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The newest member of my herd came to me from our very own @Vinylguy. A big bonus to this acquisition was @WHX24 & I getting to hang out with Terry & Lola at their fantastic camp site / Summer home. It did needed a little TLC. After a new flywheel and a couple of minor adjustments to meet my personal tastes it is right as rain. I took my first week of ownership to make the repairs so that I would be able to take my new tractor to a show the following weekend. My future plans for this tractor is to repaint the S/G belt guard and the fan shroud on the engine. The rest of the paint and the custom decals are in great shape so the only other things on the menu are to maintain & love it. Without further ado and a big thanks to Terry, I'd like to introduce "Terrance" my new 857.

Pulled the 854 deck today. Went from this... to this in less than an hour. Long way to go, but we're starting to see it's potential.

I'm out in my front yard making the rounds on the tractor and I am coming up the pathway through the woods and glance over to my left to see this staring me down! This thing was not even scared from the sound of my tractor. Just laying there without a worrie! I hope he knows that by fall he needs to be getting out of the neighborhood because I will have them in my sites!!

Day two of yard clean up Have I ever mentioned how much I love Wheel Horse Tractors? Especially ones with loaders?

"shirt with two pockets" "fastest minnow in the bucket" After 76 years, I thought I heard em all.

Once you get a loader, you will always have one!! So handy, especially for guys like me with bad knee's and back. Handy as a shirt with two pockets as my Dad used to say! Randy

Under sad circumstances, you’ve come to the right place! Do you plan to keep or sell this stuff? If selling is your objective, it might be in your best interest to Become a supportive member for a year to be able to post unlimited pictures in the classifieds section. If not selling, it might be a great idea to become a 2+ year supporter so you can share pictures galore of your new amazing collection!

beautiful machine, Terry's hood decals on that one inspired the decals he did for my 854 custom

I do. It’s just an 84 with t-tops and a 5 speed. It lives in my mother’s heated garage. I’ll try to remember to grab a pic when I’m there next. I’ve had Richcz28 as my user name since AIM. I play with a t-bucket with most of the time these days. -Rich

My Dad was full of them, but I can't share all of them in mixed company!! Randy

Priceless Very busy .... then we have the gall to ask for some last minute decals to pick up while we were ther! Wished we woulda had time to throw some more corn bags while we were there. Even set up for night tossing!

The thing I find totally amazing is that all three have good tail lights! Everything I get has busted tail lights, previous owners must have never backed up.

Yes it is a ford 8n 1952 as far as we can tell, has a front distributor anyway. Have no idea the make of the loader as it was on it when we purchased it and the PO did not put it on either nor did he know the maker. Tractor runs a brush hog well and thats its biggest job, outside skidding a few logs and so on.

About 30 years ago I was in the control room at the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant (south of Miami) and we received an alarm that there was a problem in the switchyard. About ten seconds later the phone rang and the control tower at Miami International Airport was calling to find out what the explosion at the plant was. The electrical arc was visible for over 50 miles. Upon entering the switch yard we saw a pair of electrical bus bars (2" X 8" solid copper) were partly melted and the partial remains of what we presumed to be a large Racoon. Had to be a big one because the bus bars are 24" apart. 500,000 volts can make a mess of a racoon!

Keeping our fields mowed down so they don't get over grown with junk. We just mow it and let go back into the good old earth.

Hello everyone, New to the forum. I though I would tell you a story about my uncle who had a Wheel horse dealership from early 70's to the 90's. He had the dealership here in Stowe Vermont. He pass away last year. Since he had no children and I was the only one of his family that worked (from 80 to 90) for him, I was the lucky one who cleaned out the dealership. I took me all of three minutes to sell it. I still have the baggers, a few lawn tractors. 211-3 B115 and Kohler parts What I found: 520-H, like new, 418-8, Like new, both Toro branded. Both fully operational and untouched. About a dozen old tractors in different stages of repair. 7-8 garden and 4-5 lawn tractors. A workhorse lawn tractor. About $20K in new original parts, about 10K in Kohler (Still have) (pistons, rings, rods, gaskets, you name it.). 4-5 WH new baggers in the box. Tiller, generator, snow blower, blade attachments. A B-145 Electric (same as Electrak) with deck. Set of ag tires for D-series. Dealer stuff: 6' X 18" dealer sign still in the box, brand new from 1973. brochures, manuals, patches, plastic bags, posters, tools kits, all Wheel horse branded. Talk about going down memory lane. It is ok to dream.

a FEL is allway‘s a handy Tool, unbeatable for it‘s „save your Back“ usability.

Uhm... you cleared that offer with Management?

Here are a few progress pix of “The Low Rider” that Nathan Amyx built for me. It’s ALMOST done. Nathan is an incredible fabricator. tell him how you want it, and he pulls it out of your head and makes it a reality. Pinstripe guy came today. A True “Old School” artist! Still have to get the seat replaced and tires white lettered. Hope to have that finished in the next week or two.

Hi Wheel Horse People, I picked up a new to me 1977 B-80 last night. As a kid, I spent a many hours behind the wheel of a 1967 Wheel Horse. I've always wanted my own. When my shifter lever broke off my constantly failing Craftsman two days ago, I took to the Craigslist. As luck would have it, there was a Wheel Horse for sale within an hour of my home. I don't know much about the different models, but I think the B-80 is going to be perfect for me. It has the 3 speed manual trans with high and low range. I'm excited to have a real gear box. The tractor is mostly original. I think the carburetor is a replacement unit and the mower deck is definitely newer. The deck has warning stickers that just look way too safe for 1977. The B-80 will mainly be serving duty as a lawnmower and wagon puller. I have a bigger Massey-Ferguson for heavy lifting. I think the deck on this unit is 38" which should be perfect for my lawn with many trees. The tractor does run and drive, but it has a few issues to work out. I replaced the front tires last night when I got her home. The previous owner had picked up some new units, but they weren't installed. The fronts are now tubeless and even hold air! Unfortunately the wheel bearings are a mess and there is an assortment of washers and different snap-rings on the front spindles. I'd like to get some new bearings up front and have the correct order of parts. The PTO clutch for the mower deck is not engaging. I pulled the pulley off and there also was some odd washers and snap rings holding this together. A really neat washer with roller bearings inside was hiding in the grease of the pulley. I believe I found where it rides. Again, I'd like to replace the bearings here and get everything in the proper order. The 8hp Kohler, which I believe to be original, runs smooth at high rpm. At low rpm it doesn't hold idle and makes some bad noises. It sounds like it could be piston slap, but I'm not a master of small engines. Future projects will include new rear tires, lights and a small stack with the quietest muffler I can come up with. -Rich

Found it minus the pics but I got what I needed!

Yes it does....

@RandyLittrell I’m not the fastest minnow in the bucket, but I’ll stick with a FEL for good too!

Thank you very much everyone. Its the big 62. Funny it feels like 18 was not so long ago. I have had a blessed life full of promise , opportunities and the privilege and fortune of meeting many great people that influenced my life of which you all here are a big part of. Thank you .

Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone knows roughly how many D180s were produced? From what I gather, they were only built for a couple years? I bought 2 different D180s from different states and just realized they have consecutive serial numbers! What are the odds ?

HHHMMM... Sounds like an exclusive self-help group... SLOWHR - Society of Languishing Old Wheel Horse Restorers

June, 2013, My wife and I, with two young daughters were on 1.7 acres and needed a new “mower” to replace our free Simplicity mower, if I recall. I was scouring CL for something old to fix up, vs something new. I found about 1.5 hours away Bob Rock, who has built the amazing articulating 4x4 tractors for some years, selling a 502 with a rod knock and a mower deck. Game on, found my cool old mower! Shortly after, I found a couple C-101’s randomly that one needed an engine and the other had, so those came home. I don’t have a ton of pictures of those, sadly I was a non-supporting member for quite some time. Since 2018, my collection has grown to something that I’d never imagined all that time ago. I think what really struck the hunt of more tractors is quoting my wife in 2018 while on our new 10.5 acre homestead and me asking permission to not mow 3 acres with the 42” RD and C-101, was “If you go get a new zero turn [so I can have my big front yard], you can have as many Wheel Horses as you want.”

Looks like that mouse was playing a dangerous game of twister... Left foot yellow and ... ZAP!!

Just a friendly reminder to make sure you have proper ground dont need any miss haps. LOL

Sometimes you just need a bigger tractor. Here is my '44 Farmall B with Henderson Midget loader out for a short drive after working to remove an old burnt pile. Afterwards, I didn't want my '47 Farmall Cub to feel left out, so I took it for a small drive.

You picked a good name for it..

It's definitely a keeper Dan.. 'course don't listen to me I have no penchant for '67s

Oh man.... I'll tell ya whut.... Bring it up to Maine and I'll have my paint dept toss a coat of the proper color tone on there..

I've woken up in the morning with much worse.......

Like anyone on this forum ever got off topic.....

It just occurred to me I could explain that a little bit better. For most of the forklift trucks that are on the market right now there are two wheels at the front and two wheels at the back but the back wheels only have one centralized pivot point. That is one point of the triangle and each of the two front wheels are the other two points. So if you take an articulated vehicle and imagine the safety triangle...then imagine that the back end of that vehicle is capable of moving back at a 30 degree to 45 degree angle or sometimes even more. So just imagine what that would do to the back end of a safety triangle. Anytime the center of gravity leaves that safety triangle you are going to roll. That is not negotiable. So how do you compensate for that with an articulated vehicle? One way would be that if you know you're going to put 400 pounds on the back of a vehicle that is not articulated, then you would need to make it so that 400 lb would appear to be at the back of the articulated vehicle at all times. That was my reasoning for doubling the weight at the rear of the vehicle. Overkill? Not if it's keeping me from rolling over....

My mom sent me out to buy a mower, well what caught my eye was a add for a 74 wheelhorse, and thats where thing went wrong. I bought it, no fenders, bad bearing on deck (supposedly). Well got it home ran great, engaged deck and nothing, not a single pully turning faster then wind blown. Took deck off , but and not a single bearing or pully was good. Looked around for vin to call around for parts , but plate was painted over. I cleaned off plate ,and no vin # or model #. I called toro and they couldn't help with parts, to old. I called around found a old wheelhorse dealer. After mismatching pulleys and bearings till something fit and deck worked, completely rebuilt. Then the carb started to stumble, well s#@t , need a head gasket, after forth one carb runs better, no perfect, but close. After rolling it on the small hill in yard decided it needed fenders, i parted out a old craftsman and still had the fenders, so i retro fit them with very little , few screw holes, to original tractor. Well before fenders i had to cut a rim shaft halfway to get it off, but after all that it stops moving on me one day, so i pulled transmission for second time, first was for inpection and regrease it, which we did most of a rebuild on. Well this time i got a transmission out of a john deere same case for most part. Move a bracket and shifter parts , and swithed all spider gears and axles, well now it moves and goes great if keyway would stay in rim we cut, but there was no stop with new trans, the brakes wouldnt work, so i rebuilt brakes with a set of old murray brakes, stops now!!!! My last mod at moment is custom fit the back hitch plate from john deere on it, with no altering original tractor. Mean while saving every part and bolt ive taken off. Looks more like a big tractor with the 4 wheeler tires i put on it with that back plate too. Finally my best guess is its a 82 b115 motor numbers matcht look the same minus the black on the hood, same gear count, both had peerles 801, 11 horse motor ect. Ill post pics later today. Any help on info identifying it would be greatly appreciated

Well went to a garage sale this morning and wound up getting a couple of things. Picked up this little Troy-Bilt Jr. Rototiller and was forced to take this Snapper ..... dare I call it a Snow blower? People dint know much about either, said the tiller ran years ago when it was the guys friend. the snow blower was the guys friend to but he didnt know anything about it. I know ZERO about tillers and my past experience with this little snow blowers are they are just about worthless. Like I said I dont know anything about tillers, never even seen one in person. He couldnt tell me why it wouldnt roll and I just figured it would be something easy so I took the package for 40 bucks. Loaded them in my truck and took them home. You tiller guys can help me out here...... I am assuming it will only free wheel if you pull the pins from the wheels and disconnect them from the axle. When you want to till the soil you connect them back? I have to look for a manual. So I poured some gas in the tiller and it wouldnt start. Played with it a bit and its up and running but will only run with choke open and it leaks from where the gas goes into the carb. That plastic little nipple I think is bad so I will get a new carb for it. Other then that everything seemed to work.. tines spun, went forward and backwards. I will see if @Vinylguy has a decal set, if so I will repaint it. Next I went to the SNAPPER " snow blower" I hate calling these little things snow blowers. Got my can of 2 stroke gas, poured a little in, and 3 pulls later I thought I was on my old dirt bike again.... ringggggg ding ding ding ding..... ringgggg ding ding ding. Runs like a champ, most likely wont throw snow but runs great. Rubber paddles have seen better days. Anyways for 40 bucks I guess I did ok. What is the value on that little tiller? Are they easier to sell in the spring then now? Looking forward to all your feedback. Thanks

Sorry I wasn't clear. I have sold most of it. I still have 211-3 and a B-115. and the Kohler parts. That is all I have left. There is a local collector here with over 50 tractors and a barn to store them in. He bought everything that was left at the dealership except the lawn tractors. Everything that was Wheel Horse branded. I still have kohler, tecumseh, lawn boy and some mtd parts left.

Apparently, I’m member number 2!

EB, thank you for Colossus. It seems you’re getting all the razzing for putting this off, letting me sneak by with my dump truck project that simply gets moved around more often than it should....

Well I noticed the leak as I went to go drain the fluid to disconnect the lift lines to remove them out of the dash. So right now there isnt any fluid in the rear end. I'm thinking I may just dump a quart or 2 in there to see if it is that gasket. Nothing above that bottom bolt was wet, it was only that underside from the bolt head and below. After doing the research and reading your guys responses it seems as if that gasket would be rare to leak itself.

We gotta have pictures of this one. Peerless transmission...sounds like a vertical engine lawn mower. to the

Just a by chance conversation.

Jay @roadapples needed a brake lining, so he and his brother made the short trip down from PA to pick it up in person. While here, they were the first RedSquare members to see my new pole building in person. Thanks for the visit, and thanks for buying a brake lining.

1951 and 1952 8N had distributor on right front of engine, generator on left front. 51,52 also had proofmeter gauge lower right of dash. You have dual bucket cylinders of a Dearborn 19-61 loader http://ntractorclub.com/manuals/implements/loaders/Dearborn Model 19-61 Industrial Loader.pdf And maybe a Dearborn 19-21 frame. http://ntractorclub.com/manuals/implements/loaders/Model 19-21 Loader - Assembly and Operating Instructions.pdf

Curious. Do the Massey's share any parts with Ford's? And these are my 2 currently. I'm in the works on a 50's JD A also in exchange for painting his Farmall H. I had an Allis Chalmers d14 I had to sell bc guy didn't tell his wife it was sold. I used the money to get my 960. The 8n was my wife's great grandad's, it had been under a barn for the last 15yrs, fully restored, abandoned until I came along.

While you're doing those wheels you could paint the wheels of that trailer seeing you already have the paint out.

Being in the electrical field, I get to see stuff like this pretty often. Seen snakes shorted across phases, mice still attached to the wire they decided to chew on inside of a panel, etc. Lizards are probably the most common to find electrocuted.

This is the only picture I have right now. Thanks for the info guys.