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Transporting a load of stuff to it’s new temporary home. Six Kohler K series and all of Aldon’s leftovers from his gt14 I picked up last year at the show in the bed.Never knew how much of this stuff I had till I started trying to load it.

That was a little bit of a butt pucker moment, but we’re all squared away and Rylee’s got herself a 1076 too!

If you're working with spray expandable foam, It's best to hire professionals who know what the're doing. A couple of Ommpa Loompa's would have been handy to have kicking around. They are experts at the spray foam insulating business, work cheap and nothing sticks to orange skin!

Fits C-195, d-160, d-180, d-200 Nfs

Gave the Black Horse a wash this morning. Needed it after his ploughing match yesterday. Washed the C-125 as well. That had got it's wheels rather muddy, hauling logs from a field down the bridleway last week. Here they are basking in the morning sun on the green. Late afternoon I put the 36" deck I'd recently acquired on the 125 and mowed the green. Pleased with the deck but not so with the 125. Tappet cover decided to leak.

We’re getting somewhere... I just don’t know if we’re at the easy or hard parts now!

Pete, thank you for your words of affirmation. It means a lot to have my decision supported by fellow horse nuts. In my defense I have been looking for almost a year before pulling the trigger, so a little patience goes a long way. AND I learned how to mow on my grandfather's 1277 many moons ago. See attached picture for proof!

Got my 5’ York rake mounted up today. My walking trail groomer

....words many of us have muttered.

My other C-195 with loader

Better watch out Richie, Emory and I might pay you a visit when you move a little closer😁.

On the subject of foam, I once worked at a place that made lifebelts. An aluminium mould, consisting of two halves clamp together was filled with two liquids that reacted and when cured made the foam. These chemicals were in 45 gallon drums. One day, somehow one chemical got into a drum of the other. Wallfish's tyre is nothing to what happened then. The whole room was filled with foam and it was bubbling out the door. Took a week to get the place and equipment cleaned up and back in use.

I'm Curly, just like when we were kids. Everyone wanted to be Curly. No but the second pic looks like me and Mike at one of the tractors shows, we're best friends. Mike's the tall one on the right and he was explaining all about his extensive Lederhosen collection.

Actually no. I've been home due to back surgery for the past month and have time to dream up all kinds of devious stuff!

Made it home!

We’ll call stage 1 the easy part!

And sometimes those answers will even be about your Wheel Horse and remotely related to your original question!!!

By the way, feel free to tell us about that pickup in the background!

Hey Guys, I picked up 314-8 today with a 42" RD deck. Less than 300 hours, good shape but needs a cleaning. I will be using this for mowing as it was time to return my dad's Kubota and my 877 was smoking me out. Can you offer any maintenance tips or references? Common problems to watch out for? I wasn't sure I would like the gear drive because I love my hydro, but so far I love it. Thanks!

Well as fate always has it each Spring, I'm up against it time wise. Family needing my attention and full time job plus Trout Season opener coming up in my parts and I have four family properties to mow as things begin to warm. Camp is simple! It's on a ridge and won't need anything until May. However one of the properties requires a BIG Zero Turn I bought "used" to keep it's 3+ acres cut. It needs a new deck belt, hydro filter and oil, (then jack up the rear tires and gently engage the speed controls for each pump to bleed the lines), plus new gas filter, new engine oil and filter, two new plugs, a new air filter and blades sharpened and deck greased. This gets tackled later in the week. Next is my "orange tractor" that I need to get ready. It will need two fuel filters, (under the freakin' thing that sometimes requires you to bleed the fuel lines after changing), a hydro filter and new oil, a new oil filter and diesel motor oil, plow off, deck on, (mower deck is already taken care of for the season), and the ag tires off and turf tires on plus I should change out the front axle oil. I missed getting to NAPA this morning for the filters so it was put on hold plus I use the factory hydro oil so I need to see the dealer for it. Now..........in less than one hour this afternoon, I completely readied my 417-8 for mowing. No oil filter! Just changed the oil. Blew out the air filter, removed the deck, took the blades off, sharpened and re-installed and re-mounted the deck after greasing. Changed both spark plugs and changed the gas filter and greased the zerks on the frame. Tranny gear oil level was good. (No Hydro oil or filter to screw with). Between the time and the expensive filters and oil for the "other" tractors/mowers, I sometimes forget just how simple and inexpensive the Wheelhorses are to maintain. No they aren't 4 wheel drive. They don't have power steering or mow super fast and they don't have a 3 points behind them, but the gear drive wheelhorses I have are always available in a pinch and the Orange Tractor will not be doing an inaugural mowing this year. Same as the previous two seasons. (And my 310-8 will be ready to go after work on Monday). Fancy features do come at a price both at purchase and for each year thereafter. Not an issue if you have lots of money and time! And people wonder why I won't part with them!

Mid Atlantic Code....aeriated.

Finding too much grease on an old machine is a much better problem than not finding any....

Just so you know...here is what foam can do.... wait for it..........

It could be, if you try this again John, you may want a second or third opinion. I would ask your friends what they think.

I'm going to start new posts to ask about specific questions now as I start tearing into. Thanks for all your help!

Who cares what Dad got, Look at Rylee's new

I know I’ve said that a few times. I have ave tried to cull down for past 2 years and I still have a ridiculous amount of stuff.

Low air pressure can make the steering hard too. The book calls for 8 PSI, but I run about 12 PSI on my 418-C and find it steers much better.

all greased up and ready to mow

2 things I will be (finally) tackling in a few weeks : 1) Going to address the old rusty battery tray ( with no hold-down ) that was there since I brought this machine home . 2) Going to see if I can put this seat off of an old rear engine rider in place of the goofy ( but comfy ) boat seat that was given to me years ago . Stay tuned ....

520-8, C-195, 312-8, 520-h

Hey isn't that a tool a GT Mafia guy would use?!?! Could always use a gal who knows her way around an impact driver...may have to have her prospect for us!

I upgraded from a blown Eaton 700 to a used Eaton 1100 to day. Work is still in progress with the 518H but with a little luck it might just work.

I didn't fill the room Norm, but I had a big mess when I tried pouring a 5 gallon bucket of liquid foam into a 2" hole in a hydro turbine pier cavity. I ended up with a bucket being supported by a waterfall of solid foam.

Nice score Rylee!

Wow Thanks, Ok now I see where the bar has been set. I will have to exceed that now thanks to you Ebinmaine......lol. But really that is some nice work there. I have never really documented the work I do when I'm bringing stuff back from the brink. I just do it and call it good. I like restoring all kinds of old things. Anything that has meaning to the family from either use or being passed down . I am thinking that on this tractor I will start a restoration thread with pic's. I think that in doing so it will cause me to slow down, do it right or at least too the best of my ability. Most importantly I will get to learn new methods and tricks from all of you all. There will be more questions than answers from me as we go down this road. So thanks in advance for all the help you guys are going to be giving me. Here is a fan I did for the wife the other day, her dad had used it as a footstool and she couldn't toss it out. Ya know you are getting old if you remember these fans and sitting on them watching TV. Anything is game for clean up around here.

What do you have for a workbench? A large counter top filled with clutter and about 10 different projects going on at the same time. Basically an almost useless flat surface with a vice attached to corner of it.

@ebinmaine one of the whole reasons I bought it! I have a land trust behind my house with walking trails and I told the guy that runs it I’ll take care of them so I’m suiting up the D for work!

I recently dismantled a metal body fuel pump that wasn’t working, gave it a good cleaning and reassembled and she is pumping like a new one. Maybe just a cleaning is in order?

I'm planning on attending the BS this year. Looking to buy a nice C-160-8 speed.

Looks about a mess I made a couple Saturdays ago at work, only with LiquiTube tire sealant instead of foam (which by the way I recommend looking into this stuff, best tire sealant you can buy). We have a trucking company who uses this stuff in all their tires, an 11R24.5 truck tire takes about 7-8 pumps of sealant out of our tank. Whoever did the last set of tires on this particular truck put WAY too much in one of them. I let all the air out, broke the outside bead, then flipped over the tire and rim to break the inside bead. When the rim hit the ground the inside bead broke on its own, and that nasty sealant came out of there like Old Faithful. I had that crap all over me, the wall, the ceiling, the front of the wrecker, even found some on the windshield of the service truck that was parked two bays down from where I was working. Its funny now but it wasn't when I was out there for three hrs cleaning up my mess. That's been almost three weeks ago and we are still finding little blobs of that crap on things around that end of the shop.

When I get settled in, there will be a meet and greet. And yes Kevin, we can go get some chicken buscuits

Always welcome my friend👍

RESOLUTION Since the weather turned bad back when I had this initial problem, I ended up letting the tractor sit in the shed until spring. So, I dug into it after work the other day and I ended up finding the same old problem as last spring. Mouse nest behind engine cover plates with insulation chewed on coil wire. I fixed that and it fired right up. No, I don't think there was a mouse nest in there in December, but maybe. Either way, it's resolved now with a new wire.

I've got them saved to my phone for quick reference, and even have some manuals on file too. It's amazing what we do with phones these days. It certainly not like the party lines of old

I love the window for light but i'd probably have to replace it every few days the way stuff flies around my workbench .

Ha, the famous line "Ran good when parked" I bought an engine at the big show once just for the funny sign. It read "Ran at one time"