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I didn't really need this, but who can pass up a loader tractor ?? It is a C161 with a twin cylinder Briggs. Seems to run good and hydro works well. It has a 20 foot paint job, yeah it's bad, but maybe I can live with it. Or maybe put the loader on my 520 ?? It has a new pump on the loader, but the loader goes up pretty slow. The person I bought it from said it is a 2.5 gpm pump and he thought it was to small ?? Going to need help on that. Oh wo is me.

Should be "Scag jack", but it works with my front hitch as well, so what the heck. 24 inches of lift, claims 52 inches with the drop foot extended. 3500lb rated. I removed the round pivot and welded up an adapter to fit a 2 inch receiver. I also canted it back a little so it is closer to straight up when lifted higher. The pic below is only about 1/2 way up, and still has two more holes in the drop foot. And no, I won't use it without jack stands. Not going under a 1000lb Scag without them, and wheel chocks. Works very well. I'm considering cutting the crank off and welding a 3/4 nut on the shaft so I can use a cordless drill to run it up and down.

After countless hrs of designing and engineering .I finally came up with a suitable beverage holder thingy.

@wallfish, thanks for the info. I will check it out once I get it unloaded. I have to find some room for it. We did have it at full throttle and it was slow. I am old and slow also, so maybe I could live with it.

The heaviest Wheelhorse ever made was the one that won’t start that you have to push by yourself so you can get to something in the back of the shed.

Scored another RJ! Thanks to buckeyes here on forum. Will go good with my other RJ diesel. Have some original paperwork with it too. Originally sold here in Cleveland

It looks identical to my Johnson Workhorse loader, not that I am into comparing Big Johnsons!

Slow is better than too fast but once you get used to using it is when it can get frustrating being slow. Too fast can make fine adjustments more difficult.

You’ll void the warranty !

I picked up a light duty leaf shredder back about 2018 to see if we'd like it. Turns out the leaf shredder part is ok but what we really used was the branch chipper. That one will chip things only up to the size of a broomstick or so. Armed with that knowledge I started watching the local sale sites for a heavier duty machine. A few months later I found our Mackissic chipper shredder. We've used it here for a few years and even brought it down the street to help a neighbor. It's an excellent machine. The side chute accepts a branch up to 3½, 4" and will chip soft or hard wood .. as long as the belt stays tight. One of the things to be addressed is to add a better idler system. Another is to repair the interior metal screen. It's pretty bent up. I'll also be flipping all the hammers to get a fresh clean sharp edge. The main reason I decided to do a repaint now is that the side anvil and blade needs to be removed, sharpened and readjusted on installation. This is the thread I'll be using as the main reference. Thank you @gwest_ca for all your help in that thread. This pic is to show me that the spacer is on the Right side of the frame. Here's a set of "before" pics.

Fruit cakes and Christmas. Growing up, my dad would always get a fruit cake from his office, usually just after Thanksgiving. Was a large one, too. It would keep our family of 5 in fruit cake through December and most of January. I always looked forward to getting a piece that contained a candied cherry. Once I got married, I discovered that my wife's family did not enjoy fruit cakes as much. One year, a fruit cake showed up at the Christmas Eve gathering as a gift. It ended up not going home with the original recipient, but sneaked into someone else's car. It showed up again at the next year's Christmas gathering - this time decorated with a Chiea Pet Christmas tree. Later that year, it showed up at a birthday gathering with different decorations. Thus began several years of 'passing the fruit cake', usually at birthdays and Christmas. If you received it, it was your duty to pass it on to another family member at a family gathering as quickly as possible. That fruit cake was decorated in many themes - trolls, wreaths, grim reaper for a 40th birthday, troll dressed in a 'mink' stole as a matriarch for my wife's mother's 50th birthday. It broke somewhere along the line, so it was wrapped with duct tape to 'repair' it. Somebody applied a coat of varnish to 'preserve' it. After a while, we were attending gatherings expecting the fruit cake to show up, but it didn't. We finally asked the niece who was known as the last holder of the fruit cake what happened to it. She sheepishly admitted that it was in the trunk of her car - momentarily forgotten when she sold it. We all got a good laugh imagining the reaction of the person when they found the box in the trunk of their just purchased used car and opened it to discover a plastic wreath with a duck taped fruit cake in the center decorated with a troll doll with a mink stoll, black cape, and holding a stythe.

No actual tradition was established by this but there was a rater humorous Christmas about 20 +/- years ago that is memorable. I had been buying wheel horse parts and car parts on for some time but my wife hadn't ever gotten into using any online shopping sites. As Christmas approached I began buying some small things as gifts for my wife's stocking stuffers. At that time you didn't have any tracking on the packages so you didn't know if it had been shipped or when to expect it. With only a couple of days to go I was frustrated by the fact that most of my purchases had not arrived. Christmas morning my wife brought in a bunch of beautifully wrapped packages with my name on them she had stashed in the trunk of her car. When it came time to unwrap gifts it became apparent that she had wrapped her own gifts as they were being delivered not knowing what they were. She presumed they were stuff I wanted and since she never went on eBay she had no idea they were hers.Probably a good thing, my wife is much better at wrapping gifts than I will ever be.

I was thinking of making the handle use a socket so it can reattach if needed.

I'm ready for the snow we never get.

I’m sorry to hear about your girlfriend. When we travel that’s what usually ends up happening. After me driving slowly and my head looks like it’s on a swivel my wife gets fed up and says “I’ll drive, before you get us in an accident!” When my kids were little I even had them on the lookout for Wheel Horses when we would go away!

@ML3 See now if I was driving down the road and saw a display in someone’s driveway like that I would probably without looking in the rear view, jam on the brakes, perhaps causing an accident. All while being yelled at by my wife for not paying attention to the road 😂

Both RJs.

NICE find !!!! Flow rate can typically be increased with speed. A pulley size change to speed it up. Depending on the pump and the set up on there now, it could be just that simple. Find the name and model of the pump and search the innerweb for the specs. Look for the output rates at different rpms. Determine if you can raise the rpm on the pump to stay within specs of the pump.

Going pretty good. Haven't been able to spend much time as work has me swamped. I have it running & moving. Few minor adjustments. Drive belt was slipping when climbing a slight grade. I fixed that. Working on a throttle control so I don't have to reach way down to adjust. Want to get a few hours running as is to be sure all is good. Hopefully sometime by end of year I can find a complete, uncut hood & maybe a fuel tank too 🤞 Then I can remove the existing fuel tank on engine. I'll also make a scale exhaust stack to clear hood.

Teaser of my newest clean up project. So far I’m into it 2hrs just wet sanding…

My goodness that machine is beautiful. Some serious skills at work there!

Yes it is

Hi all. Mrs whitts is currently basking in the sun in Spain for a week. She and a gang of girls trip off every now and then to give me a minutes peace. So I decided to bake my Christmas fruit cakes while she's safely out of the way. Mainly because the kitchen looks like a bomb site after She boils an egg. There are now six fruit cake loaves sitting in a container, being "fed" with brandy which helps preserve them and adds flavour. It's been a part of my family to bake fruit cakes for Christmas, my mum doing the honours until she passed a few year back. So I have taken on the mantle as it were. I would love to hear of seasonal recipes or traditional things people do away from these shores. It's just starting to get "Backendish" here which is autumn. So thoughts turn to the festive season. Things have changed massively since I was a boy, the weather no longer allows us to build ice slides, or build snowmen etc. Christmas is far more commercial and multicultural ideas mean kids learn more about other religions than good ole' C of E. Let me know what you will be planning for the holidays. Best regards as ever Mick

Not really a side shot... I mean it could be called the rear side.

@953 nut I will get more pics tomorrow if I have the energy to unload it, you nasty boy !!

@JCM @Ed Kennell I’d love to put that Ber-Vac blower side by side with the Wheel Horse blower and see which one works best? I’ve heard that the Ber-Vac is a better unit, that’s why I’d like to do a comparison. I have the WH one but don’t plan on traveling to Pennsylvania for the test!

Sorry to get you guy's going but I was in the shop today getting the 520 ready for Winter. Installing the front dozer blade extension kit and rear hitch. Tomorrow hope to do wheel weights and in another 2 months the chains will go on. Have not plowed snow with the 520 since 2002. Will be installing the 2 stage on the 418-A this Winter.

I'll make a handle that slips over the nut for use when needed. Yep, that's what I did. Runs to full length in about 15 seconds now. Works well with the Scag too...

Will gravity empty the tank into a gas can. May be restricted at the fuel outlet? With the tank above the fuel pump even a weak pump should work.

I believe that is a Johnson Work Horse loader? I have the same tractor C-161 Automatic it has countless hours on it and although I rarely use it anymore it’s still runs great when I need it.

Hello, I am new on the forum. My Wife's dad left her an old Wheel Horse tractor that he loved dearly when he passed away. I had been trying to get some parts for it like a missing skid pad for the left side and a headlight panel with lights along with an ammeter. I quickly learned that on many of the parts websites, this particular model was not listed anywhere that I could find. The Tractor simply has a number 8, but every time I tried to look up parts for an 8hp WH, there was always a model name attached. When I looked at models in the drop-down menu's all of them had a name. So, I jumped on a couple of FB forums and quickly learned that there was a year (1973) that the Wheel Horse 8 had NO NAME... hence the user name I chose for the forum. In any event, the folks in the FB forums all recommended that I sign up here for the most information available on Wheel Horse tractors, even the ones without a name. If anyone can help me find the items I need, that would be a huge bonus. I would like to take the tractor to a tractor show that my wife and I have attended for many years. The first one is in November, so I have some time. Thanks for reading... Tractor-on.

K301 I did have to waller out the shoulder a some but works pretty well, nothing bigger than a 12 ounce can through.

I would go with the 3/4” nut, void the warranty, and use a 3/4” combination wrench or ratchet and socket if you need to fine adjust the height…

What do you do with the old fruit cakes? I believe each family over here just recycles them each Christmas, nobody actually eats the things.

This link will take you to what we have. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/files/category/9-1973-1977/?sortby=file_name&sortdirection=asc As soon as the first page opens click on the "Sort By" drop down menu on the right and select "Title" Now the files reload in consecutive order. You will see 8hp 4-speed with horizontal crankshaft 8hp 4-speed with vertical crankshaft 8hp 8-speed with horizontal crankshaft

Why, C'mon down Don. We won't have any snow, but we can do the test in the punkin patch.

Sounds like something I would do also! Lol. Unfortunately now after a medical condition my girlfriend is unable to drive😟. I'd love to be able to look in everyone's yard & garage etc while someone else is driving.

I know snow is coming but for now at least where I live weather is in 70s & 80s thru next week. That's the combination snow removal setup I need. Love the 2 stage, definitely required where I live .

You as well Don.

I was out yesterday knocking of weeds and staring up dust in my front yard, I would not want to use that tractor it's a show piece.

My 3010 Kubota that i bought new in 2000 has the treadle pedal and it takes some getting used to. I ran a cat loader for years at the paper mill I worked for that had the same set up so I became good with it. You can get Kubota with the two separate pedals. I do hay making with friends and when they use my tractor,on occasion, when I can't do the tedding ( My tractor always used to tedd ) they say love that Kubota but that pedal not so much. All I've done is service on the 3010 and worked it, the battery lasted 18 years.

Pretty nifty! That’ll help get the trans oil over the hump!

Take a GT-14, add a front end loader with weight box, a York rake, WW93 wheel weights and liquid filled tires and you are up to about 1,800 pounds without the operator. Have @ebinmaine gat in the seat and you are over a ton of Wheel Horse fun.

34 years and runs like the day the dealer dropped it off in my driveway. Has been the best money ever spent on anything I own. It has a very pampered life now. Saving it for someone who appreciates a made in the USA tractor. Applying it's first coat of wax in June of 89, a winter picture in 09 and a current picture.

Here’s the 1045 after some satin clear coat.