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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 you can put tire shine on them and look cool…

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?

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!

Couple of weeks ago while camping I lit what some call a Swedish Fire Log. In my case, it was a dried log probably 24 inches long and 10" diameter that I used chain saw and cut with the grain about 2/3's of the length of the log resulting in four sections. Then at the campground, we lit the intersection of the saw cuts and had a fire for two or three hours. My nephew took a video in slow motion but I'm not smart enough to upload it. We had a decent campfire to watch, it burned a long time and didn't consume as much wood as a regular fire. We even had some folks come over and ask what kind of fire we had going.

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.

Buy one of the crap ton and be done with it. I have used them with no issue.

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.

Thank you, just purchased this 68 Commando 6. Nice original Wheelhorse tires and Techumseh engine. Had to replace carb and battery and it runs fine.

does the closed end look like a circle? lol thanks for the input and video links below!!

There's a few videos "pinned" at the top of the Transmission Section. I've been into at least 10 or 12 transmissions. Several of us, many more. If you can tell the difference between the open and closed end of a wrench you'll be fine.

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.

Good to see you're ok. That carb is special to 16 HP and some 14. You'll need a rebuild kit. Easy to do. Check the top pivot at the throttle shaft for looseness. That can be repaired. IMHO you're FAR better off rebuilding the OE type than considering an aftermarket one. If you can wait a couple weeks to get it done, send it here. I rebuild them. It's great to see someone putting one of these old beasts to work like we do here.

Started using the non ethanol gas years ago when the jets in small outboard motor carbs would get plugged from the ethanol stuff. Use only non ethanol now in ALL my small motors with little issues. Don't care about the extra $1.00 per gallon....cheap insurance. Stabil added if they sit for a while. My mechanic says the quality of gas now means none of it lasts a long time.

I use it in my mower tractor 1989 414-8 , but the last mowing of the year she gets the good stuff. My snow tractor, 1979 c 101-8 gets the good stuff and the generator and the weedeater and the chainsaws. I have no gas troubles. Tractor gas troubles that is.

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 .

It's just unbelievable you guys have to make those runs for hi test when they have it at every station here.