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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...

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.

Sounds good.

I fought and fought a similar issue bypassed all switches and if I moved the ignition switch back and forth a bunch it would finally fire up changed ignition switch did all other that I could think and finally pulled out these wires that rubbed against the steering shaft on the backside where I could not see them. No more issues for me...hope you find yours soon, as I have very little hair left after this one.

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

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

Looks good Mike. It's about time you went more "Old School"

From yesterday :

HEE! HEE! Under the "Cloak Of Darkness" ! Only " The Shadow " knows!!! Truck's empty I assume all went well!

Nice buy, and very nice green grass growing, we are still waiting....... it is starting to change right now, but with cold temps it is not very promising.

After you finally get it out, there are several things you can do to prevent this from happening in the future. I recall a thread where another member drilled and tapped a hole, and put in a Zerk grease filling. Or do as I do and coat the new pin with Never-seez.

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

Easy there pardner'..... ya don't want a Horse to kick back, to ya. Keep your patience and long, and your temperence well oiled. I use Michelob for the latter.

Apple is the best I think. More simple for me. Don't lock up/crash.

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.

alright Craig...... where do you put all these tractors? do you have other storage? all i ever see is that small shed and even though I've heard on here that its magic and all, but whats your secret?

I took a short trip up to Chambersburg, PA for the annual CVAEMA show where Wheel Horse was the featured Garden Tractor. Beautiful day and a lot of nice machines.

What... you don't feel like you've been impacted?

Frank - I'm going to get this expounged. I have to wait 1yr. beofre I can file though. What a wonderful system we have....... To make matterss worse, here is a quote, directly form the judges bio page. “I ran for judge in protest,†noted Judge Adrine, “after experiencing how poorly many people were treated in the court system. Over time, I’ve come to appreciate how great the entire court’s impact is on the lives of the people it serves.†Really?????

So Craig, how's that addition to the house coming? Now, that seat back can be redone.

No pictures from me...I am so sorry guys. I did see Marvin though...and it was looking really good. It was parked between the satellites, so everybody got to check it out. Seriously, it was a fantastic swap meet and it was so great to walk around and shoot the breeze with everyone. I was like Squonk walking back and forth to the truck. A special thinks to Shorts and his wife (Sharon), Buckrancher and Jo, Racinfool40 (Mike), a special thanks to Funengineer (Dave), Scott Wheelhorse and his dad Dave, Jake and Doug Kuhn. What a great day...I hope lane got some pics.

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

If kids kept my weeds down I can guarantee you one thing, they weren't my kids.

I'm being followed by a martian invasion

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Great Idea I like yer Style! May hafta build one myself! ~Duke

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!!

Thanks duke!

If it's just for looking around, the iPad is fine, but being interactive I find it cumbersome to use. For me it's not going to replace my Macbook!