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Saturday was my youngest grandson's 2nd birthday party. He is fascinated with tractors, and every time he comes to my house it's always "Papa's tractors" as the first words out of his mouth. So my daughter suggested that I bring my 701 to Grant's party. Since Grant's other grandfather was here from Wisconsin, and he is a tractor nut himself, we decided to have two tractors, and two carts so that all 11 kids could ride. So I loaded up the 701 and the Commando 8 along with one bathtub cart. My son-in-law had a cart already. Here we are. Two tractor nut granddads having the time of our lives. That's me of course in the funny hat. This is Hank, from Wisconsin on the Commando. We even had 3 young ladies from age 10 to 13 who wanted to learn to drive the tractors, so driving lessons were in order. After that, it was hard to keep them off the horses. An absolutely great time was had by everyone, especially the two old guys.

I got new knives for my sickle bar and yesterday I found a buddy that has the tool to change them. Nothin to it once you get the hang of it. This thing shears the old rivets off to remove the old knife and punches the old rivets out of the bar. It also does a nice job installing the new rivets.

I've had my eye on this thing for several years. It belonged to a friend who didn't want to sell it a few years ago when I asked him about about it. I knew he didn't use it much and it was just sitting there starting to rust. Well he finally said he wanted to sell it due to moving. He's down sizing and getting out of some of his hobbies. So we settled on a price and I brought it home yesterday and set it up. It,s a bench top combination lathe and milling machine / drill press. A couple pics... After some cleaning and lubricating the ways... I know this machine is limited but it will serve my purposes nicely for some small projects. I have one Wheel Horse project in the planning stage for it as a first project. We'll see how that goes. Hope you like the pics.

Georgetown Ohio Tractor Show. Wheel Horse & Steam Engines were featured.

Firstly, I'm doing this on my kindle fire HD, so I Hope it all look's ok and the pics appear. Image quality not good, as it only has a forward facing camera (for Skype), but I still tried it. Last couple of weeks, I've been shifting my dismantled Lathe over to my other place up in Horley to where my Horses are while I still had the Van (selling it soon). Now fully reassembled on a proper stand. Just to make it feel at home and not get lonely, it has company-- Needed a decent Drill Press & the larger Milling facility is a handy bonus. It's not the best quality in the world, shame it's not a Bridgeport, but will serve my needs for Carb & Fuel pump work. Lucky to have had my neighbour bring his Mini Digger around to lift it onto the Stand. Yes, I've had a lot of it apart and meticulously cleaned,greased, adjusted and checked for tolerances etc. Just need to finish Tramming the table-column alignment, then it's playtime. Actually, I've already used it to mill several flats on a newly made Counter Shaft for the Lathe. Lots of jobs I can get on with now. So if you like machining pics , I'll do some when I work on my front Rims and Carb Throttle Shafts etc. Regards

I am considering building a shepherds hut in the garden as either a workshop or an extra guest room or just a mancave These hut are becoming very popular here in UK and are often used for (Glamping) or just as extra accommodation in the garden . I need to built a new workshop this winter anyway so i have desided to build one like you see here . They are built on wheels so can be moved around . below are some pics of various types .

I picked up my newest addition to my wheel horse collection today, it is a wheel horse lawn roller I located about 3.5 hours away but the seller was willing to drive 2 hours closer to me so I could pick it up. Collecting wheel horses is great but finding an excuse to use them more is even better. This roller will go great with my lawn aerator I picked up a while ago. This roller is from the late 60's thru the 70's. Did wheel horse have a roller before this for the RJ or Suburban tractors? Does anyone have any pictures to help identify one that may have been painted a different color?

I had the tractors out of the garage today to tidy up some and just couldnt resist this picture.

kent on the right with one of the guys that adopted him for some of the day! kent is on the far right here..... we will definitely add this one to the calendar for next year, some of us for the tractors, some for the army display....... since this one wasnt a kids ride around all day show, mom and dad stayed somewhat sane by having that......

Well I did build a 60" trail mower about 6 or 7 years ago and that thing mows great and will mow really high grass with one pass. You would not believe what I used to make the deck. My neighbor had one of those small truck caps with doors on both sides. I used the top of that truck cap and grass has never built up on the bottom. I did build a frame on the sides and back, so it is open on three sides. After a few years I had to reinforce the deck where the towers go through though. It was made out of whatever I had lying around at the time but it has held up great and never leaves a windrow.

And now for the grand finale... I've got the quick hitch to add back still, but here is the tractor fully put back together and decals installed. I'm very happy with how it turned out. The paint doesn't have the automotive quality gloss that some restorations do, but for doing it myself in my garage with rattle cans, I am very happy. The decals from Redo your Horse look great. I can't wait to try out a few implements and take it to a show. So far, I have just ridden it around the yard pulling the kids in the wagon. Dave

Hello everyone, I have finally joined Red Square after several weeks of reading posts and looking at the awesome pictures everyone posts of their WH’s. I guess you could say I need a place where I can talk to people who have the same “addiction†as me because I can tell you my wife is about ready to make me move out to the garage if I don’t stop talking about WH’s to her. Anyway, I just wanted to post my summer project I just completed two weeks ago. My dad gave me a 1983 Wheel Horse GT-1642 Work Horse back in May. He didn’t have any use for it sitting around his house after he stole the deck off it for his 520 (I owe my dad and my uncle for getting me hooked on Wheel Horses). The tractor was in pretty rough shape so I figured I would give it a go and see how I could do restoring the old beast. I completely stripped it down and got the frame and wheels painted just in time for the big show in Aredntsville. I put the rusty sheet metal back on the frame so I had it to ride around the grounds. The next week I stripped it back down to the wheels and chassis. I sand blasted all the sheet metal down to bare metal so I have a fresh rust free surface to work with. Once all the body prep work was done, I primed it with Rustoleum rust prohibiting primer and then shot it with Rustoleum Smoke Grey oil based enamel. I know the color is a darker than the way they came from South Bend but I liked the color on the tractor. I ordered new decals from Redo Your Horse, which the quality is absolutely amazing!! After some wet sanding and buffing I assembled it back together, stickered it, installed a new seat, and I have been using is to pull my lawn sweep after I mow with the 520. It’s a blast to drive. This is an awesome forum site!!! Thanks for letting me share!!

...and a grinder, resulted in this. What are you thinkin'...better than you expected?

Monday just gone was the day booked for me and Simon (landsurveyor) to shift a mountain of mud, from the field me and my wife are to build our house, to down the bank behind the factory next door (its ok mother in law owns it) After finally getting planning permission, long story dont ask! one of the conditions were to move this large pile of mud to create parking before we can start. So as me and Simon are both only to happy to put our Wheel Horses to work, i purchased two small tipping trailers, modified them, strengthened them lots, and of course painted them Wheel Horse red With my wife operating our Massey Ferguson 50b digger loading the trailers, me on my Electro 12 emptying a trailer and Simon on his GT14 emtying a trailer and using his dozzer blade to level out down the back. The turning area is tight but Simon just about managed it. Manual tipper im afraid, which was a challenge when the trailers got over filled! My Electro 12 did really well all day The grippy rear tyres and front weight made getting down here easy. The smaller trailer wheels made reversing over the edge more difficult. Then Simons belt slipped off his GT14, so while i fixed it he ran off with my tractor. In the end the GT14 belt fell to bits, so Simon went to get his trusty John Deere to carry on, then our digger popped a seal on a hydraulic ram, thankfully at the end of the day, so game over. We almost moved all the mud, just a few loads left, well till we start digging out the footings that is ​Unfortunately no photos of the John Deere or the dozzer blade in action A great day had by all. Thank you Simon for your help mate.

Well I after months of work I bought out an old WH dealership that probably closed within the last 10 years and had been open since the 60's (I prefer to keep the name private). The building was collapsing on itself water everywhere, mold. just horrible. So my father (shynon) and I went to pick, pack and load everything that we could save. It took two days, my truck packed to the hills, my dads truck packed to the gills, a 5x8 trailer, and a 16ft car trailer! In the end I got the parts inventory (haven't looked through 10% of it yet) although it was in a wet environment and boxes were damp, wet and molding the parts look to be in pretty good shape. I got seven tractors all in some need of repair (most were a,b,c series) three of these had kohlers on them (8,12,16hp). Several kohler motors in some need of repair. All the WH literature we could save, manuals, brochures, dealership info, awards, and two microfiche machines (hopefully we can make one out of them). I also got an electric rear engine rider that I plan to restore for the fun of it, and a porter cable mower from the late 50's, Dealership signs, etc...... I'm probably forgetting some things but here they are the reasons we opened this thread for PICS!

August 8-11, 2013. This is an excellent show with great food. We have been getting more and more garden tractors there the last few years. Here is the link. http://www.threshingbee.org/

Well I have to say that it feels good to have that hitch pin replaced and having added a factory drawbar. I was fortunate that my draw bar came with another pin all I had to cut the old one out! Plenty of anti seize upon installation.

Well make sure to make it this year and get a new shirt. Hoping to get the design back this week for everyone to see!

Not yet. IdK what's wrong. And I'm already past the point of addicted!!!

These can make fabulous tool stores also They are not too expensive to buld & are quite easy to construct . Also extremely handy if youve hand a fall out with the Mrs many often have log fires installed in them for cold evenings and winter use .

Here are a few first day pics: Marvin all loaded Setting up tne flea market site: Co-worker Jeremy with his Mowett Mustang and his boys in their barrel cars: Massey with 2 jeep axles and Select-o-Drive front hubs: "Gathering of The Orange" National Allis Chalmers show: Simplicity rider made into a mini AC "G" More displays POOPED POOCH!.. Jeremy's boys again on the Mustang and 3 wheeled McLean: Steely eyed Asassin! Jeremy's Speedex complete with Electrolux exhaust:

IMO...since there is no noticeable difference in vibration with or without the balance gears, they are more trouble than they are worth. I always leave them out when doing a rebuild so I never have to worry about them exploding. Seen many blocks ruined by bad balance gears and their bearings.

Almost. A little more fine tuning of the Carb and the plow and weights to go on for a dedicated snow plow tractor. It was pretty sad looking when I first brought it home. Hood was trashedand lots of Rust. Something was broke in the tranny so out it had to come. I used the tranny out of a 416 and with Steves help, got the axle out and the bad keyway fixed by a friend. Thanks Steve! I then needed a hub and found one local to complete the changeover. And now ready for the Plow and weights. Thanks to all for the tips along the way!!!!!!

I got a couple of sets around here somewhere. I'd have to blast and paint them and new bearings. Maybe someday.

Well.As the title states. I am trying something new. After the Economy struggles and all. As alot of you all know I have chickens every year. Last year, with all the storms and such. We lost our chicken house and run because trees fell on them (No tractors were in the WH/JD tractor shed when the 75 foot soft maple turned it into splinters). The chicken house and run/ Taj Mahal is done and is completely predator proof(unless they bring some heavy equipment). Along with all of this new construction came a brilliant Idea(sort of). Since it hasn't been raining a whole lot. I let the grass stand a long time. It gets sort of long and I had a thought. Why not use it? So, I cut it. Let it lay 2 days, then go over it again with my windrower I made for the 48" deck on the 520. let it lay for another day and pick it up with the blower/trailer rig I made for the JD STX. Then I put it on my 5'X8' trailer and haul it up to the shed and make hand tied bales out of it( I got 14- 20lb. bales on the first try). The chickens love it. It is easy to clean out of the house. I stack it like hay(because they are bales). I have to cut it anyway, Why not try to use it. With straw going for $5.00 a bale, my time is worth it. Plus, since we don't have cows anymore, this as close as I am gonna get to smelling fresh hay anymore. And, it gives me 3 times the seat time

you got me thinking, and I don't want to come across as a know it all, so I went and looked, mine is not quite the same, but I'm guessing it's the same basic thing. Here is a pic of the slab weight I have.

Not only do most people want to buy throw away lawn tractors, they want to do that with everything. Also it seems that most people aren't interested in learning to fix things any more.Wow can you pass on a skill to a child if you don't know how to do it yourself. I am amazed at wow many people that don't know how to change the oil in their car or truck. I think it's a sad time for our country. ( Sorry I get carried away on this subject ).

I don't think there is any question about who had the most fun...it was the guy in the funny hat.

After reading all the post on this subject so far, I would have to say they all have good points about them, One thing that was not really mention was the topic of which I hate. That topic is the world in which we live now is a disposable one. For the most part people live in a fast past world now and don't want anything that is built to last, oh they say they do and when their cheap big box store tractor breaks they complain. They don't want to take time to fix it. Just throw it away and get another. They just keep on doing it over and over. There are only in the big scheme of things a handful of people such as the people on this forum that really see the difference. Unfortunately there is just no place for the Wheel Horse anymore. Very Sad indeed that it has come to this but us few have very little say against those many of the ignorant that can't see quality over junk.

Are you ready Brrly1? Time's a waistin'. How about all you other guys? Bob? Steve? BK? Joebob? Scott? All players welcome... Time to start the thread John!!

Toro has already said that they are not gonna be in the Wheel Horse parts business! Look at how many parts are "No Longer Available"! If the part is available, then look at the price! I think China (Asian countries) will continue to dominate the market. Look at John Deere! Many parts from Asian Countries!!!! IMO: I think all members of Red Square should donate $50-$100 as a collaboration to buy out Toro and go grass-roots, like the Ponds did, and build a decent America-made "Classic" Tractor!!!! Amen!!!

It's not too clean though Craig. The paint pot is hiding behind the Raider's Wheel-

Well, but here is another spin, to that scenario. So, Toro makes the "cheaper" brands, just like all the other big names, but if they brought back the WH, then it could compete with the tractors that are also selling for the $5k- $7k range. It's working for Deere, Cub, Simplicity, MF...

While I was at the Mt. Gilead Show, a guy I talked to a couple times about his WH's came up to me and wanted to know if I wanted to buy the 2 he had and they were the one's we talked about the past couple of shows. He said one was a 1956 RJ35 with a Clinton motor and a mower deck, it was restored several years ago, before he bought it. The other was a 1960 550 in original condition and ran 2 years ago. I said I'd like to see them and set up a time. I went Wednesday to get them and he wanted to sell them as a pair. $500 for the RJ35 and $250 for the 550. He wouldn't take no less for them so I had to pay full price. The RJ35 looked great but the 550 was a little rough and it had a replacement H60 motor on it. It was the old style H60 with the good old heavy duty recoil starter on it and steel low rise engine mount, not the correct cast iron one though. So I bought them both and my buddy got the 550 sight unseen and I took home the RJ35. I was having a good time on the way home looking in the back of the mighty van seeing the old girls sitting there, going home to join the herd. I cleaned them both up a little bit and they look pretty good, especially the 1956. I'll have to do some derigging on it but not too bad. It looks more like a 1955 to me than a 1956. I'll have to check the inside of the rims to see what color is underneath the tires. I can tell that the tires were not taken off the rims when it was repainted some 10 to 15 years ago. The PO had it for 10 years so it had to be restored before that. Any ideas on what model this is Clay or any other RJ35 guys can chime in on this subject. Thanks in advance. Hammerhead

Got the header panel painted tonight....I'll get full body shots of it tomorrow, but here is the front now. I'm VERY happy with it!!!

The deck that is pictured here is the one I remember. The one that was built from a 4x8 sheet of metal 1/8". That is the one I remember having pictures of the building process. I downloaded the build to a previous laptop that has crashed, and is long gone. I wish I had a backup of that laptop. Thanks for the info. -Bill

this is my lod girl

The webpage itself is long gone, but here's some excerpts from Dale's site. Found these in the internet's basement. Scary place.

There should be very little hydraulic pressure in the return line, that is the usual place to fit oil coolers. A pair of car ones from the scrappy would be fine.

Finally got some tires for the D and went with some Carlisle 26 X 12.5 X 12 tires with 1.5" deep lugs. When I first saw them on CL they put a smile on my face and had to get them. Brand new never mounted for $125 for the pair. I havent got to play with them much but I think they might be a little better than the turfs I pulled off The only problem was getting the tires onto these rims! What a PITA. It's like trying to seat the tire for 6" with those rims that have the large diameter on half the width of the rim. Thanks for everyone's advice- I think I'm going to like them!

More pics. brought the C-160 today due to pending inclement weather. Just started raining when I packed up at 4:00. and then boy did it come down. Never saw so much rain in my life. The 160 wouldn't start to get it off the trailer when I got home it had so much water in it. Dried it out and got it going and water shot out from the shroud. Up and down day selling. I thought I got good karma when I towed an old gentleman back to his campsite when his John Deere died but it wasn't to be. I couldn't even sell a new pair of tubes for 6-12 tires for $5. Oh well on with the pics: Today's line up: My friend Jack oiling down his Electro My friend Terry's grandaughter's Lawn Ranger fresh out of the paint shop This tractor ended up dying! Threshing demo Little tractors made out of sewing machines Corn sheller Pink AC C Pug articulated Contraption made to look like an AC G Cooking with gas!! B & S powered rotisserie. This blew a head gasket mid chicken! Videos: Sorry about the bouncing. Rough ride. First 2 are on Marvin and 3rd on the 160.

The mini G is cool... great idea for an old rear engine rider! Wow.... I have to say... I've never seen a laundromat displayed at a tractor show before! Great pictures, thank for sharing!

I believe in Global Warming...Al Gore is my Hero. I also believed in the Mayan Calendar...the turn of the century computer shut down...and Emoticons achieving consciousness and taking over the world.

Some more pictures for you chaps including one of Daniel on his steed.....Nice Hat! It was all going well until this happened (hope that you can see it!) The drive belt fell apart and kept throwing itself off of the pulley. I am not surprised that something went wrong as my GT14 hadn't been used in about 10 years, all I did was change the fluids prior to this use. I went home to get reinforcements, and also by a stroke of luck found a brand new belt the right size for the GT14 in my shed. Sadly the GT14 wouldn't start when I returned, which was a bit odd. Out came the old faithful John Deere 140 came to the rescue - now sadly sold...shame! Sorry chaps its a picture of a green one.....

I do restore but also use them to me there tractors they were built to be used just like cars I restore I love to drive them and use them for there intended purpose

I say restore. Even if it is a worker. Then you have a reason to clean it and keep it looking good.

It's a tractor. Tear it down, clean it up, fix the broken/worn stuff, paint it and put it back to work. That's what it was built for.

With great excitement I can say the tractor is finally "done". I don't have pictures of the finished product downloaded yet, but here are a few more leading up to the finale... I wanted to make extra sure the paint was fully cured before I bolted things back together. While I waited for that, I decided to take care of some of the little details. The first thing I tackled was the engine serial number tag. When I got the tractor, the tag was in good shape. Unfortunately, when I was doing my initial cleaning/degreasing, the Super Clean cleanser I used took the black paint off the tag. Fortunately, since there was still contrast between the letters and background. I scanned the tag into the computer and I played with the contrast. By reversing the colors, and a fair amount of image cleanup, was able to create a decal to repair the tag. I used decal paper I normally use for models, so time will tell how well it holds up to this application. My next task was the hood and engine cover lettering. I surveyed this site for tips and tricks on how to do it, but ultimately I decided to just paint it by hand. I was nervous about messing something up and having to repaint the whole hood, but I was very careful and it turned out great. The last little detail I wanted to fix before putting the last parts on the tractor was preventing the seat from rubbing on the fenders. I added a spacer made from 3/4" thick wood to raise the seat up. It was just the right amount so that it isn't too obvious it is higher, but enough that I don't squash the seat down into the fenders. I'm not sure if it was the spacer or my mediocre welding of the original mounting plate on a replacement seat pan (the original pan was cracked pretty bad), but the seat felt a little wobbly when I bolted it up. To resolve that, I squared the front hole in the seat, which conveniently line up with the front hole on the spring, and added a second carriage bolt to better constrain the seat. And with that, all that was left was putting a few parts back on and applying the decals. I will get those pictures downloaded from the camera and uploaded here in the next day or so. Dave

My new rear skins came in yesterday so my TORO dealer mounted em up (two old tires off the rims and two new ones on for $25, thought that was a good price). My plan is to not have to use chains for plowing so I went with an aggresive tread 23x10.5x12 tire mounted on wide 8.5" rims off a GT1848. Heres the pics I know you guys gotta have! I took plenty . Mike...........