ZXT 2,401 #1 Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) Took the C160 and a few small engines up to a show I attend annually in Lindsay, TX, up near Gainesville. I had planned on taking all of my Horses, my Bantam and my CC1650 but we had quite a bit of rain the last few days and I figured my 2wd Dodge would get stuck if I had a trailer - turns out I made a good call, it rained nearly 4 inches there yesterday. I was unloading it on way too steep of an angle with some 2x12 ramps and about half way down the front of the tractor came up and nearly flipped over on me - luckily my dad was close behind and pushed the tractor back down. It landed abruptly and when it hit the ramps, the rotten grommet in the bottom of the tank let go... emptying the tank. Walked around and bought a WW2 era Wisconsin generator to borrow the tank from and I was back in business. Registered for the parade but didn't find the tank in time. I was given registration number 161.. Should've shown up a little earlier and got 160! Oh well.. There were a handful of garden tractors there. All that I knew of are pictured except for an AMF that a guy said he had there. I practically tried to give away the dang HH120 off of my C120.. Nobody wanted it unfortunately. And of course, pictures! Sorry if this is the wrong section for this. Edited September 1, 2019 by ZXT 4 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 73,015 #2 Posted September 1, 2019 Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZXT 2,401 #3 Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) Thanks Eric! On an unrelated note - those of you who have read through @Lane Ranger's post about the Krud Kutter rust remover.. Look at the front wheels on my C160 and compare to them to those of my GT14 in my avatar. They looked just about like that before I sprayed the gel on them. Stuff works great. Edited September 1, 2019 by ZXT 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PeacemakerJack 10,743 #4 Posted September 1, 2019 Thanks for sharing the pictures and the interesting story. Sweet how you didn’t let the unfortunate event ruin your day. Very ingenious to find a motor that you could rob a tank from and get your big C back in operation! Well done sir! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 67,088 #5 Posted September 1, 2019 Glad you ended up on the right side of the tractor! I need to put a winch together to assist loading on my platform, to prevent this type of incident. Thanks for the show pics too! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,212 #6 Posted September 1, 2019 Thanks to your Dad, we can see those Pics of the rest of the Story. Think his quite handling prevented heavier troubles. Btw, the military Fueltank looks good, i would keep em, as reminder, you Survived that Story without bigger Troubles and don‘t did it again that Way. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oliver2-44 10,783 #7 Posted September 1, 2019 @ZXT Do you have a picture of that WWII military generator. I have a small WWII Signal Corps Generator that I'm slowly trying to get going and I'm interested to see other versions 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZXT 2,401 #8 Posted September 3, 2019 (edited) On 9/1/2019 at 10:57 AM, oliver2-44 said: @ZXT Do you have a picture of that WWII military generator. I have a small WWII Signal Corps Generator that I'm slowly trying to get going and I'm interested to see other versions I will have to get you better pictures in the daylight. I haven't looked it up to see when exactly it was made, but it looks similar to other WW2-era Wisconsin's that I have seen. It could be from Korea but definitely nothing newer than that. Edit: I know it's a Wisconsin AB, which was made from 36-49. Definitely WW2 era. Edited September 3, 2019 by ZXT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
