Standard twin garden tractor

CTTim · Oct 17, 2008

Anyone know the approx. value of a Standard Twin Garden tractor.Has steel wheels with thick spikes. Needs magneto rebuilt. Has spare drive train
I can email a pic if wanted

JDemaris · Oct 17, 2008

I have many chances to buy them in ranges from $50 - $200, locally, often with attachments. They come with metal spiked wheels, metal cleated wheels, rubber tired, etc. Early Twins have wooden handles, later are steel.
I've also seen many sell on Ebay for around the same. Also seen a few with asking prices of over $1000, but don't know of any that actually sold.

Value is whatever you can find someone to pay, I guess. I've got over a dozen Standard Twins, also two Viking Twins, along with a few Walshes and Standard Monarchs. Never paid more than $150 for any of them. They are pretty interesting machines, but haven't seen them jump in value yet.

moonlite 37 · Oct 18, 2008

My dad considered buying one in 1950 but determined that it would beat a fellow around a bit in rough Ground and in general take a strong operator. How difficult is it to run?

It looked like an over built machine. I have seen a couple.

El Toro · Oct 18, 2008

Does it look that this? I redid 5 or 6 back in the 1970's. It was a tractor that was ahead of its time with an all gear drive and a multi-disc clutch that ran in oil. It would pull a 10-inch plow with ease. Hal

El Toro · Oct 18, 2008

The Twin Convertible is the one I would like to have. Here's all the implements that were available. Hal

JDemaris · Oct 18, 2008

In my area of hard pan and very rocky ground, it is a very difficult machine to operate. Throws you all over the place. When I first moved to this area in mid-1970s, I had a two acre patch of land I plowed one year with a Standard Twin. Good thing I was young. I suppose it works much better on good ground. I've also got a steel-wheeled 1936 Sears Handiman, and it's bigger,heavier, and even worse to operate.

JDemaris · Oct 18, 2008

Well, hopefully the Statute of Limitations protects me from this photo of me and my first big walk-behind tractor. My wife took the photo around 1970 on the first property we ever owned with any crop space. I paid $25 for the Standard Twin with a siezed engine, no carburetor, and both tires rotted off. I had the engine running in a week. Got it unstuck and put a Briggs & Stratton carb on it. Bought new "antique car" tires from Sears and put them on. No farm tread, thus the chains added. Plowed up a fair amount of ground with it, and it threw me all over the place. But, I'd did fine as long as I drank enough beer. Little tractor in the background is a Bolens 800 garden tractor.

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Standard twin garden tractor

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