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Well @ACcuz and his wife gave me a little gift last night . She runs a small business and she made me up this awesome travel mug to enjoy a nice hot/cold beverage . ACcuz says his cup has held ice for 24 hours + , and his coffee stays warm for hours and hours . Can't wait to try it out !

I have nothing but awe for the beautifully restored or maintained machine.However they aren't in my price range so I drag home WHs that cost $500.00 or less.That price range keeps me out of the doghouse with the missus.This is the newest companion to the big ugly and hoodless 520. The seller said it ran and he got it started.No smoke or knocks but badly surging and it wouldn't stay running unless hooked to his truck battery. We dropped the deck and winched it onto my truck,tied it down and then loaded on the deck.Oh well I love the challenge.JAinVA

Hi. I just bought (but haven't brought to my house yet) a 1999 314-8 with a 48" side discharge mower deck and 650 hours on it. I've been to the files section and downloaded lots of manuals. This is a great site and helped educate me the last few days when making my purchasing decision. I look forward to contributing throughout my ownership! Rodd

Hi all, this is the first week of the rest of my life. I will have lots of time to play with my tractor now. Looking for a C-160 project with a Eaton

The weather was reasonable on Saturday so we made start on collecting leaves. I blew them into piles and the kids collected and tipped. Had a play up the field moving boulders and collecting some gravel... that wet clay clay stuff is heavy... the trailer sinks with 1/2 ton and needs two tractors to move it. and eventually even C4 bogs down and loses the will to live. I need a trailer with flotation tyres on. That or I need to stop overloading the trailer.

Another Wheel Horse followed me home! These horses sure are friendly, they just don't take "no" for an answer. This one is a 1975 C120A. These are good tractors, I hope! This one came with a 42" deck and a plow blade. If these Horses don't stop following me home, pretty soon my property is going to look like a Horse ranch! Any tips on persuading these Horses to not follow you home, or is it hopeless? Sorry for the dark pictures, I just unloaded it from the trailer.

I HAVE BEEN RETIRED FOR OVER 22 YEARS. STIL DO NOT HAVE TIME TO DO EVERY THING I WANT TO DO. RUSS

As many of you know I am basically an RJ guy and do not really deviate from original, yes I like to build clones but the clones are as they would have come off the factory line. The last couple RJ projects have pushed me into building something else. As I really do not have a worker tractor in the family I thought it was time to build one. So I turned to my brother and as usual he found the perfect "must have tractor"... what did he find? A 1967 857. At first glance it was a pretty solid tractor with minimal rust, ran strong with no smoke and most of the original parts were intact. Even with that it did have one major issue... third gear was gone... I mean a real grind fest! With that it started the wheel rolling in my head. I had a lead on a "free" B-60 with an 8-Speed but a tired motor, a perfect swap in my mind... and that's exactly the direction I'm going, blending the best attributes of the 857 with the B-60... I want it to still look like a 857 at first glance but as you look closer you start to see things like the 8-Speed, wider front rims and the seat spring system. There is even the thought process of adding a set of vintage lights and upping the HP to a Kohler Magnum 10... As usual the entire build will be up step by step on my YouTube channel so please take a look and comment... suggestions are always welcome...

10% discount at TSC. I had two sets of these tires already and those sets have been pretty good. So I bought these yesterday and they will go onto my 416-8. With work and the sunny setting earlier, especially since DST has ended, it might be a few days of pictures of these mounted on the tractor.

Very cool Vin. I had a few similar tractors a few yrs. ago that I was going to do a lot of custom things to. However, I was never able to get motivated on it. Now, (thanks to you) I'm also looking for another one. Here is the one I had, the only thing I did was pop some tires and rims on it to see how I liked the look. I'm not responsible for the headlights. I regret letting it go, it ran and shifted like new! I always liked the short stocky look of these tractors.... Then there was the 657 I had with the 6hp Kohler... I hauled firewood with it one winter, I left it outside under a cover and no matter how cold it was it would fire right up with just one pull.

With all the talk about snow plows of late and winter on the way I thought I would share a few parts I decided try and make and I think they turned out pretty nice...the adjustable skid shoes for keeping the cutting edge/wear bar up out of gravels or grinding off on asphalt/concrete the factory O.E. are sand blasted black the ones I made still raw steel then painted black on the plow ,and the rear axle quick hitch black factory and raw steel I made the locking keys if you look close enough the pitted one's are original and non pitted I made, Jeff.

Congratulations. Welcome to the club of More Time than Money and More Money than Energy. My best advice is - Stay Busy!

Congrats on your retirement 3 years for me don"t know why I waited so long, if you are like me and worked hard all your life you need a rest. Have a long and healthy retirement.

Everything that was said is absolutely true. I have had both. The final decision is based on preference taking into account the following: Do you get a lot of snow? If no, a plow works great. If you get a lot of snow, no matter how far you push it back, you run out of room. Also, if you have a lot of snow, the curb where the city plows it into your driveway is a bear to move Is your snow wet or fluffy? Both work great in fluffy snow. If snow has 2 inches of slush on the bottom, a blower will clog. A plow will move it, but not without lots of spinning tires and marks from the chains on your driveway. By the way, if you have a blacktop driveway, DO NOT put latex driveway sealer on it. That stuff is slippery. If you must seal it, mix some playground sand into the sealer before you apply it to give some traction. Is your driveway stones or paved? Neither a plow nor a blower is ideal unless you are able to hold the implement off the ground a bit. A plow will leave stones in your lawn as Tankman said. A blower will chuck the making them projectiles and hurling them far into your lawn. Are you physically able to lift the implement? A plow is light but not when snow sticks to the blade and unless you have a hydro lift or you can hook up a helper spring, your left arm will get tired. A blower needs a helper spring or a hydro. I used a plow for 30 years. It was cheap to buy and worked great when there was not a lot of snow. In 2011 (I was 60 at the time) we had so much snow that even though I pushed the initial snowfall back 10 feet on each side of the driveway, there was no more place to put it. I bought a used 520xi with a single stage blower. Best decision ever.

11-7-1965 Art Arfons sets land-speed record On November 7, 1965, a drag racer from Ohio named Art Arfons sets the land-speed record—an average 576.553 miles per hour—at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. (Record speeds are the average of two runs, one out and one back, across a measured mile.) Arfons drove a jet-powered machine, known as the Green Monster, which he’d built himself out of surplus parts. Between 1964 and 1965—a period that one reporter called “The Bonneville Jet Wars” because so many drivers were competing for the title—Arfons held the land-speed record three differenttimes. He lost it for good on November 15, 1965, when a Californian named Craig Breedlove coaxed his car, the Spirit of America, to an average speed of 600.601 miles per hour. Art Arfons, born in Akron in 1926, had been racing cars since he was 13 years old. In 1952, he and his half-brother Walt built the first of many Green Monsters (not all were actually green), a three-wheeled drag racer powered by an Oldsmobile engine that their mother had painted with John Deere’s iconic green tractor paint. The next year, the Arfons brothers built a new Green Monster, this one powered by an Army-surplus aircraft engine. (That car was so powerful that it was banned from all officially sanctioned drag races.) By the early 1960s, some daredevil racers had begun to build cars powered by Air-Force-surplus jet engines. They took these new super-powered machines to the enormous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah—an ideal surface for extremely fast driving because it is hard, flat and smooth—to try and break the land-speed record (394 miles per hour at the time, set by Briton John Cobb in 1947). In September 1963, Craig Breedlove finally succeeded, beating Cobb’s record by 13 miles per hour in his three-wheeled needle-nosed Spirit of America. The next October, a car designed by Walt Arfons (now estranged from his half-brother Art) called the Wingfoot Express beat Breedlove’s record. Two days after that, a jet-propelled Green Monster took the title for the first time. For the next year, Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove passed the record back and forth. On November 7, 1965, Arfons set the 576 mph record that would be his last. Just a week later, Breedlove broke the record along with the 600-mph mark. In November 1966, Arfons tried to make a comeback in a revamped Green Monster. His first run across the flats reached 610 MPH, but on his return trip one of the car’s bearings froze, sending the car flying off the course. Arfons was uninjured, but the Green Monster was totaled and the record remained in Breedlove’s hands for the next four years. In 1997, a team of British drivers broke the sound barrier—763 mph—at Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

The biggest consideration for me is the type of snow you get. We tend to get very wet heavy snow, a snow blower will not work well with it. So long as you have a place to push off the excess it will work well. You will not have enough traction to do any damage to the transmission. Wheel weights and loaded tires are a good idea regardless of what you buy. Since your driveway is level you may want to look into a set of rubber tire chains to help get the job done

Since the show this year i decided i was going to slowly get out of this Hobbie, even sold off most of what i had,then this happens, O' well i tried picked up a few more today with another load to pick up in two weeks. Two B-80's. 854 and a 754. Three wagons, k-91 two midgrader blades. In two week will be bring home a gt-14 with 3 point hitch, lawn ranger, 704 and 3 snow plows one for a rj The 854 has inside wheel weights front and rear, would they be wheel horse Thanks

Picked up 3 blades this weekend, 1 good 48 in. snow / dirt blade, 1 42 in. blade cut up frame made for something? and a nice center grader blade for one of my 520H's.

if you can only have one its the plow all the way,as stated you cant use the blower for anything but snow,but the blade can and does get many other uses,

Welcome to the fixed income club now you will have all the time in the world to do as you please. Been retired now 7 years and still don't have enough time to get things done, don't know how I did it when I was working.

Try moving dirt or gravel with a snow blower!

I joined the club ten and a half years ago. Between working on Habitat for Humanities builds, projects with our church and the honey-do list I am kept out of trouble. Do the things that will MEAN THE MOST TO YOU FIRST! There are no guarantees on your health or the amount of time God will grant you so don't procrastinate.

Van, that is the biggest understatement. (the enjoyable part), I was laughing out loud, only cause there is SO MUCH on my plate right now. I have 5 garages rented out full of stuff waiting for the mrs. to pull the trigger to move. the big treat for me will be my 30 x 65ft. new wheel horse hangout. thanks for the chuckle, I sure needed it. Glenn

Predator 22hp in member's Bowtieguy's C-175.

Trouble? Five Horses have already followed me home! I am already looking at number 6! The thing is, my wife and I have so much work and different jobs to do on our property, it just saves us so much time to have a different set up for each common job, instead of constantly reconfiguring one tractor every time we do something. For example, this C120 will be set up as our primary mowing machine, our Raider 10 is set up for plowing/dozing work and heavy hauling, the 857 is set up for garden plowing and discing, the Lawn Ranger is our trim and tight spaces mower and small yard work hauler, the Suburban 551 will be the garden cultivator, and we are considering one more to be set up for misc. woods and trail work. None of our gets bored!

1958 RJ58 with plow.

Love to see you saving another wheel horse.

Its good to know you can take your time with this Glenn. It can be enjoyable for you now.

Had a blower, sold it. My drives are stone and millings. First plow I push the snow very wide to make room just in case more white, wet, cold "nasty" stuff arrives. Spring time, Grandsons are raking stone off the lawns 'n back to the driveways. Then pack the stone 'n millings with a roller and asphalt packer. I would opt for the plow.

Looking at what went on in his back yard... heres betting Art was a guy.

Lawn Rangers are good Wheel Horse tractors. Cecil Pond said it was his favorite Wheel Horse model! At $150 each they are a steal-soap, water and tractor time are cheap! The transmissions (mostly the #5053 from wat I see in the pics) can be interchanged with almost and two piece transmssion with a four spped. I buy almost every Lawn Ranger transmssion I find as I know they are generally tractors that were not abused -so they generaly have great transmissions. The Lawn Ranger can do lots of things-I have a snowblower on mine (and own a mower deck and snowplow too) and use it as a dedicated snowblower tractor. The Tecumseh H-60 with electric start and recoil would be standard on on the Models L-155, L-156, and L-157 and on one of the 1968 models. The earlier Lawn Ranger versions do not appear to be in any of your pictures. I do not have the Tecumseh problem a lot of folks do . They are a different motor but I actaully have a 1963 or 1963 6HP (painted black) on my 1967 Lawn Ranger. I bought the motor new and it had never had oil in it for over$300 several years ago. I finally put a new battery in my Lawn Ranger this year which was gettign hard to start and it it now starts on second or third key turn! In the cold winter snowblowing weather the Tecumseh works great. The pics I posted are of two I have owned. The first pic is of the first I bought in Micigan and paid about $150 with no motor. It sat in a friend's garage for three years before I brought it home. I had purchased a second one and exchanged the red Tecumseh motor you see in the second photo. Denny Clarke bought that one from me for his grandson! The third photo is of the one I use now with an H-60 Tecusmeh electric start and recoil. **** I have seen the A-60 at shows and yes batterires are high but that is a rare model. **** I would be curious to get more info on that green tractor as it looks like a good candidate for restore too! The other items you have selected on your " wish list " are all good too Glenn. Snowplows, snowblowers, etc are usually fairly easy to resell. In my opinion it sounds like the "pricey" sale terms are prices that run more like Midwestern asking prices not the East Coast selling and asking prices I see all the time on here and other garden tractor blogs etc.

Today I came across a true barn find. these were offered to me, not cheap, havent run in years. what would you fellas do and consider? one rj, 4 lawn rangers, one commando 8, one GT 2500. and possibly a tall shoot single stage. you will see by the dust. I didnt take many pictures, but will go back for more. Enjoy the pictures I took, and please advise. like I said, pricey to. Glenn

So some of the guys I work with that only have 1 tractor(usually a little Craftsman lawn tractor) often ask why I need so many tractors when they can get by with only the one. I tell em that some are just tractors I like to collect but most of em have a job. My B-100 8speed is my main snow-plowin tractor and it does a great job. My C-125 auto with hydraulic lift is this years snow-blowin tractor of choice since the blower is a bit heavy to lift all day with the manual lift. My C-120 with an 8hp Kohler is my 11 year old sons tractor and he has a plow and LOTS of weight so he can get out there and clear the drive like his old man. My B-80 4speed is my 8 year old daughters tractor and she just likes to put around the yard although she has ventured out into the wood with me and seems to like it. I put some weights and chains on hers since she weighs in at about 60lbs and needs the weight to get around in the woods. My GT1142 is the one my wife likes to use for pulling a small cart around the yard when she's doing some gardening or whatever. My GT2500 is a bunch of tractors put together and is my first choice for hard labor. The neighbor has about 30 acres and we have been making trails around the edge of the property and I put a plow and some weights on it so I can move rocks, trees or whatever gets in the way. I have a 312-8 that shares mowing duty with my C-125 and 2001 Craftsman GT3000. The 1969 Massey Furguson MF-10 is a showpice but has a mowing deck and is ready to mow on a moments notice. The 1961 Wheel Horse 701 is just a collectors item and is currently in need of a fuel sytem revamp. A 1982 C-105 with a 12hp Kohler Magnum is going to be my pulling tractor if I ever get it finished...still needs more weight, wheelie bars and a pulling hitch. She runs and looks descent. Guess I kinda rambled on.......Mike

It was like 2$ worth of o-rings, so you're not out much more then time if it doesn't work out.

I have built a few of these hitches for my 520's Plans and the ones I am using are for a standard 2" receiver. Pictures attached show 2 with 1-1/4" receivers being made up for a buddy. These do not have the extra links to the normal hitch position as the really nice ones being made up elsewhere have but these do what I need and are fairly easy to make. Wheel Horse heavy duty rear hitch plans.pdf This is the plans for either a top plate for a rear attach-a-matic hitch or the bottom plate to mount the hitch. If you have both hitches, you would simply bolt the two together using 3/8 bolts. Rear hitch plate.pdf

30 inch snow day last year 520 with front and rear wheel weights and rubber chains kept going and going

I put rubber chains on my GT-14 a couple years ago. Tractor has limited slip differential, loaded tires and wheel weights. Haven't noticed any difference in traction compared to steel chains. No marking at all on my asphalt driveway. Rubber chains are rated good for five years. I think that's a fair rating. In my opinion, they pay for themselves in cost savings in re-sealing your driveway every year or so to cover chain marks and damage.

Is ACcuz going to become a vendor? Could probably sell out at the Big Show.

Getting ready to crak open motor and see what is what. Have all the tools I need thanks to neighbor who is a mechanic. I will hone and rering if it looks good when I open it

Congrats I have been retired 6 years and have enjoyed everyday of it. Just don't turn into a couch potato life is to short.

Heck yeah, just like that ! ( Hubcap collection and all ) But tell me one thing Professor; What is that four wheeler green thing in the background?

I spent hours looking at the pictures of this tractor before I bought it.I have been collecting parts for my 312a project so I'm aware of the price people are asking and getting for the front end setup alone.The sheetmetal on this tractor while faded is not dented or rusty,the front is tight and it has the 8 1/2" wheels in back.The model tag and serial number are legible so, I may (I hate to say this)restore this machine, On the left side of the hood just ahead of the TORO logo it appears that the decal is crazed.In fact someone put a grasshopper decal on it, I guess someone didn't think it was ugly enough.JAinVA

JA..."save a Horse of course" great score ! ...even my wife commented on how my 520H would look with just a little work . My jaw hit the floor ! Usually it's just. witch leads to then I have to get her something to make things all better ...

Jim, I hear ya, not all of us can afford the nice ones. As for the surging issue, it may be the intake seal needs to be replaced.

Don't take this this the wrong way , but were have you been. Lots of people have had very good luck with using the Harbor Freight engines with little mods (can't beat the warranty and price) ! Type in Harbor Freight engine swap in the search box at top page , something should pop up .

I was joking with my neighbor about the hood scoop as well. I'm sure it adds at least a 1/4 hp to that Briggs... The steering wheel is a little high. It's not original, although if I didn't find pictures of an original one I wouldn't have been able to tell. I may cut it down to the original height. The steering wheel on it is identical to the 2-spoke wheel on my 854. A new spark plug was all it took to get it running on starting fluid, but it took a few times of pulling the carb on and off and cleaning out gunk before I finally traced a fuel problem down to a plugged passage at the idle adjustment screw. Once I got it running, it surprised me by pulling a wheelie in 3rd gear! Needless to say, the "clutch" is a little touchy. It gave my neighbor a good laugh though. After me and the boys made some hot laps around the yard, we used it to haul a load of rotten jack-o-lanterns down to the dead end to dump. Other than getting a new air filter element for it, we'll call this project done for now. I've got some extra little 13x5.00-6 lug tires than may find their way on the rears for tractor show season next year. Think they make tri-ribs that small for the front...

Glenn, here's an idea. Buy the whole lot $100 each. Keep two that you want and sell the rest for $200 each to RS members. This makes it a group effort to save your "Barn Find" of Wheel Horses. We will get some good threads and discussion on the forum, and some good campfire talk at next years Big Show.

I wish my life problems looked like this. I would take all of them and pack them quickly. If you clean them and resell them with accurate info, you should recoup your cost while doing the collector community a favor. Maybe nice finds are more rare out here. That collection is almost unbelievable to me. I wonder if you are overthinking this. Either way, this is coming from a man who only owns one Wheel Horse, and I would barely have the garage space to stack those up!

ok, I just got back from taking more pictures. I tried to crawl around as good as I could. I came across an eletric whell horse, a C series 10 hp and 2 plow blades. the rj is a hundred bucks, all other pieces are 150 each. what will I do? I dont know, keep the advice coming in. my wife ( the boss ) doesnt care what I do....lucky me.. You guys can see. the green one has no motor, other ones,,,,I dont know how complete. been in the barn for years and years. the dirt tells that. the rj, no rear tires. dont know here, I am confused. but thats easy to do to me. ok, and on to the pictures. enjoy Glenn