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got some photos of me and my buddy’s tractors today @danweikert21 @857lover2 dans 1970 raider 10 and his 1972 raider 10 and my 1967 857 and my 1967 1267

I didn’t actually do this today but I love it so here goes. After adding a loader to my 312 H I was having a terrible time working the bucket while shifting forward and reverse with my right hand, while also attempting to steer. I picked up an old brake and a clutch pedal on eBay, cut and brazed them together and installed them on the existing shaft under the right floorboard. I then fabricated (bent) a linkage rod that connects to the original linkage under the floor in front of the seat. Lastly I ground out the notch in the plate under the dash that causes you to have to lift the shift lever to shift to forward or revers. I have now have full foot control or can still use the hand lever if desired. Cost about 40 bucks and works flawlessly.

Repaired the outside patio furniture he built. Weather had taken a toll on many parts. Repaired also numerous things around house. He had not done anything in years. Kind of lost his enthusiasm for it. I cleaned all of his tools and sharpened everything. This way it looks like he just left shop a few minutes ago.

It’s to make us feel stupid, apparently

Been doing a little tinkering this week. The pullies that I took apart earlier now have some new paint, bearings, and have been put back together. Allen head 8-32 bolts fit nicely in the groove of the pulley. Had to grind 2 sides of the nuts down so they would fit in the groove. A little red Loctite ensures that they will not come loose. The new paint on the fan shroud is was dry enough to add the finishing touches. A little hand lettering and the decal makes it almost complete. Still need to rivet name plate on.

Air powered toe nail trimmer. There's a turbine cutting wheel inside the device that spins and trims the nails down to just the right length.

Optional would be “ok” living in the south, up by us—NOT SO MUCH! Better be traveling with some blankets if you don’t have a heater in the northern part of the country. It is funny what we deem necessities on modern vehicles. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately but here is some pics of just a few cars I’ve spotted along the trail… a ‘68 in Texas City A ‘69 in Berlin, Germany An East German Trabant…also in Berlin, Germany Caddy in the Fort Worth Stockyards Awesome Blue Oval by in our hometown—oshkosh Caleb and I at MCACN with Arnie Beswicks daughters clone Judge behind us! My baby girl with her bestie’s and the Ol’ Goat I brought her home with the day after she was born! (On her 15th birthday last fall!) time flys guys-doesn’t it🤔😅

I did some un-modifying this morning. Casper is back to being good ole Casper. No more snow blowers, winches, or push button steering. I think all that extra weight was kind-a hampering his flying anyway, and the Lawn Boy snow blowers are happy just being snow blowers again.

This is a variable-diameter pulley that @JPWH found and was willing to part with (big thank you!) to give me a hand on my 854 refurb. I'm posting it in a separate topic because, frankly, it just so cool! It is cast steel and nicely finished on all sides with one wall of the pulley fixed to the hub and the other wall threaded onto the hub. A dogpoint set screw secures the fixed-side hub to the shaft. A separate dogpoint setscrew secures the threaded-side to one of the two flats on the threaded hub. The bore is ⅝" with a keyway which matches the input shaft on the 5060 and newer transmissions perfectly. Outer diameter is 4" and and as you can see in the first image, with the movable side turned in tightly against the fixed side, it leaves a 4L belt about ⅛" proud of the pulley--effectively a 4.125" pulley. With the movable side turned away from the fixed side and flush with the outer end of the hub, The belt drops 0.5" lower into the groove, making it a 3.125" pulley. The threading range covers four full revolutions so the pulley diameter adjusts in eighths of an inch. Factory for the 854 input pulley was a 4" but I'll initially set this for 3.5" to get a slight speedup (about 12%) since the 5060 being swapped in is a six speed. Ideally, I can get a compromise belt length that works well at that pulley diameter but still operates ok across its full range. The pulley adjusts with a simple hex wrench and the pulley doesn't have to come off the tractor to be adjusted as long as the belt has a bit of slack.

I've been using sealed front axle bearings for my non-workers for some time now to avoid the grease mess. About 3 years ago I switched my workers to sealed and it's working out very well. The 854 I purchased at the 2018 big show still had the regular sealed on one side only. I was given a pair of 23-8.50's for it and the past few days I got them repainted and ready to go on. Then I decided to pull the fronts and repaint them as well as replace the bearings to fully sealed. My bearing stash was depleted so I looked for more and came across these. They are promoted as lasting 'twice as long' as standard bearings. Note the steel seals. I had never seen these before so I decided to give them a shot. The 854 with the sickle mower won't get the mileage as the other workers so I suspect they will be just fine.

How do you play BINGO with that thingy?

Every year over the age of 60 add 5 pounds.😀

Does anyone have pictures of what one of your WH's looked like when you brought it home compared to what it looks like now ? Under the Side Shot Saturday thread on post # 1481 and 1483 I mentioned about almost driving past a 418-A when I saw it thinking it was a bit rough. It is by no means a mint one owner machine but has cleaned up fairly nice and does what a wheel horse is supposed to do, work without complaining, and it does just that.

Didn’t do anything but use it. Rented a stump grinder for the weekend with the 414-8 as an assistant A pile of sawdust builds up between the stump and stump grinder. Back stump grinder up, hop on wheelhorse and push it out the way. Beats shoveling. This grinder is pretty much brand new, only 28 hrs. 37hp briggs vanguard Have 30 some stumps to do

A top dead center finder. When it stops whistling, the piston is at TDC.

I frink yer ontah somepin… or just on something.

I think the internet is wrong Ed! I'm sure it was Lincoln! The statement below is true, The statement above is false.

We started to weld up the hub on the commando!

All in all you do not see many 1267 out there. May be twenty years a go. I think if you clean it real well and see where you are at. Then decide if you would like to keep it or send it down the road. Nothing like a Start/Gen 12 hp. I had two 1257 one time. This is when I was painting them a pain in the a>> doing that. Nice tractors.

If you end up replacing seals DO NOT use a 3 jaw puller on the hubs. They are brittle cast steel. Search for Hub Pullers on here and you will see several ideas.

My dad had a Coronet with a 426 hemi. He always said that it would pass any thing but a gas station. Wish that I could remember riding in that car, think my age was in the single digits at that time.

Stopped by Walmart and got some LED taillights for the WorkHorse and by Lowes for some anti-skid stair tape for the floorboards… Used the old rubber from my 1994 520H floorboards and traced out the pattern… cut them out, and stuck them on… Also put on a few more decals…

Really???

It's an air powered defroogulator for the flovinosis mohovigeester.

We been out playin' in the mud. 😂😂😂. Worked on the pond and stream. Placed a pallet bridge. Didn't set right so we moved it. Much more bettererer. Getting the fire 🔥🔥 piles ready. Small pile we'll be adding to just behind the BBT. Big pile we're touching off. BBT for scale size.

Yeahhh internet is Back. Few day’s earlier an idiot on an excavator 2 valley’s ahead has ripped the complete fibre wire whilst digging the wrong depth - the result 4 Valley‘s without internet for a few day‘s. Ob boy... however, i do some Garden cleanups began with the cutting of several brances and 2 little trees. with the help of 3 useful machines... the Beast with the FEL to secure the Brances i cut The Chainsaw to cut and my Wheelhorse to do the main job - clean up. yes, it could also be done with the Beast, but riding with the Wheelhorse give me simply much more Fun. doing several rides to the dump.. aaand reload... after that, i cleaned the backyard. all lumbers and branches from the winterstorms must be removed. 8 rides to the dumpplace today. a great Wheelhorse day after a snowless winter this year. at least i egalized the molehills with an idea i use my snowplow and my selfmade back rake as a perfect combo. if anybody needs a good idea to egalize molehills, i be absolutely satisfied with the result. Take yourself a closer look in the picture if you see where the molehills was before. What a great Day.

Casper after his un-modifications. The 125. Still waiting on my welder guy. Must have pizzed him off somehow.

Welcome to the forum. Remove the 2 bolts holding that bearing/gear to the deck on the right side. Loosen the 2 bolts holding that bearing/gear to the deck on the left side. That will allow you to lift the gear on the right side enough to slip the belts in and out.

My plan is to size the belt for best operation at around the mid-point of adjustment -- 3½" diameter -- and then see how it does at the limits. A lot depends on the clutch pulley range to adapt without hitting the inside of the belt guard when engaged and being able to stop the belt when disengaged. Standard belt is 70" with the 4" pulley. At 3" it should be a 68.5" belt. I'm gonna try a 69" and see how it goes across the adjustment range. I'll be sure to post what I find out! Stock top speed is 5.5 mph. A 3" pulley is a 25% boost to a head-snapping 6.875!

Caught in the act..... 'Side do it right and it won't have to come apart for another 50 years..... I'll be dead....

They should work well Bob. We ain't runnin the Indy 500 with these tractors.

And I always thought it was short for Okey-Dokey.

You could download the manuals for both here on this site and check the part numbers for the lift assemblies - if both the same, you are good to go...

If I saw one, and had never seen one before, I would probably think it was adjustable for different width belts, and the speed aspect/ changing the diameter of where the belt rides, would have flown right by me… until I adjusted it and the tractor took off like a rocket…

This will be the 5th summer on my sons 313-42” deck that we used POR on. He had a fair grassy yard with not much sand dirt to blast the deck. Some have not had good success with POR but I really thing all coatings depend on what type yard you have

Hello, from the Pottstown/Gilbertsville area! Just came across this forum while trying to find any information on Mast Mower Service. I do not own any Wheel Horses, but have a Deere, Simplicity/Deutz, and Cub garden tractor collection. I hopped on here and created an account to try to answer some dealership questions, as I am very interested about local SE, PA Dealerships. To reply to your comment, Mast Mower Service was put up for sale around 1985, and the owner retired around 1989. He passed away pretty recently, within the past 10 years or so. They were located at 1066 Memorial HWY, Oley Pa. For quick reference, it was near the Weis in Oley, or the 662 and Freidensburg RD intersection. They were also a Polaris dealer. Guess they'd be the competitor/different offering for garden tractors in the Oley area, alongside CJ Wonsidler's and Pikeville Equipment. Miller's Lawnmower's Service in Mohrsville is still open, and still has the WH sign on their website: https://www.millerslawnmowerservice.com/ When I initially read this post, that name looked familiar; turns out my friend's Toro made 416H was originally sold from there. Hope this answers some questions for you! I enjoyed answering them, and thank you for posting this discussion! -Joseph

Otherwise known as Mongo the test mule gets a new option Anyone who has an electric PTO knows how abruptly they engage. I read about a "soft start" option somewhere and decided to give it a try. The module wasn't exactly cheep. But I found one on eBay for around $45 and ordered it up. I got the one for gas engines, 31123000. It was really easy to install, took about 30 min. I had to make 3 new wires and I tucked the module in behind the battery. I'm really happy with the results. It makes a huge difference when the PTO is engaged. Pretty close to a regular PTO clutch IMO

Pretty clean fab work and installation …. Picturess with measurements would be appreciated .

Ya just burst my bubble Mike. I had plans....................

Had a very special delivery at work today...was planning on picking up this engine tomorrow...but Steve messaged me this morning saying he wanted to get out of the house for a bit and would just bring it down to me today...he also brought me a pair of original Maytag script spark plugs for the twins as well.

Now you got Waylon Jennings stuck in my head man 😂

I've never has to use any gasket cement... just put the gasket on dry. Your discretion though...

I think it was in 1973 that the Attach-A-Matic system started. @gwest_ca probably knows for sure.

As well has the heater.

Ut-oh… page 40, and a FEW pages back I made a prediction that I would finish the Work Horse in 50 pages. Tonight after work I bolted on the floorboards, the center console panel where the shifters are, belt guard, and left side panel. I laid the seat pan/ rear fender in place to see how the holes were lining up… off a little, but a scratch awl down through the bolt holes will line it all up. Some of the holes are slightly slotted from the factory for this reason I reckon. Tomorrow hopefully I will pick up some LED taillights from Walmart, and some stair tread grip stuff from Lowes and get that done.

The last two pieces tacked up and fitted. Even tried the top center link to get an idea for the height of the 3 point to sleeve adapter. Now to make some more bushings and pins and final welding.

The one I had needed a CPAP machine for apnea! It was a friends Grandma's car. It was loaded... they bought it with a heavy duty towing package. They used to pull a camper trailer with it. I hadda rebuild the trans. But she did git up and scat! Not like your Hemi of course... but goodenfastenough for me at the time!