Lauber1

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

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.

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.
 

 

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::
 

 

Getting There!

And then from 1952, 12 months after it was first sold to a farm no more than 30 miles from where it is now!!

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.  

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.

In between the torrential rain, cleaning the drain in the front of the shop, and mopping up where it leaked in...
...and checking the forum all day, I managed to pull a few pics, words and music together and do a short trailer for my YouTube channel. It's Also on the Facebook page too.

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.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice, you'll give mr Webster a run for his money....
Btw has anyone tried tempting him over here? Maybe create a simar thread