What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[adsm08 3,233]

46 minutes ago, Teddy da Bear62 said:

Why is trailer designed/built to be so tongue heavy??

 

To avoid stuff like this:

 

 

[ebinmaine 72,611]

1 hour ago, Teddy da Bear62 said:

Why is trailer designed/built to be so tongue heavy??

 

A. Adds traction to the tractor. 

B. This is a dumping trailer. The back of the trailer touches the ground at full tilt.  

 

[Handy Don 14,061]

If the tractor loading guy had moved the tractor farther forward on the trailer, of course, the truck's rear tires would’ve been back on the ground. Lucky he wasn’t killed chasing the rig. 

[702854boy 86]

On 6/8/2025 at 4:46 PM, ebinmaine said:

 

 

It looks like your splitter tires are a little flat there

[ebinmaine 72,611]

18 minutes ago, 702854boy said:

It looks like your splitter tires are a little flat there

 

Only on the bottom 

[cleat 7,256]

Don't have to lift the logs as high that way.

[MainelyWheelhorse 1,506]

 

After work, the bezel had dried fully so on it went for now. I still need to add the chrome accents and horse but that’s the easy part. It’s getting there piece by piece.

[TonyToro Jr. 1,960]

Rototilled the garden with the C-145

[702854boy 86]

Well after a few months of off and on reading I have read all 968 pages of this part of the forum.

[Damien Walker 297]

16 hours ago, peter lena said:

@Damien Walker  front axel , spindle , grease fitting , vinyl cap , cAN,T SEE IT ?  pete

Apologies, I misunderstood what you meant....I thought the grease caps were on the axle not the spindle! I'd be interested to see how you fotted those....😃

[peter lena 9,261]

@Damien Walker those caps are the same size , for the wheel axel  end and the vertical axel end top point , very easy to  try one on , and keep in grease , and keep out crud . this is not in the book , dare to try  something , pete

[Damien Walker 297]

1 hour ago, peter lena said:

@Damien Walker those caps are the same size , for the wheel axel  end and the vertical axel end top point , very easy to  try one on , and keep in grease , and keep out crud . this is not in the book , dare to try  something , pete

But there's nothing to slip them over. On all of my tractors, the spindle pokes out of the top of the axle casting by only enough to secure it with a circlip...my guess is that the 'upstand' is therefore no more than 1/8" (including the circlip) or thereabouts...surely nowhere near enough to guarantee that the cap wouldn't just pop off and end up in the mower?

[TonyToro Jr. 1,960]

Took the 520-H for its first night “cruise with the lights on” lights are  bright and the look of them looking a bit halogen is kinda growing on me but will definitely get replaced with the lights like I have on the C-145.

[Shed 272]

Worked on my son's custom build frames welded and seats mounted the rest is placed for now for ideas. If you didn't see the build the transmission is toast on this tractor so I'm making something cool still from it

[MainelyWheelhorse 1,506]

 

After work, I had some silver pin striping so I figured I’d try it out on the C-141 bezel.

It's a bit more of an interpretation of a C series bezel, than an exact copy. I still might tweak it some more.

[Teddy da Bear62 102]

4 minutes ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

 

After work, I had some silver pin striping so I figured I’d try it out on the C-141 bezel.

It's a bit more of an interpretation of a C series bezel, than an exact copy. I still might tweak it some more.

Nice!

[ebinmaine 72,611]

After the logging was done for the day we moved a few trailer loads of stone from the front yard down to the new forest pathway. The picture with the red line here shows the trail that we've been using.

 

 

[953 nut 59,917]

10 hours ago, Shed said:

my son's custom build

Love customs.                             How many feet of turning radius will be needed with that much frame extension?

[adsm08 3,233]

On 7/26/2025 at 3:36 PM, Handy Don said:

If the tractor loading guy had moved the tractor farther forward on the trailer, of course, the truck's rear tires would’ve been back on the ground. Lucky he wasn’t killed chasing the rig. 

There are multiple individual failures displayed in that video. That is just one.

[adsm08 3,233]

10 hours ago, 953 nut said:

How many feet of turning radius will be needed with that much frame extension?

 

[ebinmaine 72,611]

@adsm08

Well played sir

[Shed 272]

14 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Love customs.                             How many feet of turning radius will be needed with that much frame extension?

A foot ball field and half but nah it's just a mock up for ideas 

[Shed 272]

4 hours ago, adsm08 said:

 

With the gearing I figured it would go about 30 mph so hey what's the fastest wheel horse 

[Ed Kennell 41,942]

2 hours ago, Shed said:

what's the fastest wheel horse 

I had the parachute set to deploy at 180 MPH on mine.

 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 72,611]

7 hours ago, Shed said:

With the gearing I figured it would go about 30 mph so hey what's the fastest wheel horse 

 

Some things to keep in mind about speeding up a Wheelhorse.  

 

Unidrive bearings. The bearings in these transmissions have limitations like anything else. I've read that the race mower crowd seems to think 20 - 25 is a lot for these. 

 

Brakes. Well...  Inadequate for high speed slowing and stopping. 

 

Tie rods. You will NEED to change the tie rods to a different type altogether. 

 

Steering. The steering system as a whole is actually very loose the way it was designed... for 6 mph. Put that to a 5X and it'll be startling. 

 

 

If you've never been on a "fast" garden tractor you'd be shocked at what 12 mph feels like.  

 

20+ is obviously doable but there are serious considerations to be addressed.