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Decided to see if I could build a 1045 just from parts in my yard and well here’s how it’s going lol. frame is a 606. rear end is b-80. hood is 606. fenders are 702. dash tower is custom. dash is 856. lift handle is a commando 800. front axle is 604. seat is off a lambert tractor. belt cover is off a commando 6. brake cover is off a 854. braking system is out of a 310-8. engine is a predator 224.

What have I done with my Wheelhorse today? Well this weekend I've done a lot, but what I really want to share is my story of a battery box/mount. I've inherited well-used Raider 12 & 1054 units from my dad, these were not the horses he had when I was still at home. Earlier this weekend I was digging through stuff on the shelves and found a red piece of flat steel with 2 holes drilled in it, one slightly off center, I remembered this piece, but couldn't place it, well today in the back of the cabinet I found another red thing and the light bulb went on. I had made a new removable end piece for a battery box (I was 13-14 yeas old), I don't recall painting the box, but here it was all nice & red. The old horse that this battery box belonged to has since gone to the stable in the sky, but I hope I can use it on the Raider 12, it will be the 1st shiny red part on the Raider's recovery.

This Beautiful Post Oak Tree is against my lake retaining wall. As you can see in the picture with my shoe, the trunk and roots have been pushing and tilting this end of my wall out about 8”. I’ve debated taking it out for several years, but I’m getting some cracks in the concrete so it’s time was up. We rented a 42 ft lift for last Saturday/Sunday. It took us one day to cut and lower this tree down limb by limb. Once we were down to the main trunk we rigged a rope near the bottom and attached it to a nearby tree just to insure it didn’t kick back into the neighbors boat house or try to roll into the lake. We rigged a second heavy rope 3/4 up the tree and attached it to a come a long anchored on another tree. We cut a large notch in the direction we wanted the tree to fall. As we cut the rest of the trunk back side we gradually put tension on the come a long. Thankfully it laid over exactly where we wanted it. The 2nd day we did some tree trimming at my two sons houses. The lift was all 12v electric/hydraulic. It had these hydraulic motor drive wheels. They worked great to get it to the far corner of the back yard. But they seemed rough on the tires when you turned and one wheel had to slip some. Then I’ve spent the rest of the week cutting up limbs at the 3 houses. The C81 got in on the action hauling cut wood up to the driveway. A coworker that heats with wood is going to get about 2 4’x8’ trailer loads of this wood. Someone recently commented the WH tab style trailer hitch was weak, but it had no problem hauling this large heavy section of trunk.

Daughter says my leaf blower doesn't run. Tell me more. Well, I put the wrong gas in with no mix. Oh...... how long did you run it. (typical answer) until it stopped. So anyway the last one I had taken the carb and exhaust off and sprayed with WD40 and got the rings loose again. So I figured this time I would just spray WD in the carb and pull the rope off and on. After a couple hours of putting in the WD, while I worked on other stuff, it seemed like there was some compression. Gave it a shot of start juice and it fired up. Smoked like a forest fire. The longer it ran the better. And it came around. I figure the WD just lubricated the rings enough to let go of the piston. I would call it a save.

Yes @Pullstart, that's exactly what was wrong, I dropped one plate and was able to swing "part 89" forward. Thanks @Ed Kennell for the offer, it appears I have the correct part after all. I also seem to have made the assumption that it was an Attach-a-matic, but as @Handy Don pointed out its pre-Attach-a-matic, the horse is a 72 Raider 12. Here's a shot (from the left side of the reoriented hitch with a "R-clip" holding it back. Given how the moving hitch part (part 89) hangs kind of low, I wonder if it was struck and pushed back at one point. I haven't tried attaching the grader yet, as it turns out, it is rusted tight in an over-angled way where the rear tires interfere. I've got the thing soaked with WD-40, but it hasn't budged yet, I'm probably going to need heat. Thanks for everyone's help. .

Couple Kohler #30 carbs on the bench today.

battery tenders plugged in , fresh oil changes , light bulb reflectors , ready for cold shed starts , chains going on , maybe overkill , will see . Pete

Besides working in my workshop I sometimes have, or want, to make improvements to it and I figured in this topic I would take you along for the ride. First off today was installing a new door and doorframe. The old one was rotted and starting to fall to pieces, literally. My dad made a sweet doorframe out of stainless steel and I repurposed a hardwood door that came out of our home when we renovated the place. Still needs paint but should be good for a few decades I'd say. Old door with flaky paint and rotten underside. New stainless steel doorframe and repurposed hardwood door. Next up was lighting. Few years ago I got some freebie fluorescent lamps but they were old and dying one by one. Having to replace the tubes and/or starters regurarly got kinda lame. Since Black Friday is now also a thing around here I snatched a good deal one some LED units which can be daisy chained up to 20 units. I ordered six of these lamps for about $80,- As a test I installed one.. can you spot it? What can I say? Bright as day! Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

No tag soup for us at the @Pullstart ranch! Nice body 8 point we haven’t seen on camera this season!

Trina built a small wood shed on our side porch with the help of different people over the last few days. Still need to flash the roof line and she'll add some sort of tarp or plastic to the open end. It measures about 40" each way, give or take. Should hold at least a month's firewood.

I drill them out. I have #3 and # 4 taps and a bag of each size screws. Some times luck an if i am well cemented can just clean up the treads and stay same size...

If I'm reading the tag correctly 1979 C-121 8-Speed model 91-12K802 8829 - Build date 1979 9033 February 02 Friday

Ever have something on your mind that made you wake up and head to the shed early morning? I couldn't sleep after receiving my latest Wheel Horse so, I got out of bed at 3 AM and set out to go play with my adult Tonka toy. Figuring it would be a good day, me, my thermos of coffee, and a can of Skoal went out in the darkness. While fumbling for my shop keys a pile of iron jumped out of the bushes and threw me to the ground. After a few minutes of pain and sentence enhancers, I found myself with a torch, plasma cutter and welder surrounding me. I finally fabricated my own box scraper out of a few pieces of 14 gauge flat steel, 2 inch box and a chunk of cutting edge for my 980 CAT. Didn't realize in two hours I finally had a piece of three point equipment I can use. I'm thinking about building my own loader with a few valves and a pump from an excavator....... Inspiration comes out of the strangest places!

Plus equals -7% Boy this new math.

Nice buck, congratulations!! opening day shotgun season in Massachusetts tomorrow. Looking forward to getting out in my home state.

A Tractor Supply 5L820 will probably work fine.

Transmission drive belt 108501 - (HB/5L x 81.50" or 5/8" x 81.5")

@Ed Kennell say hi to Bobby Buché for me! I had the camera in one hand and the trigger in the other on this doe! Under 1 hour til dark time.

Here ya go! 1-7241 1969 Lawn & Garden Tractor Charger 12 Automatic Kohler K301S-47147C12 Sundstrand 90-2046

I have to vote for TSC. Never had a problem with their belts. Plus I have a store 5 mile from my door where I can buy several belts for ~$30 each and return the ones I don't use for a full refund. And get rid of the rubber mounts.

31F and frost this AM. I was in my tree 6:30 - 9 trying to fill a doe tag. NADA. Had to leave on a 76 mile RT to harvest this horse. Back in the tree this evening.

28 and snow. I have 3-1/2 hours to enjoy the outdoors!

@ebinmaine thank you , for what you do ! just a very steady guide on wheel horse service , greasy Pete

I got up at 7:00 am and found @ebinmaine had dropped a question for me two hours earlier, Guess BBT was already cracking the whip to get some work out of him.

Eric you got up earley!

@CCW Ya know it occured to me yesterday afternoon that we have a 312-8 here which is the future frame our Wally Digger Backhoe. Trina and I can get the engine off that later this morning and get your measurements. It needs to be done anyway and won't take but 5 minutes.

Got rental mini excavator and skid steer delivered a week ago Friday at our Ky. property to get started on our driveway. We've been clearing trees, digging stumps and doing dirt work to get the driveway roughed out since then. Lost Tuesday to rain, Wednesday 'cause the red clay was gumbo mud, Thursday was Thanksgiving. I've actually gotten further than I expected. I'm about 300 feet into a 700 foot driveway. Got the first of several culverts installed yesterday. Picture is looking back towards the road: The next couple hundred feet are all side hill. Kind of difficult to do with a skid steer. A dozer with a 6 way blade would be really handy here. Unfortunately, renting one requires a rather large short term insurance policy. However, I think I can get the job done with a box blade with ripper teeth on my 8N - it will just take longer, much longer. Plans for tomorrow are to install the 2nd culvert and start dropping trees for the next couple hundred feet. Will also dig as many stumps as possible, as the equipment will be picked up on Monday. Edit - Sunday got rained out for any dirt work. Red gumbo clay again. I did cut down 6 or 8 trees to clear the way for the driveway. Got 3 chopped up before I ran out of daylight.

Excellent! Here's my setup: Works great!!! (Pay no attention to the handsome gentleman exchanging a tractor in a Meijer parking lot...)

Soon grasshopper. I have blood, gonna let him die for sure and I’m gonna eat some home made kapusta.

we got it running the fuel was clean it was empty when I got it all we had to do was dump some fuel in the carb and she fired right up

I have had decent success lightly heating the shaft - expands it and kills any Loctite bond. Helps, but not perfect. Drill press on HIGH speed, using a sharp #1 or #2 centerdrill. Peck at it until you get a full diameter. Drill thru about 80% of the screw size, then crush the screw inward. Done correctly it does not mar the shaft....

Denali git ‘em!

These are pretty decent, especially for the price. https://www.harborfreight.com/left-hand-drill-bit-set-13-piece-61686.html?_br_psugg_q=left+hand+drill+bits Drilling the hole relieves pressure, then they tend to try and move the screw CCW.

What engine model is this? I need to know if I should sit up and pay attention or not

A few photos now the Zen room is just about finished.

Napa /Gates is world wide. I did ship a TSC belt to our dear departed friend Sir nORM because he didn't want to pay the OEM price. It was still cheaper with the shipping and nORM said the TORO folks over there are terrible. My main point is a lot of folks say you have to use genuine OEM belts on Wheel horses which is a load of baloney.

one of my old neighbors call me a mad scientist. he would get up in the middle of the night and see lightning in the windows of my shop. I too would get up and do things. especially on the weekends because during the week I was up at 4 and gone by 4:30

I hear you loud and clear!! A Wheel Horse is not a fountain or a statue. I'm thinking it's a good show piece for Portage and the I&I show... I have to go to the one in Pennsylvania sometime too

Have a Great Day Cleat

Happy Birthday @cleat! You’ve got some of the nicest tractors on the web!

You can check the battery voltage at rest and while running at half throttle. If there is an increase in voltage your charging system is good to go. It has been some time since you were doing the wiring so I don't remember if you used a solenoid or what light socket you used. The generator light should have two wires coming from it and neither one will be grounded, the Cole-Hersee PL 20 RC is the correct socket. If you used a solenoid and 103-990 ignition switch with a Starter/Generator the drawing below is the one you want to follow.

That buzzing is something I don't hear until I do... Then I can't stop hearing it. Definitely glad the new lights are silent. I thought you may have done so. The door itself. On SOME doors the lower flange (circled in red) is removable at the yellow line. Yours may or may not be. If it is you should pop that off and refinish, then reinstall. If not, just scratch around the edges a little (carefully) to be sure it's attached well protected by paint and/or sealed up right.

Thanks! That is exactly what that is. About the lights buzzing, funny you mentioned that. I thought I was the only one that finds that annoying considering all the other noises in the shop Thanks Eric, I'm liking the lights already. Door and frame will be repainted. The door had some spots where the paint was coming off so I sanded those parts down to check if the wood was still good in those areas. I'm not 100% sure what you mean with the bottom piece? You mean the door or the doorframe? I removed the old concrete sill/doorstep since the stainless doorframe has a built in doorstep.

Yup. Blanket, coat, etc... works but i use a short length of climbing rope or 1" webbing and attach cable to the tractor with a back up prusik knot on the cable. Takes no tension - Only needed if the attachment fails. In this pic visualize green rope as pulley cable and red loop is the prusik going back to the tractor. Red just loosely but securely tied to tractor. If green pulley cable fails, red catches the pulley cable before it can kill or maim... (Blankets fall off...)

I don't have my own trailer, but several times when I've rented a U-Haul trailer, I've attached my 12v winch somewhere at the front of the trailer with heavy thread-locking carabiners and chain, and brought along a spare car battery to power it. Pulled a car that turned out to have one brake locked up onto it, even up a slight incline. If I had my own trailer I think I'd go with the hand winch. With the powered one, run out of juice and you're screwed. Or at least have the hand crank one as a backup. Great idea.

Excellent Idea Tony! I've done a quick n ugly version of the pullererer with a come along. Yours is a nice permanent addition.

I know we're semi-off-topic now, but this reminded me of something that happened many years ago. My former wife and I had bought a small farm with just a small cottage house that we had intended to fix up, but it turned out to have too many issues and we decided to tear it down and start over. My best friend at the time came over to help, driving his Ford Explorer. When we had cut a lot of the studs and joists, he wanted to pull a wall down with his Explorer. Okay, not a terrible idea. But we only had a chain about 25 feet long. We lashed the chain to the top plate at one corner of the house, and to his hitch. After several pulls, it didn't budge and I told him he should stop trying.... no way. He hit it harder, to the point where his back wheels were catching air. Then all at once the chain either broke or came loose at the house end. 25 feet of chain collided with the tailgate of his Explorer. You can imagine the damage that caused. His wife wanted me to pay for the damage - I said "no friggin' way - I told him to stop and he wouldn't listen". Since then I've been very wary of pulling with chains and cables. I don't think I've heard of the blanket trick before but I will certainly be using that in the future, even with a nylon tow strap. Even that could seriously hurt someone or maybe even kill them, or cause significant damage to a vehicle.