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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.

Welcome to another session of SOI University a recognized institute of higher learning, experimentation, investigation and serious shenanigans are the norm for the day. An old friend called me up to help him work on his lawn tractor - how could I refuse. We tried to get his non wheel horse 11Hp tractor started the other day. I was rewarded with this - a top terminal starter solenoid with symptoms of a good click but no power to the starter. We substituted a good solenoid and the tractor worked fine. I put this one in my pocket and had something to take apart and play with over the rainy weekend. Around here, rain means something comes apart ... A quick trip to the drill press to drill off the heads of the rivets securing the metal frame / base to the housing gets us this far removal of the nuts holding the copper studs and the trigger lead and pressing the studs out from the housing label a few interesting items on the back side of the coil assembly a closer look at the spot welding of the negative coil lead to the grounded body of the solenoid coil closer inspection of the problem area of this solenoid - vaporized contactor studs and contactor disc one contactor stud was really blown away in the area touched by the contactor disc the edges of the studs are vaporized because the disc only touches the studs in a limited area - this tractor also sat for years and the engine had seized - and many attempts were made to start the engine before it was free to turn over. so I cleaned up the contactor studs rotated both studs 180 degrees in the housing to provide a fresh area for the disc to contact flipped the disc over in the plunger mechanism to provide a clean non-pitted surface for the studs to contact and reassembled the parts back to original a few small bolts to attach the bottom ground plate to the body and the solenoid is now fully functional again. So if you have that one off type solenoid or just have to keep stuff original at all costs - this may work out for you. For me, its just a cheap date on a rainy weekend.

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!

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?

You will love those HDAPs. The sulky is looking good. Sent from my tractor seat.

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.

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.

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 have a 314-A, 314-8, 314-H, 520 and a 1968 raider 12 and i like them all. My wife wants me to scale back but i can't make myself sell them off. It really is a sickness!

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.

Lawn Rangers

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.

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..

Wow, it just keeps gettin nicer! I'll be the first to bust yer chops about the green machine in the corner....

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

OK, I stand corrected. But, you know, if I didn't witness this with my own eyes...

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)

Premium gasoline is usually above 91 octane. Page 5 of the Kohler Service Manual for K-series (10 hp, K-241) recommends "octane rating of 87 or higher". Because these engines usually run nearly wide-open, I was told to always use fresh 89 octane.