Once upon a time this was king of the fleet. Then the mandrel got wrecked courtesy of some jerk ass from the town, and it got dumped here and never touched again. Until now...
My next door neighbor is out mowing with his identical Companion right this minute. I was out too but my 84 JD 210 mows circles around that little thing.
I remember watching this video on thanksgiving in like 2014 lmao. Started dicking around with some of my old tractors and I had to come watch this classic! Also funny joke about inflation when he pours that little bit of gas and you say “what was that $15?” That was in 2011, here we are in 2022 and it’s even worse!
love the old mowers i have an 80's ltv red stripe or maybe its a ff20 i cant tell. i dont think the engine is original. 12.5 hp briggs twin. im rebuilding it now my previous project was a 89 mtd husky 15.5hp single i cut 4 lawns with it last few yrs now but then i stuck 4-500 parts into it. you guys should take better care of those mowers another generation pass's and itll be amazing how hard it will be to find what you have laying around. get some tarps. my mowers are outside too but are always tarped.
That's when they still made the front of the hoods better out of solid metal, not like the plastic they started using in front a little later on. The plastic ones are always cracked or not lined up in the front from getting hit, these were solid. Now forget it, the entire hood is plastic on the tractors now. The farther back you go the better the quality was. That muffler doesn't look original it sticks out and seems a little louder. It probably originally had a square muffler or one what had a piece that went down towards the lower front of it, on that engine on its original machine as well as the Tecumseh it had before.
Well on the bright side, a motor that dont wanna shut off doesnt want to die is better than one that wont start.... Mabe it didnt want to shut off because it was scared it was gonna get parked again for 20+ years lol
Put grease on the areas where the lip rests and use a high pressure compressor to add air really fast and it will hold. Otherwise they sell tubes for those tires and you can get them pretty cheap depending where you shop, sears themselves sells them for the highest price but eBay or a website should have them cheaper. Put the tubes in and your set, I've had to add tubes when there was a hole in the tire, but for a tire that wont hold air on the bead, you should be able to get it to hold with grease and a compressor that add air fast so it seats, if the tires are old and cracked on the side wall, that's a different story, you'll need tubes or new/er tires. These tractors all pretty much used the same size tires so they are very common and easy to find relatively cheap if necessary. But try the grease and high pressure air compressor first, that usually fixes the issue.
my tractor craftsman starts but at the time of removing the foot of the clutch, it turns off in neutral or at a speed, which you think is failing. Thanks friend for your videos
Should have sued the guy and the town and claimed you got seriously hurt by the damn thing he put in the ground without warning or a clear marker, when you drove over it and it destroyed your mower and you were violently tossed from the machine and say hurt your back real bad...... That would have set you straight for a good long time.
I put a mower out on the carport, it rains. Keep in mind it is in the dry. A week or two later I go to cut the grass. Won't start for spit. Got to take the shroud off clean the coil. Adjust it and some times even talk dirty to it. Then it may start. But you guy leave one out in the rain sleet and snow for seven yrs and BRoooom it starts up. Some times life just ain't fair.
I need help on my mower,I think it has the same throttle thing,when you pull up in the throttle handle it moves parts on the carb and stuff.one of the links came off and I can't figure out how to put it back on,can you make a vid of the whole thang carb,throttle cable,links everything to help.please help me in a vid or something.
@LynolsOffice ha, thats funny, i just sold a p.o.s. gray craftsman with a screwed up 11hp briggs, 38" deck, and completly junk steering on ebay for $80. try using buy it now or best offer on ebay, thats what works for me
Baggers go for $150, another $150 for the engine. $20 for the battery. $50 for the front tire's. $75 for the back tires. Transmission is money regardless of it being a 4 speed and the list goes on and on.
nice i need help with something i actually have a sears companion it turns it haas spark and compression but it just wont start can you help me with that ????
Aren't they all the same Indak keys? Every piece of lawn equipment I have come across has always had the same key made by Indak from the 60's up to now on snowblowers, tiller, mowers, lawn tractors etc. You should be able to get one for a buck on eBay.
40 bucks for that??? Damn I got to get out of the suburbs, people around here in southeast PA put retardedly huge price tags on anything in that condition.
my grandpa used to have a craftsman roding mower that looks like this mower in the video but the seat was a bug reddish orang color plastic seat then i put water in the gas tanck
That's a Companion which is basically the same but the companion brand are the lower end products vs. Craftsman. Now it doesn't matter they are all junk and mist made by MTD. Those were better solid machines.
Have this empire of... product. Are we still talking about tractors? Because sounds like your talking about something not as legal. If you guys where local I’d love to buy a tractor off you, but living cross country I don’t think that would work well.
someone got 1 that u dont need ennymore that u mayyyy cud give to me? so i can make a mud tractor or somthing cool im a bit of a poor guy u know life its not always good
I'm sorry you got such insulting offers. Not everything needs to be brand new to work fine (ex. our 2 15-year old Echo Trimmers). I would pay at least what you are asking for it, if not more. Unfortunately common sense ain't so common anymore.
