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Tonite I thought I would add a few pictures to this of my son and I plowing with almost matching 1963 Suburbans. His tractor is only 100 or so numbers higher than mine, and had the engine replaced with an 8hp, up from the original 5.75 Briggs. I have found the correct engine for it now, but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. He is pulling a 6" plow and the one with the cool factory duals I driving is using an 8" one.

This story get better, as through the RS site I found a second tractor with 4 more attachments, which were the riding sulky, a front blade, a cultivator, and the all important item...........a plow!! I had a show coming up in less than 30 days, so after a 500ml round trip up to Michigan, I brought back a pickup load. This tractor had the wrong engine, and again the tires were bad, but it had already been mostly restored, and just needed the missing parts replaced and some clean up. The attachments on the other hand were untouched, so I decided to do the plow and the riding sulky. The sulky proved to be the biggest challenge, as parts of it were missing, and had to be fab'ed up from nothing more than a photo of an original. I didn't take many pictures of this work, but do have a few still and one or two from its first showing:: These two tractor are the model PT-20, which used the 2hp Briggs model 6. You could get a bigger model 8 engine(along with other brands) with the PT-25, but tires on those units were 16" instead of the 12" ones of the smaller unit. I have not currently redone the blade or the cultivator, but am hoping to find one of the larger hp tractors and their larger wheels to go with. Maybe if I get really lucky I could find one of the deluxe models that came with a hood similar to the RJ rider series.

The orginal engine, was a briggs model 6 and was really beyond effective repair, so I had a good model 8 sitting on the shelf and used it instead. After a lot of cleaning and painting we get this::

Last summer I got the chance to own my first Pond. I had been looking for one for several yrs, but they aren't very easy to find. The one I got had a sickle attachment and other than the engine was stuck, and the tires were shot it was complete. Brought it home and ran it through my shop in about 15 days. Here what it looked like at the start.

you men make some pretty good video's. Cant believe you got the award winner dirty

nice looking setup, but I'm confused a little at what I'm seeing. Is this 2 or 3 machines? the one with the 3 wheels..........do you take the engine off one of the other ones to power that mower part? The cart is a way cool item.

The flower garden was a mothers day gift I built for my wife. Its made up of left over bits from other projects and the hood trips up so you can service the flowers. The pot for the flowers was originally the oil pan of a Mack semi tractor.

Well what you really need Neil, is a Pond walker. I'll be posting something on those in the next few days.

Heres another set of pictures of my Sears (prewar) tractors. I don't have photos of all of them, but I own a 33, 34, 2/35's and a 37. These tractors are the first tractors Sears offered, built at the DB plant in Bradley IL, USA, during the 1930's. I have a disc, harrow packer, spike harrow and sulky as attachments between the tractors. My son made a video of me running the 1937. It weights 1095 lbs in the pictures, and is equipped with triple steel wheels. It drives better than most cars. These are before and after pictures of the 1933 Handiman the 1937 Handiman Heres a link to the utube video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yudHfhOpSrY

Well then if you like the "cart", then you will really like this picture.

Along with the riders I also have several different models of the walk-behind DB's. I never went all out in collecting these, as with 23 models and 50 -60 attachments, it would take a large shed to store them. So here is a few of them and some working ones.

Just thought I'd attempt to post a picture of half my Suburban riding tractors, by DB from 59-65. I have a fairly large collection of these, and they are my main power in the garden and around the yard. I have 11 of the 22 different models built during the early period, and most of the attachments.

I guess one would assume that this tractor came out with a full range of tillage tools? It does appear a little on the small side to be able to plow with and doesn't look to have very much ground clearance. Are there any brochures showing the range of toys?