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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Garden Tractor StoryBy Harold Slagell609 Church Street St. Johns, Michigan 48879 Back in June of '93, on the cover of GEM, was a picture of a Bolens Ride-a-matic. This tractor really took my eye, so I started looking for one to restore. I didn't have any luck. I found just one, but the fellow would not sell it. Then I saw an ad for a 1964 Cub Cadet. It looked pretty bad, but ran great. Well, it wasn't a Ride-a-matic, but it might be a fun project. And it was. Later I found a Bolens. It wasn't exactly the model I was looking for (I had really wanted the one with a teardrop gas tank), but it wasn't too bad, and with an engine overhaul and a lot of time and work, it came out looking and working really good. The next project was a little 4 HP Wheel Horse, model 400. This proved to be a great little show tractor and a ball to drive. Then one day I mentioned to my wife that when I was a k... 789 of 1922 characters shown.
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