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I was contacted by someone who i had sold a tractor to in the past. He said he had a 701 he wanted to get rid of and I was the first person he thought of! Only cost me a B1 Allis Chalmers! (He's an allis guy). He had two decks for it and i bought a plow too. Got home late so I didn't mess with it, ill save that for later this week. Its been sitting and gonna need the carb gone through, but it did start on carb cleaner.

May 14, 1904, The Third Olympiad of the modern era, and the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States, opens in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1904 Games were actually initially awarded to Chicago, Illinois, but were later given to St. Louis to be staged in connection with the St. Louis World Exposition. Like the Second Olympiad, held in Paris in 1900, the St. Louis Games were poorly organized and overshadowed by the world’s fair. There were few entrants other than Americans in the various events, and, expectedly, U.S. athletes won a majority of the competitions and the unofficial team championship. In the field events, the Americans made a near-perfect sweep, winning everything but lifting the bar and throwing the 56-pound weight. Twenty years later, the first truly successful Olympic Games were held in Paris, and since then, with increasing popularity, the games have been held in various cities around the globe.

Proud papa here. My daughter defended her dissertation two weeks ago and earned her doctorate in higher education. No she will not become a professor in all likelihood.. She is employed by the university and does research projects as directed by them. She loves her job and is getting good feedback and appreciation from her group. She is living in Ann Arbor so we see her when we can. As always Go Blue!!

Tonight the boy and I went over to his girlfriend's house. Their tiller needs some work, so I picked that up to bring home, said boy is going to be doing the work. It's just a simple fuel line replacement, may need to clean the carb, don't know yet, and I'll have him go over all the grease zerks. Her (the GF) mom also asked me to sharpen the blades on their JD, that was bought used at the end of last season, because it's been cutting like crap. I jacked it up and found three new blades that were installed upside down, so the blunt end was doing the cutting. Flipped them over and that was that.

Drill 2 holes in it and make it a 5 holer

So, the answer is buy both tractors and use the Raider 12 with the limited slip differential for snow plowing and pulling and use the C-100 for mowing.

Same here. burning the candle at both ends. I went to the oral defense of the dissertation. Brutal questions. She was a little shook at first but finished strong.She had some huge stress in her personal life and we were holding our breath . Friday is our Golden anniversary and have to attend a funeral. So its always something. The secret of a long marriage is finding a lady who will put up with your faults....and a barn full of Wheel Horses

Just put an electric fuel pump on my 520-HC

Used same size angle iron as tractor frame. Mounts using 3, grade 8 bolts per side, bolts to tractor frame. Has removable receiver plate bolted to the angle iron with 4 bolts that allows plate removal for unobstructed hood opening. I later drilled the mounting plate and bolted winch directly to plate to allow usage of both receiver hitch and winch at same time. The winch when mounted in the arm, can be used in the rear receiver as well. The extended frame works as is with snow blade and when using the bervac 44" 2 stage snow thrower, the right-side frame rail must be removed.

I have 18 lbs of perennial rye grass in paint strainer bags soaking in tepid water for 24 hours, then I’ll dip it every 12 thereafter. Once it begins to sprout, I’ll mix it 1:1 with some dry yard fertilizer and broadcast the prepared soil. It should only take a couple days to be ready!

Well I was able to get one that they had left over. It does not have a serial number but I am OK with that. It fits perfectly in the back of a model of my previous truck.

Above comments noted, especially about the loader. BUT... If the landscaping tasks you have in mind are pulling a garden trailer or sweeper or de-thatcher, you’ll be ok but not especially quick (time equalling money in a labor business). It’d also handle a 42” snow blade (for modest snowfall) or mid-mount blade for simple spreading or leveling of soil (where being compact and lightweight might be helpful).

Loaders have been fitted to most any Wheel Horse but as a practical matter the Commando 8 may be a little underpowered for a loader. The loader must be accompanied by a subframe which will be mounted to the tractor, most of them are made for larger long frame tractors. Here is a picture of a loader from the Big Show, I don't know who it belongs to.

It came with two decks. One is really nice, but the other is salvageable.

Particularly if the bride to be and the groom to be already are members of the family.

Measure the hole size with a ruler. Draw it out with chalk. cut it with a torch!

That’ll leave an “experience scar”.

They also did one kind of like a Palomino

Apparently another member found out about it back in 2012. Here’s the link to the thread. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/topic/34213-jeep-jr-a-result-of-the-marriage-between-amc-and-wheel-horse/

Probably best. And with it being a C series, any classic series implement that came after is compatible. Finding a deck should be fairly easy.

Between the B-121 and the 1445, I got more land leveling and rock picking done today. I pulled the cultivator around a bit to bust some of the top rocks out and did a lot of manual raking too. I plan to soak/germinate some rye grass seed for 24 hours, then heavy dunk every 12 hours in paint straining bags and 5 gallon buckets of water here soon. Once the seeds begin to sprout I’ll mix them with some dry fertilizer and broadcast about this earth, once dampened. Apparwntly that method can grow decent grass in a week or so. I doubt it’ll be perfect, and I might need to replant some, but I’m excited to try it!

Absolutely

You just let me know and it's yours!

I can show you the tool, don't have anybody to take the picture. of me using it. Best picture of me holding i And the tool laying on my tail gate. It's a piece of 1/2" square tubing, could be anything that fits trough the hole.

The best answer!

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The belly and optional rear hitch bolts right up. The front hitch can be more work but is absolutely easily added without modifying the tractor itself.

I will be at Portland on Wednesday with a bunch of Wheel Horse/Toro items for sale! I will be flying my Wheel Horse Flag at my spot!

I have a rotisserie for doing body work and some disassembly and assembly tasks. You can swing it around until you get to a comfortable position.

I was just talking with the better half about that. Whenever I get to the point (hopefully in a long time) that I can't look after the full size tractors, I will always have this little fellow to look at.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2166852180769673/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e Apparently AMC tried to cross breed Jeep and Wheel Horse in the 80’s, there’s more detail on it in the reel.

Same with the C 101 in my profile picture

Interested in the snowblower

I went with the C-100...only because the Raider sold. It also came with a deck which would have been nice. The C had been sitting in a barn for 5 or 6 six years, robbed of its deck. I got it home, checked the oil and the spark plug, popped a good battery in it and it fired right up. I got it for a great price, it needs a few things here and there but it runs and drives. Which is more than I can say for my problematic JD X320....not impressed. BTW, anyone know anything about old 6 volt positive ground systems? I changed a temp gauge on my Ford 860 and now it won't start. The solenoid goes crazy, but wont even think about rolling the starter over.

Might be piston slap, are you using the same oil as before? Any chance that gasoline got into the oil? Does it change as the temperature changes or the engine warms?

You could find a Johnson or an Ark loader to work on a commando 8 with some modification. The front end isn't gonna handle much weight and you have to add counter weights so it's use would be very limited. If you're doing full time landscaping you'd be better off getting a small compact tractor if you can afford it. Even if you can find an old Satoh with a Mitsubishi Diesel, those were pretty good machines and won't break the bank.

That"s a huge accomplishment and a Gorrila off her back. My wife was at the 6 year mark when she defended her Dissertation. (Stressful times with 3 kids in the house) 7 years is the limit from starting Doctorial course work. My wife went the Teaching - Professor route instead of the Research route. .

A proud Dad with good reason. Congratulations.

I have a KT17 Series 1 came from a JD 317 that my brother picked up used. It had over 2000 hours on the meter when he swapped it out as it was leaking badly on the crank seals. He lived in the country and mowed several acres not flat...He kept it full and a bit more because of the leaks. Then it sat for 10 years or so I got it swapped some tins replaced crank seals and she still runs. Tired yes, and smokes on start up but no crankcase vent additions. Look Kohler made thousands of these and they had a higher than normal failure rate but they didn't all blow up. Keep the oil full don't mow ditches and it will probably run a long time.

loaded tires and chains with the LSD is the ultimate in traction in my opinion. Far as being tough probably can't beat the 8-pinion open diff. though. Mine works pretty well but my quit tomorrow

I have the 6 speed in my 854 so I have the limited slip in it and I'm not too hard on it so I'm not worried about it breaking yet, I mainly just drive around, mow, tow trailers, occasional dirt plowing and discing, and then the limited slip and 8 horse engine was a beast for plowing snow last winter, I rarely spun, and I usually ran out of traction before running out of engine.

The rubber seal on thoes dip sticks gets hard and almost imposable to push on. I made a tool to fix that. Slit a large dowel. steel tubing, or old broom to clear the pull handle. Place on dip stick cap and tap with small hammer it will slip on.

The older Cub Cadets are pretty good but Wheel Horses are definitely better and easier to work on.

America's Greatest Garden Tractor??? Not according to THIS group.....

Pressure washed a bunch of stuff after work. Love-hate relationship there for me. 16 Auto, FEL sub-frame, a bunch of parts and these front weights that took two years to pry out of my brother's hand's They'll be Regal red soon.

This afternoon I swapped a center spindle out as the idler swap didn’t change the noise from the deck. It is better but I’ll have to mow with it to see if anything changed. At least now I know the center spindle, and idler are greased and both seem to be good. The only other rotating parts are the two outer spindles which they’ll be the next thing to be swapped. I’m at least going to check them out and give them a good clean out if not swap them. I’m just curious though how much noise should these 3 blade 42”deck make? If it’s a hum I’d be good with that. Before I started swapping parts I couldn’t hear the engine at all over the deck.

Things add up quickly No oil pan gaskets on the shelf so I ordered two, I need solid mounts for the recently acquired c-161 and that isn't even in the shop yet, it needs wheel studs so ordered them from M-C and forgot to order head bolts for the 16 Auto so I'll pay shipping twice for that lack of paying attention. I was going to order a soft start for the electric clutch but I better slow my roll before the Colonel looks at the checking account One potential positive is that the valve lash was out enough to maybe account for some of the rough running. Intake .011 and exhaust .014. They look good and nothing else is concerning so I'll just lap and adjust them until there's a need to go further.

The wife wanted one of the daycare play scapes relocated in the yard now that we’re down to two of them from three.

Sad but true. Got up early this morning in hopes to wrap up an engine rebuild. Got to the point of installing the rings on the piston. Bottom ring went well, got to the second ring and of course it dropped in the top groove. Was carefully walking it around and.......snap. After the words of choice stopped I lit a thinking stick and went for about a 1/4 mile walk to calm down. Well as they say "Crap happens". I'm over it, new parts are on the way, hopefully next time will turn out better.

I am switching my C-125 from an Ammeter to a Volt Meter. Please tell me if I am doing this right. Thanks Greg