Tractor pictures

Oh man that sucks. Usually when a rod breaks and it still runs it does not smoke, at least on onans. Time for finger on the plug hole I guess. As you live in Breaks & Skatters country you should look at craigslist for new engines. People must put them in their lunch boxes. I bought a nib 23HP vanguard for $350 last year plus 3 other nos B&S to shelve for ?. I've never regretted repowering anything but if the engine is partially sentimental............

 

The engine isn't really sentimental, but the tractor itself is. .Being a horizontal shaft, and the shaft needing to be the right size, I highly doubt I could get the engine from a yard sale even in Bogs & Spitting land. Lol. Kohler is literally up the road too.

That and I highly doubt that these repower places will sell me all the parts to do the repower without the engine. But I'll ask.

 

If that is the case, I would think it would be easy and cheap to just buy any ole engine to repower it, and then get a machine shop to make a custom adapter instead of trying to find the exact replacement engine.

We did this when we repowered my father's 30 year old BCS 2 wheel tractor from foreign power to Honda. All it needed was off-the shelf-bushing turned down a bit.

 

Anything you can sketch up I can make. Also I believe that you can get the parts from them, a sale is a sale. Plus your a procurement engineer .......probably work a deal for them as "test samples".

 

Ok, I'll start a thread on the Ariens garden tractor.

 

1965 Ford 5000 gas tractor I bought back in 1980. Had been dickering on a David Brown 995. The Ford won out for a couple reasons,
(1. near by dealer
(2. price was less than i could get the 995 to.



I inherited this Ariens H 16 when my dad passed. Dad let about every one use it later in his life.
It has the mower deck and the blade showen. It also has 3 point hitch on the rear.
I need to get around and rebuild all the seat stuff that is missing.




This is when it was new and dad had a snow blower for it. He sold the blower later as it he said was to small for big work. He bought a big Bur Vac blower for his Massey Ferguson 65.





Al

 

Yes all these are mine too.
1951 Massey Harris 44 single front wheel row crop.


1953 Massey Harris 33 row crop.


1954 Massey Harris pacer.


1951 Massey Harris 3o


1957 Massey Harris 555 Diesel


1949 MasseyHarris 55 gas.


A Farmall H a fellow gave me who got a divorce an did have any place to keep it and when he remarried she didn't want it around either.


1961 Allis Chalmbers my Next door neighbour gave me when he got crippled up and moved into a town condo.



Al

 

1972 Simplicity 7112 my mother in law gave me when the dealer would not give her any thing for it when she bought a new one in 2015. It is 12 hp came with the deck and a blade.



I have a bunch more but I know ya'll could care less. Yes I have been here for more than a month so am learning.

I nearly forgot my chain saw tree. 1917 Bota L3301.




Al

 

I had a friend at my old job that liked to do antique tractor pulling, but was not doing well on the circuit. We talked a bit and it was quickly apparent what his problem was: he was running brand new tires. It would seem that would be the best option, but it actually was why he was not pulling as good.

New tires dig, and that throws up dirt that hits the front plate of the drag and increases friction. On a pulling tractor you want almost nearly bald tires, relying more on air pressure of the tires to take advantage of the track. There is a fine balance of pressure and friction on the dirt that keeps the dirt from piling up on the front skid of the drag and holding the tractor back. After he switched tires, he did a LOT better.

It is funny how the littlest things make such a huge difference in pulling. Of course in my family, we often laugh that we have all kinds of "pulling tires"!

 

The bota looks great hard to believe it's 101 years old !!!!

 

Great tractor collection. I don't have any old ones but I love old tractors. I still hope that one day I can get my grandmother dad's Farmall A back

 

That Ariens H16 looks pretty much like my gt17. Just a different engine. I've heard of gt16's and s series attends with a single cylinder engine.

Those Ariens throw the snow better than anything else.

 

My latest tractor. Kubota M59. Working in the light.....
And in one of my favorite pictures, working near dark.....

(I may have had a cold one in my hand when this was taken.)

 

My collection:

 

This is probably one of my most favorite tractor pictures. I never had any boys, but the picture shows my daughter Alyson, age 2, nonchalantly enjoying her ride on a silage chopper. The farmer's expression is priceless; big burly, sweaty hard working farmer clearly showing he loves kids.

Note: I added the second picture so people can see what the whole tractor looked like.