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2 C-85s followed me home today

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Craigslist find that just happened to fall together today.  The first tractor is pretty straight but appears to have not run in the last decade... The second is pounded, prior owner replaced the kohler with an 8 horse briggs, and the seat pan with a metal one that did not have a filler hole in the right place (268H), so he sawed the neck off the gas tank and duck taped on it's replacement". Over all it's a mess, but that loader is pretty darn nice and it seems to work well, but tractor doesn't run well enough to give it a good work out yet. The only leak is it seems to be some weeping at the drain hole on the tank.  I'll need to build a weight box for it, but over all pretty excited as I've looked a long time for a loader.

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gwest_ca

Nice

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Thor27

Thank you Garry!

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elcamino/wheelhorse

@Thor27 Nice haul , was the tiller part of the package? Is the gas tank attached to the cross bar on the Fel ? Like the weight rack on the back. Looks like you have some work to do , but you should have a great loader in no time.

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953 nut

:text-coolphotos:        That fuel tank is shade tree engineering gone wrong! :-o  Looks like the loader is complete and ready to rock and role. :handgestures-thumbupright:

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Thor27

Thanks Jim, Yes on the tiller, the one with the loader has the pulleys and rock shaft for it too. That is the gravity fed gas tank, Cringed a bit adding gas when it was on a battery charger! That weight rack stuck in the ground like an anchor when I tried to unload it.... it has to go!

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Thor27

I wish I would have remembered to take a picture, but the gentleman that sold me this had the coolest walk behind crawler tractor, I think it was an old vaughn. It had a big Wisconsin engine and metal tracks, but he wouldn't part with it.

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TDF5G
On 8/5/2017 at 6:36 PM, 953 nut said:

:text-coolphotos:        That fuel tank is shade tree engineering gone wrong! :-o  Looks like the loader is complete and ready to rock and role. :handgestures-thumbupright:

:text-yeahthat:    :-o on the fuel tank too!

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Retired Wrencher

Thor27  Looks like those two will keep you busy for a while. I hope the loader works for you. Enjoy the project.

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Thor27
On 8/12/2017 at 4:25 AM, Retierd Wrencher said:

Thor27  Looks like those two will keep you busy for a while. I hope the loader works for you. Enjoy the project.

 

Thank you Gary!  Plan is to freshen up the loader and put it on my C-105. I was able to play with it a bit before I tore it apart, I'm really going to enjoy this! 

Surprisingly the loader itself is in pretty good condition, the sub frame has been butchered badly, and the bucket has been cut down, but all in all it's a great start.

When there is some progress I'll put a thread in restorations. The C-85 it was on is just plane worn out, but I plan to redo the other one eventually.

 

 

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