Lets see your machines...

[wstr75]

BCS 853 powered by Lombardini diesel with 34" Palladino flail mower.

 

[ferrari99]

BCS 853 powered by Lombardini diesel with 34" Palladino flail mower.
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How many horsepower is it?

 

[wstr75]

How many horsepower is it?

15LD 440 DIESEL

N 8.0/10.9 KW/HP
NB 7.4/10.1 KW/HP
NA 6.7/9.1
Nr. 1 cylinder(s) 3600 r.p.m.
Nm@r.p.m. 24.5@2200

 

[JRobyn]

They appear to be a lot solider machine than the BCS, how much do you think it weighs?

All the old Gravelys are beasts - all solid cast iron housings crammed with steel gears. The naked machine is probably 300+ lbs. Most attachments are another 100-150 lbs.

- Jay

 

[ferrari99]

All the old Gravelys are beasts - all solid cast iron housings crammed with steel gears. The naked machine is probably 300+ lbs. Most attachments are another 100-150 lbs.

That is not a lot different than our Ferrari, the tractor weighs 308lb and the rotary hoe weighs 92lbs so that is not a whole lot different, but ours is the second biggest two wheeled tractor sold here in Australia.

 

[js5020]

All the old Gravelys are beasts - all solid cast iron housings crammed with steel gears. The naked machine is probably 300+ lbs. Most attachments are another 100-150 lbs.

- Jay

I believe a 12 hp Kohler goes around 490lb before attachments, the 8 hp is a bit lighter and the L models around 300lb.

 

[oldmech]

Hi! I read Gravely 5200 serie start 355 lbs to 476 lbs. First L model start 275 lbs if you add governor and starter over 300 lbs.
Dont forget Gravely are cast iron. My Gravely L model : 275 lbs+130lbs(Reduction wheels)+30 (Diesel engine)+30 (hitch) +battery I think near 500lbs. My Gravely Diesel push a lot more than my BCS or Grillo.
Good luck! Oldmech

 

[ferrari99]

With a Gravely you can't use any trailed implements can you?

 

[Mattc8832]

My Gravely 522 - I'm going to start overhauling the engine this week.

 

[js5020]

With a Gravely you can't use any trailed implements can you?

Sure there were a few rear attachments but none of them powered, just things like trailers, lawn rollers, drop seeders, oh they did make a moldboard plow for the old L models way back. The Gravelys would be like owning one of the BCS 620s or Grillo GF4s of today, front pto only, ok for mowing, snow removal tools, sweepers etc.

 

[Ford850]

My dad has an old Gravely. My brother and I used that as our 'atv' growing up 40 years ago. We had a sulky and trailer with seat, and would take it a quarter mile down the road to get to our favorite farm with trails, woods, and creeks. We kept it on tractor lanes mostly, but that was our home base through many explorations and hunting days. Of course we also spent many hours mowing and tilling with it too.

 

[ferrari99]

My dad has an old Gravely. My brother and I used that as our 'atv' growing up 40 years ago. We had a sulky and trailer with seat, and would take it a quarter mile down the road to get to our favorite farm with trails, woods, and creeks. We kept it on tractor lanes mostly, but that was our home base through many explorations and hunting days. Of course we also spent many hours mowing and tilling with it too.

Sounds like fun, how fast did it go?

 

[Ford850]

Sounds like fun, how fast did it go?

I have no idea what the top speed is on those old Gravely tractors. Some of the experts on here can probably tell us. Too fast to be safe the way we were driving it on the road. We took It slow on the lanes though. We used to heap the trailer full of ear corn we picked up after they harvested the fields around us. Used to be lots of corn missed compared to these days. Good times.
We had so much fun on that Gravely, that I rigged up my BCS 850 with a trailer hitch last year. My son and I converted an old trailer, about 3'x4', adding wood sides and a bench seat on the front. I smile every time my son drives that around. He volunteers for all sorts of yard work so he has an excuse to play on the BCS. More good times.

 

[JRobyn]

I bought an old Gravely L and sulky from a guy whose sons used it exactly as you did. It's still waiting for a rebuild/restore.

- Jay

 

[FarmerAlex]

Here's two of my Pasquali 934s one with an acme 9 hp motor and the other with a Kohler 15hp

The stick take I built myself, which works quite well, tyres are quad bike rears

 

[ferrari99]

Look like good old solid machines.

 

[FarmerAlex]

Look like good old solid machines.

They are fairly solid machines, four speed gearboxes with dual range pto's, one has a 15 hp Kohler motor the other an acme 8 hp, both go quite well, pretty handy once you have attachments

 

[milkman]

There's an old thread here somewhere with lots of pictures of members 2 wheeled tractors, but I couldn't find it. I would like to go back through it, would be neat to merge with this thread.

Wooohoooo!!! I found it, lots of good pictures.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/2-wheeled-tractors/89060-post-pics-your-two-wheeler.html

 

[milkman]

Here's another thread with several pictures and a link to Earthtools in post #61.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/2-wheeled-tractors/40025-2-wheel-tractors-buying-using.html

 

[CodeMonkey]