What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[19richie66 17,508]

@WheelHorse_Kid Awesome to see a young man working on something. Looks like your dad has a nice collection. He should be proud. 👍

Edited November 3, 2022 by 19richie66

[ebinmaine 67,567]

12 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

@WheelHorse_Kid Awesome to see a young man working on something. Looks like your dad has a nice collection. He should be proud. 👍

Nice folks Richie.  You'd like 'em.  

[WHGuy413 2,693]

@19richie66 thank you. He definitely has been hooked by the horse bug now that he has several of his own. He’s a hard worker.

 

@ebinmaine thank you for those kind words. I’ve definitely tried to raise all my kids to be good people. At some point we will have to find time to get together I’m sure Alex would like to meet you. Someone’s already hinting that he wants me to bring him to the big show in 2023.

Edited November 3, 2022 by WHGuy413

[953 nut 55,290]

11 hours ago, WHGuy413 said:

I’ve definitely tried to raise all my kids to be good people. At some point we will have to find time to get together. Someone’s already hinting that he wants me to bring him to the big show in 2023

Looks like you are doing it right. Not too many kids have a father that take the time to share his hobby with them, even fewer fathers have a son that is interested in spending all their time with dad.   Lucky son, lucky dad.        

[Monstrosity 1,128]

Finally finished the SEMA build in time for delivery, pumpkin haunted house season is over .. and  finally started putting the snowthrower back together... now the fuel pump is over powering the float in the carb. Cleaned the original carb put that back on and still doing the same thing.... bypassed fuel pump and now starving for fuel.. What am I missing???

[TonyToro 1,049]

17 hours ago, WHGuy413 said:

@19richie66 thank you. He definitely has been hooked by the horse bug now that he has several of his own. He’s a hard worker.

 

@ebinmaine thank you for those kind words. I’ve definitely tried to raise all my kids to be good people. At some point we will have to find time to get together I’m sure Alex would like to meet you. Someone’s already hinting that he wants me to bring him to the big show in 2023.

So good to see another generation interested in these old tractors. Way to go! Your boy seems to have the same interest as mine. If he’s not on a machine doing leaves,grass or just hauling something… it’s not a good day. 😂 

 

Not only is he learning it’s just great quality time together. Can’t replace it.

 

[TonyToro 1,049]

2 hours ago, Monstrosity said:

Finally finished the SEMA build in time for delivery, pumpkin haunted house season is over .. and  finally started putting the snowthrower back together... now the fuel pump is over powering the float in the carb. Cleaned the original carb put that back on and still doing the same thing.... bypassed fuel pump and now starving for fuel.. What am I missing???

Is the float adjusted correctly? 
 

My buddy is in Sema today. Can you message me about your truck? 

[WHGuy413 2,693]

23 minutes ago, TonyToro said:

So good to see another generation interested in these old tractors. Way to go! Your boy seems to have the same interest as mine. If he’s not on a machine doing leaves,grass or just hauling something… it’s not a good day. 😂 

 

Not only is he learning it’s just great quality time together. Can’t replace it.

 

Without the next generation our hobby dies. It’s great seeing everyone be supportive of him and other kids that are on this site. A lot of people just see kids as a pain and getting in the way. Mines learning from all of you who have been supportive it’s great. He is the one and only reason I got back into these tractors after the last 4 years of not doing a thing with them.

Edited November 3, 2022 by WHGuy413

[ebinmaine 67,567]

10 minutes ago, WHGuy413 said:

people just see kids as a pain ..... 

 

That's how most folks see me too.  

 

 

[The Freightliner Guy 1,327]

It’s good seeing kids my age interested in old stuff like this most kids my age don’t care about this stuff and don’t appreciate it   I love seeing kids into this stuff others would call junk.

 

Kollin

[8ntruck 7,015]

Spent the majority of the afternoon today on Morgan, the 14-8, in third gear at 3/4 throttle towing the lawn sweeper around.  Good day for the activity.  Good breeze, dry leaves - a combination that worked almost too well.  Anyhow, it looks like about 90% of the leaves in the 40 or so trees on our property are down and disposed of.

 

That lawn sweeper is getting really loose.  Think I'll buy a new one before next fall so I don't get caught with a broken, unrepairable sweeper when I also have a leaf covered lawn.

[WHGuy413 2,693]

@8ntruck I remember when I was a kid my grandfather made me push his lawn sweeper around his yard so I wouldn’t destroy it. Yes it was a tow behind version but apparently he didn’t think I could back up. I’ve been thinking about finding one to use on my front lawn. The oak trees across the street tend to drop their leaves randomly and it would be easier to pick them up with that then digging the whole leaf vac out. I try to only do that once or twice

[8ntruck 7,015]

with a lawn sweeper being effectively a short trailer, they are difficult to back up.

 

I know what you mean about oak trees randomly dropping leaves.  The majority of my trees are oaks - a mix of red oak and white oak.  Yup, the different types drop leaves at different times.  Some of the trees hang onto some leaves all winter.

[ebinmaine 67,567]

17 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

with a lawn sweeper being effectively a short trailer, they are difficult to back up.

 

I know what you mean about oak trees randomly dropping leaves.  The majority of my trees are oaks - a mix of red oak and white oak.  Yup, the different types drop leaves at different times.  Some of the trees hang onto some leaves all winter.

 

We find the beech trees to be sporadic as well.

That can get interesting considering we live in a forest and it's 70 plus percent beech.

[WHGuy413 2,693]

I finally dismounted the old dry rotted tires off my 416H. My plan was to put tubes in them but @TonyToro had these brand new ones that I bought a few weeks ago. Spent a few minutes at the shop at work, while waiting for my daughter to get out of her job, utilizing the tire machine while Alex tinkered on his new project that we picked up tonight. I will let him share about that one. 

[davem1111 2,030]

Needed to make room for the minivan in the other section of the garage (other side of that door in the background), which is where I had been storing most of the Hosses.  So I re-arranged some things and moved them all in here. 

 

Done working on the minivan now, so I'm going to do some more cleanup and organizing, since right now I have to climb over the deck on the 312-A just to get to the section of the garage behind the tractors.

 

BTW, I have a muffler on the way, to make a stack on the GT-1848 in the foreground.  I have an old twin muffler that's shot but the headers are good, and look like they will fit. So I'm planning to make a 2-into-1 header then mount the new muffler vertically. Then I can repair the hood. Hoping to do at least a "decent" bodywork/repaint on it, and get new decals.  Not a full restore but it will look a heck of a lot better. 

 

 

 

[8ntruck 7,015]

@davem1111 what kind of muffler do you have on the way?  The muffler on my C-195 is shot, and I am casting about for a replacement.  Your 2 into 1 header and vertically mounted muffler is what I had in mind.

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,596]

New headlight cover for E 141 that serves as the Engine for the SL&WHN RR...!!! You can compare with stock in the photo below. 3D on right, stock on left. I like 3D's better...

  

 

Thanks @Wheel Horse 3D!!! Great job and outstanding quality! 

 

Oh... and  Cookie cutter No. 1...

 

 

 

[rick 233]

I replaced the ignition switch and the hood hinge wear items on the 1997 314-8.  I got the hood hinge goodies from Lowell's site.  I have another hood hinge kit for the 1991 416-H and I need to do the switch on that one as well.  No pics, we all know what they look like...

[Wheelhorse#1 1,666]

31 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

New headlight cover for E 141 that serves as the Engine for the SL&WHN RR...!!! You can compare with stock in the photo below. 3D on right, stock on left. I like 3D's better...

  

 

Thanks @Wheel Horse 3D!!! Great job and outstanding quality! 

 

Oh... and  Cookie cutter No. 1...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent work !! Where's the cookies ?

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,567]

42 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

@davem1111 what kind of muffler do you have on the way?  The muffler on my C-195 is shot, and I am casting about for a replacement.  Your 2 into 1 header and vertically mounted muffler is what I had in mind.

 

 

Bill what's the distance from pipe to pipe on the header you're looking for?

I might have a piece here you can use. 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,596]

5 minutes ago, Wheelhorse#1 said:

 

 

Excellent work !! Where's the cookies ?

 

 

 

Gathering parts, supplies and data... will post necessary updates as testing prototypes commences...  

[Blasterdad 2,692]

Too windy today for leaf duty, ( wind advisory, 60 mph gusts ).

So what is a hard working man supposed to do? Perfect excuse to feed my addiction & go pick these bad boys up! 

Carlisle HD Field Trax 24-12-12'S next to 23-8.50-12'S, I have a set of 520 rims they will fit nicely on.

Now I can post in Wide Rear Wednesday soon 

 

 

[8ntruck 7,015]

4 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Bill what's the distance from pipe to pipe on the header you're looking for?

I might have a piece here you can use. 

 

I'll measure tomorrow, when there is enough light in the stable to see.

We've had a little rain recently, so it was not a good day to process the leaves that appeared on the lawn, negating my last round of leaf clean up.  Instead, between rain showers, I got one of Clyde, the C-195, front wheels wirebrushed, primed and painted with Navajo White.  I figure I'll mount the tires this fall, then shoot another coat of Navajo White next spring using the playing card trick.

 

While I was wire brushing, the high winds that were forecast started.  I was rather pleased to watch a large heard of leaves blow across my back yard, across the neighbor's lot and disappear into the woods.

Edited November 6, 2022 by 8ntruck

[davem1111 2,030]

17 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

@davem1111 what kind of muffler do you have on the way?  The muffler on my C-195 is shot, and I am casting about for a replacement.  Your 2 into 1 header and vertically mounted muffler is what I had in mind.

 

 

 

I ordered one of these. I think it should be fairly easy to adapt to the header since I'm going to make it myself. Hopefully I'm not wrong, but it wasn't expensive. And hopefully it's stable enough without using the brace and I'll just cut that part off.  If not, I'll fabricate a brace of some kind, I guess. Or try something else.