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Theory Of A Dead Man - ***** Came Back:

Craig...All I can say is you and I need to hang out and listen to music and drink beer....we have the same taste in tunes !!!!!!! Robbie Blunt on Lead guitar.....one of the most underrated Musicians of this era!!!!

Hey Jim.....Where did you get this picture...LOL Uhh, hmm, let me, mmm, no, wasn't there. I think it was, nope, not there either. Huh, It escapes me. Oh ya!! On facebook right after you posted it. :thumbs:

Wanda back in the day!!!!!!

He did a couple songs with Wanda Jackson......the Mother of Rockabilly....that are awesome too.....Hmmmmm Maybe I should post it.....LOL

Leonardo would have painted the Sistine Chapel that way had he only known about 's. But you wouldn't have three arms! That's a great pic,kept me smiling!

Excellent pictures Duke! Love all the people ones! I found one however that look awfully suspicious. I have forwarded the photo to the appropriate personnel for futher examination and will report back

Watch out for that Steve! Looks like he likes to play footsie! :jaw:

The things fathers do for their kids!!!!!!

I've been cruising around here for a while and figured it was time for an into. I have 2 wheelies, a 1267 that belonged to my parents that I just rescued from their barn and a 701 I purchased from a friend. The 701 was restored a few years ago and is missing a couple things, like the impossible to find double belt guard. It has some damage to the hood and rear fenders due to being dropped on its lid and at some point early in its life, someone took to the hood with a drill bit. Cooling holes? Speed holes? It also has a functioning 36" RD deck and I've been using it the last couple of mows. The 1267 needs a LOT. It has a 54" dozer blade and a deck. It hasn't run in a decade at least. It'll be quite a project. Or maybe get it running and leave it rough for now. Here are some pics.

I bought a ruff 701 before the show, it turned out to be very ruff, but I'm a man of my word so I paid for it, I can salvage a few parts off it, and believe it or not the hood is not as bad as it looks, only one bigger dent, and no cracks, it will be pitted, but they make good epoxy primer for that. I'll get a number of other parts off it, before the rest goes to scrap. Then sun. as we were starting to load up, I was asked if someone could use my ramps off my trailer, and would I look to see if this tractor was a good deal, so I walked over to see a pretty fair 701 in the back of a truck, the guy had drove by earlier and seen the Big Wheel Horse sign on the fence, so he went home and brought the 701 to see if anyone wanted to buy it, I looked it over and told the buyer it was a pretty good deal even though we could not hear it run, and jokingly I said I'll buy it if you don't, and he said it's yours, he really didn't want or need it, so I looked it over a little better now that it was my money buying it, and still thought it was a good deal, it came with the orig. metal seat pan, mower deck that is ruff, snow blade old style with the foot release also on the ruff side, and a set of tire chains, it also had a newer batt. I had it running in 5 min. after getting it home, no smoke and runs pretty good, has been painted but looks nice under the paint I see no major pitting or dents, and has the orig. choke and throttle cables both in VERY nice shape those are very hard to find, not bad for $225. Ruff one second one in much better shape

Thanks to my son Nick ("wh_702") this was delivered Sunday night: It didn't take much to get it running & driving Monday afternoon, so we figured it was worth trying to clean it up: Nick returned today and we "tinkered" & cleaned a bit more. Naturally we had to test-fit my homemade grader blade : This is what I have been waiting to try for years...... an RM-425 on a round hood: :text-thankyoublue:

middle of next week so heres another update..... got a metal fender pan from kelly this past weekend, nice and straight, but after bead blasting lots of rust pitting. not bothering to fill the pitting so cleaned it up and shot some powder on it yesterday. tonight i messed around with the hood, spot welded the bad hood/grill seam, straightened it up some to get it fitting ok. its about as good as its going to get now, minor dents to remove tomorrow and will probably paint before the weeks out. heres some pics..... fender pan as i got it.... heres the original paint from behind the decal and the case red powder i use in comparison..... now onto the hood...... hood was welded where it split the spot welded join between the grill and hood, then i worked out the buckles and bends..... here you can see the twist, if you look close at the raised sides one is curved and on is straightened from whatever fell on the hood before i got it..... got it on the bench and spaced up both ends so i could clamp down on it to get the curve back in there....... after much beating and bending, its mounted up and looking good compared to how it was back in the early days of this thread...... heres how it looked before.......

A very special thanks to littleredrider, squonk, and amcrules00, for their prompt and accurate diagnosis. Yes, it was the rubber fuel line! Actually, I should have known to check this, as I know the increase in ethanol content can really be tough on old rubber that was not intended to be exposed to it. New fuel line and the 854 runs great again! Very impressed with the website!

I could do this all day long...it's you, and TJ that keeps me going Joe.

Thats very cool, thanks for sharing that vid!! Matt :flags-texas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76CvUL4THE&feature=fvwrel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rhU2r0NVL8&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmdO-KhnSWM&feature=related

Thanks Matt. It's getting there slowly. I guess it's all down to what kind of work needs to be done on an 'orse as to how good your shop needs to be... If you get slightly carried away with a build (like me) then things like a lathe come in handy.... Then again, every one should have a lathe, such handy machines The vid's and picture will keep on coming, just maybe a little slower than they have been. Slow is the only speed my body works at at the mo. 3 years eh... How time fly's when your having fun You may have a point there Matt.. Meet you in the middle and call it a "mini saga" That's 3 days of your life your never get back.. Only kidding. Thanks for taking the time to read through it all. Sorry guy's yet another small update, I'm just very short on energy at the mo. Anyway, with all six spacers for the axles made, it was time to see how the chain clears the bolt heads now.. Yep, that's enough space. The sprockets only sit 2mm proud of the axles, nowt a thick washer won't solve. At long last the skateboard wheels finally turned up. A bit of trimming is needed but they should make good chain guides. This is a first for me, turning a skateboard wheel on the lathe. The original plan was to cut a groove in the center. But today I decided just to make them a smaller diameter. An invisible Pete seen here having fun on the lathe. And that folks is where the build stands at the end of play today. Other than..... Happy birthday to this build thread.. 3 years old today.. A slice of cake for Pete.. A slice for me.. And of course let's not forget... :D

Yeah, Wanda's one of the greats...still sounds hot.

Steveasaurus, I have one of them walk behinds, mostly restored but wrong engine and I have most of a sulky for it too if you really like the ride :ychain:

Very cool...I love how the little guy leans it into the turns. :thumbs:

Well, with 4 grandsons, I see what my winter project is going to be.

That is awesome. I bought my son a pedal Fire engine when he was around 3...he lived in that thing, wore out the tires (I ordered new ones and replaced them). I have movies of that. Great stuff. :)

saaawwweeeeeeett!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is awesome!

He's got the pose down :handgestures-thumbupright:

Wow. I spent 3 days reading this. Simply put; you're the man. Thank you for documenting this.

Congrats Craig. You are a real asset to Red Square and I always enjoy reading your post. You are both funny and informative. Keep those posts coming!!!!!!!!

The before...as it came off the truck Friday night, and the after... is that Sunday morning, after it's first cutting with the reel in over twenty five years. :text-woo:

I think this guy was very suspicious! I saw him on this one also.

Looks real nice Bob. I say use it, it is afterall just a seat and seats were made to sit on. :)

Well now you just have to buy a tractor the seat is correct for.

Definitely old school anyway. Besides, I don't mind living on the edge...that's the way God made me.

Just purchased this 701. She's a little rough but not too far gone! I hope to have a blast restoring it and using it.

Ya Steve, Craig is definitely "old school". :ROTF:

Kelly and family put on another wonderfull show this year. Thanks guys for all your hard work . we spent 4 nights there and had a great time as allways. we got lucky and the storms missed us on saturday night. and Scott (smoreau) makes some killer cheesy tators on the grill . also like to thank the rest of you'all for the great hospitaly and laughter around the camp fire. these pics are in the camping area on sunday afternoon as people were leaveing and it was clearing out . my 877 Dukes horse hauler my site

If he hasn't been... he's at least looked up at it a few times.

It looks like they had a pizza party waiting for them...

I have one that I bought to restore. The motor smokes a little on start up but otherwise runs fine. The transmission is weak in reverse and I suspect a check valve but have not looked into it yet. I have never heard anyone say they did not like theirs. Here is a picture of a restored one. I thing they are a great example of the Wheel Horse brand. Here is mine all original:

and some more...... denny's (dclarke) very nice 701.... brian's very nice 854 with stainless sickle mower.... mike (ol550) and mj catching some shade from the hot sun with duke's (horsefixer) 702 and rj dave's (funengineer) trailblazer mower/snowblower, commando and 857.... mike's (ol550) 2 nice ones......... david's (new2horses) very nice 'wooden wagon'.......great story behind this one........ dave thought the grass needed mowing....... that hot sun was effecting everyone in different ways.......

Paula Cole - Until I Met YOU:

and it just doesn't get any better than this...

Did just pick this up a while back. Spent it's whole life outside I do believe. Had three flat tires when I got it. Fixed that and it runs good. 1982 Workhorse GT-1848.

Well this seems to be the only pictures I had on this new laptop...This is a $50 tractor that I picked up for parts about 7 years ago..Thought the motor was locked up when I first got it but upon taking it about the motor rolled over once I took the starter off..went and took the started off the other ( working tractor ) put some fresh gas in and it fired right up and ran better than the other one, LOL...Its a 1983 GT 1642 8 speed..Attached to it is my ( what was NOS never used ) $75 tiller.. Kevin