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Give Anna Baldwen a hand Historically, cows were all milked by hand and a previous study indicated that 40% of the dairy workers had problems with their back and 30% with neck and shoulder injuries. In response to the magnitude and expense of labor in dairy practices, the development of milking machines has undergone a revolution in technological innovation since the 19th century. In 1879, Anna Baldwen, a New Jersey farmer, invented and patented the first mechanical milking machine in the United States known as the Hygienic Glove Milker. This machine included a hand pump connected to a container with rubber cups that fit all four teats of the cow Since then, pulsation, which was achieved by a hand-pump or foot-pump design, was considered by inventors to further improve milking efficiency. In 1898, the famous Thistle machine was the first to incorporate such a pulsator into the design, which combined a steam-driven pump to affect both suction and squeezing movements This key development and the recognition of the utility of pulsation contributed to it becoming and remaining one of the main components of milking technology to the present day. So, the basic components of a modern machine are a vacuum system and pulsation, as a means of transportation and collection of milk, both of which can be traced back to these early machines. From 1860 to the late 1870s, Baldwin filed for total of five patents, one of which was a reissue for an earlier patent, which had a large impact on dairy farming. Baldwin received her first patent in 1868 for a device that offered an improved method of treating milk to produce pomade and butter. This invention would allow farmers to produce pomade and butter at a significantly faster rate, which led to an increase in income. One year later, in 1869, Baldwin designed two new inventions, one was an improved milk separator and the other was an improved milk cooler. Baldwin would later reissue a patent for her milk cooler to implement some improvements to her design in 1871. Again, the main point being addressed is how to maximize farmers' output for commercial sale and use.

Some of you may remember the Wooden Wheel Horse Head I made some years back. My Wooden Horse. - non tractor related discussion - RedSquare Wheel Horse Forum I have had requests but never had the time, or took the time, to make another one. This winter while being homebound taking care of Mrs K. I had time and needed an indoor project when @AMC RULES PMed me requesting one. Mrs K has been recovering from foot surgery and has been in a wheel chair for two months. So, I made a couple dozen of these smaller versions. They are all hand made and imperfect with poor paint. I have about 15 left that I can bring to the show. So, I have one reserved or you Craig.

Yup you read that right. A guy listed it locally as make an offer. I messaged him and told him my son was interested and tried to gauge what he was thinking. He texted me the next morning and said “if it’s really for your son we will work out a price by the evening” later in the day he messaged me a picture from a drive through coffee place with a total of 6 bucks and change. He said “your son can have it for my afternoon coffee, I splurged today” I didn’t think he was serious but he was 100% serious. Super nice guy. Said he used to have a ton of wheel horse stuff laying around but his kid tossed it. Was happy to see a kiddo into small engines and sold it to him for 7 bucks.

My in-the-cellar setup... Reverse rotation E-lectric motor. Work it thru all the gears - flush with diesel & drain twice.....

Happy Father's Day to all you folks that have little enthusiasts in the making...!

Getting these ready for the big show.

Hi all! A gentleman I bought a tractor from a few years ago reached out and asked if I had an interest in his family's 856 and implements. They've owned it since new, always kept it in the garage and have all the original documentation. I own primarily 300/500 Series and don't know much about the 8XX Series. It has a known carburetor issue and a broken spindle on the deck. Those are the only known issues. He's selling a lot, which includes: tractor, deck, snow blower, homemade trailer, bottom plow, disc plow, other. The seller is a great guy and if I decide to buy it, I want to make a fair offer. Having said that, what is a fair offer?

Put the last coat of paint on the tins...and finished painting the small parts. Looks like assembly starts next weekend!

Other than the attach-a-matic EB pointed out, these are all parts that are mounted to a deck. They only have that one function, but they are period correct for the 1067.

Morgan, the 14-8 got a workout today. The 48' plow was installed, and we got some dirt work done on the lake house deck project. Morgan does not have any additional weights or chains, I got the Troy Built Pony out to 'tenderize' the dirt that needed moving. Was surprised that the tiller started on the first pull today - especially since it hasn't been run in about 3 years. it has developed a gas leak, though. Going to have to run that down. Anyhow, picture of the site after the Pony had pranced through: After about 20 minutes of Horse & blade work, things looked like this: Looks like a yard or yard and a half of sand was moved. 3/4 throttle in 2nd gear low range. Not surprisingly, I ran out of traction before I ran out of horsepower.

A lawn care service.

@ebinmaine got to wonder sometimes what engineers are thinking. I myself made some refrigerator magnets and trying to get stuff ready to take to the show. Have some more to make today. plus trying to get this thing ready to go up there as well.

@mrc we tried that but lifted up both sides we will try again tommrow, @jmc that is sweet looking, and in the glove box all it says is camper loading information, its a blue sticker. AND IT DOES RUN!!! we did not ever try starting it because the tech at my dads shop said it didn't run, 2nd crand fired right up, it misses but at about 1/4 throttle it will run, we moved it a bit it will run about 10 feet then die, but cant beat that for free, thanks, and I polished all the chrome the bumper and the trim that was left with a sos pad, and washed it

@Keaton Did you open the glove box and look at all the RPO #'s to see what options the truck was built with ? This is a pic of the partial list for my 86 Chevy K-20. There are more than just this number for a camper special package Z81 is this one. It may head you in the right direction. Also the belt moulding at the base of the rear window where it wraps around usually had some sort of emblem denoting that package. Good luck.

So awesome to see kids into tractors and small engines. My son is the reason I’m on this page. While his friends are enjoying the latest video game or battery powered scooter, he’s happy getting something running or restoring an old WheelHorse. These kids are far few between. There are a few on here and it’s great to see them carrying along a skill that may soon be in the past. Way to go DAD!

Spent the last 7 days in Menorca on holiday. Surprisingly a lot of American history on the island from naval days. Apparently you chaps declared war on us Brits a few years ago and buggered off to Menorca because we wouldn't let you play in Gibraltar. There is a cemetery where around twenty American sailors are buried and other things of interest like admiral David Farragutt, the US navy's first ever admiral. There's a statue of him in ciutadella as his dad was born there in the 1700s. I heard a few American accents so there are some cruise ship passengers looking round. Finally we saw a lovely American registered sailing yacht, the Kaori, which does charters all over the world. Sleeps 8 people so if a few folk club together they could afford the $ 155,000 a week charter fee! Home tomorrow so we will be back to the wettest year on record so far.

I'm coming with the snow blower on just to be safe. Better to have and not need than to need and not have, right?

Dustin' em off for the show.

Hey @Pullstart put mine on @WHX?? tab too then

I painted this one with a HF gun with Rustoleum IH red, Acetone and hardener.

You posted this under ELECTRICAL, what "Constant need for repairs" are you experiencing? An occasional battery replacement and cleaning and tightening ALL electrical component connections including grounds will generally be the only electrical maintenance needed. Any NEW lawn/garden tractor you buy will have a much more complex wiring system than what you now have. As for the mechanical end, annual oil changes, filter replacement and lubrication seems to work well on my 1989 310-8 and the rest of the herd which are much older. Using gas that is ethanol free and the occasional addition of some Seafoam gas treatment prevents fuel system problems. If you bur a NEW anything, regardless of brand you are going to have to do basic maintenance and newer products are cheaply built (Planned Obsolesce) with plastic bushings in place of bearings for the front wheels, and parts that can only be ordered from the dealer that are no longer available after a few years forcing you to buy a new unit because the one you bought a few years back can't be fixed.

I found that the minimum space should be no less than 2" more than a large jug of oil or anti-freeze.

At $ 700 to $ 800 you could sell off the plow, discs, cultivators, cart and snow blower ending up with a free 856 in very nice condition.

Trina and her momma spent a good portion of yesterday afternoon cutting and putting up the insulation on the long wall. @JCM and I have talked a couple times about what he did and what we should do. I've seen his setup. Good call Jim. I gotta say... I'd recommend this Reflectix for two reasons right now. 1. We can already feel very slight variances in temperature from different areas of the ceiling and walls. 2. The light reflected back is fantastic. As humans age we need more and whiter illumination to see what we're working on/ with. The increase in vision is just excellent.

Super busy day yesterday. We had planned on making a trip to my parent's house but the Honda Pilot starter.. didn't. The repair shop is about 2 weeks out. So we commenced to removal. Neither of us is super keen on repairing vehicles but we figured it would either come out or we'd do what we could and have it towed over there anyway. Well after a few YouTube videos and trying to figure the ways of hidden bolts and the minds of engineers we got the problem part out. Note the connecting wire between starter and solenoid. My guess is that corrosion degraded the wire to a point where the current didn't have enough room to move and welded things. Remanufactured unit arrives Monday. After that escapade I started organizing and putting away tools from the old basement workshop back up to the barn. I also took some time to remove the magnet mounts from the headlamps of my '75 C160 Automatic and make them permanent drilled holes. The magnets were constantly dropping down the side of the hood. Trina and her momma cut and installed the insulation on the long wall of the new workshop. Then they split some firewood.

Good day to day moved 16 yards of wet heavy crusher base for a driveway with the old 520H and after a few tanks of gas the motor stop hunting a few pictures and a video. Thanks to this amazing site and people for all the help in fixing the old girl up. IMG_5128.mov

I use kerosene. Fill it and drive it slowly for a few minutes in tight circles using all gears to scrub all the gear teeth. Raise the front end and drain it. If it looks dirty, repeat till it looks clean. Then fill with 90w. gear oil. I save the dirty kerosene and mix it one to five with used motor oil to treat fence posts, fence boards, trailer deck boards, trailer springs, etc.

Well, I wouldn't waste Marvel Mystery Oil when regular diesel or kerosene would do just fine.

Thanks to all the folks helping me get my parts together for the C-120. Just to confirm details... @Pullstart you have the steering wheel and @rjg854 you have the hood. Still need the 1 piece belt guard (not attached to the footboard). @WHX?? or @adsm08 do either have one you can bring to the big show? Anybody providing parts message me if you need $$ for the parts. @953 nut will be bringing parts back to Georgia for me and HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all the Dads out there!

Shelving is like a horse barn ... never big enough or have too many....

@Racinbob With a story like that I'd agree. Might not be quite perfect but the imperfections are constant reminders of the past you've had with the tractor and owner.

What clear are you using? I'm no painter and aren't doing anything special. But working at Napa I made and sold a lot of paint and listened to every body shop guy I ran into. Hardener seems to make the enamel dry faster but it still seems brittle to me. I think maybe the Rustoleum maybe is a low solids paint. I just painted this blower housing for my 1467 a couple of weeks ago. It's replacing a dented one. I got it at the show last year and screwed up and painted it Regal Red with clear over it. About an hour after I did it I remembered I had painted the tractor a slightly different red. It was a color I picked out in a chip book at Napa and I sprayed it as a single stage Urethane. So I let the housing sit 6 months or so. I got a spray can of the red I used mixed up at Napa and then tested things. Took a piece of metal and sprayed Regal Red and cleared it and let it sit a few weeks. Then I sprayed the Napa paint over the Rustoleum and cleared that with the Rustoleum clear. Looked great so went ahead and sprayed the Napa paint with the Rustoleum clear right over the year old paint with no sanding or scuffing. I think it came out pretty decent. I got a run it it but I'm not to worried about it as the hood will hide some of it.

I think Kohler used better paint than Wheel Horse did. The paint on my barn find 953's engine is reasonably red, the rest of the pant is nonexistent.

My parts list in the service manual shows a p/n 7197 as an axle gear. In any case all the woodruff keys are hardware store stuff.

I like 18" on center for general stuff shelving. I use gallon paint cans to store small stuff, no critter get in and small enough that they don't become a catch-all.

Always a good idea to keep critters out.

Are you going to use plastic totes on the shelving? Measure height of those and add a couple inches.

I'm pulled in that direction too. For years when we visited our kids in Walkerton I would often see the neighbor mowing but I didn't know it was my tractor. He was too far away. They had 5 acres and he mowed all of it 1-2 times a week. Shortly before moving back up here in 2017 we were planning a trip up to visit and my daughter said Larry asked if I'd look at his tractor when I was up there. Ya gotta ask?? I had restored a Commando 800 for our grandson and he loved it. I went over there and was shocked to see that it was my old tractor. I drove the Commando over there and knew the second I pulled in the driveway. That was the first time I had met him and we really hit it off. He really took care of his stuff and we had so many similarities like tractors, firearms, woodworking, OCD and more.. A year or so after we moved back he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and only lasted a couple months. I helped his wife, Louan, with a few things and when she told me that it was Larry's favorite tractor and he'd only want one person to have it. It was a happy, sad moment. It had the 48" deck that I had purchased new in about 1980 and, in spite of the tremendous amount of mowing it was 100% rust free. After every mowing I always scraped the clumped grass off allowing it to air dry. I figured he must have too. I asked Louan and she said 'I don't know but he was always under there doing something after he mowed'. We were two peas in a pod. I pondered doing a refurb at that time but I hesitated because that tractor and deck would not have still been in that condition had it not been for him and his finicky ways. It was my little tribute to guy who would have been a great friend. That's still on my mind.

I love hearing the boundless enthusiasm of a young gearhead anticipating his next escapade. Keep posting you adventure.

I'll toss out a guesstimate at $700 to $800 for the whole package. A plus - looks to be an original HL light kit. A potential big minus - the "broken spindle" on the deck. That usually happens by hitting a stationary object while mowing at WOT. Most likely, the cast iron spindle housing plate underneath is cracked... and not too easy to find a suitable replacement.....

Whatever you buy is gonna need maintenance. I'm not aware of ANY modern brand worth the investment in long term ownership in comparison to products made 30 years ago. 3 to 5 years from now .. or less.. you'll be right back to where you are now with repair needs. Trina and I wouldn't use anything else but a Wheelhorse at this point. We've done several restorations. All have been very functional since. If I was looking for a machine that would require absolute minimum maintenance I'd find a gem cherry of a low hours Horse and buy that. They're out there.....

Its too far from me or I would probably be interested.

If you want to make it look better then when you bought it new, I say go for it. The memory of your friend will still be there. Bill that gave me the 312-8 died Friday. He had been fighting cancer for a about three years. He didn't give up easy had still been going to Thursday night music where he played until two weeks ago. I started taking him in March when he didn't trust himself to drive. I had spent most Sunday afternoon with him for a number of years. His wife had dementia and he cared for her, couldn't talk her because he have to answer the same question five or six times. He was in the Airforce for twenty years. I was a short timer with the Navy. Spent time in Vietnam and the far East. He was given the tractor about six years back and gave it to me back in January. So to protect it plan to paint it as it has a lot of rusted areas that were already there when Bill got it.

Yeah, odds are in 30 years your 314 could be still ticking and likely no new machine today will be. I’d be interested as to what the constant repairs and maintenance consist of? My go-to tractor is my 1962 502 and it can do everything but mow. It could, but it would take me a year to get my 3 acre lawn done compared to my zero turn.

Well make sure you get one then. I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes with anything I make. I do scavenge the internet looking for pictures and text to make these. I asked Karl about the Redsquare logo but never got an answer. Just trying to come up with stuff no one is making.

107983 3-blade set replaces 107437 left and right blades (12-1/8") and 107438 center blade (14-1/8") (Hole 3/4" round)