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Organizing picks today Just thought I would post BLAST FROM THE PAST. 1st. 1057 This motor was smoothest running engine I ever owned. 2nd was a hard find mission complete 607.This being I owned all of Manual 1967 models. 7th was my hot rod 1257 very nice tractor. I hope you enjoyed the picks.

My son ( @WH1618speed ) restored this 418-A that he picked up at the 2021 WH show. After he sold the mower deck off of it, he had $150 invested in the tractor. This is the first time it has seen any real work since the restoration paired to a single-stage snowblower. Thad (Ohio)

Perhaps one of these is in order?

Off Topic Sowwy ! (my emojis are not working) I bought a backup camera from Amazon. Didn't work. Contacted the manufacturer, and they sent another. It's all good. Nope! That one didn't work either, after a week. They sent another. THAT one worked. I left a somewhat bad review on Amazon. The manufacturer contacted me, saying if I removed my review, they would send a FREE upgrade. Well, they did resolve the problem, so I removed it. They sent an upgraded camera......Then they sent another replacement camera for the one that didn't work. Then they sent another upgraded camera. At this rate, I can put them on my Horses !

2 Black Hood Eight speeds with plows here… respectfully disagree with the hydro crowd… gears work great on Michigan’s snow!!! And look at my arms!!!

Originally it was a 1077 , now it’s has a 12hp K301 in it. Mason and I brought it back to life and now we are taking it apart to clean it up . We took the battery tray and the dashboard out to sandblast them. It’s giving us something to do during the day since we both tested positive for Covid and are quarantining together.

having played this game , use the near by support racking at your local T/S as a belt stretch verification to your old belt size fit. a lot of the belts on the rack are incorrectly sleeved . find a solid pipe end point , and match up old / new belts . doing the belt over belt stretch on a pipe pull , my belt replacements have been exact with no issues , pete

Been busy with life in general but started “digging “ into it again. In need of a little therapy, and this is it.

Thanks Kevin. We are through the worst of it now. He brought Covid home from school last Thursday and I was lucky enough to catch it too. Now we just have cold symptoms. We are grateful to have this to work on. It’s like therapy, it helps the healing.

Nephew bought a truck with a lift. I asked him if they knocked any money off because it had a lift kit. Why he asked? More maintenance, less fuel mileage, less towing capacity, gotta lift everything up further to get it in the truck, etc. Truck was useless to me, was my answer. Plus the only time it will ever go off road is when it's parked in a gravel driveway.

Back in my High School days if we wanted a few days off, It was common to just allow our facial hair to grow....automatic 2 day suspension. This happened quite often during deer season. BTW, the entire school district was closed for the first day of deer season.

I know it’s challenging to take pictures of animals… so y’all will have to read words instead. I just caught Lynx cleaning his undercarriage, with all his front weight bearing in the once broken leg. He still has a limp, but is getting around just fine inside, outside, etc. Ok, here’s a picture of him resting anyway. He’s got a rough life.

Just hope it lets go close to the barn and not on the other side of the moon.

Not bad with no weights...

Impossible to turn with my neck limited to +- 10 degrees. I need big mirrors.

Thanks. I’m good. I didn’t even know I had it. She must be feeling better. I got the look when I asked her where I could put the plate in the house. 😎

The wife and I had Covid so I have been chilling at the house. Had some plates and decided to mess around. Came out alright I guess….

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AOaemvLBXesS5DJbSsA6D67q_z5UvJSS-w:1642688344485&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=mirror+for+lawn+tractor&fir=z8jcfeWhYZmWjM%2CqRRihlPWKXywOM%2C_%3B6CqlvwEcToYD , just looking for rear mirror , placement ideas , got me here , my road plowing , could use an extra eye , pete

Worse I did was glue a quarter to the floor of the cafeteria and connect a 10,000 volt transformer to it.

Another thing to consider is mounting the camera where you can see the hitch and be able to drop right on the ball when hooking up. Sure does beat jumping in and out 10 times to see you are a mile off.

its amazing on any full or even partial restore - - or for that matter just a repaint of the wheel rims, can change the look of a horse -- the difference of rusted rims then to nice painted rims makes huge appearance look improvement

Ya or took a dip of snuff. Not kill people! Bob

Do not use those tools. Belts do not stretch. The sides wear down giving the false impression that the belt is longer. If you measure a belt with one of those stretchy thingys and the sides are worn down, you will get a measurement longer than the belt was when it was new. Those tools will get you in the ball park but that's it. A 1/2" wide belt could be worn to 3/8" and you would never know it. Mark the outside of the belt with chalk. Use a tape measure for the O.D. Use your best judgement of what the width should be.

Murphy's Law states that it will croak as far from the barn as possible

All I use is NAPA filters...

I got an ignition switch from @76c12091520h Brian Badman. Because it's a change from OE and my custom wiring harness I modified the schematic diagram BBT had printed out for us the other day. Finished up the wire installation using a 5 prong replacement holder @953 nut had mentioned awhile back. One of the ingenious PO modifications was to drill the original switch hole way too big instead of finding the correct switch. I found a couple thin washers and drilled them out a bit so they would hold the new switch snugly. New switch is set right in nice and happy with a keychain from @wheelhorseman Lowell at Wheelhorse Parts and More. Last known thing to do is make up a wiring harness for some nice LED lights and mount those in pre-existing holes.

Let her go til she blows is our motto Sylvia. ... then bust out the rosebud and some coat hanger wire and stich her back up...

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Red - You gotta pay a visit to that little town in Wisconsin, what is it @WHX??, @Achto and @Pullstart??? Oh yeah… OSHO… that’s it - OSHA, Wisconsin… Good curds I hear… plenty of hospital beds and physical rehab centers…

I called the local radio station, told them I was the principal, and school would be closed on account of snow. Hardly anyone showed up. The real principal was really ticked. I was 15. Didn't tell my best friend until we graduated...

Want to give a big THANK YOU to @Jeff-C175 ! I was needing some help with the wiring on the Work Horse and he really came through ! He sent me a Parts and Service Manual, as well as a color coded wiring diagram. So in my typical, not quite, but almost anal fashion; I had to go to OfficeMax and print it off, put the pages in sheet protectors, and put it in a binder. Thanks again Jeff !… so now it’s time to take the wiring harness back out, make a few changes as far as wiring in for tail lights, and rerouting the harness as it shows in the manual.

She went another 2 hours this morning...runs nice. Might need to drop the float a hair, sputters over bumps...but she runs nice

I wouldn't do anything not reversible till I got to the root of the issue.

my guess is the rod isn’t seated in the block.

Never got any time off, but a trick from my grade school days in the '50s. Our one room (all eight grades) school had an old coal fired Hetrola located in the center of the room. We older boys were charged with filling the coal buckets and hauling out the ashes. Every year a few .22 cartridges found thier way into the coal. I might add, during trapping season I carried my .22 to school. I wlaked my trapline on the way to school and dispatched coon,opossum, and skunk on the way. This was back in the Applachians in Southern Somerset Co. Pee Aaaa.

I've probably got one of the heaviest plow tractors out of most of us..... And I still spin the wheels on occasion. Of course that's what you get for ice on inclines. On the flat parts of my yard I could get away with next to nothing.

Perfect. I noticed a big difference in noise reduction going to straight 140 but not sure if its helping other than noise. @Crazy_Carl what are you running these days? These Horse trannys are so tough, Im pretty sure someone could run pee in them and theyd live

I graduated in 1969 and can not remember any school shootings or bomb threats anyware during that time. There were pranks done in schools back then but I don't believe they were made with the same intent and severity. Bob

Her boss and a peer at work are all buddies. Two guys and her. They seem to be more of a girl(s) than she most days. They sure spent a lot of time poking fun watching her try to get in her truck without ‘em! She’d park next to a curb whenever possible, etc. that little loop makes a world of difference with us not so tall people!

No more calls folks, we have a Grand Prize winner!! Yup, been there - back in my High School days (68-72), it was a popular occurrence to have someone phone in a bomb threat to avoid a math test. We were the first graduating class from the new High School - moved in in early 1969. Seems we had a rather "talented" individual in our group that would do just that. The new School had a pay phone in the lobby outside of administration - most of those threat calls originated from that phone. One day "Norman" called in a threat, not knowing that the vice Principal was standing right behind him ... he hangs up the phone, gets detained and expelled. Bill

My local TSC has a tool for measuring the belts. Works great!

Got some snow a few days ago and here is her being put to use!! That old Kohler puts out the power!! It's a gas hog though using the snow thrower. Not pictured here, but I put on some 4-link v bar chains on 10.50 tires and that did the job for traction. Next thing to get would be a cab for sure!

I think I may have found a solution to one particular issue. Over the years I’ve spent countless hours searching for various items and not finding them, only to find said item whilst on the hunt for something else. So now if I can’t find what I’m looking for within a few minutes, I pretend to look for a different thing, Naming out loud a ‘Pretend’ item/tool seems to confuse the shop ‘Gremlins’, who delight in hiding things. They then, hide the item I’m ‘pretending’ to search for, and reveal what I actually want! (Perhaps one Gremlin can only hide one thing at a time). For those of you who repeatedly lose multiple items at any given time, Sorry, you could be housing a family of the little ‘Blighters’!😈😈👹 p.s. Of course, I could always put tools back where they belong after using them, but where’s the fun in that? 😃😃

One of my Eatons burps every time I push it around. The case needs a vent... Nevermind the slow oil fill issue.

Thank.... I should have checked the belt all along but since it was fairly new and replaced... I thought nothing of it... until now. Figures. Now the snow can come...

Get a hydro electrics are slow response ...or man up blades aren't that heavy

Hey everyone just finished my Wheel Horse 418-A Project today!!! After long hours and days of working and painting it is done!! I thought it turned out pretty nice it runs great and everything is back to working condition!!