Air Breather

Looked at TO 35 today with a jar on side breather . Looked
like the old Ford. Had the oil bath also just an addition on top.
Anyone ever seen this. Looked factory. Serial number 168048

Guess you will have to stand on your head to see picture. LOL--Sorry don't know why.

Never actually seen one, but heard of them. Someone posted a question about this a few months back but theirs was a screw on Mason jar type. Think it is factory though, a severe duty option?

Here are a couple of photos of the one I took off of my TO-20. I went back to the original screened top on the air cleaner, since I won't be using it in dirty conditions.

The one I looked at had the air intake on top. Didn't have the intake above jar. The top piece was flared out for intake. Jar was mounted on straight piece of pipe. You may be able to see it in photo. Tractor has loader and probably was in dusty conditions.

I believe this is an anti grasshopper accessory filter. Sold only in Texas. Keeps the grasshoppers from chewing up the insides of the carb and manifold. I'd buy the whole tractor just to have it! Everyone should have 2 of em!!

Tony

Texas grass hoppers fit into that little bottle?

Here in Australia we saddle our grass hoppers and race them in country race meetings:



Did you know:

[b:0d3f4e74d8]The Kangaroo Saddle[/b:0d3f4e74d8]

"Kangaroos were introduced to the American Colonies from Australia in the mid 1700s as a game animal and set to roam on the great American plains. However, some enterprising patriots sought domestication of the kangaroo for the benefit of mankind, and kangaroo farms became quite fashionable. When Great Britain declared war on the American Colonies in 1776, the Americans needed a fast way to spread information between the colonies. Benjamin Franklin proposed an ingenious modification to the horse saddle that allowed a single rider to sit atop one of the monstrous jumping beasts. With a bit of training, the American forces had a fleet of over "100 Leaping Yearsmen," as they were called, for it was rumored a kangaroo could jump for a full year without resting. This of course is not true, but the name stuck. Unfortunately the great kangaroo typhoid epidemic of 1815 all but wiped out the American kangaroo population, but stories of these intrepid kangaroo riding warriors remain to this day."

:lol:

Sorry for the thread drift. I'll get my hat and coat and leave........

Bob in Oz

Yeah Bob , pull the other one mate !