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The horse in the pic is Red. He’s my buckskin Quarter Horse. The horse in my avatar photo is Berkely. She’s a palomino Morgan. Red is laid back and friendly. Berkely is all business.

Gave the Raider 12 a MMO rub down and a new seat from Matt Costagono. Before After

Unpleasant ??? Most of us live for the euphoric huff of a Kohler exhaust.

Got the steering wheel fixed last Friday and took it for a lap around the farm. Found out the bushing on the column was worn out,, I couldn't tell with steering wheel so loose. Tore in to it last night and just finished it. Flange bearings don't work on the 520 as there isn't a place to bolt them like on the 312. I do have a Wheel Horse parts supply, so I had to find something that would work. Didn't want to bother my machinist friends. as both helped me last week. I came up with a plan and use a 6203 R12 bearing that would not fit with out some modification, Took a while but I got it. Also cleaned up the dash wire brushed and painted the bolts along with the new steering wheel adapter. Here is the pictures from last week Today

Found this 520-8 today for $300.00. PO says it last was running 10-12 years ago. Needs a lot of TLC to get it up and running but it will make a great summer project. As you can see I have already started the tear down. The PO says the hours on the clock are correct but who knows?

You ever buy a 10 pack of something on Amazon, but you only need 2 of them so you end up having 8 leftover in your toolbox for YEARS? That was my story with these #15 o-rings but I found a use for 6 of them today. I pulled them over the deck lift handle on the 312-8 that I use for mowing, and they fit right in the little concentric slots on the grip. Now that they're raised you get a nice grip on the handle, it basically makes finger grooves which is kind of nice.

Finished off most of the wiring, minus the starter and starter solenoid and then just need to get the remote filter mounted and give it a go!

Went to see a friend who happened to have a Wheel Horse sitting in his yard... Look what followed me home !

You can attach gym weight plates in as I have for the front of my machine to use whenever it stop raining here. It is simply a mule drive with 1" bolt in the middle .

I messed with worse. I messed with this one and turned it into that one.

Almost ready to mount a tire.

Well, you know, it makes my hair smelly.

Hi You will find it much easier to steer with the tri ribs. I originally tried the eight inch ones, then ten inch, but I kept getting punctures from thorns, etc, from the hedges around the paddocks. I now have ten inch “AG” tyres on the front, ride is harsher compared to turf tyres, but control is better. I think, the larger diameter the better, especially in muddy conditions. But you would need to convert to trailer type hubs to use larger than eight inch wheels. There are quite a few posts relating to converting. Converting to trailer hubs also gives you access to a much greater selection of wheels in the correct widths for the narrower tyres. Mentioning “Horse Poo”, last year we used some from one of our heaps, which has stood for about 2/3 years, and is the consistency of peat, to plant some potatoes as an experiment. We ended up with foliage growing over six feet tall. (Too much nitrogen feeding the greenery). But we had some huge potatoes as well! Doug. p.s. You may find that with the tri ribs, you could use a bit of extra weight on the front of your tractor, especially if you have a heavy-ish implement on the back, or you’re towing/pulling something heavy or ground engaging! p.p.s. It’s getting embarrassing, but I’ll post this photo that I keep posting to show the ten inch ag tyres on my machine. The other pic shows one of the paddocks in March this year.

Turn it 180* so the pipe is down. The horse checking out the horse, good pic!

I really like that tractor.

Thanks for the advice and wisdom everyone!! I regret not being around my papa enough to soak up his brain.. but i have alot of memories and will be keeping this Wheel Horse in the family.. I brought her home today after having some work done... Still missing headlights and original seat.. Also someone painted the engine black, hard to believe that my papa would of did that. Also I found these implements near me, I am going to check them out this week..

Is it @cschannuth that has a nice Briggs twin?? My 78 that was my dad‘s has the Briggs twin in it. It’s mowed and pushed snow in very hilly conditions for its entire life. He bought it when it was a year old from our neighbor who was aggravated that he broke the seat pan on it. Dad bought it from him and immediately put a steel pan on it and it’s been that way ever since.

I've made this for the Black Horse. Can't remember the weight, but I can't throw it around. Just something to think about. Don't forget you may need to open the bonnet/hood.

Here is a good idea for.your project, just food for thought.

Kev check your filter for application. Preference for me is suction, 25 micron. I think this offers the pump / valve unit the most protection from a rusty tank contamination. When I build my own tank extra care can be taken to keep clean. The last one was a 2x4 tubing tower. used a diesel fuel rinse out. I have done those both ways, no real wrong way. Sometimes room is the biggest issue. If using in a return application, using a pump intake strainer is a good idea. I like the 1" ones from MMC. Welded a 1 inch pipe bushing to the tank and the filter screws into the bushing extending into the tank. I think they are around 125 micron?? looks like there are various ones 30,60,100 Some other fuel for thought, most of those filters have have an internal bypass. I would say that one you have is sufficient size and will be good for years. Is this off the table or next? Since you got that tube bender and such.

City folks need their daily “fix” of the Co, etc, us rural types prefer the smell of fresh air, pollen and manure. 🐎🐄🐓🐏 I don’t know what will happen when all vehicles are electric!

Calendar shot! The trucker and 5 year old in me says taaall stack and shiny. Cinnamon horse C160 has a piece of chrome bathroom pipe I cut to add on.

Still have not decommissioned the 417-8 from Winter duty yet @ebinmaine what do you think, am I safe ? Pretty tough trying to slip by that trail cam on trail duty without being noticed.

Hi new to the group have a 312-8 but want something little older I’ll be going up to Rockford Illinois on the April 22nd, I’m gonna be driving from FL going threw Georgia Tennessee Indiana and up threw Illinois, anyone have anything for sale let me know I’ll have cash and empty trailer really wanting to get something going up or even back down thank you! Would really like round hood style 50s to 70 but some 80s might be interested in

@pullstart The brazing was a bust and I was basically unsuccessful building up the shafts to my satisfaction with the welder too. Maybe good enough for some, but not for me. So I came up with alternate plan for the front bracket pins. I could not justify almost $20 each for those pins! Sooooo, I hit the box store for some 1/2" metal tube with 1/16 wall thickness which means 3/8" ID and a 3/8" carriage bolt fits snugly inside. A 4-1/2" carriage bolt is a perfect size, some 3/8" flat washers and Nyloc nuts. I think I spent about $10 on everything. (I already had some of the hardware). The picture below is missing one of the flat washers that goes under the nut. The tubing is cut just slightly longer than the roller. I had to grind off part of the square on the carriage bolt to get the washer to slip over and the whole thing tighten up so it doesn't flop around in the bracket. That small ring is a piece of the tubing and serves to center the nut end of the carriage bolt in the 1/2" hole in the bracket. It's a little tricky to get the thing together, you have to slip the flat washers in place while holding the roller and push the bolt through. Kinda need three hands. So that takes care of the worn front pins. On to the rear shaft with the two rollers on the 1/2" bar: As I said, I wasn't happy with building them up with the welder and the brazing didn't really work out either, so out came the Sawzall and grinder. I took Pullstart's suggestion to heart. Cut the worn bar out, ground down the welds, and drilled out the remaining piece of the original rod. THEN... I grabbed a piece of 1/2" steel rod, and made a 'lathe' by clamping my 1/2" drill into my vice and cut e-clip slots in the rod with a hacksaw as the rod was turning. Worked PERFECTLY! The bar is 16" long and the e-clip slots are 1/8" from the end on the original. I left a little extra on the end. The OD on the inside of the slots is 0.405 for a 1/2" e-clip. Ready to weld the new bar in! I should have done this BEFORE I repainted the shaft! It was still rather soft when I was working on it. I actually didn't plan on going this far with it. Nothing another coat of paint won't fix! I'm SUPER happy the way this is turning out! That main 3/4" shaft has a slight bend in it. I may leave it be cuz I can't think of a good way to straighten it and it's not really that bad. One idea I had was jacking the car and setting it on wood blocks under the tire and lowering the car on it. Yeah, I think not... I never noticed it when it was installed on the deck but judging by the other damage to the deck it's clear that a previous owner rammed the deck into something quite solid while backing up at a good clip. Almost there!

I'll give you $10 for the scraper blade 🤣 see can make 10x back on ur investment and still have 98% of the machine. Lol

Thanks a lot for the response @Oldskool Don't know if it has spark or compression... Picked it up because I'm pretty sure the scraper blade will fit my 1994 520H ( with some slight modifications to the scraper blade as far as attaching it to the hydraulic lift arm ). I got it for a grand total of $ FR.EE !

Well I brought home another wheel horse, a c161twin automatic. I really bought the tiller and got a solid 42” rear discharge deck and the tractor in the deal. I really don’t know what to do with it. It isn’t running but I think is been sitting in a barn for a very long time. Had a mouse infestation in the air cleaner. Came with the house a young couple bought. I don’t know much about black hoods but the fender pan and hood are fiberglass.

It is all set and Archer and I were moving stuff again this morning, both wearing those green hearing protectors! My father-in-law made me an extra screw, too. Thanks again for all the help! Seth

Mighty glad you clarified opening the bonnet nORM!

Ran mine under the machine and out near left rear wheel.

Doing a little road trip in the morning about an hour and 15 minutes away from here. Picking up this 308-8 with a tiller and a mower deck. Plan on cleaning it up and transplanting a fresh 14 horse on it.

Anyone with the foresight to have “saved” a nice “Muscle Car” will have people queuing outside hoping for a “100 Octane” fix! Potential 💲💲💲 🤪🤪 Doug.

We never hold past habits against a new Wheel Horse owner, we are just glad you saw the light and joined the herd.

I have been getting mine from an seller for the same price, have him saved to my watch list. Like yours they were listed as Muncie but 7410 is in the listing information. I also have the other seals and bearings saved to the watch list.

I got the screw out and it looked fine but when we tried to tighten it up it broke off. My father-in-law was going to remake it with his lathe from the remaining bolt. Thank you all for the help! You guys are so helpful. What kinds of maintenance should I be doing to avoid things like this in the future? Are there pictures of certain parts of the tractor that I should take to help you identify potential problem areas? Attached is a picture of my youngest "driving" the tractor in low gear - he was thrilled. Loves the "broom broom."

I use two 44 lb weights on my mule weight bracket on my 414-8. I could not believe the difference the weight made when using the front blade and rear accessories.

I tore this ammo box off of my trailer. It's quite heavy on it's own. I wonder if it would make a good front weight box?

Just find a nice piece of stainless tube slightly larger and longer than whats on there, slip it over existing pipe and clamp it. Stainless exhaust pipe is quite thin so doesn’t weigh too much and is usually not too expensive. Doug.

Depends on the Worker Dave, i have my Valves on right side and be fine with them. btw Kev. Put the Filter in the return line never in the high pressure line, because if you set the system under a higher pressure with a higher Load or a stall on the cylindres the whole pressure otherwise stay‘s on your filter and filtercase. While the filters housing itself is not that thick, it can maybe blast by higher loads or even on hydraulic stall. ( reach endpoints of the cylindres) That‘s the way some Hydraulic guy‘s teaches me to do. great Work you did on this Loader.

Well Sir it looks like the weather for the next 10 days has us above freezing... even at night. I don't want to jinx us... We might be ok.

The English monarchy is a mysterious entity, full of rules, traditions and custom that must seem strange to everyone. Philip played a huge part in making sure the monarchy was up to date and relevant despite all the years of history and tradition tying it up. He worked damn hard to do this and gave up so much to support the Queen through her reign. What the future holds for this family and its place in our modern world is up for debate. With Harry dishing the dirt and people saying the Queen should quit and pass the crown direct to William it is becoming a bit of a circus. I truly hope that the Queen reigns until her death and that Charles inherits the throne for however long he has before his son takes over the family firm. This is the way it should be , not some popularity contest like on TV. As Monty Python once said "You don't vote for Kings" Just my ten penneth

Bit of a bummer evening, the glow in the dark filament came in the wrong size, the glow in the dark paint was a brick. Trying to reconstitute the paint with solvent, and put in for a return on the filament. But I did get some painting started on an order and a few spacers will be done by morning for a test fit.

RIP Prince Phillip !!! May our friends across the pond have peace also.

I can state with absolute certainty that it is a rare man able to be consort to a Queen with the grace and devotion to duty he has shown. Worth noting, that he was not even a citizen of the UK until just before he married Elizabeth yet he gave his all to the country. Especially inspirational to me is that he regularly made mistakes, owned them, and then carried on as best he could.

When I wired Cinnamon Horse C160 I put a maxi fuse in the battery cable and a 25 in the main ignition switch feed wire. Ran for 6 or 8 months fine. Plowing snow one NIGHT in the @#$&)+$. Road it died dead dead nothing dead died. Damn. Pushed it about 10 feet to the driveway and tossed a new fuse in.... no trouble since........

I was able to prep the sheet metal today. First a little mud work to take care of some imperfections. After finishing the mud work all of the sheet metal received a coat of self etching primer, 3 coats of gray urethane primer, and a mist coat of black primer to use as a guide coat. Tomorrow's plans consist of scrubbing the black guide coat off with 400grit sand paper and laying down some nice red paint.

Dibs on the old seat !

Oooh! Don't call the monarchy silly! Yank or not. Kings and Queens run through our history for over a thousand years. You guys only have a history that starts a few hundred years ago.

I would consider welding reinforcement plates with bushings on the frame, then use a slightly longer shoulder bolt for a pivot. Just about all of the wear in that hole went up. You could use the bottom of the hole to locate the new repair components. I do not own, and haver never worked on an XI, so this is just a suggestion.