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She drove HER tractor!!! With bonus Redsquare greetings...

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ebinmaine    67,472

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Still needs some finishing... It's alive!!

 

 

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stevebo-(Moderator)    8,330

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Nice feeling after all that work. 

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ebinmaine    67,472

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33 minutes ago, stevebo said:

Nice feeling after all that work. 

It really is!!

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Pullstart    62,850

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Looks great!

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19richie66    17,500

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Great job and she looks happy. Can’t beat that 👍

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rjg854    11,361

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Nice job and it sounds good to :text-bravo:

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Sparky-(Admin)    21,315

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Makes all the hours of work worth it eh?

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wallfish    16,996

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Bet she can hardly wait now for the next Stevebo meet & Greet!

Way to go!

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RandyLittrell    3,877

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It looks great and your a lucky dog!! My better half so NO interest in tractors what so ever. 

 

 

 

 

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WHNJ701    4,165

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2 hours ago, RandyLittrell said:

It looks great and your a lucky dog!! My better half so NO interest in tractors what so ever. 

 

 

 

 

Randy

does eye rolling count as intrest when another comes home?

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WHNJ701    4,165

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5 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

It really is!!

came out real nice eric, so now that's it's done what's the next project?

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elcamino/wheelhorse    9,297

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Nice job , now you can out her to work dragging stuff around.

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JC 1965    1,530

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You did a great job on that tractor. You should be very proud. Thanks for sharing.    :thumbs2:

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Tankman    3,518

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Great restore on "her" new Horse! :handgestures-thumbupright:

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ebinmaine    67,472

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16 hours ago, rjg854 said:

Nice job and it sounds good to :text-bravo:

Thanks!

I'm very happy with the sound as well.

I haven't heard that engine run that smooth in 2 decades or more.

Thanks to Lincoln @A-Z Tractor for the carb parts. I told him to send what I needed (I didn't know) and he put together a few little bags of parts for us.

It's great that we have resources like him and other fine Redsquare vendors to call on.

With the Tecumseh pepper pot muffler and a carb rebuild parts assortment it seems really happy.

 

 

14 hours ago, RandyLittrell said:

It looks great and your a lucky dog!! My better half so NO interest in tractors what so ever. 

 

 

 

 

Randy

 

I really am... for many reasons.

Her "interest" really is practicality based though.

She's very hard working, driven, non-stop about chores. She was always accustomed to grabbing a wheelbarrow/cart/pulk sled and just going at it til done.

It took me 2 years or so get her to drive my B80.

Once she did, she saw how much more convenient and time saving it is to move stuff in 1 big load instead of 5 or 7 small loads.... And she likes "seat time" just as much as we all do.

I think it would be tough to get her to buy another unless it was insanely cheap like this one was...   bbuuttt she did say the older smaller ones are cute....

 

 

12 hours ago, jabelman said:

came out real nice eric, so now that's it's done what's the next project?

 

Here's the "next-in-line" list from the other thread...

 

Well....

Let's see.

 

We need to finish up the dumping trailer...

Get the log splitter put back together...

Repaint the 1976/77 Ohio steel trailer a dear friend gave us...

Get the homemade log trailer axles back on and add a deck to it...

Get a C160 up and running.....

 

Oh yeah.... Paint the house.

You know.... Life.

We should be able to stay busy for a few more days... Or weeks... Or months...

:ROTF:

 

 

12 hours ago, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

Nice job , now you can out her to work dragging stuff around.

Absolutely Jim !!!

That was the whole idea...

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43 minutes ago, Tankman said:

Great restore on "her" new Horse! 

 

Thanks!!

Hey, it really is HERS...

She bought it.

She did ALL of the hard/nasty/dirty work on it... and wouldn't have it any other way.

She bought most of the resto/repaint stuff.

 

And it's little, like her. :D  I'll stick to my B and C series. :banana-guitar:

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Terry M-(Moderator)    2,175

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Nice!!  Maybe just stay with the briggs...?     or maybe get that Tecumseh back in??

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ebinmaine    67,472

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5 minutes ago, Terry M said:

Nice!!  Maybe just stay with the briggs...?     or maybe get that Tecumseh back in??

If I can find a crankshaft we'll probably put the techy back in... 

I have another pile of horse parts/potential tractor that I could use that engine on.

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RandyLittrell    3,877

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Well you are a lucky guy, and I really am too! My wife is awesome and would love to do outdoor things,,,,,,,if they were in a big building with climate control and no bugs!!!!! She is just not an outdoor girl!! 

 

 

 

 

 

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Terry M-(Moderator)    2,175

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4 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

If I can find a crankshaft we'll probably put the techy back in... 

I have another pile of horse parts/potential tractor that I could use that engine on.

 

4 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

If I can find a crankshaft we'll probably put the techy back in... 

I have another pile of horse parts/potential tractor that I could use that engine on.

Don’t give up on me yet.... I’m still looking for you!!

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Tankman    3,518

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Send for a set of decals. 👍

 

The Horse would look pretty like his owner!! :icecream:

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ebinmaine    67,472

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Just now, Tankman said:

Send for a set of decals. 👍

 

The Horse would look pretty like his owner!! :icecream:

Aawwww.

 

She has some for it already. The correct numbered ones which won't quite match the engine at least for a little while.

I'll see if I can get her to install them and get some updated pics

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