What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[SylvanLakeWH 24,175]

47 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

Same stuff I used on Sylvia's A60.

 

Awww... My little girl is in such good hands... 

 

Reminds me... @Pullstart quit messin' with chickens and tire beads... you got tractors to wrangle... time for a road trip young man...!!! 

[Ed Kennell 35,848]

10 hours ago, Pullstart said:

I might squeak by at 5’7”.

I was 5' 9 3/4"     for 70 years.       Just came back from my 4 mo. heart check up.    They measured me at 5' 7".

Where did 2 3/4" go?        no hair,  no meniscus in my knees,  couple collapsed discs, 

 

Get ready Kevin....gravity will pull you down.

[oliver2-44 8,861]

On 4/17/2023 at 9:15 PM, RandyLittrell said:

Almost traded off my C-120, but pulled it out of the shed and remembered just how nice it is!! Guess I have to make it run now!!

 

Randy

I'd offer store it far you, but it's got a Tecumsum, Don't want to infect the rest of my herd. 

Very nice looking C-120 with great patina

[oliver2-44 8,861]

On 4/16/2023 at 4:09 PM, spitfire said:

So @spitfire what was the occasion?  

Tractors and Beer, what a combination.

[RandyLittrell 3,827]

16 minutes ago, oliver2-44 said:

I'd offer store it far you, but it's got a Tecumsum, Don't want to infect the rest of my herd. 

Very nice looking C-120 with great patina

 

I had every intention of pulling the techy out and putting a little 6.5 horse in the tractor for a tractor show runabout without having to worry about batteries and such. Very neat so it could be put back if I wanted to, but I think it looks like it deserves at least a try of seeing if it will run without too much fanfare. 

 

 

Randy

[ebinmaine 63,214]

44 minutes ago, RandyLittrell said:

I think it looks like it deserves at least a try of seeing if it will run without too much fanfare. 

Have you messed with that at all?

[RandyLittrell 3,827]

1 minute ago, ebinmaine said:

Have you messed with that at all?

 

Not yet, I bought it in 2017 and stuck it in the back of the shed under platform. Haven't even looked at it since!! 

 

Need to look at the wiring diagram. There is a red wire that is bare and it needs battery cables. 

 

Probably gonna bypass the pulse pump and try it with a gravity tank. 

 

Randy

[ebinmaine 63,214]

17 minutes ago, RandyLittrell said:

Probably gonna bypass the pulse pump and try it with a gravity tank. 

Good idea.  

 

 

17 minutes ago, RandyLittrell said:

There is a red wire that is bare and it needs battery cables

Interesting.  

Lemme know if you need pics. Perhaps an OHV160 harness is similar.  

[RandyLittrell 3,827]

1 minute ago, ebinmaine said:

Good idea.  

 

 

Interesting.  

Lemme know if you need pics. Perhaps an OHV160 harness is similar.  

 

I have downloaded and printed out the Techy wiring harness, so just need to do a little cogitating. 

 

But I may give you a buzz if I can't figure it out! Thanks! 

 

 

Randy

[ebinmaine 63,214]

1 minute ago, RandyLittrell said:

cogitating

BE CAREFUL.  

 

 

[ineedanother 1,365]

More excavation after work today. Not sure what my motrin intake would be without  power but I'm sure it wouldn't be healthy. 

 

[Horse Newbie 6,875]

16 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

You set the beads, then break one off to fill that side ? 

Or @Pullstart, you could have used a little itty bitty funnel and filled it through the valve stem…

[Pullstart 59,744]

16 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said:

Or @Pullstart, you could have used a little itty bitty funnel and filled it through the valve stem…

I have done a hose and a pump to fill through valve stems before.  I’ve also used a portable air tank filled with antifreeze, charged with air pressure, then shot through a valve stem.  It all works, but this was easily the least mess.

[WHX?? 46,814]

Just now, Pullstart said:

I have done a hose and a pump to fill through valve stems before.  I’ve also used the welder and the angle grinder. Would try the pressure washer but since I don't bathe my horses... don't have one... 

And that's the way it was ... Walter Crankcase... err Cronkite... 

[Ed Kennell 35,848]

While mowing with the 48" SD yesterday I noticed the blades slowed in the heavy grass.    I suspected the deck belt may need replaced, so off came the deck today.

 

The belt was good, but the tensioner slide was locked with dead grass and gunk.     Cleaned that up aand got the slide working.

 

Then I found the center pulley loose on the spindle.     The rare DD of course. With a wallowed out hole.

 

I dug through some buckets and found this in the 4th one.

A different number, but all measurements checked the old pulley.      A perfect fit.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2023 by Ed Kennell

[Desko 552]

Anyone else see one of these 60" decks totally rot out under the brace plate? Mainly around the spindle are. For now I'm going to fix it and cut out the rot and fix it but hopefully I can find a clean rust free one at the big show! Because to really fix it for how thin it is it would be a whole new deck lol

[953 nut 51,775]

12 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

Cleaned that up aand got the slide working.

I see you used the universal BFH tool to clean thing up.               ever think of a water hose and using a wire brush?    

 

[Ed Kennell 35,848]

1 minute ago, 953 nut said:

I see you used the universal BFH tool to clean thing up. 

That's actually  my  MBP  (mini ball peen) Richard.       And I did use a putty knife and wire brush to clean the deck.

[WHX?? 46,814]

Got a MBP too Ed... my go to when I know I can't afford to wreck something!

[ebinmaine 63,214]

2 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

MBP

 

1 hour ago, WHX?? said:

MBP

 

 

If I don't want to screw something up too badly by excessive force usage I call a BBT to run the MBP. 

[ebinmaine 63,214]

We got the trailer all cleaned out so we can rebuild it.

Trina's 1045 is in the big gray stable behind her 857.

The one in front of the chop saw is a Tecumseh horse c-160.  

 

 

 

[Sparky-(Admin) 19,580]

  Rigging up my 36RD on the B-80 to do a first mowing…can’t believe the condition of the idler?? I swear I used this deck last year  . 
  But I have three 36RD decks here so moved on to another one till I fix the original one. 
  The one I hung on the B-80 has no zerks…on top or the bottom of the spindles. So greased for life??? Hard to imagine! 
 

 

 

 

  

[Sparky-(Admin) 19,580]

First mowing went well! Deck screams!! But it cuts beautifully. 1977 B-80 has no issues with spinning it up 

 

 

 

[Sparky-(Admin) 19,580]

Fixed the noisy bearing issue …kinda. Plus I can listen to some classic rock on the FM dial while I mow 

[squonk 38,965]

50 minutes ago, Sparky said:

Fixed the noisy bearing issue …kinda. Plus I can listen to some classic rock on the FM dial while I mow 

I like listening to Golden Earring "Twilight Zone" when I mow. Yard gets done at least a half hour faster! (Is that a fuse on your hat? ) 

 

Edited April 21, 2023 by squonk