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Picked up 2 4 wheel wagons this weekend. How many other people have these on here?

Yep 80+ here on Saturday, 50's on Sunday, 30's & snow / sleet mix this morning. In Wisconsin we like variety.

GT-1800 did not come with a deck - deck was optional GT-1848 came with a 48" deck as standard equipment

This is absolutely disgusting. Unacceptable. Way too late in the season for this sort of behavior. By the way I'm glad it's you. Not me.

How about asking him bring one to your house in Sept and we have a contest backing it up! Timed event, back it up in between some cones, $5 to enter and winner with the fastest time takes all. Or I can bring something for a prize for the winner instead of an entry fee (No practicing Ben!!!) Should be fun and funny too. No pressure with everyone watching and all the silly comments! Kind of like the entertainment at any local boat ramp! LoL

They are handy and hold quite a bit of material—should you actually choose to use them as I do. Mine is original but fairly rough and so I don’t mind occasionally using it around the yard. They are large and take up the same floor space as a smaller GT. I cheat that by removing my tailgate and standing mine vertically next to an outside wall. This enables me to take up only a 3’x2’ area of floor space (and I put a strap around it to the wall to ensure that it doesn’t tip over). They are cool wagons and not seen all too often…

Dear Spring: Just kidding! Love, Winter.

The wife with her "little" Maine Coon fur ball He's about 25 lbs now and not fat, all muscle and can reach things up to about 4 ft or so when standing on his back feet. He looks a bit intimidating but he's by far the most docile mellow cat we ever had. Basically a big baby. They always have that irritated look though

Yup... Cheddar Swiss Cottage Curds (only fresh... gotta squeak) and... Wheel Horse, as long as they're red... (well ok, and a few grey...)

These pictures are not my own desk but I have one exactly like it. I've used it as a model building station in the past. I'm leaning towards going back to it.

I was in Kentucky and Saturday broke records… Been hunting geese a while now. My buddy got one at 150 yards out with a golf ball!

Was 80 here on Saturday...

Sooooo many pics. I did buy a few things. Above is a tanker and International truck that I plan to build to look similar to one my father drove when I was a kid. Below is.... Oh my.... Enjoy!!!

I used this drafting table when I was working on plans but now it's handy for working on models. It's set up 'permanently' just outside my workshop in the basement.

This is a table made out of an old sewing machine. I need more room and something enclosed to keep the dust down.

I hear divorce lawyers are known to hang around boat ramps!

I’m currently looking for an old glass display case for my 1/72 scale Diecast airplanes. I don’t have the room to make dioramas.

Yeah. It’s tax day. And April fools!

Excellent idea @wallfish I'm In. I've owned 2 boats. I always said bring a lawn chair after my boat was on the trailer and watch the fun begin at the ramp.

There is a chance that the internal resister has failed in your ignition coil. When the charging system gets up to 13.5+vdc it would make the coil collapse. To diagnose this -Try unplugging your voltage regulator and running the tractor. If the issue goes away then your ignition coil is bad.

One is a nice find but two is even nicer... and lucky! Those wagons are pretty big so there aren't many around to begin with and probably the reason I didn't keep one. Made for a cool display towing it around with an RJ in it

Thank you for the detailed explanation @953 nut. I believe I understand it all except one point. Where do I hook the wire that is sending power to the PTO? I have the orange wire bringing power from the battery via fuse to cigarette lighter and finally to one post of the new toggle. Then out from the toggle to terminal 86. I understand the connection from “s” terminal to 87a and the solenoid trigger to 30. However, how does the power get from the relay to the PTO? That is the only piece that I believe I am missing at this point… this week the weather is supposed to be pretty poor here in WisCo and so we plan to work a quite a bit on Blackbeard…hoping to make some serious progress😎

Was not real fun, a lot of nook and crannies to get into. Even after a good pressure washing, I still found some grease to push around with the blaster.

Okay here’s what I know about this. I bought my Work Horse GT-1800 brand new in August of 1984. It came with a 48” deck, I don’t remember hearing anything about it being an option. Both the 1800 and 1848 had the wide rear wheels. One quick way to tell if it’s an ‘82 or ‘83 is the older style hydraulic lift lever with that comes out on a 45 degree angle and has a removable knob. The ‘84 has a cast handle that comes out and goes up. Also there was two different grays, earlier tractors had a metallic gray and the latter was a different shade non-metallic. I wish I knew how many hours are on my tractor but it’s gotta be 3000-4000 hours. I mowed commercially with it for over six years, and tilled countless gardens, plow plenty of driveways. Plus the many other tasks these tractors can do! I have said it before and I’ll say it again, a Work Horse is a Wheel Horse through and through. Here’s a few pictures taken over the years, and after I gave it a well deserved restoration in 2018.

Craziest issue similar to this that I ran across was a bad coil! Would run fine until I got into heavy mowing, then would die. After cooling down it would start right up. I checked spark and it always had it, but in hind site I was checking after the mower cooled down. I finally checked when if died and was still hot and I found I had no spark. So I spent ~$10 on a new coil and it fixed the problem. I tor the old coil apart and found a broken coil! My assumption was that when not working hard there must have been no gap (or very small), but when hot and working hard the gap would get big enough to no longer provide spark. After changing about everything else, the coil change was the fix. Probably very low probability of this being the issue, but just throwing out my frustrating experience......... I would not have believed it if someone would have told me this, but coil was about the only thing I hadn't replaced. And I always like to take bad parts apart to understand what failed.......

I think I will go with that route considering the rebuild is like $10 compared to like $90 for a new carburetor oem.

I don't know the answer to your specific question, but personally I have replaced a failed Onan 16hp fuel pump with an aftermarket 12v pump and am quite happy with it. I don't like relying on these stock diaphragm pumps. If you want a stock pump, maybe chek out the Vendor section in this forum.

No time for hobbies. I'm retired.

Got a question… I am wanting to clean the Kohler of grease and crime as much as possible… Would it hurt to spray Purple Power or something similar behind the flywheel, and then maybe rag it out as good as I can without pulling the flywheel ? Of course then I would have to rinse… would that hurt ?

Eric, I used to do plastic model kits too, very satisfying to while away a bit of time. I used a fairly standard computer desk which I could leave in situ when I wasn't working on a model. I like the beaurea style so you can close away the work area to exclude dust etc. Maybe I will have a bash at some 1/35th scale armour again. Mick.

Here ya go!

And if you don’t, then think of moving!

They are like a bay wagon. For someone who’s never done it it’s a pain. I went to school on a farm so we use to move hay wagons around all the time. Takes an extra bit of coordination.

That's a birdie on a golf course that is worth more than an eagle.

There may be subtle differences but all used the same 422437-0663-01 engine.

I guess that explains the "00" in the model number - I have often wondered about that. Are you saying that otherwise they are the same?

Something like this….

Had one I bought at big show it was a nice original. Same reason as John they are huge and take a lot of space. Cool wagons tho!

Same company yes. Different muffler. The ones used up to around 1978 or 80 had a smaller Can diameter. They were 2.75". The later style like you have is approximately 3.5" diameter. The original (smaller) type was already pretty close and needed to be angled just right. The later one is too big to be used long term without burning the paint on the front vertical of the right hand hood side. @Oldskool has been dealing with a similar situation.

Sounds to me like running lean maybe clean the carb again.

New points, condenser and spark plug. Set timing with a timing light. Clean up the grounds and install an extra ground strap if needed.

Waited hell... I got alot of other projects that are waiting for me to get off my kester... Betting it was a bastage to blast that beast... now you know why I am staying original. Shoulda borrowed @953 nut's rotisserie!

Todays agenda was to get the body work done on the rear fenders. With this done I am ready for primer & paint. Before I make paint fly on my tractor though, I have a few parts that I need to spray for a friend of mine. @WHX?? gonna need you to get me the rest of the parts for your 701. You've patiently waited long enough.

They are all great but this one gets my vote. Takes more work to make something that small look like it was used and abused for decades.

So how many are thinking to themselves “ Horse Newbie, now that you’ve went that far, may as well decarbon the head”…?

The subframe on my loader bolts through the two holes where the Attach-A-Mattic would bolt on also. The rear saddles the rear axle from below. The front portion is bolted to the frame with two bolts on each side.

Hi Geoff. I don't have any plans for the slot hitch. I copied one. I only made four. Two were sold. Two I've kept for myself. I'll take some measurements and do a drawing. Just give me a little time.

Here are some pictures of it, they aren't great pictures let me know what you think and if in fact it is a Johnson.