Leaderboard

Here is a poor quality picture of the attachments that come with the 16 horse auto I have been dealing on since last April. They look to be in better shape than the tractor. Once I get it to the shop and see if the tiller is in good working order I will decide what to do with them. I really only need the Blade for fun in the snow. the tractors paint is not good but He says it ran and mowed great when he took it in on trade 2 years ago. It has been sitting in one of his storage sheds ever since.

Finally got to join this post with some pictures and a video. We ended up with about 30 inches total. The front of the house had less than the back due to the wind direction. There were bare spots and some 6 foot drifts. My wife took some pictures and my 12 year old daughter shot and edited a quick video without me even knowing. How cool is she! Video link:

Good afternoon everyone. I am at the Annual tractor show in the Carl Sandburg Mall located in Galesburg Illinois As many of you know I am heavily involved with the Illinois Fallen Heroes Traveling Memorial Wall and am working the info table at this posting. The picture is of a C-125 Custom Puller. The owner brought his hood in last Month and wanted the original hood decals replaced with what you see on this photo. I think it turned out very nice. Please excuse my poor photos (phone camera)

Proof positive, Lars does bleed Wheelhorse.

Last project of 2012

Here's some quick pictures of the day

AMAZING! Officially, we ended up with 31.4" in Stafford, CT. I'm pushing 60 and have lived in CT most of my life (3 years in NH; 3 in NY) and I have not seen this much snow in one storm - EVER. My driveway is 300' long and 40' of it is on a 45 degree incline towards the top of the driveway with a double wide turnaround. I'm driving a 265H with a Single-stage blower on it. I went out last night around 5 and took off about 5" or so. Went out again around 9 pm and took another 6" off. I spent about 1/2 hour working on the end of the driveway where the town plow came through and by the time I got back to the top, there was another 3" on the ground and the winds were really picking up!! At one point, 6" fell within ONE hour!! The most amazing storm I've experienced. Even the Blizzard of '78 paled in my opinion. The conditions were brutal. I only had the headlights from the tractor and our driveway flood lights were useless because of the intensity of the storm. Between the blow back from the machine and the 40 mph gusts, it was a bit scary I've gotta admit. I couldn't see a thing at times and kept thinking "What if....". What if a branch falls from one of the many OLD trees that line the drive (they often do during wind storms). What if I get stuck and how the hell will I get the machine out. What if I run into something because I can't see a freakin' thing! We live in a rural town so there aren't any street lights either, so it was essentially pitch black. I packed it in around 10:30, for the night. It was getting ridiculous. I couldn't keep up with the amount that was coming down. I woke up this morning and went out at around 9 and it was still snowing at a very good clip. There was close to 20" on the ground and I went to work while mother nature added a few more inches. I was totally amazed by the strength of this machine. Eating up the snow and spitting it out without ONE clog. I began to get concerned when my reverse gear wasn't working properly until I realized ice had formed under the pedal and prevented it from being depressed all the way!! Chipped it away and was back in business. It was much more FUN today because despite the cold temps and blowing snow and despite the blow back, it was LIGHT OUT! Once I got the driveway done, I had to attack the cars which simply meant I had to take the snow off the cars and put it back on the driveway!! Anyway, you can imagine the amount of time it took to clean everything up. Here's a pic before I cleaned the cars. The 265H sits proudly in the background waiting to gobble up the snow from the cars. The cab is homemade but let me tell you - It may look like *&$@ but I don't know what I would have looked (and felt) like if I DIDN'T have it. It finally stopped snowing at around 11-12 o'clock. I was back in the house around 3pm - exhausted. All in all, things could have been a lot worse. We never lost power - although the generator was hooked up and ready to go!! That's my Horse experience with the Blizzard of 2013 in CT!! An amazing machine - even though it has some Toro blood in it!! The C-175 sits in the shed with the plow on it. This was NO job for her.

I spent a few hours yesterday afternoon plowing about 3 inches of wet heavy stuff. This was before the major impact of nemo was suppose to occur. The rest is history..and I can’t say I’m sorry to see it go. I ventured back out at 8 Friday night. It’s hard to say how much snow we actually got considering everything changed to rain for about an hour around 10. Again, the snow was wet and heavy. I have a large square parking area that makes finding a place for the snow a challenge. I was forced to back up over the snow and push it to cleared area that I managed to carve out on the lawn. I was basically covered in a sheet of ice. About 6 branches of the neighbors tall arborvitaes weighed down by the ice and snow didn’t help matters. By 11:30 I had had enough. Probably got 80% of the driveway done. When I arose this morning I was greeted by probably 15+ inches of snow. At least it was the fluffy stuff. Still, I spent another 6 hours plowing, shoveling and cleaning the Jeep off. I will say if I hadn’t plowed really wet stuff the night before there was no way I’d have been able to clear my driveway today. I went through about 3 tanks of gas and worked the C-100 hard. But it never missed a beat and amazed me at times how much snow it could push. The weather was playing havoc with my camera, but I did manage a few pictures.. I’ve had enough seat time for awhile. The calm before the storm.. and then...

I took these while inside the cab this morning there was more than a foot of snow for this time out not the best pictures luckily the snow was not heavy, would have been alot worse we ended up with about 27"

On the news it said Spencer MA got 31" but I am thinking maybe 24 in my drive. I live on the town line. Hard to tell since it drifted down to 12 inches some areas and up to 3 ft in others. Here are a couple photos this AM and a short video if I can remember how to link it to youtube? The 312-8 did all the work. Now after wind contined all morning and some more light snow untilnoon after blowing was done at 9AM, I need to go out and scrape the pavement with the C-125 plow. Depth is above the upper "Wing" plate on the single stage 42" 79360 high chute. This was bare grass at 5PM yesterday! Note the wood rail fence along the road that dissapeared overnight. After the 2nd breakthrough pass. Single stage kept up with the fairly light snow. It stayed 15 overnight and until mid afternoon so no slushy wet snow (thank goodness)! Never had to unblock the chute, and had my retrofit front chute cover on that helped reduce the blowback from the front while chute facing forward. Snow was up to under edge of seat pan fender which is just about 24" high. Blower when down is only about 19-20 inches high so if not lifted it tended to blow the full auger height including upper "Wing" but the top snow layer would fall back over the top of the blower into front of wheels and onto blower housing, piling up on the attach-a-matic conneciton. So I decided to try making a pass first with blower lifted, then back up and let it down to scrape pavement. Seemed to work best doing that. Could go 10 to 20 feet but sometimes driving over the remaining 5 inches of snow the rear tires would spin a bit with blower up, even with 45lbs wheel weights and 45 lbs onthe drawbar and my butt in the seat, so decided to go a few tractor lengths blower up, then back up and lower it to clean the path. Worked well that way. At the street the plows had left a 3.5 ft high dense pile. Took many bites to clear it but the blower did a fantastic job considering the high chute was same height as that snow bank. Took 1.5 hours to finish which i am happy with. Here is a short Video showing the initial trials of lifting the blower to blow the top 20 inches then backing up and blowing it to pavement surface. The 3rd trial pass you can see I left the blower down, but didnt like the snow falling over the top of the blower and piling up on top of the blower housing and attach-a-matic frame. Sorry I didn't turn the camera to the right more to show the full snow path from the blower. It was downwind and threw it about 30 ft onto the lawn. I hope this youtube link works?? http://youtu.be/WcUrbgDypAU

Hahaha, thanks for taking a look! Not a special camera at all, but it does require a special accessory to make it work. A thing called an intervalometer allows you to program the camera to take a picture at a duration of your choosing. For this I set it up to take a picture every three seconds, over the 45 minutes or so it took me to do the job. In all it took over 1,000 photos. I then use a software program to speed up all those photos to 24 frames per second, which shortens the time to play it back to just 45 seconds! That's why it looks like I am one realllllly hyper snowblower and shovller. Really, I'm just cruising along at normal speed. They are fun to make and can show a job getting done quickly. I've made them for some construction projects or stacking wood and it's cool to see a job that took a long time compressed down to a minute or so! Thanks again for having a look and maybe I'll make another one before Nemo swims away tomorrow

It's my turn to stop asking questions and make a real contribution to this awesome forum! Brought my first horse home three weeks ago (beautiful '92 312-8) and haven't REALLY had a chance to use it. So when this storm started to brew up earlier this week I was pumped to put the horse to the test for the first time. I decided to set up my camera and tri-pod and catch the action for all you guys by making a timelapse video. I hope you enjoy it! Round two of blowing coming up in a few hours....the real snow is just starting to fall Click on the black box and it will bring you to my website where the video (should) start to play automatically.

well we didnt get any snow but we got a lot of wind which blew the rest of the sweetgum balls off the trees. these need swept up before we start to mow. so i took the wheels off the sweeper & greased everything so it works well. todays tractor is my 1971 workhorse 800 with a 8 hp. tecumpseh. i like to use the smaller hp. tractors for this type of work as they are lighter & more fuel eff. this tractor runs great. heres some pictures taken by my wife. oh BTW. it's almost 60 deg.out i do miss western pa & my 1973 12-8speed plowing snow & blowing it when it got to high. but seat time is good all year round. i am sorta glad nobody wanted to buy this tractor when i had it in classifieds Jay

MaineDad, you need a cab in the worst way! :teasing-poke:

Had it running this afternoon after some fuel system cleaning. Still have more to clean apparently as it will only run with the choke being played with. But what a blast this tractor will be and just the perfect size for my twin 3 year old boys to learn on. Everyone knows how twins can be.... we can't share so on the look again for that second one. (great excuse to feed the wife.)

My wife has a little ford focus she drives to college and the hospital(she's a nursing student). It started missing and stalling out. Wasn't showing a code so we really couldn't figure what was going on. My neighbors brother is a tec for GM and he suggested we use Seafoam. Twist was he suggested we pour it straight into the air intake with the motor running. So we revved the engine up to 2000 rpm and started slowly pouring it in. You would not believe the crap that came out the exhaust. It's ran like a top ever since. Cheapest fix I've ever had on a car but it made me a believer Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I agree with the others, WOW those are some tough looking chains. They should get you going without a problem. By the way, WOW nice shop area! I need to do some renovations, JEALOUS on that shop.

terry i took your advice and took it out with ease.thanks for your help

Scott that is an awesome build job!! I missed this until TT just posted a link at another site- thanks Terry!

Thanks Dave- that was a fun project and there was no way I was going to build that low-slung beast on a garage floor!

I'm not sure how a store-bought extractor would work with the plastic pipe, but they do exist: http://www.homedepot...ml#.URfaame3o-R An old file, wood chisel, big screwdriver, etc. driven (lightly) into the hole in the remaining piece should allow you to back it out.

Lars, my goodness buddy, dere traktor is kjotteter. I'm not laughing, and glad not more serious, Heal fast friend!!!

I'm liking that round hood rat rod Bob. The 4x4 aren't bad either :)

Safety First Everyone :auto-ambulance:

Been looking at a roundhood on Erie Craigslist for a while and finally enough snow has melted that I could go look at it. Picked it up as it has a 7hp starter generator Kohler and the hydraulic lift set up. Side panel states 702. My question is was this a typical setup for that model, as usually the second number, in this case 0 designates a pull start. In looking at the gallery TT has one that looks similar. Is this another case of a variance in the wheel horse numbering system, or could this be an owner modification. I will check the ID tag tomorrow and hopefully get a pic up, along a salvaged 704

Those little 4 horse Kohlers just seem so innocent. I had one upside down on me a few years ago no fun and they will run that way till someone grounds the points. Sure glad your OK. They are sure little monsters at times.

Finally shook on a deal for this Big Boys tractor (No offense to my Lawn Ranger) $700 for it and the tiller, plow, disc and blade. Will need a tank and who knows what else. But I am extremely happy to be getting it. I will be picking it up after tax season. Probably wont get to powder coat till next winter anyway but I am hoping a new tank and a tune up will have it mowing this summer. My name is Vinylguy and I am a Horse-a-Holic. :ROTF:

For consideration is an original unrestored 1989 312-8 that I purchased new in June of 89 along with a 42" S D Deck, Chrome Wheel Covers and a Vinyl Tractor Cover made by original Cab company. This Tractor was mainly used for mowing and also snowplowing for a few years, currently used with a front mounted Dethatching Tine Rake as evident by the Transport or Lever Bracket above the left front axle. The only parts that have been replaced other than maintenance items are The Seat, 2 Front Tires, Clutch/Brake Interlock Switch and upgraded Footrest Pads to the Deluxe Pads. This Tractor has had a very good life in the Garage when not in use and has served me very well, currently with 514 Hours. It is hard to believe I have owned this for almost 24 Years and is also responsible for starting my wheelhorse addiction and shares Garage Space with a 1984 C-165, 1986 417-8 and a 1991 520-H and by the way the 520H got quite a workout here in Maine Today. Thank You for your Consideration!

HERE"S MY C195 Brian

All ignition switch power passes through the ammeter. More than once I have seen an electrically dead tractor with nothing more than a disconnected wire on the ammeter. Maybe not the best explanation, but current travels in both directions through those two wires and the ammeter - which is what controls the needle position on the ammeter. When cranking the engine, current passing through the ammeter from the battery to the ignition switch (and on to the starter solenoid and ignition coil) pulls the gauge needle into the "discharge" or negative side. Once the engine is running, the alternator current is coming from the rectifier/regulator to the "R" terminal of the ignition switch. An internal contact in the switch connects the "R" terminal and the "B" terminal. Current passes from the "B" terminal back through the ammeter to the battery, causing the needle to move to the "charge" or positive side. As the battery voltage level nears the cut-off setting of the voltage regulator, the needle will slowly return to a more-centered position. (zero)

Heres this mornings pics. The Wheel Horse didn't (couldn't actually ) leave the garage for cleanup untill my Gilson had cleared the driveway first. Spent 5 hours clearing this mess with my son out with me the whole time. I should have cleared the driveway last night and not "saved all the fun" for today . My son's Nissan Altima is under that pile of snow in the last pic!! Mike...............

Been lurking here for a while. Here's a quick video of my 416-8 throwing about 6-8 inches of snow this morning. I went out yesterday at 8pm, 12:30am and again at 9am.... We probably had a little over 2 feet.

Figure every one like pics! Here are my "WEENIE PICS!" Since I didn't get as much I'm officially a WEENIE! :) This is what I woke up to: Officially 9" at the "Airport" I measured the ground but forgot to take the pic. Hard to get action shots when you're steering and running the hyrdo! Tall chute really blows! Took off the blower when done and switched to the blade. The infamous "Sno-Pup! Sure is handy around the trailer and garden. Cleaned this area with it.Even got an action shot which is real tricky. Running 2 cycle racing fuel thru the Tecky. Smells like your burning NITRO!!!! :) Broke out the electric "Chief" for our skinny walk between our front porch and flower bed. Anything bigger really tears things up. This blower never fails to start! Even Elvis got in on the action cleaning up what the state left me.

Well i thought the D had finally met its match, but there was no way i was shoveling my 400 foot long driveway so i managed to get the horse out of the stall to see what happened. Please dont tell it i doubted it cause believe it or not we are making progress! still not to the end of the driveway, had to come in to warm up, but i think we will make it. This thing never fails to amaze me, although i do wish my snow blower was working, think with this much snow it would be more efficient then the plow! Snow is finally starting to let up a bit, but has not stopped.

Poor plow. Had it running but it sputtered out. Figuring it is pretty wet. Jim

Hmmmm.... I guess we've got some work ahead of us. Still snowing.

I think I got jipped, I only got 20 inches, The snow at the end of my driveway was up to the hood though, The 520 busted right thru it. I took a video and If I can figure out how to upload it to utube I'll post it.

Unbelievable comments! So what do you see when you view 50 to 100 miles of glacier ice that both North and South Pole explorers from the 1700's to the early 1900's traversed that doesn't exist today. Where thousands of miles of polar ice is simply gone and time lapse photography shows, just in decades, the retreat of polar ice. I guess these scientists are just full of crap. After all, just like "expert witnesses" in jury trials, you can get someone with enough grant money from the right side of the issue to discount what the left side is saying! Are there people cashing in on the hype? Yes! Absolutely! Can we change or reverse the effects? Nope! Not overnight. Not in 10 or 20 years. It took centuries of burning fossil fuels for heating and transportation to create this cycle of warmth. And a billion + Chinese just starting their industrial revolution will keep it going. Cutting grooves in a cyl head for a few more MPG's? I guess it will have to be on MS-NBC for the left to believe it and Fox news for anyone on the right to believe it. Me! I'll believe or disbelieve any issue or event after I look at the devil in the details and not what is spoon fed to me by a talking head in two minutes or less or documentaries produced with grant money from each extreme. It seems no one sits in the middle with common sense open-mindedness anymore. The US is like a battery. Polarized!

I've seen those chains advertised but never on a . They look great! Awesome! Serious! Like the weights too! On blacktop? On my modified stone...Great! Like wow! Beautiful lookin' Stallions!

How wicked is that to see a London Taxi in US , would be great to have a pic next to a wheelhorse tractor

True but even yellow is still better than the green ones I thought it was. Thats a nice setup. I have a 582 also but mines stock I thought so too. And I'm on the look out for a yellow one too. Just to have a pair Thanks. There wasnt many of them made to begin with as IH had only started making a lawn tractor a few years before that. International started with the red paint on the garden tractors in 1980 when they unveiled their 85 series farm tractors so the whole line of small to big would match and called it "America's Farming Heritage Comes Home". Then when mtd took over the cub cadet line in 1982 the Cub Cadet dealers got them in the yellow/white paint and the IH ag dealers got them in red untill IH went out in 1985 and that particular body style on the lawn tractors was replaced with a different one. Thanks. I will. Just going to have to be after this storm as I never took it out of the truck and now both are burried in a snow drift at work were I left it out of the way

I'm posting this one for my son Ryan, this is his 1974 B-100 auto, we fixed this up for him a few years ago, it has a 8hp instead of the orig. 10hp that was blown up, but he is bugging me to put a 10hp back in it, this started as a $25 beater, this was not a full resto, but was 95% torn apart blasted and painted, he drives the snot out of it in the summer at all the local tractor shows, and does very well with it in the tractor games. What we started with And what it ended up as Winning his first trophy, he has won a few since then, he polishes and cleans it for every show in hopes of winning again.

I have several round hoods.But my favorites are the "D" series.

Here is one application of many.... a #5073 six-speed Uni-Drive: Bearing removed from case: Here is what rides in the bearings: There's nothing odd or special about radial ball bearings with an ID of 1.5", or an OD of 2.5", or a width of .5"........ The problem is that those three dimensions all belong to one bearing, making it very unique. It really seems strange that the Ponds would have designed the cases / end caps to use what I consider to be a non-standard bearing, but maybe back in '60 / '61 that bearing was popular in cars or trucks of some sort? :confusion-shrug:

Up for consideration is a 1987 416-8 with a factory Ark FEL and homemade backhoe.

Wow, talk about <p>You can buy a 42" bar for $35 from Ebay with free shipping. I think that is a fair price. I don't think we're allowed to post a link so do a search for " wheel horse snow blade"

How indeed. :blink:

Craig, after looking at that last x-ray it occurs to me that you could make a small fortune kicking field goals and/or punting that football...maybe for the Jets. Then you could buy a new truck every year and not worry about the mileage. I want to watch Don digging out that wart...how sick is that??? :bow-blue:

Nice score Perry! Here are a few pics of my spitller. It was totally scratch built by my brothers friends father in law who is 100% Russian. He made it here in CT. while staying over for the summer. Its a beast with a low hr 10 hp Kohler on it. It is supposedly made like they make them in Russia. I must say, the old timer knew what he was doing! The ram speed is just right, it has auto return, it has knock off bars and it hasn't met a log yet that got the better of it. Almost makes me wish I had some wood to split!

Sounds to me like it could be some form of timing issue. Try taking the spark plug out and see if you turn the flywheel by hand? if not i would guess an internal problem. also during the last use was it under any strain. I have had a few slip the flywheel key and have it cause all kinds of problems. Hope this gives you a few things to check.