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It has been such a long winter, I could care less if I ever again see another snow flake.. After a road trip today with Stevebo, when I got home it was in the mid 60's so I decided to take the blade, chains and weights off of the 314. I then figured what the heck so I woke all of them from their LONG winters nap. I'm sure most guys have seen them.. My son Cole ran all of them up and down the street a few times. Everything fired right up and they all ran perfect, one of em is a little sleeper... I'm ready for the first show.

Got the old Electro 12 out today and threw the plow on the back. Just couldn't wait any longer to see if this old sway back could still pull. 90% of the plowed area was grass and pretty tough till I raised the plow a bit. Looks kind of ugly, but you gotta start somewhere.

Have you ever did something so stupid, that you looked around and wondered if you were on Candid Camera or Americas funniest Home Videos? Well I dug out a old C101 that I put in the dead line because the wiring harness just got so bad on it. I put the new harness on and could not get this thing to run. Oh it would start carry on throw a fit then die. Would not throttle up. Just a totall mess. As I was double checkering that I had everything on it's assigned post. I happen to notice that there was no condenser. Then it hit me I had robbed it last year. So I put a new on. It's amazing how well things run when they have all their parts as designed. How many years have I been doing this? The senior moments are coming in fast and hard. Geez.

Nope...I am a one project at a time kind of guy...and sometimes, I forget which project that is. My goal...get to where I can watch paint dry. At the moment, I am refinishing an old oak kitchen table and chairs. Waiting for the Tongue Oil to dry now. Just came down to the Man Cave to check out Red Square and get a glass of Rock & Rye. I know...we love pictures. The last picture is the next project. The next project...

Hey Gang! Not a diehard Wheel Horse guy, but was introduced to this awesome sight, and it's certainly worthy of joining. The single Wheel Horse I have is a mix match of gathered parts that would have otherwise probably been lost forever. I can't take credit for the frame and hood modifications, although the rest is me. Thanks to the powers that be for the membership and I'm looking forward to meeting you all. I hope some of you will join me on the journey that "Traitor" and I have embarked on. Cheers!! Zip~ p.s. and yes...I am a Simpicity and Allis-Chalmers guy, but ALL GT's are awesome!!

I go to the garage to work on something...I walk across the room to find something and I stop and look at something else, I mess with it and forgot what I was after in the 1st place. I go back and forth for hours working my butt off and not getting anything done! I am the poster child for ADD!

Thanks for comments. Never had a garden this size, but newly acquired electro w/ plow and cultivator gave me a reason to do it. Now if I could just get my wife to do all the weeding.

Just got some good news. Buddy of mines uncle has a front end loader that hes gonna sell to me for 200 bucks. May take a little modification to get it to fit my d250, but for that price i cant pass it up. Gonna pick it up next month. Ill post up some pics when i get it. If any of you on here have a d250 with a FEL i like to see some pictures.

I notice you didn't include a pic of the box it came in Jim! I was doing some work in the pharmacy and they have all these novelty signs all over the place. I saw that little sign and said, " I know the perfect guy for that sign!" so I snagged it. Then I needed a box for it and didn't want to be sending it in a giant box. I was walking past our supply room and they had a bunch of boxes out and I grabbed a box that I thought it would fit perfect in. I didn't realize it was a box for catheters until I got back to the shop. Even more perfect! Glad you enjoyed it Jim and hope you laugh as much as I did buying and shipping it!

You are all still cracking me up. In fact, while I was in the hospital a package arrived that a certain individual eluded to earlier in the thread. Mike, you have no idea how close I've been to this while reading here and being strapped to Agnes the IV pole, laughing and trying to get in the bathroom at the same time. This will be placed in my garage where I can see it easily keep you and everyone here close.

200-300 imo as it sits. If it was running then 450-550 range

I have a D-160 and a D180 that both have 15" rims. The 160 came with turfs and the 180 came with ags, the 180's completely rotted about 4 yrs ago and I could not find a comparable ag replacement so I went with the skid steer type - theyre OK but I wasnt completely satisfied. This winter I have needed the 160 to do some rough/tough work and those worn turfs just wasnt getting it done. A while back I had reworked a 1054 and had found ags in a 7.60x15 size for it and while they fit, it was really close being 30" tall. Doing a quick measurement on the D's it looked like there just wasnt enough room... Well after fighting those turfs spinning at the least thing I took another look at those 7.60x15's ---- DUH!! I wasnt figuring from center of axle!, and using that measurement - 15" - looked a lot better fitting wise! So armed with a description of the tire "7.60-15 American Farmer Traction I-3 Farm Implement Tire" I hit ebay and promptly found several vendors. I finally settled on 2 tires with tubes for $220 plus $38 shipping They came yesterday and this morn I took and had them mounted ($30) so for a bit less than $300 Ive got me some bad a** tires. Here they are on my rather rough looking 160 - look can be decieving, that ole boy is a worker and mechanically sound. Again, they are 30" high (the turfs were 27")

Get ready for a "Salty Story."One morning at the lifeboat station I was assigned, a recent "boot" Fireman Apprentice was assigned the small boat checks. He checked the oil on a 30 footer with a GM 6-71 (love that sound!) and thought the oil was low. He added the amount he thought was needed! I double-checked his checks and found the oil level was now to the top of the dipstick tube! One time we asked the same guy to bring us a bucket of steam.

And my apologies for failing to acknowledge Tom (stratostar250) in this tire quest. If it wasn't for Tom being the NY to CT courier from Bearpaths place, the 310 would probably still be seeking bigger shoes.

Steve you make it easy! The Material just about writes itself!

You know...Scott (whfan74) is right...this is a great thread. I just went back and read the whole thing. Cried a little, laughed a ton...I want to thank all of you that have contributed and Prayed for our friend. Like Jim said, he has a long way to go to get through this...his journey is really just starting. I am proud to be a part of what goes on here at Red Square...all of you guys are the best...Thank You Please keep Jim in your thoughts and prayers...together we did and can make a difference.

Yes John, I got home last evening around 5:30. Not on the Horses yet Steve but looking forward to it at some point. Guys, I have to tell you that this will be a long process with several more rounds of treatment requiring hospital stays. I'm sure I'll have ups and downs along the way but for now things look pretty positive. They will be keeping me busy with frequent lab work every week and Doctor visits in between as needed. Everyone has been telling me that my color is good and that in fact I seem to be glowing. After those treatments they should see me at night!!

he is a few pics of my fleet.

I was patrolling eBay and noticed that Fordhook2000 (who I don't think is a member here) has been posting a lot of manuals for sale. Some of them are in much better shape than the huge piles I've amassed over the last 20 years and he's offering them at what look like to me below market prices. A lot of it is quite rare and catches me by surprise that it's out there and available. Years ago it was virtually impossible to find this stuff unless you stumbled upon a dealership that was going belly up. Now I see this stuff on eBay. But the really old stuff is quite scarce and all of a sudden it's popping up courtesy of a few auction listings. It got me to wonder how my hobby focus has changed. Are there many of you that collect manuals? I was compiling pretty much a complete run of paper from 1956 through the early 1980's. Wheel Horse printed a lot of paper, but this is the type of thing that isn't really that easy to come by. I don't collect rare books or Gutenburg Bibles, but it strikes me that these are the things that ought to be pretty much universally in demand. But are they? If you're not collecting the paper, why not? I asking from a somewhat selfish standpoint. I've spent a lot of time (and money!) collecting old manuals, brochures, and other stuff. I didn't enter into any of this with the desire to ever consider it any kind of investment, but I'm wondering what others think. To me, it's really neat to have the paperwork that might have been included with a tractor when it rolled out the door. It's even more cool when you buy from the original owner and they hand you the packet that they saved for decades. Copies don't really do the same thing for me as do the old, original prints. I've been doing this WH nonsense for over 20 years. I can't believe it's been that long. We've seen the internet rise in that time. Forums have come and gone. Lots of familiar faces and voices in the crowd have also gone by the wayside. Things are much easier to find today than ever before. But the cropping up of this huge cache of paper takes me by surprise. Trying to generate discussion...and see if the hobby is evolving or changing. what do you think? Steve

Finally got the grill finished up and shined. Looks weird with the reflections!!! Slow but sure!!!

Looks like part of the Ber-Vac vacuum system.

I don't like the look of the high back seats either. I see some that look like they bolted a recliner on the rear fender pan. The "surplus seat" really isn't any higher than a factory high back seat from Wheel Horse, it's actually a little shorter than the factory 520 seat, not by a lot but it was noticable.

Not to familiar with the 264, but is there a cooling fan under the fender that blows on the hydro pump? Make sure its working (if it has one) Mike.........

Wellcome to red square , nice rig. Best of luck with it. Really low hours. Wait till you buy your next one. Glenn

I repowered my 520H with a Honda GX630 kit from Repower Specialists. Their kit is pricey, but includes all the parts necessary to convert, including wiring. Everything works as original except the tachometer. I used a mini tach to check the governor speed and don't mind missing the tach. The only thing necessary to do is a small welding job for the clutch bracket on the engine. They include an adapter mounting plate and a sleeve for the clutch to convert from the Honda 1" shaft to 1-1/8". We have run the Honda for two years without a problem. It took less than two days to convert. I was not completely happy with the supplied muffler, not having a heat shield, so I replaced it with a Honda muffler. I needed to trim the hood a bit for the fit, but it works better and is quieter. http://www.repowerspecialists.com/ Red

We picked up about 7 inches of very heavy wet snow today. So much in fact that they had to shut down nearby Interstate 80 for about a 40 mile stretch. It just dumped snow for hours over Southern Clinton County! And you know what..................I didn't get one tractor out! Notta! Know why? Cause I don't give a damn anymore about snow! I have had way too much seat time plowing, blowing and scoop n dumping! Nope! I shoveled 10 feet of sidewalk from the porch to the garage! Didn't even put the truck away tonight! Didn't want to drown the garage again with melting snow! March came in like a lion and left like a T-Rex in menopause! Tomorrow is April fools day! It's a new month and maybe, just maybe.......................I'll see something other than white in my yard! Hell I may even grease a mower deck or two. Even sharpen those thingys that spin under them that cuts the stuff that used to stick up and grow green in my glacier, I mean yard! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Somebody's turned the place into a fish market... more fish in that nest, than bird now.

The red sure does look better than the white but getting that original patina hood on there would be right. I am partial to original patina but the other half of the members would say repaint the entire tractor Either way I love the 953/1054's !! My favorite tractor show driver.

Very nice Wonder why they repainted the hood only? There is a nice original patina hood for a 953 or 1054 on ebay right now. You may want to check that out and bring that machine back to it's original work clothes.

I am the same way. I get started on one thing and then I see something I went out to work on before and.... Hold on... Be right back...

I got the 1958 out of the garage yesterday. Changed spark plug, started her up and cleaned her good for the 2015 show hauling season! My red Nestle creamer caps are still going strong after three years!

Right on brother!

Nice back tires!

Hey Jim, I just Googled those symptoms you outlined above...Holy Rock & Rye...I think you are pregnant. No jumping Mate.

Before I would pronounce the engine dead, I would take the heads off and turn it over by hand. If the valve seats are all secure and the pistons and valves move properly then the internals are probably fine. The typical internal failures are loose valve seats and broken rods. If the engine was not smoking before it stopped running and if the oil has been changed on a regular basis the pistons, rings, and cylinder walls should be fine. I would then determine if there is a fuel delivery or electrical problem. We can walk you through the trouble shooting procedures if you were interested in doing that.

That surplus center seat is the most comfy I ever sat on. I got 6 yrs. on it now and not a blemish on it.

Not only a new member, a like new . You may want check the fluid level, it could be too high causing some overflow.

This one you just gona fell in love whit Steve.. lol lots of power and great sound from that Vtwin engine. i got new decals from Terry to my LXI and they are awesome!!!

Probably in the $18.00 to $20.00 range. I'm just waiting for everything to arrive so that I can get a weight for calculating postage. EDIT: I got the bolts in today, and the lug nuts will be here soon, but I did have enough to get a weight. Seems that the postage rates have really gone up since the last time I sold them. The cheapest rate is USPS Priority Small Flat Rate box. My cost is $5.25. So, I am going to price them at $17.50 plus $5.25 S&H. However, if you are interested in more than one kit, I can get up to 5 kits in one box. I will have them at the WHCC show in June. No shipping cost if you pick them up there.

I was right! The wind WAS blowing from the North today.

Yep this 70+ year old manure spreader is still able to fertilize the strawberry beds in preparation for the new plants. The blackberry plants also get their share.

The "raccoon mask" tractors are definitely my favorite workers. Plenty of room, decent power, good looks, and the ever-popular parts & implement interchangeability. I prefer hydros but just couldn't pass this one up.

Nice save Terry. I'm starting to like the look of the 300/400 series since I've been looking at the one in my garage that's been in pieces since November.

Doc reports still good. May get out next week they say. Thanks for all your support everyone. Red square is keeping me strong. :)

like this one rob?

"readiness and ability to respond with help with so much more than our Wheel Horse tractors." When it all comes down to the nitty gritty, isn't that what it's all about? Although the tractors are the common bond, the friendship and love for fellow brothers is what is at the heart of it all. May God bless you in some way throughout all this. Take care my friend, Richie

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

Ok, time for a little humorous yet frustrating hospital patient babble. After being transferred from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor the day after I got here I found the room to be the exact opposite of the previous room. I will never admit how many hours it took stop walking into the street side Windows while trying to get to the bathroom. However it wasn't long before the calls started wanting to know when the next ,"Hot Legs" show was, and could they send over some telescopes. WTH? Someone over there got my room phone # and wanted to know where I get all my candy bars and my name. I said that the guy next door who goes by the handle "Little Debbie" and he owns the company. His phone has been ringing non-stop since. More to come later.... (not figuring out smileys on the kindle other than the shout box)

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