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Time to bore you with my lawn & garden tractor history. The first "rider" I ever owned was after we bought the property we have now, a Swisher "Big Mow! Really, not a bad little mower, if your yard is flat & smooth! Next were a couple "gray market" tractors, fist was a Sears gear drive, then a hydrostat made by Noma, I forget the brand name. Then a 54" Bush Hog zero turn.
After I started attending tractor shows, I got the hankering for a John Deere rider, started looking for a 110 RF. No internet then, so searching was a bit more time consuming than it is now. Â Ran across this 69-140 H1:

Turned it down at first due to condition, then decided to get it. Took some doing as I'd never done any work like this before, but I got it cleaned up & added a "demo seat":

Then a Johnson #12 loader:

I was hooked! Next came the RF 110, at a show, I was looking at a 1964 for $900. Talked to an acquaintance who said he'd sell me his 65 for $250. I told him to consider it sold & I'd pick it up at his show in a couple months.

Cleaned it up (down to bare frame) & repainted it, added hub caps & seat cushion:

Then it was the 67-112 off ebay, I'd pre-arranged to meet the seller at Des Moines (about 1/2 way) if I won it. We were gone the day it sold, one more bid & it wouldn't have been mine!

It had a replacement HH10 engine (wrong size shaft), so I modified it a little with upright muffler, narrow front wheels & narrow ag rears:

After that, it was time for a FF 110, picked this 71 up at a farm estate auction:

Not running & hadn't been for a while. New points, condenser, plug, battery & clean gas tank & it sprang to life. Another down to frame project:

It desrved hub caps too:

FF 110 needs a companion FF 112! Â So I found this 74:

Not as good of condition as I first though & a bit overpriced @ $600, but I wanted it! Â It got the treatment & a tiller:
And snowblower, first a #37:

Then a 37A:

By then, I wanted a "big-un" so< an 83-420 joined the herd:

Not as much to be done with it, but cleaned & painted it.

Mostly used for pushing snow:

And plow days:

I'll add more later!
After I started attending tractor shows, I got the hankering for a John Deere rider, started looking for a 110 RF. No internet then, so searching was a bit more time consuming than it is now. Â Ran across this 69-140 H1:

Turned it down at first due to condition, then decided to get it. Took some doing as I'd never done any work like this before, but I got it cleaned up & added a "demo seat":

Then a Johnson #12 loader:

I was hooked! Next came the RF 110, at a show, I was looking at a 1964 for $900. Talked to an acquaintance who said he'd sell me his 65 for $250. I told him to consider it sold & I'd pick it up at his show in a couple months.

Cleaned it up (down to bare frame) & repainted it, added hub caps & seat cushion:

Then it was the 67-112 off ebay, I'd pre-arranged to meet the seller at Des Moines (about 1/2 way) if I won it. We were gone the day it sold, one more bid & it wouldn't have been mine!

It had a replacement HH10 engine (wrong size shaft), so I modified it a little with upright muffler, narrow front wheels & narrow ag rears:

After that, it was time for a FF 110, picked this 71 up at a farm estate auction:

Not running & hadn't been for a while. New points, condenser, plug, battery & clean gas tank & it sprang to life. Another down to frame project:

It desrved hub caps too:

FF 110 needs a companion FF 112! Â So I found this 74:

Not as good of condition as I first though & a bit overpriced @ $600, but I wanted it! Â It got the treatment & a tiller:

And snowblower, first a #37:

Then a 37A:

By then, I wanted a "big-un" so< an 83-420 joined the herd:

Not as much to be done with it, but cleaned & painted it.

Mostly used for pushing snow:

And plow days:

I'll add more later!