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Doesn't it just frost you when you see all these posts about how excited everyone is about going to the show? Well this is another year of that right? Everyone's going but me.... So you going to do what you did last year? Yeah you remember, you came here, right here to waiting anxiously for....... pictures... Yep the generous guys who take the pictures. When those first pictures start to roll in, how do ya feel? Well a little better right, but still wishing there was more so you wait for the next one and the next one..... This year in conjunction with Terry from ReDoYourHorse.com will be streaming LIVE from the show! There will be at least one web cam established at the show which will be broadcasting live right here on RedSquare the show. Miss the parade? Not this year, we'll be streaming it live to you! Now don't get too excited, this is a first time trial effort, and we'll certainly do our best to get your show urges satisfied, but it will be the first time that the WHCC show is brought to you live!

I was re-arranging some tractors today, so I decided to take a family pic. Well I had to leave 7 out of the family portrait due to yard space and their current status. Enjoy!

Made a really nice find today, so I took a little ride and picked up a few new horses.

I finaly got a disc harrow, it was really rusty because it had been in the forrest for years.. covered whit some steel/roof plate's so ill just had to restore it so i can have it behind my suburban for show's etc.. so im prolly not going to put it in the dirt.. so here are a few pict of it.. Time to pull it apart to start clean it up and then i E tanked it and sanblasted it.. and primed the disc on it disc is getting the final paint and here are the other stuff primed and ready for red paint!! And finaly a few pict of how it is now whit new paint and stickers. hope you guys enjoy it!!

You don't. Once I get the tire mounted, I hold the rubber part of the stem with a small pair of vice-grips, then remove the tool, and inflate. Once inflated, the vice-grips are removed and you are good to go.

Yes the good old stove bolt motor and the 2 spd "Glide with the whine" My family all had Chevy's with the whine when I was little. I thought all cars were supposed to sound like that. I had a 67 Corvair about 25 yrs. ago and brought the whine back!

That is why we have more than 1 Wheel Horse....1 for each attachment!

My son in law's Mother just dropped this off at the house for me. Her husband's Father recently passed away and this brochure was found in his files.

This holds the valve in place while you install the tire. Remove this tool and HOLD the valve stem with 1 hand and air it up with the other hand!

I think this is very cool, but I am concerned that I will look fat on TV. I hope you guys at home just love listening to Kohler engines run all day...there is a ton of background noise with all of the people riding around.

Ian, once again, you are on the "Cutting Edge of Technology". Very cool!!

I contacted the fairgrounds, there is NO internet service. Of all the major cellular providers Verizon has the best service there. Terry purchased a Verizon Jetpack and RedSquare donated a bunch of data for the plan. I intend to bring my MacBook Pro secure it to a tractor in the RS area and stream via the built-in camera and mic. So that's the plan. Will it be broadcast quality like the olympics? Nope, but it's the best that we can do. The Jetpack is a wi-fi hub BUT it shouldn't be opened to everyone. With hundreds of internet capable devices at the show, the data would be consumed in a heartbeat. I still need to talk with Terry exactly how we'll coordinate everything, but this is the high level plan. This is NOT intended to replace the pictures or other video's which everyone will take and post, but to give a live view of the show. Best quality? Probably not, but it should be leaps and bounds above previous show live feeds!

Welcome to the forum. I second, third, fourth.....etc., everyone who suggested doing a thorough cleaning. Do replace all the belts. In fact, go through the entire machine and address all maintenance items. Make sure all fluids are clean and full, tranny filter changed, grease fittings greased, pivot points and linkages oiled, etc. Pulled the blower sheet metal from the engine, and blow out the cooling fins, make sure air can move freely across the cylinder. Take the seat and fender pan off, and clean the tranny top to bottom, and underneath. You may even want to remove the rear wheels for access. When the wheels and seat/fender is off, there isn't any part of the tranny not easily visible. Once clean, the leak will be obvious.

So I know what some of you are thinking... Yeah... BIG DEAL, I'm working no way I can watch anyway.... Well... part of the inspiration comes from Ian. Now, Ian is an interesting chap. He seems all rough and mechanical (and he really is a master crafter) but this guy is incredibly brilliant with video (and everything he touches), and if you haven't seen them, you are missing something. So anyway, Ian was messing around with YouTube and live streaming with the added effect that the video is retained for later viewing. So work... rubbish, watch when you come home, fast forward like Tivo, but most of all enjoy like you're there! I really hope that this works well, other wise I got some explaining to do!

Yep, we lost a lot. Good news is while cleaning out our loft, I found a bunch of them on CD's. Really was fun to see these kids when they were that small, wish I had better backups earlier. I do now.... Oh, there was mention of off-site cloud type things. While I have no evidence the company I work for strictly forbids us from utilizing such sites because of security concerns. It's a major issue if we do, so there must be something to it, and my company kinda knows computers.... I'm sticking with the multi copies within my house. While a fire certainly could take out my data a data breach at the cloud vendors seems more likely to me.

I'm bringing me and 2 of my kids and staying at the grounds thursday - saturday. Looking to meet more of you this year and sample some of Steve's wine I hear so much about!

hooked up the battery to check out all the electrical. its amazing how everything just 'works' with good wiring and clean new connections. i still need to paint the lower dash plate and shifter plate, but for the electrical test i just installed some gauges and the switches and hooked the wiring to the back of them. the hour meter i cleaned up and will be kept as its original to the tractor and has the correct hours on it, the volt meter is not as nice as i would like and will probably get replaced. Switches were cleaned up and tested earlier..... Terry has already got my decals as close as humanly possible to match the oem ones here..... i think i need to come up with some sort of decal for the battery too, looks a little bare with all the standard decals ripped off. still need to get the air cleaner lid rechromed.... tested out the warning lights, oil blinked like it should too.... i was lucky both the rolling 416s came with good indicator boards with all lights working. also got a muffler heat shield from a member here limited12, thanks so much, Tommy! heres a few more, I'm getting impatient, i want to fire it up and go........

My first car was a 1960 Chevy Bisquane (sp)...2 speed slush box trans with a 235 straight 6...but this what I used to learned how to drive...wore out a few pair of shoes trying to stop this in time.

Mike..........

Welcome Allen to the .....Got any pics of that tractor for us??

I have one. All original seeder,plates, mounts,etc.I can take pics and text or e mail them to you, call me 631-466-0053, Don

Pull the stem through it's hole... then, on the outside of the rim, wrap with enough tape to prevent it from falling back in. You simply remove the tape after the tire is mounted, and aired up.

I will be bringing my recently restored 603 (for sale maybe?) and maybe a Suburban to run the Friday night Dust Bowl...

Be sure your not putting the tube in backwards, make sure the stem is on the up side, sometimes I put just a tiny bit of air in the tubes to get the wrinkles out then pull the core, to let the air back out.

Very nice disc and restoration!

That's sweet Lars , yer don't see many of those around in Europe. Great find & it looks wicked with the suburban

Thanks Steve! That will help. I haven't done the thing with the threaded rod yet. The reason being is that I couldn't get the shifter forks in the mix doing that. I did get the arbor shims this morning and experimented with the shifting issue. That problem is solved . It's going through all the gears perfectly and I'm getting the maximum engagement on the input shaft gear. I decided to go ahead and clean up the ends of the differential housing. It came out as smooth as a baby's butt. Just for giggles I put things back together with the 1/16" gasket on the right and the 1/32" on the left. Bound up again. I pulled the gasket from the left cover and reinstalled it with washers as spacers. It turned but was still too tight. I've got to get on another project this afternoon and tomorrow is spoken for but my next step is to assemble it with the rod spaced at the 6000 thousandths . At least it looks like I'm down to just one issue now.

...or worse.

Beautiful Martin, and I'd be getting inpatient as well! The suspense of finding out how everything id going to work would be killing me! Not much longer now. Matt

I had the frames, front axles, spindles and pedals powder coated on my pulling tractors then had paint mixed to match for the sheet metal. The powder coat is tough but it doesn't have the gloss that the paint has. The guy that did my powder coat does a nice job, it's almost as smooth as the paint and it has a good gloss, just not as much as the paint, but the paint is base/clear so it looks a lot deeper.

This is it. It sure looks nice don't it

Man, that tractor looks good! Simply one of the best jobs I've seen, well done Martin. ..... By the way, your shop looks really clean.

I declare the David Bradley finished today, which happens to be my fourth anniversary on Red Square. For a project I expected to last a week it took two months. Now it's time to get back to the Wheel Horses. Here is how it all started.

It looks so good really really good job there James

You sir are a stand up guy. Few hundred bucks likely covered parts. You know what the tractor means to that boy. There isn't enough money. The picture of him sitting on it is priceless.

Trouble is the weather has been so darned uncooperative this year that I don't have much of a window of opportunity to paint. Considering that I paint in the driveway, I am subject to hot, cold, wind, rain, pollen, leaves, neighbor cutting grass and raising dust, etc. So with that said, I finally got the wheels done, tires cleaned and mounted.

my first car was a hand me down 1965 4 door Dart. good old slant 6

I suggest you powerwash all the gunk off the underside of the tractor to begin looking for the leak. I first suspect a leaking hydro hose or lift cylinder.

I put one of Matt's pedals on my 520H last year after converting to a Honda motor. It has become so natural to to use I don't know how I did without it for 20 years. I always thought these hydros should have had the foot control right from the get go. Great investment you will love every time you use the tractor. Red

He's already got stainless stakes, Craig. I noticed 'em at Charlotte a couple years ago.

Where did this reputation come from ??? Ask anyone here on Redsquare and they'll tell ya I'm sweet as pie ! Was the breaker in the house panel reduced from the 40a double pole breaker it probably was originally when it fed your AC unit to a 20a single pole breaker because of the 12 gage wire? And I agree about a small 4 circuit panel in the shed to protect the smaller 14 gage wire you used with a 15a breaker. Just remember that a sub panel would need an isolated ground from the neutral (unlike the main panel in your house) to be code compliant. I would have the lights on one 15a breaker and the plugs on a separate 20a breaker. As long as I'm tossing out opinions.....I would get rid of the GFCI plug at the house end and just splice thru the 12 gage. Then install the GFCI at the first plug and use the load screws to protect the plugs downstream from it. A GFCI can be problematic outside, less so if its inside. Mike..........

very good work

Great story. Glad there are folks still lending a hand on the old Horses. Your prices seem VERY reasonable. Sent from my SCH-S720C using Tapatalk 2

Great looking tractor and fun story to read ! Thanks for posting !

You're a good man Keith. That's what the story is all about.

That is a very nice looking job. Would love to have seen the "before" pics.

Nope! Need a fella like you around these parts!

Really cool Hammerhead. Need a fella like you around these parts!

Great pic's, thanks for sharing and tellin' the story! Nice work!

You will be missed Neil.... Even my wife is jealous of your visit to the show! I think I might try make plans for next year :D