyone. As you know I'm hot and heavy into wheel horses now and many of you have answered many of my questions and helped me TREMENDOUSLY. But I've finally decided to give my horse a paint job and I thought I'd post pictures along the way. Here's the engine cleaned,sanded, prepped and primed. This is the first thing I've done. :)

This month IMO is gonna be the best one yet- custom tractors! Post them up...

I had most of my c195 complete last winter, then spring came. 140 rounds of golf later, it's cold outside and it was time to finish it .this tractor was the worst rust bucket I have ever worked on. refracman helped me with a few parts. also, learning the c175 has the exact same parts really helped. im just going to moth ball this tractor. I just cant see dropping three hundred bucks on rear tires that are not going to be used. here is how she turned out.

Bob, Just saw your question in terms of owning the tractor. We have not discussed this however I will make the executive decision in saying this... It will be will allowed if you have owned the tractor at some point or if you currently own it. If two members enter the same tractor for the same contest then the current owner will be the tie breaker. I sure hope we do not have to cross that bridge. If two or more "past" owners enter the same tractor and not the current owner then it will go to the most recent owner. Looking at Scott's post about TT's creation I feel he did the absolute right thing and gave credit where credit is due even though he now owns the tractor.

Well I know he won't post it up, so I will do the honors for him. I am proud to have this machine in my collection, even though I am not the creator of it. Many kudos goes out to TT for this custom build which has provided much fun and enjoyment to our family. The infamous "Drags-tor" (the black beauty)

Thanks guys ! Sorry for being scarce, but life has been getting in the way lol. Anyhow, figured I'd post this one up also. Any guesses what this one morphs into? It has big fluid filled tires... ,,,and double hydraulics like a C-195, and a foot operated DCL (from Doc) Electric PTO clutch on a Kohler K341 16hp. If you guessed that it's a C-160 HD, you are correct. Complete 520 chassis with gear reduction steering and a complete mid-1970's C-160 body.

Sitting next to it... make's the stock 520 look like an RJ.

I plan on going to Tri State Bearing in Jasper Indiana....I work in Jasper.....maybe even get a discount!

Thank you RMCIII, Craig, and Jake for the encouraging words! Thanks to my amazing wife, I had a new set of shoes show up for the Case today. They are Deestone 23x10.50-12 6ply tires for the rear, and two Firestone 16x6.50-8 Tri Ribs for the front. These are my early Christmas prestent, and I must say she has fantastic taste in tires!

Techy power saves the day.

I originally posted this engine problem on MyTractorForum....and after reading some of the other posts there....y'all come highly reccommended for particular Onan quirks....so here it is.... Been away awhile....but had to jump right back on here to ask another "new guy" question....I did the tune-up on the WH and proceeded to cut about an acre or two....tractor worked and ran great....cleaned it up, put it up and didn't use it for about a month....weather a bit colder at start up, so I wasn't surprised when it took a minute to fire up....ran rough as it warmed up, then smoothed out as the engine came up to temp....fairly smooth....ran it around to the back of the barn to cut about a half acre....grass now dry and light brown....bumped up the throttle on the Onan, engaged the blades, lowered the deck and slid the trans lever forward just a bit....everything still running "smoothly" although the engine seems to have a minor miss to it....went about 30' and had about a 2' fireball shoot out of the muffler....shut it down immediately, opened the cowl, and after letting it cool down checked visually for fuel leak somewhere and smelled for that "excessive raw gas smell"....but nothing....is there something that would cause the fireball....and it was impressive....to come out of the muffler like that?....haven't run her since....looking to mount a fire extinguisher on her now....thanks, Paul

For the strobes I used the Alpena Quad Slimstrobe White kit. It only comes with white LEDs so I used some Tamiya Clear Orange paint for the amber color. The light bezel with black accents was done when I was cleaning the tractor after I bought it. I think it refreshes the front end. The second picture is a video. I'll re-shoot the video tonight when its dark. It might need stronger LED lights as these only have two per fixture. Click for video

Bob...now that is funny...

It feels great to hit that 100,000 views mark doesn't it You have a new subscriber now

Yea yea yea, you post this junk every year, same old same old, yesterday's news. Now is what's relevant, this year, today. You want to take credit for something you weren't even alive to see. It 2013 not 1898. But I guess this is what happens when your team can't cut the mustard, and you don't have the stones to get in and pick em yourself, yet here you are coming in at the end for no other reason than to yank my chain, and draggin with you the same old tired stats you posted the last two years. If you wanna talk stats, talk about recent stats that are relevant to today. Urban Meyer, 24 straight wins in two years, Brady Hoke, 26 wins in three years. Bucks won the last 2 out of 3. Funny, you didn't mention that, or the 29-6 drubbing MSU put on ya this year. And for the record, OSU and MSU are not both my teams. Like I told ya, I only have one. I'm not a ship jumper. What's on YOUR flagpole? . ...

Isn't it cool when you see something like that?

Didn't you mean... the power of is amazing, Lane? Congratulations buddy.

I have found mineral spirits to be goofy. Have you tried wiping for prep with lacquer thinner? Charlie

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 !.

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.

Well, you know what they say? No picts...it didn't happen.

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

Umm...on second thought... I ain't sittin' on Santa Dino's lap for nothin'.

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

Thanks guys...itsi a god thig I cna touhc tyep 4 teh lsat 4 weacks.,,,eye showd be abel to sea god aganai on Firdya...tanks

have a few now, more to come.......