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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 ...

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

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

​Steve it is defiantly the people that make it. Ohh yea the tractors.

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

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.

I agree with Mike. I would keep it on display. You don't find those every day.

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.

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

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.

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.

I bought a 1977 B-100 in 1993. It came with mower deck, snow plow, roller, and a dump cart.

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!)

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!

'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 )

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.

1975 B-80 that my wifes nephew gave to me.....That was #1 and now there are 10!

My first is a 416-8 with a front end loader. Bought it just to move some large piles of dirt around the yard and sell but once I used it, I knew it was a keeper. A couple of years later the backhoe was added. Never heard of Wheel Horse before I bought it.

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

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!

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!!!