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Found a couple of photos of the first Wheelhorse i bought ( and still got ). Its a 1969 Commando 7 bought for £50 on the 17 March 2003. my Grandaughter is now 22,

And Mike, you're post #10 in this thread as well, which is quite fitting for the 10th anniversary. I think that you had post #2, and for you being member #2, again fitting. I wasn't here this day 10 years ago, it will be another 2 days until my 10th anniversary here, but I am amazed at how whtractor.15.forumer.com grew to be WheelHorseForum.com. As I sit here thinking of the past 10 years, let me share with you all how I remember this place. First and foremost is member #2. Truth is, if it wasn't for Mike, RedSquare would not exist. I met "Sparky" here 9 years 363 days ago, and initially hit it off with him. This place was really the Mike and Karl forum for quite a number of months, and during that time is when we forged the first "RedSquare" friendship here. I recently saw a picture of his daughter on Facebook, and vividly recall when our girls met and had a "Webkins" friendship going on. By the way Mike, she's grown to be such a beautiful young woman! I have the upmost respect and admiration for Mike and that alone has made the past 10 years well worth while. Mike, I really can't thank you enough for all you do, and for your sense of humor, you are truly an amazing guy and I only wish we lived closer. Always not liking the name "RedSquare", and how I tried to change it a number of times, but was always voted down. Asking Chris to make me a moderator because I wanted to create a classified section so I could find a snow plow. (Moderators couldn't do that, so I asked him to make me an administrator, the beginning of the end!) The "Sparky in Deep" post (my absolute favorite post) Our first supporter, Eldon (kj4kicks) donating $35 so we could buy enough fBucks for chat Starting the supporter program to continue to fund chat as well as ad removal for supporters. The generous members of this forum led by Eldon to procure and gift to me my 1974 C-160, which is the year and model my father bought new! I still tear up when thinking of this. Max Nunn and his tragic story, which broke the hearts of even the toughest men here. The "hostile" take over of our forum data from fourmer.com when they took us off-line for weeks, and refused to sell our data to us, so I crawled the website and copied it post by post. Manually tracking the supporters by spreadsheet, The RedSquare logo contest Countless hours keeping the forum running, with failed hosting partners, software bugs while dealing with *some* members who felt it necessary to criticize the effort. Missing my kids last Halloween where they went together to migrate the forum during a quiet time. Seeing the amazing friendships grow here. Seeing the amazing in-fighting and petty bickering occur here. My first WHCC show and how Kate asked me to sign her RedSquare hat, I was just honored to meet her, and she wanted my signature? Meeting many of the members Knowing that TT is likely the smartest guy I know, and I work with some really amazing minds! Changing the theme of the forum and hearing the praise (and criticism from those who don't like it) Finally getting my snow plow (along with my 414-8) which is the REASON I joined this forum in the first place. Watching my kids box up RS hats, signing their names on the packing sheets and getting them ready for the mail. Tractor races with my daughter My death 4/8/2013 Signed copies of "Straight from the Horses Mouth" And the list goes on and on. It's been a short 10 years, and those 10 years have been the best and to be honest the worst of times. 99.9% of you are really amazing people, and I am so grateful to know you (even if we don't talk). To that .1%, while the number is low, the impact is high, and I do not appreciate being threatened, belittled or called all sorts of horrendous names which seem to amuse you all far too much. Happy 10th Anniversary RedSquare, you've grown from the "Karl and Mike" forum to the largest single brand garden tractor website in the world. It's been an amazing trip, and the baby looks like it's grown up now, which is happy and sad for me, but it is what it is, and I am so proud every time I see a RedSquare banner, sticker, mention in a magazine or hat on people, knowing that I had a little something to do with that. Finally to our members, thank you all for years of support. I have seen many leave, and many come, but you all have contributed so much to the site and the hobby over the past 10 years this place is for you!

May the friendships we`ve made on Red Square last as long as the "Horses" we ride....

When you stop and really think about how many friendships have become because of this site its really pretty amazing. We are so very lucky and fortunate to have such great leadership...

This place is the best!

I can't wait to get on Red Square every morning. Great forum, thanks to everyone that keeps it up and running.

Redsquare really is the heart and soul of Karl and Mike, and the more senior Moderators who have all given so much of themselves to the Wheel Horse hobby. This is so much more than an informational forum. It truly is a family. I'm grateful to be a part of it all.

So I have this 50 year old tractor I really don't want to scrap so I hit the 'net hard looking for parts and by the grace of God (and by perhaps the karma of some of you here) I find Red Square. First I thought was I ended up in Russia but then realized ....hey these guys speak my language, know a heck of a lot about horses, have really good senses of humor, love their country & fear their wife. So I settled in made some friends, met some really cool people, had a ton of laughs & learned a lot with much more to learn. It never ceases to amaze me that in search of topics WH in nature in this thing called cyberspace I always end up getting redirected to here. The talent, kindness and generosity found here are hard pressed to find anywhere else. If it wasn't for the craziness some guys endured 10 years ago & continued to improve upon this would not be here and we would all be riding green & yellow thingies. Happy Happy

Not sure on this but I believe Cozy cab might have made one for a D series. Only seen a advertisement on that. If it actually got made I do not know. Also there was a company (no longer in business) over seas that made a few for some Wheel Horse's over there. Here's a pic of one that one of the RS member from Denmark had.

What a Forum!!!! Thanks for everything and Happy Birthday!!!!

Picked up this little gem from @Shynon Saturday morning. Met with Tom, his son Mike @prondzy, son in law Scott & @Terry M at a restaurant off I90/94 & had a nice breakfast & some chat. They were on an all day & most of the night quest to buy and deliver some horses in IL and IA. Also got a nice tub for my son in law @Rp.wh for yard work & tub rides for his young'uns...an early birthday present from his mom! I bought this tractor for my wife Cindy who was born in 1962 so now we have a '59, ( the year I was born) a '60, '61 & now the 702. She wants me to paint the tractor candy apple red & Tom says it was a good candidate for a repaint ( his 1st resto ) but I beg to differ.. paint looks good to be but you guys be the judge! Plans for this tractor right now is odd jobs around the ranch and to pull Dino's @stevasaurus 8 inch plow just for fun! Mike informed me he broke the motor in plowing with it for 5 hours. Also Cindy's ride around at shows! Gonna haul wood with it today& quickly becoming my favorite & go to tractor! Excuse me while I go change my handle! Enjoy

The day 13 months ago when I discovered this forum was one of the happiest I have had in many years! Thank you

Coincidently...its my 10 year mark here at Red Square!! Its been a crazy ride and it aint over yet! Mike........

Well put Jay.

Best site on the web as far as I am concerned. Here's to another 10 great years ahead. I am gonna need this site for years to come as I am only a year into this hobby and I am not anywhere near being done.

Now that's a CAB... Although I think the driver makes it look bigger than it really is....

happy birthday thanks for all the great that makes this hobby great

11-14-2006 Last day for Texas’ celebrated drive-in Pig Stands On November 14, 2006, state officials close the last two of Texas’ famed Pig Stand restaurants, the only remaining pieces of the nation’s first drive-in restaurant empire. The restaurants’ owners were bankrupt, and they owed the Texas comptroller more than $200,000 in unpaid sales taxes. A Dallas entrepreneur named Jessie G. Kirby built the first Pig Stand along the Dallas-Fort Worth Highway in October 1921. It was a roadside barbecue restaurant unlike any other: Its patrons could drive up, eat and leave, all without budging from their automobiles. (“People with cars are so lazy,” Kirby explained, “they don’t want to get out of them.”) Kirby lured these car-attached customers with great fanfare and spectacle. When a customer pulled into the Pig Stand parking lot, teenaged boys in white shirts and black bow ties jogged over to his car, hopped up onto the running board—sometimes before the driver had even pulled into a parking space—and took his order. (This daredevilry won the servers a nickname: carhops.) Soon, the Pig Stand drive-ins replaced the carhops with attractive young girls on roller skates, but the basic formula was the same: good-looking young people, tasty food, speedy service and auto-based convenience. That first Pig Stand was a hit with hungry drivers, and soon it became a chain. (The slogan: “America’s Motor Lunch.”) Kirby and his partners made one of the first franchising arrangements in restaurant history, and Pig Stands began cropping up everywhere. By 1934, there were more than 130 Pig Stands in nine states. (Most were in California and Florida.) Meanwhile, the chain kept innovating. Many people say that California’s Pig Stand No. 21 became the first drive through restaurant in the world in 1931, and food historians believe that Pig Stand cooks invented deep-fried onion rings, chicken-fried steak sandwiches and a regional specialty known as Texas Toast. But wartime gasoline and food rationing hit the Pig Stands hard, and after the war they struggled to compete with newer, flashier drive-ins. By the end of the 1950s, all of the franchises outside of Texas had closed. By 2005, even the Texas Pig Stands were struggling to survive—only six remained in the whole state—and by the next year they had all disappeared. In 2007, state bankruptcy trustees found a way for one Pig Stand, in San Antonio, to reopen. Though it will probably never be as popular as it once was, and customers now have to get out of their cars and go inside to eat, the restaurant remains a sentimental favorite of many Texans.

My go to tractor. ..for today anyway...... Much as I enjoy a trailer queen there's just some thing about working a tractor that is old as one is!

I just realized, I never did post shots of the B-80 when I got it, so here are a few. Its pretty clean, original owner, with all the paperwork, and chains, and a snowblade. garage kept from new. The bigger suprise is I gave it away the other day to a friend of mine, he has a couple wheel horses that are tired and beat. Anyway, its his now, and his smile was from ear to ear. You know what? It felt great doing something nice, the B-80 can be replaced. Enjoy the pics. Glenn

So my neighbor doesn't sell much (except to me) but I do sell tractor stuff and he has bought many tractors and attachments over the years from me. Being as we are both neighbors and friends I never try to profit from a sale to him......today that paid off with some good karma! He calls me over and says " See this Commando 8 with the deck and that tub trailer, I'll never do anything with it and sitting outside isn't doing it any good, and you always offer me great deals so they're yours for the taking....FREE!" She doesn't run yet but did run a couple years ago so with a bit of TLC and a carb cleaning there is no doubt in my mind I'll have it running soon. All 4 tires seem to hold air and they all say Wheel Horse on em 👍 ! Pics of course...... Mike....

In case anyone is curious... Mike......

I get goose bumps when I see pictures of 702s. The 702 and a short frame square hood should be in every ones stable. Mine has doing leaf duty. I'd put the plow on her and re-plow the small garden.

A little more progress today. Hope to wire it up and test fire Friday or Saturday.

Thanks for the complements fellas.... just goes to show you all have a good eye for tractors and appreciate our hobby......hats off to Tom for keeping this little gem alive and passing it on.

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Very nice 702 , those duals really set it off . Just think what a candy paint job and a chrome stack would look like . Pretty in my book . Congrats !

We are friends Kurt, since we met when you bought my 520. Me and Pete grew up together and we go back 60 years. Nothing wrong with giving something away to give a boost to thier life when there world is upside down by circumstances they can't control. Makes 2 people feel good. I have been down many dark trails in life so far, I bet many here have been to. We have talked about this before, so I don't want to get long winded on it. Glenn

Nice score, and obvious great relations with Tony. Way cool to hear it fired right up for you. I lke the Cammando 8 also. (My neighbors don't appreciate me in cammando though!!)

I added a hockey puck under my 401 seat to raise it up about an inch. Longer bolt and you're all set.

Thanks T-Mo....most of the work was Tom's doings. He was going to let it go without the duals but looks & works too nice with the duals so I coughed up the extra $$. Thinking the duals would look nice on the RJ but no ...they stay were they are! Kinda wish I woulda coughed up for the hub caps as well!

Very nice Commando and cart Mike. You know the old sayin, good things happen to good people....

Don't use a blower but, ready for the white, cold, wet, blowing junque. Went and picked up hot cocoa for the grandsons.

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Tear down in progress, hoping new(used)Pistons, rings, hone will do the trick.

Nope, nothing different for the seat on the 702. The 2 x 4 is on the 857. The 702 should be the same height as yours.

Great lookin tractor. I really like the 702, one of my favorite tractors. The dual wheels look good also. Thanks for sharing.

Nice score on the 702. And I like the tire setup, i.e. tri-ribs in front and dual ags in the back. Your 702 looks great. Nice.

Mike, Just put the Commando 8 on your trailer and I'll meet you somewhere between here and your place. Commando 8s are one of my favorites. A few years back a friend of mine had one with a front blade on it. I wanted that tractor so bad. He let me borrow it once to push in some dirt after we trenched a ditch for an electric line. Unfortunately he got rid of it before I knew he wanted to get rid of it. BTW, throw the cart onto the trailer also with the tractor. Might as well donate both to me.

Have you ever tried the candle wax method? I had a set screw on the wheel hub that broke and could not get it out. I heated the bottom of the bolt and dripped wax from a candle on to the bolt. Then used an easy out and it came out.

I made use of some scrap metal that had accumulated around the shop today. The ground we have here in coastal Texas is called "black gumbo". Hard as a rock when dry and a sloppy mess when wet. I needed something to rip or break the ground before I could till it. My old Troybilt Horse was getting nowhere trying to bust into it. The ripper worked pretty good until I piled too many concrete blocks on it and broke the cheesy 1/8" lift cable that I spliced onto it. I'll pick up some heavier cable tomorrow. Not a bad day though. Mark.

Well, Jim....You didn't waste much time putting that Tractor to work!!

Let me know if he's give'n away anything else! Tony hooked you up right! Looks like we'll see you at the antique tractor shows actually driving an antique tractor now

Coming along. Got some No-Mar tire lube to mount the tires. Good stuff. Makes a world of difference. Picking up one of the Northern V-3500 mid back seat this week. Graphics ordered. Stack on the way. Couldnt decide on red or black for the seat springs..Went with Red. And my next project followed me home....

And here I thought we would have a new member today WHCX1, glad everyone is enjoying it, and if the wife wants candy apple red I would think she gets what she wants MR WHX3 oh no 6, no 9 or whatever the count is Was a great day for a road trip, glad to spend some time chatting.

So I tossed a battery in it just to see if the wiring was good and the starter/gen would spin.....hit the key and the damn thing fired up!!! Didn't expect that, haven't even checked the oil yet. Mike.....

I remember my Grandad having a hammer mill (no idea of what kind it was) and my Dad would have the mobile feed grinder come to our place 3 or 4 times a year. Showing our age here.

Just an update. Finally got all the pieces blasted, primed and painted. Now the real challenge sets in....Waiting for the paint to cure before starting to put it back together. Also, any suggestions on seats is appreciated. The recipient of this tractor, my son-in-law, is about 6'4 and 240 lbs, so I need to find a seat with good suspension and one that can be mounted far enough back so he won't be too cramped. I have a stack coming from @jimkemp so that decision is made. I was going to add more white accents but the SIL wanted all red, except the wheels of course. It seems that the disassembly and reassembly are the fun parts. The blasting, grinding and priming is monotonous...Painting isn't bad because you know the reassembly is getting near, but then that impatience gene kicks in.... Tempted to start tearing down the 856, but wisdom says not to have two tractors torn apart at the same time..... Oh...and...the pics. Rough count is about 200 individual pieces to blast, prime and paint, for the tractor alone......