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Hello Everyone, The information here has been invaluable as far as getting this old wheel horse I purchased back in service. Some parts home made, the motor generator is ripped off a 2013 Yamaha, some salvaged parts. I bought this little bastard some months ago, it had to be dug out of the previous owners yard and lifted with a backhoe. It had not ran in about 40 years. Thanks for taking a look.

@ebinmaine If you are looking for faster cycle times, then maybe you should look in to building one of these. Looks safe enough. Plus you should be able to power it with Wheel Horse.

I'm listing this in the classified section but figured I'd post it here as well. I won't make the big show this year but if you're interested and can find someone willing to haul it for you I'll work with them on hooking up. Very nice tub cart. Brand new tires (just today) and recent bedliner recoat. I'll include the wheels (bad tires) that were on it when I got it but I can't be sure if they are original or not. $200.00

I wondered why Mrs. Sylvan and the kids told me I was "cherished " this morning...

I just got home from storm spotter training. It was in association with our monthly amateur radio meeting. We normally have 10 to 15 in attendance but tonight at least 40. Today, in addition to aerating the yard, I worked on the driveway. Over time the gravel gets bunched up where the cars turn to enter the garage and in general gets packed down. I made the drag contraption several years ago. The gravel caught inside covers a 4x4. One thing I would have done differently was use grade 8 bolts in the lead 4x4 because the bolts I used have bent over-but they still work and are sharpened to a point. The last picture is the finished project. After 20 years, it's about time to order another load of gravel.

Well...... what's too many horses ? Is to many when you have no more room in the garage so you have to start leaving them outside ? You can say you are "tractor heavy " but are you really ? Right @WHX??. I picked this up today. I'm not really a parts buying guy, unless I need them, but I saw this listed and you know. Love at first sight. Appears i just bought a 1969 Charger 10. Or parts of one. PO removed the original tecumseh engine and was going to install this 10hp Kohler. Well as you can see he didnt get far. Engine is on frame not properly secured and nothing else is hooked up. Nothing. Wires hanging all over. Parts off of it. Im not sure if i have everything. I also am unfamiliar with these " newer engines" that dont have the old starter generator. Not sure what works and what dosnt. Just got it home. If you kind fellas can take a look at what i photographed and tell me whats missing or what i will need to attempt to get this thing running again or if I just should rob some parts from it. Wiring it will be very difficult for me. I have said 100Xs I'm a horrible mechanic and even worse electrician. What ever I decide to do with it your opinions will be appreciated. Thanks

You could simply put one of these on it. I have them on all my tractors. Short piece of hose into a jug keeps it simple.

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Looks like a Keeper to me. Good tins, good tires, good seat, PTO parts all there. If the Sundstrand test good, put a carb and battery on and run it.

Tried to finish up my 30 minute spring project that takes several days...got to wait for the wind to be right direction today wasn't. At least snow blower you can crank around the discharge chute. ... But the sweepster beats rakiing to get the driveway back in to the driveway and the road back on to the road.

Question. Is the wedge on the ram or the beam. If on the beam, Northern sells a slip on 4 way that works awesome.

I represent that.

Lots of vintage Geezer.... I mean... antiques here.

@squonk Correct! I think they would be great for picking up dog poo with the deep lugs and all

So something like this??

Goodyear, please. They are paying me a pension.

If you do not already have a 2 stage pump, you will find that one will increase your speed. A 2 stage pump travels fast with no load but does slow down under a heavy load. Engine size matters, but not as much as you think. A 6.5 Predator on the right combo is very effective and almost unstoppable.

After seeing some other threads on here about Mighty Mac chipper shredders, attached to WH tractors, I decided to keep watch for one at a decent price. I ended up finding this one on marketplace and negotiated the price down to $100 - knowing it was non-running ($45 cheaper than the replacement screen I had to order ) . Since my plan was to convert it to a WH attachment, the "non-running" part didn't bother me. After a few messages back and forth with @ebinmaine, and looking at his previous threads on the topic, I decided to pull the trigger! Here's a video of my progress, so far.

I’m not an antique. I’m just getting broken in…😁 I am older than both of my tractors though.

If you could find a local contractor to roll it for a sensible price, it would greatly increase the time between reworking.

There fixed that ....

I used to really enjoy using one of these quite a lot but nowadays my body issues won't let me...

I sent this to BBT as a possible solution to her problem... HF hand powered splitter... slow, quiet, keeps @ebinmaine outside and out of her hair for days, weeks even... comes highly recommended by Mrs. Sylvan...

Raider is gear drive and Charger hydro ? Take a look through the master model list. Should answer a lot of this question. Usually not too hard to swap from a Tecumseh to a Kohler. Ignition switch is one thing that I know that needs to be changed.

I’m not going to lie, I want one of those!! I would have a 4 way wedge on it though.

So it is that time of the year when the weather breaks and spring has sprung. We are all getting ready for the 2025 big show. We will use this thread so post our buy/sell/trade items only please. Try your best to keep it to this topic. I know Squonk will get off topic but that is ok… lol At the moment I don’t really have anything looking to buy sell or trade but if anyone has an original senior or a rj25 let me know😂

Here they are side by side.

Antique stores don't seem to be a much of an attraction as they used to be. We've enjoyed just browsing antique stores as a pastime and it's almost like visiting a museum. Almost as good as going to a old junk yard full of old cars and trucks. I think folks now a days don't want the old "heavy looking" furniture of past years. Right now, I'm building end tables for our daughter from 2x12s and pipe with pipe flanges. Rather industrial looking for me. Mom's 1890's pump organ could hardly been given away as it "takes up too much space" for modern homes. It's sitting in my shop with plans to find a place in the house. When our kids are looking for furniture for our grandkids rooms, they go to IKEA. I can almost build from scratch as fast as assembling IKEA flake board cabinets. It's cheap(er) and they aren't expecting it to last. For a number of years, I repaired old furniture for a lady who was buying and reselling it. I liked the challenge and admired the construction details.

I've been spraying the body with primer and I'm.getting fed up of painting. So I went back to the tool chest idea and I'm having a go at a pair of pliers. I started with a 7mm thick slab of cast iron on which I drew the outline of a plier jaw and handle. Lots of filing and faffing to get the shape to my liking. The normal Milwaukee pliers are for scale. The middle one is a small pair I butchered to get the right shape of each jaw. The bottom one is my tiny attempt. Having got the profile about right I then cut the slab very carefully in half to give me two identical pieces. Tomorrow ill have a crack at milling the pivot point to get both jaws together.

I like those XTRAC tires. Shouldn't see the front sliding around with those at all. I only wish they came in rear wheel sizes!

Your Kohler engine was used in many models with the 1972 Charger 10 being one of them. Wiring is fairly simple. Use the diagram for the 1-0410 model and a simpler 3 position key switch 103990 can be used.

Adding some “fines” to fill the crevices before rolling will also make the surface a bit sturdier. Using the drag device tends to settle the fine material down under the coarser gravel.

I stand corrected, I got it in the jungle! I've got a 10hp Techy with an 16 GPM pump, 5" piston, 2" ram. Big a$$ power! I tore the original wedge off on a big Beech crown. Replaced it with one from Northern, then got the 4 way.

I concur with most of the above. My 2¢: - 7 or 8 hp is plenty except for extremes like 24” long, 24” diameter twisted-grain Locust. I’ve been running a 5hp unit with satisfaction. - a two-speed pump will be easier to incorporate than adding recirculating plumbing and works on both split and return part of the cycle. You can spec higher volume, if desired - as long as the valve, hoses, and fittings are large enough, going bigger adds no real value - a vertical mount splitter has a tradeoff: no lifting heavy rounds, but more work while bent over (a splitter that works either way would be ideal, eh?) - a hydraulic lifting table/gangplank with a gated outboard end could make it less work to get rounds into splitting position on a horizontal splitter and lets one have good feed control. - a flip up table on the other side gives the option of catching or not catching the splits. By far the fastest increase in speed for me came with a trusted helper. We take turns. One loads and calls “go” when ready and then clears the split stuff, the other operates the lever and steadies the round. This lets us work as fast as the machine cycles (and also lets us not fully retract the ram on the 30" bed when spitting 15” rounds).

That's what I was thinking. Less bending over!

I'd be happy to help you spec something out. Need a starting point, though: Cycle times of your current system. Target cycle time. Current cylinder size - piston diameter, rod diameter and stroke. Pump size Valve size Piping size and approximate length Engine hp - really important for reality checks on proposed changes. I'll make the assumption that you are satisfied with the splitting force of your current machine, so that will define the operating pressure of the system. One of the guys I races RC boats with decades ago built a splitter powered by a compact car engine - might have been out of a Vega. He could cut a fair sized log to length before splitting in that rig.

Better than the alternative.

Can confirm. Chicken 🐔 💩 too.

@c-series don @Achto That 4 way will be part of the additions to ours for sure. Likely I will have our fabricating friend do a proper welding job to it. This is thicker steel than I've ever even thought about trying to deal with.

Your thought is valid but up here a splitter being sold is usually garbage. So many people burn wood that they just buy them at the box stores and run them until they wear out or ethanol eats them and then resell for way too much money. I want nothing to do with any kind of modern imported junk. The one we have is very very heavy duty. I would MUCH rather spend $1,000 rebuilding this then getting someone else's issues for $1,000 and having the aforementioned - modern junk.

They thought of that. Later in the video they show where the wedge moves up to expose the cross wedge, aka 4 way.

Not a good pic & it left yesterday. Here is a pic of a similar set up. Having a log cradle on one side keeps you from doing a lot of unnecessary lifting. I don't care for the factory ones that bolt on though. The one that my dad made for his splitter is held on with a couple of pins so it can be quickly removed when needed, like when you are using it in the vertical position.

This is a VERY useful topic for me. I bought a place a bit over 2 years ago with a good bit of gravel driveway that needs grading. I thought about back dragging with the front end loader, but this looks like it will do a better job more easily. Thank you.

WTF EB you know the rules ...

Swapped the 9.5’s on narrow wheels for 10.5’s on deep/wide wheels on the 510-8speed

BA threads, British association. Model makers use them over here. Whitworth are still popular for old machinery. BSF, UNF, UNC, BSP, ACME, and many many more lol. I stick to metric for my work as it's just easier to have one set of threadingvtools and a stock of fasteners. I measure in imperial or metric. Sometimes both, 4 feet and 3cm lol.

While building the model landrover I decided I needed an air brush stand as I keep putting the thing down on the bench and spilling the paint. So I had a pop, using the brass base of an old lab instrument and some scraps of alloy and wood. One side holds the gun i use with a small colour cup, has to be stored like that as the cup juts out of the left side. The other side holds my gun with the standard paint jar on it.