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Cookie lovers and peanut butter lovers unite to celebrate National Peanut Butter Cookie Day on June 12! The key ingredients of peanut butter cookies are peanut butter, sugar, and eggs — and in their simplest form, that’s all that you’ll need. Peanut butter cookies are incredibly easy to make, and if you’re a peanut butter lover, they always hit the spot.

Using a 7/8” wrench, we loosened the nut on the steering cross shaft, turned the plug in the bottom of the steering gear in a bit, and the steering tightened up significantly! Another one is ready for the show!

After we tossed the new belt on, we buttoned things up and pushed it aside. When a need arose to drive it, the belt was slipping bad enough to act like it was in neutral. I taught Brenen how to adjust the linkage a bit, and last night it took right off. His first drive!

Shell Rotella 30 wt or 10w30 for the engine For the transmission use &0w90 gear oil. WAL-MART store brand is good since these are not fancy transmissions. There is an Allen head drain plug under the transmission just in front of the rear hitch. Clean the Allen socket head out good so the Allen wrench goes all the way in and doesn’t strip out. This is a tapered pipe thread Allen. So don’t over tighten when reinstalling. Put some teflon tape on it. There is a hump in the middle of the transmission. So When you drain it lift up the front of the tractor as high as you safely can. If the oil you drain out is whiteish gray or creamy brown it has some water in it. The diesel flush is a good way to clean any watery oil out if needed.

Been a bit distracted with a complicated cabinet installation in my kitchen and finally got around to starting this this evening. Never done it before...from a 1976 c-160, unmolested pump and motor. Surprisingly good condition for being 50 y/o. Cleaned up nicely. 320, 600, 1000 grit. A few dimples but should be strong. Have all of the gaskets and stuff now so I'm looking forward to getting it back together.

As I repeatedly tell Mrs Sylvan, there is no reason to burn fossil fuels to cook perfectly good cookie dough. Save the planet - eat the dough...

Bringing the earliest Wheel Horse 4 wheel tractor cultivator to sell! Here are pics and a copy of the original Wheel Horse Manual for yhe AC-7 Cultivator. The round knob in the center adjusts the width of the cultivator when bolts are loosened. The two guide wheels assist with keeping the cultivation in line when operating. These things are hard to find! $175 at the Big Show.

Depending on who you ask, two or three of those ingredients are good for you so I'm going to go ahead and call peanut butter cookies nutritious.

Got us another new tent to try out. The frame and top are something we had already. It's the interior tent portion that's new. Measures about 9 ft 6 across each side on the interior. The best part is, I can stand up and walk around at any point inside this. Corner to corner. Most tents don't allow you to do that because they are shaped in a curve.

Commercial No bells and whistles and a heavier front end plus they go a little faster than the average tractor.

Looks like carriage bolts are what will be used to fasten them to the floor. I'd suggest countersinking them deep enough that Tina or her mom could use a square point shovel to scrape the floor and not catch the side of the D ring assembly or the carriage bolts.

I have seen deer straddle the stalks as they walk down a row of field corn pushing the corn down with their chests so they can easily reach and bite off the tops of the young ear. When my Amish neighbor bought this farm six years ago and planted the corn, he strung one strand of this electric fence tape between the woods and the field. He put a glob of peanut butter every 4-5 feet. He only needed it the first year and I have not seen a deer in the corn since.

Stormy came home for a day or two. I had a tiller posted for sale. Neighbor Henry said if I can make it work, he’ll buy it!

Greetings Everyone. I find myself unfortunately in a position many of you have been in: dealing with the dreaded hi-lo shift fork, so I just joined this forum so I could pass on my frustration. I have a 78 C-121 which has a 103916 8 speed tranny. I used the low range multiple times last summer pulling my boat in and out of the garage. Never an issue. Last December we had a 2' snowstorm when the Horse quit. Thought it was a head gasket but it turned out to be a stuck exhaust valve. I parked it in the barn and went to Florida til May1st. I just finished the total rebuild of the Kohler and it now runs great. As I was doing the break-in run, I tried to put it in LO and was unsuccessful. I tried several times after rocking it back and forth with no success so I hung it up, cussed a few times at the Horse and put it away. I don't know what caused it but rather than damaging it anymore, I figured I was going to have to split the case. So I'm looking for parts and this is where I get frustrated. First, I thank everyone for all the knowledge they've shared on this site. I've spent hours reading and watching repair vids whether or not they pertain to me. I just love the "mechanics" of it all. Thanks, @stevasaurus for all your work recording transmission teardowns. Excellent work. Looks like I’ll be watching those again. My frustrations as I look for parts for the tranny teardown are availability of parts. I've read many posts that say to just buy new parts but they were posted around 2018. I’ve found a seal kit at Wheelhorse containing 4 seals: 2 for the axles, one for the input and one for the brake shaft. Cost of 50 bucks. Is this for real? I tried finding each one separately and found the cost to be nearly the same. Any ideas or responses? Is this what seals cost these days? I also need the hi/lo shift fork which I cannot find anywhere, except used on ebay. I see no sense in replacing broken parts with used ones if given the choice. Are there no aftermarket manufacturers making these shift forks or am I just not seeing the sites online? I see no support of any kind from Toro. No offering of parts for older machines or a suggestion of where to find them. Can anyone direct me to somewhere I can purchase a new shift fork?

79 C-101 Pretty much finished up my first and probably last try at restoration , sure is a lot of time and work but fun. The 10hp was just too far gone so opted for a k301 gen start with out shaker . I did a shade tree rebuild on a couple yrs ago. Just needs a decent set of rear tires ,I’ll look for those at the big show coming up. Now time to put it to work !

Today just a bit of tidying up, on the tractor and the workshop I’m trying to get the C141 runnable. it won’t be long now.

Thanks for allowing my post, lacking any prior site activity. An offer was made and accepted by my friend, Ollie. We expect to consummate the deal with an active, almost-local, forum member sometime tomorrow.

My mother taught me, one cup sugar, one cup peanut butter, one egg. Jada has taken that job over, and Rylee makes the no bake cookies. I got it made!

Left and right is always from the operators position in the seat. Or this one

Around here the deer are one step ahead of the coons, once they start eating the deer eat the small immature ears too. That is why I have given up on gardening.

It won’t work without a little boost of energy, with resistance. I don’t understand it, but I know it needs to be there.

Thanks Eric , I’ll do that

Check the top of the Transmission section for a Pinned Thread about seals and bearings. You’ll find the numbers there. Plenty of parts availability.

a 37 is a side discharge with 2 spindles above the deck -- there are 2 rear discharge models -- one is a 36" with 3 blades and only one front roller in the middle of the front of the shell - -- the 42" rear discharge has 3 blades - and 3 front rollers one in the middle and one on front of the shell but at 10 and 2 oclock measurement models are width of cut not the shell measurment

Thanks everyone, I found the drain (don't know how I missing that) and will be doing the service tomorrow. I am going to bight the bullet and do the diesel flush, can anyone tell a dummy exactly what and how much to mix. I'm assuming once you run it and drain it (the diesel mix) its understood that trace amounts will still be left and will not harm anything..? Thanks again guys, this forum is a lifesaver!

He could certainly get there quicker than the rest of us...

@Easton Rich Well I just need a 418-A, because I have a C and an 8!!

Guess @Pullstart just bought three more.

Awesome, but we still want pictures

Wow that looks great! I would absolutely work my way through one but being on the west coast I do not see hardly any available. I am always on ebay with an eye open but am trying to avoid shipping. If I spot a 42" I will definitely make the grab!

My cargo trailer has holes all the way through from the factory..

No Sir didn’t think of that.I just actually found out it wasn’t charging the battery . Motor only has a few min run time but the gen is working though. I’ll have to find the diagram and correct that. Thanks for all the compliments. This board and everyone here has been a great help with getting it done.

Reminds me of when I started my first job at the dealership. The one guy was doing the intake on his own truck for the second time that week. I didn't see the first time, but I'm told he did the intake gaskets, hit the key, and it just wouldn't start. He forgot to pull the rags out of the runners.

Too early here. The other end of the field to the left is in tassel and will be ready in about 4 weeks. It was planted under plastic in early April. Ten rows were planted every two weeks so he has corn all summer.

@Ed Kennell you mean like this Ed?

You guys are all making me really happy that my other half is just as much of a mental case as I am

I'll add painting and drying parts by the wood stove in December and shrinking shafts in the freezer to that list of ways to raise a wifeys temp. Oh, and tanning a bear hide in her bath tub really reached the boiling point. That one cost me a $10K bathroom remodeling job.

What temperature setting were you using?

I put a sticky back 180 grit Da paper on a plate of glass with some Windex and can plane a head in 20 minutes.

First show of the season next weekend, so today a few of my tractors enjoyed a spa day in preparation.

Another wicked busy day creating firewood. I cut a fair amount of 14" sticks this morning then Trina moved a BUNCH of it and a bunch more up to near the splitter.

It's supposed to rain this weekend so I verified flatness of a piece of granite and plan to do a bunch of figure eights and rinse a bunch of parts...

Finally got the extended seat pan painted for the winter xi project. I don't like shooting metal below 70 and to cheap to turn on heat. lol

Here is a short video of it in action low range 1st gear. VID_20250603_140140432.mp4

Pto most likely electric got the engine out of a toro groundsmaster 117. Had a electric clutch on it at the time. Going to see about getting it back onto the c170. Just need to find it 1st . As for numbers I'll get back to you with those shortly.

Well it's be a long time since I have posted here. Life got pretty busy and hectic last couple years but Im still into and working on wheelhorses in my spare time. I have recently started building what I call a C-170 always wanted a C-160 but I think @ebinmaine bought all the ones on the east coast 😂. Anyways here's where im at with this one. Acquired a KT17 and then went though it and bench tested it make sure would run. It did so now it's been mounted to a 73 chassis and the rear of the chassis has been modified to accept a rear wheel horse fuel tank. I also stacked it. I have to wire it all up make a battery box and then body work it paint it and new tires and go through the transmission, but for most part the entire tractor is there not just sorting it out and paint. Hopfuly will be done with this one soon because I have a 417-A for my next project. Never had a hydro wheelhorse so it will be a big learning curve! Hope everyone is doing well!

Fished the rehab of some old cast iron Double D spindles. New needle bearings, seals and cleaned repacked the ball bearings (Used Petes favorite green Lucas grease )

To mow or not to mow....