What do you do when your jeep is torn apart, the weather is super nice, and you REALLY want to go offroading? Take the antique tractor through the woods trails and crawl over stumps, haha! I gotta keep my rock crawling skills finely tuned so I'm ready when flossy is back together.
That's a great Simplicity garden tractor '56. They sure don't make them like that anymore. I see where folks are taking lawn tractors and turning them into overlanding rigs on line. It looks pretty fun, but with no suspension, I don't think my back would like me very much after while. Then I saw where they are doing demo derbies with lawn tractors too. Nope, I'm good just watching the videos.
I restored one of those Simplicity garden tractors for my brother many years ago. Cast iron and steel, Kohler engine. They definitely don't make them like that anymore!
It's a great little tractor, only 9 horsepower, but it will pull basically anything you put behind it (including that CJ5 that broke down one time...) It still runs and works, and never has any issues, it just keeps on going. This one has a Briggs engine, which has way more cast iron then any 1 cylinder should ever have, but you can't kill it. To prove your saying of "they don't build them like they used too" we have a modern simplicity that dad bought new. I think it was about 400ish hours on it when the engine had so much blow-by it barely ran, then blew up and caught on fire. But even before that, with it's "23 horsepower" and about twice the size tractor, the old 1964 tractor starts easier, runs smoother, and will pull 10 times as much. You can't beat the old iron!
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