Plowing and Blowing snow!

[Ian928 46]

We have for some years been pushing snow with our D-200, and even though the Swedish-made snowblade is attached to the front of the tractor it is working really well. The problem is that me and my girlfriend both love to ride the Wheel Horse, so until now have had to share... Not anymore! We have managed to get the old snowblower that came with our 1054 to work, so now we both can have fun at the same time! We have not made a lift flag and bar for the blower, but it is working good for now. It is really rusty (the PO had left it outside by the sea ), so it is not throwing very far, but we plan to restore it this summer. I took a couple of pictures today, hope you like them!

[Kelly 1,030]

Nice couple of machines you have there, you might try some sandpaper in the shoot and some cheap paint to help the snow slide better, at least till you redo it.

[CasualObserver 3,410]

I was thinking the same thing Kelly... or maybe a wire wheel and some silicone spray just to get you through the season!

Looks like a nice pair. That 1054 looks very nice. :thumbs:

[stevasaurus 22,959]

I agree with Jason & Kelly...very nice set-up you have there...and great pictures....thanks for sharing. :thumbs:

[Ian928 46]

Thank you very much, yes both tractors are good. The D-200 is perfect for heavy work, the hydro is nice and after we fitted it with hydraulic steering it is perfect for pushing snow. It has had a hard life though, it has probably been working hard for a living up until we bought it from a farmer. I hope we can get it into better shape in time, both mechanical and for looks. It now has a 20hp Onan engine, but we also have the original Kohler engine, maybe we will rebuild and refit that.

The 1054 has been taken more care of, and is so nice to drive! We plan to give it a respray also, but other than that it is in great shape!

Oh yes, there is one problem, the AG tires on the 1054 is so high that we can not fit chains (no room between tire and fender), and that means we get stuck easy. Wheel horse parts are not readily available here, but Kirsti suggested I check on this forum if some car rims would fit?

[JimD 3,345]

they both look to be in very good condition, and that smile on your face tells the whole story! nice pics, thanks for sharing them. :thumbs:

[rickv1957 72]

A couple of nice tractors you have! Rick

[driver006 0]

Real nice pics, I really like the 1054 with the ag tires

[Cody 277]

Nice pair of horses you have there, I like the plow on the D looks heavy duty. Do you have any pic's of the power steering?

[wheel horse 1045 2]

now those will get the job done and let you have fun doing it

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,669]

Great pics! I really like the silver rims on the 1054, even better than the original linen color.

Mike.......

[Ken B 3,165]

Sweet heavy duty Horse's you've got there! :thumbs:

[Operator 7]

Ags all around

Nice blade on the D ! Power steering? Were you the one I gave a bit of assistance to on the hose hookup?

Randy

[d180man 5]

Hi very nice tractors! looks like they are doing there job ! and please post some photo of thr steering if you have some just like to see how they did it ? but i know how to do it ! just like photos ! do you like it on there and did they put a pump on it ? but nices ! :WRS:

[Ian928 46]

Hello again and thank you for the nice replys!

Randy, yes we are the ones you helped out earlier, and you will probably be pleased to hear that everything has worked out really nice!

There is another thread on us building the power steering, but here is the basic facts:

We first bought a used steering valve and cylinder from a John Deere 318 tractor on Ebay. We removed the old steering box and the linkages and made up brackets to fit the steering valve in the right position so the steering wheel came in the original position. To our luck, even the splines were compatible, so the original WH steering whel could easily be fitted. We welded an extra arm to the right front hub pointing forwards, and placed the cylinder in front of the front axle, and cut and welded two of the old linkages to connect on the old steering arms between the wheels. By doing this we ended up with a linkage with left-hand threading on one side and right-hand threading on the other, so it is easy to adjust the wheels. The cylinder was quite long, so we had to make up a bracket to fit it too the chassis on the far left of the frame. We then had hoses made up locally, and fitted the steering valve between the feed and the valve block. This means we can not lift the snow blade when we are steering, but you usually don't notice this. The steering is a bit slow on idle, but in normal conditions it is a blast to drive now!

As commented, the snowblade is really heavy duty, it is a Husquerna Professional blade that could probably have handled beeing put on a big tractor.

[Operator 7]

:thumbs: Glad to hear the PS is working great!

Randy

[Lane Ranger 11,057]

Ian: That is some snowfighting set you have there. The D and the 1054 look great and I am sure work great with your snow fighting team!

I was real pleased to see the snowthrower on the 1054!

"Elvira" as you call her I should mention!

It would be great to see some more photos of your setup of the snowthrower on the 1054 tractor.

This is something you don't see very often at all!

[Ian928 46]

I tried to take some more pictures of the power steering earlier today, it is not easy to get a good picture...

I also took a picture of the belt tensioner that we made up for the 1054 (it was lost). I believe our Snow Thrower was orginally a ST374 but we found great information on Mywheelhorse.com and chose to make the tensioner like on a ST375 instead. It is working well! I will try to take more pictures of the complete setup later, but have included the picture of the tensioner below.

On a side note, the name Elvira is from a horse that lived in my girlfriends neighborhood when she was a child. When we found and bought her, we already had the D-200, and the 1054 was so elegant in comparison that she was named after this long-legged horse. The D-200 also has a name, it is named Flode after a stuffed Hippo on a norwegian childrens programme. Here is a picture of Flode, it is maybe not hard to imagine why the D-200 got named after this caracter:

Here is a picture of the steering cylinder on the D-200 (Flode):

And the tensioner on the Snowthrower on the 1054 (Elvira):

[Lane Ranger 11,057]

:thumbs:

Ian:

Thank you for the closeup on the idler pulley for Elivra's snowthrower!

Looks like you have the control arm on your snowthrower also. I looked up the ST374 and ST375 manuals on wheelhorse.org (see below) and the ST 375 made several improvements to the ST374 from the looks of the drawings.

I was real pleased to see you using the snowthrower on Elivra as that is the first time I have every seen a snowthorwer used on one of the 1054's!

Great to see it in operation.

http://www.wheelhorse.org/manuals/Prior%20...Attachments.pdf

[Ian928 46]

Hmmm... when I look at those drawings, I see that it probably is the ST-375 we have anyway! The reason I belived it had to be a ST-374 is that the PO told us it had a Idler pulley on the snout of the tractor, and only the ST-374 had this. I now undestood that the tensioner also served as a clutch on the ST-374, and that is not the case on Elvira as you pointed out.

The PO also had a beatiful Snow Blade, I think it probably is a BD-543/6-1121, at least it had the possibility to tilt the blade with a handle. Unfortunately the PO had thrown this even closer to the sea than the snowblower, so the blade and most of the structure was rusted to pieces. I brought it home and hope to use it as a template and reconstruct it.

[rickv1957 72]

Really like them D-Series tractors! Rick

[Lane Ranger 11,057]

Ian: Any chance you can post a few more photos of how your snowthrower attaches to the frame of the 1054 and how you attached the flag at the rear for the hydraulic lift?

The Wheel Horse implement manuals for the ST-375 and ST-374 leave a lot to be desired about attaching them to the tractor!

B)

[Roger from southern Iowa 1]

Ian, Great looking team of horses! It's great to see two fine machine being cared for and put to good use so far from my part of the world. :party:

[Ian928 46]

Ian: Any chance you can post a few more photos of how your snowthrower attaches to the frame of the 1054 and how you attached the flag at the rear for the hydraulic lift?

The Wheel Horse implement manuals for the ST-375 and ST-374 leave a lot to be desired about attaching them to the tractor!

Lane Ranger,

The blower attaches to the two holes at the front of the tractor. In the drawing below you can see that a special bolt should be used (no 56), with a flanged bushing on one end and a loose flange bushing on the other end (no 53). The point is that these should fit in the bigger holes on the blower. The bushings shall be tightened stuck to the tractor and the the blower bracket should slide against the bushings, the bushings should not slide against the bolt. We did not have this parts but we had new bushings made up and used a threaded bar cut to lenght.

We have not made up a lift flag yet, it was also missing when we got the blower, and the lift bar also. It is number 68 on the drawing below. It is a little different than most lift flags I have seen here in that there are to "flags" to enable it to go outside the original bracket for the hydraulic lift.

[Lane Ranger 11,057]

Thanks Ian for the clarification.

One more question, so you have to take the piece off the right side front of the 1054 frame that is used on the 48 inch more deck (seen in the photo below -held on by two bolts and nuts) attached to the front of the frame under the front cowling in order to put the snowthrower frame on with the #56 bolt in the drawing you provided?

Also do you use the second hole from the front on the tractor on the frame to attach the snowthrower frame to with the #56 long bolt?

You can clearly see in this second photo: