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Taking these 60’s garden tractors back through the woods, and the through the crazyiest stuff we can find. through all the mud, swamps, and the deep creek. mikes bolens 1000 was running off a magneto, and i didn’t know if it was reliable enough to be going through 2 and a half feet of water with. When i first put that Wisconsin Tr-10D engine on it, i hooked up the magneto, and it ran horribly. so i threw a coil on it, and it ran perfect. and i just stuck with that all last year. then i took the Startergenerator off of it, and made it pull start. not having a battery anymore, i took the 12V coil off of it, and returned the beast to the magneto. and it seems to run fine… but i really thought it wouldn’t take that water well at all. It was a Crazy thing, the other tractor, the 1050, with the 850 engine has a 12V coil, and that actually died in the middle of the creek! for a few seconds. i shook the coil wire off, and it started right back up. good thing too, because that water was cold, and i don’t know how we were gonna get those 550 pound tractors out of the creek… haha

oh yeah, and early on the rubber flex plate/u-joint type thing on mikes 1220 exploded when we were going around the circle. and thats a first! never had that problem before. i should probably go and fix that today.

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Take a look at our new addition. It’s a Honda Lawn Tractor model 3813 powered by a 13hp liquid-cooled overhead cam inline twin cylinder motor with a direct drive 5-speed manual transaxle, and a rusty 38″ deck. We’ve been trying to get one of these babies for years, finally we found one that wasn’t at the other end of the earth or horrendously overpriced. And it is the most awesome lawn tractor I’ve ever had the privilege to own. It’s funny; some of the cooling parts I recognize from my ‘91 Civic. And get this -this thing is made in JAPAN! I can’t believe it was cost effective to import lawn tractors to the U.S. All Honda OPE stuff is and has been made in the U.S. for quite some time. Oh, and you may not be able to tell it in the video, but this thing is QUIET!

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Starting and running 6 tractors at 32degrees F. Sorry for the bad video quality, for some reason my camcorder was set to low resoulition.

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