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First one of many to come. I looked a read a few threads on the paint and color others had chosen to go with. I myself found that I liked the Rustoleum Industrial Choice “SAFETY RED”. To me…. It looked like a perfect shade of red. I will attach before and after pics. I also wanted to add that, redoyourhorse.com made finding the decals very simple and easy to Order.

I finally now have the rare tombstone

This picture was taken Thursday and the only picture taken by my camera as the Seniors went for a little ride. Left to right, Taylor from Michigan, Brian from New York, Wild Bill in Richmond VA and Steve from Connecticut. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

I had two of my 314's out for a run today. I also had my B-80 and Spyker spreader out to apply a Scott's Weed and Feed application in the wet grass. Here are some pictures.

Most times a little bit of toe in on a garden tractor will yield best handling results. Race cars get toe out and not much gets even up. If you give yourself 1/8” - 3/16” less distance on the front of the yardstick over the rear, you’ll be golden!

If this is a continuous problem, I would suggest adding a river rock boarder about 3ft or so out around the patio in stead of dirt. some thing similar to this. This would help keep the erosion down.

Also check that with the steering wheel centered that the triangle on the fan gear shaft is stright down. We have found some over the years that were welded off center. This causes them to steer tighter in one direction.

If you really want perfect alinement jack up the front of the tractor paint line down the center of the tire tread and then take a sharp scribe hold it against the wheel and slowly spin the tire to make a thin line the circumference. of the tire. The scribe mark will be your reference for measuring. Check the distance on the front and then on the back, if the back is let's say 1/4 of an inch out turn the tie rods 1/16 of an inch. What you want is to turn only 1/2 the needed measurement to get "0" tow it. For the most part driving on the lawn, dirt or snow the tires will get the wear as driving "at speeds" down an interstate. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

Hello everyone, I'm happy to be a new member here! I just got a very nice 2000 Wheel Horse 314-8 with Kohler Command 14 engine last weekend. I have been checking all the fluids, and getting it serviced. It came with a 48 inch snow plow blade, and a 42 inch mower deck. It seems to have been well taken care of. The only thing so far that I see, it needs a new exhaust gasket which I ordered today. I'm not sure if the hour meter works yet, but it reads 762 hours. I will post pictures soon! John

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yes McKim is in my front yard on a circle atop the highest point in Greencastle. 1884 with a brass telescope. Here is a link to the Observatory which is owned and operated by DePauw University. It is also on the National Register of Historic Places. https://www.depauw.edu/academics/departments-programs/physics-astronomy/mckim-observatory/ If you do a McKim search oN Red Square I think there are some interior photos of the telescope and the time clock mechanism that keeps the telescope aligned to the object you are looking at.

Looks good! I might suggest on your next one, cheap playing cards from the dollar store make for great solutions to deflate your tires, stick the cards between them and the wheels, then paint Much less overspray

Expanding spray foam around the edge, then a gravel border all around held in by those 'plastic polymeric' sands that they sweep into cracks between pavers and wet with a hose. Or, you could probably even sweep dry mortar 'sand mix' into the gravel and wet with a hose. You need to keep the runoff from the patio from pouring over the edges and washing out underneath.

If it’s stored outside, or even inside, check the transmission oil. It should be oil, not milkshake. Check the front end and steering for tightness and if you’re able to run it, check all gears high and low in full throttle. Obviously, engine oil should be full, clean, etc. Verify it starts well WHEN THE ENGINE IS COLD. If it’s hot, that is sometimes a sign they are hiding something. If you can inspect the carb, throttle and choke shafts should be tight in the body but that’s not the end of the world if they are sloppy.

@Dieseltu It is! And I've found that toed OUT tends to make the manchine want to 'wander' first following one tire and then the other. But, the sloppiness in most of the steering mechanisms makes it near impossible to get 'repeatable' measurements. I usually just eyeball the front tires and if they look close to parallel, or slightly toed in, I call it good.

Congrats! Make a mold from it, and start casting replicas!

Vehicle steering comes in two styles - front steer, with the tie rods ahead of the axle like most modern cars - and rear steer, with the tie rods behind the axle. The Wheel Horse tractors are rear steer - forward motion makes the wheels naturally want to toe out and doing so places the tierods in compression, not tension. I agree with the comments above - a "bit" of toe-in at rest is desirable. Grease the new tie rods when you install them. One more note - when all installed, the amount of threads showing on both tie rods should be about equal - you do not want one burried to the bottom of the threads and the other engaged by only 2 threads! You MAY need to index the upper steering shaft gear by one tooth to get the wheel centered and the thread engagement equal... Bill

I’m not too familiar with these vertical shaft rigs, but I’d suggest cracking the gas cap when it stalls and see if you can get it to fire back up. That would mean a plugged vent. Also, it could be the coil gets hot and dies too.

I’m not sure if the IH red is any darker but it’s on!

Decided then to make till for inside till. Doubles available space since most tools such as chisels require only a shallow space.

Definitely going to use the playing cards next time. 😂 everything works and runs like a champ. Mower deck is solid as can be and mows great. Thank you for the comments

Good point... Don, get a few tons of top soil and spread it around the patio so it's 'almost' level with it. Go out about 5-6 feet from the patio and then grade it away to blend with the rest of the property. Like in this random example I found on the web that I've scribbled on: And I'm sure you know how to plant grass seed... not just spread on the ground for birds to eat, but about 1/4" down from the surface.

Looks good!!!

Wherever you have a void. You could also possibly put something like this:

OK, popped up to the dealer. Beautiful machine, very well built and probably too much machine for the job we intend. But if someone else is paying let's do it. It was easy to move around by hand despite being 400kg, it's so well balanced. The salesman said I could try it on a Wheelhorse but at my own risk. He did recommend a quad bike 500cc to pull it no problems. Well he would at 9 grand. Lol I will let you know how things progress if the money is forthcoming.

I learned that replicas from existing castings are generally a bit smaller from the casting cooling. Makes sense!

Today we mowed the main farmhouse lawns, and the parents house next door. It's a huge expanse and the wheelhorse came up to help out the modern ride on that they own. It was quite nice as the farmers wife is Canadian, and it's her parents that live next door. Finally my North American machine mowed a North American lawn! (Kind of!).

It’s not that you CAN’T do it, but it’s not easy. There are surely better machines for the job.

Have a Great Day

That is why the 6 and 8 speed tractors are better suited for tilling - 1st in lo range is a crawl. Also, you only have an 8hp engine - mosy likely underpowered for tilling - a 12, 14, or 16 HP model would be better for the task.

@BrianKoch They sure look good this way, but work much better backwards!

I really didn’t keep any time on it but let’s see. I really only go into shop at about 11AM. Then there is lunch and multiple expresso breaks during which some I sit watching and feeding fish in pond as I sip the expresso. Many times also sitting on my Viking chair answering texts , emails, checking the news and of course checking out Redsquare. I get the mail and occasionally check on the little woman. Many times she also checks on me if she doesn’t hear the usual tap tap. So taking all of that into account looks like one day was deciding sizes , digging out the sapele board ( it had been buried deep for the last 10 years) and preparing all the parts. With exception of ripping and resawing on band saw everything else is always done by hand. Then a little bit on Sunday evening just laying out the dovetails ( always hard deciding how many and how small). Today was all the dovetail cutting ,fitting and assembling. Probably the longest day . So it looks like about two and a half days and countless expressos. I thought they were done but now I am thinking a shallow till inside at least one of the tills to utilize more space. Ahhhh, the joy of unlimited time and no pressure. No restraints on the imagination.Nothing like it.

My opinion, they probably removed the coil from the magneto, left points in place. Ran a wire from th negative side of coil to points, hot wire from switch to other side of coil.I think this way it would fire the engine just like the Kohler setup would. You are using the coil you see instead of the magneto coil.

Decals on, still have some cleanup to do. Many thanks to @Vinylguy for the awesome decals!

I’d suggest having grass grow on fill up to the same plane as the top of the concrete. It shouldn’t be sitting on top of the ground, but rather in.

Happy Happy Sylvia... or Silvia depending on the mood of my spell checker...

Good 'nuff is good 'nuff. Toe in will make you grin, toe out will make you pout...

If you can get grass growing right up to the concrete it should keep it from washing out underneath.

Me in my Birthday suit is a visual none of you needs…!!!

anything you don’t want paint to stick to grease it. It’ll wipe away when finished!

Well the wife said she thought she saw but wasn’t sure if it was him this morning going under the porch. By the time I got dressed to go look under the porch I didn’t see him. Mabey tomorrow

Kevin - I can imagine the change in the exhaust note once the tiller gets a good bite!! Plus, you have low range and 8HP and AG's with weights - the right selection of tilling accessories. Bill

The float valve is not closing when the gas fills the bowl. Could be the float is not pivoting freely on the hinge. Could be the valve is wedged in its bore and not moving freely or the valve pin has dislodged. Could be a bit of debris preventing the valve tip from seating properly. Could be the tab on the float that pushes the valve upward is bent downward and not able to fully close the valve. Check out a few youtube videos on cleaning carburetors for small engines to get a feel for what to look for and how to fix it. Good luck!

For the record, I'd not encountered the "SDS" acronym since it was used for a political movement in the 70's. As @ebinmaine is fond of saying, you folks got me into looking it up and learning something new!

Stopped by the hardware store today and picked up a 100" belt and a 99" belt. These fell between the too short and the too long belts I had in stock. Turns out that the 99" belt is about right for my adaptation of a 42" SD deck to my C-195. Took a couple of tries to get the correct PTO to deck belt routing figured out. I fired it up and engaged the PTO to see if there were any awful noises or explosions. Everything worked as it should. I then proceeded to mow the neighbor's empty lot next to me. The only major issue I had was running out of gas. Yes, I forgot to pull the PTO lever to the off position when I went to get the gas can. This is the first time I've had the opportunity to run the KT19 at full throttle for an extended time. It has a rather nice exhaust note, though replacing the rusted muffler will be a good idea. I am going to have to space the gage wheels on the deck about an inch on each side for them to clear the back wheels to allow the deck to be raised to the full up transport position. I'll guess this is why the smallest deck on the C-195 was a 48".

Were any of their relations on the menu?