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My son James has been battling an infection in his foot. He was being treated by wound care for a couple of months. They decided to do surgery to remove some damaged tissue about a week and a half ago. They sent him home a couple days after surgery and it was like the infection exploded overnight. They did another surgery last Thursday and Friday morning had to remove his pinky toe. He has gone through two more surgeries since removing his pinky toe. This afternoon they removed the rest of his toes on the same foot. I asked the DR if they have stopped the infection from spreading and was told yes they had. Waiting for the DR visit Tomorrow to find out if they will have to take any more of his foot. Thank you for your prayers. Jay

Bonnie, I have set you up with 6 months free supporter which will remove the restriction on posting pictures. You are free to utilize our classifieds section, but the general rule is that the items posted have a price. I realize you don’t know the prices of some of the items, but you can price high and the members here (usually constructively) can help guide you on a more sellable price. Additionally, most of our members are likely just like your dad, in that they have a lot of stuff, not just Wheel Horses. You are free to post in the non-tractor section of the classified the non-wheelhorse items as well, again with a price in mind. When placing a classified, I strongly recommend utilizing the private messages this forum provides. The reason for this is only members of the forum can respond to you, and random internet people can not, providing better security for your transaction. Finally, there is a “Talk to the moderators” forum here that in the event you are uncomfortable with the way a transaction is going, we would be more than happy to pop-in and give advice. Also use the forums where more local members like @wallfish can chime in, who can be a trusted source of information. Good luck and may your dad rest in peace.

The original engine was lost when i found this 518he in south west of Finland near Turku. before i made the deal i had located a similar engine with two horse(s)power less. Im no electritian, but compared the electrics of the new engine to the old, it raised more questiones to me than it realy was as my electritian pal just got the micros switches to connect and wires and changed the solenid to a relay. And now works perfect. I was nervous it would leak oil from some of the hydralic lines as it was pretty oily and greasy when i bought it, it was probably only the old engines oil drain tube that was loose and had been so for a long time till it killed the engine i belive.

@SylvanLakeWH My friend & I had to pick this tractor up and load it on the trailer when I bought it because absolutely nothing moved. A couple dollars & a little time turned it into a magazine worthy tractor.

One bottle to make it work. 2 bottles.. it probably will not work but I will surely try to convince you that it does.

both horses are back home now for the year. I hate picking up on projects that I started months ago as I now can’t remember where I put the float bowl for the 867. I figure it may be time for a carb rebuild anyway so I’ll just get a new bowl. That tractor desperately needs a bath too.

National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day celebrated on March 17 is dedicated to the simplicity of cured meat on a budget. Folklore tells us that corned beef and cabbage combination was created decades ago by the Irish. But some Irish Americans might be surprised by another entry on the list of suspect foods: corned beef and cabbage. Experts say the meal originated on American soil in the late 19th century as Irish immigrants substituted corned beef for bacon, which was meat of choice in the homeland and cabbage replaced more expensive potatoes. The dish was created to fit the budget of Irish Americans who could not afford their homeland’s favorite pork and potatoes. The beef component was used to substitute for pork while the cabbage served as the vegetable replacement. Nonetheless you are likely to find an “Irish Special” of corned beef and cabbage offered at your favorite restaurant on St Patric’s Day. Corned beef is made using the same salt curing method the Irish used to prepare pork. This is the main reason for their similar texture and taste. By now, you must be wondering, how did cabbage come into the pot? After moving to the U.S, the Irishmen had to be economical, so they removed some food staples from their platter, potato being one of them. Cabbage became the more affordable option. Thus, it took center stage next to corned beef.

In decent condition that's worth $300 - $450 alone.

Ok..... So I really dislike tha plastic fender that Cyclops came with.... So Much in fact that I Started making a new 1.I made the base from the lid of a Brinkman Smoker I no longer need as We have a much Better Unit on the patio. The rest of it will be fabricated from this sheet of Diamond Plate Steel I aquired for free many years ago.After 9 hours of using a various sized "Swing Wrenches" (hammers), C clamps, vise grips, an air hammer, unistrut & the tongue of my trailer I got the basic shape & the angles are good. so tomorrow get out the plasma cutter & welder to make this thing happen. Also the scAmazombie Delivery guy dropped a box at the door. New front tires for Cyclops. So gonna have to do some sandblasting n painting for this occasion.That & I can hardly wait to see how Cool it's gonna look with these way Cool Stamped Chrome Hub Caps all the way around !! Got the Angles just right & need to cut the slope in yet.probably have some more hammereringing to do in order to flatten things but It's gonna work Nicely. Gonna Have to get a New seat for the New Fender.... & Definitely gonna have a cup holder built in too. Very pleased with the progress of late. Choochin' Right Along.... should be 7 pix for your enjoyment. Edit: Also Need to cut 3 larger Holes for the Gas cap, Transmission Oil Dipstick & the seat safety switch along with the mounting holes for bolts & a set of seat brackets.... Ok I am tired .... time for bed.

And, they ain't making wood like that anymore...

Glad I could help! Man, this really make me want to attend the plow day!

I have tons of wheels I can donate to the cause!! Just have Jim @WHX?? and Dan @Achto field strip that transmission at plowday and get it cleaned up for ya I bet @Pullstart probably has a transmission floating around in his big shed that's good and loose being next to his 950 degree waste oil burner

Dear Lord, your servant James Paxton has undergone surgery and is fighting infection. Please guide the medical team that is tending to his needs, give them insight and discernment as the work to eliminate any further infection or complications. Calm the heart of his family. Lord, please allow this temporary trial to bring an end to his infection. Lord, we pray there will be no need for further surgery and let the side effects be minimal. Work a miracle in this whole situation and bless it from beginning to end. Stay with James and his family as he begins his recovery and rehabilitation. Thank you Lord, we praise you as we know we are in good hands- the very hands of God. In Jesus name, we thank you for each day. Amen.

Hey Larry this is Curly ... where's Moe?

1 - "Hey Mike, I just thought I would chat with you & show off this new app I found" 2 - " Hey Steve, what kind of app did you find now?? " 3 - " Wait, what is that smell?" 4 - " It's called the digital fart app. Now I can fart in my basement and share the rewards with my friends."

Back in January, one of our NC members passed away. Lance (@Red Horse) wasn't overly active here, but was a member since 2008. His family asked me to help them move two tractors: a 308-8 and a 312-8. I normally don't ask these questions, as not one tractor I've ever had was in decent shape when I got it. I know both these machines were well kept indoors for more than 15 years. They were maintained properly and not abused while Lance had them. He was a stickler for keeping his machines clean, serviced, and working. Neither have any leaks or issues that I am aware of, and run great. So if you don't mind, just tell me what you think is a ballpark for these two separate or together. I will be listing them here and locally once I know what is fair for them. I have an idea, but wanted you folks to help me verify what they might bring. So far as I know, only the 312-8 has a deck. The 308-8 has a 40 inch grader on it.

I am saving as much of the old growth true 2x 2" thick stuff that is worth saving. I am more talking about the new pine 2x 1.5" thick stuff. It is replaceable, but its still not cheap. I have a deadline of mid May of getting the new floor down and done.

Getting more flooring tore up, still struggling with the time to save wood vs saving time throwing it away. But thinking about how much wood costs haha.

wow you guys are unreal. I appreciate the help and making me feel welcome in the wheel horse world . Jakoby

Standard Operating Procedure today. Folks don't take care of anything and toss it out at the first sign of failure. Then they replace and do it all over again. Eventually they retire and want financial help because they peeded away all of their assets.

Not a bad idea... how many Capt'n's does it take to screw in a transmission??? If rain is forecast I may just put up a challenge... bottle of Capt'n and some deep fried curds to the team that makes it go first!!!

@BBQVultureWings great work metal working! If you find that you don’t enjoy the outcome, just know that a steel C series or 3/4/500 cerise fender will bolt right up.

Peach and Pear trees bloomed this past week. Spring is here!

There cleared that up ... The gas tank was somewhat of a dilemma. Use a gasket prep product or not. A quick call to Lowell indicated Permatex Aviation No 3 should be used. A trip to a hardware & auto parts store we came up empty handed short of a B & E on a closed store. After a melding of the great minds assembled and watching Dan fiddle with gasket and tank pieces for a hour it was concluded that the Ponds didn't use No 3 We didn't have to either. In githerdone mode it went together with (hopefully) no leaks. A 8-32 machine screw was used in place of a stock screw for ease of getting a mounting bolt in. Stainless of course... does this mean it's a custom??? It was a furious pace... some more action shots.

Jim stopped by today to make sure I was doing a good job and lend a hand where needed. Got the tractor this far & then moved on to todays set back. And..... now for the set back. The gas tank. The tank on this tractor did not leak for the 2 years that I have owned it. To make sure that the gasket did not dry out after I removed the gas, I poured about a 1/2 cup of 2 stroke oil in it to keep the gasket moist. Well when I removed the tank from the house I found a spot of 2 stroke oil on the table about the size of a nickel. OK, we will all agree that the 2 piece tank was not one of 's finer moments, but it is what it is. Nothin' to do but fix the problem. Luckily all of the bolts came out nicely and I had a gasket in stock. My end point for today. Take care all. Hope to show more progress next week.

This just in: Skype has crashed world-wide following a viral spike in viewership after these images were leaked... apparently, young, old, heck... all women globally are entranced by these two ruggedly handsome dudes talking transmissions and pistons and Wheel Horse tractors. no word yet on when the system will be up and running. Psychiatrists are already seeking to understand the phenomenon...

I've noticed prices vary a lot based on location. I see the highest prices in the NE. The best prices seem to be down south. I'm in Indiana and you'd probably see the 312 w/deck listed for $500 -$700. the 308 would probably for $400 - $600 without the grader blade. Not sure what the grader blade would bring because I've never been able to find one for sale around here. Given the condition of those two tractors, my estimates may be a couple hundred low.

Thank You. I just dont want to spend a lot of money when I can make something from free materials. I looked around a little bit for another fender but I plan on keeping Cyclops a while so I might as well do some custom work to it. Diamond Plate is Always "a Hit" where ever ya put it & I got really lucky a few years back when I scored that 4' x 6' sheet for free. Yaaaaaay Me. Gonna go bust out the PLasma cutter for the 1st time. I have a lot to do so More later

Part of my waste oil build has been this pallet racking. Today I cut some milled hardwood to length and filled up two sets of crossmembers. This marks the first time I’ve used the hilo for anything in the shop!

According to the C-100 manual, your drive belt is: Transmission drive belt 78-7100 replaced by 7473 - 5/8" x 81.9"

Tire sizes between brands should be pretty even but...they aren't

Another accomplishment yesterday that I was pretty happy with. Late last year/early winter, I was able to do one single push-up but it was a massive effort and there were days when I just could not get a second one. Yesterday I did EIGHT.

I used a 3/4" pin from a standard 3 point top link. They are just a fraction under 3/4" usually plated to prevent rust.

Just to be sure everyone is on the same page, plow day is not this week I’m just as excited as y’all, but it’s the 29th, next Saturday

So sorry to hear this Jay. Praying for a speedy complete recovery for James. I really appreciated your help with the @roadapples collection and am looking forward to seeing you both in a few months. I'll have a stool for James to use. He can sit for hours and pick thru the new stuff I recently picked up.

I sold one at last year’s Big Show for $10!

We just returned from Burnsville, North Carolina after spending a week working on buildings damaged by the hurricane last fall. We had four adults and 5 college students that volunteered their spring break to help in any way we could in order folks regain normality to their lives. It was a good 13~14 hour road trip from southwest Missouri to Burnsville. The damage that the flood waters did to property was absolutely awful. Vehicles washed away looked like crumbled painted aluminum foil. The only way to identify them as vehicles were because of the attached wheels. Even the tires were torn away (the picture below doesn't do justice to the condition of some vehicles). Land slides caused a lot of the destruction. One fellow told us that what was once considered the flood plain was replaced by a new flood plain due to the debris and silt in the rivers from land slides. The nine of us did jobs like rehanging 9 interior doors (of which the person who removed them didn't label them or the trim we reinstalled); clean a hoarders basement after it had been flooded; removed hot water heating radiators (full of dust of which I have come down with a cough and likely a trip to doctor tomorrow); insulated an attic with roll fiberglass insulation; removed insulation from floor joists in a muddy crawl space; and some other piddly jobs. We installed the handrail on the deck pictured below. The owner, a nice fellow, but one who the community watches over, insisted on the round balusters that he "paid five hundred dollars for and if I we could not make them work, then push the whole house down." The five college students worked really hard and attacked each job with the enthusiasm of their youth. I used available lumber to build scaffolding in order to install the handrail. Once the students figured out the "sketchy scaffolding" would hold them, they were on board with getting the job completed. As we were out and about in the community, gas stations seemed like the easiest place to start up conversations, we were thanked by several locals who appreciated our help. I reminded them that some day we Missourians will need their help and they agreed that when that happens they would be there. On our way home, we passed through an area in southeast Missouri that had been struck by the tornadoes this past week. Folks going through debris looking for belongings while others on roofs with tarps. There may be a few fellow Americans heading our way quicker that expected.

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While we’re both entitled to our opinion, its usually one of the first things I do to a new to me tractor. I want to see if it will run before I give its lot of maintenance. The bowl tells me some history. I clean it, pull the jets, spray the ports with carb cleaner (poor man’s carb overhaul) Then I hook up a nurse tank so I’m pulling new clean fuel verses old fuel from a dirty tank, lines and bowl. Now I’m ready to try to make it run. If it runs half decent and doesn’t smoke terrible, then I proceed putting some maintenance $$ into it, including a full carb cleaning.

As a fellow North Carolinian, I thank you for coming so far to help!

All good suggestions ... Large easy out.

Didn't even think of that, thank you very much for the advise! Very helpful.

#1 Mike I lost my leprechaun Paddy again. I don’t know where he went! #2 Let me check this out here Dino. #3 Looks like he stacked up the boxes and escaped through the window. #4 Yeah we had chili last night. If I were knee high to a grasshopper I’d have escaped too!

Got just a little done today. Finished all the parts on the transmission. Hubs, drive pulley, brake drum and shifter installed. I want to keep this one as close to correct as possible, but studs on the hubs just make sense to me. Then I moved to the front axle. What a bleeping mess! The pivot bolts apparently were both stripped out at the grease fitting, and the PO brazed one back on. I'll either drill and re-tap or just make new ones on my lathe. And the knuckles were "welded" for whatever reason. I noticed when the tractor was together that the front wheels were toed out and looked chambered in at the top. Now I see why.... I found a set from a 702. Hopefully they work. That's all for today. I'm done!

After looking at me for 3 months, she isn't scared of anything.

So. A bit of information about drill chucks in my workshop. This is a range of chucks, the first three left to right are mounted on morse taper shanks. From morse 4 on the left, then morse 1 then morse 2. They are all stub mounted on Jacobs tapers. The two chucks on the right show the tapered hole for the stub taper. The smallest of these chucks is a high precision Albrecht and worth about £400. The one on its own is a threaded body to go on a screw arbor. Engineering chucks like your machine are most usually morse or Jacobs stub tapers. This photo shows a couple of taper shank drill bits, which are great if your drill press has a morse taper quill. You just tap the drill into the quill and your good to go, very accurate with no slipping. The larger item is actually a series of morse taper adaptors young down from morse 4 to morse 0. You'd never need to nest all together like that but it demonstrates that tapers can be accommodated in different machines. My lathe has a morse 5 taper in the headstock which is pretty big. This shot shshot and arbor which is M 2 into the drill and Jacobs 3 into the chuck. The U shaped flat metal pieces are tapered wedges to drive a Jacobs taper off. You tap them towards each other and the tapers do the work. The taper shank drill is fitted into a parallel shank adaptor, so you can use a taper bit in a parallel jaw chuck. Next to it is the taper drift used to eject the tapered bit from the socket. The drift is tapped into the slot and ejects the drill, or chuck. This is the morse 3 quill of my pillar drill. You can see the slot in the extended quill that tell you it's a morse quill. No slot it will be a stub arbor you will need a pair of taper drifts to remove. This drill press is a beauty as it has an auto eject mechanism which pops the morse taper out of the quill without a drift. Lastly this is a quick change M1 tool holder for my lathe tailstock. There is no ejector slot and so the threaded widget is screwed in to push the taper out from behind. So there are a lot of permutations on morse tapers. if its a screw chuck be aware that the thread could be left or right hand. Most of the handle drills I have are right hand with a screw securing the chuck to the threaded shank down behind the jaws. But some are left hand with no securing screw, usually on drills that are none reversing. To remove a threaded chuck it's a case of putting the chuck key into one of the holes and tapping it sharply with a mallet to shock it loose. Not easy if you don't know if it's right or kept hand thread.

So, After many delays & other projects getting priority etc.... I Finally Got Ol' Cyclops Running & Now that there is No Snow to speak of the blade is mounted & operational. I had to remove side plates & pull lots of stuff apart to get the rust & corrosion removed from the ends of the shaft that raises & lowers the deck & the blade. It was definitely worth the trouble, time & effort. put a dab of grease on the ends of the shaft for some lubricant & it really makes a huge difference in how easily the blade goes up n down now. I also cleaned up the rectifier as it had lots of white rust on it. Obviously it being the original, I want it to be able to disipate heat & last as long as possible. I am Not a fan of this Plastic fender that is for certain. So making the new 1 from diamond plate is on the priority list. I bought an entire New Ignition system for it but in my haste I tried it as soon as I replaced & set the points. Wouldn't ya know it, That Kohler took right off like it Never missed a beat. I didn't need to do Anything to the carburator at all. I did clean the fuel tank, add a couple filters, replaced the fuel line & the fuel pump. I stole the seat from the 257-H as it is in pieces for now but it works. I need to replace the transmission seals as they All Leak but for now I will just keep checking the oil so I do not run it dry. It needs several other things such as the engine isolators (motor mounts) they are super hard & no longer plyable so it needs some TLC yet. But I am Really Impressed with this thing. the blade will come in handy to level out some areas of the yard & where the sidewalk meets the grass & is over grown etc. here are some pics to enjoy. I am really Impressed with Kohler now. Gotta clean up that 48" deck, fill the holes, replace the belt Check all the bearings n spindles as We will soon be mowing weekly. New front tires are on the way & looking for better set for the rears as well. I get to get rid of the ol' Crapsman LT1000 now which makes me very happy.

@Gasaholic There’s no such thing as a “standard 420” As @ebinmaine said only other tractor available for that year that was close to the 20hp that the LSE came with was a 418. There’s obviously a 520 but that doesn’t have a Kohler it has an Onan. Someone else said a wood trimmed steering wheel, but actually it’s a chrome leather wrapped wheel. Then there’s the button tuck leather seat which would be damn near impossible to replicate without the original base frame which is no longer available. Here’s mine 100% factory original except for fluids and the transmission filter. 22hrs on the meter and signed by the man himself Cecil Pond.