First, my condolences to your family about your dad! Second, it's nice to see something different on the channel, seeing you're fixing up your dad's mower! I enjoyed the video! Many thumbs up!
Sorry to hear about the passing of your Dad.. Enjoyed the video and I hope that you will always keep the lawn mower. My dad passed away back in 2000 and I still miss him... If he had a mower that was left and I restored it, I would have it to this very day.. Keep up the good work.
Love the video! Sorry to hear you lost your father. My father's been gone almost four years now & every time I fix something, I think of him. He bought a Cub Cadet 147 in 1971, the same year I was born -- it's in terrible shape now but this makes me want to do what you did. That's a very cool little tractor and looks like it was well taken care of -- usually the bushings are all shot & half the paint is gone. Anyway, thanks for sharing & enjoy that cool memento.
What a beaut! Glad to see you repair something, even if it's not what we normally see on the channel! I know your dad is happy to see you get it back on the green again.
I wish I could say something more then sorry for your loss. I feel you may find he will become more of a part of you now that he is gone. I can only imagine the conversations you were having while working on that tractor. On the lighter side, that Wheel Horse brings back my childhood memories from the 60's through mid 70's with an older version of that tractor. When you were driving it around, it sounded and I swear it even smelled the same as I remember, lol. My mind is racing through the things we did way back then that I haven't thought about in ages. The next door neighbor I grew up with had one and we spent many hours doing "stuff" with that thing. His Wheel Horse was a hydrostatic drive that you would set the engine speed by moving the lever on the dash and then forward / reverse was the tall lever on the right side. The more you move the lever forward, the faster it went. The same with going in reverse. If I remember correctly, it had a lever you step down on to lock the rear differential so both wheels drive. It had a mower attachment underneath that could be removed and driven around like that or we could attach his grader blade (that got a lot of use) under there. He also had a snow blower attachment for the front, a farm style disk, cultivator, plow and a dump cart trailer (sort of a bath tub design) attachment for the rear. I think it's still in use to this day, I'd have to check. Great little tractor though. Thanks for this video, it really hit home!
I used a hydrostatic wheel horse for a short while. Actually because of my dad's work I got to test run just about every common riding mower from the 70-90's. Great memories!
Had one like that my dad gave me after I told him I missed the 753 we had back in the day.. was kinda disappointed it had a 10 hp horizontal shaft briggs like that one. We sold all our horses in a consignment sale in 2012… Dad passed away last year and before he died I bought an 867 from a guy near here and love it, I don’t really use it to mow much, but it is definitely a piece of Americana that will last. Hope you keep your tractor in honor of your dad. Thanks for the cool video take care and god bless
Sorry to hear about losing your Dad. Good job with the mower; it will likely out-last anything you can buy today. Give 'er a good cleaning, new belts and maybe tires, and a coat of Turtle wax once the fine-tuning is done.
Those old flat heads run forever when moderately cared for. My plan is to replace the belts (started slipping when my brother used it) and keep it going and in the family for as long as possible.
Sorry for your dad passing, it would be super cool if you could have made a channel out of fixing up some mowers and misc electronics your very talented.
Im sorry you have lost your smashing dad, if you believe in the spiritual side he will know the mower is in fine hands :-D I hope you didnt have to empty that workshop of tools on your own.
Help! (Great video btw!) My husband also got one of these years ago from his now late father- and the drive belt fell off- and there seems to be no manuals or pictures or diagrams on the whole web- toro was no help either- could you send some pictures of how the belts are configured- or a sketch or something- Please- He's going crazy out there in the heat- It's exactly the same model as yours- same ratty seat- Looks like your driving our little heap in the video- the belt just slipped off and now we're dead in the ocean of grass! 😳seriously a few pics or a sketch or notes or something would be SO helpful- (we might actually own the only two left) i found a thread where somebody was asking 5 years ago on the wheel horse forum- and nobody answered😳
