[AT] the next collector trend?

[charlie hill]

Jim,  I acquired a 446 a while back.  It's in running condition with new 
rear tires.
All it needs is some TLC and minor rust repairs to the hood.  It does not 
have the
original motor and the hood has been notched on each side for the exhaust 
pipes
but other than that it's complete and stock.  I got it from the original 
owner.
Now I have to get around to fixing it up.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim & Lyn Evans
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 7:55 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] the next collector trend?

You haven't experienced fun until you go to a garden tractor plowday.
One time we plowed 60 acres in an afternoon.  There were over 100 garden
tractors stretched across the 1/2 mile field at one time.

We now have 3 Jacobsen Chiefs, 2 Cub Cadets, and 5 Case garden
tractors.  All but 3 run.  A 1972 Case 444 is the main workhorse, and
gets used about 50 hours a year mowing and blowing snow.   A 1973 Case
220 with a front loader also gets a lot of use.  The only problem is it
takes a lot of batteries to keep that many tractors running.

Jim

On 3/3/2013 9:29 PM, Larry Goss wrote:
> Good comments, John. I suspect we are seeing the growth of Lawn and Garden 
> tractor collecting for space considerations, as much as anything.  You 
> don't have to have big tools or a big shop for the work, and some 
> collectors travel to shows with a tractor or two in the bed of their 
> pickup.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:26:37 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: [AT] the next collector trend?
>
> Recently I subscribed to Lawn and Garden Collector magazine. I have been 
> well pleased with it and would definitely recommend it. It has certainly 
> opened my eyes to the fact that someone besides IH and Deere made some 
> quality lawn mowers.
> As a kid I used to go to the IH dealer where my dad worked on Saturdays 
> and just hang out . In addition to being an IH dealer they also worked on 
> Wisconsin, Kohler, Briggs, and Onan engines. The rule was this, they would 
> work on the engine but nothing else pertaining to the machine it was in 
> unless they were a dealer for that piece of equipment. I got to see some 
> pretty neat mowers, some were commercial and some were el-cheapo homeowner 
> units.
> Heckindorn (not sure of the spelling) and Yazoo used Wisconsin engines. 
> Both of those were very unique machines, I wished I had one of the big 
> Heckindorns now !  Occasionally a Power King would show up. One customer 
> had a Montgomery Ward that they kept serviced for years. It was about as 
> cheap of a mower as you could get, but somehow it stayed together for 
> years—they eventually traded it for a Cadet. I remember a Ford that got 
> traded in that stayed in the inventory for close to 3 years before it was 
> sold. Being a dealer, there were too many Cadets to mention. Whenever they 
> traded for a nice older one, it would often be gone within a week. It 
> would sure have been nice to have had the foresight to buy and store up 
> some of the nice original machines as well as some of the oddballs. I’m 
> certain my dad probably thinks the same about some of the steel-wheeled 
> tractors he would see abandoned on some of the farms he used to make 
> deliveries and service calls to.
>
> John Hall
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