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We finally got a little plowable snow. Alex texted me about 6 times today while I was at work wanting to know when I was getting home so he could plow. I finally got out and him and his older brother Aiden headed out and plowed my driveway and the path to my parents house. I really could get used to this. Alex on his 1077 and Aiden on my Bronco 14. They quickly worked out a system. Alex plowed with a straight blade and Aiden came behind him and did the clean up. The path between the 2 houses has never been so big, you could drive a Mack truck down it. They had a blast which is all that matters and I enjoyed just standing in the driveway watching. After all this is there 3rd year plowing snow so Maybe next time I can sit in the nice warm house and watch from the picture window 😂

Here’s a few

I wish I could take credit for that. My dad repowered his 12 automatic the first winter after my parents built their house. He slapped a Briggs and Stratton 18hp V-twin in it. When my dad got a bigger tractor for around the house it sat in the garage for years. He always told me it was mine. So glad he kept it. When I moved into my house it came home but wouldn’t run right so my gramps said come over and get my tractor. He fired it up in the shed and I knew the sound as soon as the engine caught. He liked it so much he did the same thing with the same engine. So I have a pair of them like that. They are absolute beasts. I barely ever have to run over 1/2 throttle. Here’s the 12 auto. sorry for the long story.

This plow. Plus this tractor. Equals awesome snow pusher!

Figured id add the only pic i have with a trailer on this phone to the building collection here.

Now, @ebinmaine, I don’t think I’m alone here wanting to see, instead, some rotating drying barrel composting contraption run off a drive belt wrapped around the rear tire of a Wheelhorse.

It’s been too long playing with tractors. Threw this together last night just for fun. It sure was!

How come I have missed this topic? I love the topics with a lot of cool pictures My raider towing the WheelHorse hauler

By looking outside, some exercise for the twin Kohler may be in order today.

Five inches of fresh snow this AM Which plow horse to use? The 312H open top or the 520H sedan with heat.? With the temps at 26F, the 520H got the call. Got about 2.5 hours of warm seat time plowing 5 paved drivewys, stone road and trails. Got any snow pics ? Post them here If you like.

More of the tractors and trailers pictures from the Ralph current and past inventory!

Love seeing posts like this with all the pictures pop up. Here’s my contribution.

Figured you guys might like to see my newest purchase. 718-Z

You can connect it to Colossus!

Been inactive for awhile now because life got in the way but turning back to this long overdue project. Frame and trans are already done so I plan to at least strip all the tins and start with an etching primer to make sure it has a good hold and lasts another 40 years!

Well, the more I use this hydro the more I like it. We had about 4.5" of nice dry powdery snow. I couldn't overload the thing. It just. Keeps. Pushing. I did have some difficulty getting it started though. I know it needs a head gasket...

It looks like today may still be Thursday.

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The can is a buck. Today only, the spray nozzle is $29.95…

Funny story about price. I was shopping for stocking stuffers and went into a Real Deals store. Everything is a buck. I go into the automotive isle and there is a pile of Sno Jet. A buck a can. I grab a hand full. Text @rjg854 about this great deal. A few days later he calls me. "I picked up some Sno Jet and there are no spray nozzles with them!" I check the cans I bought and sure enough no nozzles. I pop the cap off the can I have already used and the nozzle is the same as Rustoleum spray paint. so I got clean spare nozzles in the drawer. Guess that's why they were in the store.

That's how you get them working overtime, caffeinate them.

1st snow of the year. Not enough to plow but fun to play in.

I plowed my driveway this morning, we are expecting to get about 8” and we are somewhere around 6 right now. Sorry, not sure why the first photo is sideways, in my camera roll it’s not sideways.

It’s the least one could do in appreciation of his stalwart efforts to keep this place friction free.

Never apologize for a long story. Lots of us LOVE to read about family legacy and the history of any given tractor/machine. Thank you for sharing that.

Nope, I've never ever ever done anything like you describe... ...Like 10 times an hour! Looked for my glasses that are on my head. Looked for tools at least ten minutes that are in my pocket. I've even asked my wife where my phone was once- OVER THE DANG PHONE.

Great thread, meant to post this a long time ago... This is something I posted back in 2012. Tractor and cart are still working hard for me, and I STILL don't have a real hitch for it. I just started using my 310-8 to haul firewood around my back yard this past summer, on a very occasional basis. I'm pulling a 17 cu. ft. cart full of hardwoods, so the loads are pretty heavy. But it's basically level grassy terrain, a distance of only about 50 yards or so each direction. The tractor handles it easily. I don't have a great hitch setup on this yet, so I'm not pushing it too hard until I get something more appropriate. Right now, the cart has a square tube at the front. I just drilled holes through the top and bottom to accommodate a 3/8" or 7/16" hitch pin (can't remember right now), and it sits on top of the tractor drawbar. The pin is too long, so there's a good bit of vertical movement, which can't be good for the tractor, but it behaves pretty well if I take it easy. There's also some play between the pin and the hole in the drawbar, also not ideal. At the very least, I'll put some washers or a flanged bushing in there before my next haul to take up some of the slack. And yes, I would feel much better installing a proper hitch for this thing, something like what Scott (smoreau) sells would probably work just fine. In time... Here's a shot of probably the largest and heaviest load I've hauled so far. My semi-educated wild-arse guess is that the wood and the cart total maybe 800 pounds or so.

I got nothing. But here’s a tractor with a trailer hauling a tractor and a trailer. Best I could do at the moment.

Dug this one outta the archives. My first Horse. 1974 B80. Even before it became Patriot Horse! This is from (4??) years ago when we built the fire circle in the backyard.

Picked up a very nice c-120 this evening. Felt terrible about pulling it through the snow, but it was one of those no holds kind of sale. I will leave it on the trailer and take it to the car wash when the roads dry off tomorrow. Came with a tiller & cast iron front and rear wheel weights. I know the front are originals, but the rear weights don’t look like weights used on Wheel Horse. Any idea what tractor they would have been from?

@WHGuy413 nice plow schooling going on there , as you know , the more seat time , makes you job smart, sure beats the texting / phoning cell phone time. covering each others move , is good stuff, pete

OK missed Thursday and these aren't exactly trailers...but...

Ok that's it I am going to take up blading. Had the FEL out the other day to load stove pellets to the porch and just for $hit$ and grins dropped the bucket an did some scraping. Had some wet slush that then froze solid. Now another 5 inches of powder that didn't come off like Ed's pic with a blower. One gets it down to the asphalt like that and one day of nice sun and temps in the high 20's the whole drive melts off. Maybe a blade with rubber or plastic scraper then blow the stack ups off yonder for the next 12 inches?

I used the nozzle that's on a can of engine cleaner for the cans of Sno Jet. Still a great price for that product.

If I can’t sell it I was gonna make a tank out of it lol

And Caffeinated ones to boot!

Worked great! Need to refund the lift/lower action plus make a latch to hold it back so it doesnt get flipped out when backing up in deep snow but aside from that it pushed some deep heavy stuff. I would highly recommend this for someone with a long straight driveway because it really widens the path and need for 2nd trip to clean up all the lumps that fell under the tires. Today was prob 10” of heavy wet snow and my driveway is big but has a circle so it requires a plan that I have yet to decide on but in practice the plow worked! Need front weights/chains for sure though! In the works…. I didn’t push me sideways or bind on anything except once in reverse and nothing bent so going to run it like this for a while and see what happens. A spring release would be nice though. Maybe in the future- have to run it some more to decide. Here is a shot I took in the heaviest part. You can see the snow is 3/4 of the height of the plow blade and its rolling back under the tractor and the little wing plow is pushing a mountain of snow. Ideally I never push this much but didnt get out to do a 1st round in the snow since I was asleep :). In 4” of snow you can use most of the front blade plus this = about 5’ wide swath. Also @ebinmaine the donor plow was an Ariens make. Noticed a sticker on the other half this morning.

I personally did a back to back test, as in taking a running, operational machine, pulling the engine, flipping it over, popping the gears, slapping right back on the machine and running- it was still warm when I cranked it back up. There was absolutely a very noticeable difference, especially just off idle- maybe 1800-2000rpms, it would shake my eyeballs in their sockets. All other rpm ranges seemed like any other K series, and after running it for the summer I don't even notice it anymore. FWIW it was a shaker plate K341 swapped onto my 1277, solid mounted, and the gears/needles were worn BAD, like, cannot believe they didnt come apart. There was very little telltale noises..... Sometimes wonder if different engines respond differently to getting rid of the gears, as well as human perception and/or memory, as most of the time this would be done during an overhaul and much more than a couple hours had passed.

420 and trailer helping out back at the cabin.

This is an older one but it’s one of my favorites for some reason.

Sorry boys no horse used for me this winter IMG_7140.MOV

I fired up the 310-8 last night and installed the 6-6212 37” single stage snowblower on it. I believe after reading the I/O manual, I have it in the wrong PTO groove. Ran out the barn, stopped dead in my tracks in about 3 feet. No weight, no chains. Stuck a set of 4 links on and went playing for a bit! It was around 10 pm and windy, not opportune photo ops. I might see if there’s anything on the security camera…. I need to install the wings yet, and it has no rollers or skis so I held it up the whole time. It was still a ton of fun!

Good eyes! Yes my gramps built that many many years ago. It’s built to last. Dad traded dump carts with him when my parents built their house 25 years ago and now I’ve had it for 10 of those years. Only thing I’ve done to it is had to replace a tire tube once. I do want to put a different hitch on it but never get around to it.