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Part of the "Honey Do" list was to remove a large 12ft Forsythia bush. Dug a trench around it and chained it up to the loader bucket.

Got my new 55 Rj35 and my older 57 Rj35 out today for the first time this spring! They both have been sitting in different barns for many years.

This followed me home to day Brian

MY FIRST WAS A 1959 RJ MY FATHER NEW. MY FIRST I BOUGHT NEW IS A 1975 B80.

...thought I'd sneak up on the clean up with a little test patch first, to see if my idea would work. Started on the lip that slides into the frame, progressed to a corner... then I did the logo in the center, and finally the whole lens. I'm thinking I hit a home run with the first product I tried(pictured)... first shot shows the before and after.

To wet to mow this morning thought I would let them get some air. 417- a is the latest addition

my 1st Wheel Horse is a 1968 Commando 8, it's a fun little tractor, with a snowblower for it. I'm addicted, and on the hunt, my only problem is the room to store any more.

I really like the way the two piece cultivator works on the 1961 Wheel Horse 701 with the Hein-Werner hydraulic pump. It tool a fraction of the time to cultivator the vegetable garden from what a small tiller would do !

It does sound great Gary. Cool video...thanks for sharing that. dang, I love this site.

My first, was certainly not my last.

A 1965 magazine ad for Wheelhorse 7 hp tractor from the largest WheelHorse dealership in UK

I was looking around a yard sale and i found this. Its in very good condition and has no rust. Should i use it or display it?

Craig, here is the shift boot that John made.

I'm always very excited when I get a tecky running!!

I have gone from a high of 42 Wheel Horse tractors and tons of attachments and parts down to one 520Xi with a 52" mower deck. I still have a closet full of original manuals though. I find the manuals much cheaper to maintain.

Steve, you know we're kindred spirits... packrats by nature and have a deep fascination with the history behind Wheel Horse, not just the machines themselves. I was a paper collector for a long time myself. Had most of a 4 drawer filing cabinet full of it. I've slowly and for the most part quietly dispatched most of the collection out to other collectors. I really latched onto the yahoo manuals groups many years ago (back when there were only two or three of them!) and was/(am) co-owner of them with Garry and Buzz. I scanned everything I had and shared it. There's a good many of the PDF manuals disseminating through the interwebs that are scans from my collection. Once they were out there in PDF form, I felt no compelling desire to hold onto the physical paper. It was just weight pressing the filing cabinet into a deeper dent in the carpet, and besides, I never dared to use them for reference. If I wanted to look up anything, it was just as fast to pull them up on the computer, and I had no danger of damaging my precious originals! I've still got some, mostly just for the tractors/attachments that I still physically have in the collection. I do also have quite a few original old ads too, mostly from magazines from the 50s/60s/70s. Ads, spec books, things like that I've scanned as well, but still hang on to them. By the way... that "picture" project I told you about is ever so slowly making progress. Been mostly on hold for real life that so often gets in the way!

I have posted this before on Red Square but it is still our first encounter with a Wheel Horse our father bought for $300 in 1961. This was our first contact with a Wheel Horse -a used 1958 Wheel Horse RJ in 1961 ! 50 years later we bought another RJ from Clay Brooks and now have three RJ's !

C-101 is my first and only one, for now

My wife's grand fathers c120, which is the only one I will never sell, it is over my father in laws barn 10 minutes away. It needs paint etc, but still runs like a champ.

A friend of mine who is a retired machinist and has a nice shop full of tools and machines was able to make me a new shaft. Got it all installed with new bearings but I was covered in hydraulic oil so hopefully it will get a test drive tomorrow

nice trailer Jason! sad to see the W.H. trailer go but this one looks like a better one.

It's that $18.00 carb, Briggs muffler and that Summit decal that did it!

Nice find......I would empty it and keep it somewhere clean and dry. Mike.....

So a guy with a 1988ish Johnson 28hp wouldn't fit in.....right...LOL! Mike......

That's cleaning up good. I'll have to try that

Jason looks nice, like the removable sides.

I've been able to vote for the last 3 days...is today the last day Ben?? I did try to vote twice in one day, but this is not like Chicago, they would not let me.

Thanks for pointing out "ghost voltage" SOL. I always learn something from your post!

Very good. I would suggest the true problem is corrosion within the fuse holder and the holder should be replaced with a 30 amp version. I will put together an explanation on why we were fooled by the voltmeter readings and post back later this weekend.

Using the incandescent test lite ignition switch in RUN retest the points #1 thu #5 outlined in the earlier post - the light will either be dim or out at one of those points.

there's also a wire coming off the PTO to the seat switch which is hot yes - wire TO the seat switch should be HOT at all times - the wire FROM the seat switch to the ignition switch ® terminal should be hot when operator is in the seat. If the seat switch is bypassed by connecting both seat switch wires together, obviously both wires will be HOT at all times. and comes back from seat to A post of ign, this may be an issue?? The wiring diagram shows the seat switch wire going to the "SEAT SWITCH" terminal of the ignition switch. This terminal, by process of elimination, has to be the "R" terminal on the ignition switch. giving it 2 hots going into ign. The I post of ign go's to the coil, OK from the R post go's to lights and hr meter. (which cant get power to). This doesn't make sense. As I said before, the seat switch wire shows on the schematic as going to the "R" terminal - and doesn't it make sense the "accessories" like lights, etc should come off the "A" terminal? Then from S post go's to solenoid. OK too. When key is in the off position the B post and A post on ign is hot, the PTO post are hot, the ammeter post are hot. Fuses are good. And nothing on I and R post. According the to schematic - and logically - the "B" and the "R" terminals should be HOT. The "A" accessory terminal should not be HOT until the ignition switch is in the RUN position. The "A" terminal should be considered OUTPUT for power not and INPUT. "B" is power in "R" is power in "I" is power out to coil "A" is power out to accessories "S" is power out to starter relay Funny thing is this is the way it has been since I have owned it and has ran well till I took apart the fender pan and gas tank to clean all the crud out from under and around. I can believe the wiring to the seat switch could have been disturbed when you did this. I would suggest double checking the "bypass" for the seat switch and the wiring to and from the switch. I have attached an enhanced section of your phone pic of the ignition switch wiring. They way the ammeter and ignition switch terminals appear to be corroded , I can imagine some gremlins might be hiding in the ignition switch female terminals. At the very least, I would swapout the 5 corroded female terminals in the ignition switch connector and recheck the seat safety switch bypass connection and wiring by the gas tank.

Just tighten it and keep an eye on it. Even if it fell out, you would be okay because the cross shaft would probably keep the gear from coming off. If you want to, you can remove it and replace the copper washer, but it's only purpose is to seal it from leaking oil. As I said, I'd just tighten it and keep an eye on it.

Here is my first car, still have it. Owned it for 28 years. My Dad owned it for a few years before I bought it off of him. Although he used to tell me I ruined the car when I started modifying it. Until he drove it one time, I thank that changed his mind lol

......freeeee....that is gold. My first WH I got from my grandpa a 1985 310-8. I got a deck for it. Borrowed my neighbors 56" D-series deck for years until last may or so I got my other grandmas 1987 417-8 with deck and 48" plow. Now I have a 42" snow blower for her, and a cab.

67 years young today, as mentioned earlier, got my first Horse 40 something years ago. Long gone, a relative took it, with my blessing. I had grounds keepers doin' all the outdoor stuff. My first Stallion, 8 hp Techy, forget the model. I had purchased a new home and new Craftsman thingy. A friend came buy to see the new home and my tractor. He literally lost it, left and delivered my 1st Horse. I sold the Craftsman thingy, never looked back. Two of my favorites, seldom used. I turn to my 520-8 Onan, guess I would just have to move a lot of stuff to get the other Horses out. Picture are two of my favorites.

Great lookin tractors an cool stories! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My first was a brand new 1987 310-8 21-10K804.

My 1st Horse, 40+ years ago, no longer with me but, started this WHA (Wheel Horse Addiction). Now my sons and grandsons are infected, spend nights (and days) planning on what to do nice for their Horses. One son, tractor sicko, is ready to start reassembly of his "new" Allis Chalmers B-10.

My dad bought an 84 i think C-105 from a WH mechanic in 1988 or so. (I was two). Mowed the grass and pushed lots of snow with that tractor. Then engine went the second time and he bought a heavy duty green one. I asked him to hold onto it for me for when I had a place of my own. 7 years later I bought another WH just for the engine to fix my dad's but I haven't stopped buying them since! (and I still have yet to get his running!)

My 1977 C-120 bought new with a 48" deck, many hours and three engines later.

520-H that I got last fall for free. I'd never heard of WH before, but I knew it looked cool and I knew I wanted it!

My first recollection of was a garden show in about 1955, my dad was looking at an RJ and as a ten year old I was so excited that I may be driving it soon. He didn't get it, opted for a walk behind rototiller that I walked behind for a long time! In the early '80s I bought a used A-81 (small rider) which served me faithfully for a dozen years or so. It was replaced by a couple of big box store riders that didn't last very long. Ten years ago I needed a tough mower to take care of some property we had purchased. While attending a Hit & Miss show I picked up my 1055. This rekindled my fascination with that had begun fifty years earlier. The 1055 is still my go to tractor for snow plowing, don't know what in particular makes it so good, but it is the best pusher of the bunch. I have added lots of other horses to the herd, but the 1055 is a keeper.

my 1957 rj35 rescued from a junkyard before and after resto

In 1989 I traded a very worn out 1975 Harley Davidson Sportster for my C-175 8 Speed which I still have and use. It had a 48 inch deck, snowplow, tire chains and wheel weights. I have all of them I would bet that whoever ended up with that AMF era Harley doesn't have it anymore! Still the best trade I ever made and no one has ever forced me off the road on my tractor!

1968 Lawn Ranger. Paid $100 for it and mowed for 2 years before the tired Briggs repower gave up. donated her to a friend for his daughter.

Also less folks making gardens these days so less of a market for GT's

Nice find. I have that brochure. Crazy to think they were about $8,000.00 new. That would be about $20,000.00 in today's dollars! By the way if its in to rough of shape. I'll take it off your hands!!!

Kuhn Sales and Service, Bascom, Oh still open selling Toro and others. This is the Wheel Horse on a pole I own two machines with a sticker that says Fullers in Lansing, Mi I believe that they are still there but never confirmed. I usually get my parts from Brady's Power Equipment in Holt Mi. Although Dankin's in Jackson Mi is closer to me they seem to not want to be bothered with anything that is not Kubota.