Free, BIG Craftsman Rescue. It Was headed to the crusher.

hey guys and how's it going hey we're going to continue on this craftsman tractor that i dragged out of a a property that was getting cleaned out with unknown condition said it didn't work is all the information got well in the last video we are able to get the engine running and kind of gave it a once through pressure washed it and uh checked the drivetrain out all of it seems to be pretty good so we're gonna move on and start chasing some of the other stuff that's beat up on i got a little shopping list going on over there but it's got a ratty seat on it the steering's kind of screwed up mower decks all beat up so let's go uh do a little shopping at my free pile and we'll meet back at this tractor we'll continue on see if we can bring her the rest of the way back to life [Laughter] let's go see what the shed stash has for us should be a couple of seats i think back in here look like either almost the same the one closest looks a little tall but they're both short backs that's a word see critters come on and now we'll go grab that one this is not all tore up and it's soaked the other one's even smaller we'll leave that one behind if we can't buy anything else we'll go with that one let's get the crate off of that one and see if that one's any better looks like it's pulling away from the back with the other one though yeah that might have an issue [Laughter] i believe that wouldn't be too that one's infested with ants and i'm sure they're up inside the seat too looks like the back is uh he said the back is not connected to the pan all right so we got the two mower decks next to each other and again that's more of a garden tractors this is more of a lawn tractor probably around the same year i think they figured out the tractor was a 91 that we're working on so this is probably you know mid 90s some scenario so on this one we know we got a beat spindle where it spun out the center of it you can see where it's all smooth compared to you know this one's raised there's nothing to lock the blade in let's go see first of all if there's any threads left in this this may have just totally wiped out the ball and we don't have any let's flip that deck over we're either going to try stealing the center of the spindle out if it's the same if not we'll do our best to try to repair that one but it's getting ahead of ourselves let's make sure we got you know apples and apples well they look similar how rotted these are though huh all the corrosion that's on the aluminum ain't gone and these are all locked up and they don't move where these still spin all three of these are still spinning pretty good and they seem fairly quiet so like i said we have to try to use the center of it if that even works out let's get an air gun we'll buzz out a couple of the bolts on there and we'll see how they do in there [Applause] i'll clean that up on a wire wheel okay so here's the blade that way and generally it would get keyed in there and the bolt just kind of holds it against the king of course it probably hit a stump or a rock or something and then spun itself loose let's see throw a little oil on there if those threads are still good because there's a possibility when that spun it also ripped the center out of it so you know it's the same size bolt should be let's try running that in seems good so worst case what we're going to do is we'll we'll maybe try building up weld on each one of those we'll just see if we can save it in that fashion but i still want to try to get the center spindle out of one of them maybe we'll try changing it for education let's go see how this other one is this one looks like it's okay yeah that one's fine all right let's go get to the beatings on that we'll probably work on the end one right there i don't look all that much better does it i wonder if it's just corrosion though in this it's there i would never be able to use this housing over you're gonna go try taking these bolts out i've done this before they're just gonna snap off and there's like nuts that are stuffed down inside this aluminum housing that you're never going to get out so this comes out this way towards us so we got to flip the mower deck over take the pulley off and try driving it out and a lot of times they get filled up with water and it's going to be a pile but i want to give it a shot as you get that top cover off i don't care if the bolts snap [Music] and somewhere in there it's a nut we need to get off and we gotta get this whole pulley assembly up out of our way and then we'll try driving the center down yeah try get a pry bar underneath and we'll tap on the center i think that top one's free one of them i wonder if we can get to the other side just kind of rock it i don't want to kill those threads you know there we go so essentially really it's just the press fit between the bearing and the shaft i'm gonna take a wire wheel clean some of this rust off so we're not trying to drive it through [Music] so let's go spin the nut on to whack it with a hammer and that she started spinning and actually feels really good so that if we were able to get that assembly out of there let's see what we get [Music] that's what's great that's what's going to happen are you gonna yell at me they're not putting oil and all that kind of stuff in there it's not gonna work they're not coming out been down this road all right let me go get a pair of vice grips on this try to get this nut a little further down on there and drive it out of the center [Applause] so that should have been easier if i had those bolts still on there because now it's going to want to kick to the side i should come right out of there that's the spindle that we need that's the part we're looking for it's pretty decent to clean it up on a wire wheel it looks like possibly either that had corrosion on it or this one spun once before too if that's the case maybe we'll look for a better one but that's how they come out is the blade that's going to go on it it's kind of sort of it'll key into it but i don't know i still don't know if that was corrosion or if it spun once before i'm gonna flip the deck over we're gonna take one more blade off of it we see one that's better we'll try taking that one if not we'll just go with this that one looks a lot better i'm gonna do the same thing and we'll get that one out we'll work with that one yeah that one definitely looks a lot better than the other one the bearing came with it actually feels pretty good we'll get rid of this deck out of the way we'll pull the other one down however that one comes apart if it comes with the bearing out we'll just put this whole assembly in if not and the better bearings are in there we'll take this one off of here let's get that tension off that middle one all of them actually this is spring loaded put a wrench on me we can get it to go [Music] how about we just muscle it drive over our fingers all right let's go buzz that one out of there good thing we're changing it because the pulley is stripped on the teeth i'm trying to take the nut off the teeth are stripped out between there and there too so that thing really took a hard hit i'm going to try getting it uh underneath with a pair of vice grips to lock it from spinning and we'll get the nut off of there yeah here's the one that just came out and came out with the bearing too as long as that one feels okay it does make sure they're the same look good right yeah we'll reassemble that let's go see my only concern is if that pulley it's egged out or will it lock in yeah i think we get it tight enough we might be okay let's go look and see if the one that was on the other deck that was on there is the same as this one if not we'll we'll steal the pulley from over there if not we gotta look at this one i think it was a little smaller though wasn't it let's see what we got it was that one should be the same yeah yeah it's smaller you know that would do is it would change the rpm of one of those blades so we're gonna do our best of work with this probably gonna take a punch i'm gonna run around with a punch on the outside edge and try to shrink up that circle a little bit that does is it takes a circle and just kind of crushes it up a little bit by taking a punch and going around it you do that sometimes with bushings and stuff too that are loose let's let it choke up on the shaft a little it's a joke there i think we'll go with that got it [Laughter] come on [Laughter] loose right instead of trying to fight the belt put it on the pulleys let's try fighting with the spring around there we go that's a lot easier i think we're back in action belt's rubbing that looks pretty good let's clean those edges up a little bit [Music] foreign something i want to go just check on i'm going to spin the blades because sometimes the blade can be bent or that spindle that we had could be bent from hitting something i'm just going to eyeball them all real quick i'm going to put my thumb here and just see how close the other one comes that one looks pretty good that looks pretty good check the height against each other that one's a little higher than the other one and get these two over biting the belt right now let me just check these we're good the heights off a little bit i don't think it has anything to do with the spindle that we replaced but i'm going to just kind of eyeball it real quick and see if i see anything that stands out yeah that one looks decent i'm lining these up this one's a hair higher than the other one but when i go to spin it to these this one is pitched up i'm thinking that this whole spindle has a slight bend up to it in other words the housing that it's sitting on is kind of cocked up this way a little bit because even if you look where it sits on the tins that one's i believe straight edge across it it's probably almost flush with it maybe even a little higher and if you look at that one right there don't lay a straight edge across it so it's this one is pitched that way a little bit is there anything we can kind of go do about that i could beat on the housing a little bit i think i'm just going to leave it alone what happens is like over time the sheet metal can kind of deform a little bit and then however that spindle is sitting will affect that a lot of times you'll see that too like you'll see you you're cutting your grass and you got like a a stripe to it the deck will start rotting out and then the mount that that is sitting on as the belt is pulling out all the time starts to slowly make it you know it's rotting and it's kind of caving in and turning that's not that drastic but we're gonna keep an eye on that yeah let's go try to play with a little bit see if you can see i've got the screwdriver there i'm actually touching the top of the blade right there let's go get something support on it and we'll whack on that part of the casting right there so you can get this housing just to shift a little bit it's the same either side doesn't matter i flip this blade over it's not like the blade is off where the spindle's off like i said it's the same on both sides it's just the whole thing is leaning that way this needs a slight adjustment i don't want to hit too hard in aluminum i don't want to crack it there we go that's better i can physically see it already let me give it one more more good one can i get too blue together i'm just a little higher on that side work out a little more bring you back i see we got for difference about three three seven inches touching it before now we got an air gap on it now that's fine it's a lawnmower i say we go for the mower deck let's go jump on the tractor before we put the mower deck on let's go take a look at that front beam where that bolt was changed out and all see if we can kind of clear it clean up some of that steering we'll back the tractor on and we go to work off the edge here a little bit i got a um a chain fall right there i might go to kind of lift it up a little bit and work okay see what we got so it's got definitely like that all that side to side play that bolt's not even tight my thinking is they lost maybe they lost that center bolt and when that you know the whole front end just kind of fell out of it and it's probably maybe what broke this rod uh let's let that down we it may have had a spacer in between there too is what i'm thinking all that play is or if you're able to tighten down on enough on it where it'll crush some of that play out i've also seen before too and this front end doesn't look it but i've seen where they have like a like a snubber bolt on each side of it and they could do that to take some of the play out i don't think that's the case on this let's lower it down take this bolt right out of there see what it is maybe we can get one a little bit longer because that's that's not even gonna tighten on that [Music] which is where the tires touch you've got to get it where it's got just the right amount yeah let's go bring it back up let that axle kind of fall out of there don't go too much that's good let's go see how that is for a fit you know it's decent for as far as the snugness of it let's go hunting see if i can find something that we can replace that with the other track like i said didn't was a smaller setup i think in the front it's not going to fit i mean worst case we could do that maybe we'll run it the other way and uh we can put attack tighten it up and then we can maybe buzz you know across the bolt to keep it from backing off right now there's nothing holding that that's why that i bet that's why the mower deck has that dent in the front of it it was hitting whatever was falling apart before that right there i wonder if there was a bolt or whatever it was just kind of hammering up against the deck i'm guessing but don't know what i got for really big hardware might be something here it's kind of the same thing a little longer let's go grab that one i think it's a small camera is that what we already have is that that yeah so how does that look compared to that might just do it that was too easy i'll keep peeking a little bit more a little bit longer probably be better don't fight it when it works right not too small [Music] that should do it that should be enough to get the uh the jam nut tight i wonder if we should try shoving like a maybe a washer from this one if there's enough room to get something like that to take a little bit of that play up or you think we should just kind of like run it with the impact gun try to suck it together let's go try that i'm also going to go pack some grease in there and help that pivot out over time that doesn't because this and this might be plastic i think it is and it's flush on the other side i wonder if that's what the play is the there's no shoulder on this side and it's floating in there that's why yeah let's go try putting a washer on the backside i'll grease that all up we'll suck it down see how it does just kind of lube the hole load up the bolt maybe yep you got to make the noises come on now [Laughter] open the back side i'll go with the trusty finger yeah the face of it because it's going to rub on there too right and i need a rag let's try lowering that down i don't have enough room for the washer but let's find out be easier if we do this front let's do this front side this because it's easier to get to i think if we try doing it out back just going to fight ourselves just enough room to wiggle a washer up in between there yeah there is can we get two should we get greedy now we'll leave it like that come on come on that much washer and then the nut that's the right one yes it is i'm gonna go throw some wrenches on that and we'll go crank that down we'll see how what we got for plate from side to side now still quite a bit i wonder if we should get a washer on each side of it would it help or hurt i'm gonna try putting i'm gonna spare you i'm gonna try putting see if we get room for two all right we've got plenty of room in there oh there's a mile yeah i'm going to put another one in there and then try crushing that down and see how that works out for us i didn't need the lock washer in there but it's not going to hurt anything we got from side to side yeah still decent let's see what it does for when we get our crush on lot better than what it was let's go to where we overdo it where it doesn't pivot and then we'll back off a little that's not bad right there got some drag on it there that's pretty good it's still pivots we're gonna leave it like that that's not bad it's gonna slide the mower deck underneath there but this goes see if there's any other stuff before that's on there you know so it's not in our way the exhaust is kind of flopping around i don't think this has to be clamped because if it was the the engine's on rubber so it has to have the capacity to move a little bit so there's got to be some flex in between you will leave that alone but you got that bolt is loose right there let me try tightening that up if i get rid of some of the rattle what do you think 15 millimeter 14 miller is 9 16 9 16. pinching the wire though huh can we get that out of there that's the signal wire let's run that up high maybe we can uh put a pipe in there stop maybe try to bend down a little bit on this give it some clearance here we go that's better without it rattling yeah hey what else that front end doesn't look like it's ever been greased ever huh so it's just probably i said like plastic bushings that are in there too let's go shoot some grease in there hopefully it'll out those sides should be one yeah one in the wheel too we'll hit that one also and when your grease has rust in it it's due well i think we can officially say the front end is not duct tape on anymore look how far spread apart that is let me try crushing that a little bit i'm looking at that gap of the frame that and that is supposed to be kind of snugging up and rubbing up against there so it's really spread out yeah maybe i'll get a c clamp or something on it see what i'm talking about that space there and that space there is way too much got to give some support or else it's just going to take out that bolt too got a big ass c-clamp let's see if that'll influence it [Music] making noise yeah you got gotta drop it down a little bit get the the bite a little bit lower also gonna put some lube on the handle so it doesn't fight me so hard i think we'll get it better than what it was right we gotta remember i got the shims in the front side of it that's much better i'll do the same to the other side just enough to kind of support it a little bit plus it's all the way down you know it has to swing in the up position but that should give it some support if the tire goes to hit something it'll stop against that and try to worry about the bolt just try to stop it from moving it's kind of captured in that frame sprung back a little bit i think it's better than what it was that's about where it should you know normally stay i did the other side the other side better than this side i don't know if i want to take the wheel weights off maybe we're going to try to find a bolt that we can fix that part of it let me see where i got my stash do i should probably take one off to see what size it is actually it weighs 55 pounds let's go just take a long skinny bolt we'll use it for like a depth gauge actually i get lucky i might get it problem is it's sagging down a little i might just do it here again where is it maybe i ran it from the other side yeah we're just gonna make it put a washer on that and then in a nut we'll crank that one down two for two chasing bolts that's much better i'll do the same to the other side just enough to kind of support it a little bit plus it's all the way down you know it has to swing in the up position but that should give it some support if the tire goes to hit something it'll stop against that and try to worry about the bolt just try to stop it from moving it's kind of captured in that frame [Applause] sprung back a little bit i think it's better than what it was that's about where it should you know normally stay i did the other side the other side better than this side i don't want to take the wheel weights off maybe we're going to try to find a bolt that we can fix that part of it he's already got my stash do i should probably take one off to see what size it is actually it weighs 55 pounds let's go just take a long skinny bolt we'll use it for like a depth gauge actually i get lucky i might get it problem is it's sagging down a little i might just do it here again where is it maybe so took a peek underneath there for that three-point hitch and it does have a bar up here that runs in and out and then there's like a float level i think it's just frozen yeah that's why it's not let me try moving it now see if it does anything yeah [Music] i'm gonna throw some lube on those points but that's how that works seems fairly simple everything moves better than with lube right i think we got it still curious what would that set up what maybe just like a toe ball was in there you come up behind the trailer and lift it and it's got this in there and we'll get rid of that maybe that was in there not sure what you think let me know let's stick that up in there that wasn't too bad it was missing there's like four links in the center two rods that come down from the front and there's a crossbar that keeps the deck from rocking side to side that was missing but the one off the 46 inch deck did fit it so it's on there now i'm gonna go adjust the tire pressure small probably about 10 psi 10 12 psi and we'll take a tape measure real quick and see how that mower deck is if you've got to tweak it a little bit that's pretty close three of the tires you're fine one just needs a little bit i'm gonna go look that's a we'll call that one yeah inch and a quarter inch and a half this one's taller the other side can go up or this side can come down i'm going to try adjusting let me grab the light essentially two adjustments you got these two up front right here that kind of pitches the front and rear part of it and then side to side you have this adjustment right here so i'm going to run this one up just a little bit to help hop up this side of the deck and then we'll leave it at that um i don't know midway that's where i have it adjusted to right now and we'll just give that a couple of spins it's kind of like half the distance because as you raise this side the other side will drop down almost almost 50 percent a little less probably forty percent so if you come up sixty percent on this side the other side it'll drop down forty let's see what we got we are at one and three quarters i'm gonna go check the other side yeah this sides i have a one half i'm going to back off the other just a little bit drop it back down again the little wheels on the back depends on the mower most of the time they're really not meant to be rolling on the ground depending again depends on the motor some do but [Music] they're more for like anti-scalping it's when the mower's on an angle it doesn't uh the deck doesn't dig all the way in and scoff into the ground i'm going to drop it down a little lower i want to go one lower than that i may leave it right there that's probably mid distance you can't go by where it's located here these holes on a different angle believe it or not even though it's on the end pin that's mid-way of the strokes i can set the other one up kind of the same way and like i said they're just meant to uh keep it from at an angle not digging into the ground yeah it's much better you look level underneath there now it's a little higher than the table buster's playing them it actually is going to be right about there another kind of sloppy and it was all the way up so they really weren't doing anything so it might even been you know what kind of caused all the problems with the mower deck to begin with it was allowed to dig in at one point and you know locked up that center spindle and screwed things up i still think the front end may have been what started it all the front end fell apart maybe like it kind of drove over the front axle took out that center link i don't know i'm not sure which you know happened first was the mower deck damage first and then he just used it for like pushing stuff around or did the front end fall apart and take out the mower deck i don't know that's a little bent out huh right there well i think we can uh we will lower it down we'll function that mower deck and spin it up and see how it sounds get pretty close what we got batteries kind of flopping around should we do that fuel filter a piece of fuel line and a seat i think that'll be most of the mechanicals of course you know shot fluids changed at some point you know belts if you whatever you want to get into but i'm not going to get into it on this i think the best place to be is on top of it someone wants to go fling itself i'll be out of harm's way you you're on your own [Music] yeah about the flu out it's a positive sign all right let's uh you know we could probably do we jump on the top and then we'll pull that battery out of the way we'll try to get that ignition switch tucked back in where it's supposed to go then we'll come up with something to hold that from flopping around i might have an ignition switch in these little cubby holes and hopefully it has some hardware on it i'll take a peek see what i can find it's plastic i'm sure we can get something to thread on there yeah what we need yeah it's about the same as the other one nope you know why they're not like that we need like one of those sheet metal screws which just got like one thread in it well it's the freeze plugs for some reason there's freeze plugs with holes in the center i was thinking what about if we like cut a groove in it and like bend a corner up so it has like one thread on it and maybe we could spin that down it looks pretty close to the diameter let's give it a shot right [Music] you got one you got one you want to go that way i don't know if i have even enough room let's go like this so we would want that edge bent down right gonna give it a lead we want the other end up don't see why not gonna be overkill let's see huh see if it'll hold might work though get in there maybe that's in there pretty good as long as the key fits like when that works i'm gonna plug that in i'm gonna go just double check it seems like a lot of these switches kind of flapping around so you get four batteries got those little plastic things that are you know kind of like what's in your license plate i wonder if it's like quarter 20 rod i think i have some threaded rod i'll see if that fits if it does we'll just take that and probably like a piece of angle iron or something across to help hold it down i think we can make it quarter 20. a little bit of drag to it i think we'll be fine we'll run that in and we'll probably just you know use that run that in on each side of whatever we can we'll just put a nut on top of the piece of angle that should do it yeah judging how clean that battery is i think what they did they probably went and got a battery for it and tried it that's why it's not tightened down see we'll cut it we'll make it drill a hole there drill a hole there and cut it to length there yeah i think they tried to put a new battery in it probably the tractor didn't run or you know they didn't know to hit the brake pedal to start it whatever it was maybe even pull that ignition switch back to try to get it to go i didn't realize it should be a date on it somewhere usually is i see a thing on it it works it's like here and get it all whittled out gonna put the other side on it's a broken bolt they broke it off inside there i just drilled a hole next to it and put a nut on the bottom side that should be fine one piece of fuel line just showing it's easy the line below it actually looks fine should replace all of it but i don't have enough everything's closed at the moment so we're gonna go chase at least what's leaking what's weird i find about fuel line is if it has fuel in it like if it maintains fuel it has a tendency to stay pretty good it's just when the fuel evaporates out of it seems like it goes to crap and this one's got you can see it's cracking and right down the center of it actually looks like it's a different fuel line than the lower half so the lower half still looks good because this has writing on it and the other side doesn't get right out of there get a new filter and a piece of line and replace that this isn't fuel line this is a vacuum pulse the fuel pump over here takes a pulse up the crankcase that's where the other is attached to it just pushes the diaphragm back and forth and that's what works that fuel pump so there's no fuel inside this and there's a short piece of line that goes out to the carburetor i'll take a peek at that real close too that's a little better release the hounds yeah i filled the fuel filter right up there's no real pressure there it's actually vacuum if you really want to think about it because it's on the receiving side of the fuel pump so it's pulling this direction so there's never really any pressure pressure any pressure on there i think that's good what we got left to do all right what do we got left we got done so engine seems like it's okay i'm not gonna bother pulling the car or anything we're gonna i'm gonna run this for a little while i'll cut my grass and everything and see what kind of pops up sometimes stuff does a little bit later but batteries hooked up front end is taken care of tire pressures are done sloppy wheel weights taken care of ignition switch falling out is done rebuilt the mower deck and got that up and running and leveled three-point hitch works gas cap we'll keep an eye out for one uh if we have if we find a better a better one than what's it there what else we got the exhaust is fixed a good idea how the plow setup would work on this yeah i think we're pretty close let's uh take a look at that seat and see if that's going to help us at all getting better than what this one was actually i think that one tractor that we looked at back there had that bolt set up on it maybe we could take that whole assembly i mean no i think it was different though it had a different safety on it had a three wire safety which is uh when they get so i think so you started getting sneakier for people unplugging them let me see what i got you're seeing anything better than that well of course they're totally different from each other that's got basically one bolt in the center of it that slides and it's probably what you would tighten down the lock it and it looks like it goes in the track and this one has nothing of that it's got probably a pivot point on the pan it's probably an mtd or something uh there's nothing saying that we can't get a new seat that matches this or whoever in the future wants to get the correct seat for it they still can again it's just one bolt and the center should take it all off and everything should still work the safety should still work let's unbolt that crap and see if we could possibly get like maybe that hole in that hole we'll just drill actually there's a hole right there we can't get that lucky can we there's two holes in it maybe uh we'll try to get it just so it's kind of bolted up on there we'll find a happy medium as far as the distance forward it is and uh call it a day i'd rather be a high top too you know i'm not definitely that crazy about that style i like the ones with the back comes up a little further yeah i don't need a bath huh right about there i think is a good spot for it let's go flip her up so we want to be fingers length back on that center pan we weren't going to get that lucky let's eyeball it let's see right about there on that one and there on that one and i'd say probably right there i think that's square i can measure these two up as long as that distance is even it won't be racked at all you know all right let's drill it copper [Music] that might need a bath and there it is that's a little wipe down looks really good it came out nice it's a good machine you know unfortunately a lot of stuff you buy now it's just so crappy they just keep making them cheaper and cheaper you know this is the decent garden tractor you know ryden lawnmower garden tractor uh value of it i'd say with the plow it's probably worth about 650. it's 31 years old we've spent 0.0 on it if i had to go buy some of the stuff that had my stash should be a different story but i didn't that's a whole idea holding on to that junk that you can go and pick from try to bring it back to life yeah come on good if i hook the seat safety up all that will still work i'll leave it off for now plus you can get a 25 horsepower hydrostatic tractor electric pto 50 inch mower deck three-point hitch and a plow [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] cool that's a nice little machine everything seems like it functions fine it's nice and quiet it doesn't make much noise compared to a regular one that sounds like a buzz box the fact that it's a twin cylinder too i think helps it and possibly that little extra exhaust charging system works it does have an amp gauge on it it is going up so it is recharging the battery i was going to go check that with a meter but i think we're all right but it also seems to work decently mower deck's nice and quiet the controls are good transmission is nice and quiet so i think it'll be a good addition i'm gonna again something else i want to add on to it at some point but i'm gonna run it around here i don't know until the into the fall at least cutting the grass and make sure there's no other issues with it i'm either going to kick it to the curb or it's going to get used for something we'll see all right guys with that i'm going to go sign off or thank you all for hanging out with me having a little bit of fun bringing old stuff back to life stuff that would have been you know browned up and turned into uh soda cans and uh it should be good for another good five or ten years of life left in it all right guys with that thanks for hanging out see ya hey guys how's it going i was at an estate sale this past weekend and that's where we are now i grabbed a couple of things i asked them if they had any power equipment around and they said it was a something was parked in between here and see on the other side of that there's an old tractor but it does not run you're welcome to it if you want it so i came back on my trailer and i'm gonna go drag it up hopefully so we should possibly be able to recover it and bring it back to life if not we'll figure out why it doesn't run and possibly if we could fix it it's a decent machine it is a craftsman looks like mid 80s to be my guess judging by the cut the color and the shape and the size of it it's what would be called like a gt or a garden tractor which is heavier than a lawn tractor if those wheel weights are off it see it's got like five lug wheels on it and just it's just more beefy it's one that you could do you could put snow blower or a plow on it and actually kind of work it because it will handle it got wheel weights on the back looks like it's got a manual three-point hitch i think it's manual three-point hitch on the back i don't know what would have been on there looks like they dragged out a lawnmower if i want to take that i guess that's a part of the deal too they've long since been gone the property i think goes up for sale next week as is kind of a cool place had like 25 rooms in it uh hydrostatic drive 50 inch mower deck it looks like it says 25 horse v-twin it also let's go open the hood let's miss the ignition switch there's a bee's nest in it yeah they're flying around they're not happy like wasps they bite you just for spike you don't even have to piss them off hang back a little looks like it's pretty dirty looks like they were mowing probably in a sandy area kicked all that dirt up looks like it's got a oil leak too the bottom of it's all kind of soaked i don't know why it doesn't run what the issue was did it blow up does it um you know just from sitting and it hasn't been used and it has an issue don't know the answer to that and they didn't know the answer to it either it looks like it's been sitting here probably for a couple of years is my guess and out in the weather see the how weathered the seat is the foam is rotted the plastic's right away and then the foam has changed color so it's definitely been out here for quite a while got electric pto set up how many hours are on it's got an hour meter 765 for in a uh gas engine that's probably about half his life gas engines that 1500 hours if they've been taken care of is generally what you can kind of get out of them depending on which one it is all right i think um we should not kind of go screw those bees because they know what they're gonna get me i brought my trailer that squats down to the ground so we'll back that one up and we'll just kind of drag it on with the winch maybe and bring it back to the office hopefully the ride home will kind of blow some of the bees away and we have to deal with that all right let's get set up get that on the trailer get out of here

Channel: Mustie1

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Keywords: mustie1, small engine, riding mower, lawn tractor, sleeve hitch, riding mower belt replacement, garden tractor attachments, garden tractor, will it run tractor, will it run and drive, will it run doom, new video

Id: 27zMdkHhmDM

Length: 58min 28sec (3508 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 21 2022