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Gary
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 Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Garden Tractors |
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| windfish wrote: |
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 cool. If you didn't know, your Simplicity tractors have a forum here: The Unofficial Allis Chalmers Forum.
I may keep my eyes open for one of those smaller ones, but I like my WD.
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BIGMIKEY
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:22 am Post subject: Re: Garden Tractors |
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Old thread I know but interesting. I have this 1992 Wheel Horse 416-H Garden tractor with a 42" snow thrower and Cab. I bought the cab last spring. 25 years old and It had never been installed. Ready for snow this winter. Blowing snow with a cab on the tractor is the lap of luxury.
Any other Wheel Horse owners?
Mike T
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my59
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:47 am Post subject: Re: Garden Tractors |
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| BIGMIKEY wrote: |
Old thread I know but interesting. I have this 1992 Wheel Horse 416-H Garden tractor with a 42" snow thrower and Cab. I bought the cab last spring. 25 years old and It had never been installed. Ready for snow this winter. Blowing snow with a cab on the tractor is the lap of luxury.
Any other Wheel Horse owners?
Mike T
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Yeah, I have one in the barn, needs shifter work, have a spare transmission. Its my sons, but I'm responsible for fixing it because I was the one who broke it. The useless POS 70's Wheel Horse mower has yet to be kicked to the curb, and my son bought a Wheel Horse with a mower deck that he is working on as he rented a place with a huge yard. I'm sure it will end up over here at some point.
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Chickensoup
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:04 am Post subject: Re: Garden Tractors |
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may i ask. at what point, does a garden tractor, become, not a garden tractor? when it doesnt fit in a garden? but then, at what point, does a garden, become a field?
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my59
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: Garden Tractors |
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| Chickensoup wrote: |
| may i ask. at what point, does a garden tractor, become, not a garden tractor? |
In our town its when a garden tractor has a mowing deck attached...
then its a lawn mower.
The town has a tractor parade as part of a winter festival, and used to allow all size tractors. Plenty of kids with garden tractors were the last in the parade line, most with mower decks. For a few years my son would borrow a cub cadet to be able to participate. Then they changed the rules, no mowers. The boy, now 15, showed up with his newly refurbished Wheel Horse garden tractor and they told him he couldnt participate with a lawn mower. He pointed out that having no deck meant he could not mow anything and thus not a mower. The marshal looked to me to make him fold, which I ignored. Son stood his ground, drove that year, and had an Economy Power King for the next years parade.
The joy of small town bs.
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LAGrunthaner
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| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:00 am Post subject: Re: Garden Tractors |
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Looks great and ready for snow!
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Old thread I know but interesting. I have this 1992 Wheel Horse 416-H Garden tractor with a 42" snow thrower and Cab. I bought the cab last spring. 25 years old and It had never been installed. Ready for snow this winter. Blowing snow with a cab on the tractor is the lap of luxury.
Any other Wheel Horse owners?
Mike T
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| Have you considered simply starting with a nicer bus? I don't know what your skills are, but the race is easier if you can see the finish line. If you are not a runner, don't start off doing a marathon. |
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| windfish wrote: |
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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I thnk they used that middle one in Caligula
No, I never saw it, a good friend of mine told me about it.
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Yep, the old two-wheelers had some really neat attachments
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