Pullstart 65,005 #51 Posted February 12, 2019 1 hour ago, SylvanLakeWH said: September 2015... My brother gave my then 16 year old son the C-105 for him to use for his 6 year old neighborhood lawn care and snow removal business... Son “retired” from lawn business at 18 to go to college, so I have inherited the WH... She still sees active duty plowing snow and helping with chores... Pics are of my son on the summer day we brought it home, him plowing, and me more recently doing “chores” with the nieces and nephews... Life is good on a ! Jim, I still don't understand why your black hood hasn’t called more horses home, like most others do? 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LengerichKA88 1,883 #52 Posted February 12, 2019 (edited) Hey @formariz don’t listen to @PeacemakerJack... Edited February 12, 2019 by LengerichKA88 Wrong tag, wrote this pre-coffee 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 27,801 #53 Posted February 12, 2019 1 hour ago, pullstart said: Jim, I still don't understand why your black hood hasn’t called more horses home, like most others do? Well...She is VERY selective...Unlike many of her present day WH friends, she does not engage in online dating etc. and avoids social media (with the exception of Red Square of course!)... She is simply waiting for the right boy to come along...and given WH's legendary long-life genes she can afford to be patient! I am so proud of her... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 58,446 #54 Posted February 12, 2019 When I was 11 or 12 we attended a lawn and garden show during the winter and my Dad was looking at several options including an RJ-35. Needless to say I was liking the idea of mowing while riding , but sadly it was not to be, he bought a rototiller and a walk behind mower, guess who walked behind it for the next seven or eight years! Fast forward to twenty or so years ago while living in Florida my wife and I bought a nice peace of property for a future retirement home and I wanted to buy a garden tractor to improve and maintain the property. A friend told me about the Florida Flywheelers Show and I attended with him and found my 1055 with a 36" deck, mid mount grader blade and a cart. I made a small landscape rake for it and was amazed at how much work it could do. I was hooked! A few months later a good friend was attending a yard sale near hi in-laws home in Ohio, There was a Wheel Horse for sale and he called and asked it I wanted it, as he had an empty truck bed he could deliver it. I bought my first 953 sight unseen and the rest is history! 5 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
artfull dodger 440 #55 Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) I grew up with Simplicity and Cub Cadets, then moved to Pennsylvania when I met the lady that would become my wife. Was hooked into the Wheel Horse's by a new friend while living out there. Loved the smaller size of the short frames, while still being able to do ground engaging work. I am also a diesel nut, but most factory diesel GT's are bigger machines. When we inherited my late grandmother's place back in Indiana, I know a short frame Horse was just the ticket for mowing, garden work and snow removal. Picked up a super clean Commando 8 with the hi/lo range transmission. Repowered it with a Yanmar air cooled diesel, added custom hood top and fender top decals, been using her ever since. My neighbor is a sheet metal worker/welder by trade and is going to replace the rotted out nose on my mower deck this spring. The smaller size, tight turning radius along with the rear discharge 36RD mower deck is perfect for a small yard. The diesel has electric start(battery is under the seat pan now), intake preheater for cold weather starting and is a genuine Yanmar and not one of the Chinese clones. Cheers Mike and Michele T Edited February 13, 2019 by artfull dodger 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ClassicTractorProfessor 5,366 #56 Posted February 14, 2019 I have enjoyed tinkering with mowers and small engines since I was a young boy hanging around my Great-Grandad's shop. Here a few years ago I started a landscaping and tree service, had a few push mowers and a couple cheap riders, but really wanted a true garden tractor for the bigger jobs. My friend Ray told me at the coffee shop one morning that if I wanted a garden tractor I should try to find a Wheel Horse, said he had one years ago and it was tough and easy to work on. Looked locally for a while but they're few and far between here in OK, so I gave up looking. Fast forward a year or so, I had been out to the city dump and picked up a nice older Montgomery Wards rider that someone threw out, had it in the back of my pickup the next morning at the coffee shop, one of our regulars came in and asked if I wanted another old mower. At first I told him I didn't need another one, then he said he had an old Wheel Horse in his back yard I could have if I came and got it. So with that the 1277 came home. Figured I would be good with the one tractor, then I found RedSquare, this magical place with so much knowledge and so many bad influences to fuel a guy's addiction . Soon I was looking for another, and came across an incomplete, rough, yet begging to be rescued 701. Picked it up for free as well, many of the original parts were missing, but the bones were good, currently working on repowering it and making a parade/show cruiser out of her. First pic is the day I brought her home, second is how it sits as of last night. Not too long after, my wife at the time decided she wanted one. Browsed around and found the little Commando V8 @Daddy Don had posted in the classifieds. Few days later and we were up to 3, the wife has since left but the little Commando is still here. Then came my worker C125, which is also my little nephew's favorite tractor. And finally my most recent one, which ironically goes back to the first time I ever heard the Wheel Horse name. My friend Ray came to coffee one day and told me he had found me another tractor for $100, turned out it was the C141 that he had purchased brand new and used for years before trading it to another friend of his. While I love all my tractors, this one will always be my favorite and hold a special place in my heart, it is currently tore down do the bare frame going through an extensive no expense spared full restoration 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daddy Don 907 #57 Posted February 15, 2019 Like the head lights on the C125. You can work day and night with that one. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ClassicTractorProfessor 5,366 #58 Posted February 15, 2019 41 minutes ago, Daddy Don said: Like the head lights on the C125. You can work day and night with that one. They definitely light up the night 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daddy Don 907 #59 Posted February 16, 2019 May have to put a pair on mine. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
