Hot-Rod Tractor
In the sixties my Dad had a Massey-Ferguson lawn-tractor similar to this one owned by my friend Country-Ham. I'm not sure of the year model but Timmy and his son have restored this one to a quite nice condition.
Trust me,when you're a kid of ten or eleven years of age a Massey-Ferguson thirteen-horse Kohler engined lawn-tractor is definitely a Hot-Rod! It was really easy to talk me into cutting the grass. I used to love it when-ever Sam (my Dad) had the deck off of the tractor, it was my Indy Car at that point. I used to sneak rides on it whenever I could.
I sure hope that the statute of limitations has run out at this point, but you probably wouldn't believe how many times that thing was tossed on it's side, or rolled completely over, a couple of times with my little sister as passenger. It's a major wonder that neither one of us got hurt during that hooligan bullshit. Gawd.
posted by Pee Wee @ 7:44 AM
6 Comments:
Do you remember how far it would tilt before it actually rolled? That's probably what saved us from being crushed since we would slide off before serious damage was inflicted!
Haha! I guess you're right, and I just always thought it was my A.J. Foyt kind of driving!
I had sears tractor I got from my Dad, it had a 2 cylinder onan motor. My son Christopher cut the muffler off and put a 2 foot long pipe in it's place. He then took the air filter off and wrapped a k&n pre-filter around the carb.It would shoot a 3 foot flame out that pipe and it would do a 14 foot long wheelie. Our neighbors think we are nuts.
Dale
Our neighbors sound like pretty good judges of character! ;-)
Fat man on a little tractor. Great pictures, Better comentary. Thanks, Country Ham.
I have the same tractor in the picture?but im having problems it will start for like 2 sec. then loses spark for bout 20 mins something is messed up anyone got any ideas?
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