who likes lawn tractors
I restore them for people. Here is a Sears GT18 hydro getting done now.
I do a lot of John Deeres
I'm impressed. Don't know how you find the time
I'm afraid I've always been "low buck, utility."
Top is one I bought with a rod through the side. I'd previously bought a bunch of junk, with a near new 14.5hp so I put that engine in this chassis and sold it recently.
Second is the cold, wet, snowbound day I hauled the SS 16 home, cannot see the lower up front, which is why I bought it.
Third and fourth is the "ill fated" blower project. Had a spare 8? 10? hp and thought it might pull that blower. WRONG
Fifth is "The Fleet." Blower at left is a nearly worthless Craftsman 8hp, and I'll NEVER buy another. "Old grey" (ill fated blower) I don't use much and should get rid of it. Next is the yellow SS16, a blow'n thing if I ever saw. Last is the "too big Ariens" which I can no longer handle. I sold it for a fair price and bought the same (8 hp) but narrower and a little lighter Ariens --and that is all I'll ever buy, unless Ariens goes down the tubes. The Ariens I have now is the same "cut" and HP as that Craftsman POS and the Ariens runs circles around the Sears. The sears has a TINY discharge throat and plugs easy. Plus, the Ariens is obviously built much better and heavier, nice, big, tall tires. I run it "locked" with homemade chains. (Thrift store, where else, LOL?)
Last, we occasionally do have snow in this country. This was the year that damn near killed me. I had been taking Aleve, on top of my prescription arthritic meds. Felt OK the Fri. before Christmas, about 8:20 that night a little queesy, and about 1AM was pukin and faintin' in the bathroom. Spent hours passed out on the floor, finally regained my composure somewhere around 9AM and called the boys in the Big Red Truck. My gut was bleeding internally. The joke is they stuck a camera down my throat and it came out my a$$.
