Mr. Burr is a quiet party wheel horse whose career in the House and the Senate has been supported by significant campaign donations from the fossil fuel and nuclear energy industries.
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In 1986 Toro acquired the Wheel Horse Products Division of American Motors Corporation (AMC). Wheel Horse manufactured a wide range of lawn and garden tractors as well as riding lawn mowers. The division was spun off from AMC for $8 million so that the automaker could maintain focus on vehicles.
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The company paid $30 million as it expanded into non-automotive markets. In 1982, Wheel Horse was spun off from AMC to Munn Investment Group. During this time some cosmetic changes were made, but frame and attachment design remained the same. In mid- August 1986, Wheel Horse was sold off from Munn and purchased for $8 million by Toro.
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The benefits to Toro were its knowledge about the outdoor power products sector and buying Wheel Horse put Toro back into the riding mower business. Lawn and garden tractors were then marketed under the Toro, Wheel Horse, and Toro Wheel Horse names. Acquisitions continued with the purchase of Lawn-Boy in 1989 from Outboard Marine Corporation. In the 1990s, then CEO Kendrick Melrose changed the company's strategy, shifting its focus to "professional maintenance markets" (such as golf courses, sports fields, municipal parks, and commercial properties). The company grew by acquiring James Hardie Irrigation in 1996, Exmark Manufacturing in 1997, Hayter in 2005, Rain Master Irrigation Systems, and Turf Guard Wireless Monitoring Technology in 2007.
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Tractors were built under the Toro banner for the next two decades. Under their new owner, economically priced Wheel Horse tractors shared the same pressed-steel frames, attachments, and other parts used in bargain-built Toro family equipment. In fact, even larger garden and compact tractors were "cookie cutter" units identical in construction to New Holland models built under contract by Toro. The Wheel Horse name was eliminated from production after 2007.
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In 1975, Pond sold Wheel Horse Products to American Motors Corporation. At the time, Pond had over 500 workers at his plant and over 3,000 dealers were selling the brand.
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The left horse near the wagon was referred to as the wheel horse and was sometimes ridden. The Conestoga wagon began the custom of "driving" on the right-hand side of the road.
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Choy Li Fut – Bak Mo Kuen (White Hair Form) 2.Dai Sup Ji Kuen (Large Cross Pattern) 3.Ng Lun Chui (Five Wheel Fist Form) 4.Ng Lun Ma (Five Wheel Horse Form) 5.
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Cecil Elwood Pond (June 4, 1924 – December 30, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Wheel Horse Products Co. Inc and was the primary inventor of the modern American riding mower.
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The brand has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years, such that in 1999 the "Wheel Horse Collectors Club" was formed and has gathered annually in June at the South Mountain Fairgrounds in Arendtsville, Pennsylvania. Owners exhibit their machines and participate in "Horse" trading.
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The Rj-35 used a Clinton B-1200 engine with a belt driven transmission. When equipped with a Briggs & Stratton engine, the model of the tractor became RJ-25. The attachments remained the same for the RJ series. From 1956-1957 wheel horse changed the color of the wheels from black into an almond color.
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In 1954, Pond introduced his first 4-wheel lawn tractor, an event which altered substantially the lawn care manufacturing business. By 1957, his Wheel Horse Products company recorded sales over $1 million (US$ in dollars) for the first time. Two years later, the company's sales more than doubled, to $4.5 million (US$ in dollars).
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These two models were known as the "Suburban" tractors. In 1965, Wheel Horse was among the first to introduce tractors with a hydrostatic drive system, the model 875 and 1075 "Wheel-a-Matics". To expand snow removal options beyond the dozer blade attachment for its tractors, the company also added snow blowers to its power products with the "Reo" snow thrower line.
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AM General is now owned by MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings and the Renco Group. It was organized as an LLC in August 2004. Wheel Horse Products Division is now owned by the Toro Company. Beijing Jeep was established by American Motors in 1983 to produce Jeeps for the burgeoning Chinese market; the joint venture was inherited by Chrysler and continues under the ownership of the new Chrysler.
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The business was started in the two-car garage of Elmer Pond in 1946. Pond began building two-wheel, self-propelled "Walk-Away" garden tractors that were sold under the Pond name. Due to a naming conflict with another company, the company's name was changed to Wheel Horse. The name not only evokes tractors generally (doing tractive work with wheels) but also the connotation of a steady, dependable worker (wheelhorse).
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The most popular model and year was the R-J58 Wheel Horse 1958, it came without a mowing deck, but one could be added. A new model was produced in 1958, which included a three-speed transmission. This transmission is called the Uni-Drive transmission that Elmer Pond designed in 60 days. One tractor model was named Rj-58 and included a Clinton B-1290 or a Kohler k-90 engine.
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In 2007 almost 70 percent of the company's sales came from professional markets, versus one- third in 1990. In 2007, the low-end lawn and garden tractor product manufacturing was outsourced to MTD Products, to be sold at Home Depot stores. Toro also discontinued its Wheel Horse models and retired the brand name in 2007. However, products and other brands expanded with Toro's purchases of TYCROP Manufacturing turf equipment product line in 2009 and USPraxis in 2010.
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Therefore, Lee Iacocca and Joe Cappy reached an agreement to use some of American Motors's idle plant capacity in Kenosha. These problems came in the midst of a transfer of power at American Motors from Paul Tippet to a French executive, Pierre Semerena. The new management responded with tactical moves by selling the lawn care Wheel Horse Products Division and signing an agreement to build Jeeps in the People's Republic of China. The Pentagon had problems with AM General, a significant defense contractor, being managed by a partially French-government-owned firm.
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The company's products earned a good reputation in the marketplace. The 1968 Ranger was a high-end rider with big rear wheels, "husky front suspension", and featured a two-year warranty. In April 1968, Wheel Horse entered the snowmobile market by purchasing the Sno-Flite snowmobile line of CE Erickson of Des Moines, Iowa. Six-models called "Safari" ranged from 295 to 440 cc producing to with an optional electric start system, and were priced from $845 to $1,195. Sno-Flite snowmobiles were made by Wheel Horse until 1972, when the line was sold to Parts Unlimited, who continued support for the products until replacement parts ran out in the late-1970s or early-1980s. There were eleven models in four lines of lawn and garden tractors by 1974: the "economy" A Series with standard 32-inch mower and electric or recoil start, the "compact" B Series with a four-speed or automatic transmission, the C Series offering four models (the C-120 and C-160 automatic, and the C-100 and C-160 8-speed and the c161), as well as the top-of-the-line D Series featuring automatics in D-160, D-180, and the D-200 powered by a twin-cylinder, engine.
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Hank Will has written five books, more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles and hundreds of magazine articles about vintage machinery. His books include PayLine: International Harvester’s Construction Equipment Division, Cub Cadet: the First 45 Years, the Farmall Regular and F-Series Collector’s Originality Guide, Garden Tractors: Deere, Cub Cadet, Wheel Horse, and All the Rest, 1930s to Current. He has professed a fondness for 1970s vintage single-cylinder Kohler engines, Cub Cadet garden tractors and International Harvester equipment of all kinds. and "Plowing With Pigs" with Karen Keb Will 2013 He has served as editor of Grit since April 2, 2007.
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In the latter case, the required speed differential to steer the equipment can be supplied by independent CVTs, allowing steering to be accomplished without several drawbacks associated with other skid steer methods (such as braking losses or loss of tractive effort). The 1965 Wheel Horse 875 and 1075 garden tractors were the first such vehicles to be fitted with a hydrostatic CVT. The design used a variable-displacement swash-plate pump and fixed-displacement gear-type hydraulic motor combined into a single compact package. Reverse ratios were achieved by reversing the flow of the pump through over-centering of the swash plate.
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Garden tractors are capable of mounting a wider array of attachments than lawn tractors. Unlike lawn tractors and rear- engined riding mowers, garden tractors are powered by horizontal-crankshaft engines with a belt-drive to transaxle-type transmissions (usually of four or five speeds, although some may also have two-speed reduction gearboxes, drive- shafts, or hydrostatic or hydraulic drives). Garden tractors from Wheel Horse, Cub Cadet, Economy (Power King), John Deere, Massey Ferguson and Case Ingersoll are built in this manner. The engines are generally one- or two- cylinder petrol (gasoline) engines, although diesel engine models are also available, especially in Europe.
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Wounded Russian soldiers in a telega (World War I) Telega (modern variant). Used in Ukraine in 2017 Telega () is a type of four-wheel horse-drawn vehicle, whose primary purpose is to carry loads, similar to a wain, known in Russia and other countries."Telega", an article in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1936-1985) It has been defined as "a special type commonly used in the southern and south-western provinces for the carriage of grain, hay and other agricultural products"."Telega carriage", an article from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1906) It is described and spelled telga in Jules Verne's novel Michael Strogoff.
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In 1946, Pond joined his father, who at the time was building two-wheel lawn tractors (which the operator would walk behind) from angle iron, surplus motorcycle and automotive parts in his garage. At first, the Ponds' company was simply called Pond Tractor Company, but when they discovered another family member owned a similarly-named company, "Wheel Horse" was chosen, and the name stayed with the company until its demise as a separate operation of the Toro companies in the 1980s. In the late 1940s, veterans returning from World War II began moving to the vast new suburbs then transforming the American landscape. Their homes had larger lots that demanded more attention and the Ponds' riding mower found many ready buyers as a result.
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Klinger, a Morgan Percheron cross breed, was foaled in 2000 and entered military service in the United States Army the same year. As of 2017 he was posted to the John C. McKinney Stables in the Military District of Washington, assigned to the caisson platoon of the 3rd Infantry Regiment. During his time in service, Klinger has served both as a Wheel Horse, and in a leadership capacity as the Section Horse, in the caisson platoon, and has participated in more than 5,000 full-honor military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. In addition, he has been a frequent participant in the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a nonprofit veterans service organization that uses animal-assisted therapy to comfort survivors of tragedy.
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Oscar H. Will III, (October 6, 1956) also known as Hank Will, is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As editor of Grit magazine (and contributing editor of Natural Home and Garden), he writes a blog, The Daily Commute, that covers a wide variety of topics related to rural living. He came up with the idea for Community Chickens, a website that brings together information about raising chickens. It draws its contents from Grit and Mother Earth News magazine. Will is also the author of four books on vintage farm machinery: Cub Cadet: the first 45 Years, PayLine: International Harvester’s Construction Equipment Division, and the Farmall Regular, F-Series Collector’s Originality Guide and Garden Tractors: Deere, Cub Cadet, Wheel Horse, and All the Rest, 1930s to Current.
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Since 2015, the club's kits have been manufactured by Errea. Previous manufacturers have included Umbro (1973–78, 2007–11), Adidas (1978–83), Lowfields (1983–85), Osca (1985–87), Spall (1987–90), Matchwinner (1990–94), Admiral (1994–97), Super League (1997–99), Avec Sportswear (1999–2001), Imps Sport (2001–04), Lincoln City Collection (2004–06), Uhlsport (2006–07), and Nike (2011–15). Their current shirt sponsors are Peregrine Holdings. Previous sponsors have included J.Arthur Bowers (1982), F&T; Tyres (1983–89), Wheel Horse (1989–90), Pickfords (1990–91), Findalls (1991–92), Lincolnshire Echo (1992–98), Alstom (1998–2003), Siemens (2003–04), The Community Solutions Group (2004–06), Starglaze (2006–10), GoCar (2010–11), TSM (2011–13), Bishop Grosseteste University (2013–18), NSUK Asbestos Surveys (2018–19), SRP Hire (2019-20).
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