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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.

In November of 1997 I bought my first new vehicle. Today, that old friend no longer belongs to me. It always was a bit of an unusual truck. You don't see many of these 7700 lb gvw Fords out there with their bizarre 7-lug wheels. Heavier than an f-150, but lighter than a heavy duty 3/4. I guess it was more of a 5/8 ton. It was a 1997 F-250 light duty 4x4 with the 4.6L v8. I paid extra for the automatic transmission thinking my then fiancé (still my wife today ❤️) who couldn't drive a manual would drive it periodically. It was the first vehicle I ever drove with an automatic transmission. In 20 years, she probably drove the truck 5 times. the things we do for love! It could carry 2700 pounds and it did that and more many, many times. It probably has hauled over 100 separate wheel horses in its 8-ft bed. Until 2003 it was my daily driver until I grew tired of the 17 mpg it gave. Since then I added another car and only used the truck as a truck. So the last 50000 miles or so were usually loaded with something...rock, dirt, tractors, drywall, etc. or pulling a trailer. In reality, it's worked pretty hard when called upon for the last 14 years. It moved me and my belongings from Illinois to Missouri to Indiana and back to Illinois. A friend borrowed it to move his stuff and ended up making multiple back and forth trips to West Virginia. its its been registered and titled in three states all under the same name -mine. Never an accident and until a hailstorm last spring that claimed the headlamps and windshield it was still 100% factory. It's going to be weird not seeing it around anymore. Hopefully it doesn't get crushed soon as I think it has quite a bit of life left in it. I'm sure it's bound for an auction as the next part of its life. age was starting to take a toll and rust was making weird things happen. The engine and transmission are still sound but it had been decaying around the edges. The exhaust manifolds are both rusted, the 4x4 system only works 75% of the time, the AC is dead, and general rust was making it somewhat unreliable. I had good luck in the last 20 years with this truck, but it did make me pucker the time the brake line ruptured at a rail crossing with a train careening across the road. Had I not got that sucker to stop by throwing it in park and flooring the emergency brake the day would have ended differently. Another er time it wouldn't start after launching the boat with the trailer still in the water. That was fun. And there was that 10-degree winter night between Decatur and Springfield Illinois when the heater core blew leaving me with no heat and a puddle of coolant on the floorboards. Thank god Home Depot was still open that night so I could cut the heater hoses and isolate the heater core. That last 120 miles to mom and dads house was cold and my poor dog kept looking at me with confusion on why we were freezing with the windows open a crack (to keep from fogging up)instead of running the heat. But it was still a good truck for me. Some time ago it hit that valuation that made anything beyond regular maintenance an undesirable investment for me. Filling the 30 gallon tank increased its value by 25% The new battery this spring kind of broke the camel's back so I kept it through the summer to get some work done around the house and decided to sell it before the plate expired in November. No regrets letting it go, but it's going to be missed for a while. replacing it and my wife's car is a Honda Ridgeline that better suits our current needs. We're back to two vehicles which just makes more sense. I'm sure others have old trucks or their first cars with which they parted and it might be neat to hear some stories. Farewell old friend! steve

The pony looks in great shape , hope you and the family enjoy it .

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.

Looks like a good time to take the breather off for a cleaning. And check the valve clearances while you are in there. Make sure you put the breather back together correctly. Check the manual....do not assume the PO put it together correctly.

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

Very Sweet..... enjoy...

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??

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.

@wallfish Just gotta power down an energy yogurt and I’ll be good to go right?? 🤣

Yup, a 73 'no name'. Most definitely a mixture of years but what the heck. That's one of the wonderful things about Wheel Horses. Parts interchangeability as well as attachments. I've already had many comments about the fact that I'm running a 76 1948" mower deck on my 2005 and the 42" deck from the 2005 on the 1976.

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.

I had the same thing happen to me when some degreaser got on a fender and turned the paint to a milky red. I spray painted it with some Rustoleum Clear coat, and it returned the paint to the original color. I was surprised how easy it was. Worth a try before you go any further. Let me know if it works for you. Jim

Perhaps it's time to degrease the rest of it and go with a new shade? Don't think you will get back the original patina since it looks like the degreaser took off more than grease...

I don't know where he gets it from. He has 2 suburbans that run, 2 lawn rangers that run, and another lawn ranger project waiting. This is a lot better addiction than a lot of the stuff our kids could get hook on. Heck, who knows, he may be the next AMC Rules. Wait, I've got to put a stop to this right now!

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.