HeadExam

Update: The guy called me again last Wednesday and wanted me to come out Friday, he called Friday morning and left a voice mail message that said it was too cold (45F), could we reschedule for next week? I haven't called him back. I think want he wants me to do is buy the H14 for 500.00 then help him sell a barn full of tractors and parts for free. My time and money invested to wretch more profit from the tractor, which really is only worth 300.00. My agreeing to paying him more set his greed wheels into full throttle. I almost feel sorry for people like this, almost.

ya got me on that one, I'm proud of my self for recognizing it.

I hope one day to see your fair city, its history surrounding the University is of great interest to me. They don't teach much history in school these days, especially not multicultural history, but you can be very, very proud of your community OB.

Okay, for us Americans, is the van the truck or camper?

I see you're using European spelling for offense, your ready to get on the boat, lol

OB you have been a wealth of information and a solid guy. I meant no disrespect to you about your post, and I know you weren't doing what others sometimes do on other sites. Thanks so much!

GTTalk has 567 Bolens manuals, ONLY one is for a small frame mower, the G8 (813), so while your assertion about GTTalk being the best site for Bolens manuals maybe true, it is less than adequate/accurate if you have a small (stamped) frame tractor. I believe that is the topic of this post and the poster's inquiry. Public records do not say alot for Sonnys name or reputation, but that his problem. I do not approve of the G&B guys using anyone's name or site in the way they do. They are mirroring much of Sonny's old site as well as the Miller tire site. Their URL is sonnysbolenstractors and it says that name in the links that are supposed to go to Miller tire, Sonny's, etal. I really don't have a problem with you suggesting another forum in order to help someone, but there is no older small (Husky Pup) frame manuals at GTTalk. I really would have thought you knew that, lol. Crap, I hope I don't get in trouble for being honest.

Now that Sonny's Bolens site has been taken down and I did not mirror it (dumb, dumb, dumb) manuals for some tractors seem to be hard to find. here is a site that many may want to look at. The URL says Sonny's, but I'm not really sure as the front page says G&B tractors which I thought was a restoration company from Connecticut http://www.sonnybolenstractors.com/

Sorry dandd, I'm still looking for the 613 manuals, looks like Chris has the parts and and manual. My filing system isn't really all that bad, but I moved all my files from laptop to flash drives to desktop, and I'm still trying to find everything. I'm going to post a link to a site that may help others though.

Yes there are. I was quite surprised to find out that hill people or country people sometimes referred to as rednecks and hillbillies inhabit all four corners of the United States. Most people associate them with the Southern and Appalachian states, but I have found them literally everywhere. I denote them as people who are lazy and unclean about themselves and their possessions, they do have at least one positive trait, many are not on government assistance due to living in remote areas

Nope, the guy didn't call me or answer his phone. I looked at my records, I sold this guy two Bolens QT17 rollers (no engines) two years ago this April, two days later I went to his house and made a DEAL with him to buy his old H14 for 475 ( he now says it was 500, I said no problem), he has not only avoided me, but avoided a friend of mine I sent to try to buy the tractor for me, no luck. The guy is not going to sell me or anyone else the tractor or anything else, even after we had a deal. Here is where I usually go into a parenting/ancestry discussion, not going to go there. The sad part is that the guy has had health issues for years and trying to maintain several hundred acres, plus several acres of auction junk has taken a toll on his health. He does not seem to realize that he cannot take it with him nor that much of what he has/had could be saved if it was sold to people that wouldn't let it deteriorate just for the pride of ownership. We have lots like him around here, those that don't take care of new or old equipment because they never mentally developed into complete and whole human beings. I'm not trying to be judgmental, just observations of Jung, Alder, Erickson, and Allport

What happens in my shed, stays in my shed, lol, I'm not sure if anyone over there will get that reference to Las Vegas, but oh well, I couldn't help it

WOW, that is a super write up, huge compared to my little blurb in LAGT magazine

You guys are very lucky, most cars in America all look alike these days. The Triumph Herald is a very stylish car. I love those smaller cars, but have a hard time gettin in and out, I'm 6'2" (almost 2 meters), and 210 (95kg) and don't bend or fold very well, I'm driving a 1995 Volvo 850 GLT right now and it s a tight fit. I never seemed to stop growing, I was 5'10" and 135 pounds on high school graduation

That is catchy, I would not have considered the Neil/Wheel connection, makes sense. The reason I started the thread is I have a friend who uses the name "mousecrap3" on another forum, he won't tell me why, but he did say that he picked mousecrap3 because mousecrap 1 and 2 were taken, which I find very perplexing.

My username is Head Exam, but not because my education in psychology, but rather I think I need my head examined for buying and collecting so many different brands of old machines. It's hard enough sticking to a couple of brands or types, but when you mix in 4 engine brands with 8 or more machine brands, it gets complicated as they say. Anyone else want to chime in on the source or reason for their handle.

Great piece of work, that reminds me I need to get some scrap and start practicing on my welding technique, you have that bead "thingy" going.

I have acquired over 1,000 manuals on .pdf files, the hardest ones to get are the implement manuals. I still don't have a manual on the SS-500 drag harrow. There were two pieces that came with the SS-500 that I don't have, a serpentine piece that elevates a hook up for another implement and the tab to keep the diamond shape from changing when dragging the implement, that piece I have made, I'll make the other piece shortly.

Yes, the cultivator is a model CC-500 row crop cultivator and the harrow is the Model SS-500 drag harrow. I have the bolt and strap for the concrete block hold down for the row crop and found the standard keepers and lock wedges, the steel wheels I have on order and will use a 3/4 rod to make rear wheel assembly like the original in the manual Brinly attachments 4 GE Elec-Trak.pdf Brinly CC-500 row crop cultivator.pdf

The guy canceled on me today, now it's Sunday. I am not sure this is going to happen. He has been doing this for over a year. I thought for sure Friday would be the day. We'll see.

I went to pick up my cultivator I bought a few weeks ago from a trader I know in OKC, its 2-1/2 hour one way trip and the guy didn't answer his phone or the door when we arrived. So my bud and I traveled across the city to another guys place that also had cultivators, he also had a lot more, he had 6 Sears single plows, 3 brinly V shaped cultivators, a Sears middle buster, a Brinly sleeve hitch plow (very nice), a homemade single 3 point plow, a front power bucket with hydraulic cylinder that fit a Deere or Cub, and thousands of other tools and antiques at GREAT prices, and under a pile of receiver hitches for small pickups I saw this thing sticking out and it was a Brinly diamond spike harrow. I picked it up for 45.00 then we went back to the other fellows place and I picked up a v shaped cultivator he had, not the one he sent me in the picture with wheels, but one without wheels, but for only 25 dollars. So I get both cultivators for 70 dollars and buying my bud lunch, he provided the truck and gas to acquire a really nice brinly sleeve hitch plow from the my trader friend. Here's some pictures of just a little bit of his stuff. He had nice twin cylinder Briggs horizontal engines, hydraulic pumps, old air compressors old peddle cars shaped like jet fighters, Snapping Turtle lawnmower/brush cutters etc, etc. http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/grd/4938545866.html

I think the tractor does use the rear wheel to steer, but I thought it also used individual wheel brakes for turning as well. My fault for the confusion.

We call them Asphalt 3 Tabs. The decking is a OSB, or oriented strand board, it's cheap because its designed to be covered, it would not last long in the elements, but I have seen the indigenous people use it as siding on "houses" out here in I.T. even without paint. You blokes also might know it as Aspenite or Smartply

It is interesting, basically a ride on two wheel tractor, cute as a button too. I saw one at a show, but I was not figuring on buying it. They take the same attachments as the other Gravely tractors