What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[702854boy 262]

Yesterday I scored some free 6-12 turfs with chains from a friend.

[JoeM 8,924]

On 11/7/2025 at 11:08 PM, Blue Chips said:

I didn't want to pay the crazy price for OEM plastic push pins

I really have not found a good match other then OE. Purchased several and ended up robbing some from an other machine that was just for working.

 

That SS looks nice and the fit is perfect. I was thinking a coat of flat or matte black would be nice too. 

[lynnmor 8,091]

12 minutes ago, JoeM said:

I really have not found a good match other then OE. Purchased several and ended up robbing some from an other machine that was just for working.

 

I use these, they are just a bit shorter but work fine.

[Andy N. 2,581]

Sharpened some mower deck blades before putting it away for winter! First time using this style blade fixture and it worked great. It's supposed to be bench mounted, but I just C clamped it to a saw horse and it worked great!

 

Here's the link if anyone is interested:

 

https://a.co/d/9IHreoA

 

 

 

 

 

[Ed Kennell 43,116]

16 hours ago, ML3 said:

Picked up the Bervac today! Thanks to @Ed Kennell Got it installed on the Workorse already. Its so heavy & that means its staying on permanently! Predicting out 1st "lake effect " snow starting overnight Sunday with potential for 5-10" of heavy, wet snow. Might need it????

Good to know you had a safe trip home without any deer collisions.   I just got home and passed 27 deer smears between Cumberland, Md and Chambersburg, Pa.  Around 100 mile and that's just one side of the interstate.    The Ber Vac installation must have gone well.  Which lift rod/ rock shaft did you use?  Were the holes there for the rotator rod support?   I see you don't have the lift assist spring on.  I know the hydraulics can lift it, but the spring really takes the strain off the mechanical levers involved in the lift.  Sure glad I was able to meet you half way in time for you to get her installed before the snow.     Have fun in the snow tomorrow.  We have rain right now.     

[JoeM 8,924]

5 hours ago, lynnmor said:

bit shorter but work fine.

good price too!

[JoeM 8,924]

Worked on daughters 522xi, oil change service and installed the snow plow.

The deck has about 150 hours on sealed bearings. Still nice and smooth! 

Surprising how clean the deck is after cutting up the leaves. 

 

One other thing I keep an eye on is the right rear hub. It has one of those A to Z tapers hubs. 

The axle was about ten thousands under and I first had issues keeping it tight. That 1.125 taper is good to 5 under. 

With nothing to loose. I drove the taper in as deep as it would go, tightening and tapping on the taper while the out hub was blocked.

I gauge it by the axle stick out.

Has ran 95 hours on loaded tire and chains. 

Hanging tough!

 

[sqrlgtr 1,074]

Threaded and added heim joints to push pull rod for snow plow.

[Handy Don 14,692]

13 minutes ago, sqrlgtr said:

Did you cut the threads with the lathe or with a die?

[ML3 1,954]

Put the plow on 654. Also did some preventative maint. Oil change,  greased all fittings, new wear bar on plow blade. Guess I'm done mowing for the season....

[sqrlgtr 1,074]

Almost forgot fixed plow pivot pin to accept grease. I couldn't believe how dry that pin was. When I took it apart I greased it up and put it back together and you couldn’t believe what a difference that made. Got to thinking there should be an easier way to grease beside taking it apart and this is what I came up with. Got idea from front end loader on my farm Tractor 🚜 .

@Handy Don I used both first one was with a die and last end cut with lathe (lot easier). I just had a little 1” dia 1/2-20 dia and broke my die stock handleand thats why I had to cut other end with lathe.

[peter lena 9,471]

@sqrlgtr  have mine for years now , amazingly  smooth . easy to  operate . my reference to the lower , squeeze lever  , shoulder bolt swing point  is a vital one . as I originally  set mine up , went after  every  hang up area , also set it up on 2 milk crates , so I could,roller stool around it  experiment  with swing quadrant reaction . came to shoulder bolt  m as the  SMOOTH , SWING  lever  main issue , correction . dialed in funcion , with flat washers on each side of  its , threaded / smooth  areas , used a regular  nut to experiment  with , once found , remove regular nut , held setting with a , elastic lock nut . then squeeze lever response , to  quadrant slide pin , like aerosol red grease , its so smooth easy  function is still amazing  , top off with a lubricated finish  for snow slide off  , also added a heim joint to my pto lever rod end , smooth / solid  , enhanced that  battery tray , start area . hides in plane site  , glad you are doing it  , pete       

[cleat 7,679]

21 minutes ago, sqrlgtr said:

Almost forgot fixed plow pivot pin to accept grease. I couldn't believe how dry that pin was. When I took it apart I greased it up and put it back together and you couldn’t believe what a difference that made. Got to thinking there should be an easier way to grease beside taking it apart and this is what I came up with. Got idea from front end loader on my farm Tractor 🚜 .

@Handy Don I used both first one was with a die and last end cut with lathe (lot easier). I just had a little 1” dia 1/2-20 dia and broke my die stock handleand thats why I had to cut other end with lathe.

 

Great job.

I will do that to mine some day.

Similar to what I did for my deck rollers 

 

 

[Bar Nuthin 1,487]

23 hours ago, Andy N. said:

First time using this style blade fixture and it worked great.

 

You'll find you get much better results using a flap disc. I use 60 grit, then finish off burs with a file. I also have the balancer which fast and accurate.

 

 

[ebinmaine 74,601]

2 hours ago, sqrlgtr said:

Threaded and added heim joints to push pull rod for snow plow.

 

 

 

I might have a little bit of "machine envy" here. 

[Handy Don 14,692]

1 hour ago, sqrlgtr said:

@ri702bill made some lubricated transaxle hitch pins the same way.

Many folks store their plows with the frame and blade separated so the pin gets attention every year.

[sqrlgtr 1,074]

4 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Many folks store their plows with the frame and blade separated so the pin gets attention every year.

 

I am ashamed to say it but believe this is first time I ever had the blade off the frame on any of mine . I can see how they might be easier to store taken apart though. Only reason this one came off had to do a little welding on the "sector?" were the push/pull rod went through hole. I think I ran over it with farm tractor and broke a weld loose .

[Handy Don 14,692]

Continuing the dozer blade theme...

A year ago, @ebinmaine gifted me a parts-missing and extremely tired BD-4263 (1963). A PO had already repaired the bottom edge with a new plate. I wasn’t sure I even wanted a plow. 

Last fall I made a rotate control lever and linkage (with Heims), extended the frame rearward to work with a latch-in instead of the original (and not present) bolt-in mounts, installed plow shoes, and made a plow centering bracket for the front hitch.  

 

Well, I’ve come to appreciate plowing over blowing for the sort of snow we are getting here and I decided to finish the refurb and keep this thing.

So, I...

- Cut and re-welded the plow shoe brackets to keep the shoes flat to the ground

- Cut out the seriously wallowed pivot sleeve in the frame and a friend installed a new one (DOM ¾ ID, 1-¼ OD, ¼ wall) -- a bit heavier than the original

- Added an extra layer of sheet metal to the bottom of the frame’s blade junction to lessen the flop there

- New Grade 8 shoulder bolt and nut for the pivot and drilled the nut for a Lynch pin

 

I’m surely invested in this blade for more dough than one in better shape to start with would’ve cost, but I’m content. 

 

  

 

  

 

[ri702bill 10,084]

5 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

I’m surely invested in this blade for more dough than one in better shape to start with would’ve cost, but I’m content. 

 That is an earlier quadrant with 3 holes - my 42" was like that. I added the 2 mid positions between them. That is the setting I plow with the most.

(also did the intersecting holes & grease fitting on the pivot bolt two years ago)...

[ebinmaine 74,601]

@Handy Don  very nice work!

 

 

@ri702bill    how did you drill that? Is that nasty steal to get through? I've been considering doing that for several years.

[Handy Don 14,692]

3 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

That is an earlier quadrant with 3 holes - my 42" was like that. I added the 2 mid positions between them.

I looked at that, and I think I’d surely use those intermediate positions, but I wasn’t sure there would be enough metal left around the holds for adequate strength. Can you post a picture of yours, please?

[cleat 7,679]

9 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

 That is an earlier quadrant with 3 holes - my 42" was like that. I added the 2 mid positions between them. That is the setting I plow with the most.

(also did the intersecting holes & grease fitting on the pivot bolt two years ago)...

 

Mine was a three hole to begin with too.

I drilled the two extra holes.

It works great and as ri702bill said, I plow in the mid position a lot.

 

[Handy Don 14,692]

17 minutes ago, cleat said:

I drilled the two extra holes.

If you compare the two quadrants, two things jump out to my eye...

One, there is a LOT more space between the center and outer holes on @cleat’s than on mine because,

Two, the radius from the pivot to the holes is longer so that the length of the arc can be longer. It’s obvious when you see the different gaps between the bottom plates on the quadrant and the guide holes bar. 

@cleat's and @ri702bill's quadrants had a LOT of metal to work with. Mine doesn’t. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Handy Don

[sqrlgtr 1,074]

The one I've been working on is a 48" and already had the 5 holes and agree the first hole from middle gets used a lot.

[OldWorkHorse 3,109]

Not exactly to my wheel horse but for it to do things to it. Made a set of back savers for the horses. Gets them up a bit higher so im not bent over working on them all the time. Made them out of just scrap wood had laying around I needed to use. ramps can be removed and tucked out of the way and when I get width where I need it for what im driving up on it I use 2 2x4 to lock them from sliding apart.