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I know how we all like pictures so busted out the six easiest to get to for few pictures! I hope you all enjoy looking at them as much as I do! My wife saw me standing there just staring at them and said I was weird! What’s wrong with her? 😂

Could do a tribute tractor and name it “Roadapple” . Just a thought

Pulled the frame out from under what I believe is a 310-8 to hopefully re-purpose in a c-160 with a broken one. Not sure if it will work, definitely have to engineer a couple things...

I’m progressing on the repower of the 314, I made a mounting plate from a scrap of aluminum I had laying around. It looks like the cub cadet onan engine will fit nicely. I need to make a plate for the thrust bearing and PTO linkage

I bathed the 1045 with the big can of WD-40 and wiped it down today. Looks pretty good but might give it another can. Located a proper seat. Starting to feel like an orphanage or something. I go pick up a 753 pretty soon. Another Michigan tractor staying in Michigan. Pure Michigan baby!

Since the scrapyard was a bust for now I got my son to help me patch the deck. We were trying to fab a piece to fill in when my son pointed at the trashed sd deck next to my garage and said why not cut it outta that? I had given up on the deck because of the butcher welds and rotten pulleys. The spot we needed was actually the only real good part. Oh! I painted the patch with Rustoleum sunrise red. I’ve found it fades to match the factory paint on most of my tractors.

Watching some art happen…

Glad I don't hafta trim that hedge!

Only thing missing is a big slab of brontosaurus ribs.

I picked up this 953 yesterday. It came with a snow plow but was missing the right rear wheel. The PO states he was plowing his garden about 10 years ago when the wheel rusted through from the calcium and fell apart. I have no reason to doubt him because it was still setting at the end of his garden. So, I found this old table top in my lumber pile, drilled a few holes and made a spare wheel. I was able to drag it on the trailer, but the differential was locked. The good left wheel turned OK, but the wooden wheel was turning the opposite direction and sliding. After I got it home, I pulled both wheels and the belt guards off to check the brake and input pulleys to be sure they were free. They were OK. Checked the fluid in the tranny and found about a 1/2 " of a tar like goo. Just enough to glue the gears together and prevent it from rolling. By locking one axle and with a bar, I was able to break the gears loose and get the wheels to turn properly and check that the shifter and all gears were working properly. So my plan was to pull the seat pan so I could pull a bolt on top and fill the tranny with diesel and get it flushed and freed up to roll it off the trailer. Now comes the question....It appears the fenders, seat pan, side plates and gas tank are all one welded assembly. Does this mean everything must be remover including the clutch and brake assemlys and the hydraulic lift pump just to get the seat pan off? I may have to add this to my list of Wheel Horse engineering goofs along with the rubber mounted engines and mounting fuel tanks below the fuel pumps. Thoughts on cutting a section out of the seat pan to remove the fuel tank, then bolt it back on. Oh, @19richie66 and @ebinmaine have officially dubbed this one "FRED".

Me, Trina and her mom got an impressive amount of work done today. Here's another part progress pic. All that brush is off the far edge of the drive basically straight past the hood of my little white Kia. Here's where we stopped for today. That wall o' wood 🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵 Is ALL from today's stacking. Trina and her mom moved some existing piles and stacked 99% of that whole thing. All next year's firewood.

Well today was the 'big day'. First outing with my project at the local harvest-show. It took a lot of late nights but she runs and drives! We had great weather and a great day. Now i'm feet up on the couch, tired but satisfied. This was last night at about 22:45, still lots left to install. All loaded up this morning at 08:00 Parked at the show. Together with some small(er) friends.

Perhaps this is an option... OSHA approval pending...

I’ll gladly tell you how I trim my hedge. A friend of mine has a landscaping business and he does it!! 😂 I have a snowplowing and sanding business so we trade services. This reminds me that it’s overdue for a trim!! Thanks for asking!

Lawn day. Decided to remount the E141 mower deck and try it out. Wow! I like…! Quiet, quick, nice cut… 1/2 hour run time with deck and no issues with batteries… (3 - 12 volt batteries). I’m thinking another 15-30 minutes easy… I had deck listed for sale but nope. Gonna keep it. Although I must say, I like side discharge better… cleaner machine, better clipping dispersal…

Could I submit two pictures on my 3 tractors....??

Nice find, looks better than one 953 you had on that trailer. got to love that wooden wheel, cold be the latest trend in tractor design! You are spot on when it comes to a design goof. The transmission needs to be removed to do anything with it or to remove the gas tank. The pump can stay but the pivot end of the hydraulic lift cylinder makes it a tight squeezer to remove one of the transmission bolts but it is basically four 3/8" bolts, lower belt guide, fuel line and brake rod and you are off to the races. Have to tilt it forward as it is being removed to clear the shift lever.

That's your 27 X 4 X 5/8 12 ply Veneer Model made in the USA by Edog LLC

Pulled a fair sized tree stump outta the way. .....

Here is my B-80 that me and @TonyToro mostly finished building today for the pull tomorrow it’s a kohler CH20 that’s got some work done. We’re guessing it has about 60hp?? (And if you hear a weird noise like something rubbing or something it is a head gasket leak.) IMG_0606.MOV

On the plus side he is wearing shoes and not flip flops !

I really like the 42" RDs for their cut and maneuverability for medium-sized lawns. Several of us have hung a 3-4" flap on the rear edge of the 42 RD, trimmed to miss the rear wheels, of course. I used cove base from the HD. It really settles the discharge down nicely and keeps the rear of the machine a lot tidier.

I put the wheels back. With the transmission freed up, she rolled of the trailer with ease. After raising her up I could get the bolt out that clamped the rear lift cable. I was able to pump the tranny full of diesel thru that hole. No need to remove the tranny or seat pan. The right axle seal and the input pully seals are leaking. Looks like the dreaded hub removal is next.

You know @Horse Newbie... Dave talks about how he "fell into the couch" Here's what really happened... HIS WIFE! After... he talked about buying another tractor... Don

Working on this pile again today.

Yab A Dabba Do!

S'Mattah wit' her??!!?? 🤪 Excellent pics Don! Thanks!

Now I'm honngryy

If the parts pile pictured above is the supposed 310-8 I'd say that's... Not a 310. Looks like a mid 70s B or C. The ID tag is circled in blue. Unless maybe that's the parts of the C160 setting on that pallet. ...?

OK, I didn't even consider that. Guess I bolt the wheels back on, drag it in the shop, and pull the transmission. But that one had 4 wheels Richard. Should I bring this one to the 2023 show for you?

Soon as I saw that wheel I went right to the Flintstones. Then I see @19richie66's response.

I finally fixed a small failure from 3 months ago so I celebrated with Photo Friday.

I would start over and make a new harness. When i make one, I add multiple ground wires, designate a common ground on the tractor, near the battery, there should be one already there on the right hand side that connect to the battery. I run an extra cable from there directly to the engine block. Then from your common ground again a smaller gauge wire to the starter solenoid. Then another to the body of the voltage regulator. Never have had a problem.

I'm with Jeff. If you start "acting your age" you're going to get old quicker so then you'll be acting like a 90 year old lady a lot sooner! Hope you feel better!

No... don't do that! Just learn to listen to that 'inner voice' that you always hear just prior to hurting yourself! Heal well my friend!

Big Bud replica. Yanmar turbo diesel

Anticipate a LONG wait! Well, it it WAS a WH, it probably wouldn't go wrong!

I agree with Rob. Buy the nice lady her own ride. My Trina's really a VERY unusual personality for a female girl woman. It's legitimately possible she likes workin' with tractors more than me. She owns 3 of her own. She's done 3 full restorations too. (2 hers, 1 mine) Holds true here too so that doesn't hurt. 🤪

I replaced the steering wheel / fan gear mount on my Wheel Horse SK-486 today. The old mount had wallowed out horizontally over time creating slack in the steering wheel. The new mount cuts out about two inches of left-right play. I would never have guessed that little bit of wear would account for so much play!

Yesterday I finished assembling a mower deck for the 854. It's an amalgam of parts mostly from an RM-367 but with some from a couple of RM-366's in there, as well. (Next week I'll be going through the leftover parts to see if I just stock the good ones or if I have enough to consider building a backup deck.) This morning I got it mounted and took it for a test spin on the dried grassy plain that used to be the front lawn. No loud noises, no parts thrown, no vibrations, belts are tracking smoothly and not getting thrown when engaging/disengaging the PTO, and, it cuts. I'm very pleased! I do have one question for those of you using one of these decks. I don't have any belt retainers anywhere. Should I, and where? The OM/IPL describes one on the engine (I suspect it uses the same bolt that holds the front of the drive belt guard. In pictures here on the forum, I've seen another that seems to be attached to the idler pulley, but I don't see a way to do that without messing with its alignment. I know its a detail and it seems to be working well now, but I'd like it to stay that way! And, to you sharp-eyed folks: yes, there is a six-speed LSD in this tractor, and yes, the hood is bare metal right now about to be painted!

Another quick tinkering that has been added to the store.. pole standoffs to alow ridgid mounting of a Starlink dish! Mounting in this fashion is much more ridgid and secure than utilizing some sort of adapter that goes on top of the pole. An adapter in that fashion just provides a weak point.(speaking from years of tower work experience) These are easy peasy to install and just use hose clamps.(i cover hoseclamps with electrical tape to secure the tails for safety)

I'd name it Woody

That's a 1977 or older frame for a B or C series tractor It's the right frame for a C-160. All C series 1978 and later, also the 300 400 and 500 have a senos set of 3/4" bars right in front of the rear wheels.

When I run into a mess like that, I usually tear it all out and start from scratch with diagram as guide. Saves a lot of time and guessing.

Quite the find there Ed. Excellent work on that "wheel". I'd have done something far more difficult and costly instead of so simple.

Well… Hank Bob Ted Perhaps… @Ed Kennell what’s the make and model of that right rear tire? I’m thinking some skinny’s for a future build and those… well, they are just perfect…

You NC boys know your big wheels. Searching for a name for this one. Peg Leg Limpy The Flintstone Falcon

Mines all the way left.