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What do you get when you cross a Horse with a Moose??? A pretty good snow plow set up that's what. A friend of mine wanted a wider plow for his C195. To accomplish this on a budget he did a very good job of fitting a Moose ATV plow on to a plow frame. I was very impressed & thought that some of you might like to see the results. He had to add a little metal to the mount for the frame and the swing mount for the plow. The radius of the Moose plow mount did not match well with the frame so he had to add some metal to get the lock pin to work when angled. The plow swings as it should without leaving the comfort of the seat. A very nice addition to his "unstoppable" tractor.

Tomorrows auction full of Panzers and an AC.

I've been rearranging/ thinning out the horrible mess in the garage. When we moved here, we came from a house with both a full floored attic and a basement to a larger place with niether. Half of the garage and my utility building have become dry storage ever since. Every couple months I take a few boxes and go though them, in the hopes that I'll be done before I croak. Last night, buried in the bottom of one box was my old Simpson meter. It's dusty but still works. Some might think this is old junk, but these things are the only way to go! Made all the day's begrudging work worth it! Just another example of "I forgot I had that!"

My twins er Tripplets

That there is good Fathering...!

The 314 hydro with tall chute snowblower is at the garage door ready to go.

How about a whole line of sides for side show Saturday?

The 1973 's we call the "No Names", in 1974 the "C" series began, i.e. C-120, C-160. 1972 & before had "Names" i.e. Bronco, Commando, Electro, ect. Pic's of my "No Name" 12 Auto, ( has the wrong older sticker on the hood ) !976 C-160 Auto

You're lucky. I took my wife to the big show the first time. She left me and went to Hershey. Thank goodness for the ladies serving food at the show!

Fantastic job Kevin!

Good simple criteria. Need to be able to operate safely for themselves and everyone around them. My granddaughter (having now reached the pedals!) has started using her dad’s tractor under careful supervision with simpler tasks--pulling the leave sweeper and the garden cart. She’ll move up to mowing next year. I think my son has too much fun snowplowing to give that up!

They are cool little machines, I found a fairly good condition one a few years ago when a consignment shop near me was going out of business. Was able to grab the whole thing for around $150.00 at the time. It's been taken apart a little, but mostly it's still together, and I believe I have everything. Once I finish my C-175, and my 655, I'll probably then work on the Panzer unless I get another WH first, then last will be the nightmare that is the Cub Cadet model 70 that I tore apart well over 15 years ago when I was around 20 and have no idea how to put back together, if I even have all the parts as I've moved twice since.

I have a manual lift with my two stage snowblower. The blower is a 44" ber-vac that came with two lift springs that attach to the front tach. I adjust the tension with small turnbuckles. The mid tach is attched to the blower frame with an adjustable rod that can also reduce the lift height and weight. Between the tractor lift adjustment and the blower adjustments, I have no problem lifting the snow blower up and down during the course of a driveway cleaning. say around 10 passes and lifts. (FYI Im 39 and never been to a gym in my life). However, I do have two small boys and once their feet can reach the pedals I expect them to take over snow removal duties. At that point, I will be shopping for a dedicated wheelhorse with hydraulic or electric lift for snow removal duties. A cab would be nice too, but i dont want to spoil them, So hopefully they just understand a little snow being blown back and freezing your face builds character or i can introduce them to a shovel too. Point being i dont think they will have the strength at that age to lift the blower without stopping and using two hands. -Frank

Here is our rig. Haven't used it much this year, but we are ready.

Two receiver hitches is better then one. The top one is braced to the top of the transmission. The bottom one hooks on to the top one and is held in place by the WH hitch pin it's easily remove.

I was able to make 4 with material that was milled. They are already reduced in width to their final size and preliminarily dressed. Final dressing and possibly some decorations still to do. Laminations came out nicely with tight , gap less invisible glue lines.

Getting back to the original question, the two stage blower is WAY too heavy to continually lift manually. I have a two-stage on a 417-8 with ELECTRIC LIFT, and it handles it because I have TWO LIFT ASSIST SPRINGS, one on the back of the lift rod and another in the front below the hood. The 2-stage is a bear to get off and on, so I leave it on the 417 as a dedicated snow blower. I'll be selling the whole unit in the spring because we're moving to a retirement community where the community handles all of the snow removal. But if I sell it too soon, I know I'll be causing a blizzard in February. Jim

I can do that. Slow going down here, been raining and cold this week. My bones don't like this kind of weather. Plus not real good for painting. Was able to paint the motor this weekend. Waiting to finish getting the minor dings and dents out of the Hood, Fender and Belt Guard. Trying to decide if I really want them out, or keep them in. As I mentioned, Dad had this when I was much younger, went through 8 Grand Kids, 11 Great Grand Kids, most of the dents and dings belong to one of them! I think I will get go ahead and fix them all. That will stop the kids from bragging on which dent was their's!

In the 70's thru the 90's and maybe longer the home window world pretty much revolved around Andersen windows. Sure, they are good but the marketing was excellent. The Narroline series was the big seller. That's what we have in this house built in 97. Considering their age they are still in pretty darn good shape. No leaking panes and they still are airtight. But the years show and the boss lady wants new windows. I'm a big advocate of vinyl windows. We've had them and when we built a new house in 88 we installed new construction vinyl windows Being in the height of the Andersen window period many folks thought we were nuts. We never regretted it. OK, back to today. I'm not really wanting a company to come in and install vinyl replacement windows. Many reasons but that's just the case. Anderson makes a Narroline window conversion kit. I'm liking what I see........a lot. It's a simple install with absolutely no disruption of the trim inside or out. I've already priced them and I like that too. After doing all the measuring and triple checking I got that yesterday. I told the guy I would quadruple check his work as well as mine and come back in on Friday. I'm done checking. By some chance does anyone have experience with these? Whew! Long winded for a simple little question.

Not as many but what the heck.

@WHGuy413Okay well ask and you shall receive!!

This is my 1973 “12 Automatic” it has the wrong decals but I won’t change them since that’s what my dad put on it when he restored it. Like blasterdad said above the 73’s were between the name models and the C models. 73’s are considered the no name tractors.

I Think he said that it is a 72", he says the tractor has no problem pushing big piles around.

There's something "trustworthy" about seeing that needle move

Yes someone does! Our rear room on our home was designed by the architect son in law of the previous owner, Andersen Windows were the install on 1992. We moved in in 2002 - twenty years ago. So our old house had many windows and two furnaces. I had experience with window conversion kits from Marvin Windows that converted old windows with iron ballasts and single panes to double pain with plastic sides that allowed the sashes to be opened inside to clean on top and bottom. These were great and at the time about $200 per window. I think I changed eight windows. I went to the local Andersen Window distributor in our area and ordered my first two window kits about 2006. The old dual glass sash was not leaking but is was dated. I decided after reviewing all the options to buy love E glass with radon gas in the insulating unit. I bought four window kits as that had the oldest units. The rest are motorized skylights and ash no longer made by Andersen. I am very pleased with them and easy to install yourself. I was able to match the wood stain used on our originals and trim with no problems. No trim had to be removed or changed. I attached some pics with a view of the white plastic channels used on the frame to allow tracks for the new sash. We do have vinyl windows in the older portions of our house that were put in by previous owners probably in late 1980s or early 1990s. Several have leaking insulating units (double glass) .

Let's not be making any rash decisions here Jim. Timing on this sale must be done with great precision and accuracy.

When we moved to NC from Florida my wife packed her collectables, treasures and other things she couldn't live without in a couple dozen large plastic totes. That was seventeen years ago and they are still stacked in my shop where we unloaded them. I hope she will get around to sorting through them some day but I'm not holding my breath.

And half of the rest have the belt routed incorrectly!

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That Copar Panzer would be very welcome at my house.

I got it running.

I have a Wheel Horse 12 Automatic? That is what the sticker reads on it. {although it has been converted to a manual transmission unit}. My question - so this unit is known only as a 12 Automatic correct? If my research is correct - was made in 1973? Serial number is 937262 - does this make any difference? Were there changes through production where one sequence of serial number was built one way than after a certain period of time there was a change? It does have a 12hp Kohler. Whe did some tractors get names, come got numbers than there is the lowly 12 Automatic? I am a relative newbie in the Wheel Horse game so trying to learn what I can about his model. Thanks in advance and Cheers - Barry

Inside of arches needs to be shaped to a somewhat oval shape across their width in order to make it comfortable and not dig into animals’ neck and shoulder. I use a spokeshave and scrapers for that. All edges also get rounded at this point.

Excellent!!! The 72" will be no issue. My 60"+ blade ala @wallfish has been a great addition to our snow moving arsenal.

That looks like it will do the job! Nice work! So is it a 60 or 72” plow blade? Thinking the C195 would handle a 72” possibly?

Did she bring you back some chocolate?

Guess it's been a while since I had this baby out!

Suspect your model number is 1-0350 or 1-0350-8. Here is what we have on it https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?&q=1-0350&type=downloads_file&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy

More power to you with those VW's. We had a 2000 Jetta VR6. Fast fun car for the wife. By far though the worst car we ever owned. It spent more time in the garage than any other vehicle we owned. It was constantly having check engine light on, or EPC light issues. Local garages wouldn't touch it. Slave to the dealership with stupid expensive parts. Drove really nice, looked good, but never again with a VW product

What hp is your Honda twin. Looks like it belongs in there. I bet it is a beast

It is decent, far better than today's offerings for sure. Heck even the battery still has a little life left (enough to deflect the needle in a resistance reading), and it's been in there for almost 20 years. I'm still tickled I found it.

Original issue is a stationary use generator. No safety issue with seat. What about a simple switch at the front of the tractor, wired to jump the seat switch, that operator of generator switches on / off while using generator. Keeps integrity of seat safety switch when tractor is mobile, but provides sensible over-ride for stationary generator use.

You made me go look. Now I'm embarrassed. It's a Tripplet corp knock off. I've had it since the days of GTE and never paid attention. Dangit!

Some tractors ( Wheel Horses ) will cause erratic readings on a DMM with the engine running. Probably half of the tractors I've worked on have needed an analog meter to get a stable reading on the charging circuit

These are the two I currently have setup. Haven’t got to use them much but a decent chance tomorrow here in eastern Indiana for some accumulation

First picture is last years line up. The 753 only saw one storm of action while then big 2 stage never came out. this year the 2 stage is on my Bronco 14 and the boys have each put snow plows on their 604 and 856. They plowed one small storm if an inch or so. I won’t complain if that’s all we get.