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An artist friend of mine dropped by to give me a gift. In addition to regular art he likes to do unusual things also so he did a caveman drawing for me. My wife also had him do a brick for me. His bricks have been features in numerous publications and most recently ESPN had him do some for a piece on UConn basketball.

Humm...mine has kept me paying since we met.

I think I found a 1054 but hood is missing. The tag is below...

Saturday was a 70 degree day here in Richmond, figured it was time to stretch the 416's legs. It has been a extremely wet winter, and my driveway has taken a beating so I put the grader blade to use. Hard to believe we will have couple inches of snow on the ground tomorrow!

Have to back up Robs thank you to everyone. As a footnote would like to add we didnt get the 10 / 12 inches the weatherman predicted, so I am going out to mop the 2 1/2 to 3 we got. Like was said. Spring,,,,right around the corner. Glenn

He called a half hour ago and "I will be out front at your place in two minutes. Get your coat on and come outside." I said I will be there. I go outside and what do I see a newly gathered RJ! He got a K91 motor with it (but not on the tractor) ,. A little rough but $300 and he is on to another restore project. A gave him a points cover and a recoil cup to help him on his way!

BIG, BIG - THANK -YOU ALL for helping make this thread so lively throughout the snow season..... I have truly enjoyed watching the videos and seeing the pictures.....We truly went through a winter to remember.. . I am sure anyone who has been dealing with the white stuff since October is ready for the white stuff to be gone.... ! Here in Cleveland we escaped the 5" everyone else got around us. I'm no weatherman, but I am sure we are through the worst of it and brighter days are just around the corner...Remember the other thread I started "Spring To/Do List".... Post the videos and photos once you have completed your list....Will be fun to see the transformation for those of us who use the same GT.....Everyone else who has the room for more than 1 tractor, hats off to you..... Again, thank you all for making this such a lively thread this winter....

I had the tractors outside today so I could do a little shop cleaning so I figured why not take a few pics. First up are the round hoods, my customized 61 Suburban. Next down the line up is my sons customized 60 Suburban with an electric start 8hp Kohler under the hood followed by my mostly original 58 RJ and my sons 854. The last pic is of the main workers, my 417 and 657.

The pickup truck in the photos looks like a diecast and most of those are 1/18 scale which is too big but there are plenty of potential 1/25 pickups out there. I've already built a 1934 Ford pickup but I checked and the bed is too small. Obviously, the coolest way to go would be a Studebaker truck but there aren't any kits available. The idea about tires from farm toys is interesting. I'll have to look around and see what the possibilities are. One problem is that farm tractor tires and garden tractor tires seldom have the same proportions. I made a little display base for my Horse today. It's just a display case from Hobby Lobby that's intended for softballs and hockey pucks with some model railroad landscape items added. It has a clear top so the model can be protected from dust while it's on display.

I've been reading this topic and really it's all about what you want and what you are willing to pay. It's kinda like buying a car or truck. We can always find a way to justify what we want. I've had both Toro's, 2 stage and now the single. Granted the two stage was driven by a Kohler 16 and not the 20 HP Onan. Otherwise my tractor was done out to 520 dimensions. This winter I have logged over 40 hours with my tractor using the plow and now the single stage. I much prefer the single stage. Like Rob has said once the single has a decent amount of snow in front of it, look out, it will really go to work. More than once this winter I have taken on a full driveway with snow above the top of the thrower. I don't care if I throw snow 30 feet or 40 feet. I only need to throw it about 15-20 feet. With the right wind there is never an issue and with the wrong wind sometimes you have to move it twice anyhow regardless of what you have. The 2 stage is 380 lb. stuck out front of a tractor that does not weigh much more than that. It's harder to maneuver and hangs up more easily. Put your front wheels over a 2" drop and see what happens when conditions aren't good. The 2 stage takes up a lot more storage space, it's difficult to install and requires more horsepower to operate using more fuel. We live in a snow belt and have been hit pretty hard this winter too. Here they are saying this has been the worst winter in 30 years. I've had no problem keeping my 300 foot driveway, double and triple wide in some places clear with the single stage. When it comes to the road where the plow has gone by, that's no issue either. Now I can't now go waltzing across virgin snow this time of year blowing a path somewhere and I doubt you could with a 520 and a 2 stage given the powder under the ice and the various layers that have accumulated but even if you could do that my guess is you would not be too long before you break something. When you're into a hard chew there is a lot of flex in the front auger and gear box on the 2 stage. I used to wonder why there was no centre brace to the front gear box. Either one of them will break and the auger chain needs more frequent lube on the single stage but repairs to the 2 stage will be a lot more expensive and not as easy to work on. There will also be a shorter parts support from Toro considering they stopped building the 2 stage in 2001 or thereabouts. In my humble opinion the Toro 2 stage in some ways was actually too big for the tractor.

Hello! I joined this forum pretty recently and I'm probably not the typical forum visitor. I build scale models - usually 1/25 cars - and I've been working on an Electro 12 model. BTW, many of the model cars that I build are my favorite car and another South Bend native - Studebakers. I found this site while searching online for reference photos and manuals. It's a great place with a lot of excellent resources. Reminds me a lot of the Studebaker Drivers Club forum where the members have always been very supportive of my model building. Makes me want to have a real Wheel Horse (and a Studebaker). Anyway, this is where it all started: Probably not many people are more interested in the Wheel Horse than they are in the Indy Car but I'm building the tractor and may never build the car. The tractor in the kit appears to be Charger but after looking over this forum for a while I decided to convert it to the Charger's cousin - a 1969 Electro 12. I had already built the engine as it came in the box but I realized it wasn't correct for this tractor. This is what the first build-up looked like: So I stripped the paint off and did a conversion: The next order of business was building a mower deck since the kit didn't have one and what good is a Wheel Horse without it! I downloaded the manual for a 5-1422 (Thank you, Forum!) and started scratchbuilding. This has been a lot of fun! Here are a few shots from the build-up and the finished mower: The paint is Duplicolor Bright Red which is a GM color. I bought some IH Red at Tractor Supply but didn't really like the drying properties of the paint. The GM Red matches it very well and in fact I brushed on a little of the IH color as touch-up paint in a few spots and can't see the difference. Duplicolor is my preferred paint. It dries fast and hard. There's certainly more to come. I hope you enjoy. Most of the other major components are under construction right now and will be ready to post soon.

I purchased my 516H 3 weeks ago off craigslist. I traveled an hour and a half to find a dirty, but well running tractor with no attachments. The seller informed me of a snowblower at a hardware store half an hour south on the coast that had been sitting in a field for over a year. I bought the tractor for $450 and went to the hardware store to see about the snowblower. The seller of the tractor told me he had talked to them and they would sell it for $200. At the hardware store they screwed around with me a bit on the price. They told me $300 was their last offer. As I was getting into my vehicle to leave with the 416 on the back they came running out and told me I could have it for $200. I dragged it quite a ways through the field, with over a foot of snow, but it was worth it. I ended up with a hardly used tall chute snowblower. A little over an hour later I was home and started to clean it up to see what I had. I mounted the snowblower in preparation of a storm that was approaching. I had a great Toro snowblower that I bought brand new 2 years ago that I had recently given to my mother for her house so I needed to get this thing going in order to get out of my driveway (which is 200' long). Well I soon found out that the hydro was weak, missing the reservoir, and needed fluid. I was able to take care of the storm, barely. Dennis from this board sent me a message and I ended up buying a rolling 520H chassis from him a week later (much thanks). That night I completed the Eaton 1100 swap. What a difference, night and day. Here is a photo of the tractor as of this evening, tires are from the rolling chassis, sheet metal slowly being painted. Hood is next, then blower. My wife thinks I am nuts. My daughter on the other hand is right there with my insanity. My 252H will be sent to my mothers house for lawn mowing duty. Happy as heck to have a real tractor for once.

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Turn it into dessert. Make a few Oyster pies. Hot from the oven. Invite the Boys and families. ENJOY !

@ Jeff- Feel free to stop by and lend a hand since you have no more projects... lol. @Martin- The tractor has no rot whatsoever. I will take my time finding a nice patina hood for it.

Come on! Suck it up and pull the transmission and remove that tank and do it right!

Ahhh...here is the perfect application for a nut roaster.

A good dealer will take the time to look, then scare you, new are about $150-200 depending on the muffler, good used run $50 up

Thanks guys- I picked up the tractor today and got it pushed into the barn so I could start to work on it. Fired up the wood stove to take the chill off. Pulled the carb bowl off and it looked nice and clean however the fuel tank is a much different story !! It has old gas and lots of junk/rust inside. I pulled off the sediment bowl. Since getting the tank off these are a project that I am not interested in doing I will push it out of the barn and run the garden hose through the tank with some cleaner to get as much of the junk out of it as I can. I have to wait until a day that is above freezing to do it tho. I changed out the battery and installed a new ground cable. Had to solder a new terminal on the end of the hot lead to the battery too. I think this one will be a nice addition to the fleet. @Lane- I will send you a PM on the hood. @Kelly- It has a fan gear

Im totally and completely lost here Bill. You say it starts and runs for an few seconds and shuts off. Then you say it keeps running if you hold the key on. You shouldn't be holding the key for a few seconds after its running. So is the starter engaged while its running? Then you leave the key go and the starter it disengages and it shuts off? Or does the starter engage and the tractor starts and runs and then shuts off after a few seconds but if you hold the key on the starter is disengaged but the engine remains running? Are you 100% positive you wired it correctly? Depending on your answers the the previous questions it sounds like it wired wrong. I may be wrong but you have a 20 year journeyman electrician lost …..Feel like I'm here but what you're saying makes no sense. It works, it doesn't work, it runs…no wait now it shuts off….. Please help us, so we can help you. These tractors are not rocket science…. There's basically 4 wires that do everything including lights….Step back regain your composure and look at things again with a fresh head. You sound very frustrated and you can't do anything correctly like that

Keep the 's a safe distance from that thing. It may be red, but it ain't red friendly.

Why are you posting in the Euro Other Brands Section??? Anyway...I take it the set screw is even with the trans case and the shifter is in the hole??? This is not good at all!!! I hope you are sitting down, Those set screws are hardened steel. You may have to drop the trans to be able to get a carbide drill bit in line so as to be able to drill it out. If you can get a carbide, reverse drill...it may just back out for you. A carbide bit in a Dremmel tool may cut a slot that you can use a small screwdriver to get it. Here is another thought...buy a lotto ticket if this works. If the shifter is where it is supposed to be...and works...then just use it the way it is. The screw may just back out enough to be able to grab a hold of it as you use the horse. You will know because the shifter will get sloppy again. That screw will go all the way through the other side of the hole also...if you can grab the point end. Good luck man...let us know.

Probably make her pay too, - I figured I'd say it before Steve does. A packer fan who lives that close to Rochester.. my birth place..

I JUST FIGURED IT OUT .the safety wire to the pedal was not hooked up right geeees all this for one wire

With a 8053 build date it should be a 1978 model 87-05DC01. Garry

Speaking from experience…dont waste your time taping over decals. nothing make new paint look like poo struck with a club than old decals…..Your paint will be nice and they will look like a stiff…..well lets just say they'll look horrible. Go to redoyourhorse.com and get a set of stickers. They are well worth the 100 bucks and will make her look like she deserves…..

So long as the NOS was not exposed to the elements, they would be good-to-go. In any case, they'd be fa-rand-away better than some off-the-wall after market belt.

my 520 and 416 all have rivets. I carefully drilled out the 416's and replace them with Suberbright LED's. http://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/truck-marker/m9-series-marker-lamp/580/ I added a rubber grommet and used nut/bolt/washer to secure. these had a separate bare ground wire, so I just used ring end and used a star washer to ground it to the fender. there are a couple of old posts detailing this from multiple folks. looking at the parts manual, it shows pop rivets and nuts and bolts! I'm gonna upgrade the Work Horse to the LED tail lights since all it has is reflectors.

I can say the loader will fit, IF you have the correct subframe, but it will NOT fit with the D subframe, but if the deal is right buy it.

For sale down the road from my house. I had never seen one before. Pretty cool.

nice barn

Steve, you may want to check the starter/generator to see if it still has a readable I.D.tag. I started a topic on the Delco Remy I D tag date code. The last four digits on the little oval tag are year month & day of the build date (in code) assuming the tag is original to the tractor if the first digit is 5 it would be my guess that the model was a 1054A, however; this does not necessarily indicate that if the first digit is a 4 that it is not a 1054A. Mark.

Mike- the motor is a 10hp and the thing that I notice is different from my 953 is the thickness of the rear fenders.... My 953 seems like it has thicker metal than this one. Going to pick it up tomorrow. Comes with a black canvas cab company cab, plow, snowblower and the mowing deck on it.

Finally getting a chance to update our last meeting which was held Thursday night. It was a huge step in us moving forward as we are now able to use the new building. The building is not hard wired but we are able to run an extension cord temporarily so we have light and can run a portable heater. The kids were excited to finally be back in business. We focused on getting the engine torn down and we will focus on getting it prepped for some new paint. We also tore down another 12 horse that had a broken rod. The kids worked with dad and learned how important it is to do routine maintenance. Here is some photos of the club in the new building and back in action....... Of course a little more of everyone's favorite activity........sanding! Still working with the sandblasted and hoping to have the kids apply the powder to the tractor soon so reassembly can commence. Thanks for following our journey!

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Sorry i have been a bit slow on the updates i have only mated to get work done on very few occasions as school work is important so here we go a big (isn) update on what has happened so far... I have installed the new gauges (oil pressure, volts and tacho gauge) all with complete illumination. (if you want to know where i got the gauges from send me a PM and ill send you a link I have painted the flywheel silver because it was rusty and dint loo very nice through the cover so the silver works well against the matte black. I have finished painting the bonnet and installed the grille that i cut out a hole for. (pain is mini chilli red, i know it isn't original but it seems a good match) comes from Halfords. Still plenty of work to do though.

Here is all I can tell you without actually seeing the tractor and fixing it for you. The picture below is how current flows when the key is in the OFF position. When the key is in the ON/RUN position, the current flow is as shown below When you turn the key to START, the current flow to the starter solenoid is as shown below in green When you release the key from start, the current flow returns to the ON/RUN position, and the starter stops running. If it does otherwise, you have either the wrong switch, a bad switch, sticking solenoid, or you have it wired incorrectly. Since the tractor will start and run, the assumption is that the seat switch, pto, and clutch switches are all working correctly or have be bypassed. EDIT: I'm withdrawing the solenoid statement because if it were to be sticking, the starter would be running even with the key off.

I missed the question about the roundhood outside! Sorry! Well it was answered for you. I never knew the stump to be signed by Cecil. It should be a great sale if the inventory makes it to the auction date. Anyway, that whole area around Mansfield and Wellsboro is worth the visit. There is a tremendous amount of Fracking going on in this region so the state forestry roads can be a bit dicey with large trucks on them. (I'll hold my tongue on this subject). You'll notice larger trucks than there ever were on Route 15 and 6 but the charm and settings of these two towns and the Pennsylvania Wilds around them are worth the visit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukZgfHZIoc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraQ00qbZ94

just got these today Koen

I'm in total agreement with what you have said here Jeff. I had to put up a quote because what you have written is definetly worth another read from everybody here, and more especially from the younger members who don't know or remember how good American manufacturing was in it's Heyday. Thank you for adding in that Massey Ferguson is owned by AGCO. I was not 100% sure of that as I was making my earlier post which is why I did not mention that fact. This is one of the reasons I did not purchase a MF. The new Massey Fergusons are not made by Massey Ferguson any more. Plus I did not want to put my money down on a new full sized tractor with a Chinese engine in it. Thats just not me. Also to Bill. Thank you for adding to this thread with your information regarding AGCO and Fiat.

Yes it's Indian alright but at the same time it's an updated International tractor. Also too it's American as it has an EATON transmission and rear end. Mahindra was building for International in the 1960's, and this particular model came forward from that time. It is one tough Son of a Gun! The three point lift is unbelieveably strong. I have taken this tractor with the blade you see on it and lifted the rear of a Chevy C10 cargo van loaded down with scrap metal, and pushed the whole van (with four flat tires) uphill and onto a dovetail equipment trailer so we could take the van to the scrap metal yard. Really I was going to buy a new John Deere or Massey Ferguson, but the John Deere's are too narrow and the bodywork is plastic. They are not made in America. The Mahindra is all steel. The Massey Ferguson's are not made in America either, so whats a Wheel Horse guy to do??? I have a friend from India who is a Mechanical Engineer and is very familiar with the Mahindra operation. He told me this series of Mahindra tractors were designed to run for 75 years. This is why I refer to it as my Mahindra Horse; It's Red, It's Heavy, It has an American Transmission and rearend, it's all steel, and it's designed to run for 75 years. That my friends is about as close to being a Wheel Horse as you will ever get

:twocents-02cents: This is a couple pictures of the 520H. Haven't had squat for snow this season. I ran it yesterday for only the second time, both times maybe 2" on the ground.