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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.

My first wheel horse was my wheel horse 520-H, i paid $4000 for it in 1997 and I'm still using it today. Then later on i got my ole trusty 212-6 that i still use too. Thats how my addiction to these horses started. But anyways what was your first horse?

I said I was done buying anymore Wheel Horse Tractors as I've had some of the best and most desirable ones out there including a Senior, 1955RJ, and a unmolested original RJ58. They have all gone off to other collectors. I do have my first 58RJ which is really a resto-mod as it has an NOS 1961 401 hood on it along with an electric start Kohler K91. I probably should have never sold the unmolested 58RJ but oh well it's gone. So I really wanted another RJ that is in it's original configuration. This came up and I jumped at it. It is missing the fuel tank, engine, belt guard, brake band and brake rod. I have a perfect and clean original fuel tank. I also have a K90 all rebuilt, painted and ready to drop in. The brake rod is no problem to replicate. The brake band should be no problem to find. I'll have to put the feelers out to try and find an original belt cover or just settle for a reproduction. The hood is missing one of the tank bands and has the usual two cracks in the area of the fuel hole. Otherwise it's in great shape. Seat isn't original but it's a very close match (at least I don't think it's original). The original throttle lever is still in place as is the model/serial tag. The steering wheel does't have any cracks and is in nice shape. It's gonna take some work but it will be like showroom new when it's done. It ain't gonna happen over night that's for sure!

my favorite thing to do is ...

Sure does look like fun P chop... this here is my idea of having some WH fun.

Are you able to control the depth pretty good with that set up so as not to go too deep?

WOW! Great picts Lane. That thing really does work nice.

Glad you found us, enjoy your horse and remember, ​Trying to post pictures, so far no luck. Thank's for the welcome Idaho Jim

Well after a year of farting around with the little Tecky. I got it running. It had some real issues with electrical. It was left out side a lot it was rusted in a lot of areas like the engine shrouds. Possible reason for the electrical issues. So after putting a few coils on it and frying them. I strip it down. A friend had a snow blower engine [good for parts] so changed it all out to a pull start. Need to find a S/Blower starter for it at the show this weekend. I know you guys want pick`s but it is not much to look at. I am just happy it is running. So that is why I am posting. Enjoy the ride. Gary B..

​That's a whole different spelling Craig.

Yes guys, the brake fluid did work really well... personally, I wouldn't leave it on there long term though. Believe it or not Mike, the furnace here is finally OFF for the summer season.

Brake fluid on plastic? I never would have thought about trying that. It sure did turn out great.

Jason, I didn't know you had involvement in those manuals groups. Neat! CDM started a lot of resource sharing groups over there and I just assumed the manuals groups were part of his initial effort. It's been so long I don't recall who did what. It's amazing how long some of us have been screwing with this junk. Jim, I should take your lead. I keep saying I'm going to do liquidate, but I just don't make the time. I'm hoping that this will be the year that I finally start moving some things out the door. I have a few "keepers" that will never leave (Lever, Senior, Rj35, 420LSE) but I have generally lost interest in having so much stuff. I'm in the 40's too. Want to make it more managable. Problem is, I think guys have gotten cheaper! Hate to take big losses just to make room, but might do it. i also added some other colors to the fleet and find I like some of them as much as the horses. Steve

Gary, you need to take a picture of it running just for proof for the non-believers. Any body can say that they got a Tecumsah running. I happen to have pictures of when I got my 502 running some years ago...it had set for 20 years. Now that is something to be proud of.

Oh my gosh, SOI you are da man! That was the only fuse I did not physically pull out to look at. I figured it was good since I was getting power on the other side of it. Dang it, I thought about pulling it out the other night just to look... heck I did so with the others! but then I thought why? its working. So when I tried pulling it out it wouldn't budge, I had to take a plyer to it and it broke coming out. It had melted and bonded inside the fuse holder. Wow I feel so stupid! I knew it would be something simple but just couldnt get it, was looking farther down the road. Thank you so much for walking through it with me S O I.

The answer is most likely "ghost voltage". This curve ball can be thrown at you if you are troubleshooting power circuits with a multimeter or an LED test light A multimeter or an LED test light draw almost no current thru the wiring under test so they will indicate voltage present under a "no load" or "non-burdened" condition. A corroded terminal can still allow enough current flow to fool a multimeter or LED test light.An incandescent tester is harder to fool. The actual electrics of the tractor will not be fooled - and that's why "good voltages" go dead under real life use conditions. We are gong to be heading back to the fuse / ammeter / PTO wiring connections to find out where it "goes dead" in the RUN position. I will wait for your answer as to what type of tool you have used so far to check for HOT wiring.

The switch "map" for the tractor shows these terminals connected together in the RUN position In the OFF position - no connections between any terminals And in the START position

there are two ways for battery voltage to enter the ignition switch thru the PTO (red) on the B terminal and apparently thru the seat switch (purple) on the R terminal. How is the seat switched bypassed ? wires shorted together or separated and insulated from one another ?

I'm right there with you!

My first wheel horse was a 1974 B-80 got it about a couple years ago and will always have it. I cant find another wheel horse like it.

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

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 1957 rj35 rescued from a junkyard before and after resto

The lil red monster that started it all was a c101. My dads friend bought it new. I used to ride around the yard while dad fixed Ed's Jeeps. 20 years later when we bought the the family getaway I realized I needed some help around the yard. Purchased a beat up 312-8 and darn near every accessory ever made. 5 years and 3 kids later those horses have saved me hours of labor. And that time has been well spent with my boys! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

'79 C-101 the one in my AV now restored - remember the day the dealer dropped it off at Dads Brand new ...we were push mowing over 2 acres to the day Dad bought it . Yep ...I was one happy camper no more lawn boy for hours on end once a week. Works like a mule 35 years later . ( Just a little TLC )

A 1975 B80 bought used in 79 for $1000. Had it until around 07, sold for $450. Had picked up the 520H for $500 at that point. I have every digital pic I have ever taken, but I don't know where my older printed pics are. So I don't have a pic of it sadly.

I've had so many I just can't remember what my first one was. Maybe the CRS is too far along. Anyway I have owned probably 100 or so and after that first one I occasionally picked up another brand but they NEVER stay long, you know how it is, too good to pass up. I know why you have never got rid of the 520, I have had 6 or 7 and come to think of it a 520H with a blown engine may have been my first.

Simplicity still makes a decent GT. Nothing like the old ones but still decent. sub compacts and compacts are what hurt the GT market

They canceled our Outdoor Parking Lot Sale this weekend due to the monsoons that came in. We go from winter wonderland/arctic temps to Rain and 40's. My barometric knees and back are screaming!

I am a member of a half dozen clubs who's shows I attend, I join and pay my dues because they provide me with the chance to enjoy my hobby. After seeing the kind of show the WHCC puts on I plan to join (even if I have to use a postage stamp) and make the big show next year. We are the show, but the WHCC has their act togather and provides us a great chance to enjoy our hobby; we ALL need to join.