My Ford Mowers

Zack(NC)

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Thought Id share a pic of my Ford mowers, always looking for more! I'm now 39 yrs old & I grew up with Ford tractors & equipment & now enjoy collecting the small consumer items. I have acquired every small piece Ford offered but a Ford portable water transfer pump, still looking for 1 of the 2 models offered. If your a fan of the Ford line I have a video on youtube of my small items titled Ford Farming Collection if you care to see. My Ford mowers in the pic is from the first model offered through the dealership the T-1000, then my 100 with cab 7 snow thrower, 120, 125, 145, 145 closed sided, 14D, 75 white hood, 75 blue hood, LT80, R8, 60. I have all 4 different model trailers but wasn't able to get them all out for the pic.
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My mom had a 75 Blue hood and mowed with it up until a few years before she passed (she was 92). I have the mower now, the engine is a little tired but it is all there. A little side story. Right after they got it home dad was not used to it and run into the side of the garage backing it out to mow for the very first time. The impact broke the cast iron front axle into two pieces. The dealer fit it together and put a weld bead around the crack. The weld bead is still - I smile every time I see it - mom was not happy.
 
WOW...........nice collection Zack. At one time, I had a Ford GT but sold it off to make room for my collection of Colt and Case GT's. You have a very impressive array of the short-lived Ford branded lawn and garden equipment. Thank you for preserving these for posterity.
 
Zack,
I just looked at both of your youtube videos. Awesome collection.
Just curious. I used to be in Charlotte and Gastonia frequently when I was working. How close to you was I?
 
I am about an hour or just a little over from Charlotte, straight up I-85N to hwy 52N near Winston-Salem. Dad lives in the town of Welcome near Lexington which you would get to before me. If your in the area again give me a shout & we'd be glad for you to come by sometime!
 
Zack, really impressive what you have assembled there, it was great to see all the items in the video. I'm a bit of a collector too, we had a ford dealership and sold the lawn and garden products as well. I have a few nice items from those days, one a walk behind snowblower, (Jacobsen) that was on the show room floor. I've got our banner that we hung at our display at the fair, the PAM clock that hung above the parts counter, also have that same '67 oil can, few other odds and ends too, more or less some keepsakes from those days. Few shop items too, one work bench, the big columbian vise, one grease gun, even the hedge clippers. It seems everything that was used around the shop was painted in ford blue by the long time employees that worked there.

We did have one of the lawn tractors, (Jacobsen era type) at the house once, I can remember running it for a short time, was new or just about new, time sure has passed.

We need to find you a PAM clock and one of the Ford chainsaws, maybe a snowblower, and you'll have a complete showroom floor plan LOL ! Some of your items I have never seen before, cool you posted here about it, thanks for doing so !
Zacks Ford Farming Collection
 
Very impressive!!
I have 7 Jake built Fords and a Gilson built LGT-18H but ain't a single one that looks as good as any one of yours. LOL
In my opinion the Jake built LGT (Tube-Frame) series are some of the best garden tractors ever built.
My Gilson built LGT-18H has all the good running gear of Jake built tractors but the frame and the rest of the tractor is junk compared to the Jake builts.
 
Hi Billy, thanks for the comment! I do already have 3 of the snowblowers 2 walk behind & 1 mounted on the front of the 100 garden tractor (its still brand new never been used) The 524 walk behind should have been in the video it had the 3 sided cab & I just got the small 2 cycle one recently. We have all 3 model chainsaws the Hawk, Eagle1 & Eagle 2 the eagle 2 was in the video also & we have 2 of the PAM clocks already that came out of our former local Ford dealer so were good actually on the clocks chainsaws & snow blowers, I just need to find that portable transfer pump! Dad has some of the items down at his house in his building, the clocks pictures the other chainsaws etc.
 
That is really something, and while I'm a bit of a collector, you have been able to preserve an example of what has to be just about everything that was on a show room floor. Glad I spotted the post here ! We sold the saws too, think I still have one of our ads somewhere of that in an event program an ad was taken out in. Awesome you have the other items too, boy those PAM clocks sure fetch a good price, as I have seen a few on ebay over the years. I might have missed some of the items when I saw the video, had to run and forgot to watch in its entirety. Great to see that collection regardless, brings back lots of memories !
 

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