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I can easily pull my big trailer with my 876 since I rebuilt the differential no strain at all

So other then a couple small things like painting the rear rims re doing the stack that melted guess header heat wasn't hot enough? 🤦‍♂️.... oh and a transmission rebuild.... the B-80 "FlowahPowah" is complete! From its quick make over! Hopfuly with the help from @ebinmaine shell be done marking its territory and back in action! Thanks @Wheel Horse 3D for the custom hood ornament and headlight Lens and hood latch! Got to touch the lens up but all in all looking good the other half and the daughters love it and want to drive it already! Gonna try and keep it somewhat clean till the owls head show in July! Also had a custom made steering wheel insert but I seem to have put that sumwhere 🤔 so photos of that when it's all fully done! OK now back to the 1257HEAVY.

Here it is... @oldiron613 Rob I might need some help identifying anything I don’t point out... but the bellhousing and clutch are not lever steer normal, I don’t think many frames were bent either. I was told most of the lever steer tie rods were just a flat bar with bolts/pins, so maybe with all the added touches, this might be the last lever steer built in 1947? The engine has been swapped, so the build date is challenging to pin down... but it is what it is and it’s home for good! Once again, many thanks to @Bow_Extreme for the lead on the Senior in the first place, then passing “dibs” on to me on this one! 1947, Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. I’m not much a fan of baseball, but I’m a fan of his story. I’m thinking I’ll call this one “Jackie”

I just picked up this little jewel yesterday. I like the looks of the 857 and have been looking for one for a bit. It seems quite complete. It has the original lighter still in the dash (missing in the pics). The deck has some rust issues and it is frozen solid. I have not heard this run so that will be a priority along with the tire issues. All of the tires seem like original. All have "Wheel Horse" molded into the tire. I think 3 have tubes. I may be at a point in my tractor work that it might be good to find a solution for removing tires. I have previously done two tires with just tools I have around (screwdriver and such). These tires are rather brittle and cracked and I doubt I could get a tire place to look at them. There seems to be a lot of rust in the tire that I'd like to get out so I'd like to remove the tire and tube from the rims. What do people do to remove tires? I see HF has a bead tire tool for $40. Maybe get some tire spoons? Recommendation? The steering wheel is barely attached. I be those are hard to find. Any repair suggestions? I'm sure I'll have more questions as I go through this. Tell me about the lights. They are not connected but look great. They kinda grow on your and couple those with the home made bumper and this little tractor shows some "attitude". Interesting story. I pulled out a lot of the mouse crap from under the seat. After getting most of it by hand I got the vacuum going in there. At one point I heard a loud crack that you hear when something solid hits the little baffle in the vacuum. I thought I better check it out so I shut the vacuum off and opened it up, there laid the center pice for the steering wheel.

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I'm happy to say I know very little about what you just posted.

Back when OSHA was what you half got out of your mouth before the threshing machine tore your leg off... No seat suspension, no brakes, no steering wheel, no foot rests, or any of that other stuff that gets in the way of what you’re trying to accomplish.

I backed Jackie in next to the Senior. There’s surely something bent on the left front spindle/axle. I might eventually try to remake a new front end. Time for fluid checks and see if it’ll fire!

Unloaded my new toy this afternoon. A little more than 200 miles round trip and over state lines.

It’s behind the horse Jim.... it’s okay.

I guess the narrow front 953 will be there for sure, don't know if i will bring more than one.

Well, I jave to admit it- I cheated on this one. I used a paint shop for the hood and fender. I am not a painter at all. I temp mounted the sheet metal just for a mock up:

Me an' the ol' Cinnamon Horse C160 had some fun movin' heavy stuff around. Went out to the forest and got a good load of fire 🔥 wood🪓. When me n' horsie got back the old ball n chain was pulling in the yard with another "Honda Fit load" of cee-ment blocks for the patio project. For anyone needing a Bear and BBT status update... Here's the running "herd" as it stands. Near to far on the right: Cinnamon Horse C160. Trina's Pigpen 867. My 1970 Charger hydro. Off to the left is Trina's Pony 657. Future projects in order: Trina's Military Tribute tractor. Colossus big boy tractor. 1968 Raider 10. 1974 C160 with Tecumseh engine. Couple days ago I started building a wicked rugged trailer hitch for whatever horse it lands on. I'll likely build 2 or more similar hitches for Cinnamon Horse and the Charger hydro etc..... That's 2 x 2 square stock. @JCM @Stepney @Oldskool @OldWorkHorse @AHS @WheelhorseBob @Chestnut And the rest of you Wheelhorse crazies..... 🤪🇺🇸🚜

I have no idea where to put this disgusting pic so might as well go here. Snapped this on the way up nort to the cabin last Friday. Can you imagine the nerve of a guy making a horse share a trailer with a deer!!!

The Highway Patrol and everyone else on the roads, Thanks you!

Hoping to bring the 2054 but not sure if I can get all of what is coming to me in the trailer with it for the ride home. I’m not doing a “Pullstart grab-n-pack”

My old 57 327 vette motor 4sp muncie 4/11 pos

Nope....and no cigarette lighter to charge a cell phone or run the pellet grill

So you are telling me there is no place to plug in an MP3 player?

And me being worried about to much tong weight using a small garden-trailer

You better save some room for the trip home...

The Deere is grazing on the WH's "apples"... Keeps it off the highway! Good use for a green thing...

True Ritchie.... maybe the horse is peeing HY on it or passing gas......

I couldn't figure out how to hook up a MP3 to my flip phone so I continue to use my Victrola for music.

Looks like it on the wrong side of the guide.

It may be the angle of the photo, but is that belt riding outside the belt guard? If so, it is likely rubbing up near the engine and that is a formula for premature belt failure.

Hot spot? I imagine it’ll draw a crowd. Mobile? Give me another day...

A visit to a great little garden centre we know this morning, resulted in this. The plants in the pipe are the type that you put in hanging baskets that hand down.. Eventually the tyres will have similar to cover them. This afternoon neighbour across the green brought her walk behind mower over. She'd managed to knock the front axle off. Only held on by two springs. Took me two hours to work out where they fitted and how things went back together. That'll be a bag of doughnuts coming my way.

I built it a few years ago for working on wheel horses. It will fit most any "typical" frame and allows you to start with just a frame and transmission, or take a tractor down to that point. The brackets clamp the first 3/4" cross brace common to most tractors and also the tranny plate. You can use ramps and drive a tractor on or off of it. My knees can't tolerate working on the floor anymore! Found a link to the build back in 2012:

I use the HF mini tire changer for the fronts and the large HF changer for the rears with sum tire spoons. Makes easy change. If I have the money and I'm lazy I toss my budy a few bones to do them at his work on a car tire machine. That way is really easy haha

The treasurer came home with this cute little duck faucet from a yard sale last weekend. She got it for a buck. If I'da knowed this was coming I would have made the drop pipe a few inches longer, his head just barely clears the sill. Which is now mounted here:

Nope - MP3 is so old school… it’s Bluetooth capable and a mobile hot spot…

True… But, that little town in Wisconsin - OSHA - is probably the main reason many of us are still able to post things on this site with all, or most, of our fingers… Balance is the key… balancing stupid with efficiency with safety… not easy. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t… Just a thought…as I look at my jumped seat shut off (from previous owner) on my “new” C85…

The Safety Division of the company I work for was once jokingly referred to as The Delivery Prevention Team

Cheating? Not in my book. That would only be if you claimed it as your own work. You earned the money to pay the shop so fair and square by me.

Got everything primed just ahead of the rain for days. Casings installed. I'm thinking I should have ripped those boards down a bit. IMO they are too wide. I think I'm going to blend some of the wall color into the trim paint so the casings don't 'pop' so much and look as big as they do now. I'll leave the inner part of the window white though. Also going to install a 'skirt' board below the sill.

That’s all there is! It’s pretty much the tractor that became the legacy you know as Wheel Horse

I talk to it all the time but it is not talking back. Pretty much like the wife many times. You know then that something is definitely wrong.

I got the West Virginia RJ clutch/brake set better (less grabbing) . I put a roll pin in the clutch idler arm as there was a cotter key in there . It did not operate correctly with the cotter key. I also changed the old clutch spring to a new one.

Took my Raider 12 out and let him scratch some ground yesterday. Did some cultivating in a pumpkin patch. The pumpkin plants only have two leaves on them so far, so the rows are kind of hard to make out in the picture.

Shh the horses are sleeping...

That is really cool oldworkhorse! Job well done all around. If you line it up with others at the show you'll be know which ones yours for sure I hope it brings years of enjoyment to the family. Thanks for the post

In the shop behind the windows I'm working on is a workbench that was purpose built for some use. I don't know what that use could have been, but on the front are a bunch of wall toggle switches and a number of outlets controlled by those switches. There is a motor and pulley mounted on top of the bench and a bunch of holes in the top where other stuff was mounted. I think perhaps some arbors and polishing wheels because I found some of those in a box in the corner. Despite having lived here since '84 I STILL have not explored all the items left behind in this 2400 sq ft building! Some things are better left alone! Anyhow... the reason I mention that is because I thought some of y'all might get a kick out of what I found on the BOTTOM of the bench! Pic is laying on my back looking UP at the bottom. Can't see any of this just looking at the bench. Any of you 'sparkies' having nightmares yet?

There you go, Mark! Maybe it is the tilt steering wheel option?

Yeah, I plan to have it there regardless, but it sure would be nice to have it cruiseable straight away upon arrival! I had to pull the head last night and free up the exhaust valve. It was stuck open but it didn’t take much to free it up. I made sure all the fuel passageways in the carb were clear, now I need spark!

I plan to bring Radpferd for sure. Still have to make up my mind between the Rat Rod or the 701 for my second tractor.

@OldWorkHorse Steve and his Ariel are camping with me and Trina and others for the Owl's Head Show weekend. I've a reasonably strong feeling I won't be hungry at any point during those days. 🤪

I can see your point but I like the "pop". They'd look good painted either way. Nice work!

Did a little more painting on some hitch posts, scored some red plastic chain that will he a nice touch.