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If anyone has any doubts about this being the best community around, check out the Max Nunn and David Star/Howard stories. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?q="max nunn"&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy Another one to read is about David Star, who donated a kidney to Howard @857 horse

@kpinnc Well said, I have used my wife’s account to access a few Wheel Horse sites on FB. I was amazed at some of the responses there. Some were downright rude and others were giving out information that was incorrect. I never commented on any of it and decided to just come back here where the people are nice, knowledgeable and we even have a good time poking fun at each other. @Ed Kennell @wallfish @squonk @SylvanLakeWH @ebinmaine seem to be the ring leaders in the poking fun part. Oh and very good with other words of wisdom!😂😂😂

Parts for your next custom WH build

Wheel Horse Enthusiasts... A bunch of crazy people in many locations that all think along similar lines. ...Maybe that's just me. I will say this about the group here: decent men and women who act like kids at Christmas when we find the "next" coveted machine. People who recognize rugged but elegant (as opposed to simple) engineered and built machines. Feel free to go onto other brand forums and see how the membership treats one another. That was what my "decent" comment above was about. You won't see such silliness here. Whether it's the forum or the mentality of the members or a little of both is debatable, but it makes a difference regardless.

World Honey Bee Day is celebrated every third Saturday in August. It is a holiday that reminds us of the beauty and value of bees. Do you know there are 20,000 different species of bees all around the world? This holiday is the time to celebrate the importance of bees in our world. It also helps create an awareness of the dangers that honey bees face, with suggested ways of solving the problem.

The good thing about stone surface table (which yours's s beautiful by the way) is it's less likely to absorb oil or carb cleaner when making WH repairs!

I brought an RJ home today. 5 hour round trip. Older restoration, hasn’t ran in years, piston is free. I’ll work on this in my spare time …. The gentleman threw in what he said was an original fabricated slot hitch. Can anyone confirm this? I know the front wheels are not correct, saw that right away. Its granddaughter approved !

Amen, brother. It's quite an empire they have built for themselves. Not a fan of the public school system. I hope that the dismantling of the federal Dept of Education is a step towards getting our kids educated again.

Part of a shaker grate for a coal stove.

Looks like he put $300 as a down payment, and had a balance of $111.50, with subsequent payments after that. That's the way I read the receipt, anyways.

Now with three tractors, and the last being a 3 1/2 month extensive project…. ME TOO!

Im so glad my 2016 Colorado has none of that technology. Sirius radio & backup camera is about it. I did install a Garmin GPS unit that I hardwired. I still prefer to use a GPS than my phone as my navigation. Did similar setup on my 2018 Focus. Simple, yet effective. It also has backup camera that as i get older I do find useful. Now.....my 2025 Cadillac. Dashboard has the huge screen which is Google based. Super cruise, Lane keeping assist, pedestrian warning, etc, etc. Seats & steering wheel vibrating when driving, warning lights & chimes when a pedestrian walks nearby. The absolutely stupid start/stop feature! Then I can adjust suspension, exhaust note, steering effort, & probably a bunch of other things that I dont know how to or will ever need to. Its way too much stuff. Think my 1989 Town Car is pure, simple old school luxury.

Today was paint day, I was also getting used to and dialing in my new gravity feed Husky paint gun. I got it in June for my birthday. The panels overall are going to need a little sanding and touch up especially the rear pan and guards as they were the first thing painted. The hood turned out great and no runs overall. It’s a learning curve. It beats using a spray can too.

This receipt for a Wheel Horse purchase in 1960 was posted on Red Square several days ago! i was up in Lake County. Indiana at my mom and brother’s and stopped by Terpstras. This was the Wheel Horse ( now Toro and other outdoor equipment) dealer we used when i was a kid. The Terpstra’s place was only about a mile from our house and it was a feed , seed and farm store before they accepted their first Wheel Horse but they were an early dealer! If you search Tersptras in the Red Square search box more old posts will come up! Anyway Tuesday i stopped i to the store and showed Don Terpstra , the son of William Terpstra, the original owner, the 1960 receipt photo. I emailed it to Don and he was pleased to see it! Don showed me a photo of his dad William on a wagon with a four horse team ( 4 Wheel Horses linked together) . He told me Wheel Horse in the early days loaned this four horse rig to dealers to promote Wheel Horse sales! I have seen several over the years and i always thought they were homemade rigs set up for parades. But Don indicated at least one set was made by Wheel Horse and this was probably before they had their factory building on Ireland Road in ghe south side of South Bend . The RJ picture is the one they still have displayed in the store ( the original feed and seed part of the building). It was sold by Tersptras in 1959 and traded back in later. The Terpstra family restored it in the early 1990s and Don said they just used what extra decals they had at the time!

Was that seat in that condition before or after @Pullstart got ahold of it?

Here's the tractor that came with the receipt. Griffith is only about an hour away. I'll bet he'd get a kick seeing the actual receipt. Pics of the tractor too.

looks like next to the $300 he wrote "cash" (And I had to stay after school in 1st grade for sloppy writing so I can read stuff like that. Helped out in college when a Prof. writing was worse than mine!)

When you want another restoration project - you stop by. I'll fix you right up!

$411 for a tractor and $300 for the sow plow just doesn't seem right.

I remember learning how to read a map and all the symbols legends in elementary school. I’m fairly certain that no such instruction occurs these days (they no longer even teach cursive, and I love to curse!). On the bright side, though, my shiny new electric plug in car (lolz) will know to prevent me from moving in the event I fall behind on my payments. Progress!

Got on the trail nice and early today (8:00am) and cranked out 18 miles!

Back in the 60s, 70s and early 80s we sold Jacobsen Chief tractors and later after Ariens brought the New Holland lawn and garden tractors, their tractors too. So we were already handling some pretty nice tractors and then in the early 80s we took on Wheel Horse. I didn't know anything about W/H but soon learned and figured out a lot! By this time we had dropped Jacobsen (mainly because of a switch in distributors, about the time that Textron got involved with them). Ariens didn't have a small garden tractor, like the C125 and the C-series turned out to be our biggest seller. I quickly grew a love for these tractors, they were a great size, great price and rugged. When I went to the W/H School of Business in South Bend in 1989 they advised that their garden tractors were lasting an average of 23 years with average use and care. Back then our competitors were mainly JD, Cub Cadet, Bolens, Simplicity, and Sears. Some of the customers I talked to and lost told me later that they were sold on JD because of their reputation, so I didn't have a cure if someone needed to have green paint. For others comparing W/H to Sears I would ask them to compare the weights of the two and for some that helped justify the price difference. I've been out of the W/H business for a long time and still love them! I have 4 complete tractors and a couple of parts tractors, not nearly as many as many of you, but I love my little fleet! C-85

Thanks! I was hoping it would haha I wanted something that looked kinda like it did originally, but with much better light output. Also the original lens in good shape are expensive and as time goes on there is less and less of them.

Including the showerhead muffler.

I was the implementation lead on a project to transition a huge Virginia school district onto a new payroll system. Their original system paid teachers, aides, cafeteria workers, etc, over ten months, Sept-Jun, which was challenging for household budgeting, heath insurance payments, etc. While we were in the midst of fixing that, and other shortcomings, one administrator (only half-jokingly) said that many teachers would be happy if we could just pay their bills and give them an allowance! I realized in that moment that to succeed, our project had to include a lot of guidance and education for all the educators and staff and adjusted our plans accordingly.

It’s a K91.

Yes, that's a correct factory hitch. You can get a lift cable for it at wheelhorsepartsandmore.com Very nice find as it has all of the usually missing parts

Kevin said it "was completely black, covered and no cracks when parked"...

Exactly why I picked them up

It's a "lifttoremovegrate". Says so right on the top.

My headlight idea in progress.

I passed the Petersons Penmanship course in grade school and was good in math, but wasn't so good reading if the book wasn't about fishing, hunting, or baseball reading, writing, rithmatic....2 fer 3 ain't too bad

I figure it was used to turn the tiller on the Mayflower. Yep that's it! I know it! Being so close Ply-mouth rock and that jazz. I will say pretty neat shop art thing. And I did not figure there was many mines in MA. But there are a few!

Yea, the 300.00 was a cash down payment. $411.50 for the tractor and snowblade. I think the mower deck was standard equipment at the time which it was not line itemed.

1500lbs table plus 10 or so diners maybe another 1200 lbs plus chairs....Meal may be finished in the basement

We rented a ‘25 Buick Enclave for our trip this year. Great google based navigation system. The dashboard was one big screen. You could have maps up on the right side and also in the “gauge”area behind the steering wheel. It was pretty cool. The seat had a vibration thing in it that would go off if a person was approaching, or if I got close backing up, or coming up on a car too quick. That got turned off. I wouldn’t want to actually buy a new car today, Too much unnecessary stuff to possibly fail after the warranty is up I’d lease instead.

I find the back up cameras handy. Like @Ed Kennell, my neck is not as flexible as it once was, and my bifocals make weird images when viewing through the glasses at high eye angles. Parking sensors are somewhere between handy, annoying and comical - like going through the bank drive through and all of the proximity warning lights and buzzers going off saying 'WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!! One of the local car dealers loaned a truck to the local high school robotics team to tow the team trailer to Houston for the world championships this year. I was one of the drivers. It had a feature that would put a picture on the dash of the appropriate blind spot when you turned on a turn signal for a lane change - I found that to be really nice.

The engineers in the plant i used to work at work Hawaiian shirts on Fridays. One Friday, the plant manager had called a meeting for the engineering department. He walked into the meeting room, saw our manager in 'proper" attire and the rest of us in colorful Hawaiian shirts. He kind of rolled his eyes, sighed and got the meeting started.

Baby boomers like me grew up with parents who when they grew up were children of the depression and also typically WW2 vets -- Therefore, our parents knew economic hardships in their younger life so my sisters and I were taught Economics 101 and real life graduate level finances at the kitchen table -- plus, also real life $$ examples every day of the week from Mom and Dad. My sisters and I were fortunate to grow up in a "middle class" financial situation - In their adult years, my sisters and their families also lived a comfortable middle class life and financially secure senior years thanks to those financial lessons taught by our parents. My most basic learning about finances and economics from my Dad actually is a tractor story - no not a WH - but still it was a tractor story. When I was age 14, I harrassed my Dad until he caved and he bought a Montgomery Wards tractor with mower and plow -- In those days lawn/garden tractors, or the then versions of riding mowers, were rare in a typical subdivision neighborhood. I had the idea as a teenager I should have a tractor to mow neighbors lawns and plow their winter snow rather than me use a push mower or a snow shovel. Of course I had zero $ to buy a tractor myself. So my Dad said "sure, I'll buy the tractor and you will keep a log journal and you will keep 40 % and since I your Dad am fronting the $$ you will pay me 60 percent" -- ( including Dad paying for gas, oil, belts, blades, parts, etc). My lesson over about 5 years, age 14 to 18, was about $$ capital, loans, expenses, overhead, time value of money, interest earned or lost, labor expenses, ROI, etc -- Best $$ lessons I ever learned that served me well the rest of my life was from a tractor - and now I am doing a WH tractor rehab project with my age 12 grandsons - explaining the same $$$ lessons I was taught.... ( and as footnote my Dad "gave" me his 60% share back as a contribution for some of my college expenses). and as a p.s. to the story -- while I strongly believe consumer finances should be a mandatory course in the schools ( but mostly is not ) , I have zero confidence my grandchildren will learn most of those economic and financial lessons in school.

Took Artie out for a ride yesterday. Need to drive it more battery was low.

I have was a wife that used her work bonuses and doubled the principal on house payment, (Look at a amortization schedule. The first month's payment might be $200. $190 interest and $10 principal. By kicking in an additional ten dollars you've just paid two months payment. Of course the return diminishes the later in the payment schedule but for us it was wise decision,) We've only purchased one new vehicle in our 48 years of marriage. I've never owned a new lawn tractor. Living modestly, we were debt free when I was 35 years old and have managed to remain so. I saw a graft showing that something like 15% of married 30-somethings are on tract to owning a home. To me, that's a sad statistic.

@c-series don re-introduced me to Red Square in 2021 after meeting at the Big Show and discussing the issues that I was having with my two stage snowblower linkage hanging up from time to time. We must have talked for an hour, exchanged cell #s, and have become very good friends, all because of a little red machine. Thanks Don. I am happy too say that I have never cut the grass or plowed/blew snow on anything but a Wheel Horse, dating back to the mid/late 70s on a brand new B-80 8 speed that my dad bought. I thought I was king of the hill on that thing. As someone said, we all have our quirks, but the common thread of Wheel Horse and the desire to see the legacy of the brand prosper is what draws us together. I have gotten good advice here more than once, and without the smart@ss remarks found elsewhere. I have two WHs now and occasionally have three, then the garage is full. As long as my wife's Passat fits in the garage my hobby is safe.

I have told my wife it is like we are all sitting around in the workshop helping each other with our projects or problems. Occasionally we attempt to solve the world's problems but for the most part we are satisfied being helpful and supportive.

Rest In Peace & Thank You For Your service to this country!

A hair covered horse is a herd animal. A paint covered horse is also a herd animal. We have wheel horse tractors because they're extremely easy to build rebuild repair maintain disassemble reassemble Etc. You'll see many references to BBT or Trina. That's my other half. She's extremely practical minded. She does most of the work on the tractors that we restore. It's unlikely she would have any other brand. 7 or 8 years ago I guess it was now? We set it out with one tractor. We now have over a dozen. The other big thing is the people. Red Square in particular is a great bunch of folks.

I believe that teachers and administrators are government employees with a pension, every dime they make can be blown immediately with the taxpayers supporting their retirement.

We've paid off our mortgage early too and have been debt free for many years. When we watch TV we see all kinds of ads for National Debt Relief and can't believe that many people would need that service, but apparently they do. We've never made that much money but have all we need and more. An old fella once told me that "it's not what you make, it's what you spend that counts." I jokingly tell people that "we can't afford a down payment on a free lunch!" One of my nicknames is - Dirt Poor Denny! C-85 aka Dennis

I think it’s wild how everybody comes from different backgrounds, upbringing, religions, political views, etc… and Wheel Horse is the one common ground that brought us here. Some maintain their city lot, some maintain their truck patch, some plow fields, some plow snow. We all have a different reason to stop by Red Square and chit chat, but it all seems to work great! My hat’s off to the moderators who keep it the way it is, and the supporters who keep the lights on! I began my Wheel Horse journey back in 2013 when I just needed a lawn mower. I found this really cool 1962 502 on Craigslist and it really clicked. Seeing my kids enjoy growing up with these little tractors around has been amazing, and watching them become responsible drivers has been a bonus! Everyone is happier on a Wheel Horse!