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Mowed with this one yesterday, was going to sell it last fall but after mowing yesterday I think I’ve fallen in love with it again 🙄 Thinning the herd is so difficult

The end is in sight!!! Zach has worked tirelessly on his tractor in between our travels, school assignments, and life distractions—he has begun to see the reward for his labor! Last Saturday we collected the heart of the beast from “Davy Jones’ Locker” (a little pirate 🏴‍☠️ humor😉) and set it back into the frame. Zach worked with his Christmas tools resembling the beautiful sheet metal. Look at the shine in that side panel. It had to be redone a couple of times because of runs but the finished result is sweet! At this point, we have a little electrical to hook up and new decals from @Vinylguy and I think Blackbeard is ready to set sail again! This kid is as happy as a clam and so am I! It really was a privilege to spend so much time with him in the shop seeing this project come to fruition! This is a fun addition—our tractor never has had the original center cap since we have owned it. While we were in Savannah Georgia a couple of years ago for our missions travels, we were in a souvenir store and they had these reproduction “pieces of eight”—pirates booty! Perfect center piece for Blackbeard! I found a PVC pipe cap at the local box store, Zach painted it Semi gloss black, and we used RTV black to seal it to the wheel and secure the piece of eight! Arrrrrrrrrr me maties

Doubles!!!

But what would the lawn look like with that much liquid refreshment available. After all you would certainly want to empty it by the time the lawn was finished. Waste not, want not

Never need to take your hands off the wheel!

Mama’s big RED back in his summer wardrobe☀️😎

420 looks lonely out back over the Brook. Hopefully that will change on September 9th & 10th.

Started working on finishing my dump cart trailer, only thing I was missing was a tailgate! So tossing one together so can haul around dirt and loose items without the worry of having them fall out. Don't have any sheet steel left so got to go get some to cover the tailgate and iron out the latching mechanics but it's a good start.

From this : To this:

Cheers! from my C 105 to yours...!!!

So another 2 cy’s of screened topsoil to fill in beside the new driveway. 6 cy’s in so far. I had a low area almost all the way up the left side going towards the road. It would always be uneven when I cut the weeds.😆 After that I cut the weeds…

It's your tractor do what you want with it. Many other people have. All red becomes a bit too much, it's nice to break it up a bit. That's my feeling anyway.

Well,just smack my brain on the ground. SylvanLakeWH just made this place more classy. I had to look up what a Haiku was. So in a further attempt of a guy who butchers the English language for all it's worth, ...........my haiku poem Farmer writes Haiku Brain challenged on wheel Horse Forum His feet are Longfellows [size 14EEEE to be exact}

Looks good Newbie! After helping my son with his fence, got back to work on the shop. I know have 98% of a roof. After the rain’s finished tomorrow, I’ll finish the last panel and get the end trim and front cap on it. Weather gets me every time.

To paraphrase Clark Gable Frankly I don't give a d**n about what color it is... so long as it works...

I got me a couple of these magnetic ones, stick anywhere on tractor. One arm gets tired doing all the drinking? Switch it to the other side, make the other arm do all the work. Works good for me. But I have commitment issues so I like not having to mount it permanently

So is the noise still there when you run it with the belt guard on?

Not sure those paws are readily available on the open market.

1973 B-80 AkA "FlowahPowah"

Well. So here's the thing. 😁 IMHO the Wheelhorse tractor is a Pinnacle machine. Absolute Apex. But.... It's too much red for me. My Honey/BBT/The Paint Department/Trina and I have done 4 full frame off restorations now. None are stock colors. Two are a slightly brighter red with the standard off-white as a trim and engine color. One is my Cinnamon Horse. The last is her Military Tribute Tractor, Millie. Pics of mine: This a before n after of her first restoration. 657 named Pony. Here's the Military Tribute as it was built 2 years ago. We're just finishing up it's 2nd full restoration this weekend. Engine, transmission and several other things being swapped out or refreshed.

You could think like Red & Green and duct tape a styrofoam cooler to the hood. After a 6 pack or two you won't care what the yard looks like. Remember at a few too many my neighbor found out that Wheel Horses can climb trees. He only had one tree in the yard.

I have replaced the the plastic pivot bearing with a brass bushing where the tensioner arm pivots.Not a hard job just drill out and insert a flanged brass bushing, I bought from McMaster Carr

Ouch boy's..... I know your just razzing me.... but (a) I'm not a thief. (b) home projects are after hours. Materials used.... you buy from the shop. So, we will leave it at that.... I don't know about you guy's but I'm also "cheap" when it comes to buying parts, but I also would pay good money for new parts with quality. Used shafts are ok provided you are not buying someone else's problems like egged out keyways or the shaft seal area wore out. (Still working on the pics)

Mike, I went from about 35 down to 14. As of last week back up to 15🤷. I get thinning the heard as being hard to do.

Now that is not something you hear everyday... come to think of it... never heard that said before...

Paint some teeth on that thing

Done with wheels!! Painted the inside of the rears and inside and outside of the fronts.

That is a wooden ornament I made based off the wheelhorse logo.

Your tractor, your choice!

Could you please repeat that?

It changes tone some but yes. Belt guard there or not. With the right exhaust system modifications you will never hear that noise again.

Agreeing with comments that the “elbow” joint in the tensioner is gonna rattle. The area I had to fix on one machine was the cross-shaft that holds the tensioner pulley arm. It had wallowed in the frame AND worn the shaft (more on the right but also on the left). The resulting slight misalignment of the tensioner pulley then just made things worse. The frame got bushing-ed (?) but I had to get a good used unworn cross shaft. Finally realized that the small “bounce” of the belt against the spring from the normal variations in belt flex plus jouncing of the machine causes lots of friction in that small area. High frequency, varying pressure, and small displacement--a real challenge for bearing surfaces.

Had a little fun removing an inner input shaft brg. on a 5025 trans. Brg. was SHOON_GOTS!

One of these would make me get off the tractor too often.

Shiver 'me timbers mate! What a terrific job 'me hearties!! Zach has the makin's of a true seadog and swashbuckler. And with that "pieces of eight" he's about ready to batten down the hatches, hoist the Jolly Roger, and get to work....and that's the scuttlebut!! Yo Ho Ho...a Pirates life 'fer me!

How about one of those insulated rubber can holders and glue a magnet to the bottom.

I'm talking about where the 2 pieces of the arm pivot. 1 piece has a pin and fits into the hole on the other where that cotter pin is.

Little round hoods are definitely a bit more collectable and factory correct definitely makes them worth more. But it's a trade off if you have to find and buy many parts for them. Early RJs with ALL of the identifying things that make it such does add value. But unless it's all of them, it doesn't because parts get changed on them over the years. The RJ should get a K91 IMO and go towards being factory. There's enough there to be a nice collectable tractor even if there are some parts missing. You can test run that engine without a carb if it has spark by using a spray bottle of gas directly into it. Keeping it running past just a fire up, spin and shut down will give you a pretty quick idea if simply putting a new carb on it is the only thing it needs. The Suburban unfortunately got hacked. Seen worse get rehabbed back into a beautiful trailer queen restored tractor but that's a labor of love to do it and certainly not an investment monetary wise. They do make cool little rat rod tractors. Lots you can do with them from yard art to full blown custom. I've done a few. Here's a couple 2 seaters carts. One got painted after it was sold but I prefer the rusty rat rod look better.

No kidding Mike!!! I am in that process but I feel like the guy you see in the movies that is forced to cut off part of one of his own fingers…it’s easy to think of a lot of reasons why you want to keep each one!😅😁😉

Did a little of the transmission reinforcing. Still have to put the frame braces on.

Started disassembly of a Sherman Step Up auxiliary transmission for Tasha’s Ford, got a lot of parts to clean and inspect tomorrow, if everything checks out good then we will order all new bearings and seals to proceed with the rebuild Fully disassembled the main transmission as well, I cleaned the top of my box off yesterday, sure didn’t take long to fill it up with another pile of parts

i have parts tractors for the parts tractors!

Those are true "Words of Wisdom" there.... About 8 years ago, I missed out on a sweet, mostly original 603 because I diagnosed the transmission problem and the seller backed out on the spot. The shifter had broken off at the pivot pin and the owner was what could best be described as "mechanically declined". He was terrified of the thought of splitting the Unidrive. He already had a used shifter ready to go in...... Is it worth buying - probably. If you have sufficient inside storage for it AND you feel it is worth the sum of the visible parts, do it, but do check the trans fluid for water inside and see if it rolls and that the engine can be turned by hand,,,,, tractors get parked for many reasons. Bill

If your tractor you have is performing well and you have a smaller suburban yard, then maybe not. But if you found a good running tractor with bad sheet metal, or especially one of those horrid plastic seat pans, that tractor looks to have straight sheet metal. It looks like the drive clutch for the mower is missing. that sheet metal looks pretty straight and the paint looks like it would respond to the oil patina finish method. If he is asking 200 he probably will take 150.00. You could create empathy from the buyer by stating that you need a second operating mower and the missing parts like the drive clutch are not cheap to come by. for example, one of my workers smoked a bearing on the mower drive clutch and I had a non runner with a good unit. Ten minutes later I was back in business.Yours does not have the drive clutch, so he might take off fifty bucks. In any case, the value of the tractor needs to at least cover you breaking it down and parting out. I have no idea how the market is heading. Just buying groceries and paying the important must haves is where the inflation seems to be the worst. So there is a much higher percentage of paycheck to paycheck people who are not buying projects. I look at things like this against how much money is spent on lifestyle stuff like eating at restaurants vs cooking steaks on the grill. Grill works every time and hamburger usually wins over steak. Even the grill was free as my fancy sister wanted a stainless one and the old painted Weber just keeps choochin'