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Sixty hours that is. I have only accumulated sixty hours since I've redone my C165 five years ago. I thought for sure I would have put more hours on it but I have since acquired two other machines I use year round; one for mowing (315-8) and one for snow plowing (520H).

I have a 3/8 thick steel workbench top...cut a 1" slot in it expressly for removing the Mule Pulleys. 1) Loosen nut to be flush with end of pulley shaft. 2) Slide shaft into this 1" wide slot. 3) Beat the hell out of the shaft nut until the pulleys break free. 4) Hasn't failed me yet...and haven't ruined any pulley shafts either.

This is from Hackensack's Town Hall Centennial Elm planted I think to commemorate our 100th Birthday. It was cut around 1950 due to the Dutch Elm disease. It was a massive tree not too tall but with a wide girth. A friends father bought it for $8.00 when he was about 10 years old. I was told that only three like this were made from it. It was in the basement of his fathers house until he sold house about 15 years ago. He asked me if I would like to have it, and sure enough it has been my favorite item in the house since then. I polished the top and introduced the through dovetails to support the piece from a shrinkage crack.

Removed the deck for the first time with the attach-a-matic. What a great system had if off myself in 2 minutes after watching a quick youtube video on it although i could have figured it out. Didn't know it was this easy! Time to hook up the chinese (john deere) dump cart and move 4 yards of stone

In May i dragged this mess home.It looked like a kid sprayed craft glue on it and threw a box of cornflakes at it.The original owner had sprayed it with clear plastic to keep it shiny and time was not on his side.The last owner knew little about WH electricals and could not get it to run.They unplugged everything.The wiring harness has not been harmed but they discarded anything they didn't recognize like the R and R. Little ugly has been earning its keep and will be digging taters next month.

Took it for a ride and had to get a couple of sun shots.

Changed oil today, hooked up a deck, and mowed the front lawn with some awesome, 56 year old state of the art, 1964 technology! Actually did an amazing job... and had a blast doing it too!

The DR is something I was working on for an old woman. The DR has sat for 3+ years without being started. It all started with me cleaning the carb, which was sorta clean, and then I tried to start it.... no luck! Well, I bought some gunk parts cleaner, and dipped the carb in that overnight! Now the carb is on there, and it’s purrs like a Briggs kitten!!

I have a 1969 gt14 that I bought for $300 and I’m wondering if anyone could tell me anything about them like production numbers, how to locate the serial number, etc.... and if there is a common issue with the k321 where it knocks because this one knocks a good bit.

Belts don't stretch. The sides wear giving the illusion that the belt got longer because they sit deeper in the pulleys. Measure the outside of the belt to get the length. it is probably 1/2" wide or it used to be.

For a backyard hammer mechanic fix since it's already broke and the hub and axle need to be replaced. You can key and lock the hub to the shaft by drilling and tapping threads into both. Lock it with 2 set screws into the threaded hole.

I use stainless on every tractor that I redo. To avoid galling I try not to put a stainless nut on a stainless bolt or vise versa. Which ever will be showing gets stainless. Anti-seize and believe it or not Loctite will both prevent galling. I use a fair amount of blue Loctite when I am assembling a tractor. I have yet to have an issue using these practices.

Got the decals from Terry today so finished up the hood on the Wheel A Matic. Along with the hood latch and ornament.

to the Grumpy. Just take your old belt to TSC and buy one an inch shorter and one that is 2 inches shorter. Keep the sleeves clean and return the one that doesn't fit. I don't have experience with rear tillers, but I believe there is a one belt and a two belt system. To get the correct operator manuals, we will need the model number or enough pictures to make an ID. If you do build your own tensioner system, remember the tensioner pulley must be on the slack side of the belt and not on the drive side.

I do work my hands pretty hard and find myself wearing gloves off and on regularly. I am glad however they were on, they helped to bind up the drill bit and rip the drill from my right hand. It is healing quite well though

Today's repurpose project... Eldest daughter has a flock of 9 budgies that live in small cage when not roaming about her room. She needed a bigger cage so they can have a bit more room during lockdown hours. This morning a free wardrobe showed up in Edinburgh, so we jumped in the van and did a quick three hour drive to bring it home. Popped out the door centres and replaced them with welded wire, she now has a cage about four times bigger. Making it more interesting for the budgies is now her project, I have a thousand other things to do!

Built a log arch this morning. One of many tool/ implements to come. Time to clean the yard. @ebinmaine I know you were yard cleaning earlier this year. Time for me to catch up.

Why is that? The hub should be removed and inspected as it sounds like the key way slot in the hub is wollowed out which is why it will turn on the axle. That hub connection to the axle needs to be snug and set screws will not be strong enough to hold that connection tight. Try to get that hub off. and because the key slot may be wollowed out, the remaining straight part of the slot needs to be lined up with the woodruff key in order for it to slide off. That woodruff key itself is or could be damaged as well so it may not slide through the hub slot easily.

Man I love the 2.7 TT Ecoboost. I loved my 3.5 TT and then I loved my 5.0. I drove them both for almost 200k miles and had zero issues. My son bought my 5.0 and it still looks and runs like new. I averaged about 20 MPGs with the 3.5 and 5.0. But the tiny 2.7 is amazing. I know the actual mileage is a couple tenths lower than what’s shown but it still blows me away. The Trip 1 Pic is pretty typical for my highway trips. Trip 2 is my average over my first 54,050 miles. I drive mostly highway on a lot of two lanes and that really helps my mileage but we buy and sell vehicles. About every other month I tow a car on a car hauler between 75 and 150 miles. It does mid to high teens towing about 6000 lbs. I use tow/haul and lock out 9th and 10th gear. It pulls effortlessly and rarely shift out of 8th gear except for the steepest hills I’ve had great luck with all the brands but I’m super easy on my stuff and I think that really helps.

Riding on a GT-14 makes most other garden tractors feel like toys. If the electric PTO can't be saved the PTO can be converted to a manual set-up. Start a new post and let us follow along on your experiance.

Take a look here. Second page has some bearing numbers. Lot of good info and pictures.

Here we go, an entertaining and informative little thread from 2012. My solution is post #7: Definitely clean up the shaft with some emery cloth or sandpaper and use some anti-seize when you install the new pulleys, it will make your life a lot easier the next time you have to replace one.

Yea, but the tires look great!

Good evening to you all... Newbie owner of a 1971 GT-14, well, maybe a 70, not exactly sure about it. Any who, bought a place with 1.55 acres, 2/3’s grass, 1/3 gravel. The place came with a 2004 troybilt riding tractor, but it had issues. I told the wife I wanted something with some serious butt to it to do the things we want to get done around here. Found the Wheel Horse on CL and went and bought it, fell for it with the first ride. It’s had a few issues of its own since then, but fixing them as time goes. I welded up a 2 1/2 deep harrow to break up the gravel which had been growing weeds I think for yrs. Ripped through it like a yard rake through sand. It did so well, my neighbor asked when I got gravel placed in my yard, because he hadn’t seen a truck or heard any equipment. I’ll post some pics another time. My current issue is the outer bearing on the electric clutch started smoking and yellin like it was being killed. I shut her down and let it cool off before removing the clutch. Yup, outer bearing is shot, but I cant seem to find a number for the replacement. Any help would be appreciated.

I see the woods and a canoe and this is what I think of....

Every nut and bolt on these tractors is stainless. Most of my snow blowers and a few decks sport all stainless. I've done a few motorcycles out of all stainless too so my stainless fetish goes way back. No problem with galling. It seldom happens on small diameter bolts. Generally 3/8 diameter and up is where you can run into problems. To prevent it yes antisieze or any lubricant will do. Heat/friction is what causes it so more common on nyloc nuts. Assemble slowly to avoid. Many of @Achto's tractor are done with stainless.

Plucked an old 12hp Kohler off the shelf to replace a worn out and tired Briggs in a GT1142. Converted wiring for mag ignition to battery type. Basically, turned the old girl into a 312. Ready to go back to work.

First there was @wallfish tooth pick art, then @Dan.gerous swizzle stick art, now we have @19richie66 tig art. What a bunch of talented artists.

I have been reorganizing my shop for some time now and I finally finished the stock metal rack and bins. Jay

Not my horse but finished up another GT14 tank today.

Well @ebinmaine you in the outer ballpark, you got the "berries" part correct. However as far as that mountain goat part I shot one of them here in the Hill Country about 10 years ago and they are one smelly animal. Now @Ed Kennell, he nailed it. My Black Berries are producting and boy are they loaded. I planted this 10 ft row about 3 years ago. The first 2 years that took hold, but didn't produce much. . This year I followed some advice to give them lots of water and fertilizer starting early/early spring. soI've had a soaker hose on them since late February. I'm toal they love chicken poop fertilizer, but I don't have chickens. So the've got Miracle Grow once a week. My wife's away at the moment, but when she returns I'll add her Blackberry Pie recipie to the Recipe Thread. It's sort of a custart pie that scrumchious warm with iBlue Bell ice cream and almost even better cold (can you say left over pie for breakfast)

I really like the old C125, but once the mower deck belt stretched beyond usability, I could never find another one no matter what, and now that I've acquired a pricey old wheel horse tiller from facebook, I'm finding out that I need another belt tensioning aparatus to put on the mid point of the tach-o-matic bracket, because the 'mule drive' pulleys that were on the bracket in front of the axel won't just click into the mid bracket to run the tiller. Trying to make this good ol' stuff actually work for you takes lots of doing without all the little bits of kit needed to do it. I'll probably fabricate a belt tensioner to make it run, but I just felt like venting here for a minute. Does anyone have some guidance about the mid bracket tach-o-matic tiller pulleys that sit right under the engine?

She looks good on the truck. Trailer was loaded with about 9 cubic feet of stone. Around 8-900 pounds give or take. Pulled up a steep grade to the backyard in 2-hi no problem put about 3 hours on it today.

This is now the largest frying pan we have.

@wallfish This sounds like the best course to take. At 75, this will probably outlast me. I am trying to keep it together as long as I can. I will let you know what I do.

We just had a tornado that barley touched down go through Elgin a few days ago. We were without power for just over 20 hours. Lot's of trees down, including some of my backyard maple. The limb filled up the back yard and did not hurt anything on the ground. Lucky on that part. The neighbor (2 doors up) had a huge limb come down with no ground damage either. Again, lucky. They had the rest of this tree taken down yesterday. I got a lot of wood out of it...American Elm. I thought you guys might like to see how this outfit dropped this huge tree. I'll bet is was over 70' high...it was about 4' diameter at the base. Used my 857 and trailer to haul wood back to my house. Enjoy...this was fun and scary to watch all day yesterday. A large part of this tree is already down at this point. This is an action shot. That branch is on it's way down. Our dog, Turd, is a mouser. They like using the wood pile as a home. Every once in a while Turd will get that mouse. It is her mission in life now.

That 312-8 looks a lot better then the one I bought. I had to straighten all the sheet metal including the rear hitch.

Front rims are 8"x 5 3/8" trailer rims from Miller Tire.

Ikea/Blum rollers are an excellent space saving idea. Outstanding.

Thanks Jim! He does this 10 hours a day making ski towers for high end ski boats. Definitely gets more practice than me.

Like Stepney said the kohler fits in easily, just change your pto hoop and the bottom pto mount support that bolts to the frame. You will also need to buy new choke and throttle cables and shorten them to correct length unless you find used from a 312 with kohler. I did the conversion this spring

That one's about 10% past adorable. Good luck with 'im.

The Briggs Twin is a smooth engine but like Onans they are known for valve seat issues.. I just basically gave away a running 18hp out of a GT1848. Converted mine to a 14hp Kohler single, better on fuel and just about the same power. Your biggest hangup would be a few wires. I've never swapped an Onan in or out of anything, but if it was WH spec it should fit no problem as the GT is basically a 400 series.

I was told by an old time collector, who incidentally had over 1000 pieces of cast iron cookware in his lifetime, that after 1952, the extremely fine sand casts were replaced with course sand, therefore the rough texture. I have tried to smooth the roughness with minimal success. As the old-timer says, ''Tis better to search for an old one then to waste time on a piece of junk". Something to be said of that.

I always try to find pans pre-1952.

Im not all for live performances but this one rocks! And the drummer in the clip is the original drummer John Bonham's son Jason

Covered a few miles yesterday. 12-30pm phone call. Eldest daughter. Locked out of her car somewhere in the Lake District, where she and a friend were wild swimming. They'd the bright idea of locking the car, an Audi, and hiding the keys in the boot/trunk leaving that unlocked. Doesn't work does it. Boot open, lock car, place keys in boot, shut boot. Which of course automatically locks. Clothes, phones etc inside. Blondes! Lady lent her, her phone to call me. Collected her spare keys and number 3 son and of to the rescue. I got home for 3-30pm just in time for a phone call from the farm. So from 4 to 10pm I was driving a tractor and trailer, leading silage from field to farm.

Get some of that Miracle Drug that cures Malaria...the one Trump takes every day.

The sweeper is rear mounted & friction driven off the back tires. Real similar to a Parker type lawn sweeper except the wheel ride on the tires instead of the lawn. Did you get the collection bag & frame for it too?