Latest Restoration Project

DeereHunter78 · Post by **DeereHunter78** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:30 pm

Sorry about the size, only way I could them to attach, Matt what is the max pixel X pixel size you can use??

Ramon

Post by **Matt** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:37 pm

200KB, which can be pretty big if compressed.

I started getting into the L&G collecting a few years ago, but it didn't catch on for me. I have a '68 Jacobsen Super-Chief 12 Hydro w/ snow blade that I still use, and had picked up a mid '60s Allis-Chalmers lawn tractor as #2, but never did anything with it, and eventually sold it.

Post by **ICCSF 108** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:23 pm

Jim: If you have my number call me tomorrow, or let me know what is a good time to call you as I still have yours, I need some measurements.

Kenny

75rat · Post by **75rat** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:03 am

DeereHunter78 - "I didn't know that you had the lawn tractor sickness too!!!"

Yes, this is disease spreads very quickly. But I've been infected my whole life. In fact, I've got a photo laying around somewhere of me winning a tractor pulling contest on a JD 110 back about 1970! You have to remember, my dad was a life long JD dealer and I was raised on green stuff; worked for him several years myself.

That plow day thing looks awesome! I'll have to check into that.

Kenny, pretty sure I still have your number. I'll give you a call.

Jim

TASKY · Post by **TASKY** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:14 am

I excaped the epidemic. Bought a brand new x520 last year. I tried to sell Greg my patio series. It was close but he kept his non motorized push mower. In the end I sold it to another friend that has escaped the snowmobile craze for now. He turned me on to the freedom machine site and I have kind of missed the little patio since. Still have an ariens and a toro 520 looking for new homes.

Speaking of tractors,I am looking for a exhaust/intake manifold for my Hough Payloader. If any of you know of any e-mail me billtasky@hotmail.com

(sorry about the non-Deere inquiry) Thanks Tasky

JoeRainville · Post by **JoeRainville** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:55 am

Rich,

Back in collage my brother re-did two garden tractors. He totally restored a 66 (I think) 112 with the cast iron 10 hp Techumpsa (sp) and hydraulic lift. Even found an NOS hood at a local dealer. We used to use it once in a while since Dad has an 8 acre lawn. That was until Dad burried it in the swampy edge of the lower field. Bro was pissed, and parked since. It also came with a snowblower, cab, plow, etc. Everything was in pretty good shape and the cab is hanging from the rafters in the barn.

He also re-did our Grandfather's old 1969 Cub 106 with a 10 hp Kohler. Tough old tractor too, in the family since new.

So...what do you want for the PTO kit? I will shamelessly dangle NOS sled parts in front of you!

-Rainville

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:57 am

I find all this interesting as well. My dad spent 45+ years at Horicon works as an engineer and spent most all of his time on the lawn tractors. He only dabbled in some of the designs on snowmobiles ( individual parts) and lots on the mowers. He has a
wealth of pictures and original pencil drawings of the first machines he made on the board including the 1963 model 110. I'm not sure what they call that type of prints but they are all full scale and complete drawings of the machine and very cool! He was showing me brochures of the first machine and pointing out little things that were not on the production mower and things like that. If any of you guys would like to meet my dad and or ask any questions on the topic let me know.

Growing up in Horicon I realize some of the things I take for granted. One of them is the availability of parts for sleds and mowers. A few years ago my dad and I were at the dump in Juneau and a lady threw two fenders on the junk pile. My dad
recognized them immediately a and picked them out. They were original unpainted fiberglass fenders for the first 110 like Rich mentioned earlier (extremely rare). They were made right in Juneau and almost certainly have been sitting in someone's garage for 40 years.They are rare because people would sit on them and they would break. One of the other things I see often are the seats for the Patio series that you guys are talking about. When the project failed, there were lots of colored seats that needed to find a home and ended up at employee sales. It was common place to
see a dozen red or blue seats made into chairs in someone's basement. They bring huge coin on ebay ...$300 -$600 range.
The legion hall in Horicon had about 30 of them up until last year!

When I was a kid I always envied my friends who's dads worked on sleds at Deere and had them at their disposal all winter long. However, we always had prototype lawn mowers that I used to cut our grass my whole life while living at home!

Joe

Liquifire 4/6 · Post by **Liquifire 4/6** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:19 am

Hey, Joe..speaking of prototype lawn mowers, did John Deere ever have a prototype electric riding lawn mower? I seem to recall my uncle telling me some ruours about it in the early seventies but have no idea if it was for real. He passed on several years ago and nobody else I've talked to had ever heard of it.

Pete

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:36 am

Pete ....... Yes they did. I think they were called a E 90 ? They built them for 2 or 3 years. It had a 2 blade 34" deck with elec motors on each spindle. They used a special lower wing blade to reduce the power and noise while running. They did not build very many but they built them none the less.

Joe

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:50 am

I have been toying with collecting these things for years and this conversation just might get me to do so. I just talked to my dad and a buddy of his has one of these E90's he would sell him........ Is this the start of a new bad habbit :rolleyes:

Liquifire 4/6 · Post by **Liquifire 4/6** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:57 am

Thanks for confirming that, Joe. To tell you the truth, my uncle didn't only tell me about them. he actually had one. I wasn't 100 % convinced that my memory was correct...I was only about 8 or 9 at the time we visited him and he let me mow the lawn with his spanky new quiet Deere.....I have over the years, told several people that JD made an electric rider mower, but nobody believed me, so I was starting to think it was a combination of poor memory and a kids wild imaginatation. And I was beginning to think myself that it must have been a gas job with a heckuva good muffler. He did not have it long...I'm not sure if he actually owned it or if it was something that the dealer had lent him for a few weeks to try out. It's a refief to know that it wasn't just all in my head.

Pete

Spitfire79 · Post by **Spitfire79** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:19 pm

I actually have an electric riding mower behind the shed. Nevr used it but heard it wasnt too bad. I would imagine it to be hard on batteries though.

Jeff

Liquifire 4/6 · Post by **Liquifire 4/6** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:23 pm

Jeff, if it's a JD 90E, I'd be interested in it....perhaps you need some used snowmobile parts on trade?

Pete

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:24 pm

Is it a John Deere?

JoeRainville · Post by **JoeRainville** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:00 pm

My co-worker Gary had a 90E JD mower. He loves the thing, been in his family since new. I guess he updated the electronic controller a few years ago.

I also remember seeing the GE "Electrac" rider. My Great Uncle Tommy had one. No idea about it today.

Funny times those energy conserving 70's...

-Rainville