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I go to an auction this smorning and this is what was in the back of my pickum up truck as I started home.
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That looks fun. Does it run? I had to re-learn how to use my tiller this Spring. Got it running and it was a chore because it was in the back of the garage going on 23 years now. Forgot you had to make a shallow pass or two before going deep. Took off on me like a cartoon roadrunner. I should have let go but it was a point of pride as I was showing the kids how to use it.
 
When my sister was about 4 (64 years ago), she was "helping" dad get a rototiller going down at the neighbors- she zigged when she should have zagged, dad gave a mighty pull on the rope, and his hand came back and knocked her out cold.

I guess he scooped her up, started running down the road to the house, yelling "Ma, start the car! Ma, start the car!" But she had come to by the time he got home, so no run to the emergency room was necessary. Apparently there were no long term effects- she's no screwier than the rest of us.
 
I don"t mind people asking, how much I gave fur it.
My fillfold is $100.00 lighter when I left the auction.
Yes!" it ran the last time it vas started. Me thinks it needs points and condenser, they seem to go bad after sumthing has been sitting fur awhile.
 
That reminds me of Red Green pulling the recoil rope on a mower as a friend walked up behind and got elbowed below the belt.
 
Looks good and CLEAN. I got a 2 wheel Simplicity at an auction decades ago for $35, have used the heck out of it with different engines, liked it so well I bought the bigger 5 hp version with 3 forward and a reverse gear. I've posted pictures of them here before.
 
Not funny!! I did something similar to my father-in-law showing how to start my old McCulloch 1-43 chain saw. He was standing way to close and I caught him in the side of the head with my elbow. Good thing his daughter was in love with me, might not be here otherwise.
 
Very nice. Those are sure unique wheels and it even looks like the tires are in good shape. Top it off with a cultivator complete with all its shanks and gauge wheels and I'd say you did well.
 
It don't need a seat or steering wheel, cause its built for some one that has lost his a== and don't know where to turn.
 
(quoted from post at 18:54:46 06/14/14) It don't need a seat or steering wheel, cause its built for some one that has lost his a== and don't know where to turn.
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Never seen that brand before. I'd just clean the points and set them and see if it has spark. Kinda a neat old walk behind. For 100 bucks I'd say you did ok!

Rick
 
very good deal.
nice shape.
Those walk behind 'tractors' are real popular.
Local dealer buys every one he sees at auction and does very well selling them.
fab up a sulky and you are good to go!
 
For a large garden, you can't go wrong with a walk behind. Something like the one pictured made by Simplicity, Bolens or David Bradley or the more refined Gravely or modern BCS make light work of large garden chores. Today people have a tiller and hoe. They forget most of the work is in the growing, not the tilling.
 
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