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Another fabulous trip up north! We stayed here in the area of the red circle for 3 nights. Just drive in. Find a place to set for a bit. The moderate drought here had the roads a basic dust bowl. Here's a few views from low altitude of Big Spencer Mt. This, believe it or not, shows a beautifully constructed rock staircase. It was done maybe 12 to 15 years ago by a group of college age volunteers to prevent erosion and keep good access to the mountain. This is Mt Katahdin from Spencer. This is not just any old mound of dirt. It's the largest 🐜 🐜 🐜 ant nest we've ever seen. About the size of an average sedan. Whilst perusing and exploring the forest we found a mud puddle with several excellent animal tracks. Here's a nice bear 🐻 track. There was also moose deer and others... This is what a bear 🐻 does in the woods... One of our 3 piles of firewood. We noticed it looked like a beaver house and Trina decided it needed a birch flag. We have another 3 nights of camping this week! More pics soon.

My el cheapo HF sander took a crap while sanding all those park bench boards. So, I spotted this one at the auction this morning. Plugged it in and it ran nice and quiet so I thought I might buy it if the price was right. When they put it up, they sold it with this scroll saw that I did not need. Both are USA made Craftsman Sears Roebuck/ Simpson MFG all metal 2.25 Amp. The sander even has an oiler port. The Scroller Saw is 1/2HP with variable speed and rotatable blade. These things are heavy at 8 and 10 lbs each. Oh, and the price was right at $2.00 + 12 cents tax for the pair.

It’s National Bacon Lovers Day on August 20. Arguably our favorite in-office holiday, no smell on Earth is as attractive as the thin-sliced bacon sizzling in a pan and served with anything at hand. Bacon is the hero of every meal it’s incorporated into. No wonder it’s been such a massive part of western cuisine since 1500 B.C. This means, for thousands of years, we have relished the sweet-savory smell of bacon frying, and the chewy taste too. One could argue that it’s now coded into our D.N.A., a historic love for bacon.

Greetings all. Long story short, while cleaning out storage garage of Father in Laws estate we found a Wheel Horse Lawn Ranger. I rescued it from the junk pile everyone wanted it to go to. But now I have a dilemma, been sitting a year in my shed! I am over my head as far as skills go with this. pull the rope and it does turn over, that is good. But I fear much work is needed, since no one had a clue he had this, betting it was covered for at least 25 years or so. One voice says run, another voice in my head would like to see it functional again. Questions 1) Where / who would be able to tackle this? 2) Maybe should be #1: Is it worth sticking $$ into? I'm willing to pay to have it done but want cost to be low enough so I do not end up sleeping in garage with it. It is a cute mower, but not that cute. Would prefer anyone within a day trip travel of Wis. First wish would be running and 100% operational, second dream is a repaint etc., again, is that worth it? Obviously I cannot get a quote from the pictures here, but anyone that has done anything similar? What should I brave myself for? Sorry for all the questions. Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or help in this quest. -Paul

I see @Pullstart has the vultures circling lol Like @WHX?? said that's a good looking machine. Maybe just get it running, clean it up and leave it as is. They do look nice painted up, but I'm biased as i have one myself! Mine has an 8hp kohler engine swap though and has been claimed by my niece

Member #2 here checking in…like I do every day

It would be easier to ship to Minnesota....

Yah Mike maybe we should revoke his pardon ... As I mentioned in our PM Paul we are a pretty tight knit bunch... truly brothers from a different mother. We often catch up at events across the country despite geographic's. One of the many great things about Redsquare. BTW I have a recliner in the garage for when I drag home another horse. She caught on to the fact that it is not @Achto's tractor! Pullstart eating melted ice cream with Mike having a belly twister. He was out yakking horses when he should have been in line. Speaking of pics if you brouse here https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/forum/17-wheel-horse-picture-gallery/ You will undoubtable find pics of more LRs. I know @pfrederi has one since new and still works it. Calendar shot there Mike ...

It's rare that I am not on here everyday. If I can't contribute, I learn. RedSquare is like extended family to me. Karl and Mike, thanks for keeping this project going.

That is one fine looking family heirloom. Your late father in law obviously took pride in ownership of this Wheel Horse and now it is your turn. If you can find a hobbyist who enjoys working with engines I wouldn't be at all surprised to find it will run and drive well. Then you can tell the in laws "told ya so!"

Pardon my manners… I was trying to get you a helper to get it running. from the right side of the pond!

You should scrap it... Scrap it to a pallet and ship it to Florida...😁. That thing is twice as complete as they usually are found in the wild.

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A solid link on a hydraulic lift will allow you do have down pressure. I can actually lift the front tires off the ground on C145 with the plow. This is good if you are scraping snow off from pavement, not so good for gravel. A chain will allow the blade to float when used on gravel. My suggestion is going to be based on usage. Solid link for pavement, chain for gravel or dirt.

Here ya go...

Even to a noob, that is funny! For others wondering, it appears complete, not beat up (that is what first caught my eye) and original, except for a plate around shift lever.

If everything is original on this it would be a 1968 Lawn Ranger…the only year produced with the three spoke steering wheel and “Lawn Ranger” decal on the hood. These are nice units to restore IMO…😎

First off Paul. We always need another cheese head here... 2nd off DO NOT LET THAT GO TO SCRAP!!!! It could be worth scrap but anyone here is going to tell you YES. Again everyone is going to say absolutely but you are dealing with horsoholics here. The bad news is with most if not all horses it's a labor of love. Don't expect to get out of it what you have into it. Goes double for a full blown resto or repaint. A full blown resto yes chances are you will have a couch in the garage and become quite familiar with it. Paying someone to do or even get it running can be $$. Given that it has a Tecumseh it's most likely it's going to need a competent small engine guy to get it running unless one got real lucky. Teckies as we call them are not a favored motor around here ... mostly due to the fact they don't age well and parts are getting hard to find. I would suggest what we call a mechanical only resto. Means giving it a bath and just addressing issues to get it running and mowing. Again don't junk it please I would gladly give you scrap value for it. Even if it was scrap there are parts there to save another. Looks like you are in Philips ... small world ...I go right up through there on 13 on my way to our place in Clam Lake.

Definitely start with getting it running and driving. It's worth at least that. I will let people closer to you recommend who to take it to if you aren't comfortable doing that yourself. Second it's not in bad shape paint wise. My recommendation would be paint the rims, clean the tractor really good and use some penetrol flood or something similar on the paint. If you are really wanting to get it repainted, if you don't do it yourself it will be quite expensive. Again it could look pretty nice even without a complete repaint. It's amazing what a difference just painting the rims makes.

Wow, looking through this 9 years later, sadly seeing some names in Green, it brings a tear to my eyes and pride to my heart. If you had posted in this thread, stop in and just say hi, we had some great times!

Ten years flew by! Let’s keep this going! It is a great place!

And here I thought you were calling one of us out!

Put some Scott’s iron treatment in the yard today!

I think his round hood resides in the flower bed in front of his house.

Maybe a John Deere!

Like this'n here @WHX??

Pound for pound? Yep

I personally prefer a solid connection with minimal loose movement. I've used both of the above, or solid link, or a chain about 11 inches long. For a hydro lift the chain seems best. No movement at the ends. Less wear and tear. For a manual lift the solid link seems best.

BTW... @Pullstart has all of your belt guards that you loaned me at plow day this year... only used one on Pullstart's masterpiece that I returned to him... don't let him do anything "un-natural" to them...

I did a pile of poking around online a few weeks ago and added some numbers up. We would need to replace the entire system except the hydraulic cylinder. Engine, pump, brackets, valve, hoses, couplings etc... everything. To really make a legitimate change we'd have to spend a thousand dollars or so. If ONLY to increase cycle times that isn't gonna happen... However - Trina and I have agreed that ANY breakdown at this point would justify an upgrade. To repair a system that's already slow is penny wise and dollar foolish. Surplus Center stocks all the parts we'd need.

Yes

Lookin forward to seeing your results!

You pay the freight and I'll send ya a fender

Another ID plate with an Anco breakaway tab that did not break away. Every time I see one of those I think of Anco wiper blades. Bet they are the same company as both involve aluminum stampings.

Nope not a Baby Boomer, I got here a few years before Ed. They gave me a year to the far East. Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tieland, Taiwan, Phillippines. Guam, but mostly Vietnam.

And unmolested

Just for old times’ sake, I reacted to some ancient replies. Then I got to one by Roadapples. Yep, it’s sad to see those names in green.

Welcome fellow cheese head. I would start by pulling the spark plug out and seeing if you have spark. If you have spark then maybe after a fuel system cleaning, you could have a running engine. There are plenty of people here that are willing to give advise and support. @ebinmaine, care to post that "New to me check list" ?

Tapered output shaft per the diagram - inline axial load from generator Not meant for pulley side load.. Not a good overall choice for a WH. If it's free -then carb, head, valves, etc are spare parts. Maybe the block too....

wow -- that is really handsome - - one of nicest i have seen of any model !!!!!!! I always admired the beige rims against the Red with Blackhoods - i have one C175 with the beige rims but the other I painted rims black and looks "nasty" good !!

Our current logo was designed by me, and notice the gold ribbon in memory of Max Nunn

Haha, thank you John. RedSquare was originally started by Chris as a High School project. Chris decided to make the forum about Wheel Horse tractors and choose “Forumer.com” as the free platform to build his project. When setting things up, he had to choose a color theme for the forum, and the “Red” choice was called “RedSquare”, so he picked that. Now this is speculation on my part, but because this was just a H.S. Project, Chris wasn’t going to put too much effort other than to pass and left the default logo on the forum as the theme name “RedSquare”. When I took over, I had wanted to rebrand, to just be WheelHorse Forum, so I put it to a vote. Much to my surprise, RedSquare was the members choice, so RedSquare it is. Since then RedSquare is the name brand for Wheel Horse forums, and will likely stay.

This one was posted by member @Martin a while back. It has the fender we are talking about and it looks great!

Good idea!!!

You are a master negotiator. Give me one of your and I will trade it for another of yours any day of the week. Rylee has grown up so fast, you can be proud of her.

This is one of those gray factory replacement engines. Anything anyone can tell me from the data decal other than its an 8hp.

It is a service engine It has Ball Bearings on the crank 231625 The crank is a straight crank 231797s for some reason the picture in the manual is bad but it is very similar to 231761 Should work fine for a WH

Enjoy the show guys!

Been there before you will find it a lot easer if you unbolt the motor and turn it. There is not much room to get any tools in there