Oops we did it again...horse wrangling

[kthack657 279]

While on Facebook yesterday a fellow redsquare member put out a wheelhorse that was on the market place.  I pretty much ignored it because Jim was not home and I didnt know what time he was getting home and he has the truck.  When he got home, I mentioned it but he did not seem to be interested so I left it there.  Sooo...yesterday after driving 600 miles home from a car show in MI, Jim sees the same post on Facebook and was like "why didn't you tell me about this?" I was like "I did and you didn't seem interested" long story short he thought I said 1054, not 1045 and so he messaged the guy and the guy said if you have cash and can get here tonight, it is yours...bring help because it is heavy.  So we put our little trailer on the truck and headed out.  The trans is not locked up and the engine turns over, Jim believes that it would have started if the points are cleaned...not bad for a piece of "lawn art" that hasn't been run in 10+ years. It sat on a raised concrete slab, and it was rougher than the pictures showed.  The guy said he originally picked it up in his minivan...that takes balls!!.  The front and rear tires are SHOT and are not salvageable there are rust holes in the deck and the lights thatvare on the front are mismatched but it is all there and that is all that really matters...this one is getting restored!!

Edited August 20, 2018 by kthack657

[stevebo-(Moderator) 8,330]

Glade to see you got that one Karen. These are getting harder and harder to find. 

[Pullstart 62,831]

Ahh the round fender square hood!  Was just talking about one of those the other day...  Maybe that’ll be in my big show shopping list next year!

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,314]

Owning one of that model is on my "wish-list"....congrats!

  To bad those front tires are shot.

[ebinmaine 67,398]

Love to see the resto thread on this one.

 

 

[Retired Wrencher 5,450]

Nice find Karen. I hope you enjoy the project. Is this clean up get running / or a restore?

[Tankman 3,518]

Years ago, when I lived on Brownsville Road (Trevose), had a Horse that looked similar when I found it.

Fab'ed a deck, 316L stainless steel.

 

Great find! My son loved that 1st Horse!

Edited August 22, 2018 by Tankman

[Chris T 355]

Good to see that one went to someone on here! Almost went to snag it but couldn’t justify the 4 hour drive after having a busy weekend! Definitely needs a good restore! 

[kthack657 279]

4 hours ago, Retierd Wrencher said:

Nice find Karen. I hope you enjoy the project. Is this clean up get running / or a restore?

This will be a restore project...we are also planning on a "mini me" project to go along with it...but first we need to put some new sneakers on it...or should I say better sneakers on it so we can push it around.  

[kthack657 279]

Hey Tankman, is the brownsville road you are talking about near Trevose, PA?? if so you were right around the corner from me

[wfrpalm 218]

What does the 4 in 1045 stand for?

[953 nut 55,164]

33 minutes ago, wfrpalm said:

What does the 4 in 1045 stand for?

As we all know the center digit of "0" was a pull start, "5" was electric start and "7" was electric start automatic transmission.

We also know how thrifty the Ponds were and that "Special" tractors were created to use up left over parts from the previous model.

That being said the "4" in 1045 means "we have these leftover round fenders and will make the 1045 until they are used up!"    

 

[kthack657 279]

Well we have started to dig into this tractor...the engine has compression, spark and fuel but will not start...we have cleaned the points too, any ideas what could be wrong??

 

Also the spindles have been welded, the deck is junk, but if anyone needs parts off of the deck let me know, it will go to the scrap yard on Saturday at the latest...just to give you an idea how bad it is, the middle is a hole, no metal to be found...not olanning on using it for mowing, but figure someone may neex something