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At the Florida Flywheelers Show tractor Parade this picture is a true classic as it shows Charlie Culley the President of the Wheel Horse Collectors Club with Brandon Pfeiffer of Lawn and Garden Collector Magazine on my 854 ... uh and me on my 500 SPECIAL. But what I'm I doing .... well it's a Tecumseh power tractor so I have to adjust the carburetor as I drive along! Wild Bill in Richmond VA

I put a jack stand up under the front axle to raise the front up high and then cover the stand with leaves and since there's always a skeleton in my closet, he takes the 753 with his trusty skeleton dog for a midnight ride. Wild Bil in Richmond VA

Here is the type brace I used on my stack. The one inch ninety degree elbow is replaced by a 1'X1/2"X1" black iron "T" with the 1/2" outlet pointing down. A 1/2" plug was drilled and taped for a 1/4-20 bolt that attaches the bracket, other end goes to a motor mount bolt.

Getting pretty close to a running tractor. I guess with just a couple more wire connections I could physically run it, but would not be able to drive it anyways. Still have to paint the motor tins, belt guard, seat pan, fenders, and the foot boards. Hope to be to that point by the weekend.

Just got back from a trip to Fairbanks AK. Saw these and thought some might be interested. Supposedly, The Polaris Snow Mobile was the first year made? Being from East Texas, I have no impact, no idea and no need for one. 95 today, I would take some snow. The outboard, I remember some on here collect these. Enjoy. Dennis

The first picture shows a couple big guys had to stand on the sled, but it was no use as the Mighty Lawn Ranger Six Speed just kept going! The second picture shows the one and only time my L-157 Lawn Ranger hooked up to a pullin' sled. But ya' notice the HL-5 head lights are on! And of course, I show off with my 654 and Speed Reduction kit .... and ya' notice no wheelie bars! Wild Bill in Richmond VA

Back in March 2009 I was driving home from a tractor show that was in sunny Florida and then hit a bad snowstorm starting in North Carolina and the snow came down hard all the way home to Richmond, VA! Now take look at the dirt and snow build up on the truck BUT NOTICE YOU DON'T SEE ANY SNOW, DIRT OR DEBRIS ON THE WHEEL HORSES! Wild Bill in Richmond VA

Trina and I had a great visit this afternoon/evening with some friends from PA. @Mows4three Dave and his lovely wife Nancy. Wonderful folks. They brought gifts for our new building and Meeha/Mirror. Never ceases to amaze me the connections we make just because of red tractors... Left to right, Trina, me, Nancy, Dave. Dave and I connected a few years ago due to one of us needing some such or another. We hit it off immediately and we text back n forth pretty regular. He ain't right and neither am I. Absolutely wonderful visit. ❤️

My wife’s co-worker asked us if we’d like to purchase a 47 H with a brush hog. It’s her new father in-law’s and it runs and drives. Suggest value? I’ve seen all kinds of sale prices between auctions and private sales and dealers.. I’d really enjoy having a nice brush hog machine. That H sure looks classic!

It’s amazing right…these tractors and this website has brought together people that would have never ever met before.

I use 1/8” aluminum pop rivets.

For God so loved the world that on the eighth day he created the and said, "it is very good"! Don't know how this information was left out of the Bible. Sure am glad God has a sense of humor.

Most brush hog's are set up to run with a 3 point hitch, something not found on an H. Wheels were maybe added so it could be used with draw bar hitch.

Dick is an interesting word, it can be a proper name, "Hey Dick". It can be a noun, "Richard is a great detective, he's a nice dick" It can be an adjective, Someone put water in my gas, they're a real dick. It can also be a simple noun "I used a Profesional dick to investigate who put water in my gas, they said it was Dick so i kicked him in the dick"

That dude looks good in white Bill! Any relation?

Looking fantastic! You may want to consider fabbing up a brace for the exhaust. That's a fair amount of leverage weight pulling down n out on the cast iron (brittle) block.

This one was on Marketplace for quite a while with a hefty price tag. I ask if he was flexible on price, Nope. After a quite a while longer same question before I made the drive. Come on up, maybe we can make a deal. The rest is history, I didn't steal it, but I'm happy with the deal! Ya I know you want pictures, but there a little more interesting back story. His granddad's business was Nicholson Machine and Equipment and he was a Wheelhorse Dealer in the 50's and 60's in Paris....., Tx that is! He sent me this picture of the glass window from the door to the business that he has framed. He also wrote me a short note about his Granddad's business. So after his he passed, his dad gave the tractor to him. he's had it for quite a few years and said it's always been garage kept. So if a Dealer owned this for his own use and never sold it, and then it passed to his Son, and then Grandson, that would technically make me the 1st buyer, Ok so on to some tractor photo's beautiful double pulley belt guard front and center. It starts with a spray of gas in the carb, but doesn't stay running. All there, nice and original, you can see a weld repair on the front of the belt guard, Here's the serial number @gwest_ca The plastic dash is intact and not cracked! My 1st old style split key. it still has the orignal Silverton Ags. They hold air, but their so hard they probable don't need any. I wonder if their hard because they might still have calcium chloride in them??? The hitch pin isn't frozen and the lift cable even works. Interesting decal plastered across the front of the hood. aluminum gas tank is fairly clean. Hood bottom tab has been repaired. topless view of the engine, needs a bath. The front tires are original and hold air, but have some splits across the thread. Homemade choke and throttle cable bracket. The base of the engine has wet oil, so i suspect it needs some gaskets. Both axle seals are dry, but the input shaft and brake shaft seals leak. I've learned if the top of the transmission is filthy oily, it probable means theirs water in the transmission that has floated the oil out. This one is clean so hopefully that's a good sign. Started some maintenance and a beautiful sight, not a drop of water, just black oil. It shifts through the gears nicely so it will be interesting to see how it runs/drives. I'll gradually go all through it with my checklist. 701 Minor Overhaul Checklist.ods Then have to decide if I rub it down with linseed oil like it is, or buff with some steel wool or wet sand to bring a little more red out, then oil. How would ya'll put your finishing touches on it? I'll update this thread as I do maintenance on it and get it running.

First, I’d like to apologize to my children for some day having to deal with all my stuff. Got a lawn roller today for $30. It’s built well and is full of concrete, with greaseable pillow block bearings. I’d either have to go 30 minutes home and get a trailer, then 30 minute return trip and 30 back home again… or I made a deal for $65 on this collapsible engine hoist and loaded it into the truck!

Got that right Sparkeye... twant for RS Dan and I would have never been tractorin together and had a bromance... Nor would we have refreshed a member's Bronco or had all the fun we had...

Ask and you shall receive. Side note: that hood looks pretty good in grey, but Im pretty sure Im painting it red.

LTD slip has 10 pinions and a heavy spring to limit slippage...

$2000 for both tops, if they're both operable

Little more off topic here but going back on this thread and reading. It's sad to see Roadapples in green but happy to know he is still somehow with us.

I wonder if God has a two prong ignition key in his pocket ??

Trina's pretty smaht. Her camera has a dee-lay timerizer.

Those Amigo's have a neat transmission and are rare to see. We pulled a prank on Brandon at a tractor show in Pennsylvania where we repossessed his Wheel Horse Senior with the Wheel Horse flatbed tow tractor. At this particular tractor show there was just one too many John Deere tractors in attendance for me to put up with Sooooo. a plan was conjured up. Brandon like many of us will spend time at an auction during the tractor show ... and he is a buyer. Now how was I going get Brandon away from an auction? Ok now here's the picture the Lawn and Garden Magazine display is at the top of a far hill in the fairgrounds were his Senior sits proudly, but he is in the auction, so somebody (i'm not using my name) went into the auction and told Brandon that Cecil Pond is passing through the area on the way to visit relatives in New York and is stopping at the show and the Lawn and Garden Collector Magazine display. Ok now I did have to sell him this story and he bought it! So, he is now waiting for Cecil Pond to arrive and at the bottom of the hill is around 50 Wheel Horse tractors all coming up the hill in first gear and half throttle. Wow the noise was incredible, it was giant mass of Wheel Horses charging up the hill with the Wheel Horse flatbed tow tractor in the lead. The entire mob of Wheel Horses surrounded the Lawn and Garden Collector display and the flat bed winched up his Senior and we even had a paper drawn up saying his John Deere collection did not deserve the Senior and we were repossessing it. Well, it did not take long for the laughs to come out once Brandon realized he was pranked, and he was a very good sport about it. Although I did not fare as well since the tractor club putting on the show did not seem to like this kind of activity and made an announcement that Wheel Horses can't have their own parade. And at one point one of the club members came up to me with a very angry tone and both fists balled up at his side to give me a little talk. He was barking away that I couldn't do these things at his show, yes, he was mad. I have always tried to be a gentleman in a discussion, but this called for some quick thinking, and I said to him "First of all I don't believe that we have been properly introduced, my name is William Pearson" well this threw the guy off and I talked to him about how a tractor show should be run if you want people to return to the show and he listened. There quite a few people who knew of the situation at the show and they told me "Wild Bill" if they kick you out of the show .... we all are leaving". I did understand the guy's frustration of this being his event and some out of towner comes in gets everyone to have a little fun. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

I also did my due diligence and had her report the accident with the law, then I obtained a salvage kill tag. Legal as I can be today!

Well, momma’s in the lead for the buck pole, she just hit a 6 point with her truck… she was giggling, she can’t find ANY damage on the truck. I’m heading out now with my buck knife.

If the throttle handle moves very easily take it out give the pivot a couple whacks with a hammer while blocked against something ...or drill it out use a bolt and nylock nut

O He does: that's why the Chevy made it home. The Ford would be it the did on the side of the road a few hundred miles back. (and I drive a Ford!)

I've seen many pull behind bush hogs around here. The rear of the bush hog deck looks fairly straight which might indicate it hasn't been used in much rocky ground or trying to shred too much small brush. if you can look underneath it, check if the blade cutting tips are straight but need sharpening, or beat to hell from cutting rocks. Cutting rocks tends to increase the chance that the blade/gear box shaft is slightly bent or the blade carrier to shaft is wobbly. Also, like our tractor transmissions, sitting outside those shredder gear boxes tend to get water in them from the hole in the gearbox vent plug. Back in High School Ag Shop I split an H and rebuilt the transmission (with a lot of Ag Instructor help) What this says is, if a a 17 year old can do it, their fairly straight forward to work on. Now GO GET IT.

It would have to be something really extremely special for that price!! The made around 390,000 H's, so it's not like it's a rare tractor. I was gonna say $3000 tops for the whole thing. If he's under 2k I'd go get it.

I should be used to it, but I'm not. I'm still amazed to see the variety and ingenuity of tooling invented because someone decided it was worth the effort. To me, the interesting part of the jacks is the squared head surely intended to lock/stabilize it in a corresponding socket in another part of the lifting apparatus.

I've had the same thought there big guy. I never had the pleasure of meeting him like most folks on this site but it seems like he was a right upstanding person even if he was sitting down.

After trying to drill into the center of the broken set screw with several different bits and only getting in about 1/16” I got a left twist 1/8” bit from a local fastener shop and it backed right out. No easy out needed. Previously had put a couple drops of diesel in the hole. Ready to open it up now.

Another cool find at the sale. I didn’t buy these, but they were cool! Ratcheting jacks. I wonder the tonnage rating on them! I’m guessing they were for machine moving/leveling over automotive use.

I recall the flyers from old RJs claiming the enamel finish was "easy to keep clean". I'm guessing the Ponds knew something we don't?

It's up and running. Lot's to sort out. Thing fired up in forward, so much to my surprise that a bad word escaped, and did it's best to run into 'The Silver Bullet' (my favorite pickup) so I need to figure out the neutral setting on the pedal control. Not a whole lot of power. Took a little bit of concentration on my part to get the mowing deck attached. I might need to procure an engineering degree to figure out the rototiller mounting when the time comes. I'm worried that I might be going back down the cliff for more parts that may have been scattered about. The machine mows for a short period and abruptly signals it's discontent with a backfire followed by a stall. It will fire right back up. This thing is a Cadillac though. There is nothing wrong with the steering, come to find out, as it is powered by the hydraulics. Even the mowing deck is fingertip control. I like it. Even has a gas gauge. I've got a new air filter element and fuel filter on the way. Hopefully this will help improve the machines temperament. No coolant in the oil so far. I think I darn near ran the well dry power washing it so that it doesn't smell like low tide at the chicken farm. I would like to pull the fenders and such to clean under there and get a look at the control setup.

Katy did Katy didn't Yes she did No she didn't

Some more pictures of my scores! Impact 3/8” extensions for a buck a piece, full aerosol cans for 50 cents, feeler gages and spark plug gap per combos for $2 and a palm compression tester for $10. Oh, and a $53 gas tank for Uncle Jim! they asked $3 for it, I told him a 50 finder’s fee

Nail pullers like those are still being made today. https://www.amazon.com/Faithfull-Nail-Puller-600mm-24in/dp/B001CKAR4Q/ref=asc_df_B001CKAR4Q/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=532565192785&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=688878503718490652&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011362&hvtargid=pla-613755677952&psc=1

Okay, okay... I have to ask... if all of you were in front of the camera... who was behind it...? I see the dog in the photo... so it can't be the dog... Don

If it is the Ross box - and I seem to remember it is, like @squonk mentioned. Then this is the culprit that will cause your misery...... They come in 2 thread sizes 1/2 & 9'16 and its been too long since I went into one and I dont remember which WH used. There used to be several "Kits" on the bay but I could only find the one and piece its 1/2". The 'kit would have bearings and gaskets too. do a search for Ross Steering Box Cam Follower

A few odds & ends, a fresh K model Kohler. That baby would be ready for some snow action.

Fixing up Norman’s front end today… tires and alignment job found loose ball joints. They told me lowers, but it ended up being uppers. Then, the new replacements were .006” slop fit. No go.

Excellent point. Think I will look into this today.

Years ago we built a house on stilts at the Jersey Shore. Basically on a sandbar. The stilt setters held each 20' stilt upright then with a water jet wand they "slurried" the sand underneath it and it simply sank down 9' under its own weight. They braced it plumb, turned off the water, and there it stood. Next day they used a laser level to guide trimming them all to the same height, bolted on box beams and went right on with joists, decking, and framing! FYI, we sold a couple years ago. Don't know when, but sea level rise is gonna claim that "land".

i have rehabbed a few plows in past yr - -and they clean up pretty easily --well wortht the time to clean rust then prime and paint

Me too. Also a great time to eliminate circuits you don't want and add those that you do. For example, on my last rebuild, a 312H I removed the seat and neutral switches because I mow hills that necessitate me sliding off the seat and have matt's foot control that self centers itself for neutral. I also added a fuel gauge so that wiring was added at the same time to keep things neat. All of my 520's (5 of them) have had the harnesses pulled and cleaned up as required. Never had an electrical issue since on any of my 8 wheel Horses.