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Here is mine didn't have any original parts.

Just brought home a nice Millrite knee mill I bought from an older machinist friend who is down sizing.

I'm amazed at how much easier the 125 steers. Less weight on the front due to smaller engine perhaps? Or is it the tri-ribs? I'm going to have to learn about the K301 now... there is a 'knock' or 'rattle' from the engine. I really doubt it's piston slap, or bearings... but what I'm wondering about is the infamous balance gears. What does that issue actually sound like I wonder? Is removing the balance gears as easy as pulling the engine, dropping the pan, and removing the gears? Or is it more involved than that? I'm going to use the search function to see what I can find, but if anyone has any helpful pointers, it would be much appreciated! @Tach-a-matic Thank you again Paul !!

Another long haul! Too bad because it's obvious from the houses that it had been a very nice neighborhood. Owners daughter grew up there and said it was wonderful then and that she hated it now. Nice folks selling and helping load the tractor, though. No way I could have pushed this 900lb beast up the ramps! Took four of us! I've never owned any Gravely but always wanted to. Even the walk behinds. I've never seen a GT for sale around here and only seen one at a local show. Interesting unit and everything I see is HEAVY DUTY! No belts in the drive train and I think other than the deck no belts any other attachment. All I got was the blade and based in the last 3 decades of living here I doubt I'll find any other attachments. Sure would like a front mounted broom! The only serious downside I see is the lack of a hitch capable of lifting attachments. Seen homemade including a 3-point and while it doesn't matter to me since I have others I would have thought they would have offered at least a clevis. Maybe they did but none have shown up in my searches. I've not even unloaded it yet much less tried to start it. Many other projects including get ready for winter tasks but I will toss in a battery and spend a few minutes on it. Comes with a 3sp with reverse with Hi/Lo but ALSO a shuttle shift, F-N-R, and they call it an 8sp. And take a look at the attachment mounts. Rugged! And the drive shaft through the front axle. Blade is beefy as well. Cast iron grille surround too. And the wonderful blue paint job! Guess that's all he had...

Patience is a virtue

I thought at first of going that direction. Then I was thinking maybe built more like a side by side. Everything I drew up just wasn't doing it for me. Then I started digging around in my stash pile for inspiration. This is what followed me into the garage. 1934 Ford truck cowl with a Buick firewall and an early 30s Plymouth grille. That green fender lol well, with some work I think it has potential

Here’s my 1964

Well, at work they bought a 520H and two stage blower in 1988 to clear snow. Where I worked was a chemical plant with a large outside tank farm with walkways between them to get to the pumps and valves. There are also many obstacles such as cement containments, manhole covers etc to hit. The first blower got absolutely destroyed so they bought another new one (of course I brought the old one home even though I did not have a wheel horse YET). Well around 2010 or so they bought a new cub and blower to replace the wheel horse and I brought it home. I restored that one and it's two stage blower (including straightening the frame on the blower that was badly bent). Now, one thing led to another and I now have 4 fully restored 520H's, 1 520HC, 1 312H almost done, and one 17-44 along with many implements. This is old number one in the foreground with my second 520H behind it. This is the herd as of 3 years ago. I will need to get better pictures next summer.

Pushback? Yikes! I find your consistent lube reminders not only refreshing but spot on… keep it up. I follow your advice and have yet to go wrong… These old tractors need all the lube they can get!!!

Finally got this girl up and running. Thinking of hanging the blower on the front of this one for winter duty!

Uhm… I’d be more worried about @ebinmaine gettin’ pushed out in the snow…

I really hope I'm not here for that. Since I was 10 yrs old I couldn't wait to own my own car. Bought my first one when I was 14, a '73 Malibu and had it ready to go the day I got my license. I could not imagine not owning my own car or truck.

@Snoopy11 no not depressed , but the push back I get on a lubrication recommendation is not hyper boil , and it seams to irritate people . often think , why bother?. after almost 40 years with horses , think i have an idea of what works . every time i see a rusty neglected anything , i marvel how you can do that. but that grease is the best that i have ever used , it stands up to anything , so why not ? pete

Since there’s no activity on the tractor front, this thread is now an infomercial for coffee makers… Squirrel!!!

For me, it's the excitement of messing with something mechanical or electronic and making it functional or just better. That, and my Dad's only talent in this area was adding STP to the Ford or spraying wire drier on the Rambler after a rain storm in northern NJ. How could his own son have a talent? Anyway, fix your ten speed and don't tell Dad. He did become a believer when I rebuilt the old 2HP Briggs in shop at 14, though. So, in fixing most of our church members' mechanical things, Homer asked if I could look at a weed trimmer and we became friends. An old WWII vet from the Pacific, he was on the 2nd Lex and patrolled Japan after the war. Took a long time to get to those stories. Like many Southerners, his possessions were here and there in the backyard and an '80 C-125 was just rotting in plain sight with its 42RD sinking in the sand. A come-along got it on the trailer and that started my love affair with the Wheel Horse. Easily assembled and repaired, bullet-proof power. I got into the engine, trans and everything else on that machine. Homer's back in his native Missouri now (their old WH dealership didn't survive that old tornado of some years ago) and I miss him. The C continues to run strong but it's 'no more balance gears' this winter - looking forward to it.

Seems that this was the weekend for Milling Machines! I finally finished my sprocket & roller chain counterbalance. This is on top of a large tabletop milling machine where there is no movable knee to raise and lower the table; instead the head itself travels up and down on dovetails of the fixed column - total travel is about 12 inches. I wanted to make it easier to lift the head - it has an acme leadscrew and nut. The counterweight is a cut down actual elevator weight, now weighs 41 pounds. Had the room to add an Oilcup with an extension tube over the leadscrew - used a 1/4" brass twisted tube brush as a wick to slow the exit of the oil. The proof is in the before and after torque numbers this device cut the force to lift by 2/3rds - from 60 inch pounds to now 20 inch pounds - the down torque was cut by half, from 10 inch pounds to 5 inch pounds. Added the two clear Lexan angles this morning to keep the chain free of debris. Bill

This is a bit of a long story but I have to tell it. Back in June at the big show I ran into a woman who I recognized but wasn’t exactly sure if it was her. She was selling a few items so I stopped to talk to her. As we were talking she said “Aren’t you Don, from Long Island?” And I said “Aren’t you Pam from Ohio?” We both were happy to meet again after many years. I first met Pam and her husband Mark at the first Wheel Horse show I attended, which was the second or third show. Mark’s C-125 that he restored inspired me to do my future restorations. When I asked Pam where Mark was she very sadly informed me that he passed away in December. Mark and I had become good friends at the show and I couldn’t wait to see him each year. He was the kind of guy that was a genuinely nice person. I was truly saddened by this news. In 2006 Mark came to the show with a 420-LSE that had 2 yes 2 hours on it. It was pristine and I was jealous! That year Cecil Pond was there and signed it for Mark. So after talking with Pam for a while I asked her about the LSE, she told me that she still had it. She also informed me that it wasn’t really for sale but she would consider selling it to me because she wanted it to go to a good home. Pam told me what she’d like to have for it and I agreed that was a fair price, however I didn’t have that kind of money at the time. She graciously said that she would hang on to it and not sell it to anyone else until I came up with the money.Four months later my wife and I made the trip to Ohio. We made a road trip/vacation out of it driving over 1900 miles round trip in seven days stopping at many beautiful places along the way.I must admit Pam and I were both a little emotional as I loaded up the tractor. So Mark Klingler I sincerely hope that you are looking down and are happy with what has transpired. Your beautiful tractor is in good hands and I promise to cherish it as much as you did for years to come.God bless. Thank you folks for reading this story.

You ever quit coming up with nanby panby excuses not to make it to the BS Plunge you would see his fine collection. You in a hospital bed EB and I is gonna come wheel yer butt out, stuff you in a trailer and make sure you get ther! I think this was the year Don was telling Madge @AMC RULESto stuff his offer for a tractor and Denny @dclarke had to step in??? ..

Don't feel bad , a lot of us have said and done the same thing !!

MONEY!!! to those who don't like it... I will go out and lube my spindles just for the hell of it now. Don

My thoughts on batteries all come down to how long you can use them before recharging. Cars & trucks for instance are generally set up to get you 300 miles on a tank of fuel, then you refuel and you are on the road again. Electric cars & trucks have an average range of 300 miles, then you have to wait x-hrs to recharge. For normal back & forth to work electric does not sound like a bad deal, but if I want to travel cross country with an electric vehicle this would add significant time to get to a destination. I don't think that I would have an issue with electric lawn & garden equipment. EGO already offers a zero turn that will mow 2 acres on one charge. ( Honestly, I wouldn't want to mow much more than that anyway ) Their walk behind electric scow blower says it will do 18 one car driveways on a charge. Not sure what that equates to in run time. Unlike road travel, a person can have the luxury of multiple batteries at your disposal at home so your down time could be cut to a minimum. Electric motors also surpass gas engines when it comes to torque.

At 73, I don't think I'll have to quit using my wheel horses...

I’ll grab some coffee, in case I need to stay up for the ending!

Maybe done by Christmas. Not saying which Christmas though.

@JCM Thank you for your kind words, as far as the blade deck goes no I didn’t get one with it. However I did get everything else, the cover, key tag, leather pouch and all the paper work that could possibly come with it, even the original hang tags. I’d love to come up to Maine next year, might have to bring these three along with the LSE!

Definitely a first world problem....

There’s a site somewhere that covers old Disston saws and their relative rareness/value. Those are pretty rough, but If the blades are flat they can prolly be cleaned up, sharpened and made serviceable (If you have the time/inclination). Now, you might need that special vise… I would guess they’re worth $5 each at the flea as is even if they’re nothing special. Or you can spend hours painting some hokey bumpkin scene on them and double the price! 🤪

Two thoughts: 1. Post a want add for another tank. Either use it or sacrifice for material. 2. Shave some material off the neck or other area as mentioned above. Melt it dripping onto crack. Seal with soldering tip…

Battery capacity and especially charge time, will rather soon be a thing of the past. It just depends on how fast the manufacturers can get the newest tech down in price, and out to the masses. The instant charge batteries are already here. EU car makers will rather soon offer road cars that can charge just as fast as you can feed them. Solid state batteries. Doubt US car makers will be far behind that. Only thing missing is the charging infrastructure. The rest of the tech is in place now, or at least so far ahead that they don't call it testing any more. So for cars and trucks etc. we will soon see a fundamental change. 10-15 years from now, I doubt I can buy a new family car with combustion engine in any form at all. And the ones that are still on the roads then, might get taxed a lot heavier to get them scrapped sooner than later. And about charge time now already. You are down to app. 20 minutes to put 200-250 more miles in the battery of a tesla (and similar) cars if you go to the right charge points. Honestly, I don't mind taking a wizz and refuel my self each stretch like that. Might actually be just a tad beneficial. For GT's, yes it will come along too. Many manufacturers have models already. Also cheaper (ish) box store offers. For the vintage stuff, I do not see them shutting it down. It is part of history just like classic cars etc. Fuel might get expensive, and harder to come by over time, but I do believe we can keep our hobby for the foreseeable future. Just my on this.

This is one other issue that the car manufacturers could really address. Standardized charging stations. Currently you can not charge your Ford at a Tesla station or vise versa. So far every company is using different hook ups. Although I'm sure that aftermarket companies will catch on and start setting up universal charging stations.

I recently went with Dewalt’s 20 volt line for push mower, blower, weed whip, shrub trimmer and chain saw. Batteries all interchangeable. While not 2 stroke power, I am very impressed with them… Not buying into the “green “ thing, as electricity and batteries are anything but green. However, at my location, noise reduction, no exhaust and no gas / oil are absolute advantages… I think we will see increasing use of battery powered LG equipment that will only improve with technology advances… side by side with continued advances in gas and diesel small engines as well… My new to me E 141 is initially very impressive… lots of torque and quiet… perfect for pulling my train (I think)… but I will need to replace / upgrade 3 - 6 batteries in future… we’ll see how that goes… you can run an awful lot of gas through a 8-10 hp Kohler for the price of 3-6 batteries…

Wait, what about one of the herd with a cab, heat, and a pulley swap for some speed? Park between the lines and the adjacent doors can't even reach!

No issue with the steering Pete. My 175 is all clean and lubed up well, it's just that it's not as easy as the 125. The 175 has turf tires. The 125 has tri-ribs and they have a much smaller contact patch and steer much easier. But yes, you are correct! I'll be going over every inch with grease and oil in hand! @Snoopy11

Yah I'd figure I wait a couple of decades before chiming in again... maybe a bolt get a nut by then....

Those parts were originally found in the woods. Separate places though. Years ago a bunch of us guys would seek out old forgotten junkyards and trash heeps. Most of the leeds were rumors or 3rd party info. Some were there some weren't. We did find some cool stuff along the way. 1930 Willys sedan, a 1931 REO coupe, 1932 Ford roadster,1930 Chevy coupe and sedan,and a 1934 Ford truck We found enough stuff over time to each build streetrods.

Yesterday I picked up a Bolens G10 from @bizon He gave me some nice old Wheel Horse paper work he had laying around. Went trough it today. I did found a part number for a vinyl tractor cover 110831, Haven't seen one on here tho, does anyone have one? Would love to see one. Also found out the dealer recommended 5w20 or 5w30, which seems a bit strange for a full-time mowing machine in a country we rarely see temperatures below 20°f, when we obviously don't have to mow. Also quite neet is this document from 1987 stating the tractor is noise compliant. drawn up in Oevel. I do know now as well, the most mowing decks are slightly overdriven 3693 rpm I happy with these, which are very rare around here.

Oh YES he does!!!! A. She respects equipment way too much to ever think about that. B. As of this past weekend I now have FOUR C160s. Certainly worth delaying the rest of world a bit more....

I love using the mid-mount grader blade on my C-160 Hydro. Take it easy on the down pressure and give it little tiny hydraulic bumps down. You can quickly anchor the tractor with the blade if your not careful. But with a little practice you'll get the hang of it and can do a lot of work with it.

I ordered new transmission bearings for my 607. I also carved a wicked awesome pumpkin with the Wheel Horse logo silhouetted. Unfortunately I cannot upload the photos right now. Happy Halloween.

I believe the term you were looking for is S.E.G. $h1t eatin' grin.

Next was bigger tires. Only on front at the moment. I had a few extra Wheel Horse rims kicking around so that is what I'm going to use. Ditched the cart 4 lug hubs and swapped to 5 lug trailer hubs. The old spindle was cut off. Then I drilled a 1" hole in the back of the steering knuckle to except the spindle end with was also turned to 1" Welded front and back.

Now I'm going to ask the real question: @c-series don, when you sit on it, are you wearing new hospital booties, gloves and a Tyvek suite? Just sayin' is all.

I had one that I just sold recently. I am 6'5" 275 and I found that with the deck on wasn't very easy to get on and off of it. When on it, not very comfortable. Mine had the tecumseh engine that did start easy, both pull start and electric start. Run great but just wasn't a keeper for me. Que up some Circus music when viewing the last photo.

The future of the 2 417As is yet undetermined. They'll be here for a bit at least. The 2 C160s are mine. The '75 Auto will likely be the plow beast for this winter. Jim and I both drove it around the yard a minute or 3 today after some maintenance was done to get it running. I drained the old gas, changed the fuel line. Added a fuel filter. Cleaned the points. Changed the sparking plug. Removed and cleaned the fuel bowl which was right full of muck. Removed the air filter and left it off. Filthy! Someone had bypassed the fuel pump. Fixed that. The brake pedal was able to slide down beside the safety switch. Adjusted that. I used the @wallfish method of blow in tank to prime fuel. It started up and rumbled right to life. Here's the gas. Delicious fuel bowl contents

They make great tractors for the littles. The red one belongs to my grandsons and I’m working on one for my granddaughters now.

Colossus ain't a town my Horse train drivin' friend. It's a state of mind.

With battery power, automated equipment will grow in popularity as well. The farming industry is already looking further and further into that future.

875 with the plow blade.