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 Bob Augugliaro
The town were I live had a program called "Clean up week" everyone would put out their unwanted bulk items for pick up. (Heaven!). That's when I picked up the Wheelhorse 702. It was thrown out at curb side with a plow attachment, wheel weights, grass cutter, chains and extra set of agriculture tires mounted on rims. The next day I found another tractor with a Wisconsin S-8D which I put in the Wheelhorse. The rest is history.
Click on the small pictures to enlarge it.
The Sears Riding lawn mower I bought in 1983 with a broken rod. I don't know what year it is but I beat it to death this summer. I threw a rod in the little 6hp engine. Now it is replaced with a 10hp Tecumseh electric start TVM engine. Since I owned it I did lots of changes: - The engine swap/electric start (original
was 6hp recoil start)
Both these machines are used constantly Cutting grass, mulching leaves, pushing snow, dragging carts, trailers and any thing else we can do with them.
Cub Cadet 1450
I
purchased this machine about eight years ago and used it at my summer home in Upstate, NY
This tractor replaced the Wheelhorse 702. (which I still own). I use this machine to cut
about one and a half acres of lawn in the summer and plow the two hundred foot driveway in
winter. As you can see from the pictures. The
Cadet came with a Dozer blade, fifty inch grass cutting deck, one set of wheel weights and
a mold board plow. It is fitted with a factory installed three point sleeve hitch that
works off the hydraulics to raise and lower it. I removed the engine last year and
rebuilt it because it
Over
the years, I changed or added a few things. As a retired auto mechanic/auto machinist,
I've changed the front spindles to accept standard one inch trailer wheel bearings. This
was done by designing and machining a slip over trailer axle spud that can be removed and
returned to the factory style, with no effort. If you look closely at the front
wheels, you can see that it has four lugs instead of the factory single center bolt
design. The seat also has been changed to a high back lawn tractor type, this was
added for comfort. On the machine there is also a trailer hitch, a quick hitch and a rear
sealed beam work light tucked under the left rear fender. Over
the years I have collected two extra sets of wheel weights (which brings the count up to
three),that I use for snow removing. I have a disk harrow, snow blower attachment, chains
and an extra forty-two inch cutting deck. Like all my machines, this one also works
hard and we do not baby it. I try to keep all my equipment clean and in top running
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