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windfish
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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:38 pm Post subject: Garden Tractors |
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Did a quick search and didn't see a topic for them, anyone else got one?
Here's my small horde:
Case 644, dedicated loader-tractor.
My first garden tractor, a Simplicity 7116.
Went looking on craigslist for a garden tractor with tiller, found this
Second Simplicity, '64 Landlord
Third Simplicity, 70-something 3410
Previous owners were going to scrap it, I haven't done anything to her yet but she's mostly salvageable. Ish.
Fourth Simplicity, another '64 Landlord
I just went for the engine, guy was parting her out, but ended up dragging the whole thing home. Serio, who parts out something this nice.
And this little guy doesn't really count, as it's a lawnmower not a garden tractor, but still.
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Very nice! Cool seeing old iron no matter what walk of life!
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my59
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My son dragged a locked up Wheelhorse 754 home a few years back; when he went back to the old guy who sold it to him about extra bits the guy said he meant for him to take the one in the shed not the parts one outside in the snow...so we got that one as well...we got one going, wired up the headlights and had a lot of fun till I trashed the shifter. It's on my project list.
There is the blue flame painted Gilson I was given after a friend passed away as the no guard deck belt was deemed to dangerous for the son to use. I have been holding onto it so I can give it back if he shows an interest.
We also have another Wheelhorse like your Ford that is the biggest piece of crap foisted on the riding mower population. Eats belts and the effing bean counters and engineers got so clever that to change belts you have to disassemble the mower frame. Perfect example of American industrial design going straight to shit in the 70's. It occupies space in the shed till I can get it started and drive it to the junkyard where I am assured they crush it for me..
The boy had a Jim Dandy till he needed cash for a motor cycle.
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busdaddy
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I've got a 1965 John Deere 110, had it for 40 years now, still use it at least weekly, absolutely awesome little tractor, built like they meant it!
(Photo from the web, mine's not so shiny)
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I've got a decade-old Sears 42-inch lawn tractor, does that count? It cost me $900 new, and my VW experience has come in handy. Sunday we broke an idler pulley ($15 shipped); easy fix, took 15 minutes to diagnose though, usually we figure it's just dirt and debris.
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WM971252
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All these tractors and no Bungartz........
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No discussion of garden tractors can be complete without BCS. Most people think of them as tillers, but with their attachments they can do just about anything.
I currently have the Harvester 720 along with the tiller and sickle bar attachments.
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kamesama980
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I have an old sears suburban 12 that I'm working on. picked it up non-working with a front blade. Have it kinda working now, in between other projects it might get a megasquirt if the bug doesn't get it first.
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All these tractors and no Bungartz........
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I heard those tip easily 
no photos, but I have a BCS with all the fixin's. the snow thrower is comedy! look for the BCS snow thrower video...it VAPORIZES snow. great little machine
also have a case 646 with an Onan. that machine is stronger than anyone gives it credit for, and will lift the back end of a late westy like it was swatting a fly
and a JD LX280.
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windfish
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Hah, neat. So a few people have 'em
I added another over the weekend, wanted something with a 3-point hitch.
Kubota L185, 's a Compact Tractor (instead of a Garden Tractor) but I'll throw it in here anyways
750 original hours, 17HP 2 cylinder diesel engine
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Wow those are all nice!
I have a Bolens HT23 with 3-pt, push blade, 54" mower deck and I'm getting ready to put a Kwik Way Loader on it!.
Also in the middle of a track conversion on a John Deere 140 with 3-pt and home built loader.
Not a garden tractor but I also have a 1947 Farmall H tractor (soon under going a track conversion)
Also have a (not a garden tractor sub compact utility tractor) Kubota L2000 with loader, tooth bar, backhoe, box blade, 60" finish mower, single bottom plow, hiller, 1 & 2 row planters, hay forks (for loader and 3-pt) disk and lots more that I can't think of.
We use our tractors a LOT because we have over a 1 acre garden!
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We had one of these when I was growing up- Jeebus, what a beast. 
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We had one of these when I was growing up- Jeebus, what a beast.
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That's not a tractor, that's a steam-punk death machine.
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busdaddy
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We had one of these when I was growing up- Jeebus, what a beast.
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No shit!, it's scary just to look at.
I recall my grandfather having a similar rig, he wasn't a very smart man, but even he got rid of it pretty quick. Looks like an entire career for a compo inspector writing up the citations on that 
I've got a Graham-Paige stashed in the back of the barn in my someday when I'm bored pile, since I have big tractors I've never felt the need to go toe to toe with a heavy beast like that and get it running, looks like a real punisher. It's got a sickle mower for the front as well as a plough.
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skills@eurocarsplus
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those mowers were from a time when men were men, lived till 98 and had a handshake that would crush bricks.
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windfish
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 6:53 am Post subject: |
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Yep, the old two-wheelers had some really neat attachments
Simplicity also had a brush cutter with exposed front mowing blades
Seems like a great idea for pushing through heavy brush, but I don't think they made them for too many years
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Zeen
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Excuse me, did you say knives?
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busdaddy
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Savage and scary as that looks I could really use that, blackberries suck!
Love the safety pipe in play on this one, it blocks flying debris so there's no need to squint, or the smoke in your eye causes a natural safety squint regardless, hope you've got the iron jockstrap on there buddy, looks like it could change family plans in the blink of a smoke filled eye 
My Mom had one of those with a rototiller on the back (no saw blade), after wrestling with it for one spring in the garden it was a donor for a minibike engine  
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My grandfather worked at a Ford lumber mill and bought a '49 from the yard when it closed. Technically, I'm 20% owner of one, although I haven't driven it since 1978.
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I'm the proud owner of this bad boy. It's a 1952 Economy, made by Power King. It belonged to my Grandfather, and I remember when I was little, he would give all the neighborhood kids hay rides for Halloween using this to tow us around. I hope to do the same with my daughter.
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