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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

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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

Spaceballs...my all time favorite.

Bob, I never got into facebook although the missus did.I would rather interact with people who do something and not just talk.I vote for Second Hand Lions.

That particular one came off a old Brockway dump truck. But that time frame of trucks is awesome. One of my most favorite trucks is a single stack Mack Super liner with the 500 mack motor and a 13 speed transmission. Drove a bright yellow one for several years and that was just a beast of a machine.

Exactly. But from the trucks or something else...

I know a fella who has this and that of all things tractors (big and small old and new) related and the inventory is constantly changing most of you guys would either be in heaven or trouble so here's today's rather cool or weird finds, enjoy...Jeff

Hey @bigweights, ! I believe that restoring a tractor rarely brings the “value” of time and material invested, unless it was a special circumstance or rare tractor. But yours is done very nice indeed!

What you have is what's left of a 1960 model 400. Unfortunately it's missing most of the items which are more commonly missing. Like the original engine, gas tank, throttle/choke controls, fenders/toolbox and belt guard. All that stuff is in higher demand. Sorry I can't really help you with price, what I will pay is certainly different than what others may. There is still some value there as we have seen worse than that come back to life with the right person restoring it.

4 pinions 1" axle in 4 speed, 8 pinions 1 1/8 axle in 8 speed. 8 speed better IMO

Here's a couple of side shots for ya! I took these out yesterday. I'll start a separate post later.

Fish powered

Hoping I remember to send out skittles steering cap decals Monday Richie

One more, this time with a grown up tractor included.

I never ceased to be amazed at the abuse by some owners of their equipment!!! You really have to try to break a WH Frame. My neighbors 856 was accidently driven out the second story door of a barn (no ramp) went about 8 ft down nose first...fortunately the Mechanic wasn't on board. It broke the steering wheel, bent one front wheel and spindle and bent the U shaped members on the frame that hold the front axle. It was drivable with a new steering wheel but the front wheels hit the deck on turns. Try as I might I couldn't get the front plates on the frame straight enough. Bought a Commando 8 parts tractor swapped frames, 1 spindle and wheel and she is as good a new (for a 1966) and back to mowing... Love to know what the PO of the 418C was doing to break a frame....