Brendon-KS
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- Location
- Goessel, KS
Here's a picture of my 11 year old son tilling the garden with an Ariens S-16H. He's the fourth generation to operate this tractor although it did sort of skip past my Dad. My grandfather purchased it new in 1978 with this tiller, a mower deck, and snow blade and used it around the house on their northwest Ohio farm. When he passed away about 15 years ago I bought it from my grandma and brought it here to Kansas. It spent a few years at my sister's place in Illinois and recently came back here when they no longer had a need for it.
Garden tractors were made tough back then - I'd be surprised if many built today will still be going strong 40 years from now. This one is essentially all original and as far as I know it's had only one rebuild of the Kohler K341 engine (just a few years ago) and nothing ever being done to the Sundstrand hydro.
Garden tractors were made tough back then - I'd be surprised if many built today will still be going strong 40 years from now. This one is essentially all original and as far as I know it's had only one rebuild of the Kohler K341 engine (just a few years ago) and nothing ever being done to the Sundstrand hydro.