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My Triumph66 username is threefold. I owned a '66 Triumph Herald, England won the World Cup in '66 and I was born in '66. Simple!

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.

Offered a chap some money on this a couple of weeks ago and he accepted, doh ! Picked it up yesterday but dont know what model or year it is, 8hp kohler 3speed tranny number 71-08 K4 any idea chaps ?

My name is Neil & my user name is Neil , I am also known on other forums as ,,,,,' NeilHorse ,,,,,,, is used this name as it sounds similar to ,,,,,,WheelHorse,,,,,,,, NeilHorse . As my main addiction is to collecting wheel horse products

Thanks for the attached files; fascinating to read about the various implements available. I doubt if we could get half of them over here in the UK.
I would like to get one of the company's sales brochures for my growing literature collection.

Nice work    I like the object your standing on in the third photo.. who needs ladders

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

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.

That look like a good buy there. Do you know what models they are?

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 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

Well done.   Wish there was a place like that round here.

Glad I didn't go, i would have come home with a trailer load of stuff

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

The band need a drummer and the the old volvo tractor? filled in.

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
 

nice work, looks like my workshop roof - I used the same boards, we called it sterling board here. 
 
Are those cedar shingles or bituminous felt?

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.

I hope your health insurance premiums are paid up, if I had that tractor I would be in hospital all the time, its why I sold my Motorcycles, 10 wrecks in a month. A couple liters of Kentucky Straight Bourbon didn't have anything to do with the accidents (sure it didn't), but at least it lessened the pain temporarily. I don't ride two wheelers or drink anymore, but I could see getting upside down in that rig real fast. I'd love to see a video of it going down the street.

This sounds really interesting, following this thread.

Looking forward to seeing photos of your friend's Bolens collection. If I was nearer I would help out with the 600!

It's the rigor mortise setting in that worries me.

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. 

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.

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.