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Well i thought the D had finally met its match, but there was no way i was shoveling my 400 foot long driveway so i managed to get the horse out of the stall to see what happened. Please dont tell it i doubted it cause believe it or not we are making progress! still not to the end of the driveway, had to come in to warm up, but i think we will make it. This thing never fails to amaze me, although i do wish my snow blower was working, think with this much snow it would be more efficient then the plow! Snow is finally starting to let up a bit, but has not stopped.

Poor plow. Had it running but it sputtered out. Figuring it is pretty wet. Jim

We are current unable to get out of the house. Gotta be 3' or more. Here is the front door and rear deck. Jim

Hmmmm.... I guess we've got some work ahead of us. Still snowing.

Been lurking here for a while. Here's a quick video of my 416-8 throwing about 6-8 inches of snow this morning. I went out yesterday at 8pm, 12:30am and again at 9am.... We probably had a little over 2 feet.

I think I got jipped, I only got 20 inches, The snow at the end of my driveway was up to the hood though, The 520 busted right thru it. I took a video and If I can figure out how to upload it to utube I'll post it.

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It's my turn to stop asking questions and make a real contribution to this awesome forum! Brought my first horse home three weeks ago (beautiful '92 312-8) and haven't REALLY had a chance to use it. So when this storm started to brew up earlier this week I was pumped to put the horse to the test for the first time. I decided to set up my camera and tri-pod and catch the action for all you guys by making a timelapse video. I hope you enjoy it! Round two of blowing coming up in a few hours....the real snow is just starting to fall Click on the black box and it will bring you to my website where the video (should) start to play automatically.

Last project of 2012

First pic was 8AM yesterday, Second around 12:30 yesterday. 3rd this morning. Avg around 32". Jim

Finally shook on a deal for this Big Boys tractor (No offense to my Lawn Ranger) $700 for it and the tiller, plow, disc and blade. Will need a tank and who knows what else. But I am extremely happy to be getting it. I will be picking it up after tax season. Probably wont get to powder coat till next winter anyway but I am hoping a new tank and a tune up will have it mowing this summer. My name is Vinylguy and I am a Horse-a-Holic. :ROTF:

HERE"S MY C195 Brian

Figure every one like pics! Here are my "WEENIE PICS!" Since I didn't get as much I'm officially a WEENIE! :) This is what I woke up to: Officially 9" at the "Airport" I measured the ground but forgot to take the pic. Hard to get action shots when you're steering and running the hyrdo! Tall chute really blows! Took off the blower when done and switched to the blade. The infamous "Sno-Pup! Sure is handy around the trailer and garden. Cleaned this area with it.Even got an action shot which is real tricky. Running 2 cycle racing fuel thru the Tecky. Smells like your burning NITRO!!!! :) Broke out the electric "Chief" for our skinny walk between our front porch and flower bed. Anything bigger really tears things up. This blower never fails to start! Even Elvis got in on the action cleaning up what the state left me.

Just ventured into the garage for a peek at what we have. Looks like its about 15" deep and its still coming down heavy.....and its suposed to continue till mid morning!! This will be a job for my walk behind blower fer sure! Pics of course.................. Mike...............

Here's some quick pictures of the day

A friendly word of advice for when you attempt to get this running..... Remove the drive belt - or at least jack it up and block it so the rear tires are off the floor. The early hydros have the uncanny ability to take off when ever they desire, and I'd hate to find out that you got ran over by your own tractor or that you had to chase it for three blocks. Once it's moving under it's own power, never let it running unattended unless you have it securely blocked/chocked to prevent movement. Do not trust it! Edit: If it still has an ID tag, it will be here:

Heres this mornings pics. The Wheel Horse didn't (couldn't actually ) leave the garage for cleanup untill my Gilson had cleared the driveway first. Spent 5 hours clearing this mess with my son out with me the whole time. I should have cleared the driveway last night and not "saved all the fun" for today . My son's Nissan Altima is under that pile of snow in the last pic!! Mike...............

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Unbelievable comments! So what do you see when you view 50 to 100 miles of glacier ice that both North and South Pole explorers from the 1700's to the early 1900's traversed that doesn't exist today. Where thousands of miles of polar ice is simply gone and time lapse photography shows, just in decades, the retreat of polar ice. I guess these scientists are just full of crap. After all, just like "expert witnesses" in jury trials, you can get someone with enough grant money from the right side of the issue to discount what the left side is saying! Are there people cashing in on the hype? Yes! Absolutely! Can we change or reverse the effects? Nope! Not overnight. Not in 10 or 20 years. It took centuries of burning fossil fuels for heating and transportation to create this cycle of warmth. And a billion + Chinese just starting their industrial revolution will keep it going. Cutting grooves in a cyl head for a few more MPG's? I guess it will have to be on MS-NBC for the left to believe it and Fox news for anyone on the right to believe it. Me! I'll believe or disbelieve any issue or event after I look at the devil in the details and not what is spoon fed to me by a talking head in two minutes or less or documentaries produced with grant money from each extreme. It seems no one sits in the middle with common sense open-mindedness anymore. The US is like a battery. Polarized!

There are 3 parts to the kit needed to install a blade on a 520 with the swept axle, the rear extention mount, the center lift relocation mount, and the handle that is bent backwards to clear the PTO when angling the blade, as for the 3 and 5 hole index, I'm pretty sure a few years ago I looked and you can NOT drill the extra holes to make a 3 hole a 5 hole if you do it will leave very little material in between the holes, I know my 5 hole index in the last hole sets the blade on a tighter angle than my 3 hole index.

Here is a pic of my deck/picnic table as of 10:45 pm.... still coming down preety good too. Tony

I'm posting this one for my son Ryan, this is his 1974 B-100 auto, we fixed this up for him a few years ago, it has a 8hp instead of the orig. 10hp that was blown up, but he is bugging me to put a 10hp back in it, this started as a $25 beater, this was not a full resto, but was 95% torn apart blasted and painted, he drives the snot out of it in the summer at all the local tractor shows, and does very well with it in the tractor games. What we started with And what it ended up as Winning his first trophy, he has won a few since then, he polishes and cleans it for every show in hopes of winning again.

Alrighty...I'm game. Here's my 753 and single stage thrower. It's about 6inches of heavy stuff moving thru the chute. I rebuilt the thrower right before last winter, and it didn't snow last year. :*****: The first one is a video, the second is a picture. Seems to do pretty well. This is used just for clearing a path from my wood pile to my living room. I use my an 854 for the driveway, etc.

Well here's my before picture; Taken just after dawn this morning. Should all look different at dawn tomorrow. Joe

Up for consideration is a 1987 416-8 with a factory Ark FEL and homemade backhoe.

What is Snow Anyways? Who Needs It!! I'm building A SUN MACHINE!

Value also depends on how many times you use the word "RARE" in the description. Here's a constant: They're never worth less than scrap price. :hide:

was over at my wifes homeplace& got to talking with the next door neighbor. seems his dad died a couple of years ago & they were cleaning out the shop & loading a trailer to go to the scrap yard. the first thing i noticed was a cat 0 back blade & molboard plow , then there was a box full of big old homelite super wiz & super 77 parts saws. so i asked if he'd sell that stuff. he said no but i could have it! well a couple of weeks go buy and today i went over to pick the stuff up. his friend said they found some other saw stuff in the shop. turns out it was 3 boxes of NOS. parts! there are carbs, air cleaners, sprockets, rings, clutches, gastanks, cylinders,recoils,wrenches,plugcovers,oilers,fuel filters and a lot more. all he wanted was the wooden ammo boxes back! so i had 3 of the boxes already so i took him my boxes. the parts are for poulan & homelite saws from the late 50s-to early 60s his dad was the mechanic fo a big timber co. in smithfield nc. lastly last week CRE1992 posted about his stihl saws, & he saw my antique maculogh & homelite saws so here are pics of them. one of the macs is a super rare worm drive saw. it's the one in the back. the red & green homelite is also a rare one. it's a underwater saw for cutting cyprus in the swamps. when you lay the saw down to cut horizontaly you press a button and the rt. handle & the carb twist back to upright. it also has a cable recoil not a rope. i bought this saw in the parking lot at the whcc show in 2004 enjoy the pictures & if you know anyone who needs the poulan parts pm me. Thanks Jay

Unfortunately, it looks like we will be hearing and seeing a lot more from Ray. Seems there is a serious side-effect from using deer antler spray that didn't show up until after the season was over.

Bummer! At least you still have all ten toes . Mike.............

I took these while inside the cab this morning there was more than a foot of snow for this time out not the best pictures luckily the snow was not heavy, would have been alot worse we ended up with about 27"

Some of y'all took that to heart, didn't you? :ychain:

On the news it said Spencer MA got 31" but I am thinking maybe 24 in my drive. I live on the town line. Hard to tell since it drifted down to 12 inches some areas and up to 3 ft in others. Here are a couple photos this AM and a short video if I can remember how to link it to youtube? The 312-8 did all the work. Now after wind contined all morning and some more light snow untilnoon after blowing was done at 9AM, I need to go out and scrape the pavement with the C-125 plow. Depth is above the upper "Wing" plate on the single stage 42" 79360 high chute. This was bare grass at 5PM yesterday! Note the wood rail fence along the road that dissapeared overnight. After the 2nd breakthrough pass. Single stage kept up with the fairly light snow. It stayed 15 overnight and until mid afternoon so no slushy wet snow (thank goodness)! Never had to unblock the chute, and had my retrofit front chute cover on that helped reduce the blowback from the front while chute facing forward. Snow was up to under edge of seat pan fender which is just about 24" high. Blower when down is only about 19-20 inches high so if not lifted it tended to blow the full auger height including upper "Wing" but the top snow layer would fall back over the top of the blower into front of wheels and onto blower housing, piling up on the attach-a-matic conneciton. So I decided to try making a pass first with blower lifted, then back up and let it down to scrape pavement. Seemed to work best doing that. Could go 10 to 20 feet but sometimes driving over the remaining 5 inches of snow the rear tires would spin a bit with blower up, even with 45lbs wheel weights and 45 lbs onthe drawbar and my butt in the seat, so decided to go a few tractor lengths blower up, then back up and lower it to clean the path. Worked well that way. At the street the plows had left a 3.5 ft high dense pile. Took many bites to clear it but the blower did a fantastic job considering the high chute was same height as that snow bank. Took 1.5 hours to finish which i am happy with. Here is a short Video showing the initial trials of lifting the blower to blow the top 20 inches then backing up and blowing it to pavement surface. The 3rd trial pass you can see I left the blower down, but didnt like the snow falling over the top of the blower and piling up on top of the blower housing and attach-a-matic frame. Sorry I didn't turn the camera to the right more to show the full snow path from the blower. It was downwind and threw it about 30 ft onto the lawn. I hope this youtube link works?? http://youtu.be/WcUrbgDypAU

Sounds like a freaking freight train outside!

I feel your pain Jason. Looks like rain and Thunderstorms down there today (rain and thunderstorms in February in Minnesota). Maybe freezing rain then snow here. Strong winds out of the south right now. Blowing what little snow we did have, away. I can see the dang grass again . Tony, that is what our winters USED to look like. :scratchead:

Official results in Milford, Ct...along the coast...is 38 inches. It all came in less than 24hrs. Basically....crippled is the word I'll say for now. :omg:

Rollerman's right, more snow than we have seen in Northern Indiana in the last few years. Just does not snow here anymore. Looks like you all have your work cut out for you.

yes, totally agree kelly. different animal, but still paint and still the same results as you mention- sometimes we need to recoat a piece for some reason or another, light mils, junk in the paint, whatever, and need to scuff up the powder, technique either makes it or breaks it on the recoats.. nothing like having a hot job that needs to go out in an hour and theres 'finger sanding' in the paint....... :hide:

How wicked is that to see a London Taxi in US , would be great to have a pic next to a wheelhorse tractor

Very cool! Go for it! :handgestures-thumbupright:

Yes! I have a 1977 C-160 and it makes it so much easier to grease the steering!! Boy do I like the tires on #2... :bow-blue: :bow-blue:

Plenty here and its still coming down hard!! Mike............

well i'll take a stab at it. This is my 400 suburban. I bought it cheap from my local dealer, it was out behind his shop covered completely in vines. I pulled the vines back and knew I had to have it. It looked like crap. some would have left it there to rot. Took dad and I 4 years or parts gathering, E-tanking, sand blasting, priming and painting to make it look the way it does now. I do have a plow blade, sickle and a mower deck that need work for it they should be done this summer!! thanks for looking.

Figured I would enter mine too.... 1956 RS-83

Lane, a few detailed photographs should give them a fair understanding of the makeup of the bearing. It may also be prudent to set an expectation of what collector / enthusiasts might be willing to pay for such a bearing. Being "overly eager" for resurrection of a bearing to support a 40 year old hobby might result in a price tag not much lower than current Toro pricing. Please no one take this the wrong way - but if we have to put our money where our mouth is, how many pieces could we guarantee this manufacturer on his first run? Do we have that many members each willing to put $200 - $300 on the table to get a one time lifetime supply. I might be more inclined to gather up $300 worth of transmissions and scavenge ALL the parts from each one for future use. In the process of gathering up 3 or 4 trany's, I'm sure I could score at least 2 or 3 good 1533's, shifter forks, shifter rods, reverse idlers and a spare case half or two for the same $$.

Is this a sick group or what?? Seriously, this is a dangerous storm and can cripple for more then a few days...be smart and careful. On the lighter side... Weather Channel is calling this a Historic storm "NEMO"'. I have been in search of NEMO for over 2 years. :)

I was stationed at Ft Polk from 86-89 and it snowed every winter. In 86 it was supposed to be the first time in 15 years, I think they were just honoring a yankee! :ychain:

I bought mine new 36 years ago and it's worth more to me than I could get for it. Most parts have been replaced, repaired, or modified to as good and some better that original. The only original bearing left on the tractor is the roller bearing in the PTO. The 48" deck is on the forth set of spindles and not because they weren't greased. It was my only tractor for 34 years and has been used a lot.

I'll jump in! I'm Mike, 46 years old, live in Connecticut, married just over twenty years with two kids, one dog and one cat. My son is 17 and has been to every WH show I've been to (approx 7) and a 14 year old daughter who would never go to a tractor show . I was a licensed electrician for 24 years here in Ct. Did a career swap 2-1/2 years ago and I'm now working for a Navy Defence contractor ( Submarines not surface ships) as a project manager and travel all over the country for my job. Besides the WH problem I cant shake, I also like to fish (any state except Vermont...long story ), picked up a small bass boat last year. My family camps alot and we now leave our camper permanently on a campsite in Connecticut on a 528 acre lake. I love sitting by the fire on summer nights knockin a couple cold ones back! I ride my motorcycle when I can, nice to just get out and cruise with no real destination! I also seem to collect flashlights for some reason, have about 30 or so. A few older ones but mostly newer oddball stuff. Definitly cheaper and easier to store than tractors! A buddy of mine (whchris) started the Redsquare Wheel Horse Site back in 2006 when he was still in High School (thats right! High School!) and he e-mailed me and asked me to join up so he wouldn't be alone and maybe we could generate some interest in his fledgling site. Thats how I became member #2. My buddy of course is member #1 but we dont see him here anymore unfortunately . Mike......

Thanks Andy, Pm and email received. Thanks Stephen, lol yeah she sure has evolved since I started the build. The belt was coming off at the belt tensioner and occasionally the rear trans pulley when the belt decided it wanted to be even more of a pain! Good thinking about the L shaped bit of metal, I'm hoping it won't be needed now but your idea is stashed away just in case it is needed. Thanks Brad. After Mondays fun and games with the drive belt jumping off too many times, the time had come to get it sorted (again) so I could enjoy all of the engines power without the belt jumping off.. Part of the problem is the tensioner pulley.. The small lips each side work just fine if your using a standard length drive belt, but a belt that's twice the length is a bit different and bounces around a lot more.. I guess you can guess where I'm going with this A spare pulley had some extra lip welded on.. Cutting the two rings of steel took quite a while to machine to size and shape.. Sorry about the blurred photo, my brain must of been having a bad focus moment! Andy (the good chap that he is) sent me a couple of WH belt tensioner photo's to give me a few ideas.. Thank you Sir, you inspired me to come up with this idea.. Simple really, a bunch of bearings bolted above the belt with a strengthening bracket behind.. Now I know it's starting to look like I'm getting a dexion fetish, but I wanted to see if the idea worked before cutting up good steel These bearings do not put any tension on the belt, they are just there to stop the belt jumping up and down so much.. While this was going on Pete was busy working on axe head number 2.. It's almost finished.. Soooooo.. With the drive belt sorted and Pete finished playing "mad axe man" for the day there was only one thing left to do... Yep, go for a drive It's made it this far.. I might of got a bit carried away taking photo's at this point.. A couple of action shots And of course..