If you could have any wheel horse...

[Jimf413 57]

I have two WH 11's and wanted a WH C160 and found one on Craigslist a 1974 in pretty good shape a few months ago that had been stored properly in a barn for 7 yrs. The man wanted $1500.00 for the tractor, mower deck, plow, tiller, snow blower, larger 2 wheel trailer, chains, wheel weights, and most parts to operate all the implements. He was sick of people wanting only certain things and when I offered him $800.00 cash for all of it he excepted my offer. He even delivered the tractor in his larger pickup and I loaded in two trips all the other parts. My question is do you think I came on a good deal.? Iv since bought another same C160 and paid $400.00 just for the tractor alone.. They both run top notch and I love them. I think for my $1200.00 Iv done pretty well.

[JERSEYHAWG / Glenn 4,498]

Jim, first off welcome  to red square. IMHO, you did very well. Best of luck, and how about some pictures of your haul.

glenn

[muz123 1,192]

I have two WH 11's and wanted a WH C160 and found one on Craigslist a 1974 in pretty good shape a few months ago that had been stored properly in a barn for 7 yrs. The man wanted $1500.00 for the tractor, mower deck, plow, tiller, snow blower, larger 2 wheel trailer, chains, wheel weights, and most parts to operate all the implements. He was sick of people wanting only certain things and when I offered him $800.00 cash for all of it he excepted my offer. He even delivered the tractor in his larger pickup and I loaded in two trips all the other parts. My question is do you think I came on a good deal.? Iv since bought another same C160 and paid $400.00 just for the tractor alone.. They both run top notch and I love them. I think for my $1200.00 Iv done pretty well.

Welcome!

[Horse46 519]

If I could make a wish I would love a round hood but the scale of a C series with a 16hp Kohler an auto box, with a 42" deck. A front attachment for a small circular saw.  
For real I'd settle for a C-161 automatic with a 42" deck an some form of grass collection device. 

[DennisThornton 4,771]

That would be something to see. I wasn't thing of the attachments for that particular tractor. Just the  ones I would want new. The tractor would be the same age as me  but new. That would be cool. I already have my work tractor.

Darn!  I knew it was your birthday, knew that you knew that no one had made your birthday wish backhoe for it,  but for a moment I thought maybe you would make your own dream come true and build one!  
Then it became my wish to see one!  
Wouldn't that be NEAT?!?

[Forest Road 594]

Woulda coulda.... The one thing I've really taken away from all this stuff with Wheel Horses is being happy with what Ya got.

Get educated and make prudent buying decisions. We've all seen plenty of newbies on here going nuts for an extra 2-4 hp all the while they're just going to run a 42" deck and run a single stage blower. You can run just about every accessory with 12hp. The dual stage blowers and 60" decks really benefit from the extra muscle of a twin cylinder.

As for myself I essentially own everything I need. WH related of course. My best buys came down to luck, patience, and having cash on hand.

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[Jimf413 57]

I may be a newbie on here but Iv had a lot of education with Wheel Horse over the years and owned many machines and because I own 7 acres of mostly wooded area I burn firewood in the winter. Why i wanted a 16HP is because now my 11's don't have to struggle as much to pull out heavy 4' loads of logs in a trailer. Those few extra horse power make a world of difference and having 4 machines means less swapping of attachments. I plan on buying a few more.

[953 nut 59,987]

  Jim, sounds like you have the right idea, buy another  every time you get another attachment! Works for me.

[smoreau 658]

417A with 42 deck blower bagger, 52" hydraulic "V" blade, snow cab

oh wait, I already have them! 

After that would be loader, trailer, grader blade York rake, dethatcher, cultivator, 7000 watt generator, and enough 417a's for each attachment!

[roadapples 6,983]

I have about all the horses and attachments I need or have room for including the loader. The one thing I would really love to have is a backhoe like Wallfish built. Unfortunately I don`t have the welding skills or the patients. John, if  you see this you should  post up a good picture to have these Newbies and a lot of Oldies drooling all over their `puters!

Edited August 18, 2015 by roadapples

[AMC RULES 37,196]

The biggest wheel horse made on 7/20/60 
Tiller
Backhoe
plow

Half your wish, would look similar to this...   

 

Edited August 18, 2015 by AMC RULES

[JPWH 6,358]

Very nice indeed!

[muz123 1,192]

The biggest wheel horse made on 7/20/60 
Tiller
Backhoe
plow

Half your wish, would look similar to this...   

 

I saw that to it was pretty cool!

Edited August 18, 2015 by muz123

[JPWH 6,358]

That would be something to see. I wasn't thing of the attachments for that particular tractor. Just the  ones I would want new. The tractor would be the same age as me  but new. That would be cool. I already have my work tractor.

Darn!  I knew it was your birthday, knew that you knew that no one had made your birthday wish backhoe for it,  but for a moment I thought maybe you would make your own dream come true and build one!  
Then it became my wish to see one!  
Wouldn't that be NEAT?!?

Maybe a good retirement project.lol

[DennisThornton 4,771]

That would be something to see. I wasn't thing of the attachments for that particular tractor. Just the  ones I would want new. The tractor would be the same age as me  but new. That would be cool. I already have my work tractor.

Darn!  I knew it was your birthday, knew that you knew that no one had made your birthday wish backhoe for it,  but for a moment I thought maybe you would make your own dream come true and build one!  
Then it became my wish to see one!  
Wouldn't that be NEAT?!?

Maybe a good retirement project.lol

I'll be following your progress! 

[DennisThornton 4,771]

The biggest wheel horse made on 7/20/60 
Tiller
Backhoe
plow

Half your wish, would look similar to this...   

 

Oh my!  That's incredible!  And here I thought one didn't exist!  
OK!  I need to see a video of one working!  

[CasualObserver 3,411]

The biggest wheel horse made on 7/20/60 
Tiller
Backhoe
plow

The biggest  made at that time would be a Suburban 550. The tiller would be a pull behind with its own Techie engine, the plow was also available, but you would have to fabricate the backhoe; I would love to see it, that would be sooooooooo cute!

Actually the WT-30 for the Suburban was before those pull behind models. It mounted right to the rear of the tractor, used a K-90 and came with a speed reduction kit. 

 

more pictures here.....  Gallery link

The WT-241/WT-242/WT-244 lift bar wouldn't fit in the smaller welded steel slot hitch of the Suburban 400 / 550 / 401. The slot hitch dimensions got a little bigger with the introduction of the two piece unidrive and cast slot hitch in1961 with the 551 and 701.