The kid
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- Joined
- Apr 25, 2012
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- Location
- Middle Tennessee
- Tractor
- 1965 135 gasser, 1967 135 diesel
I bought this 135 off Craigslist in west Tennessee. This is the first time I bought anything without personally inspecting if. Sometimes pictures speak for themselves. This time my gut feeling was right on target. This little honey runs like a sewing machine. It came with a bush hog and box scraper. I was needing a tractor and bush hog to clean up about three acres that hasn't been touched in over three years.
I paid the guy extra to deliver it in a three hour drive one way. I put it to work the next day. Most of the undergrowth is honey suckle vines mixed with scrubs making it very difficult to actually push thru. I got about half of cut and may wait till winter when things die out to finish it.
Meanwhile I've starting removing all the sheet metal and will be replacing all of that. I'm refurbishing the wheels, dash, gauges, seat and a complete front end. I hope to have in done in about a month so I can keep the work I've already done cleaned up.
I had a bad tube in one of the tires and literally went on a quest just to find an inner tube. I was shocked on who didn't have it. I finally found one at Dean"s Oil Co. Not cheap though $69 for the tube and $40 to install it. The tube stem had rotted on the old one and leaked like a sieve.
I'll post some pictures as I make progress. BTW the rear wheels did not have fluid in them thus getting it repaired made a bit more simpler. Painting the wheel before putting it back on. -robert
I paid the guy extra to deliver it in a three hour drive one way. I put it to work the next day. Most of the undergrowth is honey suckle vines mixed with scrubs making it very difficult to actually push thru. I got about half of cut and may wait till winter when things die out to finish it.
Meanwhile I've starting removing all the sheet metal and will be replacing all of that. I'm refurbishing the wheels, dash, gauges, seat and a complete front end. I hope to have in done in about a month so I can keep the work I've already done cleaned up.
I had a bad tube in one of the tires and literally went on a quest just to find an inner tube. I was shocked on who didn't have it. I finally found one at Dean"s Oil Co. Not cheap though $69 for the tube and $40 to install it. The tube stem had rotted on the old one and leaked like a sieve.
I'll post some pictures as I make progress. BTW the rear wheels did not have fluid in them thus getting it repaired made a bit more simpler. Painting the wheel before putting it back on. -robert
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