Tractor Pics > Some Random Pics
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Look at that enormous battery. It turns the starter just fine, but doesn't really fit.
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See down there where the original hole for the battery hold-down is? I guess the PO figured since he put a bigger engine in he better use a bigger battery.
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Look at those tasty pieces of angle iron welded on top of the frame rails. Grinding? We don't need no stinking grinding! Uh, yeah. I think I'll grind it
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More rough welding to clean up. At least they ground down the brazing on the crack and painted that. Would it have been too much to ask to paint the angle iron? Guess that was added later
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Hey! Really nice regular globules of filler rod along that weld edge. Tha must take practice. Yep, I'll be guhrinding that crap down.
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I think that is more ugly welding down there on the bottom edge. Not sure what I was shooting.
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img_0725.jpg
Well this is the first area I have found which was not well-greased. No wonder that reverse clutch didn't want to slide out evenly. Poor little spring down there couldn't move the parts too well over that rusted spline and adjustment bolts.
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The Fender
Well there's the fender I decided to take off once I realized what kind of Frankenstein bolts were used to hold it on. It moved up and down fine (open and close) the boltheads got in the way of the reverse lever. There are no holes in the fender, just some surface rust. Except for that slit on the left side which was cut by the PO to mount a throttle control...Don't Ask.
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Look at my nice new setscrew in the forward and reverse lever. Only took me one broken bolt remover to get the old one out. Now all I need is a safety switch for that screw to act upon.
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strippedhood.jpg
Here's all the paint stripped off the hood. The outside anyway...
The light really accentuates the swirls from the stripper pad but I'm pretty sure the primer will take care of that.
A little rust cleanup, some high-fill primer in the pits, new paint and it will look good as new. I was able to pull off the decals complete so I'll just glue them back on.
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40cdeck.jpg
This is the 40 inch commercial mower deck I'd like to trade for a regular finish mower deck.
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firstdiggingpoint.jpg
Here's the first digging point I made out of some scrap steel. It "worked" in that it fit in the slot in the shaft, stayed there and turned around with the shaft, and made a hole just its size. It didn't work in helping the plow blades dig down any deeper. That's a 4 inch screw next to it. It probably stuck out about 1/4 inch or so on each side from the sides of the shaft.
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furrowplow.jpg
I took a furrow plow blade I had and flattened it out, cut it a bit and used it for the second digging point. YOu can see it mounted under the plow blades in the next picture. This picture is something similar since I didn't take a picture before I cut it.
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plowandpoint.jpg
Here's the furrow plow digging point mounted. While it was better than the smaller point, it still didn't do that much better. However, since it was about 5 or 6 inches across and a good 7 or 8 inches deep, it made finishing the post holes much easier after it had churned up the dirt for a while.
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topshaft.jpg
Here's the top of the plowshaft after I hit it with a hammer a few times. found that hitting it made the digging point gain some purchase and I probably got another 6 inches or so of digging out of the machine. Since the shaft jumped around a little I sometimes caught the edge of the shaft face.