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Saw a Wheel Horse on that was in Franklin NC, couldn't believe it! 418 C with a transmission problem, I made an offer and the deal was done. When I picked it up the seller described the event that led up to the transmission stopping, Sounds to me like the belt idler gave up the ghost and ate the belt. Told him that and offer to let him out of the deal, but he said his wife had told him to "Get rid of it". It isn't a buty queen, but has a good running Kohler twin, wheel weights and i think the Eaton is probably good too. I will let you know in a couple of days.

Sorry it took so long! My turn to add pics. I did get a pic of our line up but it was a little late I guess. Some of Josh's & Ryan's are missing. Between 4 RS members we had 20 's there on Sat. Plus there was a C-161, a Lawn Ranger, running around, plus my friends Charger v8. A bunch of the gang hanging out under the car port. A very nicely done AC 185 Some one put in a ton of time restoring the AC Gleaner combine. Jim I did find an Economy, not a tractor but a very nice hit/miss engine. For steam power there was the big Case running the saw mill. My friend Willie's up right 7hp engine, he had this hooked up to a cross cut saw later in the day. They were using it to cut down slab wood from the saw mill. My brother hooked his JD model H to the shingle mill on Sun. afternoon. Cedar shingles being cut. The threshing machine was really giving this little Oil Pull a work out. This JD tractor & Hay press were there to bail up the straw from the thresher. I spied some people feeding the ducks on the Fox river. Jim getting in on the action, feeding the ducks some wheat that we grabbed from the thresher. I found this Chrysler Saratoga in the parking lot. I believe that it was a 1958 model. A nice Oil Pull and a scaled down replica. As always the best part of the show was hanging out with friends and meeting people with similar interests. This show grew a lot from it's first year to it's second year. I expect even more growth next year when the feature will be IH, with Red Power having their Farmall Frolic there.

NOS - Nitrous Oxide Systems

Painted up the back blade and washed the old man. October 7th can't come fast enough, I'm excited! I failed to mention that the horses new stall is almost complete!

Very cool, I like it. However, IH was known for strength, not style. Definite aftermarket and I'd love to have one. This is what the stock noes would look like.

Just put these on my c195 and I love the look, I like the tri rib also but they are like 20$ a piece more

There are quite a few variables to consider. What tractor are they going on? What will the tractor be used for? How wide are the rims you will mount them on? Tell us more.

I have a 42 SD Deck to repair. Two of the pulleys released one did not. The center two pulley drive spindle was cut off and removed with great force. Cutting the spindle as well. I never made a pulley before so it was a good project. The critical spacing for the pulley was the lower one ( smaller) with the deck belt so it would line up with the other two pulleys. The top side was less critical as it just just to the PTO side alone. Dimensions were copied from the existing spindles and the original mangled pulley. The double small same size pulley on right is for the bagger unit. Curious to see how the now heavier Steel pulley runs on the deck, Comments and Questions Always Welcome.

Picked up a nice 520-8 tonight! Better pictures to follow. Is going to be my lawn mowing machine.

Well I may be a lost cause already ha ha..... I did not know we had a " other brands" forum I will go look for it now. But I know what you mean about being ready with pictures and model numbers. Thanks a bunch I will go look for it now, But I will wait till I have more information before I make any posts. Thanks again Jeff

Hi: the D-250 came out in 1976 yes has a 4 cylinder Renault , has rear wheel lock, 10 speed trans ( hi/low range), water cooled, manual steering cost new was about $4000. where are you looking at this, is it EBAY? Its a great tractor parts are not to bad to find if you know were to look.it weight is 1140lbs, tractor is all metric but attachments are all US standard. I have had my D-250 over 10 years still running great. Ed

Both are fine tractors.Four things that I would consider are: the Mahindra has the engine sourced from South Korea. I'm not sure long-term what that would mean given the political situation right now. The three Kubota dealers in our area in MD are owned by the same family. I would question competitive pricing. The Kubota has a larger following with more aftermarket accessories available. There is a Kubota dealer in Somerset, KY that underprices most local dealers. That even includes the shipping!

My buddy and I were on our way to a hunt and a semi tire and wheel crossed the median ditch and went airborne, hitting the road right in front of us and went airborne again--right over the top of the truck. So if we were a few feet farther down the road, the combined speed of our truck and that tire would have been a disaster. Another time years ago when i did not own a cell phone I was home on Sunday and a large dump truck flipped over in my front yard. Perfectly straight road and the driver was trying to get his spit cup off the floor and lost his entire load of dirt. Glad he flipped it, because he was heading right for the house, and if the truck stayed sunny side up, i probably would have been killed watching the game. i ran out of the house and this huge cloud of dust enveloped me. I demanded that he give me his phone because fuel was dripping directly on my power panel that I had installed in the yard. [[yes, the phone line also went through the conduit on the power panel, so I had no phone service] He said no, i am talking to my boss. Not gonna say what I told him next, but i was calling 911 seconds later on his cell. No power, no phone a load of dirt in my yard and a diesel spill. A happy camper i was not.

New Old Stock should be new. Not used. A lot of the NOS stuff is surplus bought from older dealers and it's not always pristine.

Good call Jim! Our "in house" AC man!!!! Why didn't I think of that? There were some very nice AC tractors there for sure! Lots of old time machines in operation all around the grounds. I really appreciate seeing people maintain them and share them with the rest of us. My family had/have a bunch of vintage Case tractors but they were busy taking off soybeans and so they weren't in attendance but they would've enjoyed this lineup. This old rat rod International truck had this interesting "swan" hood ornament. Does anyone on here know if this is a factory thing or an aftermarket item put on it? I wish I had a better pic of this 1969 IH pickup because it had a great back story. Dad and I were looking at it carefully when an older lady came up to us and asked us what we thought of her mostly original truck! It was in very good shape for being a 48 year old truck in Wisconsin. It took an 18 year hiatus in a barn which ended when the roof collapsed on the barn! The truck had a ladder rack with two old mattresses on it which saved the truck. They used it as a catalyst to get it back on the road! Cool!

You know I just realized what you are referring to. I was playing around with photo editor and ooops! That was the fish eye edit i failed to delete. Sure does distort my drive belt haha! Thank you, I love the slider. Always wanted one somewhere..... 😀

Get a few up then when I get some time then. A week off of work for bear hunting followed by a tractor show has go me behind the 8 ball at work! I have got to tell the story about Dan's phone...... I really snickered when his brother made the comment about putting it in front of the truck tire! Nice little load of round hoods ready to go with four more in the big box. Nice thing about a show this close (and two trucks/trailers) is making a double trip. Cindy actually handled the Dodge pretty good!

I use the lining material off an old brake pad. Just hacksaw a piece to size and JB Weld onto the plate.

Thanks guys! I'll upload pics from the show.

Start a thread in other brands Jeff and I'm sure the fellas will be along to help out. Be ready to have model nos & pics of what you might be working on. Good luck.

Some small shows are destined for greatness, and I think that this one is. Being only about 15 miles from my house, it is a no brainer that o would attend. I'm not exactly sure to what level but I know that @Achto has input into the organization and planning of this thing! It has a very nice location along the waterfront and includes many shade trees, ample bathroom and food facilities, even a couple of nice playgrounds for kids if you have them. They annually have a feature tractor and a feature Garden Tractor which is really cool for us GT fans. This year the feature GT was anything Wheel Horse. It was really cool to see the GT's there. @WHX12 and @Rp.wh brought multiple examples plus Dans collection along with others. There was a nice representation of on the grounds. Dad and I got to show Clyde And Blackbeard for the first time--that was fun. Two of my boys attended with me and we all had a good time. It was neat seeing the threshing machine in operation as well as several saw mills. Here Zach is posing for a pic on Jim's newly restored horse! This was a beautiful JD 630 Watching this old Case steamer run the sawmill was a thing of beauty. I'll have to post some of my videos later... Jim and Dan took far better pics than me, keep an eye out for those. It was was a great show and I'm looking forward to it growing in he upcoming years. I felt it was a great turnout for year number 2!

Back to the front axle, need to get a mount done before starting the chassis. a small piece of ply made the template and gave me a centre point for the pivot. Two pieces of steel tube were repurposed for the mount. a quick zap with the welder - that 1" hole was a pain to drill and how the cradle sites with a cat 3 pin for the pivot.

Dad sent me a few pics he took of the line up on Saturday morning. The shade was nice but not good for clean, sharp pictures... Lots of cool stuff!

Hi all. I have been a member here for a few years but have just been in hiding. Until now. I have recently started a build on MoM and have been urged, pushed, threatened by Chris, Mr Showman to post on Red Square too. So here goes. As some will already know, the Showman and I have been clearing a friend's land of his large collection of various garden tractors, horticultural machinery, workshop equipment and whatever else you can think of. Nearly 2 :1/2 years later the end is in sight. As friend John is having to sell up and move soon due to ill health, my Roper tractor which was stored on his land has now moved on to a new home. As I have very little room at home to work and store in, mainly a single car size garage which is already half full of stuff, thoughts turned to something small to build which could be transported in the back of my Meriva car. Small enough to fit in the car, but hopefully big enough to ride on, but if not towing a trailer which I can sit on and operate the tractor by remote steering etc. Various options were looked at, thought about and discarded due to too many compound curves etc. Then, after studying photo's of the D-series Wheel Horse which has very few awkward curves a plot was hatched. During the clear out lots of "might be handy one day" bits and pieces were kept. One of the few tractors which remained, unloved and unwanted, was this Bolens ride on mower. It was eventually stripped of useful parts, gearbox, axle / diff assembly, wheels and various other bits before the remains were left to be dumped much later. Also found among the junk in John's barn was the bottom end of a small engine which was later found to be a 65cc BSA 4 stroke. After further hunting by the Showman other parts were found in various locations in the barn loft. Enough parts to build a complete engine with spares left over. Engine just roughly assembled in this photo. John never stored related parts together and in one place. We think this was his anti theft device. Find a few parts, no good without the others, so leave alone. Appears to have worked as we have found on various occasions. Tri rib tires Chris. After looking up the measurements of the full size D-series Wheel Horse, a half size model worked out at approx 38" long, 22.5" wide and 23" tall. I did not intend building a 100% dead scale model, just something which looked right. If all the main measurements were close to half size and the main components looked compatible with each other, then Some parts, for various reasons, were altered slightly in size without being too obvious. First, a suitable building bench was required. I have one along one wall in my garage but too narrow and my creaky knees object to crawling around on the floor.. A tool trolley, unearthed from John's workshop, was pressed into service. The wheels moved outwards to give more stability, a mid shelf added which was boxed in on three sides, and a thick sheet of chipboard on top. Not shown on these photo's. The Bolens bits were cleaned up and placed onto some box section which would be used for the main part of the chassis, Due to the width of the gearbox, the rear end of the chassis had to be a lot wider than scale. This area was one of the main problems of the build, trying to keep the gearbox far enough back without touching the differential which revolves with the attached sprocket, plus keeping it and the surrounding frame within the width of the fenders and the upper sections of the footrests. Hours and hours of head scratching, trying different positions etc resulted in "This might work". When fitted to the Bolens, the gearbox input shaft pointed down. It was hoped by mounting with the shaft horizontal a short prop shaft could be used. This was found to be a no go due to the height difference of the engine crankshaft and gearbox shaft. The centrifugal clutch assembly also left very little room between the engine and box. The next stage was to work out a mount for the gearbox. Bits of angle were pop rivited or self tappered to the frames and lots more head scratching followed. The long lengths of box section had been cut down at this stage as they would have been too wide further forward. The next photo's show these in the correct, sort of, position with the engine roughly mounted to see how things line up. The axle bearings from the Bolens were used plus the front axle mounting bracket which was hack sawed from the frame, cut in two, excess removed, slotted and drilled to take the bearings. The extra holes were for possible height adjustment at a later date. Easier to do now than later. These were pop riveted to the box section ready for welding later. The front axle was then given a lot of thought. The full size is a cast, tapered in two directions, webbed unit. Something simpler was needed. A piece of thick walled 1" square was used with tube king pin mounts. A test piece was cut to gauge the angle required, followed by marking, cutting, bending, filing and drilling the main components. Small infill pieces were inserted to give the weld something to bite on. The axle mount was made up of 3/16" plate fastened to chassis box section cross members, with 1/2" bore bushes. The pivot is an old Austin 7 king pin. All a bit on the beefy side but just materials to hand. I should say that ALMOST all the materials used in the entire build were saved during the clear out at John's. Also, as I do not have proper machining facility's, most of the work was done by hand. Hand drill, hack saw, jig saw, files etc. I do have a small Unimat 3 model makers lathe which was used for some of the lighter machining jobs. Also an old Drummond round bed which is in need of work and a chuck adapter. Guess where this came from. I also adapted an old Picador drill press to take a larger hand drill. This wasn't too satisfactory, side play and too fast for the larger drill bits. These were more suitable for wood, not metal. Photo's later. The next few photo's show the chassis and axle mounted on a board ready for welding. The nails were just to hold parts in place before clamping and weighing down. The rear axle mounting plates drop into slots in the board. The two dark colored angles are temporary and just to help keep things square. A few photo's of a few welded up bits. The welds on the rear end of the chassis were nice and neat. No photo's of this. The welder decided to be naughty at the front. Wire feed kept jamming until speeded up which resulted in heavy welds. Some ground or filed down and others left as will not be seen. The used Austin 7 king pin for the axle pivot seen in the third photo. A bit rusty but good enough to use after a clean up. The chassis was cut away to allow for more axle swing. The rear wheel adapter hubs were made up from 2" thick walled tube and round plates into which the tube was welded. The plates already had bores of near enough the correct size. The cut to length tubes, after a lot of head scratching and measuring to make sure the holes would be in the correct place, were drilled 5/16" using a standard center drill for the first hole. I was going to use this as a guide for a 5/16" drill to spot the lower hole, followed by gradually opening up with other drills, but found a long series 5/16" center drill which did the job in one go. This also did away with numerous height adjustments on my not very accurate drill press conversion. The plates were drilled after marking out using a card template which was cut to just fit into the wheel dish and over it's hub. 4 holes were also drilled through the wheels using the same template. This ensured that all holes lined up. Even though my drill conversion was a bit of a blacksmith job, after drilling the axle shaft I found that it and the hubs lined up almost perfectly.

Looks like that one came from the Mehlberg collection. Nice score there.

Love me a 418👍

Nice score!

Looking good!! Hope you have a great time at the show.

These are not aviation engines. A visual inspection every so often will tell if the gasket is leaking, and that way you can address it. It is such a quick job, no biggie if they leak several year after reusing them. I do however agree with resurfacing the head flat again. Very interesting article. On the flipside, if access to the head / gasket is difficult such as a motorcycle, it would be wise to replace.

4 cylinder Renault engine...........not 3 cylinder like stated above.

I guess it's official that Tom Petty has passed away. There's so much to say about the man and his music, I wouldn't have any idea where to start. But I think it says something that it was my 20-year-old daughter who first told me yesterday afternoon that he was in serious physical trouble. R.I.P. Tom, and thanks for all the good times! This is one of my favorites from his early days with the Heartbreakers:

i thought basicly all mahindra's run ihc mc cormick deering engines from the german build d series, made in the late 50's through the 60's. only thing changed to the engines seems to be the commonrail injection and all the newfangled electronics to pass emissions.

For what you guys are calling a "small show", they really have a lot of neat things going on. The pictures look great and the show grounds look like a real nice place.

I'm not sure that I would use LocTite for this procedure. Those set screws are hardened and are a bear to get out if they are stuck. They are also very hard to drill out. Usually, when they break, if something is sticking out, you can turn them with your fingers. That will not happen with Loctite, and you will have to drop your trans to take care of the issue.

Great pics!! Definitely a lot of nice exhibits there. Thanks for the over view.

Finally had time to remove the stuck wheel from the shaft. Made up a homemade press with a small bottle jack. Worked great! Now, I'll look for new rims that take the smaller, standard bearings.

You should have asked us here first for those Rob.. I would have sent you a couple for free and @Racinbob would have doubled the order! We'd had you set for every tractor in Canada ! TIP: Clean the threads as best can and use a NEW jam nut..... a little blue loctite here never hurt anything here as well. And quit speed shifting on that shifter!

Yup Jeff has a 'hindra and if I know him has it set up nice. Wouldn't think you could go wrong with a 'bota either ....we want pics when you do!

I'm not gonna say a dang word.... I did some pretty stupid things in my day... never had a camera to wave at tho!

He said he intends on keeping both and is restoring the cub. I told him to leave the RJ just as it is.

I have used this with good results, clean and wire brush the deck and spray it on.

I just got home from the show and saw your post Robbie. Yes, as you know, I was there today and I really enjoyed meeting and talking with you and your family. I will be there tomorrow for a short time to load the rest of the tractors. That is the wildest beast I ever heard Mike. Maybe I can get him to light it up tomorrow for a short video. Saturday, Sept 30,2017 Eric and a Roadapple showed up and we filled the Horse pasture. The OAT eaters had a pull also.

I just - Literally - burst out laughing ..... EXACTLY what I was thinking

Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 Still paving this morning. Looks like a small crowd. Eric was hare and off loaded a few Horses. Mixed breeds The Studebaker Turd Hearse With a V-12 Detroit. Check the widened fenders and twin 8" stacks. This thing Looks and sounds like beast. 1909 Pullman made in York, Pa. Steamers MVI_8415.MOV This turned out better than I expected. More old iron.

You are talking to the wrong crowd; we only have experience buying and coming up with reasons (excuses) for never parting with them.

More extra goodies. Thanks Glen. And made a hood strap.

A few photo's from Rural Past Times. Home for the weekend. Not the luxury caravan. The little green tent. My Sears/Roper flexing it's muscles. Friday afternoon. Saturday. Fergie The Wonder Dog. Mini D and man with BRACES. Suspenders has a different meaning over here. Basil and Courtney on guard duty. Chris testing a towing attachment. Poor Bolens couldn't stand the pace. Various Bolens needed attention over the weekend. Sheepherds Hut with all mod cons. Sunday. Man Cave. Thresher. Fergie with reaper/binder. One way to pull a bird. Arena Parade. A very nice Ford. Finally My C-81 and finger bar got second in the horticultural class.

Here's a few photos i took at the show.

A little more progress last night. Got the front wheels painted and tires on them. Also got the choke hooked up and fuel lines ran. And also discovered a few mfg issues that I had to fix on the predator.