Disappointing Troy Built purchase

[oldballs]

All my old stuff '70's is still running. I have two Sears front tine B&S 8HP tillers that are running great with only regular maintenance. The (MTD) Yard Man 22inch High Wheel lawn mower still runs good, although I don't do much walk behind mowing any more. The '70's Homelite chainsaws are still working hard. And, I'll say this, the 1999 Fords that I own, have been the best truck/cars that I've ever owned. And that 1983 Case 448 Garden Tractor is the best piece of machinery in its class. I hope the new Kubota BX2660 is as good as all the above.:thumbsup:

 

[Matt in Virginia]

Most of the new stuff is junk.:drool:

Concur...

I have a 35 year old Troy Built Horse that my Paternal Grandfather bought new and used, stouter man than I'll ever be, to raise around 4 acres of vegetables for a small truck farm operation for years. As he grew older his business turned into a garden and I remember him using it in his early eighties. Granted he did not retire from foundry work until we was 70(!) and spent his later years puttering around he homestead doing small things. Such as roofing the house at 74.

Back to the Troy Built. I used it for a year or so and my father kept it running. 4 years ago he tracked all of the original parts down(New Old Stock) and replaced the engine with a new Tecumseh Engine. He used it in his tomato patch for a year or so until he acquired and ultimately passed from Cancer.

I can't get it to start, something electrical, however, it seems like a good project to do the paint routine on the original parts and to find out what minor problem is keeping it from running. The oil is as clean as new but she surely shows all those years of use...

Regards, Matt.

 

[gauthier]

Well,it wasn't really that the old timers were stouter,but what they was used to was trying to run a one horse or mule cultivator through their rows,think about that,we used to do that,a mule and a cultivator between rows of cane,than hoe,man what a job,when those motor powered tillers came along,think about it,smaller patches of vegitables could be worked,turn them around on a dime,etc.I'm 54 and was running a tiller when I was about 6-7,no lie,garden was plowed,disked,harreed,with set of mules,but we went tween rows with a tiller.
Like the powered lawnmower,remember,they was a time not all that long ago,when you really didn't have a lawn,certainly not like we have today,who could keep that cut with a push,[non powered lawnmower?],all the old places had a very little yard and a fence around it,outside that was pasture.