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Here is last nights pick up. Got this one from Mark (Saber) here on the board. The first 2 pics are what he sent me that he took. I was amazed when it was getting cleaned up the water was beading up everywhere. He kept that thing waxed! He and his wife are just great people.

NOS 420LSE Brian

We'll apart from the stack & a different fuel tank & seat , although I still have the seat but is the base is toast , my gt 14 is original

Still cuts grass in the back yard on occasion. 1961 Suburban with original Clinton motor.

Been in the family since new. All original except the front tires, deck wheels, blades, filters, spark plug and carb. Scary thing is it mowed 2+ acres 1-2 times a week for 25 years. Just goes to show they can work hard and still look pretty new.

'67 model 877

Well, its off to Vegas for my daughters 21st birthday and time is a bit short. If anyones interested in a short 5 minute video I threw together of Scott's North Central Indiana Meet and Greet Have at it. Not my best work but the pressure to provide quality pictures and video to keep all of you happy is killing me! :*****: Enjoy------

A couple of years ago, one of our Maryland members, Redbird and her husband Dave, had a meet & greet. They had a great off-road trail. Hills, streams, etc. I will try to find some pictures and post them later.

I sure wouldn't want anything hanging out the front or back when I'm mowing. Seems like an accident waiting to happen. I also wouldn't want a deck on my Kubota that has a bucket and backhoe on it, it would hang the tractor in rough terrain or tear the deck up. Just because someone sells something that does all of that at once doesn't mean it's a good thing.

Yes. But you know they are always closed when you accidently leave it on. Murphys law!

Here are the pictures I took. They are duplicates from the other thread but I will post them here as well. The panoramic shot is pretty cool. To bad it was the end of the day when everyone was loading up! EDIT: Going to add the larger panoramic shot as well that way you can zoom in!

Must have been so CRAZY, it drove right off the thread!

1979 C-161 twin eight speed Black Hood with Briggs 16 horse twin cylinder engine, fiberglass hood and plastic fender. 1983 C-175 twin automatic Black Hood with Kohler KT17 17 horse twin cylinder engine with 278 hours and plastic fender 1989 520HC with ONAN 20 horse twin cylinder engine with 620 hours (my main mower and my favorite horse) 1995 416-8 eight speed with ONAN 16 horse twin cylinder engine with 316 hours 1989 257H with Kawasaki 17 horse single cylinder engine with 116 hours.

Here are a few pictures I took on Friday. I think Michael Conley took a ton of great pictures. Great meeting and talking with you sir!! Here is Scott's 1952 Ford (with a flathead V-8)...this really sounded nice. Here is what it looks like on Friday... Some neat parts that Scott has... T-shirts sent from Lars... It was a great time. Thanks Scott I should have taken pictures Saturday, but I never got back to my camera. BTW...Duke and MJ's glass ware is incredible. Squonk, I have a couple of things to send you from the raffle. Edited by stevasaurus, 05 October 2014 - 11:13 AM.

Here is the tractor that I picked up off CL locally. I swapped the front and rear tires off another 520. It came with a very low hour 48" deck, tiller and 520 long snow plow. It has 650 hours and runs really strong. I mowed with it today and the deck is the most quiet and smooth deck I have ever used. I hope to paint up the wheels and buff it out and maybe new decals from Terry.

That's a dandy! I see the tie down on the engine. It wraps around it then slips through the front vertical support on the railing then crosses over the front of the tractor. Put yer glasses on Mike!!

Got another half for October! Mrs. "Shallowwater" is on a business trip, and I don't think that my partner in crime will tell. This one is older than me and was made in the "Cheese" state.

Reminds me of when I sold my Goldwing. Guy shows up in a beat up car and hems and haws about money. I still end up selling it for close to what I wanted. He comes back the next night with a new Escalade pulling a brand new trailer!

Ya know Geno it's awfully hard to talk a guy down on price when you show up in a rig like that. I think if you showed up at my house the price would go up.

A few cans of this will help. Think of it as "camo" paint to ease the horses.

You are correct. As pictured, that side goes toward the transmission.

Early 70's, a round hood. My sons and I rebuilt our first Horse, was a basket case. Loved the RD mower, towing a sweeper. Great mowing. I then moved snow, then turned earth. WOW! Now I work on Horses with the grandsons. The boys wanna ride 'em cowboy.

He's invaded Indiana

Been in our family since it was two and was owned by a wheel horse tech before that. Full time worker until retired in 2009 or so. I havent even had a chance to clean it up yet, but its in real good shape except for a few paint bubbles on the hood.

I had never heard of wheel horse tractors until about 12 years ago. I had a go cart when I was about 8 years old and my uncle who was about 5 years older than me was a pretty good small engine guy for his age. Him and my dad taught me about engines and got me interested and I have tinkered with small engines off and on my whole life. I started working on mowers and l&g tractors as a sideline thing about 12 years ago. I bought 4 or 5 riders from a guy at that time and one of them was a wheel horse. I don't recall the model but it was a vertical shaft 38" cut and I think 3 spd.Like I said I had never saw a wheel horse till that time. I mowed with it once and knew immediately it was much better than the snapper or craftsman I had been using. There isn't many wheel horse tractors in this area,I don't know why,I guess they were never marketed very well here. Untill a few years ago it really pained me to see a good wheel horse parted out because they are scarce around here. That changed when I realized we all need the parts and there are an abundance of these tractors in some areas that would end up as scrap in a lot of cases. I've had a few different models in the past few years and now I have a 417-A with a dozer blade that I love, and I just picked up a hxl 44 that will probably be my mowing machine, I haven't got to check it out just yet.It will have to beat out my simplicity Broadmoor that I have used for the pastfew years.

U suck Brian !!

It started for me back in 1966 when my Dad bought his first Wheel Horse, a used 854 with a 36" deck. I learned how to mow on the 854 and it was the first real responsibility my Dad ever gave me. He had the 854 for 13 years and then traded it on a new '79 C-101 which I still have. I have so many fond memories growing up and mowing with these tractors, that's why I will always love Wheel Horse. They were always simple, rugged and reliable and more than capable of doing the job. You just have to love tractors like that. That original 854 is long gone, but when I had a chance to buy an old 854 to restore a couple years ago, I just couldn't resist. Now it has grown to an addiction, since I also have a 1045 and an RJ-58 along with the 854 and C-101. I would have more if I only had the space.

Thanks Denny I'll have Mrs Funengineer shoot a video this winter [emoji1]

1985 417-8 all original

What a beautiful setting for such an event! I only wish I wasn't so far away.. Was there an official head count? Looks like the place was packed! My favorite pics are of the many different shots of Scott cruising the kiddies around with the wagon train. Its hard to tell who was havin more fun, Scott, or the kiddies!

I didn't see any homeless bus stop photo's but this one is close! Looks like the soup kitchen. Check out that poor soul way in the back. All right, who's the kid with DA BARES coat?

I am repainting the rims on my 857. It seems they are originally a cream color. Has anyone found a good color match in a rattle can? I don't know, but I think I am replacing the original tires as they had the Wheelhorse logo. After 47 years I don't know why they had so much dry rot LOL. The rear rim interiors look as they had recently come from the factory. That is why i'm sure cream is the original color.

Post 'em if you got 'em...if you ain't got 'em...why not?

G.E.N.O: Grabbing Everything Nothing's Oldfashioned////// for this guy!!!!

Normal for the EX valve. Leave it for now. Use a three stone rigid hone first on the cylinder to even it up. Then switch to a dingle ball hone, or hand sand the areas the 3 stone misses. Put a new set of rings in and run it hard for 5 hrs. Trust me when I say it will stop. I just did an M12 and it took 6 hrs for it to stop smoking, but it did. Its all in the rings most of the time. Use a 3 piece oil ring if you can. Is there any knocking? I find that in most but not all cases, when the cylinder and rings are worn, the crankpin / rod is too. Hear the knock on my video: http://youtu.be/I6bVzrxQRAU Mine is quite severe, but the PO did not maintain properly. Shame shame.....

I see it now after blowing it up on an I- pad. Jim, i didn't think you'd put your pic on the forum!

Took a quick picture today of some of my mowing.

Man Geno you really do have it bad.......

there should be another hole in the shaft for a pin by the foot pedal The large pulley should be adjustable by sliding it on the shaft after you loosen some set screws Brian

Just to memorialize this, here is a photo of the inside of the rim and what I believe is the OEM finish (never exposed to light also). I held a bright white item in the picture to show the contrast.

That's as clean as they come! Another nice find.

Original 1988 520H except for the deck was rebuilt and painted. Original 1994 416H. Still have some cleaning to do with it yet but it's getting there. My c175 is in really awesome shape for its age but I have not had time to give it some tlc since I brought it home.

Even got 1/2 a 401 in the trunk!

I don't think there are any left round here...

I really like the black hoods myself. They have a sturdy feel to them, the hoods aren't all tinny and rattly and they have a big tractor feel to them when you are riding one. I wouldn't mind finding one and doing a full restore on one. It would have to have a twin under the hood, nice fat 10.50's on the back with tri ribs and a forward swept axle up front! I have seen some real nice restored black hoods out there but I gotta say Ole Martin has set the bar REAL high with his! Here is a pic of one I had a few yrs. ago. Yep, shoulda kept it but there musta been something else I couldn't live without!

That is what I was gonna say... That Cub looks like it was a real nice machine and well built but the price of 9 grand when new tells me they didn't sell many of them. I have never seen one on the back of any full time landscapers trailer to date and that is a lot of dough for a home owner to cough up.. I can't speak for the Cub but I have used a Scag that was similar to your Cub. You can get a hell of a lot of grass cut lickety split and it was fun to use as well... Cutting 2 acres isn't too bad but anything more than that with a 520 would be too much for me, I'd want something faster. How was the Cub on fuel? The Onan enjoy's fuel.... I have been looking for an older Zero Turn for a while now...

Mule drive me thinks. Good lookin' "mutt" you've got there Bob... and your dog ain't bad either.