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What better day than today to spend some QT with my dad making some new wheel weights. Better add a pic of us [emoji2]

Do you know what these are??? Today, anyone under 30 has almost no idea what most of these were used for. Times change. Memories...

Been looking for my first Wheel Horse and located just what I wanted. It's an 854. Like I was told on this forum, get ready for a road trip. So I did , my wife and I drove from Texas to Missouri and picked it up. We got home and I put a battery in it and it started right up, no smoke and it drives in all gears. Going to dig into it tomorrow to see just what I really have. The seller was nice and threw in an original pan seat . I'm happy with the 854 and will be asking a lot of questions of this forum. Thanks.

Just need to drill some holes and counter bore them. And slap some shiny paint on them. And on the tractor!

Its starting to look like something Second lathe getting set up to turn weight #2

I bought this at Harbor Freight yesterday at the big tent sale all weekend. As u can see with the improvement it is at working level now not on the ground. No more bending over and straining the neck to see what I am working on almost eye level and under a $100.00. Enjoy the video. Gary B..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wOgcoIXLZ3c

Awesome!

Here are photos of my 653. It is 100% original. Even the carburetor looks like it has never been touched. Although not currently on tractor I believe I may have the original battery that came with it. Also not pictured is a never mounted plow with the hardware still in the sealed bag. Tires still have a lot of the "knibs" on them. Cas .

see if you have 12 volts at the voltmeter pink and black wires you have voltage at the gauges if the tach works the voltmeter watches rhe PINK wire

Those are really nice weights. Very sharp. I've thought about making my own, but the cost of steel is about what you could get the cast weights for use. Of course if you have a spare hunk of 11" round rod laying around taking up space, what the heck... nothing like a custom look.

Geno I now I am not in your league but I can do small jobs with this like Snow/Blower Jobs and Push Blowers and Push Mowers. I will be doing this on the side next year when I am retired. Just something to do to pass the time. Look for me on C/List I work cheap section. And thanks also Craig.

Would make it a lot easier to remember that way... where you left off with your dusting.

You should color code all the racks. And then keep a chart as to what tractor is on what rack. Then in 20 yrs. you can look at the chart and say Ok that 520 I rustled from Indiana is on the brown rack location F.

Everybody needs to look at the first picture so you will know what this rustler drives, and keep an eye out for him on the north side of the river

Dads the foreman of the tool and die room! Lucky me!

What better than to spend some QT with dad anytime, let alone making Horse stuff. And just where did you get all that fancy equipment?

Who's gonna own it next?? (Translation: I'm surprised trees grow in CT. Nothing seems to take root there!)

Thanks Guys! One of the construction workers that's working on the water main out front Said, "dang--what do you have their a Wheel Horse dealership or something?" I replied, "you aint seen nothing" He said, "you mean you got more and I said "yes lots more". he said your sick and I said thank you!

Hey Frank...at least he stopped and asked about it. We horse hunters have been doing that for years...looking down tree lines...along houses and barns. The difference...we stop and ask. It was probably Geno that stopped.

Geno wasnt in PA last week was he? Maybe he bought it so cheap the seller felt he stole it, lol

Here's pics of my 45 minute ride around the tree farm today. Got the fancy yellow saddle on the horse and leaving the pony at home! And Back home again!

Grade 5 will be fine... truthfully, Grade 2 (common zinc coated cheap bolts) are fine for most of the bolts in these tractors. The grading is the hardness of the bolt... what it's going to take to break it or shear it off. Most of the bolts on these tractors are just holding stuff together with very little shear forces in play. Using Grade 8 or 9 is a waste of money. Remember, the harder a bolt is, the more brittle it is.

The 520H snow blower project is finished waiting for snow and the MTD 700 is cleaned and oiled and actually mowed the lawn Sat. So, today was the Commando's turn. This I what I started with. It actually runs and drives. After about 2 hours, I had this. An hour later Some of the crud I found Wonder how long it's been since this horse saw some maintenance. Hard to believe it could actually run in this condition.

It rained hard here this morning and I decided to play on the terramite in the mud. Installed curtain drain and gutter drains on one side today. Tomorrow I need to coat the front of the foundation and then I can install the curtain drain in front.

Wow, that is so neat. We have a Tool & Die department (at work) with all the goodies too. I have wondered what it would cost to have a set of weights made like yours! They are pretty "proud" of their work & products, so I probably couldn't afford to have them made even with an employee discount!

I've been reading the last few posts. With my crappy eyes I thought I was reading SHIRTLESS wanderer!

Severed fingers would be my guess! Sorry, Geno... jk

Yep, I see where the tabs were welded to the frame. Think I will just grind them off and drill and tap holes in the frame to match the two in the belt guard, then cut two spacers.

You can drill a broken grade 5 bolt to get it out but you will not drill a good broken grade 8 bolt. Garry

It's gonna take longer than I thought, somebody thinks they should all be painted, not naming names or anything.

Better to break a bolt than to strip out or fracture the cast transmission case

Had a couple of my 520H's and one of the 418A's out to due a little cleaning in the garage. thought I would hose the dust off em and take a pic. I hope you enjoy.

You guys and your Nice big buildings for tractors...Very Nice Geno!!! I'm kinda Jealous!!

True Farmalls don't but farmall internationals do lol but not a fan of big reds but blue to each your own but I like the own farmall 540 or 640 (don't know exact number) but they fire up on gas and switch over to diesel its really cool.

Farmalls don't have torque converters.

Not to start an argument or debate but id stick with Ford IMHO Farmall international have torque converter issues which in turn you have to split the tractor to fix but if it weren't for that problem they'd be great tractors the biggest problem with fords were the motors not being sleeved easy fix sorta and John Deere lets not even go there I've got all 3 brands Ford 3000 John Deere 3010 international 656 (uncles he just left it in the barn) and farmall M (uncles also abandoned)

Don't look, but I think AJ has picked the perfect slate this week. We shall see. I probably just jinxed him.

My local Lowe's has a fairly decent stock of stainless steel nuts and bolts now, but price checking yesterday for five 3/8-16 x 1" carriage bolts for my snow plow, and they were $1.05 each plus $.30 for a washer and $.85 for a lock nut. Same products from Boltdepot.com would have cost about $.75 for everything.

I don't know Jim, the guys over on the Cub site have Cheeto's !

Classic study in human nature. I guess it depends what side of the cash register you sit on. Buyer screams foul when he pays seller $20 for a $2 part or service which buyer could have made / performed / located by himself. Vendors proclaim commitment to the hobby when they sell something for $20 that was made for $2. Guess the best bargain on the site is .......... me. Troubleshooting advice is always 100% free - for now anyways. World keeps turning .........................

Have you tried: http://www.farmallcub.com/dcms/ http://www.binderplanet.com/ http://www.farmallcubforever.com/ http://www.redpowermagazine.com/

NO. The skinnier the tire, the better for snow. More surface area = more floatation... bad on snow.

Reminds me of when I sold my Goldwing. Guy shows up in a beat up car and hems and haws about money. I still end up selling it for close to what I wanted. He comes back the next night with a new Escalade pulling a brand new trailer!

Ya know Geno it's awfully hard to talk a guy down on price when you show up in a rig like that. I think if you showed up at my house the price would go up.

good news it all works perfect.thanks

It’s fun wrenching on and running these things for my own enjoyment, but even better when my boys can get enjoyment out of them too. When I first got into this a few years ago, I hoped these tractors would be something we could enjoy together. They still don’t have the patience for working on them much, but they love to drive them, especially the hystats. Don, you were right about the cause of the noise. I thought maybe it was some slight fraying of the belt causing it, so I replaced the belt with a new one from Toro, P/N 7478. Unfortunately it wasn’t until after I got the new belt on that I learned how important position of the belt guard is. Like many out there, this tractor has a broken tab on top of the belt guard, so the alignment is less precise that it is supposed to be. On my test drive, the belt started smoking and I ended up turning my brand new $40 belt into one that didn't look quite so new. After adjusting the guard, the rubbing issue was gone, as was the rattling sound that was the initial problem. The next area I turned my focus to was the engine. It ran great at 90% throttle and below, but it coughed and sputtered periodically when running at full throttle. I initially suspected the carb was just gunked up but after running a tank of gas & Seafoam through it, it was still doing it. I then discovered the screen inside the tank on the inlet of the fuel valve was crushed, and after replacing the valve and fuel line the coughing was cured. Along with fixing this stuff here and there, I have been getting some seat time on the tractor. It handles the 48†deck that came with it better than the C-120 that had been wearing it temporarily. In places where the grass would bog the 12-horse, the 16-horse seems to hardly lug. When I first put the deck back on the C-160 I did notice it wasn’t cutting as evenly as the C-120 did. After trying to figure out how to adjust the side-to-side level of the deck (you can’t), I finally tracked it down to wear in the tach-a-matic hitch. Swapping the hitch from the 120 to the 160 fixed the level problem. The grass clippings had been building up so I decided to rake them, mainly because it gave me a chance to play with my rotary rake that I bought to help clean tornado debris out of the yard and hadn't found much use for since. My oldest son was lobbying for seat time anyway, so it let him be productive while he was making laps. I have also been playing around with a rear hitch. I installed a sleeve hitch to help the neighbor plow up his yard. He gave up on trying to get the glass and debris from the tornado out and decided to just tear it out and start over. It’s not the kind of project you would do if it wasn’t necessary, but we made the best of it by getting some seat time on our tractors. Initially I couldn’t get the hitch to go low enough to get the plow in the ground, so I brought out the 854 to get things started. Eventually I did rig it up to work, but it needs some more work before I use again. In addition to the C-160 and 854, the C-120 got in on the fun, as well as the neighbor’s Steiner. Up next is some more parts swapping with the C-120, and a few changes here and there to get it ready for a plow day at the end of the month.

Got the holes drilled Geno ....now I'll let-er soak for a few days. If it won't move till Monday, we'll goto Bob's saw and drill plan. Wow, there was a Kohler under all that crud..and it is a Walbro carb Slammer. Thanks Eric, but I have a puller I made from a piece of plate.

I put Rim Guard in my tires. Payed $3.00 per gallon. 11 lbs per gallon. It is beet juice, molasses, and sugar, Good to -35. I used tubes, which I sucked the air out first and filled pretty much to the top. I got about 6.5 gallons in each tire. They are heavy....and did much grunting to get them mounted. I would like to get inside and outside weights also, if I can find some.