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I've been wanting a cart for over a year (since I sold mine stupidly). It was 45 minutes away and paid $75. It was a win to me.

Picked up this wheel horse tractor for $50 ,doesn't have original motor,i don't even know what model it is ? also picked up these working freebies from my father in law , Blower,tiller and a blade plow not pictured

Well as the holiday passes, I am anxiously awaiting saturday. I will be going on a road trip with my dad (shynon) to pick up a very special attatchment I have been looking for a while, will also be picking up a few parts and other tractors along the way. Just can't wait!!!!

An inexpensive multi-meter may will have difficulty giving a precise reading in the under 1 ohm range. The meter leads themselves can sometimes contribute a significant error into the final reading. To best read true stator winding DC resistance, first eliminate the effect of multi-meter lead resistance from the measurement. The resistance of the meter leads plus the connectors which plug into the meter jacks can add significant error into the measurement of the stator winding resistance. To view the meter lead contribution, first connect meter leads together, preferably using strong alligator clips instead of test probes. Allow the meter to settle to a final reading. Let's say you read 00.20 ohms. Note this reading for future use. Next, check the stator for gross electrical defects by measuring resistance from each stator lead to the metal stator core. This will check for defective windings in the stator which may in contact (shorted) to the stator core. Both stator wires should show infinite high resistance in this test. Finally, measure resistance between both stator wires - 00.69 ohms as seen below. Subtract the first reading noted from the multi meter leads shorted together (00.20) from the wire to wire ohms reading (00.69). The result is the best approximation of stator resistance you will be able to obtain with an inexpensive multi-meter.

My wife is going to kill me but I couldn't pass this up , 1982 1142 with a brand new deck and mule drive under it , PO said he couldn't get it to run and he was done messing with it , I figure what I paid for it the deck is worth the price , got it home and pulled the air filter and found it chewed up and full of a mouse nest , not sure if that is why it dosnt run or if there more going on , will find out tomorrow

Spend 5 hours pulling out all my tractors to let them run, and did a little organizing. Had to let the old ford run a bit too.

Post 'em if you got 'em... some picts of you and your pets celebrating the holidays here.

Just watched a show on Glen Campbell, who is one of my favorite artists, very sad and very moving. Alzheimer's is a very cruel disease. I'm thankful that I haven't had to witness it personally, its gotta be hard to have a loved one not know your name. Mike.........

Update on some information Lane Ranger had posted about 3 years back. The springs that return the lever to center on the Hein Werner pumps had been available from "Normstoys" but Norm has retired. I spoke to him today and he referred me to John Gaft, 219-299-4708. He has the #4837 spring for the HY-1, HY-2 and 953 pumps as well as the later model pump springs. Said he has some other items also.

Sparky, I kind of like the wonder...the back and forth for the most part sheds light on what everyone has an idea about what is right...and wrong. I have never been afraid of sticking my neck out...it is how we learn. I'm still thinking about 1978/9 C-ish. Dang, it reminds me of my B-100 with the foot rests.

Wish my father had implements to give me. You are just a couple of miles from the site of the annual Wheel Horse Collectors Club show, see you in June.

Nice haul. NOT the mother load. BUT the father in law load. best of luck. Glenn

4 Oz. per 10 Gallons of gas per the web site, I don't think a little more would harm anything. http://www.marvelmysteryoil.com/index.php/site/mmo/

Chloe's got dibs on the new basement .

If you look closely, you'll see... a few of 'em in use here at the cracklefest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8sA3NfS3hE

Ditto that... lined mine up for Sunday.

Ahh yes! It is better to have loved a short chute than never to have loved a tall. I read that somewhere I think!

Don't take this the wrong way.. You made a few mistakes here. You knew they sucked from previous experience's and yet you brought the tractor into them for repairs. They proved that they do in fact still suck yet you pushed the tractor back off the trailer after they loaded it for them to piss you off even more when you come back to pick it up. I would have left the tractor on the trailer and ripped the bill up and left...I would have called him out on the spark plugs without question.

Lost my mother-in-law to Alzheimer's disease. She developed it at age 58 and she died at 63. It's such a cruel disease. During one of her lucid moments she described her life as "walking into the middle of a movie, not knowing what just happened, and not knowing what's about to happen".

me and willow looking somewhat shifty! haha she's a 10 year collie cross lots of other breeds!

Looks like the ID plate to me Garry

Lots of wasted overhead space... .....time for shelves for the collection! Love that old Ford...1968 or 69? Mike.........

Also could be a (rare) SB421. Give us the model# off that little tag and it'll end the wonder. Mike..........

Today was my favorite kind of day, great weather and I got seat time picking up the last of the autumn leaves. Never left the house and didn't spend a dime (except for parts on line).

Wow, that is a great deal. My father-in-law used to come over and borrow things from my garage when I was at work and forget to tell me...... I swear I thought I was loosing my mind..... I KNOW I had one of those or I JUST USED THAT, what the.................

Hey, I resemble that comment ---

The rear wheels are stock, just put the bigger tires on and tubed them. Works perfectly.

Don't even think about... moving this tractor.

If your comfortable building the engine yourself I wouldn't hesitate to use aftermarket pistons/rings, rods. If your not comfortable building engines by all means use a local shop or a members of this site to walk you through the process with a couple cheap specialty tools. But I wouldn't expect Brian miller to build an engine with genuine kohler parts for $500-$600 (especially if you read his website) when a nos kohler piston is selling for $100-$200, connecting rods for $100,machining costs around $100. Just my , and good luck on your descision!

Hopefully you two still have room for my tractor It sounds like you and Shynon have got the trailer full!

Reminds me of a certain 15 pound cat that strolls off the back of the sofa and disappears into the tree. Nothing but trouble.

The first measurable snow the other day in two years and Oke' is pestering to go out - to do this! After that it was time to play. Who says only reindeer can fly. This guy is 11 years old and took the stairs in the background in one bound!

This is my dog..i don't have any pictures of him from christmas He is a 7 year old Collie.

me and my boys

So.. a month ago now, my grandfather's 2-year old John Deere X-300 went into the local CERTIFIED John Deere shop. It was running rough for a month prior, and getting worse. First it wouldn't idle properly, and needed constant choking. Eventually it got to the high end too. So, with my old '73 FORD LGT-145 as a backup machine (Amongst 5 others), and the grass pretty much done growing, we took it into the shops.. shouldn't be long, right? Well, it's been a month now. Shop calls and says it's ready. Granddad and I head up to the shop and walk in this morning. The bill is 250.00. So, I ask the guy, "What did you do?" And he replies, "There is a spring return on the choke, we've seen this on others of this model. The choke gets a little dirty, and the spring doesn't return it all the way. The knob is down, but the choke is stuck on still. So, we changed the plugs, which were fouled because of this, and cleaned the whole carb." 'Okay..' I think to myself. 'This is BS. I changed the plugs the morning we brought it in because we couldn't get it to start..' But I said nothing. And for that matter, if the choke was ON, it would run better.. right? I still said nothing, and we walked out front to load it. ..we stood there for 15 minutes. I could hear them in the shop cranking an engine.. but I figured it was just some other machine, and they were busy. ..Well, no. Some time later, the very same x3 comes sputtering out of the driveway. Guy drives it on the trailer, and it is still sputtering and hiccuping, running too lean. I tell him to start it back up, and idle it.. barely holds an idle, put choke up, and it smooths out.. WTF? Walk into the shop, and tell the guy at the desk. He says "We saw nothing else wrong with it, and didn't figure we should add to the bill." ..seriously? Well, finally he comes out with us. Brings a key, and fires up another X-3 on the lot. Purrs along fine. Walks up to ours, fires it up.. spitting and hissing along. Then he says, "I used to be a technician here for years, that sounds just fine to me." I was speechless. I walk up to it and hit the choke, and it smooths out again. We talk back and forth for a few minutes. He proceeds to open the hood, (Banging it off the trailer in the process), and use a POCKET KNIFE to try and 'tune the choke' because apparently it wasn't closing all the way.. Okay, you should have fixed that in the first place, and second, who cares? It's still lean regardless! Finally, I get fed up and walk up to him. And I say, "Listen, I can save you all the time of messing around with it. The carb is dirty, and playing with the choke isn't going to fix anything." He turns, and about now he probably notices my Maine Antique Power Association buttonup. And he says, "I got to ask, you seem to know so much, are you some kind of technician?" I reply, "No, I just know what I'm talking about. What are you?" Probably not the best words, but it was all I could come up with, disgusted as I was. Anyway, he continues to say it's fine. ..After awhile, he gives up and walks back to the shop. Granddad and I walk in, and he tells the man at the desk that he's not paying for this go-around, and that they'd better figure it out soon. We walked back out, pushed it back to the shop door, and drove off. I'm disgusted with them.. we've had nothing but issues there. How can a CERTIFIED Deere dealer be so difficult, so uncaring? This is a nearly new machine, and they blow us off every time. How can a v-twin barely popping along on one cylinder sound 'fine'? I'm just so disgusted with this. I could hardly care less about new machines, and whenever I use it, I often wish I was on my Wheel Horse or Ford, but I know the sound of that engine. You aren't telling me it's fine. And oh, I could go on for days like this, about our other run-ins.. just angering. On the drive home, I commented, "You know? I have a hard time asking 25 for a mowing, 30 for a days worth of leaves, and 15 to rebuild a neighbors carburetor. If I was doing shop rate, I'd be a millionaire and never have to actually fix a thing!" No offence anyone.. but most of the dealers around here are exactly this way. How can these places still be in business.. I mean, I suppose the average person wouldn't have noticed that and been fine with the bill, but how can you charge that kind of money, for work that was never even done, nevertheless even necessary? Nothing runs like a Deere, eh? Thoughts, anyone?

hello men, a long time friend where i work is retiring next year. we'll call him RH. RH has helped me with innumerable projects over 35 years. so i figured i would give him one of my horses to say thank you and help make his retirement a little easier. my plan was to set it up with a nice 42 inch SD deck i have. truth be told i bought this tractor from another member who did the paint and decals. he did a super nice job. the tractor has been in my long term storage for quite some time. this tractor has a mind of its own. it does not want to leave my herd so to speak. i replaced both axle seals. broke one hub because i got impatient and used my impact gun in conjunction with my hub puller. luckily my buddy mark welded it up good as new. 40 plus years of welding experience will do that. next i replaced the brake band seal and the input shaft seal. now the tranny does not leak. i added lug nuts instead of bolts and went with chrome lugnuts for some bling. i cleaned and repacked the front wheel bearings. put on some nice turfs on the front and some new carlisle ags on the back. added a way cool bud andrews exhaust stack. fabbed a brace for the black pipe used to route the exhaust. even scored some new rubber bumpers for the seat pan and hood from my dealer. fresh 30w rotella "T" oil. new fuel lines and an inline filter. plus the usual maintenance. had it running great. would like to correct the right front wheel misalignment problem. and now i think the fuel pump went south. tractor won't start and gas pours out of the fuel line after the pump until i shut off the petcock at the tank. diaphragm blown? hope you guys like the pics. mike in mass.

Welcome to the madness , this is the best place to find out about your b-80 and all the other horses out there , lots of folks that will answer your ? and give you lots of great ideas , and when you find the time look into becoming a forum supporter , its the best way to keep the site running and it makes it a lot easier to upload pictures , and YES we want to see your horse pictures !!!!!

it does have the cut out. and its funny you pointed that out,because i thought that cut was to make a motor fit in where it wasnt supposed to be !haha

Thank you for putting in the research on this Mr. Schmidt. So far it looks like I'm at 6ozs per 10 gallons of fuel. A little more but only a little.

Bob, Hope everything goes well and wishing you a speedy recovery.

I'm sure there is plenty of work left in the Ole girl no matter how she looks. Let it Snow!!

I'd like to thank all the members here for their time and knowledge, and willingness to help each other. It's a blessing in this day and age. May we all have a wonderful day with friends and family.

Bob, these words of prayer were a comfort to me prior to my surgery and I want you to share them with you. We all look forward to seeing you at the Big Show in June and wish you a speedy recovery.

put one of those weight pins on the side of the blower lifting

Looks like your ready for shure....How much weight do you have on the back? I would recommend tire chains as well. Ice and rubber dont get along very well traction wise.