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Woohoo!! Big haul today! I didn't do a "rearview mirror" picture - it would have been hard to see much of it. Some of this stuff will end up in the Classifieds. Mainly the smaller stuff. But I will need to part with some of the larger things also. There's a 17hp Kohler in front of the snow blower also. PO (RIP)'s son thinks his Dad rebuilt it, but it is still partly disassembled. We'll see... will take me at least a few weeks to sort this out. Lots of parts in sealed bags and boxes. Partial tractors are 520-H and 417-H. @padg53 - thank you! @ebinmaine - I'll be working on the list soon but not today. Need to unload, return the trailer, clean up a lot of downed branches from the storm Friday night, and mow some grass & weed whack. Oh, and do some cooking...

Checking valve settings on an M16 today. I didn't have a set of valve cover gaskets so I tried my hand at making some. The material is the center section of an old NOS manual transmission case half gasket. "Use what ya have" Thanks to @Oldskool for the hole punch set I'll use to finish up.

Or maybe this C-105 just hopped in the back my truck! Well actually a family member needed something to cut his lawn AND HE THOUGHT I was just going to give him one my Wheel Horses. Now anyone who has ever delt with me knows I am not a selfish person BUT I AIN"T JUST GIVING UP ONE OF MY WHEEL HORSE'S so he can cut his lawn. Ok since it was family I did look around and found a nice C-105 locally and even paid for more than half of the price to get him on the seat. Now once it was at home yes, I did some repairs. The ball joints and axle hubs were loose, so they got tightened up. Some small dings in the hood and rear fenders got some attention too. The battery seemed good, and voltage was checked and found to be 14 volts at the battery. The 42-inch mower deck was pristine and cuts very well, no rust holes in this deck! The C-105 also came with a new seat, a very comfortable too. The C-105 came with the auxiliary hitch in the back plus has working head lights. After all the service work was done a pressure wash to clean out all the dirt and debris was done. Now here's a situation most of us don't run into every day .......... this relative has never operated a Wheel Horse or any other type of garden tractor or lawn mower before. Well Wheel Horse class was in session today. I had to teach him how to service, operate and how to use the C-105 and he was no eager to drive 15-year-old as he is just past the 40-year mark. I started at ground zero and worked my way up showing him how to use a choke, PTO, lift lever, deck adjustment, the Hi/Low eight speed and even which direction to cut the lawn (the 42-inch deck is a side discharge) and a lot of safety talk too. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

We got hit by a tornado on Thursday here in Grand Rapids, MI. I had a lot of cleanup to do a tree and lots of limbs no major damage.. got the b60 out to tow firewood and pull some logs around. here are some pics of Friday.. today I went to fix the choke cable and found the grommet all dry-rotted on the bottom of the tank and the cable was not fixable. what a Bummer waiting on parts now!

I feel good about this buy, but at the same time I'm a bit sad. The guy said his Dad was really diving in to rebuilding these, and it's obvious from all the new parts he had been buying (what's in all those boxes). Poor guy died before he got a chance to finish. But the son said his Dad had asked him to try to make sure the stuff went to someone who would either make good use of it or see that it went to "good homes". When we shook hands to say goodbye, he thanked me and said now he felt like he had fulfilled that wish of his Dad's.

So some of you may have seen the bike in another post but the finishing touch arrived today. It's finished. @Vinylguymade me a custom head badge for it. Wheel Horse Logo but swapped out the tractor tire for a bicycle tire. Looks fantastic ! While building it i kept the Wheel Horse paint scheme, I even went for a black and white seat just like the Wheel Horses from the 60s. That is the same period of the bike. I'm happy with how it came out. Other bike is a 1940 Western Flyer.

Randy test riding Don’s new bike

@Mickwhitt is correct. They were used on army horses that moved gunpowder to make ordinance. They prevented the inevitable sparks on the cobble stone roads.

today was a hitch, carb cleaning, and discovering the fuel tank grommet was rotted and leaking. not pictured is the frozen choke cable lol

This is one of two hikes we did this past week. A fair amount of the line above is "bushwacking". NO trail. Just experienced woods folk looking for a road from a different angle using a combination of a GPS hiking app and a paper page. This pic shows the above Ragged Lake from the halfway point up nearby Spencer mountain. Reference for how much woods is really there. The beginning of the hike is just off the screen to lower left. We had several interesting animal interactions as well. Here's a VERY large female moose. How do we know she's a she? Well, part of the girth in this pic is her baby that standing just past her. No pics of the baby unfortunately. This next one is bit morbid to some but we thought it was interesting. This frog apparently was caught up in a puddle that evaporated too quickly? We saw this cormorant several times over the week. At rest. Taking off to flight. Note the second pic has its reflection mirrored on the water. IMHO an absolutely beautiful pic by The Local Photography Department BBT. A bunch more in no particular order.

been regularly , towing my spikers on the lawn , due to very frequent rain , lawn is much better , greener , grass comes back quicker , lawn is softer , just about zero sun burn , to the lawn , makes for more seat time . regularly rotate my 3 horses . rather be green than brown and crusty . pete

Wheelhorse used 8 speed manual transmissions in various forms from 1970 to the end of production. The tractor you've been Lucky enough to trip over is similar to a C160 but for options like headlamp, seat, and steering wheel. Double check your own axle diameter. Should be 1-1/8". To remove and replace the axle seals is an outside job. BUT.... The seal may be bad because the bearing is loosening. THAT necessitates splitting the case. The hubs will need obviously need to be removed as well. DO NOT use a 3 jaw puller!! There are quite a few threads on removing the hubs using homebuilt pullers. Also about the actual work I side the transmission. @stevasaurus has done some great videos on the subject. I have a video on how to split the case. It's an easy enough and very interesting job given the right tools.

Porsche made tractors too! This one is in a museum on Long Island, New York.

Many might be surprised to learn that Lamborghini built tractors.

This year it has been 60 years since they built the last of these. They had about 25 on display at the Tri-Power nationals at the Norwalk race track this year. Three of the so called swiss cheese 63's. One of the 62's. A 63. The first of the 63 Tempest with the 421 dual quad super duty engine. The mule car. I have seen a few of these over the years but never this many at one time. There was one ready to undergo restoration and another in original condition.

Had the B on driveway duty today. Still amazes me what a well used 10hp Kohler on a tractor like this can do. Several times I had the grader full of stone and it never cared. I did learn that I like a manual lift much much better for grading than a hydraulic lift. Especially a really good and easy working manual lift. Very happy with this little tractor

See, this is all just wrong... Mrs. Sylvan has always informed me, correctly, that:

So here in the home land I came across a collection of horse shoes in which there were several variations of this type . I have never seen one like it and was astonished at its function. Can anybody guess what it was for?

So you can put tire shine on them and look cool…

Let's just say "significantly less than a grand"

Brother Man!! Ya done good. Keep me posted on what's in the pile(s)

Last couple days I've been getting a little time on the M16 again. The carb from isavetractors was showing some wear at the top throttle shaft bore. Odd considering it has very few hours on it. I had a spare here with a good solid body so that's being cleaned up in the ultrasonic. I checked the valve clearance. Intake. .011 Exhaust. .018 Adjusted the intake down to .008 Made up a set of gaskets from an old transmission case half gasket. Headed back together soon.

Caz has already said noise and traction are not issues for this type of shoe. As regards pit ponies Norm, apparently we didn't use them over here till 1842 when they stopped us using kids and women to drag coal around. Things have gone downhill ever since lol. But yes they were shod, if it was a "Gassy" pit then bronze shoes or even leather boots with copper nails were fitted.

Axle seal 11050 SkF/ Napa 1/1/8" axle in the 103907 transmission

Really interesting to see the tractor show across the pond. Thanks for sharing! The John Deere model you were unsure of is a B John Deere I believe. I spent many long hours on our old B John Deere. Whenever the battery went dead we would just park it on a hill, let it roll and pop the hand clutch to get her fired up. Nothing like the "tut,tut,tut" of an old John Deere.

Very nice job. I would guess it's a Seneca,

I just chalked up two full weeks in hospital. Back surgery because of infection. If or once they get it cleared, it is on yo a rehab. I gotta get out of here. My relative mowed my lawn with a tractor that is GREEN. The horror

That's quite the engine!!

Exactly, check for radial movement in the bearing. There should be no up/down or left/right movement of the axle. Up to 1/8" axial (in/out) movement is OK. If the bearings are bad, new seals will not last.

The company which is known as Valtra today has it's origin in the Bolinder Munktell company if i'm not mistaken. Volvo was a part of that concern before it merged into Valtra/Valmet. My tractor being referred to as p*rn is a first for me Does.. that.. mean.. I created a p*rnstar ?? 100% that's a real nice one too. If you look closely there's a Porsche in my pictures aswell

Not weird at all when you consider that ethanol exists to benefit certain people, and the remainder counts for nothing.

More puttering......couldn't work on WH tractors outside so I'm working on tractors inside. A bit of up-cycling.

And a couple more photos!

You should have asked your Grandmother how to roll out dough, you know, from the center out. It ain't any more technical than that.

Installed the valve cover with my super amazing hand crafted gaskets. Finished up hand milling/planing the cylinder head. Wire brushed all the head bolts. They appear in good shape so they're reused this time. Dipped all head bolts in oil then installed. Torqued to 30 lbs ft all around the circle, twice. Installed the top cover after cleaning it up, as well.

That sure is a nice haul! Not asking what you payed for it but that pile of parts would probably bring close to a few grand this side of the big pond.

Correct Norm. Basically the tyre manufacturers wanted to find a bulking agent to make the expensive natural rubber go further. They looked for something cheap and plentiful and came up with soot, or carbon black. We just got used to tyres being black and anything different would look odd. OK you guys over there live your white walls, but they are just painted. Michelin came up with a method of colouring tyres properly but it never took off because we are used to black. One engineer came up with a tyre that had a green stripe down to 1.9mm, a yellow stripe down to 1.6mm and a red stripe under 1.6mm Brilliant idea, until someone pointed out the police would have a field day prosecuting duff tyres. Back to the drawing board.

Here's a video from @VinsRJ

I bought a new Homelite chainsaw 48 years ago, the manual said to use Stabil and I have used it ever since. The thing with mixing gas for chainsaws and blowers is that there is no way to determine how long it might be stored. You may have noticed that some brands of two cycle oil for chainsaws have stabilizer already in it.

Dumb idea I know, but for use on mine horses to stop sparks? The UK used pit ponies to haul coal underground in environments where sparks would lead to gas explosions. I've never seen a shoe like it but if it's not for muffling or improving traction it's my best guess. Must be an expensive item to make and fit when you think hosses are shod with the shoe hot.

Yeah I like that "claim". 😃. We don't even use it for that. Several of our small engines are task specific like the walk behind snowblower and lawn mower. They set for as much as 9 months straight and start every time. Even the tractors that don't get used for a year or so have no additives. Perhaps a bit of luck involved but we've had no issues yet.

$4.69 here week before last. Price in WV is about the same. Stopped using E Gas last year and problems all went away plus the machines seem to use much less, about 20 percent less. I had newer pressure washers that is compatible, One tank of e gas and the carb main jet will plug and will not start on the next use.

26 inch. I think it's either a Schwinn or Hiawatha. Both bikes are 26 inch.

That is cool!

I built an outdoor stand for the 220V compressor today. All scrap wood and a couple lbs of screws. Sets under one of the barn shed roofs.

But the best part of the whole trip was this: I’m riding up the highway in Massachusetts in the right lane with cruise set at 67. My Waze nav app tells me that there is a cop up ahead in .4 of a mile. I’m in a 65 zone and on cruise control so I don’t change anything. In my side mirror I see this older lowered civic coming up faaaast in the left lane. Just as he boogies by me (like I was standing still) he spots the cop in the median and quickly darts to the right in front of me and jumps on his brakes. I hit my brakes (disengaging cruise control) so as to not rear end this punk. We roll past the cop and he doesn’t move…I’m kinda miffed at first, but then I see in my side mirror that he finally pulled out onto the highway and now he’s coming fast. The punk in the civic is doing like 2 under the speed limit but the cops knew better, they passed me and pulled him over! I was loving it!

Seven years ago, during the rebuild of my RJ58 I had this CBR32 sickle cleaned up and ready for paint when I decided to trade it away. Today I got the sickle back, exactly as it was the day it left. Excited to get it painted and mounted back on this ‘58.

I found myself needing a puttering day. Nothing big but something to do while it's raining. I picked up a double bit ax head in a junk pile a few days ago. While cleaning it up it had Bangor Me.. stamped in it.. Turns out it is a Snow & Kneally head. Apparently around the turn of the century. I just happen to have a couple double bit handles kicking around. A little dry rubbed black paint on the head and wedge with the new handle and an edge I now have a nice handy new to me tool .