whfan74 2,066 #1 Posted November 11, 2012 Well hit the road this morning at 5 a.m. and made a trip to Chi-town. Didn't want to be gone and consumed by the trip for the day so headed west under the dark sky. Arrived at my destination at approximately 6:55 a.m. Chicago time. Talked for about 5 minutes.......hard for some of you to believe I know. Loaded these babies up and headed back east. Arrived in Warsaw at 10:59 a.m. Haven't had a chance to sit down and look up the years on these machines yet. The one in the front is older with a 10 h.p. Kohler and a pretty beat up mowing deck. The one in the back is a 12 h.p. Kohler with snow blade. Was told before I came that the one with the blade ran fine, which it does, and the other one did not. Unloaded it off the trailer, poured some gas in, changed the spark plug, hooked up some loose wires, cleaned the points and she fired off. It needs the fuel system cleaned terribly but we have two runners!!!! I have been wanting to add a Jacobsen Chief to the collection, as well as a couple other brands. Thanks to a friend, Derek aka dw753, for locating these online for me I now have 2! Plans for the future are to re-furbish the older one. Might have some fun plowing snow with the other this winter. Here they are just freshly loaded on to the trailer........... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,125 #2 Posted November 11, 2012 Thems two bullet proof, heavy duty tractors right there. Nice haul Scott, even if they're not our coveted little red ones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jake Kuhn 1,554 #3 Posted November 11, 2012 Those will make a great addition to the collection scott! Can't wait to see some work on them. ~Jake Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KC9KAS 4,741 #4 Posted November 12, 2012 Very nice looking Jacobsen GT's :text-coolphotos: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wheel-N-It 2,968 #5 Posted November 12, 2012 That was a very successful trip you guys had! Thank you for the pic. Please post some more pics of these fine machines when you can please. :wwp: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken B 3,164 #6 Posted November 12, 2012 Very nice Scott. There are a few other brands I'd like to add to my little collection, but space is tight! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whfan74 2,066 #7 Posted November 12, 2012 Thanks guys! It was a fun little adventure to take yesterday morning. Need to wrap up some of my other projects before I can dive in to redoing one of these. I am becoming more and more impressed with how things are laid out with the Wheel Horses. Sure is tough getting to some of the things on the old Jake. Might make for an interesting refurbish! Will try and get some more pictures of them at some point. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wheel-N-It 2,968 #8 Posted November 12, 2012 Scott, you are so right! The Wheel Horses are some of tthe easiest LAGTs to work on in my experience. I think thats why I favor them so much more than the others. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CasualObserver 3,408 #9 Posted November 12, 2012 Cool Scott. Sent you an email to hotmail with some manuals. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
