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Before and After...

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#1 ·
I decided after giving me about 25 years good service this old girl needed a little tlc....
 

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#2 ·
Beautiful machine
 
#11 ·
Great job on your 57 :fing32: front tires look like an improvement too.
 
#13 ·
Wow, that came out beautiful!! I have never saw one of those with a snowblower, that is a very cool little tractor!
 
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They came with a factory snow blower but this one is not factory.
 
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So I spent an hour last night pushing her to the limits, I came in half frozen.... but happy, blower worked as well as Ive ever seen it, tires on both ends have good traction, the only thing that wasn't perfect is that one headlight is dimmer than the other, hopefully just a bulb replacement will cure that.

Far too many huge hard drifts here this week for a little tractor like this to do much good but I expect there will be plenty of opportunity to use it over the winter clearing the walkways that my other toys cant fit thru.

The tractor was given to me by an uncle in the late '80s and he had a plywood/plexiglass cab on it back then, it started to fall apart a few years ago but I intend to make another one using sheet aluminum and lexan but that might not be until next winter. For now Im calling this project done.

...a few pics that were taken during the cleanup process...
 

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#20 ·
Looks great...........ready for another 25 years plus of service.
 
#21 ·
Fantastic. Love to see new life in old iron. Nothing wrong with hot rodding it up a little too! :thThumbsU
 
#22 ·
Thx to all,

with the winter were having the old girl has practically been a daily driver lately, and she is working quite well, had to replace a shear pin on the rear axle last week so I guess the traction is pretty decent although I may still fluid fill the ags, it pushes into the snow pretty good when the blower is down but a bit light on the rear when its lifted.

I just recently updated my dropbox so theres alot of pics avail from the last couple years if anyones interested in checking them out.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jlvnplbriciowom/HUq5NqCIiO
 
#23 ·
Enjoyed the pics. love the transformation. Not only a great restore but a working one as well! :thThumbsU
 
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