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April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise. The spacecraft’s destination was the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon, where the astronauts were to explore the Imbrium Basin and conduct geological experiments. After an oxygen tank exploded on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objective became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive. At 9:00 p.m. EST on April 13, Apollo 13 was just over 200,000 miles from Earth. The crew had just completed a television broadcast and was inspecting Aquarius, the Landing Module (LM). The next day, Apollo 13 was to enter the moon’s orbit, and soon after, Lovell and Haise would become the fifth and sixth men to walk on the moon. At 9:08 p.m., these plans were shattered when an explosion rocked the spacecraft. Oxygen tank No. 2 had blown up, disabling the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light, and water. Lovell reported to mission control: “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” This is such a coinsurance that Artemis 2 completed its nearly flawless mission the day before the 56th anniversary of launch of one of NADSA's most spectacular seat-of-the-pants engineering feats.

Cleaned up a downed apple tree at my mom’s house today. The tree had just started good apple 🍎 production! Uses the 314- 8 of my brothers anddhis 4 wheel wagon as our other Wheel Horse cart was being used by their neighbor . Five loads in the four wheel wagon and she was cleaned up!

Been riding quite a bit this week. Today I went on a stretch of the trail that I haven’t been on in a loooong time. It goes right thru the center of a small city which usually doesn’t appeal to me, but I actually had a great ride and eventually I passed thru the city and back into the woods. Stopped to snap a lot of pics:

Lots of good wood for smoking. Apple wood smoked ribs on the menu anytime soon?

Use a front hitch and push it. I never got the 4 wheel backup skill. My young neighbor can back up a 4 wheel hay wagon that is hooked behind his baler. That is skill.

Here you go then The line up 73 16 Auto & C160 68 Raider 12 68 Commando 854

New torch setup: 50ft reel, nowhere in the building I can't get to.

We got started on the boy's truck today. It's going to be a long process.

Over the winter months when it was too cold and nasty outside I looked for small things to do in the house. I decided to PM our 2 vacuum cleaners. Not everyone knows most uprights have 3 filters in them. The regular dust filter for the canister, plus 1 to keep dust out of the motor and a HEPA to exhaust to the air in the house. I ordered new filters for both. So my wife who works at a thrift store asked if I could look at their vac. It was a Hoover Commercial upright. They had used it to vacuum the entrance rug and with the weather it was filled with mud! So I volunteered my time. Took a bit of cleaning but I got it working great. In the meantime, corporate bought the store a brand new vac. BUT the new kid they hired SOLD it to a customer!!! Well my wife brought home another vac that came in as a donation yesterday for me to look at. It's a Bissell and all I can say is What a mess!!! First this thing is junk compared to the other one. It had a zoo full of animal hair in it and what wasn't hair was drywall compound and dust. Major pain to get the motor filter out but I got that much back together. Used one of those claw grabber 's to get the animals out. Going to have to power wash the bits to get it cleaned well enough to even try to see if it's going to work. I told my wife the next time they have a pizza party at the store I better be invited!

Here is the link to wheel horse parts and more. He is a vendor on this site as well and great to deal with. https://wheelhorsepartsandmore.com/product/square-steering-wheel-insert-wheel-horse-logo/

Here is the wagon I built. No, it does not tilt but it is very stable. Also, you can easily unhitch it when loaded so long as it does not roll away. Backing a wagon is much more difficult than a trailer. I grew up on a farm so backing up hay wagons got to be second nature. However, these small wagons are more difficult as they jackknife quickly.

Just joking of course. I'd love to be up there with them. Not sure I'd do touch and goes in random fields they way they do, but fun to watch. I was running my compressor and didn't hear them in time to get great pics, but this is my back yard.

But she is still putting in work, previous owners were bigger hippies than I. They tried to let the entire yard grow into a prairie but didn’t really understand what they were doing. They ordered to also throw scrap wood in piles so now I have overgrown mess hiding land mines all over. I’m currently doing a full pass with the deck up to take top off and then slowly going back with the deck set at max height. As long as I go slow it’s doing okay but once this belt stretches a bit I’m sure it’ll be an issue.

Hmmm…I have a set of those out in the shed. Been sitting there for years attached to a seat I’ve never used. I’ll have to go out and find em and see how they operate. I love extra leg room.

On to the transmission controls. It feels much better now with all new wear components. Full forward and reverse control, and it holds position properly. Also replaced the drive belt, pulley, and spring. Modified the belt guard for better Onan cooling.

I hit a deadlift record this week, 370 lbs. 385 whooped me, but I’ll get it soon.

I live where dogs have to be on a leash. If they're not, then the owner is entirely at fault.

Slapped some brush painted red on this dethatcher today (gray just wasn’t going to cut it!)

Update: I have a chance to bring it home. However, I'll need to rehome it quickly as I don't have room for it and my free time is limited these days. I'll post pictures once it's home.

Hi all Got some more done, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

I'm building a mid mount grader blade for my B80 and I've found a lot of information but I'm lacking a couple of dimensions and an angle. Any chance one of you might have access to one of these and be willing to provide the needed information? Thanks! Brad

As soon as you have to think about it, you’re doomed.

We pullum to the barn then turn tractor around and push back in barn. We use to have a barn or two you could pull through which made it nice and one that was in a pretty flat spot with plenty of room and I could back wagon in it pretty good. Use to pull tractors with a young man 20yr my junior beat anything I ever saw backing a wagon he actually won the state FFA competition of wagon backing in high school. Man he could fly backing that thing, he could put two in a barn before I figured out which way to turn steering wheel first time .

When I was in 4-H we had tractor driving competition at the county fair. I hade never mastered the hay wagon backing skill (our hay barn was a pull through) but figured I would give it a try just for fun. I had one pull forward and the wagon was in place with no saw horses or ribbons disturbed. Next I hooked up the corn picker to back it into a stall and ran over two cones. All previously accumulated attaboys were now history.

Installed vacuum gauge on 520 today. Not going lie was kinda dreading getting steering wheel off but was easiest one Ive ever tackled . Had to take lift control lever off but the hydro control got to stay just loosened up to allow dash to move out of way. The harder tractor pulls the lower reading number on gauge, I had it in my mind it would read the other way. Also does anyone know if someone makes/sells steering wheel center cap for the 520? BTW big thanks to @Bow_Extreme for vacuum gauge.

My dad could do that as well. I could do one or the other but not both. Hardest part was backing the wagon. Out of the barn after unloading it with only a few inches on each side.

Yes it is. Very well built. It will need a new cover soon.

Is that a COVER - TECH garage Made in Canada ? Looks like one. @cleat

Seat can go back farther and if you want to drill or elongate some holes even farther back yet. 3 HHHOOOWWWAAARRRDDD!!! letters sounded about right! ( If you'd come to the show and hear me yell that at him you'd agree!)

Paul: Nice collection of workers you have. One for every job summer fall and winter. Enjoy them all.

Hey guys, just got home from working out in Indiana… He said he was a member but doesn’t go on here much anymore. It’s so much fun to travel back east and finally get to see another one of these tractors. Isn’t that crazy? I’ve never actually laid eyes on another Wheelhorse other than my own.🤣 The one in the photograph that is parked on the gravel has a diesel engine in it… I think a 10 horse. ..really got me motivated to get cracking on the recently rebuilt Kohler K341 installation. I’ve got another hard week of work and then will finally have some time to get the engine in and get the wiring done. Jason

now thats more like it

Put a little bling bling on that came from Vinyl Guy. Changed engine and hydro oil and filters and added oil filter cooling tin gasket.

Some pics Angle iron and sq tube 3/4 rod welded to a square plate that you can bolt the caster to. I had pneumatic tires but the kept going flat or ruptured the side walls. Using old deck wheels now. They sink in more when it is soft but at least they hold up. I live on a hill and have near constant breeze my annual sweep the rocks back on to the road should take an hour or so but usual spread over a couple days waiting for the wind to die or be in the right direction even so the thatch it picks up blows all over mostly back on me. It is 48"wide The electric lift is glacially slow

It's a runner! Wiring isn't 100% done. Going to try to get that finished up tomorrow. It still needs tuning but I may have to do that at Pullstart's.

That applies to more than wagons. When I start to think I really don't need another WH tractor....

Alex those are both some very nice tractors!!! Great seeing you today!

Is your dipstick and dipstick tube the original and in good condition? Did you run the tractor till it got up to full operating temperature before parking it? I do believe that you can do everything just right and they will still burp occasionally. You might want to invest in pee pads:

What did you use for tubing to make the tie rods?

Got any weights? I like weight too! especially in winter. @Pullstart can help if you have an issue lifting them!

Ok, I thought it looked a bit different. At least I know the belt routing is right.

One of my favorites 1986 417-8

I use a 7" wonder bar, work your way around the edge like @Retired Wrencher said.

Here we go, got them both done. Going to pull the front axle to check on the axle pin and spindles see if I can tighten things up.

Thanks for all the excellent advice. The worst part of this is that the original carb was probably fine. The condenser went bad and it started running lousy when I idled up so I thought initially it was the carb. I attempted a rebuild of the carb and it didn't work out too well. Is there someone here who rebuilds carburetors, or are there good rebuild kits that aren't coming from China that are good quality? Thanks again..

Here's what I came up with for an idler setup. I used L brackets I'd ordered for the Two Stage Tall Chute snowblower last year. I pulled the digital tach out and checked the engine upper RPM limit. It was set quite low. I knew it getting quiet. 5 years ago I had it just over 3000 RPM. This morning it was at about 2500, 2600. Didn't really matter not having any engine driven implements on. I corrected that. Engine RPM max: Unloaded. 3300, 3325 Chipper engaged. 3275, 3295 Chipper RPM. 2475, 2500 Chipper could be a couple hundred rpm higher but we'll test it this way and see how it does. Likely leave it. I put all the decals on this morning.

Sgt., U.S. Army, disabled. Thank you!

US Army-Retired