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Here’s a few of my herd, I’ve collected and sold them for the past few years, very early 78’ C-141 A, 76’ B-80, 71’ Bronco 14, 73’ No name 14, I actually have two but the other one is a Frankenstein. And I’ve owned an 800, 416-H, and a charger and a few others which have been parted out sadly or sold. I started this whole thing with my c-141 given to me by one of my dads friends, back in 2022, since then I’ve been through over 12 different garden tractors and now I’m sitting at 5 trying to keep them and take them to shows. Thanks

August 12, 1908 Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T car, which Henry Ford himself tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and northern Michigan.

Today I became a grandpa for the second time! My granddaughter is four and my grandson was born at 2:03 today. 10lbs 6oz ! Praise god everyone is doing great ❤️ We are going to meet him in the morning ❤️

Hands on Proof of Concept. I wonder if he encountered any long steep hills on the way?? My Dad told me years ago when he was 18 and just graduated from High School, that he & 3 friends took a similar Model T camping. A 200 mile or so trip each way, from RI to northern New Hampshire. The Model T was like a lot of early 1960's Wheel Horse tractors in that the carburetor was gravity fed from the fuel tank mounted Higher than the Carburetor.... That was fine until they got to the White Mountains - they had to travel up in reverse to keep the carb bowl full....

You can tap them in and out with a socket. Pay attention to how dep it sets into the case.

Same! Never even heard of WH before I bought one. Then I found this place way back in 08 just looking for some info on that tractor I bought and these clowns turned it into a full blown obsession. I learned quite A LOT over the years and this was basically my go to source for that info.

I wasn't at their high level meeting either... too busy keeping track of Pullstart doling out ice cream. Word on the street is it's a free for all and run what ya brung. Really ?? Does it matter? Long as it's a ...

We have always heard the phrase attributed to Henry Ford that “you can buy a Model T in any color as long as its BLACK” well not at the beginning. In the first years of production from 1908 to 1913, the Model T was not available in black, but rather only in gray, green, blue, and red. Green was available for the touring cars, town cars, coupes, and Landaulets. Gray was available for the town cars only and red only for the touring cars. By 1912, all cars were being painted midnight blue with black fenders. In 1914 the "any color so long as it is black" policy was implemented. Also, Henry Ford was an early environmentalist (or tightwad). To save space and lower shipping costs—especially for international destinations like Australia and New Zealand—Ford shipped Model T cars disassembled inside large wooden packing cases. According to historical lore, Henry Ford instructed his component suppliers to build these shipping crates using exact dimensions, specific wood types, and pre-spaced measurements so the boards could double as Model T floorboards once unpacked.

@ri702bill my c-141 acts like a prom queen sometimes but I use her to mow too!

Henry Ford and family had an amazing estate here in Southampton called Fordune, it was right on the ocean, behind the dunes comprising approximately 250 acres. He was also a member of Shinnecock Golf Club, where the US Open was just played in June. Years ago an old timer named Gene in my fire department told me a story. As I kid he was a caddy at Shinnecock and was walking home when a gentleman stopped his car and asked if he needed a ride. Gene said yes and hopped in. The gentleman drove him right to his house, and when Gene thanked him, he asked his name. The guy said my name is Henry Ford!! I can still see the smile on ole Gene’s face when he told me that story!

I had a problem with the motion control lever on one of mine being hard to push forward, turned out a family of chipmunks had been building a nest in there that interfered with full movement.

Good eye Cleat!! She now has a Kohler 14 Magnum single under the hood!

No problem our work here is done and since @prondzy may be looking for them as well. They are not repros but close enough for the women we go out with. Yes made for Jeep restos. There have been many links to them here in the past and you can find them on fleabay and other places. @Achto found some super nice ones for his 701 and they were high test locking but they are NLA now and yet to find them elsewhere. Most are non locking and don't come with the plastic outer covering but shrink wrap makes them look orginal. You may often have to paint them black and white letter them. Search keywords are jeep cables throttle choke ... try Note these are out of stock https://www.ebay.com/itm/276726990312

Thanks Don. 😊 Meeha is doing well. She's been improving her ability to stand for several days .. a little wobbly at first. Trina says "drunken monkey". Yesterday she was able to lay back down for the first time. That's a big step in the right direction. Today we're experimenting with removing one of the meds, on vet recommendations of course.

Finally made time for a few days of work on our Ky property this week. 1st order of business was to wake EJ the 8N up from his extended hibernation. Suprise, suprise all 4 tires held air over the winter. He needed some antifreeze to top up the radiator. Poured the remaining couple gallons of last year's gas in the tank, reinstalled the battery, flipped the switch to on, bumped the starter button, and he started right up. Scary, really. That electronic ignition I installed last year sure is wonderful. Brakes still work, too. Good sign that it got the axle leak fixed last year. Bush hogged the roadside and the 'driveway' before things got weird. Sputter, sputter, stall. Got gas in the tank, seems to be spark. What the heck? Tools a couple hundred yards up hill - 90+ degrees. Get back with proper wrench, loosen the fuel line as carb, fuel comes out. Switch on, bump the starter button, starts right up. Drive him back up the hill and trade the bush hog for a box blade. He runs the box blade for a while, but does the sputter, sputter, stall routine a couple more times. Same fix. I've come up with 3 possibilities: Vapor lock. The fuel line does pass right over the engine. It was a hot day. Loosening the fuel line at the carb 'burped' the vapor out? Faulty shutoff valve at the tank? The fuel level was approaching the 'reserve' level. Completely opening the valve does not open the 'reserve'? Overheated coil? Again, a hot day. The coil feels about like a cup of coffee. Wasn't much cooler when the tractor restarted. I'm pretty sure thus isn't the issue. Short term fix - 5 more gallons of gas in the tank tomorrow. Long term fix - electric fuel pump?

While searching something else I came across this old thread from 2011. This is both a sad and interesting thread from the past. Gary Pond, Cecil's son, was part of it. Sure wish he stayed hanging around, but I get it. Many of the members that posted on it were a big part of this forum back in the day. It's very nostalgic to see some of those names and remember those early days of RS. This thread may have been hosted on the old Forumer site before Karl made this place permanent. I can't remember what year that was but thank you Karl ( @nylyon) for saving it if it was. The Forumer site owned ALL of the content before Karl made it ours. That's a whole story just on it's own and interesting RS history. Plenty of those old threads back in the day had tons of interesting subjects and very knowledgeable people the providing that info so it's sad to see they either passed or simply moved on. If you happen come across any interesting threads from the past or know of one please post them.

Hey! I Know that one!

416-8 with the Ark front end loader. A pretty good first WH Then I picked up a RJ58 and went out of control for a while buying round hoods. Have since sold all of the attachments and most of the tractors. Still have 2 RJs, a 400, a 401, a 654, an 855, a 520-HC with 2 stage blower, 418-C and only 2 customs

Yes a vertical one is going on solid blocking. I will show the complete thing when finished as ordering parts for the various plumbing fixtures and stuff has stalled the completion. Here is some eye candy with many coats of Danish oil finally sealing down the wood of an enemy battle implement. What three coats will do on some fine grain walnut takes twenty on this stuff.

I have a Choremaster Post Hole Digger, believe it to be early 50s.

I have a Choremaster Post Hole Digger. Reckon they were only in the early 50s.

VW rear-engine Beetles

...and... if you had one of those (now banned) accessory add-on gasoline heaters, the burning fuel was even closer!

Well, I finally tore into the transmission for my M37. Here it is after the first round of degreasing and pressure washing: It looked good when I first opened it up, but after disassembling it, I experienced a sudden pain in my wallet. I'm guessing that a snap ring must have come loose and got wedged between two components, which broke the ends off all but one spline where it formed the groove to contain the snap ring. At least that's my take on it. I found most of the broken pieces of the spline and snap ring at the bottom of the case, but it looks like one or two broken bits managed to circulate with the oil and do some damage to several components. There were also some rust pits on some of the bearing surfaces. The upshot of all this is that I'll be replacing almost every moving part of the transmission. I've ordered a ton of NOS parts, which are starting to arrive now. It will be a pricey repair, but should be like new when I'm done. On the plus side, it looks like all of the parts are still available, either NOS or new manufacture. More pictures coming as the work progresses.

An empty spot on a workbench is an open invitation to buy more tools. In my workshop a bare spot on a bench is a rare enough event that I take a photo of it to show my friends before covering it with more stuff. Otherwise they might not believe it happened.

My grandfather had many stories of him and his brothers repairing and tweaking and driving their Model T. He backed them up by showing me his grease-smudged full set of illustrated technical books with their notes. The leather-surfaced, “press down to go” cone clutch was the biggest surprise.

Funny, I rebuilt a GT1600 and converted it to hydro a couple of years ago and am now in the process of rebuilding a 314 that has a Kohler M14.

Nice! I see all "Workin' Girls", no "Prom Queens". Just like Cecil & Elmer intended then..... Same here - they all have to pull their own weight to get a spot in the garage.

That Twin cylinder Briggs looks a lot like a single cylinder Kohler......JK looks great.

That's an EXCELLENT price.

The 67 towed the 83 from the back shed up to the garage for a drive belt swap. Thought I was saving a few $$ using the belt I just removed from a junk C-81..but it ended up being a little shorter and she just doesn’t declutch like it should. Grinds the gears a bit. Crud!! I guess I’ll be using a brand new belt I picked up at this years WH Show. The idler pulley was shot on the 83 (GT-1600) so the C-81 did donate a nice smooth one so there’s that

Not really a "done to" but got my RS 20th anniversary banner hung up after moving a bunch of other stuff around.

If the spool valve is in the neutral position there should be no fluid flow from either hose. Now, since the fluid has already escaped, and the hoses are disconnected, you can GENTLY use compressed air into the ports to check the function of the lift ram. The other potential possibility here is that the pump is worn. It is very possible that the pump is able to produce flow, but not enough pressure to operate the lift. Remove plug #4 and inspect spring #3 and check ball #2. Those should be the components that provide the restriction that allows the pump to build pressure. I have taken apart a few of these and seen at least one of them with those items stuck.

Can you weld a 3/8" nut to it and pull with a slide hammer? You would need to ground good on the case to prevent the current travelling through the bearings which would damage them.

That's OK - Proms during the week, but put the working clothes on for the weekend....

@Bar Nuthin I will not be attending this year with tractors, I might go to see everyone else’s though!

Choremaster, the one wheeled wonder tractor If you have been to a general interest tractor show no doubt you have seen a Choremaster. Many of them are used to pull passenger carts. The Choremaster’s inventor was Carl Van Ausdall of Union County, Indiana, who started out selling Chevrolets at his father’s Liberty, Indiana dealership. Van Ausdall built and tested the Choremaster prototype, powered by a 1 hp Clinton engine in July 1946, Van Ausdall applied for a patent, which was granted in December 1950. Van Ausdall took his inventions to people’s gardens to test their operation. He then took the tractors back to his shop, evaluated their performance and made alterations as needed. Van Ausdall was reported to have personally tested each new tractor model and implement before it was put into production. VanAusdall made arrangements with Lodge and Shipley of Cincinnati to manufacture his tractor beginning with the 1947 models. Many people think Lodge and Shipley invented the Choremaster. Van Ausdall received a royalty for each tractor produced. His invention was the first product of Lodge and Shipley’s Special Products Division to bear the Choremaster name. In 1947, only the 1-1/2 hp model Choremaster was offered for retail sale. The pre-season 1947 catalog lists such attachments as a snow blade, a universal mower that converted push mowers to a front-mounted attachment, a breaking plow, a grader plow for soil and snow, and a rear tool bar for mounting a variety of cultivating tools, sweeps and hoes and an 18-inch reel mower. A mercury clutch (centrifugal clutch) of Van Ausdall’s design that allowed the engine to be started and run at less than 1,600 rpm without the sheave turning was used on both Briggs & Stratton and Clinton engines. In 1948, few visible changes were made. One model was offered – the same 1-1/2 hp along with all the 1947 implements plus an expanded line of cultivator shovels, hoes and hillers. A sickle bar mower also was listed in the 1948 catalog but no price was given; it may have been available later that year. Many Choremaster dealerships opened as the popularity of the tractor grew. In 1949 Choremaster began outsourcing many attachments to meet customer demand . Parker Company of Springfield, OH, built the sulky and the utility cart; Empire Plow supplied the disc attachment and Campbell Hausfield furnished the air compressor. Lawn mowers came from Great American Lawn Mower Company, Coldwell Lawn Mower, and Pincor Gen-E Motor Co., and Mow-Ez. More models were added in 1949 with increased horsepower to handle attachments, including sickle bar and a 24 inch rotary mowers. The model A, a 1 hp unit weighing 104 pounds, sold for $132; model B, a 2 hp unit weighing 108 pounds, sold for $138, and model C, a 3 hp unit weighing 117 pounds, sold for $165. Adding a centrifugal clutch cost an additional $10. All tractors offered a choice of ground grip or traction tread tires. By 1954, the Clinton 700 series engines and Briggs & Stratton model 6 engines were being used on the 1-1/2 hp models, which sold for $149.75, regardless of engine manufacturer. The 2-1/2 hp units used either a model 900 Clinton or a B&S model 8 engine, and the 3 hp used the Clinton 1100 series. A centrifugal clutch for any of these tractors, as in the past, added $10 to the price. However, there were signs Choremaster sales were declining. Van Ausdall sold all manufacturing rights and patents for the one-wheeled tractor to Richard Wyman of Framingham, MA in 1958. Wyman redesigned the Choremaster and continued selling it under the name Wyman’s Little Brute Power Hoe. Choremaster one-wheel tractors were made through 1957 then the name was gone from the marketplace.

Welcome! Great looking stable.

Whatever you do, don't lubricate the friction control. May need taken apart and worked over with some solvent and a Scotch Brite pad.

to the Dave. Please follow Paul's instructions above. He knows Sundstrand hydros.

@Mastink It never fails to amaze me when I get a new to or even when a customer brings one in the serial number is already in files. It also never fails that when I post a tag it finds it's way into a file. Me thinks Garry has special software that looks for tags in posts so he can add them. Great job Garry we certainly appreciate how well those files are kept.

I would put back the old plug that was in her when she last ran...Wouldn't be the first time a new electrical thing didn't work....especially if it is a Champion they fail to fire under compression

And that makes it an excellent candidate to add in a solenoid to remove the high amperage load from the poor keyswitch. I did the same on my 854 - easy to do.

Thanks for the reply Richard. I agree 100%

I have been going through a lot of old pictures from tractor shows, Wheel Horse redos, and places my brother and I visited ! I came across this old posting on our Ralph Family facebook page. I may have shared some of this before but 12 years ago i received a telephone call at home from someone wanting to use a photo of our 1054 Wheel Horse garden tractors that was posted on Facebook! Here is the posting from 2014 and some pictures: We made the American Pickers show (2014) with the photo of the four Wheel Horse 1054 tractors! The credits at the end of this "Grudge Match" episode listed me on the rolling screen! I clipped a few pics from the American Pickers "Grudge Match" episode tonight. They had a couple Wheel Horse tractors at "Doug's" place in Iowa. Frank did finally by a 633 Wheel Horse for $400. Doug was initially asking $600 for it, but he did not budge from the $400 figure he told Frank he needed. The research assistance from American Pickers had asked me to release two photos of Wheel Horse tractors earlier this year. They used the photo of the four Wheel Horse 1054 tractors that we still own. I assumed they were going to buy a Wheel Horse but was never told what was going to happen and tonight I now know they finally bought a Wheel Horse tractor. I like what they did and I was pleased to see that they mentioned we have Wheel Horse tractor meets! ***** Tom Bartlett had the RJ photo ( oops its a Suburban) and We had the 1054 photo! Our “pay”. Was acknowledgment in the credits at the end of the program . We did have to sign releases though they were very thorough!

Nope. eventually the metal of the J bolt is going to fatigue and relax its hold and it'll come loose again . only real fix is to remove the mount block and drill out the broken bolt, re-thread and a new bolt & lockwasher torqued properly , 3/8 bolt is typically around 320 inch pounds or 25 - 30 Ft Lbs and you'll want to tighten the 2 block bolts evenly so as to not distort the frame or put stress into the block... J-bolt won't last permanently. in that usage , it wont hold torque.

You were born at the sportmans' club? That's way cooler than at the hospital.

Well i have been building the chrome stacks for years now , this is the first set of D200 stock location mufflers i have built , hopefully the owner of this pair will post some pictures when installed and give us all a report on them , still building the chrome stacks but the price of material has gotten crazy so im going to venture out into other styles here in the near future