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Today is my one year anniversary on I joined after purchasing this C-141, just a few days earlier. I had never has a Wheel Horse before, but always wanted one, and this one popped up for sale near me.Prior to this tractor, I had only rebuilt one other garden tractor. An MF 14, that was handed down to me by my FIL. While the 141 did take some time, I did eventually get it done. It remains one of my favorite tractors. I subsequently went on to buy and rebuild a 656, an 876, a 125, and a 175. Along with rebuilding the motors on the 656, the 876, and the 125, I also bought and rebuilt several other motors.For those of you that are intimidated at the thought of rebuilding a motor, it's really not much different than rebuilding a tractor. This piece goes here, that piece goes there, etc, etc, etc. As with doing a tractor, you learn something new, with every rebuild. While rebuilding tractors and motors is not a real cheap hobby, it's very doable compared to other things. Such as cars, trucks, and boats. It got me off the couch, and into doing something I really enjoy, with the added bonus of losing 70 pounds. Although about 10 of that has come back recently. Oh well. Now I have a collection of tractors and motors I am very proud of. I did something other than sit on a couch, eat, and watch reruns. I never could have done any of this without the help and guidance from the members on Red Square. I made a lot of mistakes, and will probably continue to do so, but so far, everything has been fixable. So a GREAT BIG to all those who have put up with my ignorance, and guided me through what must have seemed like trivial matters to you at the time. I belong to several tractor forums, but none are of the quality, of . Thank You So Much. Greg

The owner was across the field in some woods cutting trees. He turned around and instantly started looking for pup. Mrs. P used Facebook to post on a community site and within minutes they were here. They too have chickens and haven’t had issues. The guy offered his flock to me if for any reason we lost layers. His sincere condolences and honest willingness to right the wrong were great. Tonight after some time in hiding, all 15 birds are in the roost.

You have added a lot to our Wheel Horse community in just one year. Asking for help is not ignorance, quite to the contrary it is a sign that you want to learn. Ignorance would be plodding along making mistakes and not caring enough to seek information.

Your enthusiasm doesn’t go unnoticed, neither does the speed of your builds! Thanks for sticking around… it seems like all too often people stop by, hit it hard and heavy, then fall off the face of the square.

My coworker is also a wheel horse owner and brought a couple things in for me yesterday. The kohler manual is in beautiful condition and the Toro advertisement/ magazine is vintage too. I get a kick out of the letters section and remember every magazine I read back in the day had them.

26s are on. Fenders are lifted an inch and some 18s are on the way for the front!

Welcome to the club of spatially challenged persons. You must ask yourself; “Do I really need a Living Room?” Honestly, half of that seating is there for people you don’t want to see or talk to anyway and who mercifully enough show up only on rare occasions anyway. Am I wrong? Think about it! Disclaimer: If you’re married or otherwise cohabitating, ignore all that.

There are various members who store their tractors on home built shelving/racks. You don’t need a hi-lo to put ‘em in a rack, but it sure helps!

Problem? ..............No Problem..............Just another tractor! Going through my list Mowing Tractor Tilling Tractor Snow Plow Tractor Grading Tractor Bucket Tractor w/Forks Transportation Tractor (used to make beer runs to other garage) Looking at Tractor (aka show queen) Always use a few of those. Any I missed?

We need people here like you…. Balances out the rest of us clowns. Nice tractors and yes it’s fun….. keeps me in and out if trouble.

Him. Big. Strong. It's also been exhibited and proven on multiple occasions beyond all possible reasonable doubt that the wearing of flip-flops increases your tractor lifting capacity.

That's a nice looking horse, Greg!... Well done!

A few pieces of eye candy that we’ve seen in our travels of late…

I find this Knob is suited for the 1973 Tractor I cut the 1/4-20 Screws to 3/4", replaced the nuts with Nyloc. Placed the Bumper & Top Bracket (inverted) Placed the Assembly on the desired location (8:00) "I like having my right hand free or on the Forward/Reverse Lever" (Made In China)😢 Dropped the Screws down through and pressed the Bumper in place prior to tightening The Bottom Bracket and Nyloc's The finished install tightened to "Good & Tight" This Tractor I would spin the wheel like crazy doing three point turns, hence the "Red Spinner Knob"

This kind of reminds me of a friend of mine talking about his father. He said....the old man got three garden tractors, one with a mower, one with a snow plow and one with a tiller. Hmmm I said, must be convenient? He said wait, I forgot to tell you, he only got one battery. Says you can't run them all at the same time! When the mowing is done.....puts it in the snow plow machine, when the snow is done.....puts it in the tiller machine, then back to the mower. I said really? He said yep really!

Agree with no bad dog only bad owners!

I ain't do nuttin. Imma supahvisah. A year or 3 ago my Mom asked the same question. Trina's response was "I don't know. I haven't tried everything yet."

I’m still hoping they are in hiding somewhere on the property

Spent a few afternoons refurbishing a deck from a 520. This was one of those jobs that went into extra innings. There was way more wrong than anticipated. Got the thing done and was looking at one in the shop from a xi , kind of making a comparison. I started wondering if there was anyway to make a adapter (bolt on) that would allow using the WH decks on the Toro XI machine. XI Decks are pretty getting scarce and if you find good one they can be pricey. The decks are very similar but have different rigging to attach and lift. Wider front mount and spring loaded U clips to lift. A few measurements and some pieces from the boneyard, came up with this first attempt. Worked okay but when the deck lifted, The front dipped and the rigging was just about touching the front pulley. Flipped over the lift bars and got clearance but the bars hit the frame when lifted. The original bars are curved and it was looking like new straight ones are needed. Found some used flat bar and fab up some straight bars and it worked pretty well. I left the smaller input 520 pulley on the deck and put a tach on the spindle, BTS was just under 18000 FPM. The original 48" deck belt from the xi was the right size and worked. Saving the cost of a special belt. Might try this bad boy out in the spring. Front bolted on attachment New straight line bars with bolt on lifting clips Rear wheel clearance is good (better than the XI decks)

The original setup used to anchor the belt tension spring, was a bolt that came through the deck and was left on the loose side. Seems like it was binding slide bar and wearing the bushing. I modified the bolt to this stud arrangement. It worked out okay, just needed to add a couple fender washers under the slide bushing. so the slide would clear the 1/4" bolt heads.

I’ve been watching for some of that racking at a reasonable price. Most of it seems gold plated around here My poor tractors are packed in a small barn or it’s front covered area. I just have to start moving them to get the on I want. Crawling over them to keep tires aired up is always fun.

By the way, that is some BIG chain on the back of the Horse at the top left... You plan on pulling a dump truck out of the mud with that... @Pullstart? Don

The Wheels are 23 X 10 with 4" rear off set. There are 2 inch spacers on the hubs. I don't know the brand. They were purchased from Miller Tire in Ohio. I forgot. The fronts are 4 X 8 They are stickered as "Made In The "

Reading your post on the restoration of the old saw, threw my memory into "reminiscent" mode of one of (many!) rebuilds and I went digging back thru some of my old projects/pictures and thought you, and maybe others would enjoy my favorite rebuild. This was before I got bit by the Wheel Horse addiction. I have a fairly well equipped machine shop and I would prowl the countryside for old machine tools - lathes, mills, shapers, etc (Heh, like I NOW do with WH's) This is a 1958? 13" Sheldon lathe That at the time I got it had no idea it was rather a rare model. ! was very active in the "Home Shop Machinist" forum at the time and on telling my adventures of the lathe I was finding out that it was a rare bird, and was strongly urged to send my account of the rebuild to a web site ran by a fella in England the was wanting any/all info - rebuilds/odd balls/literature, etc on old machinery. @echris He may like to have your rebuild....So, I did contact him and he was very pleased to get the info on it. (see link for the full description) http://www.lathes.co.uk/sheldon-walking-stick-lathe/ I already had a later model 13" South Bend and for some time I agonized on whether to keep the Sheldon or stay with the SB - I had really taken a liking to the Sheldon! But the SB had several more 'modern' adaptions and I finally decided to sell the Sheldon. Took several pics and gave a good description of my rebuild on it and put it on CL, at what I thought was pretty pricy for an old lathe--- Two hrs later I get - first of many - a call, and guy wants to come see it after he gets off work, some 4-5 hrs away. By the time he got here I had 3-4 other calls, with one guy from 300 miles away offering me $500 over asking price if I'd just sell it to him!! But. I dont do things like that, I just told him that if the first guy turned it down, then he could have it --- needless to say the first guy bought it!! That was the last machine I did, because along about that time I had found a WH and I was hooked

Snow blowing tractor with cab

Happy Anniversary Greg, Always quality work. Care to give up the size and brand of those shiny wheels ? Keep up the good work and pictures too.

@Gregor I thought that you had been on here for at least 5 years with the knowledge I have seen you post. 5 tractors in a year?! Lucky! I look forward to seeing more tractors join your herd, I’ve seen you post some cool stuff.

As stated above your input is very much appreciated. You've also shown me a level of generosity a couple times that was very nice to experience. You have my condolences on the fact that you have to put up with the likes of me and I hope you'll stick around for a while more

Generator tractor Chipper shredder tractor Pulling wicked heavy stuff tractor

Yup. I've been trying to find an appropriate time to jab you about it, but just have not seen an opportunity.

I forgot to include the best pic. About 10 years later I cleaned her off, oiled her up and put her to work. Pine dust all up in my nose.... EDIT: This things a beast. And terrifying to operate. As it should be. When you flip that switch and she spins up, your hackles rise and you think, "ok, ok. You're a SAW!" I love her.

Well you said Muscle, so heres my high school truck. 1966 Ford F-250 with a 4 speed and 1 being lo-lo. Had plenty of muscle around the farm. Fast forward to 1973 and dad got a new 1 ton farm truck. They didn’t offer him what the newer tires he had just put on it were worth so I got to buy it for the offered trade value. It had a barn door or cow dent in every fender and burned some oil. Being 16 years old I didn’t know anything about body work but bought a gallon of Bondo and got started. The old guy at the junkyard I got parts from kept trying to sell me an engine that someone had welded up a cracked block, swore it had been rebuilt. I finally bought it. When I cleaned the grime of the block it was a 351 Cleveland. I can still remember the old junk yard guy laughing hard when I realized what he sold me! As I filled each dent I painted them with red Rustoleum brush on primer. For awhile it was quite a spotted old truck. When the whole truck was done my dad helped me spray it with Forest Green oil base Enamel from the lumber yard. (And dad made sure I did some of the spraying). I wish I had a picture of the custom interior. It was one of a kind on a high school budget. But that’s another story! Maybe not a true “Hot Rod” but that Cleveland could rattle those twin glass packs in granny gear!

I cooked up the final fresh pickings from my poblano pepper plant tonight. Stuffed them with some chicken, black beans, cheese, and a few other goodies. Then cooked them in the smoker. Garnished with some sour cream and salsa with some white rice on the side. Yummy!!! Can't wait for the next growing season.

This topic may result in some nice pictures of peoples horse collections But I have limited space I can use to store my horses. Since I am buying new projects. I have been thinking about storing my tractors as efficient as possible. I want them all to be indoors and so do the implements The problem I run into is that I have a hard time choosing which tractor is going on the seconded or last row. (I am getting to emotional involved into this ) How do you guys store your horses in smaller garages and still give them enough "personal space"? I also don't to be crawling over horse to get to another one or have to move a couple just to enjoy a drive on one, or have to take out the forklift @pullstart.

Thanks guys for all of the nice comments about my tractor... I actually have a love-hate relationship with it... My Stevebo's Meet and Greet vid will be up on YT Friday night at 8 if you are interested.

currently my collection has been reduced to one wheel horse and one bolens, so all I have to worry about is storing attachments when they aren’t in use. I wish I was having some of your storage problems 😅 might have to figure out a place for a 3rd if a nice round hood or c-175 ever shows itself. And holy cow @Pullstart I’ve never seen someone have such a nice horse collection that they needed a forklift to move them around.👏

Throwing the children out of the house to commandeer their bedrooms was certainly not my first preference, but I must say, I did give them fifty bucks and a Greyhound ticket to see the world. What’s a man to do, anyway? I needed that dust free space to rebuild the Sunstrand, ffs!

So you say, we would better be off storing our horses in the living room... I do know a guy who stores his chainsaw on the kitchen counter

The Rustoleum Satin Black I had ordered came today...which I guess motivated me to put some Rustoleum High Heat Black on the Briggs Twin blower shroud and chaff screen. Dang it man !... I got some paint wrinkle on the blower housing. I will be glad when the intake gaskets get here so I can get the engine back on the tractor. I have to touch up some of the frame with the Satin Black before I can set the engine back on though. ..

Cool stuff Slim. Ahhh the service manual. From the days before "Don't drink the battery fluid".

Trina and I have four covered spaces and kind of covered, the parts pile and Future projects. 1. The basement workshop. Over the last couple years we've slowly gravitated more and more towards using the basement workshop year-round because it's cool in the summer and warm in the winter like a workshop should be. Humidity is controlled. Like any workshop it could be a little bigger but it has adequate space. The basement workshop is not for storing of any tractors. The ones that are in there are projects in progress or something in for maintenance or repairs. 2. The outdoor workshop. This is a 16x20 ft Wood construction solid building. If the temperature is anywhere between 25 or 30 up to about 75 or 80 we've been known to use the outdoor workshop for maintenance and repairs. I do also on a regular basis leave a tractor in there if it's convenient. What consists of an excuse for my welding setup sits in the front doorway of the outdoor workshop and I do all my welding up against the stone wall which is opposite to it. 3 and 4 are portable temporary garage structures. The larger of the two is 13x20 on the base. That houses my truck, primarily. I need to move that around a little bit and reorganize before winter really sets in and at that point we will be able to use that structure to house a machine or two such as lawn mower or snow blower, etc. The other portable garage is something like 12x20. That's what we refer to as the Horse stable. There's usually three or four tractors in there including both of our primary workers.

Okay, you don't want to see me in flip flops... I don't even own a pair. The chances of me wearing flip flops are equivalent to the chance of me wearing a speedo... NEVER going to happen. Don

Doing some slow, select cutting. This tree is over the shop, storage barn, chicken house and LP tank. Slow and steady does it. Might get on the barn roof with the saw and trim as much if the top as possible.

Your right, safety and the preservation of the machine really isn't worth the extra 5 min it would take to remove 2 chains.

that’s why I was wearing my golf helmet!

Yesterday, removed the rotting wooden lintel from above the farm workshop door and fitted a new one. Sounds simple but was anything but. Door runners and door to replace yet. May get done today now the hard work's been done. Thought the weather has turned nasty. Heavy rain and high winds.

Good lawd that is a monster! Very cool!

I wonder how many watched the Taryl video that I linked to some weeks ago. He did a very long term test of additives, conclusion….. all snake oil.

@Mows4three sent me a link to this video the other day. Worth a few minutes watch time.