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We put on a big October fest at my cousins every year. Lots of family and friends, and now lots of kids. Tons of food, bobbing for apples all that stuff. And a hay ride. Started small 5 years ago when I had a simplicity broadmoor lawn tractor pulling a little dump cart. Kids loved it. This year the party got bigger so I had to as well. Planned on pulling my utility trailer (4'x7') made a couple quick benches for it. I was concerned if all the kids were at rear of trailer it might lift the rear of tractor so I put the cast iron in the wheels (painted them red too). Then I thought the toungue load might lift the front! So I made a weight bar for the front. Bolted to the frame, held 2 44lb weights. Well it all worked great. Pulled the trailer with kids and adults like it wasn't there. Every one had fun and nothing broke! put a pic of my tow vehicle in too

When I remove a deck, I always leave the belt in the mule drive and store it with the deck.

For really big jobs I may just bust out the the ultimate fall cleanup machine.... !

The belt doesn't come out of the mule drive unless you remove the cover from it by taking off the large nut. At the PTO, you should only have to swing the bar towards the back of the tractor to remove the belt. The only time that bar needs to be dropped down is when you attach a tiller.

10,000 intelligent Posts! Well, 10,000 posts! Keep up the good work Mike.

This is my contraption in progress. Still needs some fine tuning. Leaves are also a battle I think about all year long. I love the big maples except when their leaves are 6 inches deep

I mainly use a 520 with a 48" deck and power bagger. Bagger seems to mulch the leaves so they take up much less space. I then pile and push them over the edge of the ravine at the back of my property after dumping them into my little wagon and hauling them there. Cleat

This post is a resurrection of one I started in 2013. This is a 2017 update on my leaves, and what I have added to assist in the battle. Once again it is that time of the year when living on a 100% wooded lot is no longer fun. All summer long we enjoy the shade provided by the 80 to 100 foot tall oak trees, but when the leaves begin to drop in October, the job of cleaning them up continues until late in November. So each year I wonder, how do other members get rid of their leaves. Here is what I use. This Cyclone Rake was purchased around 1999, and is the best investment that I have made for yard cleanup. A few repairs have been made over the years; a new bag and frame was been purchased in 2013, but the original 5.5 HP Tecumseh engine is still going strong. This week I went to my local Stihl dealer and purchased a new addition to the cleanup equipment. A BR700, backpack blower. This is Stihl's most powerful backpack blower. So, what are you using to handle your leaves this fall?

just started my first leaf pickup for the year unfortunately it won't be the last this year as my neighbors leave theirs lay and they blow over in my yard. between me and my neighbors there are 3 dozen mature maple trees lot's and lot's of leaves and will be getting some seat time in.

noticed this for sale 9/26/17 on Flint MI CL I was thinking of doing something like this myself

You're correct in your estimate of 11hp. The crank on that engine is supported by roller bearings, so I believe that it should handle the PTO with no issues.

Looks like everyone had a great time....Everyone loves a hayride....especially with a Wheel Horse pulling the wagon!

Makes sense to me.

I couldn't yell at him before because he was the village justice. But he retired this year!

Best place to buy your decals is from our own vendor Terry, top quality stuff and a great guy. http://www.redoyourhorse.com/ That looks like his set, if so you will be well pleased with the purchase. http://www.redoyourhorse.com/1978-1981-wheel-horse-c-81-eight-speed-reproduction-decal-kit/

I used to mulch them in place, but especially underneath a mulberry tree, the nitrogen effect of the leaves made the grass grow so fast that I ended up mowing that part of the yard twice as much as the rest. Now i take the big Stihl and blow them on a big pile Mrs Farmer and I then drag the leaves on a tarp to the slow growing areas of the yard and grind them to dust with the 42' SD. We put at least a foot of leaves total on the thin areas and it really made a difference A little church group asked for suggestions for a church project. I always had a low opinion of doing walks for money even though the money goes to good use.If I am gonna exercise, it may as well produce something of value beyond the excercise My suggestion is to find elderly people who need their leaves raked and we can do it and then transport them to my place. I put in a new leach bed and the grass over that area needs a bunch of organic matter. I am getting the trailer ready with high sides to haul the leaves to my place. i thought it would be a good project simply because raking leaves by hand was the only time i got a blister from using a tool, and older people have much thinner skin on their hands. We will test it out this year and do a few yards to do a time and manpower study and see where it goes from here. I can see a need in the future for a rear bagger unit or a power rake EDIT I still do not know what is causing the lines through the script??????

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

Happy Birthday @Deadguy, we are all glad you were born!

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

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.

Take your old one to Tractor Supply and have them match it up to a new Kevlar belt.

Double and triple chk you connector and all the grounds including the mounting bolts and back plate of the rectifier..... especially if anything in that area was re-painted or touched-up.....

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:

This is a set of 2 link bar chains on my 875. There are 8 bar links that just span the width of the 8.50X23X12 tire and 2 non bar links are on the side along with the U link to the side chain. There are 10 total links in this chain. You may be able to go with 8 total links, but you need the U link to be totally on the sidewall. If you use an odd number of links, the one U link to the side chain must be installed up side down so there is no twist in the cross chain.

There is a spacer sleeve on the PTO rod, I moved that above the metal plate and that gave me enough clearance to lower the rod. I will have to look at the schematic to see proper way. Thanks for the belt help, I will just leave on and zip tie in place. If and when I need to remove I will take off the belt cover. Thx I moved that spacer above?

What ever you do Mike... don't give him a piece of your mind.

Well now, ain't that sumthin

Hey my posts are intelligent. I never said they stuck to the subject at hand or ever made any cents!

Hard to find actual "made for" GT14 attachments and if you do pricey.... soo I mounted a front Attach-a-matic from a C-81 and then mounted a standard snow blower..... with some minor adjustment like belt drive size and additional Idler pulley it works like a charm....

I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t take a single pic (and my IPhone was in my pocket the whole time). The weather was perfect and the place was packed! Hung with John (Wallfish) Jason (DTOM) Vinny and Matt. Of course my neighbor Tony and my son. Gary (Retiered Wrencher) stopped by as well! There were others that I’m sure I forgot to mention. Jason spent all morning dismantling on my trailer the C-141 loader tractor he bought off me! Bought a bike!! Yep, went to a tractor/machinery show and came home with a Centrix 6 speed Cruiser for $10! Aired up one tire and lubed a few points and rode it this morning 🚴! Bought a 48” plow, plastic wheel weights and chains and sold em off Saturday afternoon after I got home. Picked up a parts pile that I split with Docwheelhorse. These two parts packs are what sold me on the whole lot.

That's why I got the Stihl. Much easier to get into the flower beds, around shrubs and areas where a tractor just can't go. Of course my wife's first complaint was that I was going to blow all the mulch out of the beds, and yes, before I got the hang of it, I had cleaned the flower beds down to plain dirt. Oh well, mulch is cheap I told her.

To make short work of all them leaves... seems you could use a couple of these Bob.

Since you don't have any valve clearance on the rear cylinder, you probably don't have enough compression for that cylinder to fire. Adjust the valves to spec and see what happens. Also, swap plugs. Sometimes they won't fire under compression.

My neighbor is 87 and can't do anything with his yard, so I not only have to do my acre+, but his as well. On two+ acres of heavily (oak) wooded property, the shear volume is leaves is unimaginable by some. Those of you who can just mulch and leave until spring, really have no leaves to speak of. "Leafing" as I call it starts now, and usually continues through the first or second week of November. It used to be that I could get away with a once per weekend pickup when it was just my yard, and even after having 10 trees removed over the last 2 years, I'm still can't keep up with that frequency. So it's usually all day Saturday, then again on Wednesday until done. The first picture that I posted represents one day of leaf pickup. By the end of it all, the entire area in the picture will be that deep with shredded leaves.

I think you're missing a few pieces!

I mulch my leaves with the 42" RD Recycler deck. Then when my neighbor's leaves blow into my yard I mulch them with my 42" Recycler deck. As the neighbor's leaves get deeper, what's left behind from my 42" recycler deck, I pick them up with my 42" Brinly sweeper then grind them up with a Flowtron leaf eater. Then they get dumped into the garden. Notice at no time did my neighbor go outside to take care of his leaves.

What am I doing wishing a Deadguy Seriously tho............... Hope your day is filled with cake and ice cream

Do you have a spark plug tester ($5 at harbor Freight)..are you getting spark on the rear. If the plug wire will reach put the front wire on the back plug and try KTs fire on compression and on exhaust strokes so there is no problem switching wires.

11 years old and when typing a comment in a thread there is a bunch of edit options at the top and he must have clicked the 5th one with the S with the line through it by accident.

I have a variety of trees and this provides me with several opportunities to have seat time. The Tulip Poplars have already lost most of their leaves and I have mulched them in place with a rear discharge 42" mower. The Beach Trees are beginning to drop leaves now and the Walnuts will come next. When the majority of them are on the ground along with the last of the Poplars I use the side discharge mower along the creek and other areas where the lawn sweeper has difficulty and come back to pick up the wind rows later. I will use the pull behind sweeper and 42" rear discharge mower to mulch and gather them for the compost pile. I mow about an acre and a half of lawn with lots of trees so I have lots of compost. Repeat the whole process for the Maples, repeat again for Oaks, and a final sweep for the Bradford Pear trees. In a typical year I will have a pile three feet high, ten feet deep and forty feet long. In the spring and again a couple of times each summer I will use the front end loader to "turn the pile" and before the next leaf harvest I consolidate last years leaves and other stuff (grass, saw dust, kitchen scraps etc.) into a four foot square bin where it will continue composting for two more years. Top left corner as you type the tool bar has a tab with a line through it; you must have hit it by mistake. If you high-lite the text that is lined through and go back and click on it again it should remove the strike out.

sweet wagon! I don't know either but we all know if you find pretty much any of the people under about 10 years of age, they'll fix it. well said... sooo many awesome ideas produced that way. Us too.... but we are "lucky" enough Not to have much grass at all. 12 or so acres and nearly nothing to mow. Front yard is Very small and mostly moss. That is being changed to a grass-free stone/perennial scape for further elimination of mowing. We do hand rake and just chuck 'em in the woods...

I "mulch" my leaves with my 310-8 by 'mowing' 2 or 3 times. Then connect the 37" SD to the bagger and collect the leaves, dumping the collected leaves on my compost pile. The "mulching" allows for heavier loads and less stoppage to unclog the fill tube.

I agree, mount near the fuel tank.

All loaded up!

Found this on CL this morning, couldn't pass it up....(this has got to stop). Came with front deck carrier, 48" bagger/recycler deck, (no bagger or blower, but rear bagger bracket) two mule drives, & a couple odds & ends. Runs good, no smoke or noises, 1200 hrs on the clock

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.