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I saw something today that few of us have ever seen although I will bet that all of us have a desire to find some day! While the original RJ belt guard was almost new condition the cardboard box marked Wheel Horse 80-312 contained a set of four New Old Stock Wheel Horse hubcaps front and back still in paper covers in the box!

All original 1054 and 855 I brought home last weekend

Finally got the 520-8 unloaded today, going to mow with it tomorrow, the 42" deck is all I have ready for it right now. Shouldn't have any trouble pulling it.

Got the 416-8 working hard getting ready for winter, hauling a few cords a day from back in the woods

I’m in the midst of restoring a GT14 to her formal glory. And I keep reading that the 14 had her own set of attachments. So far the only attachment I have seen so far is the tiller. Can someone post some pictures of the other attachments such as a snow blower. Here are a few pictures of my restoration:

I'm rolling my pennies NOW !!!!!

Found this one last night... Also got a nice Echo ARM-210 striaght dhaft trimmer and a old craftsmen bench grinder for an extra $35. Grinder works and the trimmer just needed a new fuel and good carb cleaning. It started on the second pull! Single stage Snow thrower in great shape. Has a the drive shaft in the lower middle though with a bracket that attaches to the frame via four pins? The PTO has a small belt to a side pulley on this bracket and then another belt that runs down the middle of the tractor to the drive shaft on the Thrower. Thinking of swapping out parts from mine to make it a side drive pulley and throw the extensions on there and new bearings... Would this work? You might be able to see the pulley in the middle of the thrower... It has the holes for the upper shaft as well.

Ok so see how your chain is diagonal and going backwards, well it’s not supposed to do that so the arm you have the chain connected to is the wrong one, if you reach up in there you will find another lift arm, bolt the chain to that one and if the chain Is still slack unbolt it from the arm on the mower deck and bolt it back on with another link.

Those hubcaps would make great clock faces. Just drill a hole in the middle for the hands..

Here's hoping... they don't end up stuffed in a case, somewhere in Ct.

Better get the deck off, almost snow blade time. Son and grandson are pickin' wood up for the stove with our '90 520-8.

Great looking machine! Nice to see it being used and enjoyed. I love getting out to cut firewood. Takes your mind off of the everyday worries.

After you get the parts you need, get as many rags as you can get your hands on!

Welcome to Red Square RD. Can you post a picture and/or model number of your deck. I'm thinking you probably have a 36" rear discharge deck on that 876. Would be a RM-366 = Rear discharge Mower 36" 1966...could be a RM-326. Here is the link. If this is what you have...these decks are a dime a dozen. Put a list in our want adds, or contact one of our vendors Like @A-Z Tractor

POR-15 all the way. Takes a bit more prep time, but outlasts everything else I've ever used.

Well, you know Eb... it is that time of the year.

Nothing better than... an old in it's original work clothes. Except, maybe...two of 'em.

I think the 1054 is actually a 1965 1054A. The wider saw tooth tires on the front and turf tires on the rear were about the only difference between the 1964 1054 and the 1965 1054A. If it is the 1054A it is probably the best existing example on earth! The hood side decal as shown on the OM cover did not change from '64 to '65. The serrial number sequence would be another clue. Check your tractor's serial number against the list that Garry has compiled here, if it falls in the high 49XXX to low 50XXX range then that would confirm it. Nice haul!

the rod use to bind up and bend or break, wheel horse replaced the rod with the chain. I've had several tractors with the rod over the years, the chain works much better. the rod would only be use full on a show queen and then might give problems in my humble opinion. good luck eric j

So... the Pond's had a GPS-enabled self-driving BEFORE Al Gore invented the internet and the US Government was tracking all of us from space??? Where's the GPS unit located? Does it mow your whole lawn like one of them Roomba vacuum cleaners? NICE looking machine!

Is that the same as lining up the newest,,,,biggest,,,duelist ?? Craig,,,,,my son and his friends have a saying,,,,,built not bought,!!!!!!! Lane,,,,,if these sell....im in,,,,just tell us when and where.. ololol Howard,,penny pockets in va

I have used a pneumatic nibbler for years, works great. Best advice I can give is to do your cutting over the trash can or be prepared to pick up the thousands of little nibbles on the floor; what a mess.

Looking good......and really nice shop.....

Dad brought Clyde up to the Heritage Farm Day and drove it around some watching the plowing. I was so bummed that I didn't have it set up for him so he could try it--soon. Zach had a blast riding with Grampie and checking it all out as we were plowing. Clyde looks right at home in the fields, doesn't he?

If you have followed the "875-Iron Horse" thread in the restorations section of the forum, you know that my dad's first garden tractor was a . We finished the rectification of that tractor and have decided that it has worked hard for a lot of years and has earned a much deserved rest. Dad will use it periodically for light duty but mainly for shows, parades, etc. For anyone who knows me, I love GT plowing. Dad periodically plows with us and although the 875 is up to the task, we just don't want to put the wear on a fine resto. So, I began to hunt for a tractor for him. In his mid sixties, I wanted to locate something with hydro lift. Dad likes plowing with a gear jammer and so that was another parameter I had to keep in mind for my hunt. Because of dad's longstanding use of his 875, it had to be a horse, of course. Enter Clyde!!! Back in the spring @Shynon posted this beast for sale. Tom, you can feel free to post here any background about the tractor. I know it has been repowered and everything on it is functional. It had dad's name written all over it. So, I decided to purchase it for his birthday! I had to wait till the Portage show to pick it up since that was when Tom's path would cross with mine. the cool thing is that my dad came down to that show unexpectedly. He walked around with me and saw "his" tractor there, before he knew it was his! It was in this spot when he spotted it and we talked about it for awhile. He had no clue that these were ever made. My buddies @WHX12 @Achto @stevasaurus and @Rp.wh were all aware of it and helped me keep it a secret(no small feat for me!). Thanks guys! Here Zach is enjoying a little seat time once we got it home. It has some scuffs and scratches from 50 plus years of life but it is in what I would call "perfect plow tractor shape". Looks nice but you aren't afraid to use it! Here it sits with some of the other members of my stable. Dad turns 65 tomorrow and so the long anticipated day is almost here. We are going out with him for dinner on Friday night. I'm gonna try to have mom get him out of the house mid afternoon. Then I can bring it over and put it in the garage with a ribbon on it! When we get back from supper--SURPRISE! I sure hope he likes it. I wanted to have a set of AG's installed on the back but my fridge broke down two weeks ago and there went my $250! Oh well, there is always Christmas. Stay tuned for the big reveal...

This is my M-series Lawn-Boy mower that I've had since it was new, around 1994? or so -- it's been a while and I forget little details. Enough to know I bought it brand-new; it's the second-generation version of the M-series where they re-worked the final drive at the rear wheels slightly. It was my only mower at the time on a small city lot in Indianapolis, and it replaced a cranky F-series Lawn-Boy that came with the house I inherited. The "F" was one of the odd green-and-yellow(!) ones which ran well enough, but tended to balk and need service at the worst possible times. The "M" series was like nothing anyone had seen before, back in the 90s. Magnesium deck. Oil injection, like on a snowmobile or good dirt bike. Magnetic safety switch to detect that a bagger or chute was attached, not a contact to rust or get dirty. Piston ported engine instead of the old reed valve design. Mine came with the blade clutch, so you could step away from the machine while it idled, unlike the then-new (and annoying) "zone start" safety system where you have to hold the bail on the handle or the engine shuts down. It also meant you could stop the blade any time to travel through areas without kicking up dust. The only thing it didn't come with was an electric starter, something I'm happy to do without the complication of even to this day. A Lawn-Boy two-stroke engine should start on the first or second pull -- third one if it's sat a while -- and "pull" is kind of a stretch of the word; "spin" is more like it -- they're ridiculously light and easy to start. This one was my only mower through two houses in Indianapolis as I started a family, then it came out to New Hampshire with us and worked two more yards until it started having problems starting. My brother-in-law brought over an old Snapper Hi-Vac that had been in my wife's family since the 80s, and then left it behind. The old Snapper then became the alternate while I tinkered with the Lawn-Boy. I got the Snapper tuned up (and my wife's family thought it was mostly dead...) and so I had two interesting mowers to work with. (I love the simple miniature snowthrower disc drive on the Snapper Hi-Vacs!) We moved again, this time to a property large enough to need a lawn tractor. The Lawn-Boy got a bit of a rest now that it only had to work as a trimmer, but it began having difficulty starting again. So it got put aside and the old Snapper got a carb rebuild, new belts, and got put back to work. That's how it's been for the past number of years, especially since the trimming at that house's yard, the next one, and the one we're in now have had so much sand and rough ground that I really didn't want to beat the Lawn-Boy up on them. Two things came together this year -- with a bit of work, the lawn is coming in nicely so I'm not mowing over so much sand. And the old Snapper is getting genuinely balky -- pretty sure the 35-or-so-year-old Briggs engine is losing compression, one of the front axle mounts is worn severely oval, the belts are worn out again, and the idler pulley on the miniature disc drive is in need of a new bearing. So it was time to dig into the faithful Lawn-Boy and see what was going on. Like so many times with the simple Lawn-Boy 2-strokes, it turned out to be a simple problem. Pinched wires! A pair of wires that run to the ignition module provide continuity against the safety shutoff and low-oil cutout function. They'd gotten pinched in two places when the engine shroud was re-assembled at some point when it was serviced. All it took was splicing in a short run of wire and she started right up! Now, the wires are wrapped securely with 3M electrical tape like a stiff car wiring harness instead of the thin PVC sleeve that came from the factory, and carefully tucked up in the engine shroud away from where they were pinched before. The starter rope was getting frayed, so I put a new one on. Greased the zerks for the power drive and put some Sea Foam in the fuel. Now it just has to stop raining so I can go out and mow! Here she is -- well worn but ready to mow for probably another 20 years or more! Yes, she's missing the green plastic trim on the muffler housing. It was held on by tabs on the back and the pair of screws you can see on the front, which didn't really go through the plastic trim -- just a couple of loops molded onto the bottom of the trim. Naturally, those loops give up after a while. I think the trim piece might have gotten lost or misplaced in a move at some point. If it surfaces, I'll try to figure out a way to put it back on. Here she is from behind. In need of some paint on the access panel that covers the Tuff-Torq drive unit, but everything is working just fine. The mulch plug is installed right now. There's a slightly odd discharge chute that throws to the left, and a rear-mount bag, too. You can see the "windows" that reveal the fuel and oil tank levels that were kind of innovative at the time. One downside to the M-series is that it's not easy to get to all the fasteners to loosen the fuel and oil tanks and the engine shroud. If you have big hands, it's miserable. I'm not that bad off, but it's tricky and darn uncomfortable. It's not camera distortion -- the handle, it's adjustment knobs, and the drive and blade bails really are that beefy. Channel aluminum bars, and big castings. It looks like what happens when engineers get a hold of a lawn mower design. I've always liked the typical Lawn-Boy heavy vinyl debris flap. It's still flexible after all these years, and it won't bounce and flip up like stiff plastic or metal ones. Here's a shot -- top-quality lawn care equipment, old-school 1990s-style! Next time I'm in in the big-box store and the guy in the lawn and garden department asks if I need something, I think I'll show him this picture and say, "Nope, I think I'm all set, thank you!" Historically, Toro kept the M-series deck and drive system in their own-brand commercial line after buying Lawn-Boy, although environmental regulations killed off the 2-cycle engine. Their high-end commercial trimming mowers use a 2nd-generation version of the deck, cast in aluminum instead of magnesium. Some of the sharp angles have been rounded off a bit, and the front edge looks like it has a thickened lower edge. Steel reinforcements in the height-adjuster notches. And the crazy-over-built handle is replaced by a more conventional steel tube stock one. But deep down, a bit of this beast still lives on. (And meanwhile, this one's companion, the Snapper Hi-Vac, is still in production too!)

Can you elaborate on this please. I would think with 6 forward speeds and 2 in reverse that the right speed wouldn't be a problem.

If it is any consolation, I've always known that I ain't right! What fun is it being normal? I teach 2nd grade and always tell my kids that if you aren't doing anything wrong and you aren't hurting yourself or anyone else, have fun. Life is too short not too! on my friends, on!

My honey and I enjoy pulling, cutting, splitting. .. the whole process. .. more than anything except maybe hiking. We accept the fact that we ain't quite right.

Nice tractor, have fun mowing

When I start my 520, I give a quarter throttle and put the choke lever all the way up. As soon as I hit the key I start to drop the choke lever down and that seems to work well on mine.

The front end loader is my personal favorite. C-195 with a three point hitch will use them too.

Craig, that's the best picture of you I've seen yet! How did they get you to sit still long enough to take it?

As our President would say "That is FAKE NEWS". Any attachment that can be used on the mid-mount Atach-A Matic can be used on a GT-14. The standard 48" mower is the same one that was used in '67 on a 1267. Any pull behind wagon, lawn sweeper etc. will work. The 54" snow plow is the same as was used on the 953, 1054 and 1054A. If you have a three point hitch on the GT-14 it opens up a whole new world of implements that earlier models couldn't use. Take a look at this brochure from 1969.

Koen..... Time to buy something nice for your wife...... Just a little advice from your uncle Doug...

Moves way too slow for my ninja skills.

Great deal!!!

they also look good on the golf if i say so myself

Don't cut anything over your bed! Those little half moon nibbles are sharp! Seriously, be careful cleaning up the leavings. Great tool though!

Richard,,,,,thats battin a winner out of the park!!!!!!!! Maybe this will be your ride next June ,at the BIG SHOW......... I think while we are discussing Beverages, a Coffee Cup maybe ,WheelHorse head,,,,,,,,and the YEAR STAMPED ON IT !!!!!!!!!! 2018 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe all Black or Cotton White,, BIG SHOW SIPPIE CUP !!!!!! frequency of refills optional

Its made form 1/8" x 3/4" flat stock. 22-1/4" long. Top of the V is 16" across... bottom flat-ish spot is about 3/4". Makes each side about 10-3/4".

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!

58rj

Since my 400 series is not a Kohler, I might be all wet in my advice, but here goes. The gas tank is under the seat and [probably] lower than the carburetor. It might be that the fuel pump is not performing up to par. Take the fuel line loose at the carburetor and crank the engine to see how much fuel comes out. If the flow is anemic, then put a slave tank above the engine and re-test to check fuel flow/ see if the sputtering disappears. If it does, well then you can concentrate on either a partially clogged fuel filter or the fuel pump itself. Also you might just disconnect the fuel line at the tank and observe the fuel flow to see if there is any blockage, but in draining the fuel, you probably know that already Even if you go into the carb, many times it is just dirt in the bowl interfering with the float height and not something internal. I am a big fan of doing the simple stuff first before tearing into something that has gaskets that may need replacing BTW, I think that you have a good tractor there. There are people here that know plenty about them and are generous in sharing advice