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As of February I'm officially an "empty nester". After a long search my son & his fiance' finally found a house that fit their needs. He had mentioned to to his Mother that "I think I'm going to need a Wheel Horse to mow the lawn", her reply was "I think your Dad can spare one". LOL. So I'm starting him out on the same model & deck I started out on in 1979, one of my C-81's with a 36" RD deck. I've had her ready to go for him for a while now & since the trailer was stiil hooked up from @Pullstart's plowday on Saturday, I decided Sunday was the day. All I can say is this was one of the greatest weekends of my life that I'll always rememember. Loaded up Delivered And yes, I'll give him a mule drive with a knob on it.

I have wanted to make this post for the past ten months; today I drove a Wheel Horse for the first time since my stroke! My wife was a bit apprehensive about the whole thing and I wasn't even sure I could get on the 310-8; but I did and it felt SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD

A few years ago at @WHX?? plow day I lost my wallet in the field while plowing. Fact jokes are still made about that. To top that off, shortly there after I plowed my phone under while plowing at my brothers place. After these events, my wife requested that I either empty my pockets while plowing or plow in nothing but my under ware. My brother was planting his field today, he looked down & thought crap I dropped my phone. Well... he didn't drop his phone, he actually found the phone that I lost. Pretty sure if I put it in a bowel of rice and clean it up it should still work. Now if we could only find my wallet.

Finally got time to lay some paint on my buddies 702 project, 3 coats of base and 3 of clear. Came out pretty decent for being 2 hoods welded together. By far the roughest hood I'd ever saved. There's a little dirt in it but what to you expect for an old garage lol

Are we gonna have a new member with lots of repair questions and how to fix PO mods?

Economy Power King Economy Tractors were designed to be an affordable garden tractor which could be serviced by the owner. Simple straightforward construction utilizing readily available parts resulted in a machine that was dependable and easily maintained. Company founder James E. Turner had been a designer for the Red-E tractor company. He was the son-in-law of one of that company’s founders and in 1946 decided to strike-out on his own to build four wheeled garden tractors at his newly formed Engineering Products of Waukesha (EPW) company. The concept of utilizing off-the-shelf parts and subcontracting manufacturing of castings and machine parts was rather revolutionary at the time. EPW was designing and assembling the tractors while most of the expensive overhead for machining, casting, metal stamping and other costly processes was borne by the subcontractors. The first year was devoted to design and engineering of prototypes and very few tractors were sold. Early models had cable steering which was later replaced with chain steering and eventually a steering gear was utilized. Early units were not fancy, they were devoid of any sheetmetal and had a cast-iron seat without padding. They had a Wisconsin air-cooled single cylinder engine attached to a modified Crosley bell housing, clutch, and transmission. The transmission unit was modified by adding pulleys for belt power transfer. A modified Ford Model-A rear axle assembly with reduction gears at the axles, much like the Red-E tractors, was used as a final drive. The Economy tractor was tested at the University of Nebraska in 1952 under test number 483. Economy tractors also carried the names Power King, Country Squire and the Jim Dandy along the way. Country Squire Garden Tractors were built from 1951 to 1962 and sold by mail-order through magazine advertising and sales booths at state and county fairs. They were powered by 9HP Briggs & Stratton or Wisconsin 9.2 HP air cooled single cylinder engines. Jin Dandy joined the ranks in 1964 and a part of the Economy line of tractors through 1977 It was a bit smaller and more affordable than the Country Squire. The Jim Dandy could be equipped with 10, 12 or 14 horsepower engines. The larger Power King line also came along in in 1964 being offered in 10, 12, and 14 horsepower Kohler engines. In 1977 the Economy name went away and a new numbering designation using rear wheel size and horsepower to derive the model number. As an example, a 1612 has 16” rear rims and a 12-horsepower engine. Power King was sold to Support Services International in 1990 and production moved from Waukesha to Beaver Dam. Production continued until the late 1990s when Power King was sold again. Eventually the Power King assets were sold to Yazoo-Kees and production ended. Mission Manufacturing now owns the rights to Power King and supports the tractors. Country Squire 9 hp 30/48" deck 1951 – 1962 Jim Dandy 10HP 10 hp 48" deck 1964 - 1967 Jim Dandy 12HP 12 hp 48" deck 1965 - 1970 Jim Dandy 14HP 14 hp 36/48/60" deck 1968 - 1977 Power King 10HP 10 hp 48" deck 1964 - 1967 Power King 12HP 12 hp 36/48/60" deck 1965 - 1970 Power King 14HP 14 hp 36/48/60" deck 1968 - 1977 1212 12 hp 42" deck 1982 - 1990 1214 14 hp 42/48" deck 1988 - 1993 1217 17 hp 42" deck 1983 - 1987 1218 18 hp 42/48" deck 1988 - 1993 1218HV 18 hp 48/60" deck 1994 - 1999 1220HV 20 hp 48" deck 1997 - 1998 1612 12 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1983 1614 14 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1993 1616 16 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1983 1617 17 hp 48/60" deck 1984 - 1988 1618 18 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1983 1618 18 hp 48/60" deck 1988 - 1993 1618GV 18 hp 48/60" deck 1994 - 1999 1620 20 hp 48/60" deck 1989 - 1993 1620HV 20 hp 48/60" deck 1994 - 1999 2414 14 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1988 2416 16 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1983 2417 17 hp 48/60" deck 1984 - 1988 2418 18 hp 48/60" deck 1977 - 1983 2418 18 hp 48/60" deck 1988 - 1993 UT620 20 hp 48/60" deck 1989 - 1993 UT620HV 20 hp 48/60" deck 1994 - 1999

So Wednesday I am driving down my street and there is a huge pile of garbage at the curb. I had to stop and look. I picked out this coffee table. Thought it was kinda cool. Mid century modern stuff is getting hot. So I brought it home. I cleaned it all up and waxed it. Came out pretty good. If you Google you see people asking 400 - 1200 dollars for one. I knew I had good taste !! It's in my living room now. This morning I went to an estate sale I bought this old Waterloo tool chest, loading with everything inside of it for 15 bucks. Add in the one owner little Wheel Horse I picked up Thursday for 75 bucks I think I'm having a good week.

My neighbor is into old cars and just pulled in with this gem He found down in Md. Then he said he also had this in the bed of his truck. Said he brought it along in case I wanted it. Yep! Accepting all interest and info on it's ID.

No visuals of Dan plowing in his skivvies Sylvia? No but the wallet sprouted...

@ACman and Kyle My SIL, Mrs. P and Niece

Working with help from a friend on the mount for the mid-blade so it’ll have lift, rotation, and roll (tilt). He has a Hyster with long forks. It makes me nervous having it so high up there but dang is it convenient to get under to work on! Upper and lower grader frame parts coming along. Tomorrow the main parts should be together and then onto final design and implementation of the controls.

A (sort of) side shot of the latest addition to the Herd.

For the first time in a long long time the “twins” were both out doing yard work. I worked this morning and then came home to do some yard work. I try to base my timing of my yard work (thatching, aerating, fertilizing, etc) on when we do it at work. We started a couple weeks ago at work but it seems like every weekend it’s rained and kept me from doing it. Sure enough it poured twice while I was out. I only did the front yard and part of the side. The back which is the biggest piece of the property can wait. The twins are my 71 Bronco 14 and my 73 12 automatic. Both with 18hp vanguard v twins so that’s why we call them the twins. The 12 auto pulled the green thatcher (don’t hurt me gotta use what I have) and the bronco was on the vac system. Alex isn’t home this weekend. It definitely felt weird being able to drive a couple tractors of my own and do work with them. He usually jumps to do it as soon as I mention anything tractor work related.

Good Horsey, you can take a break now......

Well I've always wanted to plant sweet corn and this year I'm giving it a try. So this will be a small garden size, 12x30'. I'm doing 4 rows 30" apart, seed spacing about 8-10". Started off with the moldboard plow, then the disc harrow which didn't work as good as I hoped but soil was probably a bit moist for it, the cultivator worked great and I did most of the work with that to level and break up the soil, then used it to make the rows. Next time I'll probably borrow my friends WH tiller to prep the soil. So planted 11 days ago and already have sprouts coming up. I'm using Milorganite for my nitrogen feed. A couple observations from a first timer using the WH in the garden, first the turf tires on the front of the rig are not good at all for working a garden. It was all over the place and I had a hard time holding a line. Thinking I'll try a 4.00-8 pneumatic tire of some kind in the future or something similar. Any suggestions for a front tire and wheel combo would be appreciated, tractor is a 312-8. Will add a little weight to the front as well with the front 2" receiver next time. I would like advice for critter control and specifically with raccoons if anyone has some to offer. The creek behind my yard is full of them and they will be an issue at some point. I've seen the scent stuff you can put around the perimeter and the solar powered stuff on Amazon, also considering a small electric fence on a timer. Any advice would be appreciated! Now for pics!

Except that MTD will look like trash and not “art” ! Nothing wrong with letting one retire. I clear-coated this one to stop it from rusting away. As you can tell I love showing it off as much as my running driving machines !!

Champion Machine Company When International Harvester was being formed by Cyrus McCormick Jr. and William Deering, they sought out partnerships or purchases of competing harvester companies to corner the harvester market. Champion Machine was a very attractive buy because they had an established dealer network in twelve states & Europe, an up-to-date manufacturing plant and over a hundred patents. William N Whiteley founded the Champion Reaper and Mower Works in Springfield, Ohio in 1855. In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was commonplace to have equipment dealers stage field trials to show-off the quality of their wares. At age 22 Whitley entered a local trial of reaping machines and demonstrated his new machine in the field. Champion was in direct competition with Warder, Bushnell, Glessner, & Co. who also made mowers. The two companies eventually merged soon becoming the largest manufactories of its type in the nation. Springfield became known as the “Champion City” and a few of Champion’s subcontractors also took on the Champion name, The Champion Bar & Knife Co. and The Champion Malleable Iron Foundry also located in Springfield. I don’t know if this is fact or fable but this was too good to pass-up. William. N. Whiteley was quite a character according to some of the stories told about him. He was supposed to be a large ox of a man, a great salesman, and a bit of a hot head. It’s said at one time he was demonstrating a reaper with a competitor in the field with him. Not wanting to be shown up he unhitched one of the horses in his team and went on across the field with a single horse. The competitor not wanting to lose any sales did the same which really set Whitely off. Whitely unhitched the last horse and proclaimed I can pull the reaper myself. He unhitched the second horse and proceeded to pull the reaper across the field himself. Champion Machine Company was bursting at the seams and built a new state-of-the-art factory complex of over a million square feet in 1884. Now all of Champion’s processes were under one roof, raw materials came in the back door and finished reapers, mowers and rakes went out the front door to be shipped to eager customers. By 1887 Champion was one of the most profitable companies in the United States with sales of over four million dollars. (Over 130 million in 2024 dollars) Champion was one of the companies bought out with the formation of International Harvester in 1902 however, the Champion Line continued to be sold. All production moved to the Chicago IH factory and in 1908, the company marked a major milestone: sale of its 2,000,000th Champion machine. Albert Krell, of the Krell-French Piano Company, purchased and remodeled the Champion factory in preparation to begin production of pianos when the factory went up in flames on Feb. 10, 1902.

Flywheel Horse came out of the winter stables and pulled yard duty!

A big thanks to @PWL216 for bringing this to me. This'll be a future project for the BBT and me. The numbers show it to be a 1974. The engine has been replaced. Unfortunately the serial/spec number isn't legible. The engine appears to be blue...ish (?)

Probably gonna wear out my welcome with this machine, but I have a serious crush on this tractor.

@Blasterdad @WHX?? and Me @Achto @Streetrodchev

What have I done to "my" Wheelhorse? Brought it somewhere else! Here's my Ole Man in his purple hat driving the C121 we built for him to mow with.

Did get the front tires changed out . This to this

That's a shaving nick for @Pullstart

On 4-4-24 the Winter storm left 14'' of heavy wet snow and shut down the complete 1.5 mile loop of trails the RS members enjoy at the September M & G every year. This does not include the dirt woods road not owned by us that is about a 4 mile out and back that Mike @Sparky takes charge of is impassable currently as well. At this time all of the trails are done on the house side of the brook. The trails on half of the Cabin side of the brook are done except the far left hand side of the property where the Hemlock grove is which is about 5 ac. This is the worst we have seen this much of a mess here after a Winter storm. I have been able to have a good friend of mine come up 3 times to help out with getting things back to normal. I have done quite a bit of it alone picking a little bit each day. Having well maintained equipment around has made a huge difference in the progress. I would like to thank @AMC RULES and @Mrs. Rules for the offer to drive all the way up here to lend a hand so the M&G will continue on, very much appreciated. That is what makes RS a special place. These pictures are only some of what it looks like and I may have posted more than I should have not to bore anyone. Thanks All

Give your Garden Tractor a Lift In June of 1969 Popular Science Magazine encouraged us to “Give your Garden Tractor a Lift”. They provided detailed drawings and a good description of the build. Let’s get in our time travel machine and go back fifty-five years to build this hand powered forklift attachment.

*** If your name is in RED you can play*** Well some guys were complaining about already having too many cups so I figured I would do something else. I bought a small hobby laser last year and have been trying to come up with Wheel Horse related items I could make. Not a ton of stuff out there, especially personalized. So with that said, I had come across a simple design for a phone charging stand and decided to try it out. Works great with my phone, even in a case. It’s right at 6” tall and 3.5” wide. When the phone isn’t there, whatever design is on it shows. So I am going to randomly pick two people and they can choose what they want on it. Just post your name here and this coming Saturday I will draw two numbers. One post please so I can keep up with it. Thanks for supporting my favorite website on the net and thanks to Karl & the admin team for all they do.

Time to set the parking brake?

210 bags of mulch. Only 70 more to go.

NO PICS PLEASE! LOL

The C-81 had mulch duty yesterday & today after work, she still has @Pullstart's cornfield mud on her feet.

Midwest Utilitor The Midwest Engine Company of Indianapolis, Ind., began making a walk behind tractor prior to 1920 called the Midwest Utilitor which was powered by a one-cylinder, 4-cycle, water cooled Midwest Engine. The Utilitor had two steel lugged drive wheels and a pair of rear dolly wheels and weighed 750 pounds. It had steering clutches to aid in turning and a weight between the handlebars to compensate for the heavy engine forward of the drive wheels. A full array of plows and cultivators was available. Also available was a two-gang disc harrow, with four disc blades on each gang, an Acme blade-type pulverizing harrow, a 3-row garden seeder, a spring tine cultivator, and an adapter for hitching a 3 1/2 foot one-horse mower. Many of the images in their advertising featured women operating the walk-behind tractor, others were aimed at potential dealers to sell the tractors. Like so many other companies Midwest Engines suffered in the Great Depression. By 1929, the tractor was being manufactured by a Utilitor company that was in Dayton, Ohio. Toward the end of the depression the Utilitor General-Purpose four-wheel tractors joined the two-wheel version with the new Dayton OH address. indicates that the company moved or was acquired. No conclusive information could be found. Midwest Engine Company supplied power for several manufacturers including Lauson Tractors of New Holstein, WI. Lauson made tractors from 1926 until 1929. Production ceased when the Great Depression started, and Lauson did not get paid for many of their tractors. Electric generators were also built by Midwest which were very important to rural America in the late 1920s.

Thanks to @WHX?? this 1267 went from WI to PA! Saw it on Facebook several months ago and asked Jim if he was closeby and he was indeed. After some intersting interactions with the seller it finally went to his house. I believe he started a thread on that. Anyway, he took it to pullstarts plowday and I went out to get at his place in michigan. I'm super pumped to have this sweet machine in my collection! Chaged all the fluids tonight. Good thing too cause the crankcase was full of gas! It was probably because of a bad float jim fixed, but I rebuilt the fuel pump too for good measure.

My rookie mistakes have been replaced with elder-error. Getting ready to load up for the Wheel Horse, I was so happy at how the K-161 on my 701 started instantly. As you know, the 701 has no parking brake, so there it was, sitting in 1st gear to keep it from rolling away from the ramp of my trailer. I turned the key, pushed the starter button, and you guessed it, there she went, riderless, up the ramp.

I wasn’t finished plowing, though my friends left! I made a few passes on Justin (Case) with the 8” plow I ran behind Putt Putt yesterday. It worked best in 1st gear, but still worked!

Yep I’ve got one ready to go. Fully rebuilt.

Got her done! A 72" belt was perfect without a tensioner. There's about 1/2" adjustment available where the pillow blocks mount to the frame. I really couldn't give it a good test because the leaves are drenched. I'm glad I started with 8" but I'm sure I'll want to take it to 6" (second pic) to increase velocity and I'll experiment with 4". Based on pulley sizes at wot it should be spinning at about 1800 rpm. It moves a lot of air but it also seems to be loafing. As heavily built as this is I think I could safely get more. I'll experiment with the velocity first.

The deck is a nope, but the rest has hope.

Wait until you lift the lid on the kitchen trash can unzip then look around and mumble to yourself "this isn't the bathroom."

I did the same with my son back in 2019… 310-8 with a deck (and eventually a plow).

Old classmate does yard clean up and excavation. He cleaned out a barn for a family of a deceased Allis Chalmers collector. They gave him all of this and he asked me if I wanted it as he had no idea what to do with it. Stuff has been sitting a while but everything spins and moves. A B212 and 2 712 hydros with a sickle, mid grader, snow blower, garden scratcher, 2 decks, dozer blade and the remnants of a snow cab. I may have a buyer lined up for all of it already!

Speaking of painting! Painted the rims for my C-175 restoration today, actually I prepped them and my brother painted them. Primed with a good epoxy primer, then sanded a lot!! Brought a decent rim with good factory paint to the hardware store and matched it up with an oil base Benjamin Moore linen white. I’m super happy with the results.

Farm Ette Garden Tractor When the Tom Moore Tractor Company, Mantua, OH, began marketing the Farm-Ette line of lawn and garden equipment they were attempting to serve all markets. The had some unique offerings with one, two, three or four wheels. Also, there was “Triger-Tach Power-Pak.” The Triger-Tach Power-Pak consisted of a detachable handle/engine package that could be attached to a variety of lawn and garden implements. It had a Briggs & Stratton 2 ¼ horse power air cooled engine with a recoil starter. You could select the “Garden Tractor which was a two wheeled framework that attachments could be connected to. You could select 18-inch cultivators, a 6-inch turning plow, a set of 5-inch disks, a 24-inch snow plow or a 24-inch spreader. Other units that could be propelled by the Power-Pack an 18-inch Reel Mower, 20-inch Rotary Mower or a 16-inch Tiller. The Model 22 lawn tractor is very cute, probably not too functional, but cute! The two small rear wheels are mounted to steerable casters and the somewhat larger front wheel is the drive wheel. The one wheeled Model B was primarily a cultivator but could also push a 20-inch snow plow, 21-inch reel mower or power a 36-inch sickle bar mower. The Farm Ette Model C was a conventional two wheeled walk-behind garden tractor available in two horsepower and three and a half horsepower sizes. The four wheeled Model 75 riding garden tractor was powered by a Lauson 5.5 hp engine and had a three-speed transmission. One unique attachment that would be very useful, the Cary-All. Our own @VinsRJ produced this video

Getting all the lil bugs worked out. New seat has been ordered.

Red-E Tractor Red-E Tractors were produced by Pioneer Manufacturing Company which was founded on March 19, 1922 by Earl Welbourne, William J. Meyer, James A. Mould and John Buday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its focus was farm machinery and began in West Allis, Wisconsin (1922-1946) then moved to Richfield, Wisconsin in 1946. Earl Welbourn, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, took an interest in a concept tractor built by a student of his. It’s not known if the student got an A for his project but Professor Welbourne must have been impressed. His first two wheeled walking tractor was built in 1918 and served as the model for the first Red-E steel wheeled walk-behind tractor. "Universal Red-E Power Cultivators" could be configured with many different implements including plows, cultivators, discs, S & H set onion planters, Nash Acme harrow, seeders, drags, spike harrows, furrower with wings, orchard style front fenders, wheel hoes, Iron King wire seeders, many cuts of different cultivator shovels, various wheels, sprayers, snow blade, Type T-22 Red-E mower, type T7-60 Red-E gang mower with riding seat, riding roller, and much more. Pioneer Manufacturing built their own engines but used abundantly available Ford Model “T” pistons, connecting rods, intake and exhaust valves, and the Model “T” Holley carburetors. The engine crank case casting included the tractor’s transmission. The air-cooled single cylinder sleeve and head was bolted to the base casting with an air shroud fitted over the cylinder and the top of the transmission casting. The flywheel had fins cast into it which drew air through the shroud cooling the cylinder head. This same style engine was used on all cast engine/transmission tractors until they were phased out in the 1950s. In 1942 six models of garden tractors were offered, five models of the cast engine/transmission configuration RED-E tractors including models 11 and 12 as well as the 11R and a 12R which offered forward and reverse. New additions were the model ZA-5A steel wheeled tractor and the ZA-7A with rubber tires. All models came with standard cultivator attachments and the new 5A and 7A came with Briggs and Straton one and two horse-power air cooled engines. By 1945 changes were occurring at RED-E tractor. The cast models 11 and 12 now had pipe handles instead of wooden plow handles. The factory was relocated to Richfield, Wisconsin, and started producing an entirely new line of tractor. While cast models 11 and 12 were still being manufactured at Richfield, they were being phased out in favor of four wheeled riding garden tractors. The Page Dairy and Farm Equipment Co. of Milwaukee had been in the Garden tractor manufacturing business since 1926 and had developed a rear engine four wheeled riding garden tractor that was of interest to Pioneer Manufacturing. The Page tractor portion of the company was purchased by Pioneer in 1949. By 1951 the four-wheel riding tractor had gone from the rear engine Page design to a front engine model. It is believed that the four-wheel garden tractors were sold under the Page and Red-E names. James E. Turner, the son-in-law of founding partner Earl Welbourne, worked for the Pioneer Manufacturing Company as a designer. In 1946 he left the company to begin work on a four wheeled garden tractor that would use easily obtained automotive parts. This tractor, the Economy, was manufactured by Mr. Turner’s company, Engineering Products of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Much like the Pioneer manufactured units his tractor was also based on simplicity of use and ease of repair. The unit had a Wisconsin air-cooled single cylinder engine. It was attached to a modified Crosley bell housing and transmission. The transmission unit was modified by adding pulleys for belt power transfer. A modified Ford Model-A rear axle assembly with reduction gears at the axles was used as a final drive. The Economy tractor was tested at the University of Nebraska in 1952 under test number 483. In 1964 the Economy name was replaced becoming known as the Power King, it was also known as the Country Squire and the Jim Dandy along the way. More about that tomorrow. During the many years it built tractors, RED-E Tractor Company and Pioneer Manufacturing Company always strived to make a simple quality product that could easily be repaired or modified to suit its owner’s needs. Production of Red-E tractors ended in 1962. @oldiron613 posted some good information about the Pioneer/Page/Economy lineage in the attached post.

Obviously i need more tractors... I was recently given the Husqvarna, L110, and 190C, if i can located good decks for the deeres ill sell them, im rebuilding the husky deck tomorrow.

Page Garden Tractor Page Dairy and Farm Equipment manufactured items needed by the dairy industry and in 1926 launched a line of garden tractors. Like most offerings in that time, they were two wheeled walk-behind units. A 1946 magazine ad for Page’s “Streamlined Garden Tractor” boasts “20 years of experience”. The advertisement went on to extol the virtues of the tractor’s many features, it had a headlight and an equipment light for night work. It had a direct drive, worm-gear transmission that employed cut gears and ball bearings. “No cheap belts or chains.” This model was offered with a choice of 1.5, 2, 3 and 4 horse power engines. Also, a wide array of tools could be added. I have read that Page's first rear engine; riding tractor, built in 1945, was based on their Two-Wheeled tractor drive train with an added reverse gear as the rear end. Front steering and a seat for the operator were added though the individual hand operated clutches for each drive wheel were retained. Cultivators or other implements were mounted under the tractor where the operator could observe them. That first model was considered the "standard" model and was powered by the Wisconsin ABN 4 horse power engine. In 1949 Page introduced the "Master", which was an upgraded standard model. The front casting was redesigned to be heavier, it had individual wheel brakes and the biggest improvement was a hand operated clutch and differential. It was powered by a slightly larger Wisconsin AKN 6 horse power engine. This tractor caught the attention of another garden tractor manufacturer, more on that tomorrow. In 1951 Page came out with a one wheeled “Bantam” walk-behind garden tractor as mentioned in this ad. A Bantam flyer said, “Check these Features, Fingertip clutch control, Quick hitch, Enclosed all-gear transmission, Direct mounted engine, Power take-off shaft, Handle controlled stand, Pneumatic tire, Traction balanced, Briggs & Stratton 2 hp Model 6FB As is the case with so many obscure tractor brands there is no reliable information about production numbers and much of what can be found on garden tractor sites is speculation and conflicts with other postings so I am not comfortable using it.

Long time no see but I finally got the tractor restored, I'm a big chrome stack snob and have always liked the look so I put one on and wrapped it with exhaust wrap. I got the new stickers on it and all painted up, completely rewired it. the thing had been sitting in the back of the school shop sense January and I finally got around to getting it back together I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I graduate next month but maybe it will be my family heirloom or I can tote around a little trailer