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Trying to organize the shop today and just realized I have room for a couple more!

I purchased my first Wheel Horse new in1984, a Work Horse GT-1800. Then slowly but surely it turned into this, and actually I have acquired two more since this picture was taken a few years ago!! So like the guys here said, they tend to multiply!!!

Fantastic machine. Looks in great condition. Worth checking out this thread for starters. Make sure that engine keeps on purring. It will need looking after despite being well built, remember she's an old lady and not to be raced or rallied. If you need to know anything you're in the right place. This is my C-125 renovation..... From this To this... Mick

Moving half the farm so have been doing a lot of fencing lately. The little C125 and it's trailer have been invaluable as my mobile tool box, and for dragging hundreds of meters of water pipe and electric fence wire about the place. Had all the tractors out today taking down a section of pens so we stopped for a group picture!

A Saturday morning tutorial - only no work today! As the esteemed Squonk says “ Lane must have a crapload of weeds”! Yes so that justifies me buying the Cadillac of sickle bar tools for a used VW price! The Johnson Sickle Server is the tool most farmers used in their shop to repair or replace knife blades. A new one costs $496. New is painted blue. Old ones are painted red and built the same of heavy steel and plates are hardened steel. Punch and rounded rivet head hardened steel too. Plus you can still get replacement parts . There is a flat head rivet punch if you don’t like rounded heads. Tool adjusts to removing 3 inch or two inch knife blades on knife section. I have wanted one of these for years but even for my “crapload of weeds” I could not justify. But I am still working on sickles so just go with the flow! I also ordered a new rivet punch from Johnson this am. Mind looks worn or broken. Mine came from South Dakota and guy shipping must have had a sense of humor as he marked it “Fragile”! Weighs about forty pounds. Pictures attached for your perusal!

The Garden Committee used the 867 pigpen tractor to move some sand from one side of the house to the other so they could til it in for the carrots. Then they got an old garden hose we inherited from @Stepney Spenser, layed it out, and drilled it right full o holes. Watering system. Heckovan idea.

The following Picts are in right order and have just 4 day‘s difference between them... It is Aprilweather here we called it the April the April changes the Weather as he will. and that‘s definitely true..

'66 C-10 my great grandpa bought new the day my uncle was born. My great uncle wrecked it shortly before he was killed during Vietnam. There's a bit of wrinkled metal behind the cab we left from it. My great grandparents drove it across the country to my parents' wedding in '85. It was the last trip up here they made together. Great grandpa (Pa) passed away in the early 90's and my dad bought it from Ma. Dad drove it as his daily truck for a couple of years, before he tore it apart and got in the restoration over his head. Over 4 moves we had to move it in pieces. In 2015 my dad finally decided to have it finished. This is how it rolled into the shop Took about 2 years, but this is how it drove out

I had Grey @Wheel Horse 3D print up a few things for us. Trina and I were jabber jawing about everything and nothing one day and door knockers crossed through the conversation. I figured I'd see about a Wheelhorse piece. Today Trina spent some time sanding and priming it. She left texture some places and smoothed out others. For scale, the backer is approximately 4 x 6 inches

Worked on the 1257 Heavys battery box and reinforcements and worked on organizing the work side of the shop.

Five stars for USPS! On-time delivery! Check out that paint on the spindle. Like new! Thank you, @pullstart!

awesome collection Don! I like photos like that very much for two reasons, first is the appreciation of nice equipment and second so I can show my wife there's much worse than me out there! haha!

Golf, golf, a good walk spoiled lol. I tried it once but I could never get the ball past that darned windmill... We have a 9 hole course near us, its built on an old colliery yard and a lot of the born again golfers are retired miners. Bought a set of bats and a fancy bag for them and off they go. Walking alongside the course you hear a lot more anglo saxon Yorkshire than "Whoa" or "Fore" I often muse that you don't hear players on the PGA tour say "F€@% me, a thowt that were going in't bleedin hoil." Or "Gerrin't hoil ya little bas%£€@#!"

Starting degreasing and cleaning up wheels whis a wire brush. Picked up some paint so I can get new tires mounted. I'll tell you, trying to get a copious amount of fix a flat and bead sealer off wheels is a pain.

Received the wheels from @pullstart! So happy to get the tires on them and get going!

Took the past week off and went to FL. Had a great time with the wife. Got to spend time with my best friend from high school and spent a day at the Sun n Fun Air Show, but when we came back, it was Welcome to the Jungle! I had planned to mow prior to leaving, but weather and parts delivery didn't cooperate. So today I installed the new deck belt and installed the deck and got to work. Took 3 cuts with a lawn sweep between cuts 2 & 3 to get it back to where it should be. Then I see there's a 60% chance of snow on Tuesday. Ugh!

Wait till I drop the clutch and do a wheely.

I bet if it had a GPS tracker, it would get dizzy from the turns arounds...

I borrowed one of these from a buddy a few years ago to replace the knives on my sickle. Pretty slick how they work.

Don that is just amazing! I have a Wheelhorse a John deere lawn tractor and I'm lookingvfir number three, and a good divorce lawyer my wife says lol.

Ed you could have driven there, slipped the card under the door and gone an gotten an ice cream cone and come out ahead!

I don't have one but I'll happily offer comments and opinions. 😀 It's a farce. The purchasing public has become so lazy and prone to dispose of everything that Briggs decided to use it their advantage. Get an oil sucker and defy societal norms. Change your non-changable oil.

Awesome!! I got the tires yesterday. Gonna be ready to roll! Thank you!!

Anyway, more from our sports correspondent later in the show. I had a productive day checking over several mowers ready for the start of the cutting season, cut my own lawn, strimmed the verge opposite, did some work on the new kitchen units and looked after several guest dogs in between. Golf? No time for chasing a little ball round a field full of mole holes.

Should you buy it.....coming here with that question is akin to going in a bar and asking the fella next to you if you should order a drink. Very nice tractor from the guy on the next stool down😝

Recently acquired a 312-8 with the K301s engine. It ran fine but after pulling the spark plug and looking around with a borescope camera it had a lot of carbon build up so I pulled the head and cleaned it up and put on a new head gasket. valves are seating very good and she runs very smooth. Now I won't have to worry about carbon scoring the cylinder walls and can sleep easy! cleaned up and cleaned the head as well before reassembly

A late start to my day & had to quit earlier than I wished, but I was able to make some progress. First thing on my agenda was to pull the head and de-carbon it. I was happy to see that there was little to no piston wash when I pulled the head off. There was also good cross hatch on the cylinder walls. Engine looks much better with a nice clean head free of any paint or crud. Tins back on the engine and the dash tower installed. I had to walk away after I came to this point. Hope to be able to get the wiring done tomorrow. Waiting for a couple of parts yet other wise I would be able to button it up the rest of the way.

Mowed an acre today and "Connie" didn't even flinch with this job. Can the K301 can handle a 48"?

Cleaning up parts

Here's the one I made for my 520 inside the cab control.

Is the old diaphragm cracked or have a hole in it? The material they used for them is fairly thick so it's very durable. Since those pumps are mechanically driven instead of just pulse driven from the crankcase pressure, it should work even if it's stiff. The most common failure on those type of fuel pumps would be the check valves not sealing and allowing flow in both directions. I don't think the check valves can be serviced in those plastic pumps but I never had one of those apart either. If you can blow air backwards through the pump, the check valves are not sealing so the fuel would just be moving back and forth in the fuel line and not moving towards the carb. Or at least less of it would be getting to the carb depending upon how much or how little they are sealing

I agree here. Cynical self was saying that the no oil change idea is playing into the desposeable products idea, which supports the sale of more engines. Lubed for life 4 cycle engines? Ya know when the lube gets gone, the life of the machine ends.

USPS must have heard me complaining! They just go delivered!!!

Also have about 25 years of maintenance records and original manuals in a binder. This thing is pretty unbelievable.

Saw this number on the FB...

Yes guards or too firs are roughy but I got some from a 1940’s JARI sickle that should be good replacements. Several Ard solid brass which I never saw before!

Judging by those Sickle toofies I would also add "Big Honkin!"

That is just AMAZING ! If I was to show that to my wife, she wouldn't sleep night.

@Shynon is sending me a package. Too bad a video camera couldn't be put on it so we could live stream it's voyage!

Hey nice counter weight norm! For God's sake don't tell her I said that, she might find me lol.

It's my understanding that I need to buy a new gasket before removing the head. Is that correct?

Yes, the crazy thing, mine has the aggie back tires also , originals came with it. I use it to till my big gardens every year and a few friends. The seller told me it came with a plastic seat pan, his father backed into something and broke it shortly after he got it. The dealer put the medal one on for free. A year later I bought a C-105, same thing from a father's son, with a good deck and high shoot snow thrower. The seat pan is plastic. That was number three, four 5-18H, five 418-8 six 1067, it started so innocent, once I joined red square I found I was not alone, I have become, wheel horse crazy. You know when you spend more on batteries than food, you're, wheel horse crazy. You may have time to escape, but i doubt it.

Bolted it right down to the frame. Figured it was good enough for the Pond's, good enough for me. Sorry about your tranny Jim, It's hard to get quality goods for free. I'll pass on snorting the rust dust, had a enough of that with this project to last me a while.

Thanks, the owner was sooo meticulous and I promised him I would toke care of it. If I have any ? can I reach out?

I have the same tractor, l bought it from the original owners son with a tiller and good deck. Mine does not have a hour meter but it runs very good. I bought it in 2010 for about the same $, no regrets. It was the second WH I have owned, I bought a 520-H new in 1989. I now have sixteen, it very well may have been seventeen if you didn't beat me to it. Congratulations, you made a great decision and saved me explaining to my bride how on earth I possibly could use another tractor. Gives me until tomorrow to come up with seven teen's justification.

After you put it back together, this time use gear lube, instead of water, and you won't have that condition again.

Today I finished building a bagger mount weight bracket for my snow blower tractor. Should have more than enough traction for the driveway now.

THIS JUST IN! IT’LL ALL BE BETTER NOW! Well I hope so... there are two people waiting for tractah’ parts to arrive!

so, @ACman gave me another parts chipper, and i already have a bracket, so i don't need two. i figure, he gave it to me, i'll give the extra bracket to you, save you some time fabbing one. i just gotta figure out shipping?

Got her home. I surprised at how well it runs. The guy said it had been sitting for a year. Looks like a Kohler carb? The weights are indeed iron. Old Bolens and are much heavier than I expected for their size.