14 years ago Dad said I had rocks in my head for buying a 49' JD M. I rebuilt the engine and rewired it. Total cost was $2,200. Dad thought I was nuts. Then I converted it to 3 PTH and bought a used Woods RM59 mower for it. I've mowed 4 acres of my property every week for 6 years with it and added a backblade, a stone rake, posthole drill, 4' disk harrow and single shank ripper. and new rear tires. All told I have about $3,000 invested. There's no $3,000 Imron paint job, no replacing of every bearing in the transmission and I bought some cheap naugahyde at Walmart and redid the seat. Likely this will run me the rest of my life and then the kids can sell it with all the toys and it will likely bring about what I have invested. "Collectors" have really lost sight of what this hobby is all about. I still have less invested than what the cheapest zero-turn mower would cost new and can get many times the amount of work out of it. And most likely it will still be hammering away when next year's crop of new mowers hit the scrap heap. How's that for value?
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Today's Featured Article - Fasteners: The Nuts and Bolts of Nuts and Bolts - by Curtis Von Fange. The nuts and bolts of nuts and bolts is an interesting and essential piece of knowledge that applies to our older tractors. An improperly torqued capscrew on an engine head or a shear bolt that is too hard on the driving shaft of a bushog can create havoc and make an expensive and uncalled for repair. Let�s examine the purpose and design of these fasteners in order to ensure their proper use. Fasteners are probably one of the aspects of mechanics that is given the least amount of thought.
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