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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!

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.

I just finished welding up a crankshaft on a Horse. Ground cable attached to pto brake mount. I disconnected both posts on the battery. Starts and runs fine with no ill effects.

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.

The drain plug should be an allen wrench plug, 3/8 I think, yours may have been worn a bit. The point that @T1257 RETIRED WRENCHER. was making is very important, you will want to jack up the front while draining because there is a casting that goes from side to side in the Trans axle that will trap some of the old stuff if it isn't jacked up.

That's probably why muffler shops do not unhook the battery since the ground clamp is usually within two feet of where they're welding AND most muffler hangers have a rubber grommet/strap which would help isolate the electricity from flowing through critical components.... One thing that always gets me is people forget about welding near parts that have ball bearings, I've seen situations where axle bearings begin howling after some sort of weld was done on the axle or suspension nearby. I always remove the part from the machine unless it can't be, like adding a backing plate to where the transaxle mounts to the frame. In that case, I removed the gauges from my 520 just to be safe.

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.

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!

The Raider 12 shares the mowing duties with the C-120 and now the 312 hydro. Late last year, the Raider started running poorly... no power and requiring full choke to run at all. So yesterday, I pulled the carb ( Carters 26) and was really surprised at how clean it was. It appears the Sea Foam and Sta-Bil are doing their job. With the carb off, I did crank the engine to verify I had a good fuel supply from the pump. Of course I flushed all holes with carb cleaner but really didn't find any dirt. The other known problem was the throttle shaft was loose in the carb. So I decided to remove the shaft and install a bushing. If you ever do remove the throttle plate screws, remember to file or grind away the back side of the screws as they have been crimped to prevent loosening and they will break off if you try to remove them without removing the burred up threads. After removing the shaft, sure enough, the shaft was worn and loose. Simple fix is to press in one of the 1/4 X 7/16 X 1/8 inch bronze bushings that I bought from Brian Miller several years earlier into the counter bore where the seal was located. Now...where did I put the bushings ? I finally gave up and went to ACE but all I could find was a 1/4 X 3/8 X 1 inch bronze bushing. Not wanting to wait for a new supply of bushings from Miller, I set up the carb on the drill press using a 1/4" piece of drill rod, then drilled a 3/8" hole 1/2" deep and pressed in the bushing. Then cut off the bushing flush with the top of the carb so some of the unworn part of the shaft is in the new bushing. The raider now starts and runs full range with good power without any choke at all. Sorry, I didn't take pics, But If you go to Brian Millers web site, he has all the details on how to make this repair.

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.

4-21-1973 “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree” tops the U.S. pop charts and creates a cultural phenomenon. The yellow ribbon— has long been a symbol of support for absent or missing loved ones. There are some who believe that the tradition of the yellow ribbon dates back as far as the Civil War era, when a yellow ribbon in a woman’s hair indicated that she was “taken” by a man who was absent due to service in the United States Army Cavalry. But research by professional folklorists has found no evidence to support that story. The Library of Congress itself traces the cultural ubiquity of this powerful symbol to the well-known song by Tony Orlando and Dawn: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” which topped the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1973. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” was a massive international hit, holding the top spot on both the U.S. and U.K. charts for four consecutive weeks and earning upwards of 3 million radio plays in 1973. It was sung from the perspective of a man returning home after three years in prison and looking anxiously for an agreed-upon sign that the woman he loves would welcome his return. Songwriters Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown got the idea for the song from a story they’d heard while in the Army. New York newspaper columnist Pete Hamill sued Levine and Brown for copyright infringement because he believed they took the idea from a 1971 column of his relating a very similar story as fact. Hamill dropped his suit, however, when researchers uncovered multiple versions of the same general tale dating back at least as far as the 1950s. “Probably the story is one of these mysterious bits of folklore that emerge from the national subconscious to be told anew in one form or another,” Hamill said at the time. To use a more familiar term, it was an urban legend. Fast-forward to January 1981, when the Library of Congress was inundated by press inquiries over the historical roots of the yellow ribbon. What prompted the sudden interest in the origins of the “tradition” was the spontaneous appearance all around the country of yellow ribbons welcoming the U.S. hostages home after 444 days in captivity in Iran. The Library’s experts heard assertions of connections to the 1949 John Wayne film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and they found a 1917 song called “”Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon (For her Lover Who Is Fur, Fur Away),” but they found no actual evidence of anyone ever actually wearing yellow ribbons or tying them to trees, lampposts, etc. Instead, the Library of Congress ruled that the most compelling evidence explaining the origin of the yellow-ribbon “tradition” was to be found in a television interview with Penelope Laingen, wife of the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Tehran, whose ribbon-bedecked Maryland home appears to have started the trend in 1981. “It just came to me,” she said, “to give people something to do, rather than throw dog food at Iranians. I said, ‘Why don’t they tie a yellow ribbon around an old oak tree.’ That’s how it started.” Her reported inspiration: the Tony Orlando song that reached #1 on this day in 1973.

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

What a paint job Ranger.......that is impressive....!!!!!

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 .

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.

Nagzz4423 What Gwest sent you is a very good start. If you handy with tools and have a floor jack? I use kerosene in mine to flush out the old tranny oil. Drain old oil put in kerosene till it come out of filler hole. Jack up the rear so tires are just off the ground. start it up run for 10 minutes. Drain/ then jack up front so that most of kerosene get out of housing. Been doing for a while now keeps everything clean. Enjoy the project.