Basket Case to Beauty (or at least functional)...

[SylvanLakeWH 25,594]

Post up before / after pic of your worst basket case  saves... (This one lives at  @Pullstart stables now...)

 

 

Edited December 29, 2022 by SylvanLakeWH

[Achto 27,595]

Radpferd on the day I brought him home.

 

 

After a slight make over.

Edited December 29, 2022 by Achto

[Achto 27,595]

My Mclean as I found it

 

 

After restoring or "building from scratch"  Not sure how to categorize this one. 

[JPWH 6,036]

As I received it.

 

After restore

[Lee1977 6,663]

I started this one with just a pile of parts. Had a K-91 on it Iwould just pull it around. Made quite a few changes on it and installed HF 420  Haven't had it out in a couple years. Did a build on it over on My Tractor Forum. It's in Home built tractor tread DonF

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Edited December 29, 2022 by Lee1977

[WHX?? 48,823]

I love these threads Sylvia.  

Some folks look at these baskets and figure just a bunch of scrap. By all rights they should be but it says alot about thus hobby and the passion and personal satisfaction of driving it and showing when all is said and done. 

I think what would be cool is to haul say a basket case say an 867 to a show and park it next to one restored with before and after signs.  Most folks don't see what has been started out with. Only the guys that have ever done one know what it takes. 

My favorite although not done yet is this 701 Dan willed me. Can't rush a good thing. 

 

Never in a million when I bought this tractor in '86 did I ever...

 

think it would someday end up looking like this!

Edited December 29, 2022 by WHX??

[ebinmaine 67,553]

Me n the BBT have chosen her 657 Pony and my '74 C160-8 Cinnamon Horse.  

Cinnamon was ROUGH. We ended up getting another chassis for that one. 

Pony wasn't near as rough but was wearing a particularly ugly coat of hand-slopped & age-darkened Oliver green. 

 

I don't have pics because of changing phones but here's the thread links:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WHX?? 48,823]

A two fer one. Both were such molested wrecks I knew I needed two just to make one but always wanted a short frame with a big block. Less than 150 spent with both tractors. Let's not talk about the build tab... she may be listening...

Edited December 30, 2022 by WHX??

[D_Mac 8,619]

856 ... 500 Special ... Lambert 655 ... Case 224

[Snoopy11 5,714]

 

 

 

Don

Edited December 29, 2022 by Snoopy11

[Snoopy11 5,714]

 

 

 

Don

 

 

Edited December 29, 2022 by Snoopy11

[953 nut 55,281]

Before and after of my barn find 953.

Before

After

Edited December 30, 2022 by 953 nut

[953 nut 55,281]

The 953 now known as "Hot Wheels" 

Before

After

[WHX?? 48,823]

10 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

Before and after of my barn find 953.

No fair... all you did was a new seat... well ... guess that works for me...

 

The 953 now known as "Hot Wheels"

 

Give it a year or two with it's current owner... sure it will return to it's former glory... or worse and have a motor that doesn't belong in a tractor!

Edited December 30, 2022 by WHX??

[D_Mac 8,619]

1075 ... 875 ... 416-8 ... C-161... 857 ... and the Homemade.

[Pullstart 62,905]

[Pullstart 62,905]

[Sarthurs01 824]

[953 nut 55,281]

418-C that was listed on  as Transmission quit working. It was UGLEY but with a new drive belt it was back in operation.

A bit of Regal Red, a set of Patriot decals from Terry and it came out rather nicely if I must say so myself.

Kids like it too

[Racinbob 11,082]

Geez! How time gets away from me. It was 2015/16 when these two were given to me. The pictures really don't show how bad they were. Pretty much scrap metal. 

 

 

By the summer of 2018 I had combined the two of them to build this. 

 

 

Now, 4 1/2 years later and it still hasn't been started. I have an issue with the recoil start that's eluding me. I decided to pull the engine so I could continue the chase in a warm space. I got away with bringing it inside because it has absolutely no fuel smell at this point. If I can get the recoil fixed all I have left to do is the fuel lines and coil wires. 

 

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,318]

20 hours ago, Achto said:

Radpferd on the day I brought him home.

 

 

Alright Dan…need help here. 
  How is Radpferd pronounced?????

  Silent P? Or silent D?? Don’t tell me you pronounce every letter  … 

[Achto 27,595]

Silent P. . (Rad-ferd). Roll the R, short A, long E.

Edited December 30, 2022 by Achto

[WHX?? 48,823]

1 minute ago, Achto said:

Silent P. . Rad-ferd. Roll the R, short A, long E.

Only a guy with "Berg" on the end of his name would know that' 

[Pullstart 62,905]

22 minutes ago, Achto said:

Silent P. . (Rad-ferd). Roll the R, short A, long E.

If only ferds were rad…

 

[WHX?? 48,823]

10 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

If only ferds were rad…

 

They are... 

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