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Was happy to pick up a full set of new tires yesterday off Craigslist for $100. They’ll go on the 312-8 I picked up a couple of months ago.

Pacific H6 Garden Tractor There is very little information on the internet concerning the Pacific H6 but it is so unique that I want to share what little I could find. The Pacific H6 was built by THE PACIFIC IRON AND MACHINE CO. of San Diego, California. It was an unusual riding Garden Tractor with the drive wheels located at the front and an articulated rear tool bar which could be raised or lowered by a manually powered hydraulic lift system. Steering was accomplished using a steering wheel connected to a spur gear and sector unit on the articulated section of the chassis. Turning brakes on each drive wheel could be used for tighter rotation of the tractor. The steering sector gear can be seen in this photo. Power for the tractor came from a Wisconsin AEH, 5.4 horse power, engine which sat atop the transmission. The engine and transmission were coupled via a wet multiple disc clutch to a gear reduction driven three speed transmission from an early Ford automobile. The clutch was hand operated with an “over center” locking mechanism similar to the PTO lever on a Wheel Horse. The final drive to the wheels was via chains and sprockets. Each drive wheel was equipped with a manually operated brake which was also a Ford automobile. The engine is said to be crank started which could be a bit of a contortionist’s nightmare since the flywheel end of the engine faces the operator and is between the two 7.50-16 drive wheels and fenders. Perhaps as many as 100 Pacific H6s may have been manufactured but no records are known to exist. An optional flat belt pulley could be added and they offered a few basic attachments including a Dozer Blade, Single 14 inch turning plow, and a front Sickle Mower.

nothing eats a rj front axle weight with added bonus of being nos .

Brought home a real nice 48” plow a couple weekends back for cheap $$… brought it in and lubed up all the pivot and moving points. Ready for next season!

Frame and transmission from a 312-H, sheetmetal and center console from a 518-H. Front axle and all 4 wheels from a 520-H, Vanguard 23 v-twin. ATV tires, and custom decals. And a foot pedal on the hydro from a Kubota.

Saw this on the marketplace.

Made progress but not much to show in pictures. Kohler #30 carb rebuilt and installed. Wiring and fuel plumbing took up most of my day today. Took a little extra time to find a place to mount the fuel pump and rectifier / regulator. Ended up tucking the fuel pump inside the dash tower and mounting the rec/reg to the frame rail just behind the battery.. Dash looks nice & clean. In the home stretch now. Work & holiday will shut down any progress next weekend. Hope to hear it run soon though.

Well I guess the debate on which is the best tractor will soon be buried…🤣

not today but yesterday day I was working on my 32R lawn ranger, I got the head all cleaned up and am waiting for the head gasket, I got the flywheel and points off and got points and condincer ordered. now today I am going to take the carb apart and clean it good cause it had not ban rran in close to 20 years. I got the bowl off and it looks nasty. I need to get running and work on a tiller that I am working on for a guy. so that is what I have been doing and what I am doing I will put a picture of my lawn ranger

Not hardly. Told my wife to strap me to a tractor and send me off into the woods. 😬

Couple a shed dwellers waiting for the spring shows to start up! Almost time to bring out the batteries and get em fired up!

Yup! Back in the 60's one of my friends had a basket ball hoop on a tree at the edge of a hill. Halfway down the hill was a sewer discharge. If the ball went down the hill .....well you know! We had a rule. The last person who touched the ball had to retrieve and clean the ball " You did it, You get it!"

I like this topic. Hope to see some more great ideas. Made these chairs out of shopping carts. Nooooo I did not steal the carts. I pulled them out of a junk pile. When I loaded them into my truck I had no idea what I was going to do with them. Got the idea off the internet. Surprisingly how comfortable they are. Great for the back yard fire pit.

It has been about used up,think this one will have to be a parts machine. But lookee what was on it !!!

we found an abandoned c165 in the weeds, non running, and with some tlc and a few dollars ( and help of a mechanical friend ) got it running -- i suppose we never really know until we try the rescue?????????

I hadn't posted much on this tractor for a couple years after it was finished. I was actually pretty afraid of the engine build I had done (it started life as a vertical engine, and I bought all the parts to make it horizontal), and I wanted the foot control to be better. So the last few days I finally decided to "knuckle up", and she's now a runner. A darn nice runner if I say so myself! So today, she drove around for the first time. New hour meter recorded 0.4 hours. Foot control works great but is too tight. Easy fix. Engine oil pressure is hard to see, but makes 43 PSI at 3000 RPM. Still a few tiny tweaks to make, but she's all set for work!

You're gonna have to share how such a thing is accomplished. Mine looks like a museum...

OK I'm gonna buy it then since Ritchie don't want it. Advertise on the JD sites it's for rent. Soon as yer funeral is over you get booted out and it's on to the next renter. Before ya know it I'll have a Massey... a Case ... a Farmall ...you name it. Maybe even a one...

Since you don't like jamming gears.... I picked this 875 up as a parts machine. It had a blown engine and some other issues. Well...... got an engine from @squonk, fixed what ever else it needed. Seems im allergic to parting them out. In fact, I used this 875 this morning to plow my driveway.

Moved a bit of snow....

Stop! Thief!!!!

Pretty Sunday. Got all the boys out for a half hour of run time. 867 needs a plug wire, so he played hookie...

I guess you can take it with you

Ditched the little trailer all together.. hauling manure is wayyy faster this way.. oh.. and more fun

kind of like a viking funeral 19richie66. i like that!

Man, it's a good thing we didn't have those as kids. Riding crunched up uncomfortable as heck while completely uncontrollable down the mall parking lot hills is probably what limited more runs. Doing that in comfort and style would of undoubtedly increased the amount of runs by 10 fold and probably end up with more serious crashes as a result. Once we discovered motorcycles and things with engines, that cart would've been occupied going 20-30 plus MPH easy on the end of a rope. We were all huge jackasses way before it became popular on the net. No helmets either. It's amazing how no one was killed for some of stupid things we were doing. But just like any other young person now, let's blame someone else like Evil Knevil for making us do it! LOL

Holy (%@? that's dangerous. All you needed was a helper!

If you don't need those weights I can make a home for them

I would go over it thoroughly before deciding its a parts machine. You just might be surprised. I hauled one that had been sitting in weeds for decades. It did not need much to get it running again. In fact I wound up keeping it because it runs so well.

Oh balls... and you bought it right?

Also did a redesign of the hydro pedal. Raised the "toe", and shortened the throw considerably. Effectively moved the pivot back slightly. Also no more linkage sticking out underneath the belt guard. Looks like it's too close to the belt guard in the pictures, but it's not.

It would be a good idea to measure the voltage at the coil WHEN CRANKING. I have had failed ignition switches give power when ignition is on, but not when cranking.

Pretty good progress today especially considering we spent several hours doing snow cleanup. Swapped out the engine to frame bracket with the broken bolt. Got the engine all in and tightened down. Steering tower on and fastened. Brake linkage on and hopefully adjusted close. Even got the VR cleaned up some and put back.

I know there is always pressure and encouragement to buy the original part because it's the best, it's tested, you want to take care of your machines etc. etc. but on the other hand we know there are other options at least equally good and some parts really aren't available on some markets. In the UK the original filters from Toro cost around £27 which to me it seems quite pricey. Napa 1410 is not very easy to find either. My father is using Donaldson P550940 for at least 5 years now and after hundreds of hours of use he never had any issues. I can get this filter for less than half the above cost and it's always a good deal when we buy it in pair with the engine filter - Donaldson P550335 [I don't work for Donaldson ].

Not sure. Originally I assumed this would carry the 60SD and the Exmark 48 with ease. The tire combos gave me extra clearance underneath, but both of those decks are bleeping heavy! I'll figure out something. All my tractors work, even if it's light duty.

OK time for an update here. Since the Amigo runs & drives good. The 701 is done. (Waiting for decent weather for glamor shots). The shop is empty! Wow been a long time since ther was no tractor in disarray in. So in comes this A-90. Thoughts were to finnish busting it down... the motor is froze now... and get parts in a shed. After starting to get things freed up got to thinking how cool a little tractor this is and everthing is there. Get it running and driving since @Achto is too chicken 💩 to do it with a freebie. We're talkin mechanical only. Not quite frame off but close. All the original hardware was in a mason jar and now soakin in PB. Going to try and reuse it. Maybe paint rims. Top priority is a roller as this might turn into a molasses. Then pull the motor see what shakes. Yes that is the correct factory mule drive! I didn't go back to see if the year was corrected but 1974.

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Personally, I would have put the ladder on the forklift or loader bucket!

The BBT and her momma got a bit of firewood in.

NEVER use starting fluid on these little engines, BAD things can happen, i.e. blown head gasket, hole in piston,ect... Use a squirt bottle with a little bit of gasoline in it.

We spent the last 3 days at a robotics competition in St Louis. The high school team I mentor brought the underclass team and the upper class team. The underclass team chugged through the qualification matches with just a few minor issues and ended up being the #2 seated alliance captain for the 8 alliance double elimination finals. The senior team had to work to get to their #4 seat position for the finals. Out of a 45 team field the Sr team started as the 4th ranked team, then ran into mechanical and electrical bugs that dropped them as low as wend, before they clawed their way up to a 5th rank for the finals. The finals are played with 3 team alliances, picked by each alliance captain. The Jr team picked the Sr team as a member of the #2 seated alliance - first time we've done this. Well, as we proceeded to play the finals elimination matches, the bad luck followed. Mechanical difficulties showed up again, causing us to loose the first round, then get eliminated in the first round in the bottom of the double elimination bracket - tied for 7th. Tough weekend, but I think a good lesson for the kids - just like life, you don't always win. I'm proud of the kids because they didn't give up and kept digging. We've got another meet in two weeks. Tomorrow's competition debrief meeting will be about what went wrong, and what we are going to do to fix it. The Sr team is currently rated 64 out of 3500 teams worldwide, and the Jr team is ranked 338.

great idea with the play-doh. I am curious as to what compression the engine has now.

Courtesy of @953 nut, Kevin's Wisconsin roadmap is available... Once again, he's on his way...

Hard to be sure, but that looks like a newer "C" hood. The angle of the grill/ nose was closer to vertical on the C-series than the Raider/ Electro/ Charger/ Bronco hoods.

My 1971 Bronco has hood decals like the ones in the video, except the colors are reversed.

Found an old Par36 bulb and wired it up, it puts enough on it to keep it around 12.5, lower if I turn on the gauge and dash light but those are led and draw virtually nothing. Just feels like theres too slow of a revovery on it. Ive got to get 6 new batteries for the mowers this year, might as well pickup a new one for this mower too but the battery cranks it fine, never gets low, but its a year old.

Pull the band off and twist it back into shape. Drill a hole on the other side of the flange and adjust it properly then give it a try. The only cost is time.