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'' Tis the season'' for a train ride. If you look close you will see 2 occupants in the drivers compartment, but wait is that @pullstart driving with @WHX24 riding shotgun , no it can't be it must be Jim at the controls, if Kevin was driving the front wheels would be in the air, especially when pulling a load .In all seriousness hope you all enjoy your Holiday and pray for a better 2021, stay safe all.

All the Best for Christmas One and All.

Merry Christmas to all. Thanks for being that great Community, also for exchange and interchange knowledge and Parts. Thanks for become Fella‘s and Friendships. Thanks for be such a great Community - or maybe more a part of a Family. May Santa sent you all the Gift‘s you like, but especially Health, Peace and Freedom. I wish for us all, that we can go back soon to normal and the Next Show‘s comes up as planed.

Merry Christmas to the Wheel Horse family. Despite what has transpired this year, this is still a great place to be.

Likewise from another limey. May everyone enjoy a safe and peaceful Christmas and look forward to a better new year. Mick

Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas to all and a Better Happier New Year . Thank you for all the support , encouragement ,instruction and indulgence. Always treasured.

Merry Christmas to everyone on Redsquare. JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON.

Merry Christmas to my family, thanks for you support, your regular rib jabbing and all the cool stories and sometimes even Wheel Horse stuff too!

Merry Christmas to everyone . Snow is coming my way !

My 11 year old grand daughter brought me a Christmas present. She's on a budget ya know.

Here's wishing all off you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas! A bit of fun from last year... No scheduled SL&WHN RR rides this Christmas due to the COVID... The Littles have been promised added rides in 2021!!!

Gotta have the old lionel train out

Same to you also Norman, Mick. May it be full of wheelhorse cheer. 😁

There are 2 more bolts that go up through the frame into the bottom of the engine

We're making our final check for the "The Trip". The list has been checked and double checked. The toys and other goodies have been inspected and loaded onto the sleigh. The deer have been fed and groom (they have to look good you know), and they're pumped to make the trip. I do feel sorry for those of you who are receiving socks and underwear. I won't mention who is getting the kiddie underwear, but some of them are very respected here on RS. BTW, I love the decor, but it could use a bit more....Santa.....Ho! Ho! Ho!

Just a couple of pix of a deck I redid on a 71 WH 800 Special.Cuts surprisingly well.

Winner Winner....Jonah can pick up his prize in Felton,Pa.

You've had too much eggnog! Cresent wrenches and 1/2" ratchets are the only tools ever made that are acceptable to use as a hammer!

Aren’t all pliers, or for that matter any tool, used for a hammer...? At least on “occasion”...

Eagle beak pliers. The nub on it serves as a hammer. Also known as Cobbler pliers. Used for shoe making and the like.

Santa, nice to see you out for a little R&R before the big trip by taking your 90 year old canoe for a quick trip down the river today. Safe travels! That's his elf's kayak in the second photo.

More progress today! PPG Shopline #70019 single stage urethane over Nason 2K urethane primer/ DTM sealer. Chassis and small parts done with Marhyde aerosol etch primer and custom mixed Shopline single stage enamel in aerosol as well. This "what red is correct" paint stuff has been beat to death 400 times over, but a couple things I 'learned' on this go round, hopefully it can be put to good use if someone is on the fence with paint colors..... In pic 1- thats IH 2150 red/PPG 71310 on the left, and IH 50 red/PPG 70019 on the right. To each his own, but I like dark reds. My 520H was done in the paint on the left and I was a little disappointed. This time I went for the early IH50 versus 2150 and its perfect. Also- Worried about running low on the aerosol cans of IH50, I painted the non-visible areas of the chassis with a can of Duplicolor red engine enamel- DE1653. When dry, it is so close to the IH50 I dont think anyone would even notice unless painting two panels and putting them together side by side. Stay tuned- hope to sneak over to the shop Saturday and turn this pile of freshly painted parts back into a tractor!

I added some supports to my rear suitcase weight bracket today. Until now all the weight was hanging from the receiver hitch. When I built the subframe I drilled a pair of holes at the rear in prep for this and just never got around to it. I bent up some 3/16 x 1 1/2” flat bar. I put a jack under the weight rack to lift it up when drilling the holes in the braces and the rack. In my mind that would maximize the amount of weight the braces/subframe would support and minimize the amount of weight on the hitch. It seemed to work. When everything was reassembled the rack was no longer resting in the bottom of the 2” receiver.

Merry Christmas Eve everyone. Had a chance for a little garage time. It's a crude little bugger but I think it will work. It only has to last for 72 pieces lol. I also took the opportunity on my cool down time to do a bit of math. Without the blades factored in it's looking like 1.34 pounds per square inch. I dont know if that's more or less then what I was expecting.

Got my rear weight setup for the charger 12 loader from work today. These drums weigh 110 a piece. They fit tightly inside eachother as shown. The bottom one will bolted to the loader frame behind the axle, then i can add the top drum for extra weight as needed. I can also fit a fairly large bucket of concrete inside them as well. Should work good and cant be the price of free

Thanks to everybody for the replies, Sorry about the classified confusion, I am not very good with electronics and this is my first time on a forum, I will try to fix it. I got the tractor from a nice gentleman that lived up in Taos where they get more snow, and i do have all the attachments, wheel weights, chains and counterbalance box for the rear. Very nice hearing from other wheel horse peeps, I love my mower, it is a beast. Merry Christmas

They resemble a farriers pliers used for clinching horseshoe nails. This was my thinking until I googled. Don't hurry for the cobbler. I just pruned the fruit trees and won't have peaches till September.

Some tractors just look good in white!

Long story short, it’s the old mans. He plays with muscle cars as a hobby and has a whole shop for it. I own a hotrod/restoration shop and run it out of his building. Very fortunate to say the least. If my rent was half of what he could charge I’d be down the tubes in a month ha.

Looks like warmer temps and rain in the forecast so I figured might as well take a trail ride and check the trails. Seems the Deer, Bobcats and coyotes are enjoying them as well. On page # 1 post # 19 there is a picture of the brook full bore and I am thinking we may see that with what awaits us including power outages. We shall see.

You certainly will you keep feeding him this swill... especially he needs to use your bathroom. I can see we need to have that talk again about what that stuff is made from!

i actually y could use some socks and underwear

Safe travels Santa, and stay away from my wife!

Yesterday, we flapped our wings real hard and landed ourselves in the baggage claim in Detroit, MI. It was 50-ish outside and t-shift weather still if you ask me. We drove home and sorted a few things and hit the hay. This morning, everything is white! Not 35” white, but enough to say it might be a white Christmas! Enjoy your family everyone, and give someone you love a phone call, a hug or kiss. We need that for our soul, maybe more than we need to distance.

Oh yeah. Me too.

Dont feel bad, prolly 90% of "new" horses owners have that puzzle -- I remember I sure did!

All mine are....

Must be tough to make peach cobbler!!!

About 300 pounds. My buddy works at a JD dealership and found the 7 - 42 lb weights in their used weight pile that I cleaned up and painted black(yes there’s some green paint under there). The weight holder itself weighs about 20 lbs. Here are some pics when I built it a couple years ago.

Xmas nut crackers . Either pressure on the handles or a big smack with the nub guarantees you get to the inside . he he

Mine I just recently modded, has OEM drawbar, 2" inside square receiver, 2" hitch ball with a center 13.5" from floor to be used with a trailer or my tow behind shop crane or even my new hitch crane (bought to use with my truck) or just throw a chain over. I added the two links to my home made snow plow brackets that have been in place 25 or so years, I just replaced a bolt in each. The forward tab under the transmission is about 1/8" spaced away from contact with transmission.

Looks fantastic!

Here’s a Christmas gift I might regret giving to my youngest brother in law a few years back...

You'll already be two-thirds of the way to Maine so why don't you stop up here and I'll have Trina throw together a batch of pancakes or crepes and dump some good old New England maple syrup on them. Maybe even some homemade fruit sauce from her mom. Go ahead and bring Ed along with you...

FINALLY! got the post office to move the package that has been sitting at a sort facility for 2 weeks and deliver the parts I need to finish the steering shaft renewal work on my 175. That front flanged bearing is easy to get off, but NOT easy to put back on! There is very little space above the front axle to get the nuts back onto the bolts. Sooooo... I turned them around and put the nuts on the backside of the plate instead of trying to finagle the nut up into that small space. MUCH easier to get the BOLT into that hole and hold it with a finger as the nut is started on the backside in the clear. If you ever have to do this job a good tip is to put your floor jack under the axle at the end, under the steering stop, and lift the opposite side you're working on, then do the same for the other side. This give much more room with the axle tilted out of the way. That front bearing was a MESS! It fell apart when I removed it. I also got a refurbed steering support from K and B (Brian) that looked like NEW! HUGE kudos to Brian, highly recommended! Another tip: When lubricating your machine, don't stop at the grease zerks. Get an oil can and oil that front bearing, and the bearing at the rear of the steering support block as well. ( I use Shell Rotella T1 30 weight diesel oil ) Going to finish up tomorrow, it's supposed to be near 60 here in NJ in advance of a Christmas rain storm with high winds... I bet there will no longer be 6" of free play in the wheel!