[AT] Toro tractors

[D8RMAN at aol.com]

Farmer, That is a very interesting and informative web site. I see a Ford  
model T with a Sears & Roebuck tractor conversation kit mounted on it every  
year at the Brooks, OR. tractor show in July that looks similar to the Toro on  
that site with steel wheels on it. I wonder how many companies made such a kit? 
 Willard Smith, Tacoma, WA.

I  got an invitation today to drop by the local junk yard to ID a couple of  
tractors they 
were going to be bringing in. They had some pictures printed  out and thought 
I might be 
able to help them. They had been looking on the  web without success. I 
knew what they were right away but I am not  familiar with them enough to 
give years or 
models etc. What they are  getting is two Toro golf course tractors with 
either Ford A 
engines or  maybe Ford 9N engines. The pictures didn't really show enough to 
tell for  
sure. While they are rusty and a little rough they seem to be complete.  One 
has a small 
dump bed. One of them they said has springs on the rear  axle and the other 
does not. The 
top front of the hoods where it is  compound curves is cast iron. One looks 
just like the 
one at the link  below (but no where near that nice).   :-)     It  even has 
those same 
front wheels. They are getting kind of rare these  days, wish I could afford 
to buy this 
pair. Scroll down to the third  picture:

http://users.crocker.com/~jricci/tgtregistry.html

--  
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
Wealth  beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of  Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England,  Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100 years 
before the  revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana  USA
robinson at svs.net

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