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Current restore is a 704, traded for this tractor from Prondzy (my son) he picked this up in Iowa from a Redsquare member. It was all in a box when Prondzy received it. To date complete motor overhaul, need fuel pump rebuild. Trans has all new bearings and a few new gears. Have purchased all new stainless hardware, decals. finishing up paint work then final assembly and bring this beauty back to life. Can't wait to hear that Kohler sing. Enjoy Thanks for looking Tom

Thought you all would like to see a factory wheel horse mounted Bachtold mower. Tractor and mower came from the original farm. Even got a paper on setup / using the mower! Tractor is a 875 wheel o matic. There isn't much info I can find on these. If someone would like to share what they know about this attachment that would be awesome.

I was in the market for a steel floor 16-18 footer to haul the occasional tractor but more for my truck hobby... I think I went a little over-board???

...through with the snow Lord! Yes sir, me and the RJ are ready to put ol' man winter behind us... we're both praying you see fit to bring on some daffodils now.

Well Red Square friends, I just made a deal on the newest (wife says last) piece of Wheel Horse equipment (that will be) in my barn. A young fellow was mowing along his drive several years ago with a Wheel Horse 520. I later talked to him about it and told him if he ever wanted to get rid of it to please let me know. On Saturday, he called and said he wanted to sell it and I had 1st chance. I went all the way out of town (about 1/2 mile) to look at it. It is in very good shape and comes with a good (quiet) mowing deck and an almost un-used push blade with tire chains. He lives next to his dads farm and has farm tractors to clean/grade his long driveway, so the blade wasn't used very much at all. I told him what I would pay for it and he said he needed to discuss it with his wife. He called back today and we kind of met in the middle of what he wanted and what I would pay. That is what this wheeling & dealing is all about!! Any way, on Monday evening I will pick up my new 520 H and my wife is going to drive it home from his house!! I know the routine and I will post photos tomorrow when I get it, as I do not have any right now. I won't sleep a wink tonight!!!

I got this WH disc today it needs sum repair but it looks worth fixing to me as I've really wanted one for a while paid 75$ don't know if it a good deal or not but now its mine

No matter how you slice it, its still the most fun you can have with your pants on.

I also hope we have gotten our last round of snow. It's still much deeper in my backyard than I had thought it was. It floated on top of the crusty stuff for a little bit, until the heavy rear end (and mine ) sunk in. It was quite beached. Can't wait for it all to disappear! And I love snow!

Last week I started getting the Stallions ready for spring time! The herd loves green grass, me too. Took plows, wheel weights, chains off. Ahhhhhhhhh, warm spring sun, green grass, short sleeve shirts and a Rolling Rock Pony on the patio. Today, I set up the newest addition to the herd with his spring implements. Are you ready for June bugs? I think Mr. Gore called it right, did he? The hammock is calling.....ahhhhhhhhhhh.

Got me a new set of rear tires for my gt14. Power king 27 8.5 15. I think they will work great.

Amen to your nurse comments Jim -- Take an extended stay in a hospital and you figure out real quick who keeps things going for you as a patient -- And they can give you all sorts of helpful hints and clues about making your time go better

Looks like the 1533 ball bearing was last used in 1984. 1985 and up they used a 111199 ball bearing listed as having a 40mm ID. Some transmissions got different bearings in 1984 but could be replaced with the 1533 plus a spacer washer so that OD should be OK. Garry

I stumbled on to this and thought it was pretty cool. 2015 is the 60th year anniversary for the Chevy small block. https://youtu.be/W5saoYQIlh8

I added a new horse to the herd tonight! I have always wanted a 953 and now I finally have one! I paid $250, but it does need some TLC. Needs a seat first of all, and some lights, but it does runs very well with no smoke. Also it pops out of 3rd gear so the tranny needs some attention. The hydraulics seem to work well though. Oh yeah, and i also drug home what was left of a 1045 lol. It was a great day!

If you can afford it buy an aluminum trailer and not just because it will be lighter and easier to tow. My 6x12 Big-Tex is steel and she is rusting badly. Mike...........

I'm sorry I missed this thread- nice score! If you live in Buffalo we are about 20 min from each other!

Sounds like you are feeling pretty good Jim. Hey, I saw that Duke cheerleader yesterday.....they had her on a train in a stock car...the door was open and there she was yelling "Go Iowa:. I don't think she got there in time.

I suspected your shutter finger was getting itchy Craig. (yankchain) But it works out to be double duty with some work done and maybe some prime calendars shots to boot. She sure is a beauty!! :)

Just about all the replies have nailed it, but no one told you how to tell if the ground is too wet to plow. I was always told, pick up a handful of soil and squeeze it in your hand, if it makes a meatball that will not fall apart, it is probably too wet. If it falls apart, it is just right for plowing. The problem with plowing wet soil is that you compact it and all the air is squeezed out of the soil under the tractor. The water then does not drain well and the plant roots cannot breathe.

Welcome to RedSquare Ken. You better start picking soon, my brain is starting to wither on the vine.

looks to me like a good first attempt, pointers I would offer would be, Plough only when ground conditions are right ( to wet, or hard and dry will damage the soil and frustrate the £#@k out of you.) You have narrow agri weighted rears, ideal. Maybe you could reduce the furrow width by mounting the plough in the left hand hole of the three? And (I know its a pain) clear out the furrow if the slice has rolled back, every time the right wheels climb over a lump the plough is pitched... and the same thing happens again, get an open furrow and it should stay open. Hope this helps and have fun in the dirt.

And you didn't have to ask what its worth lol

Thanks James I wish I had more of an update for you all, but last week a busy week dealing with a "not so" Merry Tiller!! But I have managed to get some of the steering done.. Starting with bolting on one of these Wheel Horse steering thingys.. My brain is not with it enough to work out what the correct name for it is! The other end need to be connected to this Bolens rotovator 90 degree box... Sorry Chris, I've decided to use it now. As it happened not only was this wheel center (cut from WN's front wheel) a perfect fit over the bar that's part of the steering thingy.. But once cleaned up on the lathe it was also a perfect fit on the 90 degree drive box thingy The only problem was it looked like this! So the next day I made another one! The bottom one looks a lot better 90 degree box thingy bolted in place.. The steering UJ thingy goes up to a shaft, which... Goes through this bearing and out through the top of the dash.. Sorry about the bad photo's.. I was tired and the cameras auto-focus wasn't playing ball! I have also made a start cleaning up the rear wheels... As I have a pair of new 24x9.50-12 grass tyres waiting to be fitted

10-4, roger that Gerry... you know the little one only comes out to push the light stuff... and the occasional photo opportunity.

Uh..I think I'll leave my snow handlers intact for a few more weeks. The first day of spring in SC Pa.

I've always wanted a pressure washer and figured that the attachamatic on the front of the horse would make a great mounting point. I've been collecting parts for a few weeks and finally got a chance to put this together. Here is a shot of the mock-up with the pulley attached to the pump. The pump is 4.0 gpm at 4000 psi and the pulley size puts the engine rpms at 3000. I had an old mule drive that I had used the shaft and pulleys for another project. I added a few pieces of tubing and angle to mount the pump and a fancy "patented" tensioner. I removed the original tensioning screw and added a hook in the rear that locks the whole assembly rigidly to the attachamatic. It works. Now its all disassembled for some paint. It takes about 3 min to install and put on the belt.

I worked this afternoon on the 1961 Wheel Horse 701 tractor ! I installed the lift arm piece (bought a broken one and had a new one welded as a replacement) I had made for the Hein-Werner HY-2 Hydraulic Pump/Lift Unit I bought last Fall at an auction. I had to drill three holes in the tower of the Wheel Horse to install the hydraulic pump support plate, installed the lift arm piece in the rockshaft for the hydraulic cylinder and tested it all out with my mid-mount grader blade that also has a tongue on it to install in the Wheel Horse rear slot hitch. These old HY 2 pumps have no large fill ports like the Wheel Horse 953/1054 pumps. It tool me 45 minutes to fill the hydraulic pump through the small fill port on the side of the pump! All in all it works well -no leaks on a 52 year old HY 2 Unit (was on a 1963 753 Wheel Horse but removed at the auction I bought it at and fully complete which is why I paid $90 dollars for it. It works great as a lift and I am going to use this with my two piece cultivator attachment in the vegetable garden this summer! I have a horn to install and lights before this 701 is ready to start rolling ! I also have to bend the shifter arm tomorrow to allow me to shift into 2nd and third gear! That reverse and 1st gear is just not enough for this 701~! This is really quickly starting to be my favorite tractor ! Pics from the install

I've had both and in very heavy wet snow, the tall chute would plug occasionally and normally it was wet snow that was already disturbed. (compressed). In very heavy wet snow, the short chute wouldn't blow it more than three feet. My tall chute just seems to throw the snow better and the tall chute didn't coat me in snow "as much" as the short chute. To all the members who have never tried both kinds of blowers, remember this............"it is NOT better to have loved a short chute without ever having loved a tall"

Here you go Glen here are some more pics of my gt14. I Also have a hydraulic angle blade and a custom hard cab for it. The way it's set up I can run the blade or Even the mower deck with the loader attached. This was my concern to, but so far I like them.

Well - Kentucky is spending the next few days inside our property...... Actually there will be (4) total in Cleveland. We got lucky and got Kentucky! Hey poet and didn't know it! :laughing-rofl:

Sure has been a WILD, WET, WINTER..... Rob

That looks really nice. It's funny because without the hood or chrome wheels, it looks just like my 418-A. So much so I have saved your pictures so I can get mine back together the way it should be. Thanks for posting them. You've answered two of my questions already. I have been looking for one "naked". Can't wait to see it back together.

Something to consider is drilling holes will only cause more dirt to easily find its way in there. The build up is usually from an oil leak like oil filter base gasket, crank plate, or Welch plug over cam. The oil then soaks the motor and attracts dust. Fix oil leaks, degrease engine, then blow down the motor regularly.

If you manually hold the governor open, does it seem better and can you feel some resistance as it goes above half throttle? Also another very inexpensive test is to spray some starting fluid or better yet, carb cleaner around the intake manifold/carb and listen. If you hear it "rev up" on the spray, it's sucking air and you found a big issue of not throttling up properly. It also doesn't hurt to run it and as total darkness as possible. Watch around the points housing/condenser and the coil to the plugs. Also watch back around your connectors. Even a little loose connection or wire can cause full throttle to beak up due to vibration.

You can put me in the done category as well. This time...I let it all melt, and didn't clear anything. RJ looks awesome though!!

Don't forget the model 1-0600. Back in the day there is literature to suggest they considered these the 600-Series. Later the 600-Series was used for the Zero-turn models. Here is when the differential bolts changed to 3/8" Garry

wow that sure did clean up well!

1973 was the only year for the 18 Automatic. The 4 "D" series came 1974 and later: D-160 Kohler, D-160 Onan, D-180 and D-200. All were similar but attachments would pretty much interchange. The D-250 was an entirely different tractor.

It's not a transmission problem. Your drive belt isn't stopping. Do you have the belt guard on? It has to be on. There's tabs on the guard that need to be adjusted (bent) properly. In any case you need to find out why the belt isn't stopping. Grinding the gears is a very bad thing.

Remember, you could always post a "wanted" ad in the RedSquare classifieds for the items you're in need of too. http://www.wheelhorseforum.com/forum/10-wanted/

Yep....its only a matter of time before your posting pics of a minty mint 520 . Mike.............

That's an awesome score. Love to see older tractors in such nice condition. No salad dressing allowed!!!! Ever

You wouldn't think those food service people were a riot if you had to FIX EVERYTHING IN THE KITCHEN!!!!! I swear, I could put a solid block of cast iron in the kitchen and those bozo's could break it in an hour! How does a $2000 conveyortoaster get dented up like a semi hit it? No one knows anything. took a week to get the parts replaced. Takes 3 guys to lift it up on it's stand and a kid walks by and says' Oh I knocked that off the table when I was mopping!

Very cool....I watched for about 10 minutes but never saw the other one bring in a fish...bummer! I see houses on the left side of the screen, must not be to far from civilization. And once in those 10 minutes the Eagle turned and looked straight into the camera (it seemed) and it reminded me of Sam from the Muppets. Mike.............

That's cool! I just checked it out and it's offline right now so I'll try later. These were in the back yard a while back. Living on a lake we often see them getting their next meal.

I just ordered a 94-6671 (replaces 103917) from one of the online Toro vendors. Got mine for $3.50. Let's see what happens when they come in Monday morning to fill orders. Here is the confirmation email:

Her is where her final resting place may be..... unless I move the suburban section of the collection

Got the oil bath, seat, and belts/belt guard installed. Also have the steering wheel and speed selector ready for paint, hope to paint those and a brake kit for it tomorrow or thursday. Its getting pretty close!

Awesome build... would like to see some video of it in action.

57 is the far one a 56 is in front Brian stock motors would be 3.6hp on 35's