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My son and his fiancé are shopping for a house so what do I do??? Start shopping for a WH for them as a gift of course! Talking with Russ @SALTYWRIGHT I discover he has a 314-8 with a Magnum 10 under the hood....perfect ! We work out a deal and I bring it home. Mechanically it’s in good shape, gave it an oil change and lubed up any moving parts. Decided I didn’t like the 22/7.50/12 rear rubber so with my Harbor Freight tire changer I go to work...off with the old rubber, clean sand and wire wheel the silver rims, coat of black primer and two coats of semi-gloss black. I had two brand new Turf-Trac RS tires in a 23/9.50/12 size so mounted them up. The fronts are what came on a 70’s vintage machine and my neighbor took a fancy to those so I gave those to him. Meanwhile in my shed was a pair of 16/6.50/8 tires on the deep rims that just needed paint. So they get the same treatment as the rear rims received. With the same semi-gloss rattle can I repaint the front of the hood. Still need to mount the rear axle bracket and figure out what to do for a mowing deck. The tractor came with two 42” rear discharge decks but I’m thinking I would rather see a side discharge on it. This will be a surprise once they find a house, my son never goes on Red Square so he won’t see it posted here. Although once he owns this sucker I’ll make sure he signs up to be a Red Square member. He does attend almost all the Wheel Horse Collector Shows with me and will be at this years show as well.

Found a few more NOS treats lurking in the dust of a closed dealership recently

Found this little fella ( or fellette ) yesterday morning . Good thing my eyes were working ....

@Herder Adam I'll mention first because the whole thing is his "fault" Back in December he gave Trina a rolling chassis 856. We just had to figure out how to get it from eastern NY State to Maine. @WHGuy413 Matt was headed to Adam's place for something else and was nice enough pick it up and get it to Western Massachusetts for us. Matt it was great to meet you and the boys!! In a thread discussing saws @wallfish generously offered to give Trina and I a radial arm saw.... Then a band saw... Then tried to fill our SUV and trailer with half his possessions while we were there. On the way home Trina says to me... "What can I make with MY new toys?" Wait, what??? Ohh... Well... I hope she'll let me use her saws sometime. Thank you John. We really do appreciate the gifts. You can bet I'll put that 60" Super Plow to good use this winter!!! Wonderful to see you and meet your wife. The 856 is a Very solid tractor and will be a great restoration project this coming winter. It has an older paint job that's very loose and falling off in places. Trina will "depaint and repaint". We'll need an S/G and the brackets and some small stuff but it's otherwise complete. .... AWESOME place with some AMAZING people. @LengerichKA88 @Mows4three @Stepney @pullstart @JCM @Professor1990

If you come to the "Big Show" in a couple weeks there may be one there.

Well, long story long 😂, the tractor was a hit. Dad was on the porch when we took it up to his house. He sat there on the porch a while looking at it. Emory asked him to go down and look at it. One of the first things he noticed was the dealer sticker just like it was until he worked with Popaw until 1979. He was blown away and just couldn’t believe it. Great job Terry! Perhaps the biggest compliment he gave was that he said it looked just like the day it was uncrated at the shop. Well, I had talked him into going to a local car and tractor show with Emory and I, and he wanted to take the Ford. When we got there and unloaded, he got on pretty quickly for us to drive a little ways up the street. He got lots of comments and I watched him opening the hood to talk to a couple of guys about it. When it came trophy time, it was Emory who took home best lawn and garden tractor and Dad was very proud of him as was I. Here are a few pics from tonight. Ended up being a really good way to spend an evening - we ate with some friends and Emory and my friend Joe’s son, Clay, had a ball! Clay is holding Joe’s trophy for his Farmall H along with Emory and his trophy. The young man in the wheel chair presenting Emory his trophy is a good friend and former student of mine who bravely is fighting a degenerative disease that is slowly robbing him of the ability to use his muscles - an inspiring young man! Joe is the nut in the one pic with the big goatee besides myself! If you can’t tell, I’m very proud of my family and friends - even our wives who managed to avoid being photographed for the night! We really had a good night!

Since this year's featured equipment is Wheel Horse snow equipment and snowmobiles, I thought this article would be interesting reading. https://snowgoer.com/latest-news/flashback-the-1970-wheel-horse-safari/26613/

I rigged up a set of LED lights on the 16 Automatic which happens to be the tractor I use for snow blowing. With the tall chute blower being in front of the stock headlight location it wasn't very good at night. This I'm hoping will make a big difference. I somewhat copied the way the lights are mounted on the 854 If this works out the way I think it will, I'll make it out of something more sturdy than the copper pipe I used.

This little stink-pot never left my side the entire time when I was home from back surgery. Sleeps by my left hip every night. Big stink-pot in the background wears me out!

Since this is the Other Brands section, i thought that I would reference a great mechanic who effeciently wades right in and diagnoses problems that stump a lot of guys. It is pretty likely that most of us wil end up with a Briggs in something or other that comes from a box store. You never know what Mustie is gonna do, but he takes you along for the ride and it is a pleasant experience. Recently he bought a propane powered tow motor that three mechanics failed to fix. Bought and repaired for about a thousand in total. Mustie does a ton of small engine videos and here is a great example of an engine most of us would throw away. He fixes it for short money and I learned a lot from it.. Here also is the forklift video. I still am a fan of Taryl fixes all, as both thses guys have their strong points

Found this little guy in the yard today. He’s about 6 or 7 weeks old. The picture is perfect.

Aw man, Thought for sure this thread was gonna be about you giving me a tractor Sparks. Disappointed in you again but happy for your son.

The belts are listed on the pages that come up. Click on each picture May not be the model of deck you have but the belts are the same Garry

Okay, their good on the other site and it looks like it's okay here, I may just paraphrase it anyway. I just didn't want to break any rules. I'm not to worried about being suited, all they would get is a building full of old garden tractors, an old Boston Whaler, old Toyota truck, a 43 year old house and a 63 year old women, all in need of some kind of repair. After a few days with the women, they would give it all back .

I am getting older and wiser, well older anyway! I had a transmission to change out and decided to use my head rather than my bad back. Made a little roll around dolly that made transmission removal and replacement a snap. Four casters, some short 2 X 4s and a bit of scrap plywood and I was in business.

This is from the Simplicity site a few years back from an older guy who owned a Simplicity dealership and was an old mechanic. According to my Simplicity dealer, he was the go-to Kohler guy for Simplicity. He posted this a few years back. I found it interesting. He was talking about the difference in the newer overhead valve engines and the older L head engines. "Keep in mind that the OHV engines run much cooler than the L heads. None of the L heads can run 10w30 oil because there is an inverted triangle of heat in top of the cylinder next to the exhaust valve. It runs so hot in this area that can't be adequately cooled the multi-grade oil breaks down here and the engine uses oil. Straight 30 can handle this hi heat and not break down. The OHVs move this heat out the exhaust in a direct line and the cylinders can be cooled effectively all the way around. This lowers the crankcase oil temps and increases the life of the engine. There is a fleet of Kohler Command engines in an oil field in Texas that are running the "pump jacks". These engines run on natural gas which is a very clean fuel and does not "dirty" the engines up. This was in a Kohler dealer news bulletin several months ago. The maintenance guys come once a week and change the oil. oil filers, air cleaners and restart the engines and come back a week later and repeat the sequence. These engines run 24/7 week in and week out and each have over 50,000 hours on them. If they used oil, they would be blown when the maintenance guys came back. Also remember that they run on extremely clean fuel.

Short video of home made inventions the mower starts at 1:20

HA, I see you made your own "decals" again Jim. Ever hear of stencils or redoyourhorse.com?

If the belting is available use it but make sure to overlap at the seams about 2".If laid edge to edge it won't be as effective.If you didn't have the belting available I would say use 6mil poly lapped about four to six inches.

Funny you should dig this up Richard ... 'nother one came up for sale a while back not too far from Dino's locale. Based on a 5xi chassis. Really a nice air horse and very attractively priced ... sorry guys bought another '67 ...

EXACTLY what I was think'n. He's obviously still a rookie! Look at all that room inside the cabinet of the radial arm saw, that's easily 6-10 engines worth of space right there, depending on sizes of them.

Does this work? https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?&q="Engine Lauson Carburetor"&type=downloads_file&search_and_or=or Garry

EB, I have faith that you’ve seen my little blue truck packed and we both know there is so much more room on that rig for more of John’s junk! BBT, I am going with the idea that you are too kind to accept more Wallfish peace offerings and that EB hasn’t shown you my little blue truck and how to properly load a vessel for transport. He’ll get around to it some day but his mind tends to wander a bit so we can both forgive him. This is such an awesome story, of so many people’s efforts to come together for the common good. Wheel Horse people rock!

The little 36”er looks kinda small but it SURE BEATS A PUSH MOWER

Since cats sleep most of the day, finding a nice soft blanket with a warm body under it is a no-brainer.

I don't think it was a matter of copyright. If I recall correctly, the problem was that a member here copied Matt's article word for word and implied it was his own.

Started truck shopping today and the third stop into it I ran across this 04 ranger at a local dealer. When I first saw it I peaked in the window and saw it had a stick shift. Thinking most of these trucks came with a four-cylinder with a standard transmission. Found out it had a 3.0 V6 . It has 70,000 miles on it and a one owner truck. Super clean !! Paid 5900 for it!

Good thing Eric and Trina showed up here empty cause I was trying to load them up with all kinds of stuff. Mostly non Wheel Horse but they did get a modified 60 inch WH snow plow blade.

I was never a cat fan till we got our first 11 years ago. I love my cat, greets me at the door when I come home from work. Crawls onto my lap when I’m watching the tube and surfing Red Square And of course sleeps glued to my side almost every night.

Well, she’s ready for her unveiling at Dad’s. In the pictures you’ll notice a Ford tractor dealership decal. My grandfather was Eubert Jones, 1/2 owner of the dealership. My dad was a salesman and delivery driver. My uncle was a mechanic. Dad sold this tractor new and was able to purchase it when it was taken back due to repossession. It’s been in the family ever since. The first pic is a pic of the only original decal we have left - on the front of Dad’s 2000. Terry , @Vinylguy, was kind enough to make me up a batch of exact reproduction decals. Thank you so much Terry!!!!! It was the cherry that put it over the top!

Parts is parts...making a lil more progress sandblasting...and making a mess

I just installed an LED light bar in the freshly painted hood of my 71 Raider. I have not tested the lights on the tractor, as I am going to give the paint another week to cure before I handle it anymore. I tested the light bar on my truck battery, and nearly blinded myself... It is amazing how much light you can get from 18 watts... Let me know what you think. Danny

Today my narrow front 953 and I took the day off to cruise around a local T & E show. There were four Wheel Horses present which is about average for shows down this way. Enjoy!

Trying to figure out what this is for? Found it in Florida and it looks like it might be a Wheel Horse Sickle Mower but very different arrangements on it. Has a chain drive on the sickle mechanism unlike any Wheel Horse sickle I have seen.

You know I have that H55D for sale... Send me a PM and we can talk if you're interested.

Sorry. Thought I had included the auto model but did not. Go back to the previous post and it is there now. Yes the hydro models use a different belt. More info on this model in no particular order so look through them all. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?&q="71-16ks02"&type=downloads_file&search_and_or=or Garry

Steve, I will keep her in my prayers for health and for having to put up with you!

Sounds like the shifter forks got misaligned. Pull the shifter out and you will see the forks. When in neutral the hole will be a rectangle. You can move the forks with a large screwdriver. This commonly occurs from quick shifting between the gears and or a loose dog point set screw, and or a worn shifter. Sometimes the "doughnut" ring on the shifter comes loose if the little pin gets broken. Pull the shifter and inspect everything.

They are stubborn!

Was it hard to train ????

That's a beagle statue.

Hmmmm, I'd say if I had it dialed in better when I was starting on those parts, all them could be done in about an hour, give or take.....I've only had about 4-5 blasting sessions, and the first couple were the learning curve, a bigger capacity air compressor would definitely make things quicker, but I dont rush at it....after about an hour of blasting, I'm ready to get cleaned up anyway considering having worked a construction job all day to begin with. I have the parts setting on a cart on plywood, wheel it out the barn a few feet or so, load up, dress up, and have at it for awhile.

when replacing any pulley, i always try to get the same pulley size with the larger bearing , giving it a much greater service life. my local electrical service shop has a pulley board loaded with cross match fits , recently replaced my drive belt idler pulley with a double bearing size increase on a same size pulley. on that blower you can easily replace that failed part with original type. make the effort to detail lube every rotational part , it will make a huge improvement in its operation , especially the chain drive area, i lube mine before and after use . with chain lube . pete

Here's the latest for those interested. The part #232739 was delivered. It is not for a K-181. It's 5/16" long, 1/4" ID and 1/2" OD. The governor rod on my K-181 is 7/32" and 1/2" won't fit in the opening. I checked my K-341 and the shaft is 1/4". I'm not going to take it apart to see what's in there but I'm thinking this bushing is for the big block engines. The original parts manual for my 76 does not show a bushing on the 7 & 8hp but does on the 10-16hp. It identifies it as part # X-400-80 but if I researched it further I'd bet the new number is 232739. I'm heading out to reassemble things and I think it's safe to assume I never had a spacer.

Thanks, so far I would say I'm pleased with the blaster it has been working pretty well, once I kinda got it dialed in. The pros and cons......it seems to work it's best at around 100psi or more, problem is the air compressor is only a 30 gal tank, so it really cant keep up for very long. I can blast pretty good for about 3 minutes, then I close the valves on the blaster and let it build up more pressure, doesn't seem like a long time, but for the little parts and generall smallness of the tractor, it's really not too bad. By then I need 5o wipe off the goggles anyway, just to see better. A 60 gallon tank, would prolly be much better. I'm using the finest grit material too, so glogging hasn't been an issue. Cons!!...its messy!!.. I set up just outside my roll up door about 5 feet. I,ll probably start closing the door abit to help that. Still get alot of material back in the barn, no biggie, but just messy. I wear goggles, faceshield, respirator, welding jacket and heavey leather gloves. Moister in the blast materials can be an issue, but this has a water trap, and somewhere I read to use a 25' hose from the compressor to the blaster tank, and that's suppose to help aswell. Overall, I'm pleased, and can see myself using it for other small projects.

Bonny little thing. I was a bit concerned when you reached down to it though. If they get the scent of a human on them, the mothers can abandon them.

We have 2 workshops. The cellar is a "walk out". House is 24 x 40 and all but 6 feet or so is shop/storage/shelf/working area. The outdoor workshop is a shed that's 16 x 20 base plus an overhang on each side. Once the chicken coop is done, the portable garage will be built, and that space will be ALL shop and NO storage. There are propane and electric heaters in there now and maybe a wood stove at some point. We'll reorganize and realign some and have a great place for all the woodworking and the warmer weather equipment repairs.

Getting the van emptied out for the trip south John?

Making more progress......pheeeeewwwww!!!!!