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I saw a cleaning company throwing out everything at a abandoned house and new the owner mowed with a wheel horse tractor so I stopped to see if it was still there. They said yes and it was going to get scrapped along with another one. I offered 50 bucks for a running but in rough shape b100 auto and a toro wheel horse classic which doesn't look like it has run in a long time along with a snow blade and chains some times it payed to stop and ask

Nice save Moe !!! Think everyone here would hate to see those getting scraped. Be sure to to cruise by and wave when you see'm cutting the lawn with a brand new spank'n MTD

old Wheel Horse sales brochure. A very good summary of Wheel Horse official and allied attachments.

Happy Birthday Lola @Mrs. Redo we are all glad you were born!

There's lots of different tips and doodads to put on them for different tasks. Start with one of those little kits that have a few with it. Something like this

I found it @ebinmaine! This is a ‘67 Columbia tandem, I do believe. It was given to me by a man who worked for me about 10-12 years ago. After that, he got cancer and fought hard through the chemo but he didn’t last too long. Chris was an awesome human being and was very generous to give me this. We’ve had it camping from time to time. Once we had the tandem, a tag along, a 2 place kid wagon, and a handful of beach wagons tied behind it. I’d love to find pictures of that one!

Good idea. I plan to put a 2” receiver in the front of/under my workbench. I can then make a scroll saw insert, vise, bike clamp, etc. It will be a multi use bench.

Here are some pics of more examples of Wheel Horse attachments! Lots of options!

This one was for sale 39 years ago until I bought it from the dealer 😂 39 years to the month! Used it like crazy and restored it a few years ago.

I finished up cleaning and rebuilding the carburetor this evening. Took a fair amount of extra time on this one because it was painted black and covered with dirt so it had a bunch alternating dips and sprays in the ultrasonic cleaner and brake clean. Here's the before n after.

May want to place an add in the classified wanted section for better exposure . Good luck @Emt260 in your search.

Around twenty years ago I worked for an excavating company that was hiring to do some cleanup after a junkyard closed. We uncovered what was their tire pit. They would just push them over a bank and cover them with sand. We must have dug up thousands of tires, that were buried for thirty years or more with not much sign of decomposition. I think we filled three 48’ box trailers, two guys that bounced the tires around to get the sand out before loading them by hand and stacking in the trailer. (I did not do that part of the job!)

Hi. This is a cool brochure, thanks Lane! I color corrected the individual pages, sequenced them, and joined them into a pdf. WH Attachments & Accessories Brochure.pdf

How uncommon are the 1046 tractors I have one and the only thing I see about them is in all red considering sale it when I got it had a hi/lo and knew that wasn’t correct so put a 3 speed back in it

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How much of the plug is still sticking out. If you have at least 1/8", you should be able to get a pair of vice-grips on it. If not, clean the inside of the 1/4" Allen hole of all grease and dirt. Then get Torx bit that is slightly larger then a 1/4" Allen, probably T40, and drive it in. Then use your 3/8" drive to turn it out.

Although I bet I produced more green house gas than a ...

Long before Sylvia was doing it with tugs…

Been there done that!!! 20 years ago or so with my son and daughter...

You going to get into the tractor manufacturing business and put them all back together?

I just went through this with my tractor I heated up a little with a torch and then found a torques bit that was close tapped it in the rounded out Allen head hole and it came right out. Assuming this is the same type of plug you are having issues with I used the torques bit style that goes on a ratchet socket rench

thank you all! Ill grab one on my way home

I’ve been told there were approximately 250 units produced. It was a “special” WH made. 603 and 1045 being some others.

Here's a thread showing a good list. You'll be able to use some of the lighter attachments that don't get too aggressive with ground engagement.

Nice design. I like how the hydraulic cylinder is in the middle of the lift arms. I have wanted to move the cylinder to the middle on my gt14. I have seen the rear lift arms break off the pivot bar and I believe (my opinion) that it is because it lifts from one side. Seems like that would put torsional strain on the upper lift assembly. I am not an engineer but just my thoughts. Seems like it would work better with the forces that are present being applied evenly across the upper arms. I plan on doing it one day as I have an extra upper & lower bracket to experiment with. Your attention to detail is very nice.

Always great to save from scrap. Well done!

And do the same 2 years later - they will prpbably be using yet another tractor (sorry, grass cutter)....

Did a little painting today

I had a bit of a surprise and scare yesterday. Launched the boat as usual and began fishing immediately at the ramp, working my way out toward the main lake. So I was standing in the front of the boat running the trolling motor and casting the bank, oblivious to what was going on under the deck. After about an hour and a half if this I pulled up the trolling motor and went to the back of the boat to fire up the engine. When I put it in gear and started to accelerate all of a sudden my shoes got soaked with water. It seems that the boat was completely flooded from front to back and when i took off the water all sloshed to the back. It had been hiding under the floor boards so I was blissfully unaware I had been sinking. I turned the bilge pump on and I started scrambling, making sure I’d put the plug in. I had. I felt around in the bilge for the source of the leak but didn’t find it. So I headed back to the ramp quickly and beached the boat instead of using the dock while i retrieved the truck…I figured it was better to have it sink in 2’ of water than at the end of the dock in 15. Thankfully there was no lineup and I hit the trailer perfectly the first time and got pulled out. The boat was heavy on the trailer and tires were rubbing the fenders as I pulled up the hill. After draining what seemed like ten thousand gallons of water out of the boat I found the source of the leak: the barb fitting feeding the live wells from the live well pump had broken off thus leaving a 5/8” diameter hole just freely flowing water into the boat. I’m not sure the bilge pump would keep up with a leak that size. The boat is a 2003 and the pump was original. I guess the combined effects of plastic embrittlement and years of the hose weighing on the plastic barb took its toll. Picture shows the broken barb on the pump. I’ve heard of this happening before. And it also apparently happens on other plastic through-hull fittings as well. So it looks like I have a few hours of replacing fittings and hoses on my hands in the near future. The pump showed no signs of breaking before this happened. I think I’ll add an automatic bilge pump while I’m at it too… Usually I motor away from the ramp and fish my way back through the course of the day. I’m glad I was off-pattern today since it would have been problematic to have been several miles down the lake when this was discovered. I’ve never had this much water in a boat before. The top the transom almost went under when it all sloshed rearward as I accelerated. There is a lot of foam in the boat so I don’t think it would have sunk completely but it was still a puckering moment. Got lucky. Check those through hulls! Steve

I'll have to have a spec look on my 1055 1045 with the short pan. Both take some finesse on the key to get rolling and both have non ACR. Might have to call dibs you decide to sell Kenny. Lets yak about it.

Mike Wolfe from Pickers. Shoot the dude an email.

to the Kirby. You are close to a good Red Square Vendor that can supply anything Wheel Horse. Call Lincoln at A-Z Tractor for anything you need. Come to the big Wheel Horse Show in Arentdsville, Pa. in June for bargains. A short 2 hour drive West on Rt 30 for you.

I cut mine around the bead with a utility knife and then use a cutting wheel to cut the steel belts around the bead. Very careful to not get into the rim. Works great for me. I take them to the landfill for free. Mount up the new ones in the driveway with a little soap, water and two old rounded off screwdrivers.

A little update to this…as it turns out, I think the broken livewell pump was a symptom and not the disease. Replacing the pump was fast and easy. The old one came right out and I put the new one in. No issues. On the first test run when i went fishing I ended the day with a little bit of water in the bilge. This boat has never leaked, so I assumed I botched the install. I tinkered with everything a bit and resealed the nut holding the thing in place. Took the family swimming. Looked in the bilge and saw a little water again. Darn it. Looked the best i could and it seemed like the water was coming in above the pump. That’s odd. Couldn’t do anything about it on the water and it wasn’t leaking bad, so we swam and messed around a bit longer. When i was climbing back in the boat over the transom (I have a transom mounted ladder on the back) I saw some separation between the aluminum transom skin and the trim piece that caps the transom. Immediately I knew the problem… it seems I have rotten transom board. This is somewhat of an endemic problem to Lunds of this vintage. Any leaks in the 45713 bolts and rivets that go through the transom lets the plywood core get wet. Since the plywood is mostly encased in aluminum it takes forever to dry out, so it rots. I didn’t notice prior, but the rotten board let the transom flex quite a bit and i suspect it’s what stressed the pump and snapped it off. It’s not a hard job, but it is apparently tedious due to all the disassembly required. So I have the plywood in the garage, sealant on order, and will be working on it this weekend. Took the motor off the boat this evening after work and stuck it on a stand I knocked together. The boat looks really goofy - and super wide- without it adorning the stern. And the tongue weight increased immensely without that 390 pound anchor cantilevered off the back. a few pix follow of the motor being liberated from where it was bolted 20 years ago. My plan is more or less to mimic what Lund did with some minimal improvements. The plywood is marine grade, but that doesn’t mean it’s treated. It’s just that it has a lot of plies, waterproof glue, and no voids. I’ll laminate it to 1.5” thick and soak it with epoxy. Take care to seal all holes, etc. There are composite products available and I could make something better than plywood (I’m a composites engineer), but this lasted 20 years and the stiffness of plywood is a known and is better than some of the available surrogates. And plywood is light and very well suited to this application. Boats are so much fun. Steve

Paul, I am fortunate enough to have a Miller Tire Dealer in town here. They also have the small enough tire changer to deal with the front tires. They even took off the old tires, let me take the rims home and paint them, and then take the rims back to put on the new tires...without marring the new painted rims. Worth every penny. BTW, the old tires were filled. I drilled holes in the tires to leak out the liquid, and I warned them that they were filled before I gave them the tires.

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.

Boston. My friend. One of my all time favorites.

Got the C-145 out of the barn today and did some rototiling with it. The gave it a Well deserved bath after. IMG_1364.MOV

The deck linkage and the right front tire wanted to occupy the same space if the wheel was turned sharp to the right. The 19" front tiresnmight have had something to do with this, As you know the 1973 noname, c-series and later garden tractors came with a lift bar..that also holds the deck back. The first method I tried put pressure on the brake band. Second try worked not hitting the brake band and the tire doesn't hit the lift linkage. Looks like it hits the deck rollers but it doesn't.

Put the 42" deck on the Raider as I up grader the mid hitch and added a front hitch when I got it. It did good but struggled some on my tough weeds. but I usually mow with the C-120/180 or the 520. The North Carolina dust bowl is back. Kevin (Kpinnc) show a picture of it some time back. Here is mine the Raider was clean when I started the backyard. I gave it an air bath before I put it away

Well didn’t exactly do anything to any of my horses but I did rearrange their stable so all 11 fit in and the wife can have her garage back. The little things.

Shift work, hard work, lookin’ this good!

The top attachment point is a correctly sized exhaust clamp. You can see the ends of it where it's laying sideways and going through the bracket. The bottom just goes through the bolt at the back of the bracket for the chipper there. Right against the frame.

Maybe if I took the time to shop around or order off Amazon I could have gotten them for less $$…but I wanted to get this task off my list so I hit Tractor Supply. I would like to think I bought a better quality tube over what Harbor Freight carries. Can’t seem to avoid the “Made in China” part though.

That'll free up a few billion gigs of memory...

Matt did this seat for my 953 as well. Totally awesome and quality product he puts out. He is the man

The loader was at the other end of the field cleaning up a feeding lot. I had to truck it home to clean out another barn but it started running odd and then flooded out and died. I got it running again to get it out of the yard where the cows would push it around and a very clever little goat would take it apart with her horns.... I got as far as the garden and thats where its in pieces being fixed....