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Last week my neighbor fenced in about 10 acres of green oats that he planned to pasture his horses. This morning as I was leaving my deer stand, I found the horses had escaped to another neighbors dried soybean field. With his help we got the herd out of the soybeans but they continually bolted as the three of us walked them toward the barn. I finally got tired walking and got back on the 312H. This seemed to calm them and I was able to herd them to the barn.

I’m going to try plastic welding the crack in the top of this tank from the Raider 12 I swapper parts for. This is my second plastic welding adventure. The red cup is stamped HDPE which I think is the right plastic to use as weld filler. My $19 Harbor Freight welding tool and red plastic strip filler. No the prettiest, but seemed to melt together OK. I didn’t get 100% depth penetration as I can still feel the crack offset on the bottom side. Time will tell how it holds.

Test No.1 Completed. Taste stupendous. Quality of art work follows my painting abilities... good nuff... @Wheel Horse 3D kudos!!!

@Ed Kennell you should audition the for the next episode of Rawhide...

It is a breech plug remover for a Knight Muzzleloader. I just used mine last week

Hhhmmm... Stay tuned...

A horse herding horses

Cool! From Michigan so it must be good! Gotta ask... was that new when you started this build?

Here’s Reese

Well.... Isn't this interesting....

Spring Flowers July 4th at the lake Wheelhorse Dirt Work Team How about a collage month/page with kids working on tractors Lets get some Red on this baby! It will go faster if we put it this way Grandpa. These two are my custom team. This hammer will fit it just like you taught me Grandpa.

Latest updates...assembly continues...

"Head em up, Move em Out"

The knowledge base on here is amazing!

Short story long, as is my way, I just bought a hand held leaf blower/mulcher, and it does a 10-1 mulch ratio, and it is doing a great job with leaves around the house, patios, paths, etc. Cheap too, so I'm very happy with it. Last year though, I kept track of the volume of leaves that I mowed up off the lawns, into my bag. In a single day, it came in at 11,000 litres. I counted my trips, with a full 500 litre bag, and it came in at 22, hence my figure, and this, only one day of many repeated days. This presents two problems, first I had to roll over the same piece of grass, to exit my lawns, to go to my dumping area, so many times, that this section became ruined. Second, I was running out of room to dump them. I probably shouldn't say this in here, but I was using my cub cadet lawn mower, lol. Sitting in my shed though, is my trusty wheel horse, which I use for other tasks. I think it's 50 years old now, and it goes great, and all my attachments work still, including my mower deck, which has the impeller driven attachment on the side, possibly a later addition, I forget. Sorry, if I'm not using the right terminology, but hopefully you'll get the idea, and my pictures may help. Fitting the deck is an easy job, so I'm wondering if it might not be a bad idea to fit new mulching blades, in place of the standard ones, refit the deck, and my lawn tyres, in place of the tractor ones, and use that for collecting my leaves from the lawns? My questions, to those of you with much more experience than I, are, first, what sort of blades work best? Second, will it actually mulch, and still pick up, using only the side mounted impeller? Third, if it will work, what sort of mulch ratio can I expect, from this type of blade? I don't know my deck type, but I have a few of pictures here that should help. It has double, rear mounted, hanging bags, that you have to lift off to empty, by first tilting a single plastic cover to release them. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me. Best regards Andrew

Cough cough cough cough It's a little cloudy in here Eric, you blew the dust off this thread.

Better used Greasy Pete's prosses and oil that down so it doesn't fall apart before you get to use it.

Yeah probably. 😂

Some really beautiful stuff on here so far folks. Trina's got some great work done on the calendar.

We used to live in East Lansing, home of Michigan State University. There was a fraternity house a couple of blocks away. Mostly quiet, but they would throw a couple of large parties every year. They were noisy and ran late and parked the neighborhood full of cars. The East Lansing police department had a unique method of breaking these parties up. Around 11:30 at night, a police car would cruise through the neighborhood announcing that at midnight, illegally parked cars would be towed. Some people left the party. Sure enough, at midnight the tow trucks showed up and went to work. We sat out on the front porch watching the show. Drunk kids pleading with the tow truck drivers to put their car down, more drunk kids stumbling along the sidewalk discussing where they parked their car, drunk kids having a hairy fit because the police actually did exactly what they said they would, and finally, the funniest thing - the group of drunk kids passing the house several times, still looking for their car that had been towed.

Yep, 1961 model 401. Has the wrong foot rests but every thing else seems to be there. Runs like a top but jumps out of third so the tranny will need some attention.

I have the same bagger that you have. It has regular Wheel Horse blades on it. I bag the leaves and put them on my garden and till them into the garden in the fall.

They just needed a lead horse to show them where to go.

Did someone say Cookies 🍪 I’m in !

As long as there's no GREEN to go with that yellow, we're all good! My machine mulches them so fine after a few passes that they simply disappear into the (what there is of the) turf. Your grass is so much nicer than mine! But we've got quite sandy soil so the organics is needed. But, maybe that's why my grass isn't that good? Maybe the leaf litter is spoiling it? Yes, you leave (get it?) those on top of the grass and it'll be dead by Spring time!

Well, I don't have many, but I did find one just now from 2021. I'm surprised this is allowed, but you did ask, lol.

I will typically mulch the leaves and leave them on the lawn. I use my 48" SD for this. I do have to go round and round, herding the leaves into a pile in the center and then reverse the process to blow them out evenly onto the grass... I just use the standard cutting blades for this. I have found that for some reason, the deck mulches them into much smaller pieces if in REVERSE, but it generally won't blow all of them out the chute, so once I get them rounded up into a pile, I will go forward, back up over them, forward, etc... easy with a hydro, pain with a gear jammer.

Well, I consider myself a jack of all trades... master of 1... and that one thing that I have mastered is leaves. The best blade that I have found for ripping up leaves is going to look like this: I cannot imagine that you would possibly have more leaves than I do. It literally takes every one of the machines in my shop to battle the leaves, as I have so many trees and so much ground to cover. Here in Indiana, we have some clay soil, so if I don't get rid of the leaves, the ground becomes unbearable... you can't walk on the property without sinking in mud. I have acres and acres to cover, and years of experience with leaves. I've learned a lot, and I think I know the best ways to deal with them! I have found that... if you mulch the leaves VERY fine before attempting to capture them, they will take up much less room. I personally don't need a way to capture leaves while I am mowing them. I blow them out where I can mulch them, then use my lawn sweeper to pick up the particles. I deal with piles of leaves that eclipse my machines. For the most massive piles that I can't blow out to more open areas where I can mulch them, I use my L-157 with the blade to push the leaves out, then either push them into the woods, or push them out in little sections where I can mulch them. I only burn leaves 1 time per year, and that occurs behind the pond area where I put the leaves that I skim out of the pond. Mulching, then bagging/vacuuming/sweeping is the most fool-proof, best method that I have found thus far. Don

I think I got a bit giddy with the age of the tractor, I think it is just coming up to 50 years old, but that aside, damn, you guys and this forum are good. I just found the 8 page parts manual for this deck on here, and it says, blade type, set, 106636, thank you @gwest_ca . So that's part of it done. I just need the best mulching replacements for that type of blade, and your guidance as to whether they will work well enough to make it worth the exercise and the expense of the new blades?

My recommendation now that you have plastic welded that tank... go with Plasti-dip spray to coat the tank. You won't regret it. Don

Dan, here are a couple pics of two different style axle brackets and how they were designed to be installed on the axles. Note they are mounteddifferently on the axle, but the locking levers always extend to the rear. This may not work with the altered plow frame you have, but just to show you how it was intended to be used.

Jeff actually hit the nail on the head.. sort of. There's no inspection or permits needed to add electric service to our own building once it's up. The issue is the all powerful insurance industry. We have to have a LICENSED electrician do the work or IIFF we have a loss claim it has realistic potential to be denied. For a few dozen dollars I'm NOT taking a chance on a whole building. AND.... To be honest... Trina and I will tackle pretty much anything that needs to be done except electric and plumbing. No desire to do either one and we have friends that will.

For anyone wondering.. magnum 18 in a c series. Still has the rubber mounting set up so the air cleaner doesn’t quite clear the hood. If you where to bolt the engine directly to the tractor I think it would fit fine.

OK back to 2008 and the BADDEST Wheel Horse that I had ever pulled with. At my local tractor show and pull I invited as many Wheel Horse owners as I could round up. A guy came out of Suffolk, VA and brought his two Wheel Horse pullers. he showed me his older Wheel Horse pullin' tractor that had a flat head 2-cylinder Kohler out of a welder that made over 50 horsepower and ran on nitromethane and I ain't talkin' 'bout a 50/50 split with gasoline either! The exhaust was designed and built by Jere Stall headers .... it takes a real old timer to remember that name. As he showed me his tractor he just says, "you want to take it to the pull track and try it/", dang it he didn't have to ask me twice nor did he have time before I blurted out YES! We towed the puller up to the track with one of my Wheel Horses and started to get things ready. He filled me with all information I needed to drive the puller. I was just about hook up to the sled he could see my knees were shaking and he said, "Bill don't worry just when the guy drops the flag rap the throttle twice to clean the plugs and let her fly"! Once I popped the clutch it felt like I was being shot out of a cannon and the front tires never touched the ground till way after the 75-foot mark! The crowd went ballistic clapping and cheering as they had never seen a tractor go that fast down the pullin' track! Wow that was excitement and will never be forgotten. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

It's a popular gearbox for sure. Alot of parts available for those.

Eric must be doing Eric stuff. He hasn't chimed in.

Well that's a nice old girl! I've never seen a bagger on the back of the machine here in the states... maybe I am living under a rock... But yeah, I believe that @Horse Newbie has a cub or two tucked in his barn as well. Don

lol, I believe you, and I feel for you. I'd already collected twice on this section, just using the Cub cadet on high mow, and there's far more remaining in the trees than I already took away. Leaving that on the lawn just seems to kill the grass, especially when it's all there, whenever the weather, on occasion, has forced that upon me, over the years.

Thank you Don. Yes, that sounds like you're a master in this area, for sure. I don't have so much to do, but an acre and a half of lawns, surrounded by trees, is enough for me, lol. I was hoping to collect, whilst using a mulching blade, of the type you just showed, and with my smaller area and quantity, perhaps that approach could work? It's always difficult to find a few dry days, at this time of year in the UK, in order to be able to ride round on the lawn without damaging it, but when the time comes, I'd like to minimises the number of trips around, so mulching the leaves, and collecting, in one go, would be great, if that method works at all? One further difficulty that being in the UK presents, is always that part availability is so much lower than in the US. Most people don't even have large lawns, or even lawns at all, so the number of suppliers is always lower, and the price is always higher. Lack of choice, or being able to find things at all, is my nemesis, with both of my tractors, cub cadet and wheel horse. Now I know the size, and the number of the original blade set, maybe I can hunt around for a suitable type of blade like the one you showed, and post back a link for your approval.

I was going to say breech plug tool for a cva muzzle loader. My old one has this identical thing.

Great find @Achto🙌🏻😎 at least in the pictures, the patina looks AWESOME 🧐👍🏻

Not sure about the belt, I'll take a look and replace it with a notched one. I'll assume the picture is the correct one from Napa or for reference purposes only??

Absolutely. Same deck I use on a C-125. (used to live in S. Glastonbury)

Well you could get lucky but imho it most of the time isn't without reason that pump is out of a tractor. Best way to go is to let a local hydraulic shop check it out. They can tell you pretty quick if it's good or not and if it is repairable.

PM me your address I will send you the 4 o rings 2 backer rings and a replacement sealing washer

@953 nut @formariz The "@roadapples" designation has been added. Are there any other days (not counting the ones listed previously) she needs?