HeadExam

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.

That is over 224.00US, wow, I thought 150US was high and I generally wont pay over 125 for a nice one.

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

Anyone seen these, the rear wheels are nothing more than drag wheels the front wheels provide power and braking turns the tractor. http://www.stevenchalmers.com/Gravely/MowIn2001/WC1_LeftFront.shtml

Friday I will be visiting a friend I met several years ago. He used to be a Bolens dealer in the area and has a LARGE Quonset hut full of tractors and equipment that he has decided to sell. I know he has a H14, got dibs on that one for a friend, but he also has a 600, 800, 850 as well as several H14XL, Eliminators, and QTs, along with several shaft drive tillers, mower gearboxes, deck shells 3 point large frame hitches and many other assorted Bolens parts. He is a machinist and made a few of the NLA blade mounts for the larger GTs out of solid billet aluminum, the ones that have extra holes in case the old screws break off or get stripped. I'll be going out Friday to take pictures and make a list of inventory and see if I can help him move it. I'll post the pictures and results here Saturday.

A guy called me that got my number from a local mower shop that told him I knew about old garden tractors. He had just purchased a Bolens G14 from his neighbor and wanted a plow. First I told him he needed a hitch. I printed him all the drawings of the sleeve hitch and rod. He got the hitch built, but could not find a 5/8" pipe, so he used 1 inch pipe, not my style, eBay has 5/8" I.D. by 5 inch pipe that is used as a large wheel bushing for under 10.00. Anyway, long story short (ha) my friend that lives near Oklahoma City, about 175 miles south west one way from here told him he would sell him a Brinly plow. Originally he was going to bring the plow up here when he came up this way to pick up a tractor, but he had a injury and will not be coming. I called him and told him me and the old fellow who bought the plow were coming down, he said I might want to see if the guy wanted a brinly cultivator as well, heck no, I wanted it. I had one before and sold it along with a brinly disk, dumb, dumb, dumb. at least I'm getting the cultivator back. Sorry mates the plow was sold before I knew you were all looking for one, I know of several more around here though.

I used decking rather than 1"x4" to fill the gaps, pine slats were going to be 120.00US. Five sheets of 1/2" 4'x8' decking was only 40.00. As you might see in the picture, I used four 4'x7' pieces on each corner to catch roof rafters then two 2'x4' to fill in the middle span, at the top I used the left over 12" cuts from the four large pieces. I used liquid nails adhesive below the decking and then installed drip edge and tar paper, after that a row of starter shingles at the bottom and then up I went. It will take me a day or so to heal up from this type of activity, fingers are blistered and bleeding, back is sore, Achilles tendon is tender, and spirit is low. I'm also painting the interior of a 3,000 sq.ft. home ceiling, walls, trim, and cabinets. I painted the same house when it was new in 1995.

I see them around here all the time, I could start rounding them up until we reach 6. I think I've bought and sold more than 6 of them in the last two years, mostly as a favor to those that needed them. What would it cost to send them over to GB, and whats this about a tax. I don't pay taxes on much of anything being a ex service member and a rancher with 20 acres or more doesn't pay on any farm supplies.

What if you could find someone to collect 5 plows then ship them all at once, would that be cost effective?

The walbro carbs on the G and H OHV valve engines can be very stubborn to get right. It has to do with the seat that goes up from the bottom of the bowl screw. That seat wasn't made large enough and has problems with clogging. A very fine wire can be used to remove blockage, but NOTHING else will work, not seafoam, chemtool, air, nothing, I've tried. The symptoms of the carb problem is that it refuses to idle, but will run at full throttle, when you try to lower the throttle the governor starts hunting and the engine dies. One of the guys over at GTTalk sells a updated version of the seat with more room, but once cleaned they tend to be okay as long as they don't set for long periods of time or petrol goes bad as month old milk. Attached is the part the guy at GTTalk sells, I'm sure OB probably knows him or can find out, it is the emulsion tube that easily stops up