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Yard work has been keeping me away but this flower bed is almost all blooming.

Weed wacker mod

It was a package deal, tractor, 60” deck and 2 stage blower. Now to decide if I need to keep it around or not.

Got the front set of tires in for my B-80 "FlowahPowah" in today. 1st set of ribbed tires can't wait to try them out.

I'm not sure what all I did to my yesterday, but it must have been a lot. Put 5 band-aids on my hands this morning.

I only spent $87 and got all this @SylvanLakeWH am I a member of the black hood club?

What size pistol were you carrying to get all that for all that. The metal saw will handy for cutting up the scrap you also purchased .

I took a load of metal to the scrap yard this morning and when I was leaving I saw the remains of a very old two wheeled tractor. Come to find out it had been a Dandy Boy model C. Anyway the rear wheels had weights on them and with a little elbow grease I got them off the rims. Everything there is for sale and I got these for 40 bucks. 50lbs combined so not too heavy but cool none the less.

@Gregor are you trying to go for @pullstart 's record

I've been looking for one of these for a while. Saw one at a sale and I got it for $20. Took it home and plugged it in and it actually worked! I'm going to take some old valves I have laying around and practice with it before I try to do anything that I want to actually be nice.

Went to the local spring consignment auction today. Not much small stuff this year. But we did sell an unneeded vehicle, and came home with a Case model 10 sickle mower and I bought a Ford 8N, so now Tasha and I have his and hers N tractors

Had a busy day for a Saturday. Couple of new guests came for a trial visit to see how they take to living with us, and if the owners like what they see. Then I spent a couple of hours building a locking bar for the garage personnel door. I wanted something that looks too intimidating to even try to tackle. Its box section but there is a solid steel bar wedged and welded inside the sliding member to beef it up. The sliding shackle padlock goes right through this bar so its pretty bomb proof. Bolted through the concrete panels there are large fish plates on the inside to spread the load and prevent it being jemmied off.

No problem, I barely took any pic while I was building it but when I get all the wireing up to the seat so I have easy access to controlling it and using power from the tractor insteab of a battery on the attachment Ill be breaking it down for painting, Ill take a crap load of pics explaining what I did and rough measurements. That way if anyone wants to build one they will do it quicker then what it took me to with all the trials and tribulation measuring for it to work right.

I just pulled everything out. The broken tang was stuck to the case in the new gear oil. Before I pulled the guts I turned everthing again and noticed it was shifting into low and gravity was the only thing shifting it into hi. I think I'm all set. It's going back together now.

I decided to use a new 3/4 inch rod for a sickle bar mower frame plate I am rebuilding! The sickle mower I am working on is a pretty rusty one. You can buy a 3/4 12 inch long rod with continuous keyway on eBay . The rod in plate is ten inches. The rod holds the 5 inch drive pulley that connects to your tractor motor and a 2.5 inch pulley in center of frame plate that turns the sickle drive belt 90 degrees. I use new bearings and they have two set screws. Both pulleys use keys. I bought an aluminum 5 inch pulley on eBay also for a replacement of the original. The last pic not mine but shows sickle setup on a tractor.

Hi I have a D-250 that I recently bought. It starts and runs fine the hydraulics work fine as does the tiller but steering is very hard to work. I don't want to wreck it. any ideas on what might be wrong and anything I can do not the most mechanical guy around.

Cleaned turbos tank out yesterday

How big is the ball in this picture? If it is larger then 1/4" dia, it does not go in this transmission. Might go into a musket rifle.

On this type of cylinder the pipe fittings are removed then the end caps can come out

Finally I can say we worked on a tractor. We just stopped for lunch. We are swapping over the tiller to the C-145. I have a bunch of small pieces from the hardware store and then need to get a belt. I think I found it’s a 139” belt but if someone can confirm this for me it would be appreciated.

Most Kohler K-series K241 and Magnum M10 engines came from the factory without balance gears. Only thirteen K241 engines came from Kohler with balance gears installed. These engines have the specification numbers: 46578, 46634; (Allis Chalmers); 46590 (Yazoo); 46593, 46608, 46633 (John Deere); 46664, 46718, 46764, 46803 (Simplicity); 46809, 46810 (Grainger); and 46838 (Ingersoll Rand). And only four M10 engines came from Kohler with balance gears installed. These engines have the specification numbers: 461509 (Ingersoll Equipment); 461513, 461526, 461550, 461551 (Ingersoll Rand); 461534 (Cub Cadet); and 461543 (Compair Kellogg). All other specification numbers for the K241 and M10 engines have no balance gears. However, if your engine vibrates a lot, it should to be precision spin-balanced. But most K241 and M10 engines (without balance gears) run smoothly from the factory without balance gears originally installed. From Brian millers site.

Yes 10-16 Big block

Part #933156 Roll Pin 1/8" x 1"

A little one!

Thanks ebinmaine, I also made it so the trailer jack can be quickly removed and used on any other attachment I may build down the road. I guess Im showing my cheapy side hahahahah. I also built a a trailer that can be switch from a flat bed to a dirt laoding dump box, Im hoping to adapt that trailer jack to lift the dump box when its full.

Those ding dang cursid ball bearings!!!!! Ugh I hate those little ba$@#&ds.

Last weekend we bought the carcass of a Ford 9N for $300 to use as a parts tractor as we fix up Tasha’s little 2N. While I was at work today she pulled all the external pieces off of the engine, then after work I was able to get ahold of our landlord’s little John Deere with loader and we made short work of removing the engine. The little 2N does run, but it’s getting pretty tired and has a very slight lower end knock, my plan is to overhaul this engine, and have it ready to install on the tractor, that way we can still use the tractor throughout the summer to mow with and any other chores we need it for. We also discovered a Sherman Step Up transmission in the parts unit as we were splitting it, that may find its way into her tractor as well

Shipment arrived today: Full metal pans, 7" x 7.5" hard to find Wheel Horse bolt pattern.

Very good advice. Wheel Horse’s never give up, owners do. You got this!

IMHO... Don't pull any parts off anything. Fix 'em both!!!

Didn't have any cake but my wife took me to a local BBQ for some pulled pork followed by a dish of ice cream. Life is good, God has blessed me with good health, and some wonderful friends. Who could ask for more.

Today I fixed my floor board problem on the 800 cut with it “it cuts beautifully” oiled some stuff so it’s ready to go for next time and got the 520-h in cutting condition. Thank you for everyone that’s helping me on this website if anyone knows where I can find a free manual for my 1971 commando 800 I tried looking on here but they only have a 72 witch is very different. And if anyone would like to know I have info and model number to help.

You may not have a dip stick, but you do have a fill plug on the left side of your transmission. Take out that plug...if oil runs out, put the plug back in and you are good to go. If no oil runs out, you may have to remove the seat to get at the 2 bolts at the top of the transmission. Add oil through one of those holes until you see oil coming out that fill plug. Replace fill plug and you are good to go.

So my friend asked me if I was interested in his tractor. He wanted to sell it and put the money towards repairs on his truck. I said sure ! So as of 30 mins ago I am now the proud owner of a 1075. Its not the prettiest thing but it runs and drives good. I am kicking around the idea of swapping out the tins with the 875. Still no luck on an engine for that one. It would be nice to have the 875 and the 1075. I know the seat and steering wheel are not correct. Those are not Wheel Horse hub caps but they sure look nice. He has over spray on the tires from painting the rims. Paint is in bad shape. I know I can make it look better. I might have a better seat for it. Here are some photos of the new 1075 and the 875 I picked up few weeks ago. They kinda go together like ketchup and mustard.

Look to your right, Eric. no, your other right. that H Farmall is cool all day long. I like the patina shed as well

I had two of those D-250's.Steering on neither was anything to write home about.Got rid of both before I had a chance to check them out.BTW.I like your's.Especially with the front end loader. I'm sure others will be along soon to answer your steering questions.Nice looking cat too.

That is exactly how I had it. There was just 1/32 " of that ball that was in the way. It was just being spiteful

All 65 tractors are short frames excpt. Lawn Ranger and 1054A

Note the even mottled texture of the paint, caused by tons of little short strokes in varied directions...gotta get that multi color unit! Lol Then theyd come off the printer in color! (Lose the "hand painted" allure, but way easier!)

Nice looking 1075.I'd get rid of that metal seat.I have built in padding,but not enough to make THAT seat comfortable.Haha.Have fun with your new toy.

Wow! Oh…and OSHA is on their way…

gravely 18543. What I run on a few of mine. Pretty cheap good quality and pretty quiet.

Not all of them, but here are a few:

Maybe check with @jimkemp. He does stack mufflers.

I KNOW they wouldn't let me out... I'd be babbling in my sleep about oil clearances, rod lengths... etc. I'd be diagnosed with a variety of... illnesses... Don

I've never been able to consider working in a hospital because the ones around here have psychological wards and I'm afraid they wouldn't let me out.....

Might be the nostalgia, but a square fender JD 112 might be nice, like the one I grew up around. This is it, brand-new in 1970. It got the headlights in the front panel a few months later; they had to be added as a kit and the kits weren't in stock when my dad took delivery. It was always well-maintained, but sadly wasn't kept past the early 2000's. I liked that tractor -- well-built, comfortable, well-laid out operator station, great Kohler engine. Just not always the easiest to change belts and such on, and JD parts tend toward more specialized ones and have never been exactly inexpensive. Much prefer the simplicity and standardized parts on Wheel Horse. My dad, on the other hand, would have been mortified to know I keep a Wheel Horse -- He never liked anything about WH. "Cheaply built... Outdated... Company was ****..." -- No end of trash-talk. But it had something to do with his job in IRS collections in South Bend. My guess is he never liked the Ponds' frugal ways. Companies that kept their finances conservative tended to leave fewer opportunities for taxation that wasn't cut-and-dried, leaving few opportunities to pick up anything more on audits. Which probably didn't do him any favors for performance ratings. (Of course, he ran his own, and the family's, finances to avoid having to pay one cent more than necessary... so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )