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Some of you know my story about my introduction to the wheel horse family. But most don't know . I had a Craftsman tractor that I purchased in 1998 with a 19hp briggs and stratton engine. I used it for cutting grass and plowing snow for about 17 years, but I sold it 3 years ago and it still ran great. (Maintenance, Maintenance ) I wanted a really heavy duty tractor just for plowing and another for cutting grass. I started researching tractors online and I did look at a couple 70's cubs that I thought were built like tanks. But we're priced to high for what was there. My sister in law called and said there was an estate action and there was riding mowers. So I went . An old man had died and left 5 or 6 riders most were John deere's. The lady said $50 00 each stupid me i should have taken them all. But I saw l little red tractor and a bigger red tractor and they were in high grass over grown almost missed them. She said $50.00 for both of them. The little lawn ranger and the c160 was in bad shape. But the c160 I thought would make a good plow tractor. So I started disassembling it and was amazed at how well it was built. But I needed a source of information on how to repair or replace all the bad for new or rebuilt. I went online and typed my questions and was reading the answers. It was Redsqure where I found answers to every thing,diagrams,pictures and knowledge I needed. So I joined and started asking about how to repair my c160. I found concerned people going out of there way to help me. That really impressed me so I became a supporter. It's been about 3 years since I reconditioned it and it has served my well since. I know JD's and Club's are great tractors and I do have a cub for mowing only but only my wheel horse's do the hard work. My C160 has not failed to start and push the snow . That's why it's my WONDERFUL WHEELHORSE C160

Same story here. Been lurking on the sight. Grew up mowing camp on Lake Champlain with WH. Seems hard to locate one in Florida. Few months looking came home with this one yesterday. 1973-14hp (no name). model#10340 Looks like motor tag was K341S Serial #71106a maybe? Drive looks to be WH#5073-6 speed, low and high gear. 42" deck. Not a spot of rust on the machine is why I brought it home. Few questions... 1) What did I buy? Hard to gather some of the info on this unit-certainly not most popular one. 2) Will be mowing one acre 10 months a year very regularly with lots of leaves. Can I change deck to a side discharge to add a bagger to help pick up oak tree leaves? 3) Where is the best place to get parts? Would like to have a replacement set of belts/filter/blades on the shelf. 3) Besides cleaning carb, fluids, filters, any other tips for improving motor response to throttle? Do not seem to be able to engage blades in 3-high..the load wants to bog down motor.. Anyways, sorry to ramble. Eager to get ready for long growing season and figure out what we brought home to the garage. Thank you.

Had some first time WH plow help from my daughter yesterday! She has driven it for fun in the past but not to plow. She usually helps with hand shovel work and snowblower duty but wanted to give the WH a try! While she liked it, I don't think I will lose any future seat time!!! Also video of my night-time setup (back light just blew out darn it...) and a pic of the old C-105 going to bed after another successful night plowing... IMG_0072_2.MOV IMG_0074.MOV

Here is the youtube link

This question popped into my head this morning as I was stirring my coffee ... With a butter knife. It's a habit I picked up from my Honey about 3-1/2 years ago when we first started hanging around together. As most of you can well imagine the first time I saw her do that I was instantly convinced that she was insane. Stirring things is done with a spoon. Everybody knows that. When queried about her obvious weirdocity her response was Laden with dubious amounts of Common Sense and logical thinking. When she was younger her family never had enough spoons because they were always using them and they always had too many butter knives because nobody was ever using them. Also, they have a broad blade to induce appropriate stirration of the Java. And, the total length of most butter knives is longer than the total length of most standard spoons thereby enabling one to stir a tall to go style cup without dunking ones digits which is obviously undesirable for multitudes of reasons. All that I had ever known to be good and just and correct about spoons was instantly undermined and changed my life forever.

My general response to the Wheel Horse inventory question. I don't want to know the actual number!

Thanks again all, we went back today and found out from a plow customer that they dispatched the fire department a second time after everyone had left. My father in-law and I went inside the stable spots looking for anything we could gather and put elsewhere on the property, passports, etc. I hope to salvage Grandpa’s rifles and shotguns, we looked again for th remnants of the cat. I can’t get the taste out of my mouth, I’ve been chewing gum like crazy, had spicy food, sweets, it just won’t go away. The Red Cross told us this was something like the 158th fire dispatch they have been on in Michigan so far in 2019. I am thankful for the firefighters willing to risk their life to help people they have never met, for the community who offers help. Someone plowed a whole development for me today with their side by side. He was hoping it was good enough for me, I couldn’t thank him enough. It’s time for a bit of rest before getting up early again for more plowing. everyone stay warm these next couple days, I heard we are looking at record low temps in Michigan... possibly -35 degrees Fahrenheit wind chills!

Older and smarter. Never leave home without it.

I’m listening to the radio, they said if you have money in the bank and a home with food, you are among the world’s 8% richest. Change the channel and hear the Star Spangled Banner. I look up and see Old Glory. We are strong, we will get through this.

Caleb took a second video with the video camera after my phone battery died. This one started well but also ended rough when I came across that vacuum in front of the house. Notice that I snap down my face shield just before Caleb decided that he had enough of that nonsense! Looks like I need to get a cab... That deuce was throwing that powder up and the wind was catching it and spreading it all across the front yard. Not a real definitive rooster tail with it being so light but it was doing the job well, when it wasn’t blowing back in my face!

"You done good." The mid-70s were some of the best years for Wheel Horse, and '73 was the only year they just gave the models the No-Name horsepower designation. It's basically a Raider 14 or a C-140. I have a C-120 and a No-name 16, and they are almost bullet proof. Someone did some work on yours, probably to sell it. The wheels look good, and must have been repainted. The seat springs are on backwards; if you reverse them, you'll have a softer ride. The lever that lifts the deck has a stop on it, and someone replaced the adjustment knob with some kind of silver handle. The black knobs are readily available (Toro, etc.) and will give you more adjustability than that silver handle. If the engine bogs down, might want to check the deck spindles and lube the grease fittings to make sure the blades are spinning freely. Shouldn't bog down with that 14 horse unless you're in very deep grass or if your engine needs some tuning. Make sure the deck is level when cutting. Nice tractor. Good luck with it, and welcome to Red Square. Jim

While driving in a snow storm, one of my wipers flew off. To prevent scratching the windshield, I used a condom on the wiper arm. Got me thru the 70 mile trip.

Clothes pins resolve the problem of throttle cables that no longer twist lock .. for a lot less than new cables...

We received a “nice” round of the white stuff yesterday here in east central WI. About 10” in our area fell over a 12 hour period but what really enhanced the experience was the windy conditions throughout the day... this caused some pretty decent snow drifts in my driveway. The wind was blowing about 20-30mph out of the NE. So, this gave my south facing garage door a 22” snow drift! The wind also whipped in and around the trucks and stacked up a 26” drift there... The conditions couldn’t have been more perfect for snow though because it was about 15 degrees actual air temp and the snow was just like powdered sugar, light and dusty! Caleb took the following video from our front porch, the wind was blowing over the roof of the house but the vacuum caused by the house windblock created such a downdraft that as I get closer it was sucking the blown snow right on him as you hear him exclaim right at the end of the video...sorry Caleb! The deuce and diesel worked great to move the snow... B6B26718-76D6-46AA-851F-9B4024A369A6.MOV

My father on his Gibson tractor digging a hole to tip that large rock into. My father in his 80's had some difficulty crank starting the engine The tractor has a twin cylinder crank start Wisconsin, that I had converted to electric using a VW flywheel to turn out on the lathe for a ring gear, Bosh starter from the air cooled VW engine with the nose cone from an old Toyota starter from which the Japanese had copied. The only modification to the nose cone was to install a larger armature bushing. The Bosch starter from a VW bug turns the right direction to start the Wisconsin engine then as luck would have it with slight modification a Toyota nose cone easily adapted to the Bosch. To finish off the project turned out the centre from the VW flywheel as the ring gear and billet are one piece it was easy to get a good fitting ring gear. The rest was just cutting a large hole into the back of the air shroud then finding that sweet spot before welding on the fish plate previously held on with one bolt. The fish plate gave added strength plus covered the excess of the hole cut to allow alignment of the starter to the new ring gear. Father had a small Moody metal lathe and a larger LaBlond metal lathe that had a previous life at the British Colombia Penitentiary My father purchased this Gibson tractor used in the early 50's. By shifting the selector on the hydraulic cylinder you could operate the front blade or draw-bar. With two spare sheaves on the engine pulley you could run the hay mower, buzz saw or one of those Princess Auto Army surplus aircraft generators sold as welders so many years ago.

more than I have room for 1955-2003

OK, what engine is in that screwdriver?

Some have been known to use the Ms. blow dryer to remove old license decals from the boat hull.

Now you guys are taking me back some 60+ years to my Boy Scout back packing days on the Appalachian Trail. Our favorite hot beverage was hot chocolate. We folded the aluminum packets tightly into a swizzle stick to stir the chocolate.

To add to this, I had the same issue with my C125. Somehow there was not quite enough ground (I’m thinking through the shaker setup). I simply ran another ground wire from the battery to one of the mounting bolts holding the starter on and it fixed the problem. My starter was spinning, but not fast enough to kick the bendix out. Grounding fixed that issue and she works great!

1966-1990

https://youtu.be/N2COOY2 Wheel Horse 753 plowing snow too.

https://youtu.be/b8SeNQBKJ2s Yes I do.

I'm curious how did this Wheel Horse sickness start for you?? For me it was mowing on my dad's 73 12 auto. I don't remember it before he did the Briggs swap but I know I had seat time then. When my parents built their new house I was about 10 and he tore this ole beast apart fixed anything broken re painted and added the 18hp briggs. Quickly he realized he needed a bigger tractor and switched to the dark side but he kept the old 12 auto for me stashed away in the garage. When I moved into my house the 12 auto came to stay. This is the one that started it all. That's my oldest son on it. He was probaby only 4 then. I'm gonna restore this one just the way it is now. Wrong decals and everything cause that's how my dad did it all those years ago.

For me it started after my dad passed. I'm wanted to keep his just to putt around the yard and decided to rebuild a gt1800. I also remember when I was young cutting the grass with his can't remember the model that it was but remember barking the tires and doing wheelies with it. Which now I wish I had learned about the 'S when I was younger. I inherited his c-145 and plan on retiring it this summer in his honor. The picture is the inheritance but will be looking for pictures of the one he had when I was younger. Started looking up and reading about the 'S and it just was amazing what they can do, so I've decided to sell his zero turn and keep the . I have since bought a tiller, wagon, plow, gt1800, gt1848, & a snow cab.

416-8 with Ark FEL Had a large pile of dirt to move for leveling the backyard and a friend called me about a little loader tractor he saw for sale. Went down to take a look, bought it with the thoughts of just selling it after the job was done but obviously that never happened. I loved that thing right away and then found RS, which actually fueled the fire about collecting them.

Wheel horse safety suit and it’s even the right color

Maybe get some safety equipment too. Just in case that block gets a new window.

About 3 inch's here in lower michigan with rain also.

@The904 Nice looking machine! I have a couple of uncles and families in the Tampa area! I have been to St. Augustine (fountain of youth) that is why I am such good shape.... Oh, and to

Damn Steve I thought you were SELLING! I have 2. 1988 & 1990. Don’t think I belong with you guys.

I can use any key to start my truck or screwdriver. LOL I think the key switch is a bit wore out. LOL

Just don’t eat peas 😂 Also good for helping bonfires take off. I have an extra 1in wrench that makes a good thin hammer when not a lot of weight is needed and space is tight. One of our air compressors has a Y so we can run the air, and it runs a foot operated can crusher my FIL built from scratch. You can also take an old wooden wooden spoon and use it with a drill to stir paint as well. I also used this method to degas wine. If youre using onions for cooking, it’s easier to dice them in sections, so I use a apple slicer to section them in one go. Dawn dish soap will clear up diaper rash in kids, and helps with chaffing if you’re a sweater (a person who sweats, not a pull over top 😂) Just add it to bath water as you fill the tub. Kitty litter works great on oil spills (most people know this but someone may not) If you’ve got some PVC pipe laying around, you can cut it into sections, screw it to the wall and have tool holders. This is how we keep our fishing poles organized. Ocassionally when i cant find my lighter i use my propane propane torch to light my smokes, that usually gets some wide eyes.😂

In my youth I had a 66 Ford F250 and the inside door handles kept falling off due to the splines in the pot metal handles being worn out. Replace them with cheap vice grips tightly squeezed and they stayed on for several years. Today my sons think my shop built 4 ft sand blast cabinet, 55 gallon E-tank and 5 gallon bucket of vinegar for rust and paint removal are unconventional for the typical home shop. ( I have cleaned several neighbors black cast iron pots that had gotten "too" seasoned. I also use a leaf blower to clean my shop ever so often, especially after a large woodworking or paint sanding project.

Screw drivers as tent stakes. Any type of tape folded backward over hand - lint remover. Old pair of scissors up side down on drill motor - handles spin and you have a paint stir device.

interesting subject, my mother told me of camping in the Adirondacks in the 1930,s and stirring coffee with a stick , making do with everything, and adding that it was the best coffee she ever had, thanks mom, pete

I have to disagree with using any type of liquid lubrication on the Bendix worm gear. I have found that this can cause damage the rubber slipper type clutch on the Bendix drive gear. I would remove the fan shroud so that you can see what's going on. Engage the starter, if the gear is not being thrown forward into the ring gear then turn the starter gear out by hand & lube the worm gear with graphite powder. If the starter gear is engaging with the ring gear but is not turning then you may need a new drive gear as the slipper clutch in yours might be worn out.

I do know one thing you don't do with a butter knife is eat peas!!

When he had wanted to buy a new Toyota I made a few telephone calls finding that the new wagons were $1000.00 less at a Chilliwhack dealer. it was a Sunday and the salesman agreed to meet us to show the car. The old man had been into the wine but at least put a suit on for the trip, anyhow we're looking at a new Corolla in the show room when my dad crawls under the car then asks the salesman where are the grease nipples. He wrote out a check, my wife drove the new car home then on Monday he looked outside then asked who was there, he had no recollection of buying the car. After his logging accident the wine bottle became his best and only friend, then one day I told him that he should not drink so much and his reply to me was, what I drink you won't miss.

On the left near the shovel head you'll see the drill rod embedded into the large rock, my father used a hand held bit to make the hole. The drill rod was used as an anchor for the Australian bull winch to remove some cotton wood tress. On our old property, We had some very tall Douglas Firs on our property, my father would put on his climbing spurs then attached a cable halve ways up then pull the tree over bringing up the large root ball at the same time. These Firs were well over 3 feet in diameter, one tree had been truck by lightning and died soon after, Danny Sailor a world champion tree climber wanted to purchase the tree to relocate onto his property so that he could practice up for the upcoming New York Worlds fair. My father told him to limb the tree and use it where it was free of charge, we had a free show. Sailor before making the climb would drink liquid honey for that added energy. Where the tree was topped at 120 feet the diameter was a mere 10 inches across, Sailor would stand on the top swinging a holla hoop around his waist then suddenly toss his hard hat into the air then race it to the ground were he would catch the falling hat. For those of you old enough to have taken in the NY world fair, Danny;s act had taken a turn he had broken his ankle as they say in show business the show must go one. In this case Danny had signed a contract to perform. And that he did. He had a custom made fibre glass leg cast made up, with the cast he could climb but not endure the long drops in coming down the pole so he devised a long cable at an incline then from his top pole act faked a fall. I did not attend the fair so I'm unable to comment on how the crowd reacted to the performance. The winch my father used was called an Australian Bull winch rated at 75 ton.

You left out baling wire, got home many times thanks to having it around! I found a good substitute for a large blind gear/bearing puller. A 6" pry bar and light hammer work for removing the 1533 bearing.

She was having fun but only took a couple passes then said “ all yours Dad!!!...” Actually, I stopped using chains and weights (free weights) last year. Tore up the asphalt and made for a very bumpy ride...and frankly I have had no issues... My daughter weighs half what I do and you see how easy it goes... Granted, all three drives that I do are dead flat, but I am very pleased. And no, there is no added weight... Other than of course me and what I ate for dinner!

And I thought MacGyver was talented! You guys are kicking his butt! Hey after 37 odd years supervising mine maintenance I think I seen most of it. That condom ting is interesting. But anyway, if there is an award, I would have to vote for the good old screw driver. It's a Chisel, Pry Bar, Scraper, Volt Checker (when you thought the power was off), stethoscope, will hold your wiener while roasting, back scratcher, tire tool, ice pick and it goes on! Pretty good thread EB!

Only 4inches or less so far this year. That's ok for me.

Thanks for the chain tips, not taken as a lecture.... The older I get the more I realize how much I don't know or think about...

I have a motorcycle down tube for the forks, that I have put rubber grip tape on the one end as a handle and I use it as a breaker bar.

Sounds like the Bendix gear that engages with the flywheel is sticking. Try some penetrating spray with a long tube to get some in there. In UK we might use WD40, not sure if you guys have that or use something else. Failing that the starter will have to come off, only 2 bolts plus the power lead

Thanks guys. This is the aggressive tooth bar I made for the grader blade which I think put the most strain on the frame. It did a great job of breaking up the hard packed CA6 rock but apparently did just as good breaking up the back plate. I think I'd be safe to use it again on rock with the beefed up back plate, or should I make one to utilize the dozer bracket off the rear axle? I think I saw one that someone made on here.