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Coat(s) lol

When you finish painting it, Wheel Horse red of course, please ship it to Oologah Oklahoma and I will be very appreciative, lol

Best Wishes on your Birthday, hope you have a great day

Yep, gotta get the suck leveled out

HMS Sprinter could take port in Bermuda

I picked this CASE trailer up in Union, New Jersey (close to 2000 miles from me) for 100.00, it cost almost that to ship it to I.T., no matter. It has a 1" axle, stake sides, these are not very common, so I had to add it to the stable. Also went onto the Osage Indian reservation and pulled this 56" Wheel Horse dozer blade out of the weeds, 150.00 for the blade and I still have my hair.

I think there are some bits or handles missing from the lifter, but if you send it by post to Oklahoma this fall I will try it out and let you know how well it works

I hope you consider the gauge wheel. Its an extra convenience and you should charge handsomely for it.

Added lights and a jack

I bought an old trailer at auction a few months back and I am getting around to fixing it up a bit. Two coats of Industrial enamel with hardener and reducer made the metal look fairly good, after three hours sanding and prepping. I used some left over oil base rusty metal primer, oil stain, and varnish to make a paint stew for the old wood, Then I made some tali light brackets from some left over metal bits. Later this week I will install the wiring, attach the lights, and finally install the jack mount and tongue jack. Before and after pictures below.

What are the ruts in the yard for? Looks like the grass was a tad high, I think the grass gauge was at bale, not mow, lol. Looks like the WH is doing fine.

I've really struggled with the issue of painting for many reasons. First, I want the type and quality of paint to be the same as original, not better, not worse, not different, if at all possible. Second i don't want a trailer queen and i think if I had it painted up, I might not use it. Lastly, I'm not sure that keeping it original isn't the right thing to du as in old furniture. You know what I mean. I have somewhat restored my Massey MF-16 and My Bolens H16, but all other are as I found them as far as paint is concerned.

Does the plough raise higher?

When You get a chance I think we would all love to see a video of the Gutbrod in action, even just puttering around. Thanks

Thanks Andrew, it is really enjoyable to be able to use them, as you know yourself, that's why we try to attain and collect these great machines.

I would try to find something bigger, and a tandem, even if I had to make it. something like the Brinly I have on the Ariens or the Cub Cadet tandem disc , or a cut down section of farm disc. The extra width and second row will really mulch things up.

You would be surprised how well a tandem disc works after plowing, it will do nearly as well as a rotavator with less moving parts and far less crowns.

I'm the highest spot in this part of the county, it seems the wind averages about 25 mph every day, but I'm sure its not that high, although last month we had several days of 40 mph+ winds. and its been 15-20 mph for a week.

I bought 4 of these rear lights for my D's, they look almost like the OEM lights, but are 6 LED models, 5.39 each and free shipping.

I'm going to keep it barn fresh for the most part, at least that's the plan. I have another set of rear tail lights that look almost identical, but are LED, and I will be mounting a rear work light and a directional hand adjusting spotlight to the left side of the dash cowl. It will get the lower dash from the Onan powered tractor that has the electric PTO switch, and it will get a single pulley electric PTO on the front rather than the stock Manual pulley, that set up will go on the other D-160

The Maxxis Ceros 27x9-15 is a great AG alternative, that works on turf as well, its the tires on my second D-160, the last picture.

You'll need to engineer some ground effects to keep it down on the track and a rear spoiler as well as air flow system through and behind rear wheels. Of course, much of these modifications could be done to, or on, the driver. I can tell you it will have some serious steering issues to overcome when cornering with those front wheels, might be better to make them solid and just drift into and out of turns.

They do bulge a tad. As you might, or might not know there are two D series rim sizes, 12" and 15", I have both, but it is almost impossible to find an AG tire in 15 inch. There are two choices 6.7-15 inch wide (which is actually a implement or pedestrian tractor tire), which would also bulge on a 7 inch wide 15" Wheel Horse rim, REALLY look stupid, The next 15 inch tire available is the 30x12-15 Carlisle Tru Powers which wont fit, because the tires would be too tall. The 30" tires I have are on the wide 10" rims and because of the wide rim they only measure 29" tall, the wide rim pulls them down, just like a pinching in on narrower rim would push them up. If I had opted for the 30x12-15 Tru-Powers on the 7-15 wheel Horse rims it would have pushed them up over 31", wouldn't fit. I really had no choice unless I wanted to lift the rear fenders and have it jacked up in back like a Serbian Yugo. I could have kept the same size all around, but the tires on most GTs were designed for mowing, wide/short tires all the way around, I wanted these tractors to have some ground clearance. To give you a good example of what I mean, other than setting to plow next to George and his Gutbrod look at the last picture in my post of my other D-160 with the the 27x9-15 Maxxis Ceros tires, they measure out at almost 28" tall because they are 9 inch wide tires on a stock wheel horse 7 inch wide rims that pushed the tire upward almost an inch. Now glance at the middle of the tractor to the angle adjustment on the snow plow, see how low it is to the ground even with 27x9-15 rears and 4-10 fronts, it is 1-1/2" inches closer to the ground with stock tires. Interco offers a 27x7.5-12 and -14 tire just like this one, but I would have to find a 6 hole narrower rim. Can you start to see my dilemma?

Going with the electric clutch rather than the manual clutch on this D-160 for the rear PTO and will put the manual clutch with the double pulley on the other D that will run a mower if I get another rear PTO.

It is a 1965 model, but seems to be in good order 1-1/2 hp 220 volt, big tank, should supply all the air I need, also a picture of a old Linde welder I painted ESAB yellow, since the bought Linde some time ago