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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

Have you seen a Peerless 700 series gearbox? About the same size. They were 90 degrees 3 4, or 5 speed with reverse. One of those coupled with the WH 8speed would be quite an animal with the correct pulley sizes. A gear ratio for every occasion, and then some.

Is that a reference to John Deere? If so, I'll never mention them again. I've never tried mulching, and letting them just discharge onto the grass. The mower I've used above, for the last, well, thinking about it now, it must actually be 15 years, just hoovers them up, and barely mulches them at all. If I just left them to be discharged out of the back, leaving the bag off, I think they would be pretty much the same size. They don't look much smaller when I dump them.

Imagine... leaves 2 inches thicker than that... That is what I deal with... literally... Acres of it... then when you blow them out to where you can mulch them... you have MASSIVE piles twice as tall as your tractor. Madness... Don

Wow, fantastic. That is really appreciated. I doubt it will come to that on a blade only, but there have been other things that I have been pulling my hair out in the past. Very kind of you indeed. Cheers Andrew

They won't be Don, but I could sort that, of course. It's not been used for mowing, since I got the cub cadet for that purpose, over 10 years ago. I'd prefer one of those blade types you showed, so I'll see what I can turn up over here.

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

If it is a K model kohler may be a bad coil that is overheating after some use. We need more info like year. Sorry, I see it is a 1990 so would be a Magnum I believe no coil. Probably a loose connection as 953 Nut has stated above. Bob

@ranger @Horse Newbie y’all are saints! The kids went to town with their uncle today, who showed up the night before last. They got to spend some time in church with mom and dad, and the oldest two might have been able to see Declan, or at least have a little school session to explain things in a way they can understand. Corbin is between Jada and Rylee, Ryker is a year younger than Rylee. These kids are so smart, so well mannered. Almost all of them play the piano, and very well. I’ve had a great time getting snuggles from the little girls, wrestling with the boys and learning about their close encounters with a pack of coyotes lately. Wednesday night, one of them whooped a coyote in the ribs with a 4’ stick of 1-1/2” pvc pipe while putting the chickens up for the night. Taylor and I spent the morning working in the parent’s room, cleaning, organizing, she doing laundry, I hanging curtains. They just moved into this property, after renting from place to place since the 2010(?) Nashville floods when they moved down here. We’re so happy for the progress they’ve made, virtually starting over after their move. We stopped into town for lunch and supplies and are heading back now.

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

Too windy today for leaf duty, ( wind advisory, 60 mph gusts ). So what is a hard working man supposed to do? Perfect excuse to feed my addiction & go pick these bad boys up! Carlisle HD Field Trax 24-12-12'S next to 23-8.50-12'S, I have a set of 520 rims they will fit nicely on. Now I can post in Wide Rear Wednesday soon

New headlight cover for E 141 that serves as the Engine for the SL&WHN RR...!!! You can compare with stock in the photo below. 3D on right, stock on left. I like 3D's better... Thanks @Wheel Horse 3D!!! Great job and outstanding quality! Oh... and Cookie cutter No. 1...

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