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The trailer is a 1 ton bed from a old 1970 Dodge truck that once belonged to the Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers turned Oklahoma into a water wonderland by building over a dozen LARGE lakes in the eastern half of the state, one lake has 1,300 miles of shoreline. Our lake Oologah is three miles up the road it is more than 12 miles long and was built by damming the Verdigris river and impounding by stone bluffs on the sides. I use the trailer for odd jobs, the most important is to get gravel from the local quarry, I regularly put over 5,000 pounds of gravel in it for my driveway. Our place is 20 acres, mostly prairie, but a small pond a a couple of large oaks, the neighbors to the north and on both sides have over 1,000 acres and my friends on the North side of the the lake have over 10,000 acres, I think that's a little over 4,000 hectares, its 12 miles to the grocery, but we have a small convenience store a few miles away. Land here is generally around 5,000 and acre in large lots, but can run up to 20,000 dollars for acre lots with utilities. Lots of elbow room

The previous tenants had roofed the well house in 1975, they just put asphalt shingle right over wood shakes. It needed replaced 20 years ago when I got the place, but time and money did not allow it. The structure itself was built in 1964, just a pup compared to European buildings. Next I will tear off the old rotten wood siding and install Hardy board and a new door. After that I will remodel the the block shop, then the barn, of course it might be at least a year before I can get into either one of those projects. I hoping that by this time next year I will be employed and being accepted to graduate school.

very, very nice. I had no idea they made petrol engines for all those tools

The Canadian Wisconsin site is still up, the American site is down, the page that had the production date codes is gone on the Canadian site as well, error code 404. I think I made a .pdf copy, just have to find it in my highly organized library of thousands of manuals, lol.

Here is the link, you have to type your serial number in and it gives month and year. http://www.wiengines.com/support_serial_search/

I have the date codes for Wisconisn engines

I hope your health insurance premiums are paid up, if I had that tractor I would be in hospital all the time, its why I sold my Motorcycles, 10 wrecks in a month. A couple liters of Kentucky Straight Bourbon didn't have anything to do with the accidents (sure it didn't), but at least it lessened the pain temporarily. I don't ride two wheelers or drink anymore, but I could see getting upside down in that rig real fast. I'd love to see a video of it going down the street.

I've heard many shops leave the balance gears out, one guy I know that rebuilds them put a weld spot on them to hold them in after installing new bearings, it can removed in the future with a tad bit of grinding. These engines run a little rough at low RPM or idle without them, not to big a deal if you have ISO mounts, but on solid mounts the whole tractor will wobble like a pub meister. I don't think it's a big risk to leave them in as long as you install new ones properly or weld them in, to each his own.

I went to replace the grill on my Massey MF-16, next thing I knew it was in pieces on the floor and it was 2am. Your doing a fantastic job and inspiring others, thanks.

You need my tractors autographs, they do all the work. Except for the Bolens I haven't restored any of them. I am blessed with having them, but the real tribute goes to those that made them and those that kept them up. I have 17 now and many, many implements, I hope this collection can grow, stay intact and out live me.

lol, it must have been REAL slow news day

Yes indeed, the barn is 70x40 with a 30x50 concrete pad to store tractors and implements. I also have the shop as well for working on machines. I think t is imoportant to save history so people in the future can understand those in the past andwhile my machines aren't really antiques, but rather vintage, this is the time to start saving the lesser known and lower production models. Real mean and women put their backs, sweat, and lives into producing this equipment, saving them is a testament to their work, not mine.

Come over I'll let you take a ride on each of them

Thanks lain, the left axle bearing is bad and the wheel is not completely on the axle, the right axle is indicative of the space between the hub and housing. I will have to split the transaxle case and drive the bearing out from the inside, making sure the axle itself is not damaged and will not suffer the same fate in a short time. I'm not sure about the Wheel Horse but I have twelve holes on the hub of my Bolens 1476 large frame. Once set of six holes is larger than the other set of holes, the lug bolts for the 12 inch wheel and the the holes in the 12 inch rim are larger than that of the 15 inch lug bolts and wheel holes.

Unfortunately a few could not make it, but it was a good day.

One of the Red Square Wheel Horse members Bowtieguy (Frank Rufenacht) hooked me up with a very nice Wheel Horse D series. I bought his D-160 with the kohler single cyinder. The old girl was well cared for and not abused in any fashion and seems to have a lot of life in her. The best part about the tractor is that it seems to be 100 percent unmolested and in a unrestored state, and other than a bad axle bearing (note picture from the rear) and the need for fresh fluids the tractor seems sound. Apparently Frank, his family, and I have a commonality, we hail from Switzerland. Frank's family has been here in the states for quite some time, at least one generation, but I came over on the boat, well it was actually a 1964 Constellation Comet, but I was born not far from the Rufenacht ancestral home of Rufenacht, Switzerland.

This is a picture from Simple tractors, I have the same tractor and PTO, just looking for the right generator. these 540 PTO can be really handy in running medium size generators

I already have one of these on two different brands Allis and Simplicity. What do you use yours for? http://desmoines.craigslist.org/grd/4897187589.html

Okay Neil, I'm always a little confused, are you wanting pictures of my friends tractor? because the one I posted has pictures, I know my friends has a deck, maybe more, an extra non OEM engine, and has been in dry storage since the 1970's, last I saw it was in better shape than the one in the link. It will take me a couple days to get pictures.

I'm not interested in the little ones, my friend wanted to know what his might be worth, but he thought his was a 501 or a 551 he wasn't sure. I bought a Wheel Horse D-160 with the single cylinder kohler that I haven't drug home to impress the missus with

My friend has an old Wheel Horse in his shop similar to this one, it has a 6hp Clinton or Lauson motor in it. I thought about buying it and wanted to use this as some sort of reference, What is this machine? seems older than 1967, as it looks like his, which I think is a 1961. http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/grd/4892685804.html

Are they permitted on MOM, and if so, are there any rules concerning the post? Thanks

I noticed the Kart repeatedly tried to turn around and head the other direction, the right way, but the driver prevented it. Sorry I couldn't help but poke some fun.BTW, did the damage to the rear of the car happen from the Kart slamming into it?

Thanks a bunch Ian. Nope no problem pushing anything. These are the 25x8-12 ITP5889's, I've never had them slip or lose traction, 50 lb wheel weights, disc for weight and I can fill the dozer blade, not bad for a 14hp single.

Love the pictures AND the attention to detail. I've tried to explain the importance of tyres both front and rear and their size and alignment to many of my friends with (<)moderate success. Ploughing with a front and rear turf tyre even with chains is less than optimal, but it can be just as bad when extremely wide "show" agricultural tyres are used on the rear and the same wide turf tyres are used on the front, however it continues to be done and filmed at plough events, at least in the states, very embarrassing. Ideally a small garden tractor should try to reduce the ratio of the height and width of farm tractors tyres, that means a tall narrow tyre both front and rear and in alignment with each other. The Wheel Horse guys are better than most (in the states), probably due to the fact that the tractors have been around longer than most other American machines and their owners actually use these machines to plough. On my Ariens GT14H I have 25x.8-12 ITP 589 tyres on the rear and 4.00-10 tri-ribs on the front. Most small farm tractors use between a 10-14 inch wide rear tire width on a 24-28 inch rim, and a 5-7 inch wide front tyre on a 15 inch front rim, so my 8" wide rears and 4" wide fronts are about 1/2 size, well within ratio. I see many people (over here) using 26x12-12 or 23x10.50-12 agricultural tyres on the rear and 16x6.50-8 turf tyres, or EVEN 16x6.50-8 five rib tyres on the front and attempting to plough. The funny thing about wide tyres is that many will put a 12 inch or 10.5 inch wide tyre on a 7.5, 8, or 8.5 inch rim, which will never result in the advertised tyre width, meaning a waste of money. BTW, the picture of the ITP589 is that of a wider tyre than mine, they just use one picture.