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Jackhammer...did you say "What Squonk says makes since."??? Mike, I would copy and paste that in a PM to Craig. :) You do know that Mike is a Green Bay fan??? My favorite Green Bay fan BTW.

my grandson

If he said that...I think the hammer was delirious from moving too much snow.

Steve, look in my signature !!

On a related note, My neighbor's drive way is right along side of mine with like a 4 foot strip of grass between them. When they take out the GAR-BAGE it's usually 8 or 9 pizza boxes and a couple of trash cans. The cans remain there until the day before pick up so they are free to roll aimlessly into my drive way when the wind blows. During Winter Storm Nika, I buried them with Elvis!

Nah, just took Wifey shopping at Macys in York,Pa.

Here is my Grandson's first ride at 18 months. I know I will never forget it.

I caught Frank Deford on NPR the other day. He was talking about staying with the teams that you grew up with and keeping your allegiance to them. That is why I am still a Bears fan! Reminds me of my favorite Green Bay joke: " Do you know why Milwaukee doesn't have a professional football team? Answer - Green Bay would want one too."

once you get the thrower fixed, I'm sure it would make a great garbage thrower!

I think most neighborhoods have someone like that. No common sense and a complete lack of empathy. PS....Common sense can't be taught or instilled but empathy can. Most of these folks weren't brought up right and their kids won't be either so it spreads. I just do their driveways for them anyway and do nice things for them when I can. Maybe their kids will remember it and someday want to do the same for others.

I've been building from Lego Technic for 35 years, if it had wheels, gears and tracks I built it as a kid. As an adult it's great for prototyping, especially when it's expensive to order parts that 'might' work. If it works in Lego, then I can move onto cutting metal and spending money :)

I think it's official. I have had the C-175 hooked to or alternating with my snowblower for the better part of 7 years. I have used the blower more this year than I have in all the previous years combined. I believe I have moved snow with it 8 times so far this year. There were two years since 2008 that I never fired it up during a winter. Made me begin to wonder why I took it off and put it on each year and it's why it stays on that tractor now. Looks like it may be back out again on Tuesday morning before we get an inch of rain and mid-50's later in the week. (Followed by frogs and locusts).

Woke up this morning with two sore, stoved fingers and remembered what had happened and how quickly it did. The snow yesterday was pretty wet and it was clinging to the blower and making it real heavy to lift plus I was losing traction when it started getting caked up. I pushed the snow off of it about 5 to 6 times during the course of clearing out the neighbors driveways and the plow slop from in front of others. (The chute was clean! Just the outside of the blower was getting coated)! My blower spins for a long time once it is disengaged from the PTO and all it took was a seconds contact with the chain and sprocket and bam! I lost a great right-hand Gore-Tex/Thinsulate glove. Two fingers that used to be in those gloves hurt like hell for a bit but they were OK until I got up this morning. They are sore and stiff. (Aleve time.....again)! Watch out for the loose clothing and these open belts and chains! I know better after 33 years in a manufacturing environment with a paranoid safety manager to boot and I still got nailed!

your talents never seice to amaze,truly a work of art,and I like duals but definatly not needed on that beast,i would love to own one one day

I swear I did see a flock .. or a school....or a herd of emperor penguins. Then again, maybe it was the Slumbering Groundhog lodge members in their tuxedos looking for Punxatuny Phil.

This : My dad & I restored this & when he passed , It just held too many memories . In retrospect , I wish I had never let it go .

That thing is SICK!!! I mean that in the best possible way. All the top engineering schools in the country must have a semester on Wheel Horse "imagineering".

Looks great Bob.Robert I have something for you when I see you.Make sure to look me up at Portland if I don't see you before.

You Bores fans are all alike!! TBSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To get back to topic for a minute...I have been cleaning out the neighbor's drive all season. I have good neighbors...Hispanic...I love Mexican food and I have spent a few summer days out there with them. It is a different culture for sure...I have been trying to Americanize them, and they have been trying to Mexicanize me...not sure who is winning here. They were generous enough to buy me a bottle of 100% AGAVE TEQUILA A RESPOSADO...how cool is that?? Not all neighbors are bad...sometimes your efforts are rewarded.

Too bad the new blower wasn't a 2 stroke. I could have been starting on the world's largest 2 cycle Tecky collection and started my own forum!

Craig...I am waiting for him to say..."Tecumseh's RULE". I just used my Ariens to blow the snow I just plowed over the bank to make room for tomorrow's 3 to 5". This could be our first wet snow...AAAARRRRGGG!!!

My sister is a wayward Green Bay fan...she would only agree with what you say about Green Bay.

Well...since you brought it up.

Yup.

I always knew that Mike...I was just afraid that I was the only one that thought so. Now there are 2 of us. and we are both from Illinois...

Well of course a Ford fan here. I was a Dale Jarret fan until he went belly up(driving a toyota) also at that time, I pulled for Mark Martin when he was driving the #6. Liked even when he wasn't in the #6. From what they have said last night he wasn't even at the track. Probably out racing with his son who's coming up thru the ranks right along with Chase Elliott who racing ARCA which is like under Nationwide series. It's going to be a fun week with alot of racing. Even the twin 125's or is it 150's now not real sure but they are also going to run at night this week. Truck racing you name it Speed weeks is back shall we say some relief theres something on TV to watch oh, Drag racing started last week, we'll let someone else pick that one up. All I've heard all week is John Force going to do it again!!! #3 to me is No big deal. I have had friends quit watching because of his death going it's not the same. Ok enough is enough, of my ranting. See ya, bye

Holy Cow guys. I have seen some of the videos on our local news now. Devastating...be careful. Send that water to California...they need it.

Picked up this bad boy for a Franklin . 5 1/2 HP 4 cycle Tecky Drive. Electric start. Runs good. It won't snow anymore this year now so I'll have to wait 10 month's to really try it out!

Tecumseh and Peerless in the same sentence just makes me shudder. Twice.

HELMET!!! Heal up!

I'll go for the milk jugs first because I know it will sound as good at it feels.

HA HA HA! Never thought of it and was in front of me all the time!

Tractors look awesome guys.

There's a few threads on this too, I replied to your pm :)

N..ice

I always get a bunch of icicles hanging off my house each winter, kinda cool but they are all the same and not picture worthy. But today I went into my portable shed to look around and saw this one. Its small but different so I deemed it picture worthy . Water must be dripping thru the tarp on my portable shed and landing right on the front tire of my C-105. Mike................

Before I lost my mind and packed the place with many tractors, I had two tractors and it was great! I highly recommend a two tractor plan at minimum.

All my tractors to date are built on Case Ingersol transaxles. I hear the subject of duals a lot- I had a buyer talk me into putting a set onto a 4x4 tractor before he took it home. Yes they look neat and gnarly- BUT- I will tell you that to start with- these tractors lay down quite a foot print overall and you have to be paying attention when your driving them. This is particularly worse at a tractor show. The duals make them very unenjoyable to drive when in a show setting especially. They also increase the turning radius as the tires will touch each other when turning. That makes putting in steering stops necessary when they are added after the fact. Now- on Chevelletowns 520 4x4 this isn't as bad as he put some thought into it and used some common sense and went with a narrower tire. Running tires the size of Burlys would be in the uncomfortable area for me -John also planned the build on what he is using with no intention of duals. I have played with just a couple of the tractors and have a pretty good feel for whats realistic and whats not. And No- I'm not knocking anyones opinions - just adding some insight!

ive had a lot of guys on the forum today asking about the plating of hardware and the cost involved. what you see in the pic below cost me $39.90 out the door. this was about 1/3 to 1/2 a 5 gallon bucket full of parts. they told me its a flat rate for up to roughly 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket. now i don't just unbolt the parts, throw them in a bucket and take them in. they told me that anything that has paint on it will take longer in the acid bath, so much so that the cost would be more. most of their business is local industrial, all new stuff, bare metal, never been plated or painted before. so thats what they like. so to keep them happy and in the end myself too by getting a better looking result, i degrease and glass bead blast everything first. they do clear zinc or yellow and black chromate finish. hope that has answered any questions. right now I'm starting to get another batch ready to get plated. when its all ready to take in i will post another pic to show how i take the parts in.....

I think TT nailed it as usual, it looks to have been a Tecumseh powered 68 or 69 machine.

Got some time in the shop today, had to worky in the morning but got off early. Got the two Arms cut down and welded in there new size. Then I started on the subframe, I removed it from the tractor and installed the cross baron it's correct location. Drilled the holes for for the loader mount plates. Then I put everything back together to weld in the cross bar on the loader arms Coming along good, waiting on the new cylinders and hoses from surplus center, should be here Monday

Nothing of an update really, but the pic below gives a hint of what is coming Yes it's a very muddy lawn But indicative that Bob has raised the stakes and got me thinking again....

this is a video I took of a wheel horse record that I purchased on ebay. It contains radio adds from wheel horse from the 70's.

Ok that'll be it for tonight . We'll see if we can get some more if not a video. We have Bob's son Robert doing our test driving. Have a good one

OK - busy day with the Wheelhorse 520H. Last night it looked like the snow wouldn't amount to more than 3 inches, and my blade tractor is an IH Cub Cadet 1650, so I figured I'd leave the WH under the front porch (it's home) and out of the weather - big mistake. The IHCC was parked in the front with a tarp for the night. Should have done that with the 520H. The snow was to deep for the Cub Cadet and right off the bat I knew this was a snow blower event. Problem is - the 520H is down a grassy slope from where I needed it and getting it up to the front of the house was going to be a challenge. So I took a gamble and drove the IHCC w/plow straight down the hill, knowing it would plow down hill and give me a shot to clear a path for the Wheelhorse. I drove the Cub until I buried it. Then I got the 520H cranked-up and ready to go. I could get out and on the path I made with the IHCC, but couldn't get up the hill. Finally I hooked my Jeep to it and pulled it up front where I needed it. Once I got the tractor on level ground, I still couldn't move. I've been plowing and blowing snow with this tractor for years. I've got ag tires and have never had a problem in any conditions and snow deeper than this. But what was different with this snow was that it was melting from the ground up. So we had 12-13 inches and while the top was fluffy, the underside was wet and heavy. Sooooo..... I had a pretty good idea once I got the chains on the tractor, I'd be OK. The IHCC had chains too, but the weight and depth of the snow was to much for it. Since I wouldn't be pushing snow with the blower, I knew moving around would be much easier - especially when I got out on my street and pavement beneath the tractor. Game on! On my last run, when I lifted the blower, I noticed the blower was sagging on the left side and thought it had came unhitched. Turns out somehow the tach-a-matic hitch lock mechanism on that side broke. So I've got a little repair to do and I'm back in business for another day. All in all it was a great day. Kind of a pain getting the tractor out, but once I did, things went well. Don't know the total time I was out, but it was considerable. I did my driveway and my street. We live on a dead end street and most of the time the city doesn't get to our street until everything else is clear, so clearing the snow to the main drag gives me plenty more seat time! I ran the blower full throttle. I had a spare belt just in case I needed one too. I pretty much filled the width of the blower and the snow was high enough that it filled-up the thing. The Onan handled the load great, only slightly pulling into the governor - but it was enough that you could hear the engine grunting while working. Can't say that I ever slipped the blower belt, but the top of the short shoot fell out of it's position a few times - not a big deal. I've pondered getting a tall chute blower, but honestly, I had to be careful of loading the blower to much. From the street center, if I wanted, I could have easily put snow on the porch of the houses I was driving by. I think it would be fun to own/operate a 2 stage blower, but this short chute blower really throws the snow and if the tall chute throws it even farther, maybe I ought to stick with what I have. Here in my neck of the woods we just don't get much snow and when we do, it's 6 or less inches and usually on the less side - so I use a blade most of the time. From the get-go with owning the blower I always knew that I would only use it every few years - if that often. Most folks probably wouldn't own one down here, but I have to tell you guys that when it finally snows - and every 3 or 4 years it does, it is a very cool implement to own - not withstanding it's usefulness in clearing our street just we can get out. I highly recommend that even if you only get a deep snow every 10 years, you should have a snow blower for your Wheelhorse in your basement or shed. BRING ON THE NEXT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks! Bill

Proof that the rebuilt transmission is up to the job

Here are a few more photos. It works very good for a 1966. I will keep it as original as I can. Other than small stuff.

everyone i touch is overpaid in the end........