[roll-bar Bob]

I had to have a crack-head sale to come up with the money for the down payment on the farm, so My beloved 8n needed to be sold. With the 10 year anniversary of P4P coming up it was time to get the guys back together for another ride.

First step, replace my 8n with another tractor. I have been looking at the Silver Kings as they were built for road commissions as a ditch tractor with a highway gear that would allow a top end speed of 45 MPH. But, this little guy just popped up on FB Friday night and I called My Old Man and told him, get to bed early as, I was coming over tomorrow morning at 5:30 to steal his truck and trailer for a road trip.

It is a 1953 Ford jubilee High Crop with a additional Sherman 3 speed Transmission, with those huge back tires and the Sherman in High this thing will do 35 MPH. Per my speedo app on my phone, it had more in it but after I hit 35, I backed out of it as it was a handful, and I had NO time on this guy's machine. He restored it in 2013 and it has 17 hours on it since the restoration, the front tires need to be replaced and, I will switch it over to a 12V system with some upgraded lights. I will need a few shakedown runs to work out some of the bugs and better compile my to do list. But, it is looking like next September we are doing a anniversary P4P Run.

There is the Old Man posing with Slim

I am still searching for a steal of a deal on a Silver King as Shea wants to drive a tractor also.


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[roll-bar Bob]

Did some FB stalking and found some photos of Slim's trip in 2013 over the Mackinaw Bridge

The kids and I have put around 20 miles of running around on him, they love the buddy seat we stole from the Old Man's tractor. I have been picking Shea up from VB practice the last few nights, we get a ton of funny looks as we go zooming down the road.

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[greygoose]

Hahaha! That's awesome!

 

[COYOTE]

Thought this might have been you guys this morning. Turns out the local High School is having a Tractor Day today.

 

[roll-bar Bob]

We road tripped, A little over 850 miles in the last 24 hours, out to Pennsylvania to pick up the Old Man's new 70 year old Toy for this upcoming trip.

"The Worthington Mower Company, originally called the Shawnee Mower Factory, produced lawn mowers and light-duty tractors in the United States from the early 1920s until around 1959. Founded by Charles Campbell Worthington and run as a family business, in 1945 it was purchased by Jacobsen Manufacturing. It continued to produce tractors and mowers in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, until around 1959."


It is powered by a Continental 4 banger and sports a 6 speed Trans that has a Road gear that can top out at 40-MPH . I got it up to 33 and backed out of it as the tires were way to rotten to push it any further, this thing is a ton of fun ripping around on, with the cutter breaks, it can turn on a dime and slide around corners with its low center of gravity. Most of these were golf course mowers but this one, the County Road Commission had, and had setup with a sickle bar mower attached to it's side for ditch mowing.

Plans include:
Tires
Break Master cylinder
Redoing the bench seat
Rerouting the Exhaust
Lighting upgrades



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[COYOTE]

That's going to turn some heads!

 

[SHARPMACHINE]

Well chit, now I want a tractor to run around the country side with. lol

 

[aber61]

That is a sweet tractor. I like the wheels on that tractor.
I paint for an old guy who collects old tractors. He has 7 different tractors. He had to get a 40 foot storage container behind the barn and had to put a two in there because his barn has 5 in it already. He told me that his kids think he has enough tractors and that was before he bought the last 2. He parks them in front of his house when the weather is nice to show them off.

 

[roll-bar Bob]

That is a sweet tractor. I like the wheels on that tractor.
I paint for an old guy who collects old tractors. He has 7 different tractors. He had to get a 40 foot storage container behind the barn and had to put a two in there because his barn has 5 in it already. He told me that his kids think he has enough tractors and that was before he bought the last 2. He parks them in front of his house when the weather is nice to show them off.

There is something about running these old critters that just flips a switch in my head, it is addictive one is never enough.


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[aber61]

There is something about running these old critters that just flips a switch in my head, it is addictive one is never enough.


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I see them and figure I’d like one or two myself. Then I remember I have no room to house them. Until I do then I’ll just drool 🤤