New wheel on the WD and out discing corn stalks!

So got the new wheel put on the WD today. It being all painted sure stands out like a sore thumb.



Of course, the battery was dead so I couldn't start it... So I got the other tractor out, and put my other two new wheels on my JD RWA and went out to play in the mud.







As you can see, I made sure to break in all the new wheels I could with some primo mud! :O







So alas, have the battery on the charger now, so maybe next weekend I'll be able to take it and the mower out for a spin, or try to disc some stalks again if it has dried up some.

Sugarmaker wrote: Good shots of a hard working WD! Great to see them still out doing things like discing! A little mud never hurt them, they like it! "No mud to deep or hill to steep for that old girl!" I had to look twice. Those are two different tractors both WD's. Nice pair! That looks like a real log cabin in the background. Any chance barnwood builders are going to make a visit to you? Regards,  Chris

It was fun, I'll probably go disc some more but it needs to dry up a bit more so I don't try and mud it up so badly. I made a couple low pass turns and the front end of the tractor was shoving sideways thru the mud, that's probably the bulk of what is in the front wheels and the ones on the disc.

Yep, both WDs, and both of the transition period where they came with crooked shifters (the one is a straight one now because the original wore out). They need some more work of course, but I do what I can when I can.

Don't think so on the barnwood builders, though you never know! That cabin was actually moved to that location probably... 20 to 25 years ago. I remember when it went up (even helped a bit at the time). Though it could surely use some TLC!

I had the one tractor I had on the disc today out in this field last year plowing it about this time!





If it were to dry up some more, I'd like to play with the plow a bit, but the corn stubble is so heavy I'm afraid I'll just plug up my plow!

Nice to see the old WD's working. Two little hints, try mowing the stalks then disking them and next time the WD needs front tire work back-off the lug-nuts a turn or so on the wheel needing removed then lay down one or two 2x6 boards in front of the other tire and drive up it, then remove the lug nuts and the wheel will come off.  Same thing on the disc.

Yep, what Don says.  I've done it all the time and it works well. You don't need a jack that way.  The KEY is to take and loosen the lug nuts BEFORE you drive it up on the 2xs.  Otherwise you gotta take it back down and.........it's called experience. 

Okay, so a newly charged battery, and I took both tractors out for a spin this morning in the bitter cold.





That new wheel stands out like a sore thumb, don't she?

Ditto nice pics.  Haven't seen a WD with a corn picker screen over the radiator in a long time.  Brings back some good memories.....

Nice looking, hard working WD.  I notice you have S+K tools too, most of my tools are S+K.