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This forum has been the best social media site I’ve ever been a part of. I gave up Facebook years ago and I had no expectations for RS other than parts and some advice. However, I’ve found a fun active crowd of enthusiasts that I can relate with! I plan on being at the “Big Show” next year! I hope to meet all of you. I’d also like to thank @WVHillbilly520H @ebinmaine And @dells68 especially for helping make me feel part of the community! @stevasaurus I’m in your fan club!! Lol

By the way, Us wimps stay in Chambersburg and have been known to keep the hotel open all night!

@Machineguy, you've found exactly what I did a few years ago-there's nothing like the folks you'll meet here. I used to go to lots of antique car shows, but the people there always seemed to compete with each other (with the exception of the VW community). I joined my local tractor club several years ago and found out there was no nicer, friendly, helpful group of folks anywhere. The same holds true for the wheel horse community - there's no competition, everyone is helpful, and there's a strong sense of family. Just ask my 10 year old son how many friends he's made through these little red machines! Once you go red, you'll never go back!

That’s awesome! I’m not in a bragging contest nor do I care to compete over money spent either. (Money spent is a big and disgusting talking point in car shows) This is low dollar simple fun thing for me. I can buy new like many on here but I’d rather have something timeless that’s not just an appliance. Our red machines are simple, durable and timeless pieces of power equipment .

When I prepare my mowers and boat motors for the winter storage, I mix a cocktail of 8oz of fuel, 2 oz of 2 cycle oil, and 2 oz of marine Sta-bil in an open tin can. I start the engine as normal, then disconnect the fuel line(usually at the filter) and stick the engine line in the cocktail and the tank end in a container. The cocktail is sucked into the fuel pump, carb, and cylinders. The fuel tank is drained into a container and burned in my vehicles. I then pull the plugs and spray fogging oil in each cylinder as I crank the engine a few times. This has worked for me for years for both 2 and 4 cycle engines. I even burn the 2 cycle mixed fuel in my vehicles w/o any problems. In the spring, I fill with fresh fuel and start up w/o any problems other than a little smoke until the cocktail burns off.

Impact wrench for me.Nuts come off fast and no other wrench needed.

We got 30 inches in April glad I put the loader on. This was the first round of 15 inches

well I should be working on a WH but my wife volunteered to help make tamales for a church fund raiser (which means I also got volunteered). She has the pork cooked and masa seasoned to make 12 dozen. We made 6 dozen this morning and will make the rest this evening. I told here spreading the corn masa on the shucks was like putting body filler on tractor parts. I didn’t get any volunteer help offered for that. 😜

The more I read about it, the more excited I get. Very much looking forward to it. Maybe I will find the wild resto I'm saving a spot in the garage for? Looking forward to meeting the great people on the site.

I started going to the show for the first time in 2010. That's the year that I finished the restoration of my B-100. I've attended every year since. Each year, the anticipation of the next show starts building the minute I get home from the previous show. If you are a camper, there are plenty of spaces on site to camp which provides you with the unique experience of the evening campfires and potluck meals. Speaking of food, a local church group sets up in the kitchen each year and provides their own brand of home cooking starting on Thursday afternoon until Saturday lunch. Food prices are very reasonable. If you are a wimp and want to stay in a hotel, the Gettysburg area has many choices, but book early. That time of the year Gettysburg is filled with more tourists than usual and there are other activities in the area. There will be more horses and horse parts than your can imagine. Prices for tractors and parts vary but you can't find more red stuff in one place anywhere else in the world. Check out the threads on Wheel Horse Collectors Club shows for more info.

When you are going to run it dry, add a little 2 cycle gas to the mix--keeps your carb gaskets from drying out and shrinking...

The powers that be don’t want the average consumer to keep their old vehicles and engines going. They want tax revenue generated by new vehicles and power equipment sales and taxes. Built to last is for old folks that wanted to stretch a dollar. We now live in a throwaway society that’s just about making the next dollar. I truly believe all of this potential damage to older machinery was realized only for profit.

Got the custom 702 out today and took it for a cruise down the road to a friends house. Got some crazy looks cruising down the road while listening to some tunes.

So I picked this up a few weeks ago and thought I would share it on here. Made by Farmhand in 1966 or 67 the model is a farm handy there’s not much information on them and very few around, supposedly they were made for harvesting sugar beets back in the day. It has a 8hp Kohler motor with a 4 speed transmission/rear end. The clutch petal works like a wheel horse (clutch/brake) and there is a petal on each side so you don’t need to sit in the middle to drive it and top speed is around 11 mph.

"Longmire" on Netflix... Bosch on Prime.....

I gotta put in for Smokey and the Bandit I'll write more tomorrow....

Got some more work done today clutch/belt tensioner is done similar to original style wheelhorse, drive belt runs inside frame to a seperate idler that will have a belt that runs up to crank pulley on engine. I will also be installing another idler to take up the slack in the drive belt. Also got the rear tires just need to redrill mounting holes to smaller pattern. The clutch shaft is removeable by taking out cotter pin and roll pin then removing brass bushings on either end then it slides out of the frame. Ill have pics of one of the tires bolted on tomorrw. Then i need to get started on the steering.

The wrench for decks with the smaller nut that is part of the spindle is available on Ebay.The spindle nut is just an 1 1/8" nut. I use an 1 1/8" socket and a homemade wrench to install the blade.To break the spindle nut free I use a block of wood to keep the blade from turning.Impact wrench eliminates the need for a block.Again the wrench is a available on E-bay for around $26.00 plus shipping.

Job well done by a Horse today. Cut down one out-of -place pine tree, pruned others, and stripped out this viney plant matter because its just too much maintenance for me down to this brush pile removal of pile 10 yards of mulch hauled (PS this Polar trailer is nice and HD but it doesn't dump mulch worth a s***) Finished job .

Garry is correct that's it's not intended to fit but with a little bit of fabrication it will fit just fine as I converted(removing the unneeded parts and adding center lift point) one over myself a couple years ago, if the price was right and you can weld and fabricate the needed part (basically the center lift link) then this may be feasible, 1st pic right off a 260 series, next are after I converted, and last B/C3/400 series frame, Jeff.

the problem was the ign.switch.one pole was completely rusted

Your documents should be saved in a folder named "documents". You can copy that folder to your new computer without having MS Word installed. You just won't be able to read them. However, there is an open source program called Open Office. It does everything that MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. The big difference is it's FREE.

B 100 automatic back in business again! Transmission replacement working fine! 9C7E9B32-096A-45D8-8A90-840A9AD38586.MOV

100% correct, the 520LXi is of the newer shaft driven Xi series that came out in 1998 and the 314 is of the "classic" series, all of the attachments are Xi series specific, Jeff.

Working on that very thing this weekend, after I pick up the clippings from this very wet month we've had already. Been mowing every 3-4 days here, that's just nuts for September. The D's pump is still quite stout after all the work - tested it's lifting power by nearly getting the rear axle off the ground on the '77 Land Cruiser, that was pretty impressive. Sarge

It will depend on the demand, especially in your area, as well as just how ambitious and complete the restoration your doing actually is. In in some cases, folks clean them up and paint....in some they tear it completely down and rebuild engine and tranny and new hardware.... Either way is good but depending it would change the value in my opinion. And I have seen that with Wheel Horses it’s similar to Classic Cars. If you go the more comprehensive restore, you will have more into it than the market will often pay.

@ebinmaine it is a Brockway hood ornament. I'm in the process of getting everything g around to make my 14hp B-80 and that one will get the mack dog. Then when I build a nice little hot rod horse that will be the candidate for the angry duck

Working them little Kohlers is lots of fun too.

I definitely understand the thought process there. I'm like that for some things as well. Normally, on the work tractors we have here, I go for functionality over originality. But in this case.... I have to agree. I'm going to try this switch.

1. Lots of tractors, 2. Lots of tractors & parts 3.yes 4.parades,cruise. bonfires, kabitzing food yes!!! Italain,Chinese BBQ, homestyle, within 20 min. of show 5. Buy her a tractor.

Here you go Jim another "weirdo"...

Deck painted. Looking better all the time. Cleat

I did not need this at all but it was just up the road and cheap. Runs really well and deck is in excellent condition rust wise. Bearings are a little loud but I have already pulled the spindles for rebuild. I will take them into work tomorrow and disassemble and bead blast them. Blower was hard to turn but I lubed the chain and it now turns easy. I will install a new chain. Sprockets all look good. Tractor runs good, all indicator lights work, hydro works good. Steering is loose but I will fix that up. Tires seem to hold air but time will tell. This is an ugly duckling but should clean up nice. Cleat

I have copies of MS Word Document from my old computer that is dying. I want to transfer these documents to new PC. I know that I have to buy MS office 365 and install. Do I have to wait to transfer the word documents until I have installed 365 or can I transfer now knowing that I will not be able to access documents until 365 is installed. MS help guy was no help. English was not his first language. If don't know can you ask your teenager ?

My first car was a 55 chevy. Had three more over the years...

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I would save to a flash drive just to be safe before trying to copy them.

I thought it might have been. From the days when Mack and Brockway merged. Love it !!! I have a Kenworth swan to go on my B80. The shifter knob is a bull dog head.

600 miles round trip to pick up two 48” NOS mower decks and snow cab. Just walked in the door!

BTW, this is my father in laws generator I’m working on to get ready for potential flooding from the hurricane.

That's exactly why I built my own harnesses from scratch

Filling the B-100 hydro transmission today with 10w -30 rosella oil. Put the rear hitches and new cable onto! Hope to run this evening!

Although I don't really use it, it is perhaps my most unusual implement. It's my planter, complete with all the seed plates,fertilizer hopper and row marker. I haven't seen another one that is as complete as this. I don't even have a garden!!! Next I need the mid mount 540 rpm PTO 66 that I have absolutely zero use for!!! It's just a cool rare piece.

American & British cuteness come together My 1995 MG with just 22k miles and my 1960 subby

New Horse, New House...New Member...welcome to Maine!