Hello,my name is Kevin and I am an addict.

[HorseWhisperer 243]

Thanks to 20 years of loving red iron,this forum and Redsquare I can't do anything but touch,grease,paint,neglect the house,ignore my family and search Craigslist like there's unclaimed money waitin for my claim.I have tractors in rented garages,I have loaned my family members workers and nearly get drunk on implements at auctions.How do I get sober and live again?Christmas is a comin and all I can think about is desperate grandchildren ready to part with an old relic.I need help!I even made my family portraits with horses mandatory.I even have a wheel horse red Chevy truck!!!!!!!!!!I need advice 

Edited November 2, 2013 by HorseWhisperer

[slammer302 2,156]

I found keeping my family involved with my wheel horse addiction keeps everybody happy and you just have to take a break every now and then

[AMC RULES 37,196]

You just gotta pace yourself Kev. 

[slammer302 2,156]

And stop searching CL so much focus on what you have instead of what you could have that's really helped me stop spending the money

[HorseWhisperer 243]

My family supports this too much!They and all my friends facilitate my problem!I am very involved in politics and this is my break from that!I'm scared!I spend four hours a day on forums,craigslist and eBay.I have another hour or two on ma bell with people tellin me about the next fix or road trip?I can't stop.

[HorseWhisperer 243]

It's so hard to find these treasures in my area and every time I see one priced right I drive like someone is gonna get it first.I work all over the east coast and can't leave home without my pick up just in case..........

[slammer302 2,156]

I'm a recovering drug addict unless your losing your house or your family I don't think you have a problem because I almost lost both to drugs and my family would rather me be working on wheel horses rather than be out getting high so I say wheel horses saved my life

[HorseWhisperer 243]

I'm with ya Slammer.I don't mean to make light of the addiction end either!This is turning into a sport though.I can't take any of this iron to the grave.I will be known as the crazy eclectic weirdo.And most important,it keeps me from spending a hundred a night in the gin mill.Now I'm lookin for 20 acres and a barn to step up to farmall cubs an low boys?

[slammer302 2,156]

I think were all in the same boat I have wheel horses everywhere to my family's houses my place at the lake in my house even its what we do I'm proud of what I have

[608KEB 796]

 I agree with slammer. Focus on what you have. Start and finish each project. One at a time if possible. I refurbished a 36" SD mower deck. It took 4-5 months because I hired out the bead blasting and paint work. I probably saved money, because I didn't buy any tractors! I'm working on refinishing a rear attachment bracket. That's a small project! Just a few examples.

[953 nut 60,086]

Hi, my name is **** and I am a Horsaholic.   

 

I quit drinking 28 years ago, quit smoking 20 years ago; two out of three aint bad!   

 

 , If I lived closer I would feed my addiction and give a couple of them a home.

[slammer302 2,156]

We're all a little crazy its just how much can we handle I would try not to worry about it so much and if you really think you have a problem then you know what to do.

[HorseWhisperer 243]

I to am fulfilled with the hunt,the knowledge and the history of this hobby(sport)I have to first thank,then blame the admin and die hard members that make this popular yet unknown forum my savior.I just sold my Harley to concentrate on more time here,can't get hurt @ 5 1/2 miles an hour!I make make spare loot Rototilling,plowing and doin chores most backs would live through but I look at every piece like it's gonna save my life for knowing what it is,does or goes to.It's useless trivia the coming generations don't give a flock about.To me it's American heritage.Can't be replaced.

[slammer302 2,156]

I'm driving around in a truck with WH stickers on it and a set of load ramps in the back so I guess I'm with you

[HorseWhisperer 243]

Slammer,I love 90 weight leakin from axles,can't get enough of pushin grease into zerks or plain old what does this old girl need besides love.I'm getting close to a finding a better home for a true lover cause I don't have what it takes to love them all?Sounds foolish and I know it when I speak it.They're paid for,the don't eat nuttin and I'm only fourty,I have time but is it wasted time,will my efforts make one good impression?It's a sickness.These things as well built as they were were just tools and a profit.They weren't supposed to be revered like this.

[slammer302 2,156]

True that's what I like to do with them is work them I make sure my brothers and my sons and my dad have a wheel horse to use I have only one show queen

[HorseWhisperer 243]

God,family,guns and wheel horses.I caint help it.I'm proud.Thanks again to the admin for the support and attention to this blessed forum.It just doesn't get better.

[953 nut 60,086]

On another post I see that "stnygrm" is going to a  Salvage Yard, He lives near you, you may need to intervene, I think he is addicted too!   

[flyovrcntry 115]

I know what will make you happy.A new red barn

[Wheel-N-It 2,976]

Really none of us should feel the least bit guilty for feeding this addiction. Me for example, I have 5 running Wheel Horses in my carport, Wheel Horse parts and wheels and tires and mowing decks and snow blade in a storage building, a Wheel Horse rear mounted tiller and a rolling 520 chassis and sheet metal and more Wheel Horse parts in the family tractor shed, LAGT impliments in the same shed, a C165 rolling chassis sitting next to my diesel tractor in my tractor shed, another running Wheel Horse (C125)in the lean to behind my shop, and then there is the hood and rear fenders and seat to the C165 in my house in the Van Cave!

Then there is the John Deere 140h3 in my shop, the Cub Cadet 1650 in the carport, the Simplicity 728 in the lean to behind my shop. All of them run and could just as easily be wheel Horses too.  

I never feel bad tomorrow over what I spent on this hobby today. Reason being I always have something to show for what i spent the money on, plus it has a practicle purpose. Then too first, last or otherwise, there is the passion/love of this more than just a hobby. Also we are preserving a piece of 20th century America. Also we are recycling whether we want to admit it or not. I'm not a "Green Person", not at all but I would feel pretty stupid for buying a box store lawn tractor that I did not like in the first place, and then drive it into the ground in a few years and go buy another one that I would hate from day one. Being a Wheel Horse addict clearly makes much more sense to me.

Van

[AMC RULES 37,196]

Well...at least you've taken the first step and admitted you have the   addiction. 

Now rejoice in the fact that you'll always have us here to support you brother.    

[47JDG 65]

Like another member said, focus on what you have rather than what you could have. Me personally I would rather have a couple WH's that I can focus on, keep up to snuff, and use and enjoy than a bunch of them that are just sitting there, not being used much, or at all, need work, in the way, taking up space, etc. There is always going to be more come along, and there is always going to be good deals come along. You can't have them all. Accepting that might help you focus on other things more. It makes the next nice score more special and enjoyable also in my opinion.

[HorseWhisperer 243]

Wheel n it,your talkin my language.Craig,I just spotted that decal a couple weeks ago,thought it was fitting.

[Wheel-N-It 2,976]

Wheel n it,your talkin my language.Craig,I just spotted that decal a couple weeks ago,thought it was fitting.

Yeah, I need that decal on my forehead .........

[DoctorHfuhruhurr 137]

You clearly need to buy more and double the size of your collection (at a minimum).