One and two wheeled garden tractor photos

Windy in Kansas · #1 04/01/10, 11:31 AM

No Coleman Iron Mule photo for FBB, but some others of interest.

http://www.roaring-twenties.com/from_the_curator.htm

geo in mi · #2 04/01/10, 03:58 PM

Thanks, Windy,

I really appreciated your picture of the Bolens rider you have, too. I just got a Bolens Versamatic a few weeks age, complete with attachments. Got it running, too, last weekend. What a beast for a three hp engine..... I didn't know there were so many collectable two wheelers out there.
geo

Windy in Kansas · #3 04/01/10, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by geo in mi

I didn't know there were so many collectable two wheelers out there.

Nearer the east coast there are lots and lots of collectibles that we never even tend to see out our way. At least from what I see on Ebay and other places that's so.

Would love to have a huge shed, lots of money, and a nice pickup and trailer rig to go shopping and hauling in. Of course an excellent shop to work on them in the winter would be needed also.

Same for old cars, trucks, tractors, etc.

I'd buy lottery tickets if I thought I had a chance to make that all happen.

The Versamatic should make for a good unit. Enjoy it.

Bret4207 · #4 04/01/10, 07:34 PM

I did a lot of plowing with a Simplicity and a single bottom 8" plow. the I got a Gravely with the rotary plow and never looked back. Still have both and a mess of other stuff including 2 Fraser Rototillers as pictured in the B1-7.

Ed Norman · #5 04/01/10, 07:49 PM

Years ago I saw a David Bradley two wheeler with a plow and a sickle bar and several other attachments. It was in great shape, stored inside. Nobody wanted it and it went for under $100. I had no room for it at the time and I've wished I had that thing ever since. Now I could really use it.

FarmboyBill · #6 04/01/10, 08:00 PM

Yup, them wuz some good pics. I dont know why they didnt call those with the engine slanted, and with a grill a Frazer. But thats sure what they lookled like.

salmonslayer · #7 04/02/10, 03:26 PM

I am sick looking at those pictures. Last summer at a yard sale I came upon a single wheeled job that looked an awful lot like that Simplicity Culti-Cutter in your pictures that was selling for $35.00 and I didnt buy it. It still had decent paint and the engine turned over and everything. I am still kicking myself.