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The grandsons needed a little shop time. Together we tuned the exhaust on the 16 hp Briggs. Sounded great but, we eventually cut down the forward pipe. Pitch was a little high.

We have officialy finished the swap of the GT-14 to an 8 speed after alot of work. A lot of fabricating little things made this harder than i thought it was. It should now be a complete beast for pulling my one bottom plow this spring. We got rid of any and all the hydraulics. Going to have to add a manual pick arm at some point.

hi there everyone, I just picked up my first wheel horse on Saturday, an rj-58. I got a seized mower deck, a plow blade, which I think might be from a newer wheel horse. (it has the blade that angles) the best part was I got the cbr sickle for it, and its in really good shape! I have a few green tractors, a bunch of red and silver ones, I thought its time to try a different brand! now I found a lawn ranger not far from me! and so the sickness continues! I'm sure I will be on for questions about the rj, so thanks in advance! - newt

My C-100 pulls all the weight around my house.

There's currently three of 'em... 520H, C-175, and an RJ-58 on call, as we speak.

The old standby -the 1975 B-80 is the workhorse around home !

Here's sum of my herdthese three do most the work 2 commando 8's and a B-60the suburban got used for mowing the yard almost every time last year

Here is a new rj I picked up I put the date codes uo off the transmission and more people say it's a 59 than a 58. date code is either f2-9 or f7-9 tough to tell . how to screenshot on windows free upload photo uploading

Here you go: Tractor music

I believe that plug on the side is the level. Get it sitting on flat ground and remove and see if anything comes out, if it does it should be good, otherwise fill until it runs out. To drain, you just remove one of the lower side plate bolts.

Despite the neck issues I have been plugging away at this project slowly but surely. I managed to get the axle/base sanded, primed and painted. Hope to wrap up the rest of it this weekend. On a side note the Brown Truck delivered these today. New pair of shoes for the 856. After going back and fourth between these and ag's I pulled the trigger on these and better yet they were a present from Santa!!!

My C-101 is on plow duty this winter.

All the Horses work. Impossible to keep the Herd indoors! Two (416-8 1nd 414-8) are on standby and will get their weights 'n chains....whenever?

I know most of you hate the new style idiot proof gas containers with the lack of a good vent when pouring So here are some pictures of what I did to mine. Got the partial idea from someone off the forum. Works great! Drill a hole that matches a valve stem you want to put in. These are pressure fit, so it has to be exact - in my case 1/2 inch. Feed a wire through the hole and out the spout. Take the guts out of the valve stem, attach to the wire and pull up into the hole. Spray some silicone on and attach this to pull it up through, Leave the guts out, put the cap on and remove for pouring. Goes without saying . . .blow out any debris with air so it doesn't end up in you tank. Takes about five minutes

Picked this uo today need help with a few things . it has a clinton 1290 I believe is it an oil bath air filter ? Here is the date code on tranny like to know if it's 58 or 59?

Too bad you had to drop all the hydraulics, an eight speed with hydraulic lift would have been awesome. My ideal tractor.

Look what came up on Craigs list in Pa.

I don't have any real parade tractors. They all run and they all do some work though they are getting specialized in what they do. The mowing C-175 is of my neighbor Lance and his son. The blower is also the same C-175. The 876 was actually a pieced together work of art that had some smoking problems.

Yeah ,what Craig said

If the intake and ex valve seats are not loose in the block, rebuild it. A machine shop can certainly take care of the machining for you, and install a new bushing for the crank.

The Tecky's I had in the 60's would start from the heat generated by the pull rope being pulled a 100 times trying to get it to pop! Maybe I should get another rope cranker. I could skip Cardio Rehab and save money!

all of them,even my show girl pulls a trailer

I used to love ice skating. I don't know which was more fun, the skating or chasin all the local chics on Taylor's pond Yeah, it was the chasin,

while trying to cobb together a dial indicater with a sparkplug bottom at work to time a h60 my buddy asked what i was building after telling him he said i got one u can have for $10 at home i got in a bunch of stuff from neighbor is that luck or what?????????

NOS 420 LSE......borrowed from a local dealer.

Ok, I think it is time that my C-165 get a fresh change of work clothes. I've had her since I was thirteen, and seventeen years later I feel that she has deserved a makeover: rebuilt engine, new ag tires on all four corners, new paint and decals, new Hobbs hour meter, and a custom hitch I made from an extra hitch off my Crown Victoria.

Sometime ago I purchased a Horse that the previous owner setup to tow his boat or camper trailer 'round his property. He used his Horse for one reason, towin'. His setup did not interfere with the Horses stock draw bar just in case he wanted to use his garden trailer. The hitch he fabricated using 1/2" x 2" flat bar. The long arm was mounted under the fender pan sheetmetal using bolts that were 1/2" longer than stock. I removed the bar, saving for who knows what. Never used it, never will. Only posted FYI. Thoughts?

Hey everyone! I finally bought a Techy! Oh, and it came with a tractor! It is a 1969 Work Horse 700, in wonderful shape! I took a two state away trip, but the tractor came with wheel weights, chains, a snowy rear discharge mower deck, and a snowblower and it feels like is has very low hours, it drives super smooth and easy and is very clean for being a 46 year old tractor, the seat only has two little tears in it! The worst part is the rear seat pan is a bit rusty under the seat. Everything seems to work as it should, which is a plus! The motor on it is a "Hurricane" 6.5 hp Chinese Harbor Freight motor, which really runs smooth and quiet, and seems quite powerful. The previous owner said that the original motor ran fine, but was very VERY hard to start, (Which after doing research, seems about right ) so he swapped the motor. The tractor came with the original Tecumseh motor that was on it, the original gas tank, engine mount, air filter/cleaner assembly and ignition parts, and a full new gasket kit for the whole motor! It also came with original paperwork for the mower deck, snowblower and the headlight kit! I have the original headlight kit and plastic non headlight cover, but the muffler of the new engine points straight out of the front of the tractor, and the P/O melted a bit of the original headlight . He was quite upset that he did that, and I felt for him. He was a very nice and kind guy and said that he had a big snowblower on his backhoe and just did not need the tractor any more. I hope that I get to use the snowblower before the end of the season! C'mon Mr. Winter!

the transmission date codes are subjective it does have a 58 style seat you need to look at the tractor as a hole because over fifty years parts can be changed it's definitely a RJ 1958/59 model Brian

Ill have to get some pictures tommorow. And im sure there was a way to keep the hydraulics but i didnt want to mess around with it. Would have been a nice beast with hydraulic lift!

Hello from Northern Illinois! My father gave me his pride and joy this week, I loved driving this tractor in the 70's and 80's when I was a young kid. My father tells me when he purchased the tractor in 1968 that they installed an electric starter kit complete with cigarette lighter, they replaced the rear bushings with bearings , installed lights at the dealership but were not made by Wheel Horse. He also purchased the chrome wheel covers, dozer blade, mowing deck and snow blade. He also mentioned at the time of his purchase that they gave you a Wheel Horse push mower but it did not stand up to the test of time. When the dealership shut down my father was able to get his hands on several spare parts for this tractor. I was digging through all the paperwork and found several manuals for this tractor as well as many other models. I would love to hear more info and facts on this tractor! In the coming year I think we will be doing a complete restoration, so any ideas and suggestions are very welcome.

I know a lot of people have many wheel horse collectable tractors but I was wondering what wheel horse every body uses to do the work around your house yard or farm would enjoy to see some pictures

Its the same loader. He listed it on ebay and Craigslist. His 3550 price was a pie in the sky fantasy a dump cart of $100 bills comes with it price I think....

Ummm.... some please?

Its sold on ebay for $1500+. I was bidding until it got to 750 then I decided it wasnt worth it to me

This appears to be another example of the single arm, the listing on the pic I posted is for 3350$. There must be some gold in the bucket.

The earliest wheel horse tractor were imported to UK in 1958 starting with the RJ58 These are the tractors that were available in UK although most of the early stuff from the 60s is very rare Rj58 Suburban 401 704 854 856 702 Commando 8 Charger Raider Commando 800 GT14 A series Bseries tractors Cseries tractors D series lawn tractors There are a few more that I may have missed and I am sure that others will notify of this but this list should take care of most of the rare models.

Recently I have been using my 876 for cutting grass and pulling the plugger, while the 314-8 was used for the grader blade. This spring I will probably end up using the 314-8 for grass duty again.

Here's another ODD BALL that has a 40 year old tecky powered C-120 that has mowed and blowed snow for me for 25 years. It has never failed to start and it runs perfect. During the 25 years that I have owned it, I have done nothing to the HH120 except change the oil and the air filter.

Yeah F&*% the EPA make it work yourself ... Dang government always trying to keep me from hurting myself Now if I could figure out how to hack my old metal gas can with a metal hose so it doesn't leak I could throw out the plastic one.

OK, now I have somethng else to add to my "Bucket List". In 24 years of owning and driving Wheel Horses, I have never once given thought to driving one on a frozen body of water like a pond, lake or river!!! Threads like this are another terrific reason for being a membr of Red Square! Thank you kiotikin for starting this thread and posting some great pics!

I like the mid engine tractors best, but if I had to choose a favorite in my collection currently it would be the 55 rj35 I just picked up.

Got the wood done during the week. Three nights in a row I sanded all the pieces by hand with 220, wiped with tack cloth and urethaned. I like the aged look with the shine. Good enough for the project and happy to be using the original wood from the swing. The center holes are the original holes and show there wear but the outer holes are all new. Going to try and get the seat frame done today with the extra supports welded in.

I put fenders on mine, I think they came off a 702. Now that my kids have out grown the sulky and you'd never catch my wife on one I turned mine into a wood hauler...

Well chaps, no going back now To stick the axles back together, I starting with a bit of notching.. Like so.. Not quite the perfect fit but better to notch out not enough material than take out too much at this stage.. Using one of the old fashioned thick cutting discs as a grinding disc I could remove a little metal at a time and keep it flat.. Until I had a perfect notch.. The overlap is 1 inch by the way.. That's a much better fit To make sure the welds had something to really bite into and fill up all the edges of the joins very deeply V'd. Time to start welding, but it wasn't me who did the welding!! As Nigel's boy Karl is a coded welder and he happened to be about today I asked him if he would be kind enough to weld my axles up for me.. And a grand job he made of it too.. Thanks Karl A finished pair of half shafts The plan was to shrink fit some sleeves over the join but as Karl knows what he is doing with a welder and the extra heat caused by shrink fitting then welding a sleeve could well weaken the shafts, the sleeves will be staying off..

Always a good time... just not in earning it the honor.

A few more pics, sorry not trying to be a "show off" -I'm just excited about my new toy!

One owner machine, PO worked it it's whole life... and all I've done was wax the bejezus out of it.

wax on flat olive camo would be hard to buff off

Rattle Can (Ace Rust Stop Equipment Paint, Intl. Red #17134)