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Went out to the family farm today and took a couple pictures . @Achto Will get better pics of the Cockshutt in a couple weeks ... promise @WHX12 here’s a wooden sheet metal brake made during WW2 .

It was time to switch gears a bit. After working hard for many years to acquire a nice little collection I decided to let many of them go and enjoy something else with the family. Over the past couple of months the number of machines and attachments have been reduced considerably. With the funds I went out and grabbed another pony, that is red, still has 4 wheels, but seats all 4 in the family. Welcome to the Horse Barn a 1964 1/2 Mustang.

Loaded up my Mrs Rules, and our two twins(Suburban models 400&401) & headed over the mountain for a ride around West Point's Morgan's farm today. We were just in time to catch a few minutes with Ace, a little American miniature horse boarded there & his owner Cathy. Made for the perfect photo opportunity...capturing Ace, the mini real horse & two of our little Suburban Wheel-Horses checking each other out. And here's Ace taking a little bite out of the competition.

Hello all, I was at my boat club... friends diesel 1 ton dually broke a u joint half way up launch ramp. Nobody around but me and my 2wd 2.2 liter 4 cylinder auto. We blocked wheels on trailer and got his truck out of way... hooked up S10 and without even breaking sweat my Chevy got it up ramp and to safety. You guys always say if there arent pics it never happened! So..... Tony

Jeff, thanks for taking us along. Can't help but feel some sadness for all this great old iron.

Okay, Okay... I feel bad... look in pic... you can see trailer jack down. I was leaving club and just backed up and took quick pic. Boat and trailer is 19,000.... theres no chance in heck an S10 wouldnt poop itself silly if it even THOUGHT about moving it. Friends 1 ton dually Silverado Duramax pulled it in lo range no problem. It has to sit there overnight till his over width permits are legal tomorrow morning. Its 35' x 14' Sorry fellas 🤣🤣🤣 Tony And yes S10s are great little rides whether mini pickup or Blazer. I love the things and have had probably 6 or 7 Tony

You know that is a good question Craig. I was able to score this nice lighted sign out of the same garage. Do you think there might be a connection?

Cool and a 6 banger to boot! More than enough power to haul the family plus run a 48” deck!

You couldn't ask for better weather and the variety of equipment was outstanding. Member @turnnleft was there with his grandson and a lot of outstanding RJs. This poor horse has been abused! Here are a few more photos of the show. Don't know what this is but it was Not For Sale, owner had picked it up a few weeks ago and hoped to find out more information fro people at the show. Here is a Standard Twin walk behind tractor that has been converted to a rider. Very interesting! I have one in my barn and have plans to do something similar with it. Massey was the feature tractor this year. This gentleman had a great Deere toy collection

Our twin Wheel-Horse Suburbans loaded & headed out for a ride today.

Horses, love at first sight.

Love those old Cockshutts...

Thanks for the pics . Love PATINA !

Just an inexpensive Kodak Digital point and shoot idiot box, that is all I'm qualified to use.

I really like it , here are a couple more steel wheeled wheel horses

Toro acquired both Wheel Horse and Lawn-Boy, hoping to keep those high-end brands alive. They covered market segments where Toro wasn't as strong; Toro didn't have any garden tractor presence, and Wheel Horse also brought a line of smaller but well-engineered lawn tractors and alternate rear-engine riders to their lineup. Lawn-Boy was kind of its own special segment with two-cycle push mowers and a strong brand loyalty that extended into the commercial sector. (I usually saw more commercial Lawn-Boy mowers than Toro trimmer mowers in commercial service back in the day.) Toro supported the engineering efforts to carry the Wheel Horse line into the 300, 400, and 500 lines plus develop the 5xi, and they were the ones that brought Lawn-Boy into the modern age with the oil-injected/piston-ported "M" series 2-cycle mowers. They were very much trying to grow and build those brands. Unfortunately, economic downturns that favored the rise of cheap commodity equipment, a decline in popularity of gardening on a scale big enough to induce people to need GTs, engine emission regulations, plus the rise of zero-turns across pro and homeowner use, all really turned the market upside-down. Today, SCUTs have eaten into the garden tractor market and cheap commodity lawn "tractors"/riding mowers have gobbled up the homeowner market. Zero-turns dominate the turf care industry. Emissions regulations killed 2-cycle mowers. In the end, Toro's two big acquisitions went from being important assets to a mostly dead market. Toro actually protected the Wheel Horse brand by not applying it to anything that didn't have a genuine Wheel Horse engineering legacy. Unfortunately, there's no way to fit genuine Wheel Horse into Toro's modern lineup. So the brand remains dormant. Lawn-Boy still has name recognition, and just survives as re-branded Toro homeowner mowers. The "M" series deck lives on though, in slightly modified/updated form as one of Toro's (expensive) pro line trimmer mowers. Toro spent money and had plans to cultivate those brands and build themselves into a "family" of reputable names. Economics and outside market forces changed all that.

Beautiful October day, taking advantage of the weather. One of these will be on winter duty, guess which one? funny they all have 42” RD decks on them now left to right: 1994 416-H 1995 312-8 1974 C160 Automatic

Buddha Diesel engine...welded rear widen rims. It would really look nice all restored but it would be a expensive endeavor . Here’s a couple pictures of the farm from 1973 . This is a really cool site .

Great pictures!!! I sure like that Cockshutt, a model "50" if I'm correct. A simple tear down & resto she could look/run like brand new again. I would love to have it in my collection.

Jeff , thanks for the photos , sad to see equipment sitting in a field rusting away.

S-10 's are nice trucks , my son had a 4x4 with the V 6 and my brother has a S-10 with the V 6 and auto that he picked up for $400.00 , put tires and shocks on it and has been driving it for the last 5 years with no problems.

I still miss my '95 2.2 5spd I special ordered from the factory it was blue but after many deer involved accidents, it was repainted and customized a bit, but it served me well for 10+ years and 250k+ miles, Jeff.

Jeff, I bet you had a lot of hours behind the wheel of that equipment while growing up.

Did Ford use a 6hp Techy too?

Story is guy I got it from bought it New in 1966 and he said the dealer painted it this way to sell it faster... I got new decals with it and it will be restored to original. Sat in his barn for 10+ years, he put battery charger on it and it fired right up and it doesn't smoke a lick. When these techys run good they really run good! First pic is from before I washed it

Picked these 2 up today.

There is a replaceable seal behind the drum. Here is the parts list Pinned at the very top of the Transmission forum are crossovers for the seal numbers to available replacements. Garry

It's either my grammar or your understanding that's screwed up. But I stand corrected the chain's are on the outside of the tire. You have to be careful what you say here. These guys will have you for dinner. Thanks @Ed Kennell

You could buy a four wheel dolly and rest the blower on it when you shut down then you could drive it out the door to warm up.

In my opinion the cast iron Kohler single cylinder engines are rather bullet proof. If it sounds good and isn't smoking excessively you will get another 1,000 hours out of it with proper maintenance.

Bought this C120 for $500 from a old guy didn't realize it when i bought it and its not the sellers fault he never put it on but somebody made new mounting brackets for the snowplow.. ok so thats not so bad but they cut the frame to short so I can't turn the plow it can only be straight. I will eventually either buy another plow or weld it a bunch lol. The deck is in pretty good shape it has a few rust holes not bad someone must have repainted it but I can't figure it out as it has all the decals all in good shape. The guy said that the belt was bad but i took the cover off and it was just the tenisoner spring broke bought a new one from tractor supply for $4. The motor sounds good but it is having a few issues it doesn't always run smooth and it sputters sometimes but at high throttle it runs fine. I will get into that soon when I have a little time. Overall I am happy with it just a little bummed out about the plow. Right now I just have some chains hooked up to it so I can raise it up, to at least get me through this winter.

traded my bucket truck straight across for an 81 f250 and an 8n Ford tractor...pretty excited about the deal

Don't need it. The sundstrands work immediately Put a 16hp on an Electro, more than enough power for the blower. 418 is on mower duty you can drive out witht eh deck down. Even in the summer (with Mobil One) she takes her sweet time to start the lift.

I bought this sickle bar a couple weeks ago and figured out the bottom drive pulley was backwards so I tried heating it up and it still wouldn’t come off. And yes I took both of the set screws off. And we put a puller on it and bent the pulley all up. So we found a pulley that is the same thing and put it on the right way and it works good. I just need to get a bigger belt and lube it all up. It’s a 50” too. I can’t wait to use it a lot. Any tips on running it or anything else.

i had a 312 that I thought I knew what I was doing, but it took me 3 times to get right follow directions eric j

Thanks Mike. Wow, three quarters of a century. I'm older than my oldest tractor, and some of the parts need replacing.

Be prepared for a fight - that stuff does not cut easily nor cleanly . I recommend using a jig saw with a very fine blade and take your time - I've had to make a few over the years and it was a real pita at best . The equipment used to stamp those must be some very high strength steel cutters and I doubt they last very long . Sarge

Wow that red enough well let you put a WH decal on it

Superb quality pics , what camera did you use ? Some wicked machines too

Very nice....small, but very nice!

Thank you for the photos! What was the deal with the step-ladders....someone's collection??

I've had mine for over twenty years in a C165 and not a single issue to speak of. It has been the best single cylinder engine I've ever had and definitely underrated in power! I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone to speak ill of a K341!

16 = approximate height 5.50 = approximate width -8 = wheel size Tires are not very consistent in their actual size. Two different brands can be quite different in relation to one another. Usually up or down a size is no problem Hopefully another 857 owner can chime in with usable tire sizes for you.

I installed an electric fuel pump on my 416-8 and the instructions said to mount near the tank ( lower than tank ). Mounted it on the seat stand below the seat pan. No more starting issues.

The Onan powered unit?

I'm sittin here with tears in my eyes being thankful for the wonderful people of this forum. I thank you all for your good wishes and especially the prayers. You have made me stronger just knowing you are with me in spirit. Thank you all, Jim D.

Really nice C-120. Any welder will be able to lengthen that plow frame or there are extensions made for the 520 tractors that just might work.

My 19 year old son and i are undertaking the complete redo of a 1966 model 606 tractor, It is in relatively good shape needing only a few parts, and most likely an engine rebuild, then sand blast new paint and new decals.. we r from Brooklyn Ct, and all my son wants to do is enter it in The local fairs. He is a high functioning Autistic young man who had a dream of having his own WH Then he was given one for free and now it is time to get it going..Looking for any help at all on these tires we have the front ones......please feel free to e mail me at Reflex1957@yahoo.com

The hammer method? Well, I sat here and just couldnt think of a way to write a description, so I went to you tube and found this --- I would add to the method that I will do bolt holes the first thing and put a bolt in each one, the head of the bolt pressing down on the paper really helps in keeping every thing in place. I also like to use a really small ball peen hammer (I call it my gasket hammer) being small helps when you have small bolt holes or a tight corner to cut. Of course I have a exacto knife and small scissors handy to also give an assist sometimes.