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Got a 46in didier hydra sickle running on a c161.

@c-series don Don found this tractor in western Pa. and asked if anyone could get it to the Big Show. It happened to be about 20 mile from my sisters farm where I planned to visit this week. So, after an interesting trip back into the Laurel Mountains on dirt roads and switchbacks that actually confused my GPS I found the owners beautiful secluded property. Ed and Sam after loading the C. Then found my way back to my Sisters farm. Pressure washed my BILs little Russian Belaru Lawn mower that he uses to mow his 50 acres. I gave the C a 4 hour bath as I drove home in the rain today. The gates were open at the Big Show so I stopped and was tempted to unload the C in a barn but MrsK wasn't interested in camping In the barn for 5 weeks. So, we came home and parked it in the dry with some friendly company. Next stop...The Big Show

Hello all and I'm excited to join this forum. I inherited a Wheel Horse from my late Great Grandpa and enjoy using it and hope to do some restoration of it someday. In one of the pics I have tried to show the Model and Serial Numbers but it didn't come out clear so I plan on taking a few more of that label. Definitely would like some advice on what muffler I can swap out with the current one. Thanks ahead of time for helping me with my Wheel Horse!

My brother used pieces of old green hose about two to three feet long scattered about. The geese think they are snakes and stay away.

There’s nothing quite like a flaky, buttermilk biscuit paired with jam, honey, maple syrup, or butter to send your taste buds into overdrive. What better way to celebrate a long-standing Southern tradition than by commemorating National Buttermilk Biscuit Day on May 14? These flakey, carby treats emerged in the pre-Civil War era as an inexpensive addition to meals. When people realized these robust bread products absorbed the gravy on their plates better than plain bread, biscuits soared in popularity and the version that we all know and love — the buttermilk biscuit — was born. From celebrating at your favorite restaurant to whipping up a gourmet batch at home, there are ample ways one can pay homage to this Southern staple.

A Haiku Biscuits and gravy A Southern delicacy At home anywhere A Limerick There once was guy in the Navy Who ate only biscuits and gravy He sailed the oceans blue With a cook who only made stew So he fed him to the locker of Davey

Sausage gravy is great, but my chipped venison gravy on biscuits is WOW.

to the JR You have a rare one owner family heirloom that looks to be original, complete and in very good condition. Don't let these s corrupt you. Keep it just the way Great Grandpa left it.

Me too Randy. Maybe I can keep myself together for next year.

has something to do with the fan gear. If you look at it turned all the way both ways you will see it needs another tooth to make it even. You can mess with it and have the gear off center and lengthen one side of the tie rods and shorten the other. The juice is not worth the squeeze. I liked the sharper turn to the left when mowing, it was in favor of the none discharge side of the deck and that allow me to mow tighter around trees and shrubs.

I’m from the north, but I still enjoy me a biscuit! I wonder though, why don’t we pronounce it like the round tuit? Bisc-uit…

Great work on this Tony! I’m looking forward to seeing it complete!

Thanks Mike. I found that in the garage storage loft when we cleared out me MILs property. It was face down covering some holes in the flooring. My FIL rented the garage to the Keesey Brothers back in the '50s. A couple hours of elbow grease and it cleaned up pretty well. Here's another one I rescued. A flood washed out part of our gun club and the sign. The club replaced the sign and some time later while trout fishing I found the old sign all twisted and rolled up in the mud of a deep hole. A lot of work with a rubber hammer, rubbing compound, cleaner, and wax. This one I bought at a Sporting goods estate auction in the '60s. Paid $1.25.

Well it’s been a while. But over the past couple days did a few things, Got the PTO all fully hooked up. But what’s not pictured is I got the air filter box and assembly all back togehter too.

Wrong decals for an 875.Also 875 did not have an ACR engine. Thinking 876 or 877

Great to see a family Wheel Horse getting some love. My guess would be a 1965 Model 875. That was the first year for the hydrostatic transmission. Could be a 1966 or 1967 though

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But... can you fold them back up???? The "newer" generation probably thinks the maps are to be used as emergency toilet paper

I unloaded the deck that came with the C-101. Not the deck that fits the C, but this is the first NOS deck that I have seen. Then we got break in the rain so I unloaded the C. Then put him in the heated shop for a 5 week nap.

Looks like what you may have there is a 68 . Give us a pic of the tag under the dash. Deck might be a little older. Pay no never mind to the guy behind the curtain above. The other one has alot of rocks in his yard ... and his head ... He likes to trim high branches with his but we keep him around as he does have his moments. You want a real stack get ahold of a guy named Jim Kemp ... finest there is and he damn near gives them away...

I do like the look of the stack ones and thanks for the mounting advice!

Thanks for keeping your Grandpa’s tractor alive! Lots of people have gone to a stack muffler, me included. Make sure to brace it well to the engine block if you add extra weight or leverage in that area.

With all your difficulties, was hoping you'd be able to make the show for a break from them.

I hear that Joe. It gets a bit spooky when you lose satellite and cell phone coverage in those deep hollers. Most of the towns I went thru on Sunday to get to Sams for the C-101 are flooded by the Casselman River today. Meyersdale, Garret, Rockwood, and Markleton all got hit hard. I know Sam is OK as his place like my sisters is high above the river.

Reposting since the tires are available again.

@Ed Kennell Excellent Ed! I know I’ve thanked you many times already for this but I want to say thank you again! This is the first time I’ve purchased a tractor without seeing it in person. However after seeing the pictures and speaking at length with the owner I went with my gut feeling and agreed to buy it. By the looks of it I’m going to be happy! Ed is bringing it to the show for me, so I invite y’all to come by and check it out. Or look for the guy driving a nice C-101 around with a smile on his face and that’ll be me!!! 👍🏻

Maybe you missed this post. Not modern "hard rock" but good old school stuff from the beginning. Does this count? Or this?

I'll take the tires Soda ... yer giving them away. Never mind Soda ... Chev's a faster typer ...

I realize the audience here, generally, does not listen to hard rock (judging by this thread.) Still, I wanted to share what Donna & I will be listening to this weekend: Boardwalk Rock will be held in Ocean City, MD on May 17-18 and it will feature the following: May 17: Def Leppard Rob Zombie Halestorm Bush Chevelle Flyleaf (with Lacey Sturm) Mammoth WVH The Struts Extreme Puddle Of Mudd Everclear Trapt Kat Von D Royale Lynn May 18: Nickelback Shinedown Three Days Grace Alice Cooper Bret Michaels Candlebox Night Ranger Crossfade Dorothy Black Stone Cherry Lit Fuel Saliva Tim Montana"

Got some needed pieces outta the hydro pump for future usage in "The Ugly Bruce"

If i dont go i still gotta meet Pullstart at turnpike exit when he travels thru Ohio. I bought his RJ he had for sale. If I can actually make it to show w/tractors then I mentioned just convoy w/him rest of trip there. I get it bout not taking tractors & as I get older I'm really done with towing, especially long distances. I attended last 2yrs with no tractors & at least once I wanna bring my RJ, 753, 953, & Suburban rat rod.

It fought me all the way but I won in the end! I think the heat from the cutting wheel helped. Another dousing of Kroil and some back and forth with a vice grip locked on the collar started to get some slight movement that led to it giving up. Thanks for the tip Jim.

I keep a few paper county and township maps for areas I hunt and fish in Pa, Md, WVa, and Mt. State maps don't show the elevations, streams and trails I need. It is amazing the detail you find in the GPS maps on land and water.

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The tractor below is my 1974 C160-8 Cinnamon Horse. Zoom in on the stack and you'll see there's a pretty hefty brace going down towards the bottom. The chrome top pipe is part of a plumbing setup from a replacement parts kit for older homes. The only thing I need to change about it is, I need to make it face upward, not outward. It was fine when I built the tractor several years ago but since then I've added the big chipper to the front and I regularly walk by that side of the tractor.

On those OHV engines just run full syn, they run a bit cooler and the oil change is a least doubled. I don't change the oil in my 13hp generator which runs at least 20 hours a day after one of those hurricanes but every 72 hours, and it looks like it just came out of the bottle. I haven't done it but I'm sure it could go at least 100 hours. Now it does run on propane, which will keep any engine oil much cleaner.

Can't seer the engine data plate numbers clearly but that wouldn't be enough to determine the year and model of your Wheel Horse unless you were absolutely sure it is the engine it left the factory with. There should be a decal with a model number just below the steering wheel. Click on this link and do an introduction including some photos and we will be able to help you identify it. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/forum/47-introductions/

I had my GPS on shortest distance and when it took me up 4.8 mile of dirt road, I started to think Bing Videos

Becoming a supporter of Red Square will make it easier to post videos and pictures. Whenever some new problem crops up it is likely to be related to the last thing you did, in this case the condenser wire having been shorted. Your engine will run without a condenser for testing purposes. Remove the wire from the coil to condenser and seed if the problem goes away, If so buy a new condenser, install it and call it a day.

Ive run oil temp probes on older splash lubed engines back when i had a few digitron and mycron setups laying around. I think one of the hardest working engines is a power washer, they run continuously at near 100% load, i probed a few engines across a few brands and found, yeah the oil gets hot but i struggled to get it up into the normal range, it needs to regularly get over 212⁰ to cook off moisture, but needs to stay under 275⁰ to avoid thermal breakdown. Now, a filter is never a bad thing, definitely kudos for the filter, which on its own provides some oil cooling.

Here is another option. If you use Advanced Search you can tweak it quite a bit.

I woke Morgan the 14-8 up from his long winter's nap today. He needed a shot of air in the left rear and a bit of crankcase oil. The 5 gallon gas can had about a gallon of no alcohol left from last fall, so that got dumped into the tank. A little extra crank time to fill the carb bowl, and he fired ridge up. Did the first mowing today. Mowed the lake front too. About half way through, I noticed that the mulching plate was still on the deck. I'll remove that when I get into the deck to sharpen the blades and grease the spindles. If the weather is nice tomorrow, I've got to drag the lawn sweep around the back yard to get the winter collection of sticks picked up. Not sure if I'll use Morgan or Pack Rat the AC B110 for this task. The nesting pair of loons is back on the lake. Saw 2 chick's riding on mamma loon's back. We also have a nesting pair of geese on the lake. They have a brood of 6 goslings. Dog and I take several patrols along the shore In an effort to discourage the geese from frequenting our yard. Morgan did a pretty good job of convincing the goose family to move on, too. My neighbor was telling me how a goose had landed on the roof of the lake house. Had to hit it with a thrown stick to chase it off.

Thank man I ordered them from Lowell I couldn’t find them, these are just like my originals, I appreciate it👍 @953 nut

You gotta' run a small engine pretty hard to need that. Interesting concept, but a fools errand. IMO

I will miss being there as well. The surgeon I seen today said it was going to be a challenge to do the repair because of scar tissue from past surgeries. I'll let you know about the frequent flyer points.lol Thanks for the offer but I have refrained from purchasing this year.

Got some news. Dropped off some parts at chrome dipping place on Monday. Wait is at least a month so we now have some time to spare. Also today received some parts from @76c12091520h! Thanks again Brian! Got in NOS never opened hub center caps for the front. NOS hood latches and NOS hardware for the mid attach o matic.

Excellent work on your restoration. The engine sounds great. Love Briggs twins. I'd like to offer one piece of advice, please invest in some PPE. Using a proper full or half face respirator with organic vapor cartridges and disposable nitrile gloves can greatly reduce your chemical exposure. Also purchase safety glasses and/or a face shield and use them. Absorption and inhalation are the two primary methods of unintentional chemical ingestion. I often think about some of the things I did when I was younger and did know better, and I wonder what effect it may have on me in the future. This is a great hobby, enjoy it safely.