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Thank you Michael Conley!!!! A great video to capture the event again! I think I am almost fully rested from the event. Wow what an event it was.....I tried to plow, I ran a disc, I met some folks all the way from California that were part of a research and development group (ask me about it sometime, you won't believe it!), talked to so many old friends and missed a bunch too! It was cold and chilly, but hey that is what we are know for!!! The machines were awesome, the plowing was excellent, and the friendships were the best part of the day. I am happy to report that we raised $1230 for St. Baldrick's in memory of the late Max Nunn. Thank you to everyone near and far that donated goods and bought a bunch of tickets. Thank you to Paul and Sharon for bringing Max's tractor to the event to help spread awareness about this awful disease. We will continue to push on in memory of Max......there will be a cure! My family thanks all of you for being such great guests and treating the property, and our neighbors, with the utmost respect. You are all a joy to be around. I became sidetracked numerous times and never did get a count of how many machines showed up, but it was a bunch! Thanks for bringing your machines to show.....it wouldn't be a show without all of you! October 2nd 2016 will be our next event.....we are hoping that you will be able to join us!

How about a nine minute video?

Scott, you and your family were great hosts! Thanks for the hot coffee, the food group and the place to come and visit! We had a blast

this is my wall art i have finished and mounted on the wall,i have more picture frames to finish.i think the wife will be ok this

I've got a couple of trailers to pull around so I built a hitch. The tractor isn't modified in any way so I could remove it without leaving a trace. Next thing I need to build is a weight box for the front. Trying to move my flatbed, the front came off the ground before I pulled it out of where it had been setting... One more picture of the underside of the hitch.

Bud's stack may arrive just in time! This 35 year old muffler is is loud. My 1980 C-125 which was given to me by an ol' (91) Alabama boy down the road - you know FREE means it's a money pit and the wife is already starting to cringe...is in mower trim. After rear tubes, battery, trans HiLo and gasket, coil, tank cleaning, fuel pump and carb R&R, clutch and brake adjust, wiring patches and ammeter bypass, 42" rear discharge deck pulleys (rusted through) and belt replacement and PTO belt, the mower lives! I can do more than just wheelie around the yard! The blades are worn as heck but sharpened. I just wanted to get her functional before I strip her down for refinishing and a real going-through. Atlanta has been soggy for almost 2 weeks so awaiting sun for the first mow of dry grass. Love the hum of a big deck. Now, 4 tires and none are a match. eBay fender pan on its way. Seat crumbling. She's a high dollar keeper. Got about $350 into to her at this point and 4 tires and a front wheel will add plenty more to that... The boy's got an older model he uses to cultivate his garden - has a Briggs re-power and electronic ignition. C-120? Maybe next year. Thanks to this list for the beautiful NOS parts and trans advice. Could not have tackled it without y'all! Marc Douglasville GA

loaded up the night before we left.. yeah my house is under construction inside and out a few shots of the show

he shoulda tossed you on the hood to keep the nose down

Here is what happens.. Some guy really wanted it and his PayPal account had the dough in it, probably from small stuff he sold that he really didn't care about so he stepped up. I have no issue with that. Here's the problem, now every clown out there thinks that is what they are now worth. Doubt that, at the end of the day its just a giant paper weight.

I appreciate all the advice. Here's my horse.

Ranting? Maybe. But I think you should get style points for that piece.

Geeze I should be a sports writer.... Anyone bother to look at the AP and Coaches Poll? TCU & Baylor 2 and 3 in AP and a & 4 in Coaches. Iowa is 22 in AP and 23 in Coaches. And look who got a vote on the Coaches - Memphis Tigers is # 25!!!! Don't bother looking at Power Ranking Utah takes that spot. But OSU falls to #4 while TCU & Baylor jump to 2&3!!! I personally think Toledo in the top 25 is a bit much but then again, I KNOW NOTHING ON HOW THIS RANKING SYSTEM STILL WORKS AFTER 30 plus years of watching it. Think I'll go back to auto racing. That is pretty simple, A WIN IS STILL A WIN IN THAT SPORT! Could you imagine telling NASCAR you now have style points that are associated with your win also. So if you just edge someone out that counts as a win, but if you beat the 2nd place by say 1/2 a lap, well then, we'll give you 5 extra points for that. If you are able to lap the entire field and win well that is 20 points extra. I know they have points for passes and laps, but I'm talking about winning style points. If you are able to put someone into the wall while winning, well that get's you 50 points. But the key to that is, you have to make it look like it was a mistake, otherwise NASCAR will fine you! Ranting, yep! RMCIII

Mattrix. Nice work on the hitch. Just be careful moving heavy equipment, especially if you have some hills. The front weight will help, but with 2-400lbs typical. tongue weight on the hitch of such a short wheelbase tractor, they don't have the geometry to be very stable and have a tendency to flip over when you least expect it. Ever since I flipped mine while moving a 3000lb boat, I always leave the trailer dolly wheel locked in the down position to catch the trailer in case the tractor does do a flip. BTW, I was pulling the boat out of the garage on level paved driveway with my 8HP 3 speed when a wheel on the trailer hit a 2x4 block that I didn't see. The additional resistance was enough to flip the tractor before I could get to the clutch.

Although I hate the CFL's (compact fluorescent) in my house, I needed a quick way to boost the lighting in my garage. When I built it back in 1988, I just put in ceramic screw-in type fixtures and standard bulbs. So I went to Homer Depot and picked up four of these. After a few minutes of warm up time, they really light the area. PROS: Lot's of light; reasonably inexpensive ($13.00 ea.); easy and quick to install. CONS: Environmentally hazardous if they break; take a while to get up to full brightness; easily broken because of the way they hang out in the open; but the biggest of all, as usual, Home Depot has discontinued them.

There's a hump in the center of the tranny that will trap oil in front of it. I raise the front of the tractor to get all the oil out.

Here's an old Wheel Horse homemade version

Been a long time since I originally started on this. At the rate I am going it will probably be a year or more to get it finished. Marvin

I had to cage it, it didn't want to leave.

Calling this one... calender shot.

John Burly, in the past, has had them reproduced. He's offered them in two versions, cast iron, and aluminum. Both versions come with, or without handles...and I don't think either of 'em started at $150...just sayin.

Like your picture a lot better, Slammer's looked like the was incarcerated ( in the slammer ).

How do you think... he ended up the way he is?

I'm glad you joined redsquare Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk Heres a pic of the horse i sold Damtrucker i was sad to see it go

YAA...IT IS NOT JUST ME THAT HATES LISTENING AND LISTENING TO JOE BUCK. THAT IS THE ONE PLUS ABOUT DA BEARS PLAYING AN AFC TEAM. THE TOWEL BOY AND TROY GET TO DO THE PACKERS.

Ive had plans to downsize my heard all summer but I keep bring more home.

I bolt electric motor lifting hooks at that location to hook ratchet straps there when hauling on a trailer

Whohoow still in the basement, i'm happy i've put a few cases of beer in the fridge

That sounds like a prediction, the next one will be a Twin!

The only way I go for #10 is if its got a magnum 18 or 20 under the hood

Thank you for the warm welcome. Okay, here are a few more pictures. Rick

So, drop the top... then, take that little filly for a ride.

There is a business in a neighboring town that uses old loader tires cut up for equipment plows. Imagine a tire cut in half vertically along the center of the tread, then again as a cross section. possibly if you have a way to cut an old trailer tire or some nylon belted one you could do similar as the thick mat from tractor supply?

Fantastic video, thanks for posting it.

I did more walking than I had expected! Mrs. Sailor has a FitBit and we managed to hit 10,000 steps most days. Of course, the ankle and leg needed some liabation to feel better in The Crow's Nest those days.

Ohio St., Penn St., Iowa, Northwestern, Nebraska, Purdue, Michigan St., Navy.

Ain't that the truth!

You're making great progress. Looks good. I like that pattern vise in the earlier pic.

Nice job Mike...excellent.

Great looking 857 !

I like your work , very sturdy looking.

I have heard that parts can be an issue. The Wheel Horse D-250 was built by Gutbrod of Germany, and was similar to the Gutbrod 2500S. Renault 800-01 gasoline 4-cylinder liquid-cooled 852 cc [52ci ] Power Take-off (PTO): Rear RPM: 1000 Mid RPM: 1500 Hydraulics: Capacity: 0.65 gal [2.5 L] Pressure: 2100 psi [144.8 bar] Total flow: 2.14 gpm [8.1 lpm] Clippings from those who know, and I quote: D250's are a strange breed. They were Wheel Horse's Edsel and were a true international effort. American specs, German design, French engine, Italian steering gearbox.... They were extremely advanced for their time, but were sales flops. In 1976 1000 units were imported and sold over the next two years. 1978 brought in another 500 of a revised model, then 1979 brought another 500 of the improved version. WH listed them in the product listings into the early 1980's, so they weren't flying off the shelf. They even began to promote special credit terms, freebies, and rental store sales to move them. Anyway, the 1976 model is distinguished by its generator (as opposed to an alternator), single action hydraulics, and weaker transaxle. The 1978/79's had dual action hydraulics with 4 couplers on the front under the grille, an alternator, and a slightly revised transaxle mounting and linkage that greatly improved reliability. The dashboard on the 78/79's was also revised and improved and the engagement for the PTO moved from a foot pedal to a lever. The three point hitch on the 76's was not fitted with spherical bearing "eyes" on the draft links. Instead the lower hitch arms were just punched to accept the pins from the implement. Later model hitches had the eyes that were standard on every other three point hitch ever made... The 1976's in particular were plagued with self-destructing transaxles...especially when used for tilling or heavy ground work like plowing or loading. I don't reacall the entire set of peculiars, but the general explanation is that poor lubricant or low levels combined with excessive load caused the internal axle bushings to wear. The axle/differential would sag or move around a little bit and the worm gear teeth wouldn't mesh properly. Catastrophic failure would then result since the worm gear was made (as are most worm gears) of relatively soft bronze. The teeth would shear and the whole tranaxle would fail. Warranty replacements were apparently a huge cost for WH and Gutbrod. A real nightmare according to guys who were there at the time. In 1978 the revisions were slight - and again I don't remember everything - but the improvement was significant. I think the linkage was improved to make shifting more positive and engaged the gearing better. But the bottom end benefitted by a revised mounting angle of the transaxle housing to the frame that caused loads to be transferred internally differently. So the trans was much more durable. But still, if used too heavily they too were prone to letting go. One of the really critical things about their problems was the location of the oil fill plug in the transaxle housing. Going from memory, I think it's on the right hand side of the transaxle behind the right rear tire. To check the fluid, you almost have to remove the wheel. To fill the fluid, you might as well tip the tractor on its side since the framerail immediately above the check/fill port basically blocks access to the thing. So, many people neglected to check and maintain the transaxle. Coupled with the marginal design and high precision...you get the idea. Would I mow with one? Yep. Just be very anal about transaxle maintenance. Would I plow/blade with one? No. Would I run a tiller? No. Loader? No way! Apparently the tiller, which is pretty hard to find anyway, really was rough on these things. I'm not sure mechanically why, but I guess the constant pushing and pounding was hard on the axle and exacerbated the problems. In the old days before Redsquare, it wasn't uncommon to find random internet posts about blown D250 rears on tiller-equipped tractors. Really, the D250 was a precesion engineered piece of equipment. Unfortunately it was introduced into a market and dealer network that lacked the finesse required to keep 'em going and didn't even have the metric tools needed to work on them. The combinations of the machine's fussiness and bad maintenance and abuse probably did most of them in. I'm under the impression that dealers hated them. And man were they expensive. Like $5k in 1976. Charlie (Charlies D250) used his D250 extensively and even ran it in tractor pulls (I think). I know he complete disassembled and rebuilt his prior to any of this, so perhaps his was in perfect tune, a good one, or he was just lucky. Maybe he made some mods. Anyway, he ought to be on your contact list. Now, I really like the Edsels. They are very smooth running, quiet, and extremely powerful. The Renault engine used was rated at 19.9 hp, but the same engine configuration in other applications (Groundsmasters, forklifts, etc) cranked out 35+ hp. Same carb, timing, governor, etc. So the 19.9 hp rating was probably just a lie to get around the regulations that required seatbelts and ROPS. The 60" deck from the JD 400 used on these tractors mows beautifully and pumps a tremendous amount of air. The original intent was for the D250 to be an "estate" tractor. All it was supposed to do was mow and clear snow. But the size and power meant the desire to use it heavily was too great. So they got used as compact utility tractors. Fuel pumps on the engines tend to go bad over time as any mechanical/camshaft driven pump is apt to do. The Renault replacement is (or was last time I cared to look) hard to find and expensive, so replace it with an electric one if it dies. Other than occasionally on ebay, I've never seen a rebuild kit for the Solex carburator. Points, cap, and rotor are hard to find but I think Charlie has a source. By the way, I think one of the spark plugs cannot be taken out without removing the distributor...if I remember correctly. The ignition switch on the 76's is goofy with a really special key...push the key in to enable the ignition. Pull it out to shut it off. Rotate it one click for parking lights. A second click for headlights. I think the 78's have a more conventional switch. Waterpumps aren't a bad quality or bad design, but at this age they often go bad. I've been seeing them periodically on ebay, so somebody must have found a source. If you see one, buy it. The front/mid PTO shaft also serves double duty as the front axle pivot. Bearings here often get sloppy. Duane Baerpath knows how to replace them and I thought posted a source on here at one point. What else.... That's about the whole brain dump for now. If you want to rely on one for a weekly chore tractor I think you need to prepare yourself to be patient and creative. These aren't supported by WH anymore, so parts aren't really available. Engine parts can probably be found since Continental picked up the Renault industrial line a while back. But transmission stuff is extinct. Deere probably still has deck parts. The only differences between a 400 deck and a 250 deck are the hangers. Everything else is carryover from the Deere. ____________________________________________________________ That said I would love to have one but I would not want to count on it nor not have some money held back to fix things. Maybe a lot of money held back. But wait for more from those who have first hand experience!

Give it a try and let us know, I have lots of rusty stuff I could send up to you!

nice job

Gauge comes with nylon tubing that you run from the port on the engine to the gauge unit.

"Every good tractor got a bullet hole in the hood"

Jay, you did say right at the start this was replacing the wheelbarrow. Having (ab)used the setup under my tractor I thought it may be something you would want to look at as an area to make a heavier duty one. As i said cool project and I am watching to see where this goes.

That's the joy and satisfaction of a DIY project. Design, build, test, redesign, alter and retest, and it doesn't cost any thing but your time.

I had the same problems with a fairly inexpensive 120 volt Lincoln MIG welder that I was using. So I went to a friend who is a professional welder. He set up a practice table for me and I used his 240 volt MIG welder. After a few minutes, it was like I had been welding all my life. So with renewed confidence I headed back home. I set up my little MIG and tried again. SAME PROBLEMS. My conclusion is that the cheaper the welder, the more the problems. You get what you pay for. Now, when I need something welded, I head to my friends shop and use his stuff. All the difference in the world.