happy 19th Anniversary Red Square

[953 nut 62,311]

Nineteen years ago, Karl @Nylon-(Admin) and Mike @Sparky-(Admin) joined a high school student’s website that was created as a school project. Since that time over 30,00 members from all over the world have joined and over a million posts have been made on over 90,000 topics.

Yes, I am talking about Red Square.

It is interesting to find out how people first found Red Square and what made the keep coming back. Pleas post your “How I found Red Square” stories.

[SylvanLakeWH 29,386]

 

Searching for info on a C-105 in 2015 that was gifted by my brother to my teenage son for his lawn and snow business... he went on to become a mechanical engineer and I remain fond of them... 

 

remains a daily fix... great people and great info...

 

Thank you @nylyon and @Sparky!!! 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by SylvanLakeWH

[nylyon-(Admin) 8,338]

Has it really been 19 years?  Here’s how I got here (long version):

 

Growing up, my dad traded our old Springfield for a new 1974 C160 Automatic, and it was my job to mow the entire ¾ acre with the 36”RD and Parker sweeper. In 1993, it was my turn to buy a house, and having much more property, the only tractor I could think of getting was a Wheel Horse, and I bought a brand new 416H with a 42” RD Recycler. I used that tractor only to mow the lawn, but in 2006 I decided to buy some attachments, I couldn’t decide between a plow or blower so I hit the web to research.

I am not sure how I found it, probably a search, but I found whtractor.15.forumer.com and joined as member #5.  There wasn’t much discussion there except for one guy, member #2 @Sparky who he and I began to talk on-line. In those conversations, I decided on a snow plow and found the entire package, a 414-8 with plow, 42”SD deck, wagon, cheap sweeper and JD Dethatcher mounted to the mule drive. 

The rest as they say is history, I took over the management of the forum shortly there after, then became highly financially involved in 2011 by purchasing software, cloud space, and investing a lot of time and money to move from the failing forumer platform to where we sit today. For those who remember, forumer completely crashed literally 1 day after I got 99.9% of the data moved, the timing was unbelievable we almost lost RedSquare that day.

 

It’s been an amazing 19 years, and so happy I was looking for a plow one day and stumbled here.  Our members here are the best and I am grateful for all the support throughout the years, looking forward for the next 19 years!  Thank you all for sticking around! 

[Bar Nuthin 1,507]

I was doing a case study on addiction and this site kept turning up in my search results. 

[JCM 10,327]

After a life changing event in 2006 I needed strength to move on and my first time on a computer stumbled upon Red Square. At that time there was around 30 members if I recall. Lurked until June of 2012 and decided to sign up. Enjoyed it so much after a few years became a lifetime supporter. Best money ever spent and got my life under control. Thanks Karl and Mike.        Much appreciated.

[WHX?? 52,995]

Looking for parts for a 1067 that was already on a scrap pile. Wandered across a site called Red Square and wondered what the heck does a place in Russia have to do with a lawn mower. Accidentally clicked and the rest they say is history. Wow they actually have a manual for it.

Now i have to put up with the likes of Achto and The Pullstart and a whole host of other !

 

 fellas!

 

[Pullstart 68,307]

It’s all Bob Rock’s @whlpny fault.  I needed a new lawn mower and was kicking around the idea of something new and modern, but saw this really awesome looking old lawn mower.  Yeah, I had wool over my eyes too.  When I got there, I was a little upset that the mower deck was gone, the whole reason I went looking to grab it!  He had the deck on the scrap pile, nobody wants those for a garden tractor.  Tractor?  This cute little thing can’t do tractor stuff!  He told me about the wealth of knowledge of this forum, and when I got home I joined.  That was June of 2013, if I recall correctly.

 

Honestly, reading Karl’s story about the almost crash in 2011, blows me away that the place is still kind of young.  The shirt I’m wearing this morning is older than Red Square!

 

My cute little mower:

 

 

[Pullstart 68,307]

Oh, and Happy Birthday, Red Square!  We are all glad you were born!

 

There wasn’t any cake, so I got you some “caption this” pictures from the archives!

[WHX?? 52,995]

7 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

There wasn’t any cake,

Oh Lordy my gut hurts and eyes watering ... 

[nylyon-(Admin) 8,338]

28 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

Honestly, reading Karl’s story about the almost crash in 2011, blows me away that the place is still kind of young.

 

A post at the time, it was very frustrating period for RedSquare, this was when the site would go down for days at a time, October 31, 2011 we completed the move of all the data to here, losing no data, but all the hosted pictures and member emails and passwords (I didn’t have the time to get that) Forumer dies October 31, 2011 but RedSquare lived on!

 

[ebinmaine 74,673]

HAPPPPY ANNIVERSARY 

[JoeM 8,944]

Thanks to all who have been a part of starting, maintaining and managing RedSquare.

What a journey. Knowing just a little about these things really shines a light on how much work is done. 

An useful Idea, one that has grown into the "go to for wheel horse"

 

Just a search and I was there.Then a join and then supporter. 

 

I often think the core is the tractor.....not really it's the members. You are RedSquare!

[rjg854 12,551]

1 hour ago, nylyon said:

It’s been an amazing 19 years, and so happy I was looking for a plow one day and stumbled here.  Our members here are the best and I am grateful for all the support throughout the years, looking forward for the next 19 years!  Thank you all for sticking around! 

 

Thank you for all your work and investment to make this what it is today. This has been a great asset to me and I'm sure all the other members would say the same.  We be lost without it, and I think the hobby might not be what it is without this forum.

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,099]

 

4 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Nineteen years ago, Karl @Nylon-(Admin) and Mike @Sparky-(Admin) joined a high school student’s website that was created as a school project. Since that time over 30,00 members from all over the world have joined and over a million posts have been made on over 90,000 topics.

Yes, I am talking about Red Square.

It is interesting to find out how people first found Red Square and what made the keep coming back. Pleas post your “How I found Red Square” stories.

Back in the pandemic about 2021, I was looking for projects to work on and something to mow the small lawn I have.
My brother had just bought my next door neighbors house. A garden tractor came with the house. The neighbor’s tractor a 312-8, that he bought new in 1992, was sitting outside by the road for sale. The starter had begun to intermittently give up.

I saw it and asked him what he wanted for it. He decided to give it to me.

Then began the task of fixing it. I looked up “how to replace Wheelhorse starter” or something like that on Yahoo or Google and it brought me here.
One Amazon purchase later and fixing the smaller issues, and I was mowing my lawn. That tractor has now been repainted IH red, and mechanically for the most part sound.

Two M&G at @JCM’s, A friendship with @ebinmaine and two more mostly refurbished worker tractors, with a roller in progress later, I’m still here. I’m a member and accumulating knowledge, parts and (ahem) tractors… 😁

 

Happy 19th birthday Red Square!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by MainelyWheelhorse

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2 hours ago, JoeM said:

not really it's the members. 

Spot on Joe ... all the guys I have met and become friends with. Not to mention texting and yakking on the phone off RS. Going to the BS and hang with them. Definitely makes life all the more worthwhile and I often wonder if Coach realizes or imagned that when he started this.