Buzz 502 #1 Posted October 21, 2008 Had a busy weekend. Saturday I got up early and drove three hours to the Jacktown show in Bangor PA. It's a great show, mainly old engines and tractors but some garden tractors. Everyone is welcome and you can cruise around on your 'Horse. Hooked up with Larry (nitrohorse) who visits Red Square and ran into several familiar faces from the Wheel Horse Show. Also pigged out on apple cobbler and Jacktown ice cream. It's worth checking out. Nice and shady for the summer show. Check out their website at: http://www.jacktown.com I got home around 8pm then got up early Sunday and went to the Country Living Fair at Batsto Village NJ. Had a pleasant surprise, ran into Bob Taylor (taycotrains) who a lot of you know from the Yahoo groups. Said he just joined Red Square He's a wealth of information on the RJs and Suburbans. This is one of my favorite shows because of the location and the time of year it's held. Worth checking out if you're within an hour or two drive. Bob hopes to come back next year with more tractors and try to get a really large Wheel Horse presense. If you're nearby keep it in mind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taycotrains 52 #2 Posted October 21, 2008 Hello everybody ! Sure was great to see you Buzz ! it has been to long since we have gotten together. Red Square looks like a great place and I am glad Im here. Looking foward to meeting everyone. Hey Buzz between your 2 machines and my 2 machines we had a decent little display and we got a free lunch...how can you beat it ? I was trying to listen to the Giants game on the way up the Parkway and my kid hits me with this.... "Hey Dad if my name is William and people call me Billy and your name is Robert and people call you Bob...What is the real name of someone called Buzz ? I says... " I do not know kiddo your gonna have to ask him next time you see him I am sure he will tell ya Great to be here BT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buzz 502 #3 Posted October 21, 2008 "Hey Dad if my name is William and people call me Billy and your name is Robert and people call you Bob...What is the real name of someone called Buzz ? Uh-oh.........I sure hope Jerry doesn't see this :banghead: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sorekiwi 761 #4 Posted October 21, 2008 Bob, We'll be pickin' your brain about the ball burners.... and one thing about this place - :USA: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taycotrains 52 #5 Posted October 21, 2008 Bob, We'll be pickin' your brain about the ball burners.... and one thing about this place - Whoa easy !!! Buzz gives me way to much credit everything I know I learned form the older guys that are here already. Here are some pictures of my machines.... This picture was taken a week before the 2002 WH show The big kid is Frank He will be 18 tomorrow and takes flying lessons and has already soloed last August.(He can fly a plane but ask him to try to start one these machines and he would be lost) He never had much of a interest...but he is a good kid. The "Princess" had her sweet 16 party last week and still likes going to tractor shows and is a real help to this day out in the garage and I do not mean with a broom either. She can light a torch and is great at making rough cuts on the mill. and lathe...then when shes gets close she will call me to true things up. I am gonna hate to lose her...but I know that day is coming. The little guy was barely 3 in this picture and still in diapers and now is my constant companion to every show I go to. He loves two things The NY Mets and Wheel Horses. Billy last summer Billys first paint job last Labor Day on a 401 we just sold. Here is my original 6 tractors that I still own. I have 10 now 2 RJ 35s a 633 and a RJ 59 not pictured. Bob T Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wh500special 2,090 #6 Posted October 21, 2008 Welcome aboard Bob! Very glad to see you here and nice pictures (still have the truck you haul them with?). Don't sell yourself short on the knowledge front...guys like you and Charlie always seemed to know a lot more than you let on! Nice to see that you might have an heir or heiress to your hobby. My 4 year old boy has no interest in anything daddy likes, but the 2 year old girl seems to have taken a shine to my old junk and has already claimed a few as her own "twactoos". I'm holding out hope that he eventually warms to this nonsense and that she remembers who paid for all this stuff! Again, welcome aboard! Steve Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wh500special 2,090 #7 Posted October 21, 2008 On that 401, what is that little convoluted lever on the starboard side sticking up just above the hood? Looks like it goes down to the points perhaps. Maybe a cutout switch? Maybe my eyes deceive me, but I've never seen such a thing on one of these before. And, on the picture of "Billy last summer" it looks like the Suburban in the background has some special equipment bolted to the recoil housing too... How I notice this stuff and miss the wierdo spacing on my old 753 is a mystery to me... Steve Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bell 11 #8 Posted October 21, 2008 Some NICE looking tractors you have there! :USA: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taycotrains 52 #9 Posted October 21, 2008 Steve the 401 throttle cable was set so when he was driving it the machine would only rev to about 2000 rpms....I did not want him going like a nut on it.That rod went to where the govenor linkage stay bolt was and was set up with a return spring.This way if I was driving back to the pickup after a show I did not have to putt along. When I sold it I gave the guy the correct bolt. The Suburban has a Clinton engine and that is a impulse starter. You just wind it up about 3 cranks push it in and it starts right up. That 400 is my first machine from about 9 years ago and it has had a lot of modifications but nothing permanent that cant be easily put back original. BT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BPjunk 184 #10 Posted October 21, 2008 Hi Bob, Good to see you still have all the Wheel Horses! I hope to get a look at that model 701 some day as it is one of the finest unrestored originals that anybody has came across. I still have the 1962 light set and found a single NOS light also. Wild Bill in Richmond, Va. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Docwheelhorse 2,576 #11 Posted October 21, 2008 :banghead: Nice stuff!!! What the H E double hockey sticks is that lever thingy coming off the pull start side of the Kohler on one of your Suburbans iin the second picture? Tony Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bitten 134 #12 Posted October 21, 2008 Very nice herd and P.J. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
T-Mo-(Moderator) 4,369 #13 Posted October 21, 2008 Bob, That's a real nice herd you got. Real nice. :banghead: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taycotrains 52 #14 Posted October 22, 2008 Thanks for the warm welcome guys ! Hey Bill...yeah the 701 is still the pride of the fleet and is still in original condition.I took the speed reduction kit off and put back the original belt guard...I get it out every now and then to some shows. Tony as far as that handle goes.... That machine has been my testbed for many different motors and attachments over the years. That motor is a 4 hp NOS Clinton w/speed reduction. I rigged it up with some old reel mower attachment plates and a RJ 58 clutch idler. The handle works the clutch idler and the clutch/brake pedal is now just a brake. When a large pulley is on the motor and a small one is on the lower shaft it will travel like a stock tractor. when the pulleys are inverted it is a super slow machine,great for tilling with a WT-242 tiller. All you need is a allen key to invert the pulleys it takes about a minute. BT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C-Series14 15 #15 Posted October 22, 2008 Welcome Bob... Glad to see ya on here. You can lend some more expertise to the group for sure. :banghead: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TT-(Moderator) 1,129 #16 Posted October 26, 2008 :banghead: , Bob. You and I have looked eye-to-eye at several of the NAMA shows at Penns Cave - and you might still have a few of my keychains. Glad to see you finally got to join in to all of the fun here at "Camp RedSquare"! :horseplay: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taycotrains 52 #17 Posted October 26, 2008 Thats right Terry I do have a couple of those key chains and one of them is proudly displayed on the key of my 701 ! No NAMA for us this year...the price of diesel was just to cost prohibitive We had to practically take out a loan just to get to Altoona this year. I hope to be back at Penns Cave this spring. Mike (C-series14) good to hear from you too !!! You still playing ball ? BT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buckrancher 2,678 #18 Posted October 26, 2008 great looking herd the 701 is to die for :omg: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rod(NASNUT) 1 #19 Posted October 26, 2008 :USA: Bob good to have you here at RS :banghead: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
