SWEET - He ain't the Osceola Outlaw and . . .

he ain't the 1650 I asked Santa for but ya know what, it's now mine. That over / under drive is SWEEEET!!!! Man oh man, I can imagine coming to end of row, go to under drive hit the break, come right around hit over drive and be gone again :)

This what I was checking out morning of Mother's Day and trying to avoid that dern skillet!!

Details 1969 1750 WFE DSL; Model#475-22281, s/n 217-234-720 or -220. Cranks right up, good clean fluids, and man oh man that over/under drive is the cat's meow!

Only major problem I think I got now is bad PTO and leaking injector lines (rubber T) plan to replace with brass plumbing. Other than that new fluids, filters, a good bath and maybe down the road an 1755 front grill so I have lights up front vs. bug attractors at the operator station.

Has 9600+ hrs. on it. Previous owner says all updates installed at 5000 hrs. Refreshed at 8000 hrs. Been used primarily for haying and was parked 5 yrs. ago when PTO went out.

Got the rig for what I thought was a VERY reasonable price, plus a Perkins motor, two new 16 inch front tires (thinking of getting 18 inch) and all the documentation since new.

Also see this link for add on oil filter - I guess to increase capacity and provide better cooling to reduce premature engine failure?

Hey ShepVA - next summer can I come help with the haying and I don't mean bucking square hay bales :)

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The 1750 will be used for some bigger efforts I hope to get off the ground. While the 550 would do them it just won't do them as efficiently as the larger tractor will. Not to worry the 550 will alway be around!!

On replacing the current grill with a 55 series grill , to get headlights at the front , you might consider what I did on my 1850 . On each side of my 1850 grill near the top there is a threaded hole about the size of 1/2 pipe hole . My brother made and painted clover green some angle iron brackets with holes drilled on each side which we bolted to the grill using these threaded holes . I then bought some round , enclosed halogen headlights out of the Shoup farming catalog which we bolted to the other holes in the angle iron brackets . We ran wire from the swtich on the dash to these lights and presto front headlights for maybe $60 or $70 total without the need to find a 55 series grill or remove the old one . Only bad thing is tractor looks kind of like a bug coming down the road but good thing is you can adjust lights out to shine on edge of road or wherever you want the lights to shine . A side view of my 1850 is posted in the photo section under Mike and Sam Mabry if you want to see what the lights look like .

How does it feel to be out of the weeds and playing with the big boys? ";^)

Drooling in KY.
Myron KY

The PTO is no problem, I rebuild the plates on one of our tractors every other year or so. The dual speed PTO unit is not very hard to put plates in, and will cost ya about $200 for the friction discs and a new brake, and I very rarely have to change the seperator plates. Just get ya a good I & T repair manuel.

Yeah, bring it on north, I got a haybine you can pull around :-)

Seriously if you need help working with your new toy let me know, I have been inside of a few....

WARNING : Low flying skeeelllittss in the area!!!!

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