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I usually bring my GT-1600 to shows for tooling around but its way to "new" and gets no looks or respect from the old iron guys. This year I'm going to be on a newly acquired 1054 that I have been tinkering with this spring. I have her running great and it looks ok from 20 feet. I still have to get decals for her to be finished but its usable as is now. I do have the missing headlight lens, just need the O-ring to install it securely. Not totally sold on the stack yet . I also need to decide what to do with the rims, I might deviate from the standard almond color . Mike...........

Wrangled this little round hood filly at Stevebo's first annual Ct meet & greet yesterday... old girl received her first oil bath today...now ain't she something sweet?

Had to rustle another one back across the CT/NY border today.

I made a road trip today for a new toy today. I am not real excited about the tractor that it is on but i am excited about what is hanging off of it. It is a Kwik Way loader with a backhoe. It is on a Yardman 998 tractor made by MTD and is the same tractor as White 1855. It runs well and is actually a nicer tractor than I thought it would be. The backhoe and loader are in decent shape but the loader bucket is pretty bad off. I am playing with the idea of moving it to a 520 that I was putting together for the Ark loader on my C-160. I am a little worried about the size of the 520 vs the yardman. The yardman is physically larger and weighs in at over 900lbs I believe. Here is the required picture.

I heard all the talk about how good these snow blowers do so I went out and picked one up this morning.

No "Salad Dressing" for either of these two. They only way that will happen is if Steve buys the leftover tractor when i'm done. Then he can slather it up all he wants!

Did a little mowing Friday with the 520H. I put new wheels on the deck. Replaced all the bushings in the mower deck frame. New lift rod because the one on the deck was made out of threaded rod and the threads where starting to grind away at the hole. Sharpened the deck blades and shot some grease into the spindles and away I went for the first mow of the season. Everything worked great. I cant wait to finish my yard and tear down some of those big ugly , straggly burning bushes in the photos. A lot of clean up and prunning to take care of from the original owners. Kyle

I bathed her with some fresh new oil today.

thats great you got it going, Duke. sounds good, I'm happy it runs for you....... I'm seeing Brian popping up all over the place in Michigan and Indiana this weekend. i should have made the trip out yesterday.......

You'll love it, they chuck snow like crazy. One thing I noticed is that the side wings are mounted backwards on yours, undo 6 bolts and you can have em on right. Mike...........

A Kohler Magnum fits in real nice where the Briggs used to be! My GT-1600 has a Mag 10. Mike...........

This is what I used. Bought it from HF. Got the idea from another member and it worked nice. I can't even remember what this tools real purpose is. All I did was Just soaked the pin good and let sit over night, put my impact wrench on this tool and let it do the work, Took maybe five minutes to push it out .

thing is, its not really the wheel horses fault. i guess you could blame all the previous owners the tractor has had. the problem with the whole pin area is you have bare metal that water is allowed to get to (the gasket for the trans doesn't go all the way between those ears that the pin goes through) and slowly over time it gets stuck real good in there from corrosion etc..... its just one of those things that lack of removal and/or preventative maintenance (putting some anti seize or oil on the pin) will cause over time. even if you take a whole day to get the pin out, it probably took decades to get that way......

I would say it depends if you water your lawn or not. I irrigate a little over an acre, and put about 40-50 hours a mowing season with a 60" deck. My neighbor doesn't irrigate, and he puts on about 5 hours a mowing season (cutting his weeds).

Our community had their annual garage and yard sales event on Saturday. I had a pile of stuff I needed to get rid of. Old Laptops, geek stuff, hunting/fishing crap I never used, etc. It was mostly "man things" so to get the guys up my long driveway, I moved all the horses out in front of the driveway facing the road then put the tables of my "stuff" in front of them. Wow! What a magnet! Sold most of my stuff and had a good 4 out of 10 ask me what I wanted for the tractors. In particular, the one with the loader on it! Everything had a price tag except the tractors. When people asked if they were for sale I said not really but...........I told everyone that there is a price for everything in this world and when I told them the price I wanted for any of them, they would either laugh, shake their heads or tell me everything they saw wrong with one. Again, I told them they really weren't for sale but I think I may have pissed a few guys off. In any event, they did what I wanted them to do. (4 grand for the 520 with the loader or all 5 tractors with all the implements I have for a 2009 to 2011 Chevy Silverado 4x4 Crew cab diesel). Hey! You never know!

Nice haul, if I owned that setup I would be digging holes all over my yard.

You've heard of Lawn Furniture? Craig takes it to another level!

Fireman took some time to get the engine running right and we also did a little wet sanding and buffing today at the meet and greet. I think Craig may have some video of this just to confirm that I don;t just spread salad dressing on my tractors...

I've been a member for a year but took in a lot of info and getting to know my "new to me" old 86' 312 Wheel horse. She's got new lug tires and new paint for this year. Looking to get a plow setup for next winter. Make this baby a year round work horse. Flushed the transmission a few weeks ago thanks to this forum and fixed and electrical problem just today. Lots of great info and a great group here. Thank you! Tapatalking from my galaxy

A friend asked me about doing a custom tractor for his daughter. She came up with the idea of a fish tank tractor and this may be a custom that hasn't been done to a Wheel Horse before. It started out as a beat up Lawn Ranger but now has a C hood to completely cover the tank. Runs with a starter generator motor to keep down vibration. You can kind of see the horizontal tube inside the tank which a strong LED light shines through. Mirrors on both ends really reflect the light and it's even visible in the daylight. Air bubbles use a 110v pump powered using a small inverter. Clutch pedal will loosen the belt like normal operation and when pushed all the way, it will shut off the motor. Didn't get any pics of the top of the tank but it's rigged so the water will not splash out but also allows access to the inside. I don't know how long it will drive using the large capacity deep cycle battery but I'm sure she'll find out tonight after they get home. They plan to have it at the Zagray show in CT next weekend, complete with the tank decorated and live fish. Here's a couple pics of the Wheel Horse Sea-01 and the new owner.

Hello all, I am new here and today I bought my 1st Wheel Horse, a 1990 312 Hydro in fair condition, 42 " deck and snow plow, new rear tires, a friend of wanted to sell and I think I got a good deal, $500.00. He owned it since 1991 and has always had it serviced at the dealership, starts great and runs strong, a little over a 1000hrs on it, with a lot of TLC this summer, I will have it looking almost like new, I hope. I will post some pics as soon as I can figure out how to resize them.

good too see the old girl chugging away Duke And thanks again too you and MJ for the hospitality Jo and I really enjoyed our selves and dinner was fantastic Brian

Sounds great!

Had a graet time .Thanks Gene and Richard for the hard work putting this all together.Sold some stuff but bought some also.The bus seemed to be just as full if not fuller on the way home,must have loaded it differently.Got off easy only bought one tractor,and traded for a welder,and bought a few misc. small parts.Lane did you take any pics?

:)Excellent video Bob...always nice to have good help.

Aim for the street lights with it! That's what I did with mine hooked to Marvin!

Nice find Rex....It looks like it was hardly used.

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Spinner hubcaps work for me! Also, love the stack.

Just went through the same ordeal myself last week on the 857. Then on top of that, I busted a hub. That was another 2 hour job to cut and chisel that off.

Nice!

Nice score there Jack. you are right, that workhorse looks like a straight one there.......

When you're done Martin, I'd sure like to borrow that magic carpet. ........ Awesome work!

i thought i would settle the black paint on the hood decision this morning. i compared the semi gloss black sample with the gloss that is on the hood and the powder black of the blower housing. I'm staying with the hood the way it is. don't want the hood to flatter than the engine tins! i really hate rattle can paint though, I'm just too impatient to deal with the drying times. i want to work on parts the same day i paint them if i have the time, watching paint dry might be fun for Stevasaurus, but not me.......

Nice set-up, never owned a Yardman, but I would if it came like that.

Too many 's keeps the in/out laws away. Hey, everybody knows...no vacancies here.

now if we could just buy an after market carb for an onan at a good price........................... eric j

The 606 has the 5053 model transmission. I believe that same trans. is found in the mid sixties lawn rangers and short frames such as a 656, 856,857 and some others. Maybe you just need to do a rebuild....I've done that myself and if I can do it, then almost anybody can do it.

Really no one said it yet - Is she going to fill it with sea horses? Maybe a horseshoe crab or two. Anyone else. And it was built by a wallfish. Nice job sir.

I had a fantastic time, I think I found everything that I needed and couldn't live without saw some I want but don't need talked to a lot of old friends and made some more new ones. Had a good trip home, put the copilot Sharon in charge before I started to take a nap 1 eye at a time while driving.

I agree....Most here like garden tractors and the V7 is a lawn tractor....as well as others we have seen. It all depends what what a person wants to do with their machine. That is why so many different machines were made in the first place. To each his own...Some like black hoods, others don't....same deal! It isn't that others don't like them or want them....they just don't fit into their need or use.

Thanks for the replies! I checked out the Garage journal site and all I can say is wow! I've looked into a few options and I'm Still leaning towards epoxy. Sherwin Williams seems to be the way to go. Easily available and time tested. There seem to be several smaller companies online who claim to have this or that over everyone else. Well S&W has been around for a long time. Should I need more product I doubt Ill have any problems finding more several years down the road. I'm happy I looked into this now. I hadn't given much thought to cure time. Guess i was a little ahead of myself again. We're pouring the slab next week. Ill plan on painting the floor in September. Until then NO oils or other chemicals allowed in daddy's man cave!

My issue with mats was twofold. One, water would get trapped underneath it. And two, I live on a dirt road and it would constantly be full of dirt. it's much easier just to sweep the dirt up off my epoxy floor then mop it. You do however need a special mop. Cotton mops tear apart. I think what I have is a mop made of microfiber. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2

Wow, after reading that, if I ever decide to epoxy my garage floor, having a pro do it sound like the way to go. Just to go off on a tangent for a moment, now that I have retired, I do some handyman work at a retirement community a couple of miles from here. One of my customers, an 83 year old widow, drives a 2009 Jaguar XF. Her garage floor is painted with epoxy, plus she has carpet on top of it. When I ask her why she had carpet on her nice garage floor, I thought she would say that she didn't want to mess up the painted floor, but she replied, "sometimes I drive barefoot and when I get out of the car I don't want my feet to get cold".

If you want to learn all there is to know about epoxy floors and floor coatings go to www.garagejournal.com Go to The Forums at the top of the page. Scroll down and go the Flooring section. All you need to know is there. There is a lot of information, mostly good from DIY and the professionals. If it doesn't allow you to see the pictures or all the posts all you need to do is join the site, no charge and it will give you full access. I had Epoxy-Coat installed by Performance Floor Coating Systems, INC Cost was about $3.25 a square foot. I could have bought the product and saved about half but I figured my time was worth something and considered that I would have to eat up a weeks worth of vacation to do the job. After watching the two guys do the work I'm very glad I paid to have it done. (My wife didn't want me doing this on my own either Smart lady) They arrived about 4 in the afternoon, had it ground and first coat (primer coat) on by 9pm. Went to town to get a room and dinner, returned around 11pm and finished the second coat about 1am. Returned the next morning around 10 and put on the clear coat with anti skid. I was walking on it the next day and put things back in the garage a week later. This would have taken me about 4-5 days if I was lucky and I wouldn't had done half as good a job. This is not like painting walls where you spread the paint thin. No you squeegee it on think and roll and back roll it. Not saying that a DIY cant do it. It just takes a lot of planning and more knowledge about the process than most people have. You'll find a lot of information on cleaning, grinding, rolling, back rolling etc on garagejournal. Epoxy-Coat is located in Michigan but has installers all over the US. They do a lot of work for the Federal Govt and NASA. Their installer traveled over 250 miles to do the work. No extra charge. I had a base color of beige with the beige chip blend. Clear on top of that with an anti slip added in the clear top coat. The anti slip is a must if your going with epoxy. It's the slipperiest floor out there. If you want more information email Epoxy-Coat. They have a banner add on garagejournal.com The gal that monitors garagejournal.com for them is Christine. She's very knowledgeable and will help you out. If you want to see my thread on my floor search for burleyfarm. Here is the title of the thread Epoxy Coat Installation by Performance Floor Coating Systems. I don't have a basement either and the garage is where we spend a lot of our time. I'm with the tractors and I built my wife a small studio for her silver smithing and jewelry making. I use a propane fired radiant tube heater for heat and supplement her studio with electric baseboard heat. Unless you do welding or very heavy metal fabrication the epoxy is the way to go. I have been doing all my welding outside. I just built a pole barn for the heavy metal work, welding and painting. Otherwise the epoxy would get all messed up. So it does have its drawbacks but nothing that you can't find a way around. Good luck with your project. If you have any questions pm me.

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And out of the magic shed comes the D-8!!! OPPS!! LOOK OUT FOR THE WORKHORSE!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! What do you mean that downspout is flat! Don't you know you're supposed to wear a hard hat when operating "Heavy Equipment" ! Where is it??? Awesome tractor!!