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Well I came across a pretty awesome package for an even better price, $250! It's all Wheel Horse brand too. Crazy... Never thought I would find anything like this. So here is the list Full WH Garden Implement System, WITH Manual: Sleeve Hitch bar Moldboard Plow Disc Plow Cultivator Tiller, it is missing the pulley and belt so will need to track that down. 42" Snow Plow, missing mount bracket Set of rear rims, one good and one bad tire I'm super excited for this deal! Gardens won't have a chance!

Has anyone tried the Rustoleum 2X ULTRACOVER spray paint in Gloss COLONIAL RED? I used it on the hood of my 312H, and it seems a little closer to the original color as compared to the Regal Red. Seems a little less orange. Also, covers and flows a little better, but takes a little longer to dry. I'll be listing it for sale this weekend, along with a 48" plow blade and a good 37" RD mower deck that I got from Ed Kennell two years ago. I'll have pictures then. This has been my 'haul things around the yard' tractor for a couple of years, but have to downsize for a move. Jim

I had five of the Six RJs out my brother and I own. I just gave David the RJ I had been working on off and on for two years. My neighbor John Bossnack (Hoosier Wi-Fi Guy). Did a couple drone videos that are cool to watch.

Little sneak peak for what’s to come!!

The shed will end up with 2, 120V circuits. The barn, everything else. At minimum: 3, 220V with different shaped plugs. A dozen or more 120V plugs. 4 will be upstairs for the Dojo.

I got a chuckle out of it ... thanks Retro. I think I stole this pic from @Ed Kennell years ago...

Sorry if this is misleading but I got a serious kick out of this photo. I guess you could call it a WheelGoat

There are three things in life that are certainties; Death (sooner or later we will all die), Taxes (we all get to participate in funding the government) and the third one is the warranty on your 1976 Wheel Horse has expired (doesn't matter, it will be a great tractor anyway). The small rectangular pieces of paper that are punched out of those computer cards are called CHADS. If the die that cuts the chads is not sharp the piece will not come out completely and you will have Hanging Chad. This occurred in the 2000 general election! https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/666812854/the-florida-recount-of-2000-a-nightmare-that-goes-on-haunting

I fed every single branch into it by hand.

Special thanks to @Sparky Mike for the mysterious appearance of this decal.

You’ve lost that much in your shop 😁

There's a LOT. It'll take me a few posts to get em all in... I think that's all of em!! Friday evening double rainbow. Ancient railroad trestle. Trina caught Mike in a decent mood. 😂 Note the support system for the ramps. If it looks sketchy... Well it was. Extremely high quality breeze shooting here. Me Bear 🐻, left. @peter lena , right. Absolutely fascinating individual. Great to finally put a face to the name Pete. @JCM Jim on the right. @Retired Wrencher Gary. Somehow we didn't get a chance to catch your picture. It was great to meet you as well.

Few Years ago I got a 73 no name 12 from the original owner. Had everything down to the original spark plug.

If you have 12 volts at the points that is normal when the points are open. You should have 0 volts at the points when the points are closed. If not 0 volts the point contacts need to be cleaned. That contact is what takes the voltage to 0 volts.

Ya gotta watch out for these guys young fella. Every time you turn around you're learning something new whether you meant to or not.

You beat me, the only reason I know what they are is when I was in elementary school a classmates mother worked for general electric in the computer department. My classmate brought them as show and tell. She passed them out, we used them as book marks.

I spent many an hour in college keying FORTRAN programming instructions and data onto punch cards using IBM 026 and 029 machines (the 029 had slick features like being able to auto-punch a sequential number onto each successive card or copy selected columns from the previously punched card). Being a touch typist let me make some money by keypunching for other students and even for some of the faculty! The pattern of holes to encode the letters, number, and punctuation was called Hollerith after its inventor. This system was a step up from the punched paper tape used by Teletype machines of the day which encoded with a 5-hole pattern called Baudot. Cards could be inserted or replaced in a deck individually to add new instructions or make corrections. With tape, you had to punch a whole new tape or do a complicated copy/pause/insert/skip/resume dance with a connected reader and punch.

The weld that holds the hub to the wheel is only around the outside. I think you are correct that the drilled hole created a small opening into the space between the two halves of the wheel. There probably isn’t much grease in there but it’s enough to mess with your mind!

I was thinking along the lines of a “cut sheet” for the build. Close, and I’m still a bit under 40!

I’m gonna spoil y’all’s fun… ain’t nobody under 40 gonna get it. Those cards with the rectangular holes are called key punch cards, and they were loaded into the earliest computers (1979-81). That is how you “key punched”information into the computer.

It was a good day Eric. Glade I meat you and Trina. Hope you had safe travel home.

Same species 😁

Hey. @TonyToro Jr. do you know why those rectangular cards have all the little rectangular holes in them are? Anybody less that 40 years old know what they are?

Not too many people keep all the paperwork for the life of the tractor. Good find.

Lay them flat and clean well with prepsol or something similar. Prime and paint one side at a time and you'll be fine. A bit of a PIA but nothing I do seems to be anything less Those weights should look sharp BTW...

They aren't. I drilled holes near the outer rim on 3 1/2" hole center spacing. On closer examination, the holes for the grease fittings pass through the weld at the center hub. So maybe 30+ years of pressurized grease found it's way into the cavity through a crack in that area. Maybe

As I mentioned and wrote about a few times I am honored to have “inherited “ most of the tools of my friend Ed’s father an accomplished shipwrights. It however never seems to end. He wanted to meet for lunch today and after lunch he simply said” open the trunk”. I just did not even know what to say. This is what he loaded into my car. Some quite rare stuff too. Just between 4 of these items there is over $1000.00 of value. They are however priceless to me and will join the countless others already here.

Best not have @Racinbob come down on you... just sayin...

today tomorrow Should cover it...

Made another step toward utilizing the Big building. Most of the electric circuits from the shed are being moved to the barn. This evening we cut the power and dismantled what's being moved.

They were called the “IBM card”, or the Hollerith card. I cheated…

Finished! Just need to shorten the hinge bolts.

Yup. Early in my carrier, I used both punch cards and paper tape. A couple of my first projects as a fresh out of college engineer were stress analysis of wheels for the Chrylser K car and Olds version GM's X car. We went high tech on these and used Finite Element Analysis. We had a coordinate measuring machine that used a PDP 11 computer, which spoke to the outside world through a teletype and paper tape. I was using that machine to digitize blueprints to build FEA models. That PDP 11 was a 16 bit machine that had a line of bit switches and lights on the front panel. When it was working, you could watch the bit lights flash as it cycled through the code, Once the blueprint was digitized, I would then fill out keypunch coding forms to send to the keypunch department (unionized shop) to get my deck (about 1000 cards) punched. The deck would go through the card reader over a 'fast' 9600 baud phone line to a 'big' computer in Detroit. This usually took several tries, as the phone line was not too stable and would frequently drop in the middle of the deck. This process was repeated several in a debug mode to catch all of the keeping typos and coding from mistakes. Finally, I would change one card in the deck to indicate execute mode and feed the deck back in. Computer run time on my FEA models was 4 to 6 hours - we were renting the computer time by the minute. The next morning, I would call the computer service and ask about the job. Did it finish? Did it make plots? If yes, please put the pilots on the bus and send them to me. Next call, several hours later was to the local bus station. Was there a package for me on the bus from Detroit? Ah, the 'Good Old Days'. Would not surprise me if the tablet I am writing this on has more memory and processing power than that 'big' computer in Detroit we renting time on had. That computer in Detroit needed a large room with temperature control. The processor and memory in my tablet are a few chips that fit in the palm of your hand.

That's wrong. Dial adjusts minimum height for some implements, like tiller or snow blade, but is not used for mowers and should be set as low as it will go. Cutting height is set by gage wheels, and front/back angle by the trunnion on the rear of the deck.

Oh that makes sense

I have no idea.. maybe since their warranty cards I think you can’t copy them to get a warranty if it has expired?

Acetone bath followed by blowing off with an air gun. Repeat until they stay dry. This would be the procedure that I would try.

The place that powder coats my wheels have had to heat my wheels in the over to get rid of the oil / grease. With the heat they still have trouble getting the grease to quit seeping out.

We all thought you did every thing by hand.

Yes, it is the original owner. He bought it brand new in 1976. My dad knew him and knew we were into Wheelhorsesm and he knew we would give it a good home.

NEW TOY ! Recent purchase of a very original and early 58RJ. Its gonna stay in its work clothes......probably wont even get washed. It is wearing its original tires the rears are in good shape, the front has one good and one shot. Would like to find a decent used BF Goodrich silvertown tire, The one i need is a EXPRESS, (writen over the tire size) Runs great just waiting on a new engine pulley and belt .