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Found this on CL . It's a k91t with 3/4" shaft . The guy had in his basement for 30 years and decided it was time to let it go . He put gas in it and it started on the third pull . Only thing missing is the recoil . Now if I can't fix the one that's on my RJ ,I at least have a kohler to shake it .

So Mrs. M took a picture of me walking the halls. Sorry guys, I promised no pics, but I couldn't resist.

Well it took almost 3 years to get the trade deal done on this nice RS83 Ride Away Senior, but it finally came together this weekend! The deal of a lifetime was made on my 1980 Struck bull dozer with 3 nice attaching blades and a wad of cash and a last minute deal sealer, my favorite 1959 Copar Panzer thrown in on the deal! Me and my buddy Packrat loaded all this stuff up in record time and delivered to the Seniors resting location on Sunday afternoon. This Senior has been in dry storage most of it's life and in this storage unit for probably 10 years and hasn't been run. The motor appears to be rebuilt since I got an old piston and rod, gaskets, rings and other misc. parts in a box that came with it. I will have to take the hood off to see if the Wisconsin Id. label is still intact. It took about 8 hours to load the dozer, deliver it, move 2 tons (literally) of heavy iron garden tractor parts from behind the Senior to get it out of there, then reload all that stuff back into the guys storage unit, unload the dozer and Panzer and dozer parts, load the Senior and bring it back to my house! All well worth it but my back is fried this week! But hey, I got a Senior so it is worth all of the work it took! What ya'll think?

We're all glad you didn't have a wardrobe malfunction when that picture was taken Bob............ You're no Janet Jackson.........

Especially for you, Craig!

lol No. I have a trophy wife. you in this day and age when everyone has to be a winner and there are no losers, even the guy who comes in last gets a trophy.

The professionally printed calendars are ready to be printed. On the top bar of the forum click on the 2016 Calendar and the paypal button should be there. If you don't do paypal PM me and I will respond on where to mail the payment too. For international shipping and pricing PM me also. CUT OFF DATE TO ORDER IS DEC 16 8:00 P.M. ! ( I want these out for Christmas! )

Not really a calendar shot but what the heck I know how you guys like pics... my cuurent lineup less the suburban undergoing work...

Nice find! What's you secret? I've even tried leaving trails of horse biscuits and nothing follows me home, especially that nice!

Man you guys are getting tractors all over the place. I can't even get my dog to follow me home. Nice tractor

WTG Bob. Glad it went well.

Do not pound on the hub or the axle..if you knock off the snap ring inside the differential that holds the axle...You will be splitting the trans to repair them....FYI.

Well I have been getting all the parts together to be able to use the wheel horse for snow plowing this winter. Well we got our 1st snow yesterday and over night up here in South Dakota. Think we got close to 10" of heavy wet snow. I was nervous as I have two untested tractors for snow duty and was just crossing my finger they were going to work. That old 1267 is just a monster with that snow blower. I plowed into a windrow as much as I could with the 918 and then hit the windrows with the Horse. snow higher than the front of the blower, just kept on walking. I have about 800 feet or so of drive and only clogged in up twice, and that is because I was trying different high / low and gear selections to see what worked best. For being my 1st Wheel Horse and 1st time doing a real job with her, I have to say I really like it. I just wished it had power lift for that heavy blower. I was so happy to try it, I forgot to take video or pictures. next time.

We couldn't see you, we couldn't hear you but we could feel it...................something was out there...........

That’s true Brian. Many times service bulletins were issues for just the reasons you stated. But also, many times for engineering changes to improve performance or correct an issue. Wheel horse was a fledgling company 50-55 years ago when this was going on and they were working with their own design. Again, engineering on the go. My reference to tolerances was only to simplify figuring the proper length of the stop pin. But let’s face it. Just about the only tight tolerances on a Wheel Horse are in the engine that they didn’t build. Theoretically, if all the tolerances were tight enough the original 3515/16 shift rails would have been fine. But they were having issues on new tractors. The reason……excessive tolerances. Then wear stepped in to increase those tolerances. Initially they corrected it with the 5615/16 shift rails (left rail post #2) and the 5614 stop pin. Per the service bulletin: If it becomes necessary to replace one of the earlier shift rails, we recommend that both new shift rails (Parts No, 5615 and 5616) together with the new Part No, 5614 Shift Stop Pin be installed. The additional cost to the customer is negligible and will definitely eliminate the possibility of the transmission locking in two gears. So, there you have it. Issued for too much tolerance? A design that didn’t take all the factors in account? Or some of both? Ya gotta love it. The old 3615/16 rails migrated from the 3-piece cases to the early 2-piece. No thought was given to the fact that now the rail was being inserted into a blind hole. Thus, the suction/pressure issue. Very real. Sure, grinding a flat was the simple fix. It didn’t even have to be opposite the detents. Just provide a release. But they didn’t do it. Not until the public had them in their hands for ‘testing’. And they revealed the problem. I was definitely about the groove all the way around and only speculated that it may have been to incorporate the shift stop parts. I’m liking your idea on the milling thing. I hear that quite a bit in many applications. I doubt that anybody 50 years ago could have imagined that their tractors would still be going strong this long. I have strong memories of driving these tractors when they were new, then building my own herd when married in 1975. I never gave any thought to it. My ‘oldies’ were only 10-15 years old. It was usually an abused machine that had the common issues we see today. Believe me, there were plenty of them but not nearly like what is almost normal now. All of us today are battling a different war than the Wheel Horse engineers were. Other issues are causing the same, as well as new problems. Yes, all the things you mentioned are valid. I wasn’t trying to address those issues, just discussing is more like it was 1965 instead of 2015.

Here is my new amber LED light bar that was on sale during this year's Black Friday. It is just resting on the roof as I have yet to re-install the cab for the season. My plan is to get it installed and, if the weather cooperates (mid 50s next week), paint the roof red for this year. That way I can strip everything off as it is much easier to work on not installed on the tractor. My front LED floods were bought before the influx of less expensive LED lights. I actually had purchased one of them a few years ago and used it with a magnetic mount on the rear of a tractor. After I got the cab, I decided to use it and bought the matching one for the front. The rear is the same as what Fun Engineer used.

Very glad that things went well Bob. Will continue good thoughts for a speedy recovery. :)

I also would like to thank all the guys who put the 2016 calendar together. What an awesome display of fine Wheel Horse tractors! It is quite an honor to have my 1962 model 502 included in the calendar. This project was three long years of blood, sweat and tears to bring my dad's old horse back to life and I am very pleased to be able to share the results with the RedSquare community.

Well Mike, here it is. Surgery went well. More reports later. Bob PS no pictures per your request.

Nope, not a "making something on a lathe" thread, but a "using the best bits from two lathes" sort of thing My 80+ year old Southbend lathe has served me well for many a year and all sorts of things have been made on it, but lately it has been suffering with belt slip problems and as you can see from the photo the bench it is on is starting to bend! My other lathe is/was a TW Monoturn which to put it politely is very worn! The base is good (apart from a crack in it) and the motor is very strong.. The rest is scrap really! Strip down of the Southbend to make it lighter to move about.. A chance to give it a good clean as well.. The TW Monoturn soon looked like this.. And eventually it was reduced to a pile of parts. Rather than use the lathe base/tray legs I will be using just the tray. The bench will be strengthened a huge amount to take the extra weight of the tray and bigger motor. This is only a mock-up so the big bits of box will go and the tray mounted level on the bench once I have cut a hole for the drain bit on the tray which is lower than the rest of the tray.. The lathe and tray look good together, a good time worn match

I found my hood bracket and did a little mock up. Like everything on this project I will need to do a little repair to mount it properly. After removing a bunch of stuff that wasn't mine. Now the kids have that worry. Lol I found my work bench too.

Looking good!

Looking good, it was a week before they would let me out of bed without a walker.

Well it looks like things went well Bob! Very good News. An early Christmas Present. Now We wish you a speedy recovery.

Glad to see you up and around. And with no training wheels. LOL

Just a reminder. No calendars will be printed and sent out until after the cut off date. I send 1 amount to the printer and it's a 1 time run. I do not want leftovers so I get just the amount needed. This keeps the cost down on a small order. Thanks

I was amazed to hear that the tires had been balanced, must be a high speed model! It could be a white primer or perhaps had a huge stash of wheels when they started the new line in '85 and went to silver. Unless you are the original owner and know the entire thirty year history it is hard to say if it is a rim that came on that tractor or a transplant.

Yeah I have the same blower I use on my 93 520 H it works great. Throws snow 35 to 40 feet no problem. I live in west Michigan and can get some heavy wet snow it handles it easy. I do have the manual for the ber-vac if you need a copy I'll send it.

Not sure how I missed this thread but o well I can wait to miss it again next year This would have been my submission 1990 312-H with a 48" plow

My 857 can really push the snow even in high gear with just a 110 lbs of weight on the hitch. I just installed tire cables last week because ice can be a problem on my blacktop drive. I'm sure they will do the trick.

It is somewhat easier if you just do the flag first...by it self...out of the tube, then slide the blower toward the horse while sliding the flag in the tube. That way you can turn the flag piece around more to get that little hole facing in a better direction for the pin.

The hub doesn't spin loosely around the axle, only about a quarter turn if everything is lined up right. I was only able to get it about 1/2" off by suspending the transmission by the hub from sawhorses and pounding the axle with a mallet. So I think I will need a puller. One of the hubs on the 8-speed is loose (due to leaking axle seal), so I may be able to rig up a puller using that since the bolt pattern is identical. I like the driving in circles idea for loosening the wheel - can't wait to try once it's drivable!

Notice how I am just lurking here??

Bob, I also wish you a congratulations on winning the Big Ten picks of 2015! So now we are on to the Championship game. We all know the route I'm taking. Asked the better half if I could go , she looked at me cross-eyed and said really oops, long story Go Hawkeyes!!!

I remember putting the hitch pin in last year as difficult. So, this year I tired a different approach. Lie completely on your back with your feet out on the lift side. You can look straight up and see the hole in the clevis pin on the lift flag-you may need a flashlight. Insert the hitch pin from the front toward the rear. I could not believe how easy it was to put in and take out. It will not work if you wear gloves. If your tractor is dirty-wear goggles.

When this first popped up I looked at a manual for the blower and saw both holes pointed out for the blower, I cant seem to find that now though. Everything is hooked up the same essentially so the only thing I would think it does it put a bit more weight on the hydraulic cylinder which we know is pretty strong. I made this switch on my manual tractor last night and man what a PITA to get to that top hole. I finally did get it set though and it is much easier to lift and the assist spring works much better now but I don't like how it only lifts the blower maybe 3-4 inches off the ground, in the second hole you probably get close to a foot. Now it makes sense why ive seen many others talk about adding washers or a stop collar to get more lift. The other thing that was a bit odd is how the lift lever only goes forward a little bit, which I think is what Glenn referenced in the beginning and the first thing that stood out as odd to him. I thought it was because of my lift assist spring but maybe not.

your missing the big picture here the service bulletins were a quick fix for poorly made parts with too much tolerance/or not enough these problems usually showed up within a short time after the tractor was put in service not 40 + years later if you feel vacuum is hurting it's a simple fix to grind a small flat length wise on the opposed side of the scalps in the shift shafts the most likely cause on a old transmission is the ball on the end of the shift lever or a bent fork and I have seen a badly ground up gear hang one up also you say it right in your post above if all parts are the correct tolerance you can not move one shift shaft with out the other in neutral detente position so if this was a perfect world and all parts were perfect there should be no way to get the transmission stuck between gears if the detente was working correctly the new style shift shafts with the groove all around the shaft was probably for ease of manufacturing as the shaft could be made in a lathe instead of a mill Brian

That looks like a bass drum pedal to me

I do believe I have it in the top hole, but I have to double check. I think it is more the operator than the machine. Fat lazy operator has Hydro lift on the Arco/Allis 918. so I sure the operator is just lazy and like to complain, I have to double check on that with my boss when she gets home. I think we got more snow in the last 48 hours than all of last year.

Excellent news Bob. Here is to fruit and good pain drugs. Too bad Tela-Tubbies aren't on anymore...they are excellent when you are taking Narcos.

Oh good, I thought that was just me.

Glade to hear it went well. Now focus on what needs to be done to recover!!!

Good to hear, Bob. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that tasteful photos of cute nurses are probably OK.

ok. mystery solved. there are (3) holes in that lift arm. you guys never said the top top hole. I had it in the center hole which was no good. Now its where its supposed to be and works great. with NO spring. thanks for the advice. Glenn

I would normally post a picture of one of the tractors but figured after finally finishing this barn after almost two years of work I thought this would be my best submission. Hey... if you look close there is a horse there

Here is the Stedman Stables

That frame looks a lot like an old Simplicity frame. As you've already said the look went south from there. The Wheel Horse hood and fender is a great improvement. It will look great after it gets the Stig treatment. With the odd ball machine already in this tread here's mine. I broke down and bought a Harbor Freight engine for the Ford Shortdog. Wanted an older engine just could find one around here.