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STORY NUMBER ONE Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze to prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed 'Easy Eddie.' He was Capone's lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time. To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big, but Eddie got special dividends, as well. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago City block. Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him. Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had clothes, cars, and a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object. And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn't give his son; he couldn't pass on a good name or a good example. One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done. He decided he would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Al 'Scarface' Capone, clean up his tarnished name, and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. So, he testified. Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago Street. But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he could ever pay. Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine. The poem read: 'The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.' STORY NUMBER TWO World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander Butch O'Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrierUSS Lexington in the South Pacific. One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship. His flight leader told him to return to the carrier. Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back to the fleet. As he was returning to the mother ship, he saw something that turned his blood cold; a squadron of Japanese aircraft was speeding its way toward the American fleet. The American fighters were gone on a sortie, and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger. There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet. Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 caliber guns blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was finally spent. Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dived at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible, rendering them unfit to fly. Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction. Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier. Upon arrival, he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He had, in fact, destroyed five enemy aircraft. This took place on February 20, 1942, and for that action Butch became the Navy's first Ace of WWII, and the first Naval Aviator to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. A year later Butch was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade, and today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man. So, the next time you find yourself at O'Hare International, give some thought to visiting Butch's memorial displaying his statue and his Medal of Honor. It's located between Terminals 1 and 2. SO WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER? Butch O'Hare was 'Easy Eddie's' son.

Playing around on the 520-H. NO.... I didn't mount the radio. Just wanted to see what it looked like.

I had a HF lift. Mounted a oak door on it to make it wider. Just took up too much room when not using it so I sold it. I have a hydraulic lift table that I can pick up a tractor if I take the belt guard and foot stirrups off. It's nice because If I need to stop working on a tractor I can roll it out of the way.

Still snowing and blowing way too soon to start snow flake relocation activities. Horses have some work ahead of them. Opened the door on the shop where they are and saw this. The gray thing is the tip of my yardstick. (I actually had to pull it up an inch so it would show)

I picked this jewel up yesterday at a John Deere dealer, it's a 224 case ,but it has a 16hp Onan on it, and someone put Power steering on it. It has a few leaks, but runs great. even has a joy stick.

We got 14-15 inches. Heavy and wet. Still coming down but slower and mostly melting now where it hits driveway. Here are some pics when I cleared it out earlier...

GMC: It looks like it started out as a 1962, but some items were changed. The 1961 had a straight handle shifter and no parking brake. Yours has the bent shifter to clear the optional HY2 Hydraulic pump, and has the cutout on the left side for the missing parking brake. Judging by the gas tank and the key switch with separate starter button, it is probably a 702. Different motor makes it "A Horse of a different Kohler". Bill

I was reading the previous posts and I have to admit.... I thought the exact same thing, took me a second or 4 to finally figure all this out.... Some of you guys are just plain weird... I tell ya, just weird. And to think I sent in money to be a "supporter" . What the heck??? Squonk, I hope you survive the storm, If its gets really bad, at least you'll be in a good mood .

Your doobie's have an electric start?

Sadly these were his only two....... Briggs man he says not Kohlers ...free country I says ... I did leave my card with him in case he should happen to come across more! This was one of those rare CL scores that one actually enjoys. I could have spent hours chatting with the seller about old iron, cars, tools and what not. He even had a couple of Lennox furnaces in his basement so since he was a very nice gentleman I took a peek at them for him and gave him a couple of furnace filters off the truck. He even let me snap a few of his mind blowing collection. last pic is a water cooled one. Here is that genny Dan he said was made in Oshkosh. Pretty sure it's 12VDC the water cooled one above. Had a nice little collection of outboards I asked him if he took these to shows, he says he has a enclosed with flip open sides for display. Most are meticulously restored and run but he did have quite a few originals tho. The shelves had mirrors in back of them with cool lighting. He said he worked his way through high school and college in a lawn & garden shop and that's when he started collecting. I'd guess him to be mid 70's in age. Super good guy.

Yah really was Bob.... the pics don't really do justice to the detail on some of these. The fact that most were all in running order. I shoulda asked if I could see his shop were he did all his work!

That unit gets discussed pretty frequently. You'll find some good conversation/ideas in these topics...

Oh no lets not go that route Jeffrey... I doubt if it's been brazed by factory not sayin it couldn't be done but not at factory. Brazing woud take a very fine touch to keep from burning through the thin tank steel. Soldering on the other hand is best best done for high production and semi unskilled labor in the day. More n likely the resoldering attempts have been tryed with unclean or not properly fluxed joints and therfore failed. No way to do it unless the soldered joint is completed disassembled and properly cleaned/refluxed. Solder type is real critic........ Holy schmitz Billy now you do got me rambling like the Sarge on a windy day! Lets start a different thread!....how bout dem Packers?

We have been replacing the most frequently used lamps in the house with LEDs, but I had replaced most of the shop lights a couple years back so I will be behind the curve on this one. I have only had one epic failure with LEDs, The ceiling fan in my wife's quilting room has six candelabra base incandescent 40 watt lamps. I replaced them with dimmable LEDs a few years ago and it was VERY interesting (and rather amusing to me). The electronics of the six lamps being in close proximity caused them to flash on and off independently. Kind of reminiscent of a press conference with flash bulbs going off randomly. My wife didn't see the humor in it that I did.

Trading card #9 Racinbob added

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Holy crap. I.m glad I live in Canada. My yard is completely bare. Then again I don't get any seat time. Cleat

You'd think I would have enough common sense to live someplace other than the mountains of Maine......

Maybe should have hung on to the 314 w/snowblower a bit longer?

Going to miss this in Idaho????

Good man Ritchie...buying from Ed is always better than the dumpster diving ya been doing!

The horse is, for sure, a 1962...the 4 digit (9616) number after 62- makes it that. It started life as a 702 or a 552...not a 502. Other then what the other guys are noticing...the front tires look original, but the 1962's came with the square pan seat...not the round one. That horse looks to be in good shape.

I just wish folks would put them down and just drive instead of trying to do both at once. Getting too old to duck vehicles at work and dealing with the same idiots in traffic the rest of the time. Cell is right, people used to actually talk to each other, now it's silence except for the tapping of thumbs on virtual keyboards. Sarge

So Tom @Shynon texts me about a CL find in WI about a K91 this guy has for sale. Looks decent so asks if I would go get it for him. Sure I says so I call the guy and setup a day. Bonus turns out he was right near a Cabelas and I was sitting on a $50 gift card that was burning a hole in my pocket. May come home with a Kohler and a new spinning combo!?!? So I pulls into his drive way and check out his house ...holy smokes Beverly Hillbilly mansion has got nothing on this guy! All concrete driveway got more mix in it than the Hoover Dam! I thought why would this guy have a K91?? Meet the guy and walk into a 5 car garage with one of those fancy epoxy floors so clean I woulda ate off it. Got bowled over by the two vintage corvettes, a cherry T bucket and yup you guessed it ...a 1959 Eldorado caddy with tail fins that look like they could fly and bullet taillights ...In pink of course! We immediately hit it off when I blurt out wow. Stairs from the garage to the basement, he flips on the light and whoa. Entire basement walls, this is 3000 sq ft house mind you, filled with shelves filled with vintage small engines, all or mostly all Briggs. More on those later. He's got not one but two Kohlers setting on a card table. I immediately start to fondle them and after some chit chat throw him a $60 offer on the '91. For a second I thought geez that was too low he's gonna toss me out but then I figured he didn't make his fortune flipping vintage motors....He had 100 on it CL. He says how bout 75? I says solddd. So on to the '90 I says wadda ya think ya gotta have for this one? He thinks a moment and says I am at 150 on this one...it's all original and got the vintage air cleaner. Had to do a little carb work on it to get it running. Geez that's a little more then I was looking to spend as I don't really have a tractor for this ....yet I had told him earlier that I didn't really collect engines but rather the tractors they go in... of course. We finally settle on 130 and as I am digging in my wallet realize I made the rookie mistake of not covering between the zeros and ended up handing him 210. Told him to buy his wife a nice dress with the extra Lincoln! we both laughed. Ok enough babbling .... fellas gonna think I am related to Sarge! Tom's K91 first.PO did add the gas tank so he could run it and said he thought it might be off a genny based on the muff. Note the service engine on the tag. I'm sure yer gonna be happy with it Tom ...if not it makes for some nice garage deco at my place. Funny yet I went to bed last nite with it on that shelf, woke up in a cold sweat at 2 am dreaming it fell off the shelf... had to run out to the shop in my skivvies and take it down ... wakes Cindy up WT* The K90... nice little gem.... got correct base for a RJ or 'Burb project. I had originally thought this would be a good motor for @Achto as he needs some tins for one he has. Way to nice to part out tho. Is that the correct muff for your McClean Dan?

953 Nut, I can accommodate. I've got a few pieces that need to be dusted off but pics can be had as soon as this nor-easter blows through. While this "big" storm has the horses stables, I can give you a rundown of what's in the inventory. 420-LSE Suburban 551 Charger V8 Kohler 1076 Lawn Ranger Charger 10 308-8 312-8 416-8 B-80 signed by the man Cecil Pond at the last show he attended before he passed. C-81 I had gotten away from the smaller machines and was toying with the bigger ones antique green on the farm scale. My daughter has after me telling her my story of wheel horse indoctrination at a young age as my grandfather was a dealer, started seeing my appreciation for them. A lot of which revolves around the fond memories. She asked if we could maybe get one for her that we work on together so while she has plenty of mine to ride around on, we are now on the hunt. She as a kid is shooting big, wanting a Senior. I'm ready to jump if I find one close enough but she's been looking at the literature I've collected over the years and is also really liking the round hoods so either way, no doubt there will be a daddy daughter road trip coming up soon to get her first very own.

I picked a used one up a couple of years ago. Can't live without it. I was tired of crawling on the cement floor.

I’m running classic 6 ply ag treads on both machines. Tired of traveling 225 miles to find them nearly flat several time a year I found a fix. Solid rubber filling! It wasn’t cheap but they’ll never go flat again and the added weight does wonders for my traction year round.

gotcha, didn't notice the typo, must be dyslectic this morning, haven't finished a cup of coffee yet

My eyes! My aching eyes! Is that you Lizbeth? I'm coming, it's the big one!!

Sorry to see that John. At least the truck dodged a bullet. I just got back from a 8 hour white knuckle round trip to Penn State. Not much fun being sandwiched between the 18 wheelers in the 50 MPH winds. Made it back home safe though and no trees down that I could see in the dark. The power was off several times. I just heard ....a big rig has flipped on the Norman Wood bridge. Officials say it will remain closed until the winds lay enough to remove the truck. Probably Sunday. The bridge spans the Susquehanna River in southern Pa.

I want to thank everyone for sharing their experience and suggestions. It’s overwhelming the positive response and helpful information members can get here. This is the best place on the internet for practical problem solving. Owning a Wheel Horse is worth whatever it’s cost, if only for the common sense and experience we have access to on the wheelhorseforum. Thanks!! Oh, I’m going with the six ply ags. Will look at foam if 6-ply fails to do the trick.

I’m good with a dumpster. Price is usually right.

I like snow. I absolutely need to live where there are 4 distinct seasons. However once we get to March, I’m ready for Spring and snow becomes a bit of a boor.

So if anyone is like me and is hooked on doing tons of research and as part of that, watch tons of You Tube, then perhaps you have come across FAst Lane Truck. Anyway they do good reviews and also do a really decent towing review. They use the GENY hitches. But they also have a sweet weight distribution hitch set up that doubles as an anti sway set up. It’s not on the GENY website. And dealers don’t have the info. But I spoke to a tech rep at GENY and got the skinny. The weight distribution set up is made by a competitor. Fastway. They allow GENY to sell them but not to market them on their website. Just in case soemone else wants a similar set up. This pic is front fastway and basically the spring bars and l bracket set up is sold by GENY.

One of my favorite tractors [non wheel horse that is] 1855 massey I owned this one 3 different times. Did a resto on it 3+ years ago.

Always in a good mood.Especially when I have a paid day off.

I have one I bought new on sale. It certainly makes life easier. It is a little narrow, but some guys have modified it for their use. I use it for everything now!!

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I'll have to get some close up pics of the offending culprit and start another thread on the best ways to fix how about that?

Geez all good input here EB but yer barkin up the wrong tree with me.... loud pipes save lives...... run with an open one and put on a set of ear muffs if yer a sally......huh....what did you say?!!???

Oooooohhh dude ....a round hood ...congrats! Get that girl out of the rain tho ....I got a stall over here!

Sandbalsted, Powder coated and new tires!

I also made a front stabilizer to prevent left to right movement and to stop the frame from hitting the front axle.

Please remember, if you jack up the rear with the jack centered, the tractor can unexpectedly tilt to the side and possible fall off the jack. The swiveling front axle will not keep it stable.

We have one rule here, Just because you haven't been on the site lately is no excuse for not sharing some

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