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No Jim, this is definitely not a 25 hour tractor! It’s more like 1125 hrs. I inherited this tractor from my step grandfather, the guy who got me started on Wheel Horse tractors. When he passed away it went to my uncle, then when he passed it went to my cousin who never used it so he gave it to me. I remember when my step grandfather bought it new in 1985 from the same dealership I bought my Work Horse from. It’s a 417-A, I believe it was his third Wheel Horse? I know he purchased it to replace his C-161 Twin Automatic that he mowed commercially with.It was getting tired and he wanted to upgrade. I have that tractor in my collection as well. He was a retired tugboat dispatcher in New York City who moved out here and mowed for some extra cash and something to do! We both mowed lawns in our neighborhood and I remember being so happy mowing lawns together with our brand new tractors. I was only 15 years old at the time. Papa Dave used his tractors to mow, rototill, and plow snow until he was no longer physically able to and I’m proud to have inherited both of his tractors. The C-161 is retired in my basement and the 417 is my dedicated snowblower tractor that only sees occasional use.

Plenty around here yet. All shapes of disrepair if anyone needs another project! Problem is they are way overpriced for what they are. No such thing as 100 dolla rollers anymore.

Hmmm, that reminds me, you guys didn't comply with my demands either! Change the forum name to Wallfish's RedSquare with big golden arch on the header! Make that happen or I'll sue ! LOL

I planted this Rhubarb two years ago. I thought it froze out with the cold temps this winter. No strawberries yet but I have plenty of frozen blackberries from last year. So my first attempt at a blackberry / rhubarb pie. Mrs K even gave me a

Worked the 654 hard today. We've had tons of rain so far this spring. Have an 81yr old neighbor lady. Her landscape guy hasn't shown up to cut her lawn. I told her I'd mow before the city cites her. We had rain this morning so it was very wet & muddy. Her grass was at least 6-8" tall.

Ok we'll do it but ya gotta wear the uniform!

The weather is finally warming up here, so I plan to be outdoors soon, degreasing/cleaning the chassis of my 522xi and reinstalling the rest of the sheet metal. I still need to de-rust and repaint a couple of pieces first. I want to do the de-rusting outside with the abrasive blaster attachment for my pressure washer. In the meantime, I'm back on my 1954 Dodge M37 restoration project again. I'm planning to rebuild the engine, so not exactly today, but a few days ago I pulled it out of the truck and mounted it on my engine stand to finish taking it apart. Working by myself, it only took about two hours (of course it helped that I had already removed all of the body parts from the front of the truck). The truck only has a little over 8,000 miles on it (which isn't unusual for quite a few old military vehicles that probably spent much of their life in a National Guard armory parking lot), and so the engine has VERY little wear, However, I'm still planning on giving it a proper overhaul. After 72 years...not to mention sitting around for several decades covered up, but with the cylinder head off...the elements worked their magic, and it developed a bit of surface rust on the cylinder walls, as well as a few small rust spots on the connecting rod journals. The rust on the cylinder walls should clean up easily with a few passes of a hone, so the cylinders 'should' still be within standard spec (we'll see). The cam looks perfect, and I think that a very light grind on the crankshaft should clean it up nicely. I'm looking around for a good local automotive machine shop to do the crankshaft grinding/polishing and true up the connecting rods if necessary. I would also have them check the block to see if it could benefit from align honing and decking, etc. The valves, valve guides, and seats all look virtually new (other than a coat of light rust on top of the valves), but as long as I have it apart, I might touch them up a bit anyway...maybe even a three-angle grind. The engine came from the factory back in 1954 with such niceties as a forged steel crankshaft and some kind of steel exhaust valve seat inserts. I need to do a bit of research and testing to see if those original inserts will stand up to unleaded fuel. If need be, I can replace them with hardened seats or simply use a lead-substitute fuel additive. Other than machining operations that require specialized equipment that I don't own, I plan to do the bulk of the engine work myself, as I have for numerous other engines over the years. I've already rebuilt the carburetor, governor, waterproof distributor, fuel/vacuum pump, and the 24V 100A alternator, and I already have a ton of OEM NOS or new parts for it, like con rod bolts, cylinder head bolts, rings, bearings, seals and gaskets, water distribution tube, oil pump pressure upgrade kit, waterproof spark plugs, waterproof spark plug wires, etc., so once the machining is done, I should theoretically be able to get the engine back together pretty quickly and move on to other restoration tasks...and some Wheel Horse stuff.

Okay, I looked him up. I remember now. He started a competing forum. Looks like he got out over his skis a bit and is liquidating. Maybe we should send Kevin down.

Well, following an insane week of flight training in the Blackhawk, I gave my brain a few days to recuperate and now getting the recently rebuilt K341 put back together for installation. I had to take quite a long break away from the Tractor because of all the work requirements of life, so this is feeling kind of nice and therapeutic. Jason

Guess I'm getting old. Hard for me to think of a 1972 as VINTAGE when I was nearly 30 when it was new.

Ready for work.

Bingo...whatever became of him? He is hanging around and has been hoarding for years. He is on Craig's List and seems like he would be a bit difficult to deal with. This is what he has on the C's List as HIS rules. It seems that there are a hundred or more complete or nearly complete Wheel Horses there and if he wants to retire and will only sell parts off of them it will take a LOOOOONG time. *****UPDATE 8-9-2025***** AS IT SAYS IN THE LISTING this is a PARTS sale, tractors will have PARTS sold off of them and NOT SOLD COMPLETE, AND NO SHIPPING OPTIONS AT ALL FOR ANY REASON. We have a website here if you want to take a look - https://wheelhorsestables.com/ We have a lot of new parts, NOS parts, good used parts, and will be starting to part out about 100 complete tractors, 100 mowing decks, some dozer blades, snow blowers, and a few other misc attachments. We make a lot of new parts in our own machine shop we sell, and make new electrical pigtails, plug wires, lever throttle + choke cables, etc, that are here and in stock. If you need it it's a good chance we have it. Almost everything we have is Made in USA as well. ***** TRACTORS WILL NOT BE SOLD COMPLETE, WE DO NOT SHIP ANYTHING. CASH ONLY AND PICK UP ONLY. ***** NO TEXTS, NO EMAILS, *****CALLS ONLY, this is a land line. The funny part is that he he wants phone calls but there is no phone number given in the ad.

There are plenty in Northern Indiana, but I have noticed the prices have just been higher then they used to be. Any good deals are bought very quickly.

Eric that was the first for me was the 312 A nice but did not like the Hydro in the end.To many wires. Solid that and started buying the Start/Gen’s. And 74 B-80`s. Much better. Enjoy your week end.

Well said Bill. The same here but the $$ are going up and up for these. Even the non runners. I like to find one every year and work on it over the winter. But I think I will have to turn that into two years Because of pricing. Just my .

Alright. I'm a Skynard fan since it was my first concert in the summer of '77 at 13 years old. Not so much a fan of the covers and always prefer the original but AI does the best cover yet.

Talking with my nephew recently brought up his older sister Jessica. Man do I miss her a lot! She was only 25 when she "threw her hand" almost 20 years ago. So much to live for yet still young enough not to realize all troubles will pass. If she only held on for another day things might have been different. Read the comments on this one and realize we're all just human beings that feel hurt.

Here we go Jimbo!

I believe he is still selling parts but not shipping any. Sounds crazy. Years ago my WH dealer friend sold him most of the WH stock he had. Long trip to Mass from KY. Leo my dealer was here in Maine at one of our Meet & Greets. He's close to 90 and still goes to work every day. Super smart on tractors, parts and the history of WH. Very successful.

That rhubarb and blackberry pie looks like a keeper. I have never heard of rhubarb custard. Might be something to look into. Many moons ago our church had a men's bake off. Whereas most of the men baked cakes, but I made a fresh pumpkin pie. (Canned pumpkin is too purified- no texture.) Some folks asked me, a carpenter, about making the pie. I replied "I figure if I could build a house, I could certainly build a pie." Couple of weeks ago I made the pie pictured below. It's a custard type pie, super easy to make and you don't even need a crust as it kind of makes it's own crust. I threw in coconut and cut back on the sugar. For me, it was one of those pies that every time you pass through the kitchen, you've got to keep a fork in the pie dish and take at least two bites. Wife wasn't willing to take a bite so it was all mine. (I hope I'm not breaking some law by posting the original picture and recipe that I found on the internet somewhere.)

I've finally put new tires on Big Ugly, the '72 C10. The old ones have a date code of 2006. Great tread depth still, but dismal condition as far as ozone checking goes. Surprisingly, the lug nuts weren't rusted on. It has been about 20 years since I last had them off. The left rear was rusted to the hub, though. Several applications of throttle and brake with the lug nuts loose broke it loose, though. Treated him to new wheels, too. Fresh tires and fresh white paint look as good on a patinaed old truck as they do on a patinaed old tractor.

I think that @ebinmaine corraled all the remaining East Coast C160's...

Ok but I'm not wearing that doofy Ronald outfit. But this cool one! LOL

The GT1800/1848 gives the best of both worlds. Simple wiring, Eaton 1100 transmission with faster gearing. If you like the look of the 300/400 series but don't want complex wiring, that's the machine for you.

My guess is that is two reasons he didn’t like the 300/A model

There's a place called Nasco down in Saco. AFAIK they're excellent. If I needed work done they'd be the choice.

LOVE that truck Bill

sent you a pm for a source on oil filter seal.

Usually fine here in N.C. Those 2 proteins coming from Texas to Minnesota. Whew. no Bueno. My correct guess is garbage soil here. In the middle they are fed silage along with grazing on fertile ground. Walmart cows n pigs. Like many humans. Obese and slow.

There’s still a few Wheel Horses up here. According to the FB Marketplace, they are mostly around Bangor or down on the coast by @JCMand @ebinmaine. It’s a mix of C- some D and the 3,4,and 500 series in repairable to parts machine condition. I’ve got 4 in various states of usability and limited space. I’m good for now. it’s enough of a challenge maintaining what I have.

Deck work. It was in severe need of some work on the tensioner assembly, it had been let go for far too long. New blades, new height/gauge wheels, new belts. I think this is a replacement deck shell for sure. I can't imagine at 2000 hours it's an original shell. It's way too nice.

Zombie thread here but I'm looking for replacement dust boots for a couple 520's. @rmaynard would like to see them pics when you get back from vacation .

I've seen a few more and passed. I have 3 I'd give away right now.

Oh, I took the last 20 years off.

520-HC Mine's at 69" The light is 4 1/2" above that.

Kpinnc: I agree with that Just not what I was looking for in a garden tractor. This was my one and only No name 8.I converted it to a B-80 tires.

If you flip it over it's left handed!

You are so right! Problem was that I’d brought only fixed-size wrenches out to the garage thinking “this’ll be a short job” so I needed an extra hike back down to the basement shop to get “the weapon.” Lesson learned.

Please join the WHCC for $10. You must be a member to sell at the show.

I’m usually along the back wall of the exhibition building. However this year I might just bring stuff to sell? But you can find me walking around talking nonstop about Wheel Horse Tractors. Oh wait, that doesn’t really narrow it down to much now does it? That could be most of us here on RS ! Or how about this? That’s me on the right with my Work Horse GT-1800 and on the left is the guy that makes the show, the Master of Ceremonies Wild Bill Pearson.

Here is a started guide for finding where a few of us are likely to be hanging out if we are there at the time you stop by.

Put a 48" deck on my front mount. replaced 42. Truth here I abuse this machine use it more like a bush hog clearing pathways ... This is a tired old 48 with some see though parts and several welded patches...

Same here. We don't try to grow a lawn. In the rough area around the garden it seems like about 3 years after its creation there was more grass than weeds. Rough. But green when cut. Good enough. Out front of the house we'll eventually need to replace the sand/rocks/dirt with prettier dirt. Or stones. Or maybe even let it go wild for a bit so it too grows green stuff.

My property has oodles of weeds. Personally, so long as it's all the same color when cut the same length, it's good enough for me.

I treated mine with weed and feed every spring for many years. Then my well water started to grow some slimy snot.. After about three years of shock treating that only worked for about 3 months, I contacted Penn State and was informed the weed and feed was probably leaching into the well and causing the growth. I stopped the weed and feed and the well has tested good for several years. I have weeds and bare spots, but the water is good.

If you fertilize it, it grows faster...I do not seed the snow clouds why would I want to make the grass grow faster... ???

Ready for mowing!