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So I had a tough day at work today, momma and the kids are away at the in laws for the week so I decided to pull the sr out, hook up the pull behind aerator, light up a stogie and crack a beer... I felt much better after and ended up doing somd mowing on the 520lxi. maybe someone can crop these pics??

Sher kem applied to the engine block, is holding up fine, burning paint around the exhaust port. Going to fire up the 1045 today for it's inaugural 1 hr run will post pics later of how it holds up on a big block

Opps ...may I should have put this in the classifieds.... It's not a but it has hooves?!?!?

Happy Belated Birthday to your Boy! It looks as though he has plenty of space to ride on with that super nice Ranger.. As it turns out yesterday was my son Cole's birthday as well. This pic of him on his 854 is from about a yr. ago. He is about a foot taller and turned 14.

I prefer the IH red as the perfect match. It matches nearly perfect to original WH red that has not been sun faded. Regal Red is super close though, but a hair darker. I'd give it a very close second. This deck is IH Red, the tractor is original paint. This dash is Regal Red, as a comparison.

I think it is a big step up from the b115 you should like it

The deck that came with my 520-HC was all cracked up, bent up, and badly welded on so it was time for a rebuild. First, it was totally stripped down. Then a good pressure washing to see it better. Next was to cut off the reinforcement plate (it had been welded on) and sandblast the deck. Holy cracks batman. There were cracks on cracks and blobs of weld everywhere. Cracks are now welded up. 2 of the spindle mounts have been totally replaced. Bolt and rod welded on for bagger mount. There is one thin spot to fix still but it is otherwise done and ready for paint. All brackets, spindles, mounts, guards, idlers etc have been totally rebuilt or replaced as necessary ready to bolt on once deck is done. I have 3 48" decks here and this one is in the best shape. The other 2 are rusted badly.

/looks up Wheel Horse on Craigslist... All I need is a pair of 23x10.5x12 turf tires ... And a tiller! ...And maybe that and that and this... "Well there's a set of tires, but they're cracked!" "There's a set of rims & a set of tires, I wonder if they will go together?" "Nope!!!" "Do you sill have the tires you posted 2 hours ago?" "No?!?" Drat!!!" Well, there's a tractor with a tiller. I wonder if they'll sell it separate?" "No? Next add!" Same thing different response. "You will separate? How much? $275 How much do you want for rhe tractor the blade and the tiller?" $300?" Looks like i just just bought my second Wheel Horse!!! Who knows, I might just keep it to use with the tiller! Oh, yeah, I told my wife I'd sell it! I think this might be a common theme around here!?! Hello, New member of Red Square! Thanks to Red Ranger for telling me about Red Square. And thanks to a couple others on C-List and on here for helpful advice. (Namely "Any questions on wheel horses, I love to help" & my New Albion friend Kent). Thought I'd say Hi and hopefully give you a laugh in he process! My tractor would love to be like this when it grows up! (See monster 8 wheeled 520H, begging forgiveness on using your tractor pic from North Central Meet & Greet 2013). The other pic is me on my new hobby! Hello all!

Saw this on Craigslist, Can't figure out what was being done to the Transaxle, anybody seen something like this?

Well today (my sons actual birthday) I finally got everything going great on the new ranger. He loved his present!

Perhaps to belt drive a saw mill or something.

This mower will even cut the grass in your pond!

Great memories! Thanks for the post and pictures. My son turned 45 yesterday. Loves Horses since he was a tyke!

You guys are tooo much!!! I love it!! Thanks for all the birthday wishes, lets put it this way! You guys are Great!!! Thank you everyone, you guys mean a lot!!!

Figured I would share these other pics, second picture he was trying to smile but sun was in his eyes...

Welcome to our addiction support group!

Maybe that is the end result of someone saying, "here hold my beer". Hahahaha

I should have saved the pictures from the craigslist ad where I first saw it! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures when I was digging it out. I didn't take some when I brought it home though!

I just checked one Sunday and it was a 1/4" pipe plug and takes a 1/4" Allen wrench.

Perhaps this is the hit you were thinking about. The piece in the red circle was about 20 feet below the next closest piece. Truly a herroundous crash.

That aerator would really look bad on the rear of MAD MAX.

I tried to narrow it down to one but its a draw between my work horse 700 with HH100 repower, or my C165 with 520 front end and rear rims. If it's narrowed down to stock I'd have to say my 857, but I like the others more

Happy Birthday kid your own great pictures

Here I am, getting ready to fire up the old Go-devil. And no, I don't have any pictures of the Go-devil in action. And no, I have never worked for the county road dept.

@Nagzz4423 I usually drain the milky fluid and put in some kerosene and drive around in all gears. Don't try to be a Cowboy, but use ALL gears to get he fluid circulated. Drain it and do it again. I do this at least 2 times, and sometimes I have to do it a 3rd time to get "clean" kerosene to drain out. I let it drain overnight then I put the 80-90 gear lube in. Make sure you have a good shifter boot or you may get water in the transmission again!

Hello from Germany my name is Andre Reissmann. I live in Thuringia, Germany. I am writing a translator so don't be surprised if something is not right. I have a Toro Wheel Horse 523DXI with some extras like integrated hydraulic with triple control unit, and an additional working hydraulics individually driven with a belt. I have the tractor already 10 years and it's actually a really good tractor many greetings from Deutschland MFG Andre

Hi to all. My journey with Wheel Horse began in 1976 when I was 33 and bought a house with a big yard. I purchased a new '76 B-100 8-speed with a 36" deck and a 38" pusher blade. At that time it set me back $1,775.00 out the door. It was a lot of money at the time, but I never looked back and it turned out to be one of the best purchases of my life. It has mowed more grass, brushhogged more weeds, plowed more snow, dozed more dirt and helped pull over more trees than I ever would have imagined. And all with just basic maintainance. It has never let me down. About 12 years ago I acquired a 42" snow blower for it. WOW what a difference between that and a blade. Wish I'd had the money for that in '76. That makes moving snow fun again. The more the better! About 2 years ago I thought maybe I should have another tractor for backup, you know, just in case. So a 1978 C-161 automatic with a 42" deck found me. I just wish the previous owner had taken better care of it, but it is coming around with a little tinkering and some TLC. Among many other things, it needed a muffler. Went the TSC route and got a pot to screw on the end of a pipe. Hated it!! Looked online-not a lot there. Last September a friend, who is a member of RS, and I decided to go to the Mentone show and check out the swap meet. We didn't have any luck with mufflers but we sure had a good time while there. Since then we have been working with a local exhaust manufacturer and have had a couple of original style mufflers made for our tractors. We plan on again attending the Mentone show at the end of this month and will bring along a muffler or two and see what others think of what we have come up with. Sorry for rambling on, but I am really looking forward to the Mentone show and it looks like the weather may cooperate. Anyway, glad to be here and have always enjoyed the knowledge and expertise that many of you have. Jim

Thank you Steve. I am not saying no, and I may need to get them from you. However I am going to attempt this since I been wanting to use the lathe for so long. In addition to that desire I am also thinking about being efficient with my time. You see, the lathe and the still are in the same room, and I always have to kill a substantial amount of time until the stuff starts flowing. Now, I not only have a reason to try my hand at being a machinist but at the same time I can work on my chemistry stuff or and the reverse order. Its a win win situation one may say. Definitely . I am going first to clean lathe from all the wood dust ( I am a woodworker and its in the shop) lubricate everything and set it up. I will post as I go. I been looking at this lathe for a while thinking about using it but not really having a reason for it. I may then eventually move it to the "tractor shop " since oily stuff and metal shavings are not good companions to wood.

Beefed-up rear axle to handle the power of the 15HP Briggs big block

Last weekend I drug home a C-125 parts tractor to molest for parts for my C-161 that I got going a while back. It had all the things that the old 161 was needing: good seat, good clutch plate, better tires, and most importantly, GOOD ORIGINAL NELSON MUFFLER! Someone long ago put one of those stupid pepper pot pieces of crap on it and I nearly went deaf when I mowed with it for the first time last weekend. Just got the muffler swapped over, and HOLY CRAP you never realize how loud something is until it's not loud anymore. What an insane difference that thing makes! I'd say at least a 40% reduction in noise. That muffler alone was worth the $100 I paid for the parts tractor.

RIP http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/prince-estate-death/

The current will take the path of least resistance. So to prevent the unwanted weld current (any type...AC/DC, high or low freq., pos. or neg. ground) from passing thru any electrical components, electronic devices, wiring, and bearings, a good ground must be properly attached to the part that the arc will be struck on, and great care must be taken to prevent the accidental striking of the arc on any other parts Having said all that, to be absolutely safe, remove the part from the tractor before welding..

Unhook and Remove the battery and fuel tank. Years back I knew of a welder who inadvertently struck a wire on a truck he was performing repairs on, it burned most of the wiring harness and caused the battery to explode. His leathers and helmet protected him from most of the battery acid, but if anyone had been near by it could have been a disaster.

This is really a good thread to see how well these newer machines were made. Many of us don't see these in our part of the country.

They use the same term of endearment for us in Wisconsin and Minnesota too! I can't help but think (rationalize?) it's geared more toward the Chicago area folks than us downstaters though...whole different world down here. Steveasaurus? What say you? Sometimes they replace the "P" with a "B"...you'll have to fill in the blank for that one!

Can anyone else see "Dad can I borrow the keys to the truck" coming!?!?!?

Just saw this post for the first time. Guess I was sleeping. Steve from Schererville. I've always lived in Indiana. Michigan City, LaPorte, Bloomington, Valparaiso, Schererville....I've been around I guess. Ironically, us Hoosiers have a name for Illinoisans too, FIP's! (expletive Illinois People) They're always jackin' up traffic and lost in front of us. When you meet them, they're generally arrogant and jerks. Wish they'd just stay home. Not you of course. You sound like a Hoosier at heart.

Thanks Amc! I forget how old the son was in the photo but, remember when I made the front brush guard. Just in case! My neighbor said, "When you're not home, your boys race the tractors up and down the road." I said, "So?", and walked away.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RUSS! b. 04/21/1929

I basically bought a discounted muffler and got a whole tractor with it for free!

Way better than video games or electronic junk and as he gets older he can wrench on it to learn skills that will last a lifetime and possibly earn himself a living someday.

Before I retired I was a tech at GM dealerships. What I was allowed to do was limited by the rules of each service manager as far as safety was concerned. What I did to my own vehicles was my own business however. Some dealers insisted we try to sell new tires even if repairs were possible within our tire guidelines. If I were you I would go to the next shop down the road and have a tube installed. It's a garden tractor after all, not Clarke Griswalds Family Truckster station wagon.

Thanks everyone. I like to get my kids atleast one thing for the birthday that will last forever

Always makes good sense... to just buy another .

Those are such cool pictures, a lifetime of memories you are building there.

Here is a picture from back in the winter, after I had burned off some of the wood. That little stuff in the center would have been very difficult to stack and keep stacked. I did cap a tarp over the stack after I took the top off it. I didn't think it would shed water properly. I guess a true frontiersman would have restacked a watershedding top on each time he got in wood. May have to turn in my true frontiersman's card. Of course, none of this seemed to worry Louie the Dog.

I have the same reaction... everytime a new one comes home.