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Picked this up last night. Drove 200 miles to get it. It is thought that this tractor had been in the same family from new. Gentleman who owned it put a battery conversion on the back hitch for extra weight. All bolted on. Probably start clean up on it today. I could not find the ID sticker. So I hope it’s the real deal. 😜

Few pictures of the feature this year.

Hope you find this amusing. Got the new mower deck belt in yesterday. Thank you, Wheel Horse Parts and More. Excited to get it on and make sure everything worked. I know the spindles were free. Ran out to the garage and looked at the tractor. HHHmmm. I know it goes around the pulleys in the mule driver, but how does it go on the deck? Back inside on the computer to this forum to look for the deck manual. Search, search, search. There it is. Download and open. HHmm. Front page shows 4 decks. Which one is mine. Ok, that one has 4 pulleys on top, must be mine. So that’s how the belt goes. Back to the garage. Lets get down and see whats what. Slide the belt over the mower pulleys. OK. Now to get the belt over those pulleys on the mule drive. So I push. Nope. Try again. HHmm. Don’t think this is going to work. Starting to question buying this. Maybe if I take the mule drive off. Ok. How do I take it off. This moves so I’ll push this. Nope. Try again. Nope. Pull out cell phone and google “remove WH mule drive”. Brings me back to this forum. Push rod in and pull lever forward? What lever? Hmmm. Must be this thing. Mule drive falls off missing my foot. Ok. Now maybe I can push the belt over the pulleys from the bottom. Nope. Try again. Nope. Maybe I can roll it in from the side. Seems to be working, but nope. Maybe if I use a screwdriver to push it. Nah, don’t want to damage the belt. Why did I buy this thing? Back to this forum. I have to take it apart!?! Ok. Grab my largest sized wrenches. Crap. Not big enough. Where’s my adjustable wrench hidden on my work bench? Found it. Whoa! That nut is tight! Grab a hammer. OK, there is goes, not so bad. Slide belt over pulleys and put mule back together. Wait. Belt slipped off! Do this 2 – 3 times and belt continues sliding off. Rethinking my purchase, hard. OK. Lets take to whole belt off and get up on my bench. Ok. Much better. Wait. Something doesn’t look right. Shouldn’t that adjustment screw go through that threaded thing? Yep. Pry bar and good to go. Now let’s get it all back together. One thing. If I ever get a tiller or other belt driven attachment, I’m buying another belt cause I ain’t fighting this everytime! Reattach mule drive. Why won’t the mule driver stay on? Hhmm. Guess I need to push that lever again. OK, back on. Install belt over PTO drive. That wasn’t bad. Let’s fire this thing up, get out in the yard and try it out. It’s dark but I don’t care at this point. Pull into drive way, engage PTO. Nothing. What the crap!?! Turn everything off and look at mower deck. Belt slipped off 2 outside pulleys. Alright, let’s see if I can pull it back on. Works on one side but other side is too tight to pull it. Once again, strongly questioning my purchase. Back to the garage. Maybe I can pry it back on. Not sure how to do this. Maybe if I drop the mower deck. Not sure how to do that either. Maybe give up and try tomorrow night. Nah. Walk back and forth a bunch. Wait. What if I turn the adjustment knob on the mule drive? Well dang, that did it. Belt now good to go. Back outside. It’s dark but I don’t care. Engage PTO and hear the mower blades whir under me. YAY! Didn’t think about the tractor lights, just dropped the deck and mowed a little in the front yard. So glad I bought this tractor!! Can’t wait to get it in the garden.

Cleaned up a couple today. Also working on the rj58 crazy horse project that is now fully stripped down for sanding and paint.

Some 1045 porn all cleaned up and starting the process to bring it back to original while keeping the original patina intact.

Replaced belt on my side discharge deck and reinstalled. While I was at it I cleaned the wheels up a little bit and put the hub caps back on. My rear discharge deck really puts some grass on the leaft rear tire.. This winter I think i'm going freshen both my decks up by welding some baffles back on the RD deck and patch the holes on SD deck.

Good find. At least you kept it in Michigan, away from them out of state horse russlers!

Here's mine

Hey guys, just wanted to say hello. I finally picked up a 520H after wanting one since I was a kid. Its the 1996 Anniversary model too which is the one I wanted. I quickly grabbed 2 carts, plow, and single stage blower as well. I look forward to being part of this forum and already came across a bunch of really helpful topics here. Posting some pics below

It must’ve been on Marketplace? I don’t have FB We built our own version from an 857, and I’ve been thinking of doing it again with a 16 hp instead of an 8

Trying to decide who exactly is " Man's Best Friend " My sweet running Wheel Horse 875 or my dog Jeffrey..... tough decision but I have to go with Jeffrey. Don't let my horses hear me say that. Shhhhhhh. What Wheel Horses are your Best Friends ?

So here is the deal with the Lucas Red Grease... When you are changing the seal or the needle bearing on the PTO bell....be sure to use Lucas on the bearing after it is installed, or if not replacing it.....clean it out completely with carb cleaner, or brake cleaner. Be sure to clean it thouroughly...then use just enough Lucas to lubricate it , press it in with your fingers...and work it in slowly and do not over lube that bearing as the grease can sling / seep out...then trash the clutch disc. That bearing sees alot of heat and use, the Lucas Red extreme pressure / heat grease is the perfect application. Use it on Mule drive bearings ,,, It is a must for mower deck spindle bearings. The motto is.,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Oil it...Dont spoil it.. Pete likes to say keep it greasy JOHN

No she was just saying hello. Gracie is best friends with Ms. Turkey, and the chickens love her... they all run to meet her in the morning. Gracie will protect them and the rest of the family with the last beat of her heart. Don

@ri702bill , bill , was going to go into the full saving mode , but it would be just too much , after what he had been going thru . know you can relate to that . go grease , pete

Savor the small victories ... a good day is a day with some "seat time" - clean the clippings off under the deck when done - helps prevent rot-out caused by wet grass ....

Absolutely. Clean it up, do the maintenance and run it.

That's how I handle people too.

Painted the deck when I got home from work.

@TonyToro Jr. and I worked on the B-80 for a few hours today. This pulling tractor is getting really close to completion. Tomorrow will be adding the aluminum rims with new tires, add a weight bar and get a final tune on it.

Everything is back in working order on the C-175 Auto. Thank you John (Johnnymag3) for the PTO Bell. Thanks Dan (dkg520) for the tiller. I tilled up my compost pile this evening after supper. (got into some acrobat ants though YUCK!) Thanks again for all the help RSC! Bill

I'm gonna need a biggah bahn.

They whistle if they know the tune. If they don't know the tune, they don't whistle.

Hi. Looks like you are missing a bolt (one of four) holding on the bull gear to the differential housing. If it is floating around in your trans, that could be what broke off all of your teeth on the pinions in the differential. Contact one of our vendors like Lincoln at A-Z Tractors. Look in vendor section on main page. Take some good pictures of all of your gears in there and show us. We can see if anything else is bad. If you need to replace any bearings, our vendor Lowell at WheelHorse Parts & More has them and seals and side gaskets. Use 90wt gear oil (approx 2qts) to fill trans. Your transmission is a 5010 Wheel Horse with some obvious modifications. You also have the new differential (separate bull gear bolted to differential housing). In the picture below...notice the pinions are up and then down and then up and then down,,,it is important to have them the way they are now so the bolt (holding the bull gear) does not interfere with the teeth of the pinion gears. The top pinion in picture is missing the teeth on the right end...just so you know. In other words, it those pinions were flopped, you would not be able to get that bolt in...teeth would be in the way. Obviously, we want to see what those axles are all about and what they used for the axle gear (the gear on the end of your axles that turns the differential pinions. One other thing...I think your pinions have 11 teeth (the 5010 trans). The two piece 5025 Wheel Horse transmission differential pinions have 12 teeth. The 12 tooth pinions will work in your trans, but you need all 4. You can't mix them, need 4 of the same. Good to know, if Lincoln does not have any 11 tooth pinions.

I've had tractors delivered to us from Massachusetts New Hampshire and New York so you mid westerners still be safe for a bit.

Yes it came with the square seat.

No solenoid and should have had the square seat pan I think

You may be able to glue a piece of 1/8" rubber instead of the buttons and still get the seat to latch. Or a couple of these from ACE hardware.

I seen that on FB but at the moment didn’t have the funds to pick it up. That would have finished the trifecta as I already have a 1055 and 1075 . Glad to see it found a good home and shortly I’m hoping my collection will find some new owners too . I keep saying it , I just really need some help digging everything things out for sorting and pictures .

Plenty of chicken poop in my yard, can make tires look white in spots

Taking it apart.....and a big crack....

For me it would be Reese the rj because it was my great grandpa Reese’s and it’s the only thing of his we still have

AND the proper green grease ...

@Pullstart looks like an aerosol lubricant opportunity is staring right at you, very simple , would suck right into that faded paint , stop rust , beading moisture , go grease , pete

Word to the wise. If you check Facebook marketplace be sure to check the ads out good. Had I not clicked on this ad I’d a never known. 1045 was not in the title or description. One side pic revealed the 1045 decal. Luckily for me the guy selling it was doing for the owner who was away and knew nothing about Wheel Horses. I got lucky AF.

With any electrical problem the first thing you should do clean and tighten ALL electrical connections including grounds. A corroded connection can and will cause a voltage drop across the connection. How long has this low voltage reading been going on? What changes or repair attempts have been made since you noticed the problem? If you will give us the model and year of your that would be helpful. You say it will blow a fuse after a while and then won't start, If the fuse is replaced will the engine start then? Don't run out and buy a regulator or any other part until we can track down the actual problem and correct it.

To true. I've had a couple of exciting moments with bulls. While we were herding him to where he should have been, I made sure I had an escape route just in case.

Good thing that she did not have a bad encounter with the bull. Some may say that their bull is friendly. I say "A friendly bull is the most dangerous". Why? Because you tend to let your guard down around a friendly bull. That's when he will take his chance at you.

The P-up was a little too slow for show riding and driving to my tree stand. So I replaced the 6" tranny pulley with a 3". She's 2-3 times faster now.

It’s been a while since Stormy the 1056 ran! A charger on the battery and some fresh gas and he fired right up! Little Max’ and I tossed a 36” RD on and touched up some deer trails. She was a great help!

Decals got put on a yesterday but now just finished had it sit in the sun with its fresh Pearl and until I saw it was starting to rain

2022. I'm not building the pole barn.

I'm struggling with how to respond to this, because I have 2 dogs, and 4 wheel horses. One could make the argument of quality over quantity, but that would imply that wheel horses aren't quality which we all know is incorrect. Also if it was feasible I would have more dogs in a heartbeat, but two are more than enough for now. I'll just go ahead and say both dogs and wheel horses are awesome, there's nothing wrong with having multiple best friends, it's an embarrassment of riches!

Yep, she grew up with Ms. Turkey, we got Gracie and the turkey at the same time. The turkeys and chickens know that Gracie will protect them. She is certainly a farm dog, and I love her more than any old tractor. She loves fish too! Don

Yes bulls are no joke friendly or not . Had one bull I bottle fed and raised . We would play around when I was feeding him by pushing against his head and he would push back . Well one day my uncle had to do my chores and had to fill up his water . This barn had no running water so you had to dip 5gal buckets out of the 500gal tank haul it 30 yards to his pen and dump it in his tank. If you didn’t want to get soaked you lifted the bucket over the gate and reach through the bars and pour from a lower height . Well he pinned my uncle’s elbow against the bar and broke his arm. Had another bull named Bell that was just plan old mean . Always had to know where he was while I was in the pen with the milking cows. One day my uncle came just in time as Bell had the hired hand pinned down ready for the the death blow . He whistled really load distraction the bull and giving enough time for him to role out and get out of there . Bell ended up with a ring in his nose and a chain hanging from it . Had one time when Bell’s brother tried jumping the gate ( thankfully getting stuck ) trying to get at me while I was feeding the calf’s . My last adventure happened on a 4th of July . I get home from the parade and see a dozen or more cows outback in the field . I thought no big deal I’ll just get them to follow me to the farm and put them in the big pen until I figure out who’s they were . I made halfway to them when all of sudden one was running full boar right for me. Lucky I was still in shape and fast enough to reach the safety of my old truck . He was pissed with snot pouring from his nose and giving a bellow sound with every breath . He chased me over to my dads where he was showing his dominance by picking up the back of my dads Suburban . My uncle’s joined along with a couple other farmers trying to get him a his herein to to the pen on the farm . He was having no part of anyone getting close to his girls . This went on for the whole day just to keep the herd in the field and the other neighbor safe. We finally figured out who they belonged to and they just followed him back like it was no big deal . Just another adventure I’d never change growing up on a dairy farm . Never ever trust a bull no matter how friendly he seems . I found this article on how you should never trust a bull . I may add I’ve also had some run in with some angry cows when separating from their calf’s too . https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2020/09/23/not-everyone-lives-tell-encounter-bull/3492958001/

What most people don't know is that my L-157 is actually painted to match Gracie's colors... Don't mind the... "cold turkey' Don

Jeff are you in need of a big base pan with the threaded holes in the bottom? I have a couple laying around

Nice find Rob!

Roger that. Task complete and I am happy to report that after swapping the cable (major pain in the butt) and fiddling with the other adjustments I now have 3 1/2" of upward travel on the clevis hitch (up from 1 3/4"). Oh and Pete I sprayed Red Tacky Grease on everthing... including my shirt. (gotta watch which way the can is aimed). Thanks everyone for you advice. Bill

Nice score!!! I have a couple of the blue XL's plus one red one. The manual oiler is a bit to get used to. Not sure if I use it just enough or too much but I'm always out of chain oil when the gas tank runs empty.