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Wanted to share this with you folks. A good idea I think. VERY heavy duty and well built. All bolt together. A ladder and some other goodies and off you go....

These are OTR Lawn Trac R1 in 23x10.50-12 on 8.5" rims you can get 24 and 26 tall 12 wide as well. Nothing against the Carlisle TruPower just something I tried and have been very impressed by so far after a couple years of all conditions/uses.

Old tires always look better with M. E. Miller Tire paint. One or two coats on 60 year old tires will surprise even the most particular restorer to the quality look achieved ! The attached ag tire photo is of an original 1958 RJ tractor tire! I have used it for years and highly recommend its use.

Did some one ask for big ags? I have tractors with 6-12, 23x8.50 & 23x10.50 ags on the back. All of them serve their purpose. The 26x12's pictured above are mainly for a cool factor, but the tractor does pull a plow pretty nicely with them.

7 x 12 ag’s, seem to work ok, especially with a heavy implement on the back. The wheels are a bit too wide for the tyres/ tires though.fronts are 10” diameter, I can’t remember if they are 4” or 5” wide.

1985 417-8 275 hours

She's a beauty

There's something about freshly painted wheels and an original, battle scarred paint job. To me, it's a look thats hard to beat!

Some times a guy just has to paint rims patina be damned ! I couldn't leave these like this!!!

Big Fat AG's. For snow removal, I rap them with ice chains.

I did this many times with my '30 Dodge. Just jacked up the left rear till the axle was on center with the Ice Cream freezer handle. Stick the handle in the spokes, sit a cement block on the freezer, tranny in first gear and crank away. When the ice cream got stiff, the freezer tipped over and disengaged the handle from the spokes. Automatic shut off.

Pulled the wheels off my 854 to get redone; I understand the whole patina thing but these are just an old, lousy repaint (wrong color, peeling, overspray, mis-matched centers). Haven't decided on paint or powdercoat yet, but they're getting blasted either way. Tires are in fantastic shape other than the overspray.

These are what will be on Colossus. American Farmer 7.60 - 15. They measure approximately 30" tall. Here's a couple views of Cinnamon Horse. That has a Carlisle commercial grade tire that's sized 23 x 10.50 x 12. It measures a full 23. They are also a wide aspect tire and have a rim guard feature. The tire rubber actually wraps out around the edge of the rim. I do run chains on these for plowing snow.

My L107 Lawn tangier routinely hauls 750 lbs of coal up from the barn all winter long.... Screwed up thus last week forgot to take the AGs of and put the turfs chains on. Would never make it up the hill with AGs in the snow.

1973 16 Auto on snow duty

kinda reminds me of the Goodyear terra tires on the original Bigfoot, the wiggle pattern.

This old beautiful piece has been completely polished and rubbed down. Came out excellent. Our friend is making a baseplate for the inside and Trina is going to pick up some more decorative floor blocks then we'll be ready for installation.

Might be the wrong offset on your wheels just might need a pair of hub to wheel spacers like a 1/2-3/4" thick to cure that.

Agricultural Grip ... designated over here as R1 Or Farm Bar tread...

ITP mudlites 25x10-12 They should go on my WH next week.

the girls and their two cousins, plus Mrs. P’s brother. We were holding down the kid fort while the women were doing bridal party stuff.

@WVHillbilly520H @Tractorhead So I picked up my 520H rims and hubcaps from the powder coat shop today... Rims...gloss white Hubcaps...shiney chrome What do you think ? I'm really pleased with the hub caps...$10 a piece. The shiney chrome is a powder coating...not true chrome plating.

Right tool always makes the job easier. Way back when, my then young bride asked why I needed so many different saws. Now she explains it to others!

I agree. Poor girl putting up with you all of these years. Not fair.

What is it you say Beats me but someone will know Always on Red Square

Took the bottom off a plastic peanut butter jar. Cut to size, drilled a small breather hole and glued into place with epoxy. Has been working fine for five years.

SYLVAN LAKE WHEEL HORSE He started daily Haiku Also has nice toys

When its time to load Get ahold of the PULLSTART OF COURSE IT WILL FIT !!!

When things go badly And your Wheel Horse just wont run Dial EBINMAINE

Weighing down the rear hitch applies pressure to the underside of the transaxle case and could crack it. With this simple lever the pressure is applied to the crossbar of the rear snow plow hitch. The pressure is then distributed to both ends of the axle casing. Not just for stacking weight for traction or counterbalance I'm sure it can be adapted for other attachments and uses. Notice, comments to this post prove that my premise is wrong. This lever does not transfer weight to the snowplow cross bar. The weight is doubled on the transaxle drawbar. Do not use

Really enjoying this extended thread! Great place to put up a quick post or get a quick question answered without plugging up the forums with a new thread requiring 2 or 3 replies With that being said, maybe you guys can help me out here. Is it normal for the hydros to really 'tug' the engine down when engaging the belt, more so when cold? I like to fire the 1277 up and run it about 1600-1800 for a minute, engage the belt and back her out. Even with the big daddy 16hp transplant, it really loads her when I do. Hydro is a sundstrand out of a C120 and is very strong, correct fluid (10w30) and correct pulley sizes. On a good note, gotta be honest- I was not overly impressed with the results going from a hurt 12 to a solid 16, it still lugs a bit when moving along and running the deck, which is only a 42". Last night I checked the timing- almost 30 degrees with the .020 gap! Backed her down to 20 degrees, moved the governor spring for more response and that ol girl came alive- NOW I'm impressed! My God, I can put the hydro at 'full speed ahead', engine at idle, yank the throttle open and she accelerates with authority

Santa is bringing me a few parts for my Lawn Ranger build. - Jim Kemp 8" Stack - New square-pan seat (new to me) - Steering wheel

I use the threaded gas caps from Tractor Supply.No gauge in them,but pretty easy to unscrew the cap to peek inside the tank to check the fuel level.And pretty cheap.Like 6 bucks.

Taller tires are desirable for some but, to turn them keep in mind that all motion goes through a cast iron hub and 1 wooddruff key. If you are in to off roading then think of them as the fuse. In this case not cheap to fix.

Fruits of our labor..... butterflied backstraps marinated in a recipe I have. Basically red wine vinegar, olive oil, garlic, salt, cracked black pepper, & Worcester, Couple of steaks thrown in for drill which she said were kinda tough.... now I don't know about that, melted in my mouth, maybe her dentures were given her grief..... kidding she doesn't have them! Still have yet to bring in a sausage & burger doe but have a week or so yet with the bow. Another thing I want to do is take the football roasts out of the hinds. We brine them in maple cure, be carefull not to over brine they get salty, then smoke them & slice thin for Reubens and chipped veni on toast! Trying to make room in the freezer and had one lb of burger left over from last year so what better way than to make some Cajun jerky!?!? I love a heavy smoke flavor but Cindy doesn't but if she's not lookin will give it a dash of bottled hickory flavor.

Finally broke down and put the plow on today. Ready for winter to get here!

Spent my day taking deliveries of my nos machines .

Wifey told me one of my tail lights was out. Put a new bulb in, didn't work. Pulled fender to replace the lamp assembly. Noticed some 'wetness' along the bottom of the tank and thought, oh 5h1t, the tank is weeping! Pulled the tank to find it was only water from the other night plowing. Of course, when I pulled the tank, the 40 year old grommet at the bottom started leaking for real. Ain't that always the way? So I put in a new one, got her all back together, and now my lights work too. My advice? If you've never replaced that grommet at the bottom of the tank, do it SOONER, like NOW, because it WILL start leaking when you aren't paying attention and gasoline leaks are NO BUENO!

All weights that are added to the rear of the axle centerline exert more down force than the actual weight. The negative is the weight also decreases the downforce on the front wheels. example....one pound weight placed far enough to the rear could actually lift the front wheels placing the entire weight of the tractor on the rears. That's why pullers like wheelies.

Now Trina has something to move things around with!

Have you guys ever seen a lean back style "elevator" cart? You can put as many bags of feed or bales of hay as they will hold, and they tilt toward the operator with hardly any effort. impossible to overload the solid rubber tires with lifetime ball bearings. wanna pic of one?? We had a thread a while back that was about converting a tool to a use not intended. i love that kind of stuff, and as a farm kid, we always hit the scrap pile to invent new things.....

Needs a headlight/work light.

Aren't we smart figuring out what they already knew 100+ years ago?!

Shiny paint and chrome AMC RULES will guide you More elbow grease please

If things get squeaky there is only one thing left just call PETE LENA

Another one for the “if you think OSHO is a small town in Wisconsin you’re in trouble...” files...

I call side-tracked Sunday LOL. I got onto a side project. Back to the regularly scheduled project tomorrow.

My dad who was a blacksmith and he use to use his chop saw to sharpen his drill bits. He would turn on the chop saw and bounce the drill bit against the side of the blade . Sparks would fly and he would turn but to other side to finish. I also recall he would once in a while use his industrial sized belt sander (about 30 inches long) mounted on a bench and tap the drill bits as the belt sander ran. Sparks would fly and the bit would have a new point. Might not have machinists specs but the bits always seemed to do the job required after following that process.It wasn’t rocket science to him!