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I managed to get my driveway snow blowed with my 416H and 2 stage today then did some plowing with my 753. My kids got home from school and my oldest son who's 9 wanted to try plowing. Good thing my parents house is right next door and my dad hadn't plowed yet cause I was out of places for him to plow. The kid did great! 1st gear and just putted along. I was surprised he lifted the plow with no problems. Although this isn't his first rodeo. He plowed once when he was 5 on my 12 auto at an idle. I gotta stop giving up my play time or just find him a plow for his 1277. 1 pic from today and 1 from 4 years ago.

A few days ago I got a 48" plow delivered to me thanks to @JimmyJam and my parents. Got it put on the 1267. I had to partially disassemble it to replace the "slightly rotten" lower pivot pin and lube all the pivot points. I'm VERY happy with the way it works. I have oversized tires and the tractor is wider than the 42" plow at an angle. The extra 3" on each side made all the difference. I'm no longer driving on the edge of the windrow of snow coming off the blade.

For me it started when I was really young. I grew up on a farm and was I guess you can say obsessed with the tractors. Well when I was 4 my grandfather pulled his John Deere model G with a wide front end in the barn to restore. Well I spent every second I could in the barn with him and my father well they went through it. Well I ended up loving the machine even more after I witnessed them restore it. It was already my favorite cause I was able to drive it due to the hand clutch. Needless to say my grandfather and dad got pretty wore out of me asking to drive it all the time. So for my 5th birthday him and my dad got me a 1960 suburban 400 with a wagon and then I officially took over every duty on the farm that me and the little machine could handle. And that's it, since then I have had tons of machines of various makes and models. Of which have came and gone. But there has always been a wheel horse or a few in the garage since then. Even when I was in the service I had several wheel horses at home in the shop.

About a month ago, I said I would experiment with the blade tilt top-to-bottom adjustment. I've played with the tilt through two snows now, a light fluffy snow and today's heavy crunchy icy snow. Set the blade tilt at the top hole for awhile and then the third hole from the top. With fluffy snow, it didn't make much difference. But today's snow was a better test. Third hole with blade tilted forward at top, the snow piled up and slowed down the plowing. With the tilt adjusted to the TOP HOLE, the icy snow was picked up and thrown to the side. I'm convinced that the kind of snow we've been having here in southern PA is much better handled with more tilt. If I wanted to PUSH snow or dirt, less tilt might be okay, but for scraping the driveway, more tilt is better.

@ztnoo ...and all others... As requested in another thread I've paraphrased, redefined, added to and minusized from a couple places to come up with a pile o local speaks to help you understand, comprehend, fathom, take in, grasp, figure out, identify with, know, perceive, appreciate, follow, master, conceive, be aware of, recognize, interpret, cognize, see through, learn, find out, ken, see (into), catch, note, and demystify ... The tongues of the nawtheest. Yah cahnt get they-uh frum heeya: Used when one is giving directions. Ayuh: Less like a word and more like a muted grunt, this is an acknowledgment that the speaker agrees with you or just plain heard that ya said something. If used at the end of a sentence, it indicates the speaker agrees with himself. Bah Haba: Bar Harbor, the most populous and most visited town on Mount Desert Island, e.g.: “Ain’t noweahs to evha pahk the cah in Bah Habah.” Beeyah(s): Beer(s). Beetah: A very old truck or cah, likely only drivable on one’s own property, as it is unsafe to drive on town roads... But doesn't stop ya from doin' so. Bummah: That is unfortunate. Buttah: Butter. A condiment that is served by the pint with a lobstah dinnah. Some folks use it on othuh stuff too. Buzz on: If the speaker has a “buzz on” or is “buzzed up,” he or she has had one too many beeyahs. Cah: Car. Chout: Watch out. Chuppta?: What are you up to? Creamuh: Stuff ya put in ya coffee. Cunnin’: A very odd word meaning, “cute.” Deeah: Dear. Next to “wicked,” you’ll likely hear “deeah” the most when in conversation with a Mainer, as in, “How can I help you, deeah?” Dinnah: The last meal of the day. (See also: suppah.) Doe-ah yahd: The front yard. Glay-ass: Glass. Hahd tellin’ not knowin’: I don’t know. Hammah down: To drive really fast or pass someone. “I’m tellin’ you”: An expression preceded by a statement or opinion, e.g.: “It’s wicked cold outside, I’m tellin’ you.” Jeezum crow!: Holy cow!, e.g.: “Jeezum crow that truck was hammerin’ down, I’m tellin’ you!” Jimmies: Sprinkles on ice cream. Lobstah: Lobster. Memba?: Do you remember? Mutha: The woman who gave birth to you. Old lady: Someone’s wife or girlfriend; this phrase has nothing to do with age. Out straight: Extremely busy. Pitchah window: Large piece of glass, usually on the front side of the house. Sea glaahs: Highly sought-after pieces of broken glass that have been smoothed out and rounded by salt water and ocean waves. They make wicked good jewelry. Shooah: Sure. Shoogah: More Stuff ya put in ya coffee. Sneakuhs: Any kind of Footwear you would install to do any kind of sport. Athletic shoe. Steamah: Steamed clams. Suppah: An early dinnah. Statie: State Trooper, e.g.: “Chout for those/them staties on I-95.” Stove up: 1) Exhausted, 2) Badly damaged. T’aint litely: Something that is not likely to happen. Wicked: Very; so; e.g.: “That was wicked awesome!” or “I had a wicked bad day.”

Thought I’d post this up There is a chap that has just made this model RJ58 and is possibly going into production . Early days yet I think he has captured the detail excellently and is a brilliant likeness hopefully one day will get to own a couple .

I do ...with all this talk about polar whatevers I figure this would be a good non tractor topic. I bought this stove in 2000 when I was thinking about dabbling in selling pellet stoves. I have a vintage 2000 year Lennox model Profile 30. Was the best thing since sliced bread at the time. Now they have them with usb ports!?! I got this one for dealer cost as I was in the HVAC biz and aside from the myriad of parts and mods I have put in it over the years it has served me fairly well. Back then the pellet stove was a novelty till they caught on and the masses got prices of stoves (and pellets) jacked way out of hand. I burn anywhere between 2 1/2 to 3 tons of pellets a year. More in the year they upped propane up to what it seems like $90 a gallon. I burned wood for years figuring this would be a cleaner, easier alternative. Like the old Lynyrd Skynyrd song was I right or wrong? Lucy sure likes it!

Well I adopted one.👍 We welcome to the family a 522xi with mowing deck. Made a deal and went and picked it up today. Going to give it a nice home and plenty of red friends.

I owe I owe it's off to work I go!

You gotta start early...this about 40 years ago, me on dad's Cub Cadet Original and him standing/walking along side mom snapping pictures...then dad just last year on my Kioti, and his CC 1450...oh how times they fly by and change.

Lucky kid - lucky Dad! Time for a job! My son started his grass / snow / leaves / gutters job when he was 10. Did quite well...He's in college now and on to a different phase in life but those memories are priceless... Enjoy!

Me thinks you just might have a little too much time on yer hands EB...

It was 4° this morning when I left for work, but other than a thermometer I'll tell you how cold it is ...cold enough that your thoroughbred needs a blanket ...

-30 on the thermometer in my truck this morning at 4am. Unfortunately it fired right up when I turned the key . No excuse to stay home from work for me.

Claud loves crazy socks. Most days she wears a mismatched set on purpose. Kinda funny because she dresses really nice when going to school and town but often has on the crazy socks! Jeff—my observations on heating with pellets: —Much less ash! 2000 pounds of pellets creates about a 2 gallon pail of ash. Put this way...I clean my ash pan out once a month in the burn season. —Efficient. I have a bi-level home and the stove is in the lower level. I have about 6’ of chimney and even on a bitter cold day like today with the stove burning hot to keep the house warm, the exhaust coming out is only warm. That tells me that the stove design is capturing much of the heat and sending it into the house versus up the chimney. A lot has to do with the combustion and the distribution fans. Electrical—unfortunately here is one place that the pellet stove takes a solid second seat to the wood stove. Mine runs off of a standard 110V plug but if the power goes out, it shuts off and the fire goes out within minutes because the fans are required to keep the downdraft exhaust working. If you live in a place where power goes out regularly but you need heat—I’d recommend a different heat source or a generator backup. Automatic—this varies some from stove to stove but many of the Harman’s Are completely automatic. Fill the hopper with pellets, set the temperature, and flip the switch on and it does the rest. Glow plug starts the fire, sensors make sure everything is functioning safely, pellets are metered out according to the heating demand. As long as you keep the hopper filled the stove does the rest of the work. Costs—depends much on what you can score pellets for. Right now a premium softwood pellet in our area goes for about $240 per ton. I need 3.5 of those to make it through our 6 month burning season (Nov-April). I have found cheaper prices or bulk deals that will get them to me cheaper and I try to take advantage. Some pellet stoves are more prone to mechanical or electrical problems. My Harman has been amazingly reliable. I always suggest people stay away from a box store cheap stove. It is a series of headaches that will make you hate pellet stoves in the long run. Kinda like a box store lawn tractor compared to our wheel horse GT’s. Ease of use—the worst part is lugging the 40# bags around. I’ve heard of older folks cutting open the bags and dumping some into a coal scuttle or 5 gallon pail and then fill the stove. All stoves require a monthly cleaning which takes about 25-30 minutes. Dump the ashes, sweep and vacuum out the cold firebox, clean the fans, scrape out any clinker, etc. Some stoves have lubrication points as well. There is also an annual (off season) cleaning recommended. Safe—they are equipped with a series of fail safes. If you leave the door open, it will shut off or not start. If you lose draft by a plug chimney, it will shut off. If you leave the hopper lid open, it will shut off. Because of the nature of system, you don’t have to worry about creosote build up and chimney fires. Every person has to decide for themselves what works for them. Pellet heat works great for us. We have heated our house exclusively with it for 12 years now and couldn’t be happier. Some folks won’t agree and I can respect that...

hey Jeff found this chart, plugged some numbers, think they are pretty close. Looks like if you heat with electric, oil or propane, pellets can save some money. The natural gas price low is but based on long term contact agreements. Same with Propane. I put some money in for cord wood cause a man's time is worth something plus other expenses hauling , saw etc. There are other factors like equipment efficiencies. What percent of the BTU goes up the flu? But that is a different story. Maybe the pellet stove gains here through better than wood stove efficiency??? This pretty much struck my interest cause my son partitioned off part of his pole building for a man cave and talked about using a pellet stove to keep It heated. He uses propane for the house. I am sure there is some hear that can shed better light.

I remember going to the local WH/ Ariens dealer in 1973 with my dad when I was 15 to purchase a new 7 hp 24 inch snowblower, while he was making the deal I strolled over to the WH section and looked over a C series and thought to myself that for a small tractor that was a serious piece of equipment and knowing I had to let my imagination run wild, I knew better than to mention that we could use that to mow our half acre.I want to say in the late seventies dad mentioned going back to the dealer to buy a riding mower,I could not even imagine having a WH in the family,it would be like the brother I never had.When we arrived at the dealer he by-passed the WH section and went straight to a Snapper rear engine rider with what looked like handlebars in place of a steering wheel? it took a few minutes to talk him out of that and said if we can not get a WH can we at least get one with a steering wheel, the decision was made to buy an Ariens rear engine Fairway which my brother in law still owns today.Anyway my WH dreams came true 1989 with the purchase of a 312-8 the one I really wanted was the 520-H which was next to the 312-8 but was 4700.00 and the 312-8 was 3400.00 that was a lot of money in 89.I am grateful to have a nice bunch of WH tractors but hope to find a real clean 417-A someday, right place at the right time, they are very addictive. Thanks for this topic.

Thats the right issue for loosing Seat Time, (sorry for you) give the Kids the flame of the "hey you did", not the Ash of "i had done". 👍 Well done Sir

In 2005 my oldest son was interested in mechanical things and a friend gave him a non running but solid 312-8 with deck. He tinkered with it fixed wiring and carb and he got it running. After a while took it to farm to mow trails to deer stands. In 2014 my son had gotten married, bought a house. I had realized how solid the 312 was so I did a restoration and gave it to him. By the time I had it restored I had bought a C160 for me and it grew from there

Me too There areI have 11 gas wells on the next property and over I can see at least 4 well pads. But I burn coal all the gas is piped out of the area. Have a Harman Coal stove, was here when we bought the place 18 years ago works great. The fan will run off a WH battery and inverter for about 12 hours if necessary. Harman makes good stuff

It’s -14 here and I stopped in to Walmart to get a heated blanket for the inlaws. I get to see both ends of the rainbow and a beautiful bright sun! That’s a great sight after 3 days of constant blowing snow!

Somehow or another I got my parents to let me start mowing about 2 Acres of mostly open grass when I was around 6. That was with a 60s vintage Ariens tiller steer. I guess I can blame them for my obsession with machinery?

There's your solution... Great pics. Glad to see him enjoying some Tractor time and some Outdoor time.

Heading to Florida Flywheelers Show again this year . Show/Swap Meet is February 20 thru 23rd. Always a fun time and great bunch of old motors, vehicles and nostalgia! flywheelers-feb-events.pdf

Well today was a very good day for working on the . Bought a snow cab from steve @wheelhorse2007 (Thank You) fits like a glove will be more comfy

Now THAT, is really classic stuff, especially for those old enough to have heard all of that live on TV. Back when there were three networks.......... Seems like this term still might might be a relevant discussion topic today, given the morass of Washington. Just one man's opinion............

I have a headache after trying to read that.

ha, just wait to see it complete with the yellow trailer attached to it.

Thank you very much Eric! Sincerely, your WH/Red Square world view here is much appreciated.....at least by me. I do have one question however. My somewhat meager, and very antiquated Hoosier dictionary of local colloquialisms, does not include your extensive and profound Down East Maine definitions. Can you refer me to a regional New England reference publication, which would hopefully hone those profound thoughts and postulations in such a way a back woods Hoosier hick might fully grasp and snare them..........mentally, so to speak? In the mean time, I guess we all should just keep "wrenching" as we see fit.

it's cold out and I am bored so I am going to make some hl5 light brackets, what size pipe is used? I was going to use 1/2" EMT since I have a bunch on hand. where is the switch mounted?, I see they are still available. I found the photo of the template, I redrew it in Autocad and I will post as pdf once I know it works out

Richie: I see you made it to Rodney Burger's lawnman_56 lawnman_56 in Lorida. Florida today! That 522xi is like driving a dozer ! Glad you got it@!

Fell off the wagon again

There may be two wires on the one outside lug. One is AC from the motor and one is the trigger for the tachometer.

Brings back memories. Made dozens of them. 5/8" solid bar. Template fits inside bar.

3/8 socket with and extension. Silver box with three wires on it on the top of the rear shroud. Make sure the wires go back on the right way. two from the motor on the outside one from battery in the middle. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019DHPMEY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

At least you would have more room for a larger herd with these!

I remember that from when I was a kid. We spent quite a bit of time in Oshkosh. We were forecasted to set an all time record here this morning which is -22 but it looks like we're going to miss it by a couple of degrees. What the heck, I was pulling for the record. Might as well if it's gonna be this cold. Fortunately the lake effect stayed north of us this time. Can ya believe 40's this weekend, maybe even low 50's

My Alaska Stove is made with 3/8" boiler plate and is lined with fire brick on the bottom, sides, and back. The two doors are cast steel. I bought it in 1967 as a back up for the oil burner as we were without electric for several weeks that winter. It became my primary heat for the next 50+ years. It is comforting to know you still have heat and can cook w/o the AC. Of course now everyone has a generator to keep their phones charged when the power is off.

Enjoy it! There is always something interesting there. I wont be going this year but have enjoyed it several times in the past. The village has some great displays and you always meet so many interesting people.

Your wear bar will make some difference too! If it is wore with a very sharp point on the front edge, then tilted forward, it will "cut" into the ice easier! I pushed a 10' street plow for years with a cab over engine dump truck. Often times the blade would trip forward almost parallel with the road and that sucker would cut ice like a hot knife though butter! This was due to the sharp leading edge of the wear bar.

-2 in SWPA tonight, The brass monkey is officially castrated!

Never got into wood or pellet stoves, always working morning to night at least 6 a week no time to fuss with wood. Those stoves seem like they are very efficient. There is a big pellet plant about 10 miles from here, always passed it on the way work. I hear its by pallet, cash and carry only. I am right in the middle of marcellus shale gas country. Right now I heat the house, water, my pool when its open, and my garage man cave, for less than $100 average an month. Just a little less than half of the cable TV bill! Gas is a good value for us right now.

Love them socks.

Never had a pellet stove. My Alaska burns 20" logs that are free. I have no idea what pellets cost, but there is a company here that delivers bulk pellets. They give you a collapsible canvas bin that they pump the pellets into.

For years I ran an old Whitfield Advantage and it worked OK. Then a few years ago I bought a Harman P43. I love it. Lights itself, controls temperature very well and runs fairly quiet. Best thing though is the large ash pail built into the base that only needs to get dumped once a month or so. Also the glass stays nice and clean. Cleat

Ha... 13 is that above zero? That's nice weather. Here in WI and the MN fellas had -27, that's a minus 27 guys, wind chill in the -50's and calling for -33 tonight. Never got above -8 here today. Not really unbelievable, I've lived in WI for 54 of my 59 years and always remember a week or two of sub zero temps. You learn to dress appropriate and invest more in cold weather gear than s !

This one is still a worker. I wanna make it look as good as it did when dad did his restoration on it. I'm not sure when it will happen but it will. The family history of this tractor keeps going. My oldest son (the one in the picture I started this post with) plowed snow with it when he was 5 years old. I was right near by and he was at an idle. He loves that tractor.

I was looking for a project to tinker around with after I had rebuilt a 1947 Bolens Huski Gardener, 2 wheeled tractor that I plowed the driveway with. I found a 68 Commando 8, that I liked the looks of. I bought it pretty cheap and I found out why, but that's basically how I got interested in Wheel Horse. They are simple well built machines. And with so many attachments, one tractor just isn't enough

My grandpa had a 312-8 he bought in 1990-91 which was the first time I ever heard of a Wheel Horse. The first machine I had on my own I acquired in 1995 when I was 11, a 1984 C165. I've never looked back since and have a 315-8 and 520H and had a few 312s, a C145, and a C195 over the years.

Well at long last it's almost finished. Still have to scrape up a few bucks for the decals and some new tires but............ VID_20190129_175812.mp4