Big Farm Store Blog

I know this is a little later than usual but it’s been a very busy summer. Everything was going super until about last week… But anyway, here’s what new.

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A lot of this is junk, but there is at least one diamond in the rough here. It was a sight unseen must-take-all kind of deal, so we went with Sterling’s diesel Dodge truck and a borrowed trailer and pulled these relics out of a poison ivy filled muddy yard and brought them to tractor land. Oh yeah, and Dave got a bed liner for his Chevy for free too.

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Remember going to Montgomery Ward? I do, it was one of the last real department stores selling a full line of products. They sold lawn tractors since way back, originally being made for them by Gilson. Then from the late 1970’s to the late 1990’s when they stopped selling tractors, they were made by MTD. In the later years, Ward’s also sold them under “Signature 2000″ and “Powr-Kraft” brand names. I saw this “needs work” tractor for a good price, so I snapped it up. Now that I think about it, this tractor was probably purchased at the same store loacation I used to go to. It has a Briggs & Stratton 16hp opposed twin-cylinder motor, a 7-speed Transmatic transaxle, a 42″ deck and 9/10ths of a grass bagger. The guy I bought it from said it had no ignition switch when he got it, and all he had done was verify the motor cranked over when jumped directly to the starter.

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