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I’d like to file this under “Wheel Horses attract some pretty awesome people”..... in this case, Chris G. Here’s the story: I was reviewing posts on the site earlier this week, saw one from Chris G, and noticed that he lived in Batavia, NY. I have an 80-something-year-old aunt in Batavia, currently in a physical therapy/rehab facility there. Seeing Chris’s post made me think about sending him a message, introducing myself, telling him about my aunt, and asking him if, by chance, he happened to go by the facility, would he consider stopping in and saying “HI” to my aunt for me. He replied, and to my surprise, he told me that he lived within sight of that facility, and he would be more than happy to go see my aunt! He even offered to take her some flowers and a box of chocolates! Now, what are the chances of a complete stranger (outside of our WH interests) not only living close to another forum member’s relative, but also being SO WILLING to make a visit to someone else’s aunt!?!?! Chris and I have shared a lot of information about ourselves and about my aunt. I called the facility and spoke to her caretakers, made sure that a surprise visit by Chris was OK, and figured out a good time that fit Chris’s and my aunt’s schedules. So, Chris will be visiting my aunt Monday! I cannot WAIT to hear about the visit from Chris, and I will LOVE hearing what my aunt has to say after it is done! I don’t get to see my aunt very often, as she is in NY and we are in Arkansas, so this offer to visit by Chris really means a LOT to me! My hat is off to Chris!! I wanted all of the folks here to know that Chris is a shining example of the kind of people that Wheel Horses attract, and publicly thank him from the bottom of my heart! THANK YOU, CHRIS!!!!!! You are one FINE individual!!

I found this tractor today that was a traid in at a local mower shop I know nothing about this modle other than it caught my eye. One owner and i have all the original literature that came with it. It has a few implements that come with it. I think the plow blade has been modified and I'm not sure if the seat is original. It runs and has a few extra parts with it. I got it for 300.00 hope I didn't pay to much for it. Your thoughts?

I finally got the templates adjusted and have stayed up past my bed time putting this concept together. I really like the way it turned out. Step 1. prepare your metal dash and powder coat or paint the entire dash plate with whatever color you prefer I chose to try Cowboy's new chrome powder and I think it looks awesome. I happen to think you could do a silver paint or white or maybe even linen beige any of those would look great. Step 2. Get out your decals. the red die cut vinyl (Wheel Horse) decal and apply on the top of your dash. the black letters for the rib are printed on a clear adhesive vinyl which is almost invisible on the chrome powder. It is long, skinny and thin but really pretty easy to lay down on the rib. I found it easier to line up the word ignition centered under the hole for the ignition switch off course. then the throttle lettering will be positioned correctly when laid down. then just work your way back to the left till it is all applied. You should have about a 1/16th left hanging over each end of the rib which you trim off with your exacto knife. Step 3. Remove your black and brushed chrome decal for the bottom of the dash plate from it's backing paper. step 4. position it up against the bottom of the rib with the lock arrow centered over the throttle hole. If it is lined up close to center you will have about 1/16" of decal hanging over the left side of the plate and about 1/4" hanging over the right end and bottom. IT should look like the following image when you turn it over to trim. step 5. turn your plate over and lay the bottom flat against your table (preferably a cutting mat) and trim all excess decal from your plate. then turn it back over and trim out all the holes . BOOM your done!! Much easier to install and you do not have to fight the rib trying to make the vinyl stay down in the creases. What do ya'll think.

Disconnect the negative (-) battery cable at the battery. Keep the key in the OFF position. Connect at test light or voltmeter to the negative battery post and the cable you just removed. If no short is present the light will not illuminate or a voltmeter will show 0 battery voltage. If a short is present the light will illuminate or a voltmeter will show battery voltage. Start disconnecting items one at a time and reconnect until you get the light out or 0 volts. When that happens you have found the problem circuit. Let us know what you find. Garry

Chris is also a wheel horse pal of mine. He's going to bring going room to room asking the patients if they have any old WH parts they don't need anymore. Just kidding he's s great guy. Chris... 1st, Try to keep swearing and cigar smoking to a minimum in there. 2nd, if you want to give rides on junkyard dog or b140, make sure their gowns don't get wound up on the uni drives.

A sad day. Besides and above all the dedication to public service, a truly decent man that really represented what this country is and should be. May we all now look back at all of his life and learn from it so we stop wasting ours and our children's.

RIP George Sr., thanks for the many ways you served your Country.

Missing Man Formation... Godspeed.

His legacy will defend us well into the future

Well, I bought a ratty ole Work Horse for the deck and rear wheels at my local club’s annual show last July. Emory fell in love with it. I did rob the deck and front wheels for my 312-8. Ever since Emory has been asking if I would build it for his Christmas this year. He was wanting an rj or suburban, but neither has come along, so here goes the 1100. Below are a fee pics of it’s current condition - broken steering brace, cobble welded hood, and cobbled up steering/dash tower. Seat could almost go in the ugly seat contest. Engine is a worn, difficult to start pull start Briggs. It’s going to be replaced with a fresh rebuilt k241. I’m optimistic I’ll get it done by Christmas and went ahead and ordered a set of @Vinylguy‘s patriotic decal sets. Keep your fingers crossed! Oh, by the way @WHX21, Jim, the shop isn’t any cleaner yet - maybe after Christmas, then maybe not😂.

An underated President who treated the job with respect as well as respecting his political adversaries. Truly one of the "Greatest Generation"

And although I feel bad, You still can't have my skis

The time finally came - I can't do the heavier mechanical work on things anymore and could no longer stand to watch my beloved Land Cruiser rot into the ground. Mechanically, it was perfect and always ran like a sewing machine, but the body was really starting to suffer from age and the weather here. No garage, no place to store it - so I decided to sell and let someone else take it over. Loaded up as much of the spare parts in it last night that it could carry and handed the keys over to a pretty young fella that promises to care for and restore it - he lacks a lot of mechanical know-how but sure makes up for that in excitement, wow. Almost feel sorry for the truck - he's never owned or driven anything older than himself, not even a garden tractor. It took a while to even teach him how to drive the thing, heavy truck transmission and manual steering isn't for everyone, I was sure nervous the whole time. He didn't understand the old straight six and wanted to rev it to the moon in each gear - uh, wrong idea, kid. Not to mention jerking the shifter quickly when changing or engaging gears - took 30 minutes to drive it into his thick skull this is heavy and very old machinery - not a modern car like the Mitsubishi Eclipse he once had, totally different animal and mentality. Despite the abuse, he did make the 2hr trip home last night without an issue, hope the old girl survives or he's going to learn a hard and very expensive lesson about how you treat such things. Has to come back with a box van to pick up the rest of the parts next weekend, I'm interested to see how things are going. The GSD spent all evening last night mad at me - he knows "his truck" left here with someone else and it's gone. Sarge

I am ready for the winter also! 314-8 and 42 inch plow all set to go!

he lived a remarkable life, this is the same stearman biplane he trained in ww2 prior to flying tbf's in the Pacific. I recently built it for my "other" collection

Hats off to Chris.You have my respect and admiration. If we are ever in the same location I would like to shake your hand. And, yes, the vast majority of members in this forum and hobby are real decent human beings. Amazing that so many people from very different geographical and cultural areas have so many common interests and values. So we again have to thank the creator of these little red tractors for a product that became much more than what it was intended for and brought all of us together.

Fair winds and following seas sir.

that's one thing I noticed about the garden tractor hobby we are all great people, can't say enough about all the travels and people I met searching for parts and pieces. no other hobby compares to this, most of us all have similar backgrounds and intrests.

George and his beloved Barbara are back together again in Heaven. My prayers to the family on their loss.

Something I noticed with the manuals is the blades for the lawn tractors with vertical crankshaft engines were often named snow blades and the blades for horizontal crankshaft garden tractors were named dozer blades. Garry

Well, I pulled off the dash stand, straightened it, welded up all of the fatigued spots, and added reinforcement plates to the top and area surrounding the bushing. I use a flux core and am no pro by a long shot, so please ignore my welding! Getting ready to go back and tackle the hood. More updates later.

Here is another option

Wheel horse parts and more.com One of our vendors here also has them.

Yes..... McMaster is one of my favorite places! They have a LOT of stuff!

THANK YOU EVERYONE spent the day with Jo and had a family get together for dinner Brian

Thank you to all the Garden Tractor patriots, I too can say everyone I have come across in the hobby are great people.

No hiding this time. He knows it’s his. He was wanting this one and I had no intentions of fixing it for me, but with everything else going on, I couldn’t turn him down.

Not a truck, but vintage indeed! This is a 1967 Puch 250. It’s a “Twingle” cylinder two stroke; two pistons, one combustion chamber, no valves, a spark plug above each piston, the left cap on the fuel tank is a tank in a tank for SAE 30 oil. This was my great uncle’s in CA, from what we have figured out this is an Austrian bike that must have made it’s way back on a military return home. Grandpa got it from his brother and it was then given to a family friend, who had it about 15 years. My mom convinced him to give it back to me, and I’ve had it quite a few years now... maybe 6 or 7, maybe more. I’ve redun the wiring, got it running a few years back and rode it 12 miles each way to work a few times (on ‘77 plates). I need to go through it again, but other than wiring and the battery it is all original. The original tires still hold air and show no real dry rot signs, the kick stand has a perfect balance to keep the weight off the tires. I’ve had it up to 70 or so and it’s quite smooth too! I have done pretty extensive research on this bike, and I’ve not seen another Bike stateside with the same air cleaner, gas tank, and seat combo.

Got in a bit of a hurry so I will redo this one and make some adjustments in the template while at it. Was able to cut the red wheel horse lettering ok and the black words on the rib are printed on a strip of clear. The bottom is cut from one of my current dash decals.

Just read he passed away at 94 years old..

Was having issue with belt sliding off idler pulley parking brake of my 69 Charger 12. The pulley rotated fine but had some radial "slop" and the linkage is a little sloppy also so sometimes the belt would slip off outside of idler and jam in between guard and pulley. Usually right in middle of task at hand. I'm getting pretty good at removing guard.It would also not engage belt correctly and was fraying inside edge of belt. Finally had enough and replaced pulley, wanted to move back fan/pulley in a little to help alignment but it was extremely happy right where it was. I thought about adding a sheet metal spacer similar to ones found inside existing guard to maintain belt but decided to fab this roller. Took 1/2" PEX tubing and placed over 5/16" bolt with 1" angle iron ends. Double locked nuts on bolt. Threaded other portion of angle and located in proper place for retention of belt. So far so good. Some may see this as "Blasphemy" and hopefully when I'm gone some young enthusiast will look at this and say "Can't believe what PO did to this WH."

Just now quitting for the night. I did manage to weld the front and top of the hood together to make one piece. It was already butchered with a stick welder when we got it and the factory spot welds were broken loose. I had to weld the bottom of the hood, as the sheet metal was fatigued from flexing. I also put a strip of steel under the rear of the hood to stiffen and straighten the back. All told, it looks and fits better now. Now I dread the mud work!

same blade it was to marketing gimick to sell them to southern people who don't see snow. I am guessing by the way

There are two common sizes and it could be either one, just go to Walmart and buy a pair of each size and return the ones you con't need.

This was in the bag of goodies I got thought I would share it with you all.you will have to expand it to read it unless you have really good eyes.

You paid full price for the headlights, the rest of it was free! You absolutely stole the rest of it, .

https://www.mcmaster.com/tie-rod-ends

If you need parts shimmed, welded or repaired, holler. Shipping turnaround will take some time during this season, but I can work turnaround times down pretty fast. Sarge

Started our annual Holiday Sale today. All decal kits and most items in the store are 20% off. This of course is in addition to all paid support members standard discount of 15% If you are a paid support member registered with my website the prices you see when logged in are 15% less than the normal price that customers see. Please contact me through personal message if you are unsure. If you are in need of decals for any of your tractors this will be a good time to order. Merry Christmas Vinylguy & Mrs. Redo Terry & Lola

Clean it up and keep it original! But I always say that! No resto on this rare machine! Very nice early production 1955 one of the first 100 made I believe!

Though the carb may look gold, it's actually silver. Nice high back seat that it came with. Foot plates with skate board top grippy stuff. Flywheel cover. And fitted. Bonnet in English. Hood in American. And the result after a year, though not the final result. More to come on mods that have been done. But I need to sort photo's first. So that's all for now. Bye!

Got my snow equipment ready the last couple days!

Electros and Chargers are one on my favorite WHs. (I have 6 now) What kind of parts do you need besides tie rods. Lowell has them or you can make up your own. https://www.wheelhorsepartsandmore.com/steering.html#!/Steering/c/23548038/offset=12&sort=normal

Even better!

@dells68 Elfs stand by and ready,. If it fits, it ships, Sir

Around here the skeeters are gone but even after the 5th or 6th coldest November in history with days never out of the 20's the stink bugs persist. As Hank sang "the stink bugs can survive"

Tommy there is something you could try. Get a gallon of diesel or kerosene. Empty as much of the transmission as you can by removing the drain plug AND lifting the front as much as you can SAFELY do so. There's a bump inside the transmission that holds back fluid in the front half. Add 2 quarts of diesel and reassemble to drive. Take a spin around the yard doing a few figure 8s in forward and reverse. Maybe 15 minutes (or more if you're just looking for seat time). Drain. Repeat. Fill with proper oil. It's not super likely that will free up the stuck parts.... but you never know.... but it will make it much more pleasant and clean to work on when you open it up.

You could always "borrow" parts from the 312 for the Christmas Tractor! Seeing what you accomplished on last year,s auction find I have no doubt that you can pull this one off too.

When I make new pins, I drill a hole for a cotter key. Not really needed, just for safety. Hate to lose control at full mowing speed. Here are the plans I use. Front axle pin plans.pdf Here is the completed pin. Cleat

Lol.. Kev... he does his own and is quite good at it ...did you not see the pics of his man cave!?!? Have to see if we can find that thread on how he does them. Good caliber Ed for longer pokes at white tails.... In the meantime these Elk are in my neck of the woods...