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leeave96

I leveled a pile of gravel today. I think it was about 6 tons. It has been setting for MONTHS, but I wasn't about to touch it until I had the time off and a Wheehorse under seat to do this job. Some folks play golf, I enjoy working my Wheelhorse tractors!

BTW, this is the tractor I had some carb troubles I posted about in the past few days.

Enjoy the pics!

The other Bill

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leeave96

More Pics...

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Sparky

That last picture looks like the 520 just won the king of the hill award! So whats all the gravel for? Big shed project?

Mike........

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leeave96

That last picture looks like the 520 just won the king of the hill award! So whats all the gravel for? Big shed project?

Mike........

Parking behind my house - that's all. We added an addition and used the dirt from the basement/foundation to make us a place to park and turn around at the back of my house.

The next thing I am going to do, when I get time, is drag out my grader blade and give it a workout. One of my boys looked at the work I did and said, "didn't even have to use a shovel" LOL!!!

I'll post some pics of the grader blade in action. Most likely I'll use my mighty 314-8 for this chore since I can regulate how far down the blade drops.

The other Bill

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Rollerman

I'm jealous, with this lousy winter we've had so far here in northern IN there hasn't been any seat time.

Looks like some fun seat time pushing gravel around.

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Jeremy Watson

Great pictures, thanks for sharing! Thats was a lot of gravel to move, how long did it take you? I pushed some dirt with my last summer and was surprised how well it did, and I didn't even have weights or ag tires.

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leeave96

Great pictures, thanks for sharing! Thats was a lot of gravel to move, how long did it take you? I pushed some dirt with my last summer and was surprised how well it did, and I didn't even have weights or ag tires.

I was out there for at least an hour. I purposely didn't get in a hurry. I ain't got 6 tons of gravel to move on a frequent basis. One time though, I did move 16 tons of gravel with my front blade on my 314-8 and with a rigged-up Johnny Bucket mounted to the rear of my other 520H. I think my front blade is slightly twisted as it sags a bit on the right side. That makes it a bit difficult to spread the gravel with the blade a couple of inches off the ground, but the finish smoothing touch was done going in reverse, dragging the blade on the the gravel - worked great.

The other Bill

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farmer

Thanks for the pictures, :thumbs: and good point about the dial-a-height, hydraulics are easy, but I don't think you get the 'feel' or accuracy as the manual lift. :twocents-twocents:

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lincman

Nice lookin' 520H. Just a quck question. When you have your 520-H at full throttle and the motion lever fully engaged; where is your vacuum gauge/hp% at? On my 520 it is about 50%. Just was curious, as mine just got back to work after some carb cleaning, new spark plugs, tank cleaning, air filter ($28 for just one filter from Chandler's Sales and Service) and fuel filter. Thanks for posting some pics of your Wheel Horse.

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speedyleedy

Great picture's looks like a very relaxing job ! :handgestures-thumbup:

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Operator

Nice pictures! For a January day!!

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