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Well we have been super busy and I haven't been on here to see what you guys and gals are up to. Now that snow is officially gone we have been doing yard work in between rain drops. Aiden filled the roller today and rolled most of our yard and most of my parents yard right next door with my 416H. In total about 2 1/2 to 3 acres. He wanted to keep going but the rest of the yards are to wet to get him on them. Maybe in a week or so. Not gonna lie I'm actually jealous of all the seat time he gets.

Yep, time to swap out the snow plow for a mowing deck finally! Should have a few high spots in the yard by next weekend that’ll need mowing

Starting out with the cinnamon horse attached to the splitter. Trina and her mom are working on splitting up a small pile of the wood we cleared from the future horse stable. After we finish up in the driveway here we will pop the grader blade off of Trina's 867 and tow a couple trailers down into the forest. One is the splitter itself and another one for hauling the firewood pieces back up out of the forest where they go to dry. More pics to follow later but here's one to whet your appetite.

Slowly getting the parts put back on this little beast of a tractor. I’m ready to start mowing with it any day now! SEAT TIME !!!

My d-200,312-8,rj58, and my 502 are still in hibernation. One of my all original c195s went to a new home in Toledo Ohio so I had to get a picture of most of them together.

All put to bed for the night

As some of you may remember I got this 310-8 for free late last fall from a friend. From the start my plans for it were for my brother inlaw since it's to new for me lol. Well I ran out of time working on the snow thrower we found for it but now I have the next 3 seasons to finish that project. Today I gave it a quick oil change and the once over. Dragged the mower deck out of the shed sharpened the blades. Aiden my oldest son cleaned the mower deck out and then we attached it. Gave it another quick test mow and now its waiting to get unloaded at his house. It should last him many many years. I offered to do the services on it also so that it doesnt have any problems.

Got the Nanco AGs and mushroom iron weights bolted to the 315-8... @The Tool Crib 23x10.50-12 on 7" rims...

Got a little crazy and gave her a real bath with soap and all!

Update I'm trying to pick up the pace now that the weather has improved. I'm just now improving on the month long sickness and all the antibiotics I'm on. I'm working on the seat trying to get the lines made from the fixture to impress the design. Like I said before this seat is very work intense. I had a lot of mesurments to make and I had to make a jig to bend and hold the steel so I could weld it. I think I finely got it as close as I can after 2 days . The problem with trying to weld small pieces of steel is trying to keep it flat and flush. Thus I got these welding magnets (love harbor freight ) to hold them in place. I'll start cutting fabric and sewing tomorrow on the seat making patterns to see how they will fit.

Last week while at a swap meet I found a rough but salvageable 10 cubic foot dump cart for $50 bucks. After a little haggling (it was about mid day at this point) I got it for $35. I had bought 4 truck tires and a engine for a go kart also and I was able to fit all of them plus some tools and a deep cycle battery my dad bought in the trailer and after a little finagling we rigged up a handle and i pulled it and my friend and my brother inlaw pushed it back to the other side of the show to the truck. I wish we had taken a picture. Alot of people thought it was the coolest thing ever. I've already put it to work around the house. It needs a floor but that's easy enough. I've been looking for this style or the next smaller for some time now.

Drain as much as you can, remove the shift lever, add at least two quarts of diesel oil through the shift lever hole, drive it around in all gears for a while then drain it again. Buy a new shiter boot (that is where the water got in). Can't beat a good flush!

The foreman of the operation! “Quitcherdoggin and get back to work!”

There should be an edit option once you open the pic on your phone but guess it depends on the type of phone you're using. If you email the pic to your self and save it on a computer you can edit the size. The best and easiest option is to become a RS supporter which allows unlimited posting of pictures. Although all of the information on this forum is completely free to access, it's short money to help keep the lights on. The forum is hosted by the owner which is not free. It used to be hosted on 3rd party service a long time ago and the host company owned all the content posted. They sucked and could do whatever they wanted if there were issues or problems and would get around to fixing anything at their leisure. The site could go down at any time and or have glitches which could take time to get fixed or updated. They could also just stop hosting it at a given time not to mention all of the advertisement was a real PITA. Karl did A LOT of work to get this under control and it's still a continuous effort to keep this forum going strong. Where else could you pay $20 to have access to 20,000 tudors for their experience and advice? https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/store/

To venture a guess, returning a Wheel Horse from puller to daily worker isn't much different from repairing/restoring any other Horse that's been messed about with by a previous owner. Replace worn parts... remove non-stock parts and replace with correct (or your preferred) ones... repair/rebuild anything that needs it... repaint... and back to work she goes. Note: Check for cracks where the back end of the frame bolts to the transmission. This is a stress point that can be damaged in pulling. But it can also be damaged in regular work, too. It can be welded and repaired, there are reinforcements that can be made so it never happens again -- several threads about that here on Red Square. 520H frames can also suffer cracks in the middle of the frame from hanging the heavy 60" mower deck. Those, too, can be repaired. (520 frames are strengthened in the rear end from the factory, which makes them unique.) Worst-case single issue would be if the differential inside the transaxle has been welded up solid for serious pulling. (No differential action means the axle stubs will act as a solid straight axle -- both wheels will always pull at the same speed, so no wiggling as one wheel gains or loses traction in relation to the other.) But, the diff assembly can be replaced. And if the previous owner got into the transaxle to mess with the diff, that means they already pulled the hubs off the axles to get in there. Which means somebody else has already done one of the least-liked tasks on these tractors -- pulling hubs! Pulling them again will be easier because they haven't had as much time to get stuck on with rust and crud. Wheel Horses make good pullers because they're already sturdy and powerful enough off the factory floor to do serious work like plowing -- it doesn't take a lot of work and parts/customization to make pullers out of them. Which makes it not too hard to put them back the way they were. Just a matter of figuring out what you need to remove/replace/rebuild. Plenty of tractors that have done nothing but work have needed heavy rebuilding just because of neglect. A puller has probably received some mechanical attention just for safety, so having been a puller doesn't automatically make a a clapped-out candidate for the parts bin. More likely just another stage in the life of a remarkable piece of machinery. Besides -- it makes a cool story. You can have a tractor that did hard work for years, got rescued from the scrap heap to entertain folks in pulling contests, and then got a "retirement" with some TLC and plenty more good, honest work ahead of it. By the way, squinting at that picture makes me think the original tractor in question is more like a 318. Notice the size of the front wheels, and their size in relation to the rears. Also, I kind of doubt the weights hanging down are any kind of "permanent" modification -- it looks like somebody put some barbell weights on a bar that's latched into the center Attach-a-matic hitch. Even if they damaged the hitch somehow, like by grinding the jaws to hold a thicker bar, it's just another group of parts that can be replaced. The Kohler engine is rebuildable and largely bulletproof - and if this isn't a 520, then it should have a Kohler. (Onans can be rebuilt; but parts are more expensive.) Extra lights can be removed. Previous owners have a knack for messing up wiring even on workers, so you're no worse off there if you have to un-do PO mistakes with lights and wiring. Gear-drive transmissions are simple and rebuildable. Hydro units still have a variation of the Uni-Drive geared rear end, just made as a final drive for the hydro unit. Hydro pumps can be rebuilt or replaced. Bottom line, if you can negotiate a good price, get it and have fun! If you want to learn how to take apart and restore these tractors, this might be a good candidate for learning on. Look around on Red Square and you'll see some amazing examples of "basket cases" and piles of parts that have been brought back to life as fully functioning tractors that look brand-new. Unlike restoring old cars, where there's a rapid descent into way to much money and time unless you have an extensive shop at your disposal plus plenty of time and skills, these old tractors are much friendlier to your time and budget. They're small, largely simple, and repairable with basic skills and easy-to-learn ones where things get (relatively) a little more "advanced."

Little more progress over the past couple of days.

Guess I should introduce myself. .live in the hills of eastern Oregon and more into old machinery (particularly old Cats), hunting and fishing. Retired about 11 years ago and busier now than when I was working. Background in welding and machining, but have driven truck and run heavy equipment at times too. Raised mostly in mining camps in NV, high school grad with some college. Wife and I live in an old ghost town along with about 17 full time residents. .still do a bit or dirt work on occasion as well as occasionally some prospecting.

Having recently acquired a Brinly 10" plough I thought I'd best make a hitch for it. Squonk sent me some photo's and measurements, so after getting some steel I set too. Some bits. Trial fit. I wasn't really happy with it, so knocked up a mk2 model yesterday morning. Mk2 version.

Posting pics of internals of transaxle.

Big Junky is already taken.... and according to @WVHillbilly520H Jeff, Huge Junky is too!

She's a 2 flusher!

My Grandson was here and cleaned up some files and cookies. If this post works, concentrate on the rear of the wagon.

Time to switch trailers and get the wood hauler I had Trina take a picture with me beside this pile because I wanted to show you all how much snow we had here. Back in maybe February? I took some wood off the top of this pile but I had to stop when I got to the snow. So whatever you can see of this file was entirely covered in snow.

Okay I'm a one year member happy Easter look out for some pics

It was also the first time in 30 years that it has moved under its own power .

I wish you and your Family‘s a Happy Easter from this Side of the Big Pond

I think this is the reason why there are problems posting for some since last night. As Steve @stevasaurusis trying to comply to Jim's @SylvanLakeWHrequest, the system is getting overloaded with the amount of redactions on the report.

Pair of 8 “ rims and tires from a C160 including Wheelhorse front weights. Tires are showing signs of minimal cracking but hold air just fine. Can deliver to the show $200.00

I WILL BE THERE SPARKY.

I see Cub a few years ago got a hand on the tractor maintenance for the higher tech bunch.

If you have spark that should be easy to get running. No carb to clean rotten gas out of!! If you should want to switch that engine to gasoline, you will have to take a close at the timing. I'm not sure about the older ones but I know that the timing was advanced a lot on later Kohler's that were set up for LP. I wanna say it was advanced to 26 degrees BTDC, if I remember right. I converted a Kohler Command from LP to gas, had to change the fly wheel, and the cylinder heads.

More stuff 27 lb. cast iron wheel weights that fit inside or outside of the rears. $100 pair SOLD Foot rests $20 pair Onan p220 manifold and carb $30 Hydraulic pumps $20 each pulleys $5 each Steering gear shafts $20 each

It may be full of crap inside taking up volume. You prolly should flush it.

I put a piece of wood that has a cut out on top of the jack. It avoids the lube fitting 😏

That looks like a candidate for a diesel flush at minimum.

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It's possible that I may. I just have so many projects, if you where closer it would be a better project for you or someone how is more familiar with series from the late 80s or newer. I figure that I would have to live to 126 years old and remain in prefect health in order to finish all the projects I currently have.

Through the "swamp" there just fine, especially on that super cushy Kubota seat.

I could be wrong but it looks closer to a 17cuft like my Ranchking cart the 10s are way smaller...

I will be bringing some of these to the show. Show price $10

@jimkemp I have a new 520 muffler (have not test fitted). Looks the same as my 1995, 1996 and 1997 520H mufflers. Also have a used (junk) 1988 520 muffler. Heat shield attaches to muffler is different.

Don't damage that screen....it is not replaceable. Almost looks like someone used JB Weld as a gasket sealant. Anyway...if you intend to take the hydrogear completely apart...be CERTAIN to scribe marks for reassembly. Note, too that,,,if you take the pump housing off,...scribe it too for cortrect relocation / orientation. The Charge Pump Housing also has to be fit ONE WAY...look a the NOTCH here. If it has scores / gouges, sand on surface plate to remove I bet the Piston Slippers look like this.... And the base of the Cylinder block too....refinish it smooth. Thorughly flush ALL PARTS in Kerosene and apply Break-in Oil to contact surfaces when reassembling the unit....thats the red stuff.

I grew up in a house with lead plumbing pipes, worked with asbestos and DDT and those who know me will tell ya;

It's a bull cinch. You put that one end in a bull's buttocks and the other end on a fence...and it is a cinch that bull is not going anywhere.

great subject! this 854 was an x puller. it had a ridiculous stack, wheelie bar and a 1" pulley on the trans and a ton of stickers, after that it was put outside til I got it. I put it all back to working tractor which I use weekly in mowing season. it needed motor work from sitting outside and water coming in from the stack.