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When you been going right along and working hard it's important to take rest breaks appropriately... Even if you're a BBT. Here we see an excellent usage of a front weight.

Picked up a mechanically solid 74 C160 hydro this weekend. It belonged to the owner of the first Wheel Horse dealership that I bought out a few years ago; I've had my eye on it for 2 or 3 years and the owners widow finally realized it was time to let it go. It had a " restoration / quickie paint job " done to it about 20 years ago. It is in great shape mechanically, electrical is un-butchered, everything works as it should, just needs taken apart and redone properly . Has the good cast iron pulleys hanging on the mule drive. Sometime down the road.......

Just buy a 1/2" eye bolt and cut and shape to the length you want. And be done with it.

Can't help yah here Kev... I ripped all my audios out and Dan croons me....

Mick I've towed over 1,000 lbs with my 1974 c160-8, many times.. up steep sections of the acreage. As stated above and it warrants additional attention... You'll find it's not about how much you can PULL but about how much you can STOP. The personnel at this dealership are obviously not the least bit familiar with old school garden tractors and the WORK they will perform.

Started putting my 857 back together after paint job

Or what ever else I can find to weld to a piece of 1/2" round stock. Welded some nuts together on some to make a brass knuckle looking top. The one for my rat rod is some nuts welded together to resemble a logo.

In the area where the new building is going we had two tarp covered portable garages. The base layer of the one we put up 3 years ago with the help of our fine friend @JCM Jim was a tarp on the ground and a layer of 3/4 Stone varying from two to five inches in depth. Seeing as to how that whole area is going to be shredded with an excavator we figured to reuse most of those stones in other areas. Forest pathways would be an obvious great choice. Well, then there's the fact that Trina is building a little area right down the middle of one of those paths for the vows ceremony of her daughter's upcoming wedding. Here's a reminder of what it looked like yesterday morning. Trina and her mom set to, with her 867 Pigpen and mid-70s Ohio Steel trailer. They moved a bunch of the above mentioned Stone creating a walkway in front of the arch and also filled in a low spot off to the right. She also came up with another pretty brilliant idea. Use locally sourced pieces of our future firewood and some of the oak boards that will be made into my truck bed to function as benches. We've yet to move the boards down. We won't do that until probably the day before the wedding so as to keep most of the rain and sun off of those boards to prevent twisting. You can see the bases in place already here...

Good show as usual. Weather was perfect. Didn't get many pictures as still trying to finger out this new dumb phone. Did get one of @Achto running a green & yellow.... To his credit he was only 6 ft off from placing in pulling on his Cockshutt. I don't think I even got one of our exhibit but a few more of what I got. Rob @oldiron613 on an RJ where he proceeded to lose his hitch pin and promptly dump his wife in the gravel. Get some more of these glamor shots to yah Dan.... Broast @19richie66.... old iron wants a cup...

Just a picture of my deck getting the @peter lena oil soak

Unfortunately I was not real camera happy myself, I did get a few pics though. This year the bridge was decorated to welcome John Deere as the feature tractor. This Waterloo Boy is apparently 1 of 1 left in existence. The owner received an award for his hard work on the restoration. Another award winner. There were a few Steam engines there but this Minneapolis Moline was the only one that I saw doing any work. It spent a fair amount of time hooked up to the saw mill.

Gotta use your imagination, but you can kind of see a logo.

She’ll need to lift her feet up when you’re moving…

My no good rotten immature evil mind wants to see somebody come at this woman with a whip like the emoticon... 🥋

One of the kids on the robotics team had a Ford Probe that he installed a stereo in. Was big enough that he had to upgrade the alternator to run it. One day he and some other kids on the team jumped in the car during a break period to listen to the stereo. I wandered by the car that was going thump, thump, thump. They saw me, turned the stereo down and rolled a window down a crack. I told him that he was pretty brave putting that system in an old Ford and wasn't he worried that the car would shake into pieces?

If you were in the truck with us it would be..... OH MY EARS.

It’s been many many years, but I believe there should be a remote wire connecting subwoofer and head. That wire should only be powered when ignition is on otherwise amp will drain battery when car is off.

Tie rods: I thought I'd add this here, since it's somewhat related to Don's resto-mod. Before I gave him the tractor, I wanted the 8" wheels off the front to replace the 6" ones on my 312-A. I had them mostly swapped before I realized that this changed the required tie rod length on BOTH tractors. I guess the "ear" location on the spindle is different. I don't know if Don was able to adjust his enough or replaced them, but mine would not adjust far enough, so I needed to replace them. New required tie rod length was about 10". Buying another set of "stock" tie rods wasn't likely to work, since they would be the wrong length too, so I looked at some options to make some new ones. I'm kind of wishing I had gone with the Heim ends that someone suggested... I went with standard ends. I couldn't find 3/8" 24 threaded rod locally so I ordered a long piece. At Lowes I noticed that a 3/8" rod slid nicely into a 1/2" square steel tube so I bought some of that too. These new tie rods are 3/8" 24 threaded rod inside 1/2" square tube, with a little weld at the end of the tube to keep it from sliding around. I guess I could have used nuts to accomplish that but 1) it didn't occur to me at the time, and 2) I didn't have enough 3/8" 24 nuts on hand when I dove into this. I think these will serve well, but if not, I have some experience making them now and some ideas how to make even better ones. Tractor is back in service, front alignment is straight, and she steers nicely.

As others have said it would be a 953 or 1054, basically the same tractor with minor differences.. Under the steering wheel there is a sticker with a serial number that will tell you for sure. The 1054 (built in 1965) is basically a third generation 953 (built in 1963) with a slightly different seat frame. The bends on the seat frame of the 953 (all three generations) are smooth and the bends on the 1054 seat frame is dimpled at the bends.

Oh no no no no no no no..... That's HER tractor. I just use mine to drive around all day doing nothing and I don't have anybody on it at the time.

I have my old 8 passenger van that might be useful to haul the grieving folks around but I haven't been able to make contact with those affected. With one family in Lancaster County and people in hospitals I'm sure that is a challenge for them. Just today, my daughter said to go to the Amish store in Collinsville where they were assisting, maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

Just put a .020" over 14 HP in my 953

Best part of getting a new tractor, besides the tractor and working on the tractor......new tools!!

@Pullstart Save yourself a bunch of time and money. Just have @Achto live in the truck and “croon” to the Mrs. pullstart… why should @WHX?? get sole enjoyment from such talent???

I don‘t need it, for me my Car Stereo is my Engines, but Mrs. T need her Car Stereo dang loud, except when Leo is on Board. Than she got my Prohibition to use it that loud, otherwise i cut the Lines. What is sometimes practically, you can hear her from about 4Km far when she come...😎 This give me Time to hide things i bought for my Hobbies.. 😂😂

So much trouble for a little boom boom.

Draw bar flail mower. I'm assuming that is a self powered flail mower that gets towed around. My 14 horse 8 speed will move my 17' Coleman caravan trailer (weighs about 5000lb) around without problems. Now, making it stop is a different story! I restrict this type of activity to slow speeds and level ground. The tractor easily moves 1700 lb of pontoon and trailer around as well.

My pin size.

@davem1111 questionable bearings on a mower deck ? for the effort involved ,make those bearings bombproof and silent , that goes for the mule bearings as well , sure @Snoopy11 can help you out with his stash , would not use anything else , lucas xtra h/d chassis grease in those related bearings , imagine no whining noise , from the deck . 560 deg temp rated , just an idea, pete

Max and I did some light pulling Sunday.. for some reason he didn't enjoy the wheels coming off the ground... kaylee was too young per the rules plus its his tractor... received_581240860260433.mp4 received_581240860260433.mp4

Tractor Supply has eye bolts. Get a long one like lynnmor showed and cut off the threads. Will look like original...

Or a long 1/2” bolt, cut to length, handle added for convenience. @Achto has been known to make a mean hitch pin out of a farm store pin and a bad 3rd gear…

Maybe once...

The fan is for cooling the transmission/ HYD oil. It is not the answer to your question.How to make attachment raise up and down?

Buy her a nice big high back seat with armrests, that way she won't want to get out of it and work can go on.

This has always been a long standing dilemma. Logic would dictate to take the seals out to get oil to the outside however many of the trannies I have been in have what they call shielded bearings. A metal seal rather than a rubber or plastic. Just guessing a shielded bearing weeps some oil thru and WH used them to protect the bearings from transmission gear wear metal. Again just a theory. All of the bearings I get from Lowell get both seals removed.

yup drive belt tensioner. Bearing is rusted up to the point it smoothed and worn down the spacer so now need to grab both, Today is the engine degrease and carb cleaning day to see what I ended up with...

Here I would like to quote the great T. Fixes All "it's not the space shuttle, it's a lawn mower" If you have a MIG welder and you're pretty decent at sticking metal together you'll be fine using it instead of TIG. If you set up your machine just right you'll get good penetration without creating stalagtites on the inside. If you start at the engine and work your way out to the header and place langer pipes OVER the smaller previous one, looking from the header 'out' so to speak, you will have no restrictions or bottlenecks. Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

Look under yur tractor... You'll see the connection arm hanging down.. THAT's where the cable is connected to lift rear attachments.

1994 with original bill of sale. What do you guys think?

Would anyone know what series tractor this is? Trying to find info going to look at this possibly Thursday. It has a pull off hood I thought GT14 but it has a manual not a Hydro it seams.

Got 3 of the 4 "kids" out for some sunshine and fresh air today. B-100 is still on blocks in the garage.... Hoping to get a stack (or 2?) on the GT maybe over the winter, and repair the hood.... hopefully by then the 416-8 will be sold.

Got the 160 out and gave him a correct seat and washed him up a little. Gitty up, Cheers!

@Mickwhitt in low range , hi gear , don't really see a problem , that self power only enhances it mowing thru grass , might experiment , with gear , another thing in low range you will have good ground movement control , go easy into it , to see how it responds , pete

The factory’s welding accuracy wasn’t always stellar!

5L820 or Napa 5L820W

This will show how the cable is assembled

@Pullstart sorry bout the none wheel horse video, but this is jacob on his 10 hp roper yesterday, just wondering if you see this video.