I was told about said machine at our local Anti-Que Machinery Club meeting last weekend.
A JD 350C with a 6-way blade in good shape with a good undercarriage.
As Bill Cosby would say, Riiight!
I went to look at it today. I did not take a pic. It was so bad......
How bad was it, you ask?
It would have busted the lens in a cell phone camera!
I doubt it is even worth the scrap iron value. I never saw a u/c so worn. The bushings *and* the links are worn to the pins. And, the sprockets are sinusoidial in shape. Usually, very worn sprockets are worn to points. Well, these went a lot further - worn down to curves!
How the tracks stay on, is because it barely pulls or brakes on both sides. Sort of an automatic safety there..... If you can't put power to the tracks, or stop them with the brakes, they tend to stay on.
Short tracked, of course, with some cobbled up fat turnbuckle arrangement to hold the tension on both sides. I did not ask what became of the original adjusters. I expect someone Dropped the Ball back when they short tracked it. We know all about those Balls, right!
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Oh, and it will not start at 75F without ether. Uh, huh. It does seem to fire on all three cylinders. I estimate it puts out 20 HP when warmed up. Half that cold. On the Plus Side, if one underswept the exhaust and worked around the edge of a pond, it would double as a mosquito sprayer....
Oh, and it was not a C model. It was a 1966 straight. But, then y'all knew I was gonna say that.
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Guy thought it was an 86. But, I have Digitup's S/N list here and a smartphone to look it up with.
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The 6 way blade was manual and outside mount and someone rebushed it all, so it was the best part of the machine.
So, there was my Comedy Routine for this week!
Stan