I would be heading to Harbor Fright after popping that engine off and throwing it on the scrap pile. I did that to an old Montgomery Wards tiller. No one would even call on it at first even with a new engine because it was lime green. As soon as I repainted it gloss black, the phone wouldnt stop ringing. I sold it an hour later. Not too shabby.
Love your videos son..no sales or bad attempts at comedy...just the real deal...when you hit a snag you keep us with you and find your way out...you keep cool with a good attitude....keep em coming...
@@BeeABaw yep. Project farm is one of my faves too. I find it fun and sometimes informative. It ain't Sunday Morning without Mustie1 It's become a habit Coffee with Mustie. He works, I watch.. love that. Now I've got to go out and wrench on my junker ride. Always something when you drive 25 year old heaps.
Make a Franken-Planet Jr. with another engine you may have around your shop. In the end someone will love this Planet Jr. walk behind tractor for cultivating their garden after they find a cultivator or make a cultivator themselves.
Finally one old enough, rusty enough, frozen up enough even this one could not be brought back. Everyone once and a while some have to get away no matter how hard you try.
The challenge, even when the engine/car/boat wins, is why I like to watch your videos! Besides, even at nearly 80 years old, I still learn new (to me) techniques!
man....am I nuts or what ...you was rocking that motor back and forth ..faster and faster ....and I started chewing my fruit loops faster and faster...your videos are a must see....your skills are over the top
Trying to get some little old ladies yard ornament to run, can be a daunting task. lol, You just know she had it out there with the concrete goose and the garden gnome.
As someone who restores old cast Iron, it is the bane of my existence how much old and very interesting pieces I find in old ladies yards. Unfortunately most of the time it is too far gone for me to rescue. However the pride of my collection is a old early 1800's 13.7 quart bean pot (Think cowboy cattle trail type). When I found it, I would wager it had another season or two tops before it was too far gone. It took me weeks to restore that thing due to the sheer size.
I’m a master technician for Mercedes Benz, and I learn something new every time I come to your channel! You inspired me to take on a Honda 185s three wheeler that sat in the woods for 15 years. I’m having a blast restoring it!
IMHO-I think ANY antique engine is worth the effort in trying to save because they made these things so much better than today! I'll bet this sucker will run!
I actually own one of these. I've pulled it out of the barn multiple time over the course of 30+ years. Most of the time a quick carb clean and new plug did the trick. Last time required new points/condenser/coil. Still runs like a champ. All original internals.
That block is one of those you spray a bronze color and set it on the mantle next to the baby shoes. I hope you work over more ancient engines. Was fun (for us) to watch you tear into the thing. If anybody could've breathed new life into this ancient engine, its you my friend.
When I was a kid (50's & 60's) my dad had a David Bradley walk-behind garden tractor. It was made almost exactly like this machine but it was made so you could change the implements...disc, planter, breaking plow, cultivator ect..... I have many fond memories using it to help raise the one acre garden that fed the family.
My uncle had an east-German one - I think it was a 50cc Schwalbe engine coupled to a 4-speed Wartburg box. In the 80s and early 90s he used it for a lot of things, e.g. digging potatoes. He also had a proper trailer for it that turned the whole thing into an articulated 4-wheeler! I'm fairly sure he still has it but never uses it. Last time I visited for a longer period of time (in 2001) we fired it up and drove laps in the huge farm yard! What a blast!
I would have loved to hear this run... brought back memories of when I was a 12 yr old kid at a neighbors (Mr Roberts) yard sale and he gave a similar model to me. We kids wore ourselves out pull starting - wrapping the rope - no recoil. Eventually a friends dad helped us run a v belt around the pulley to a garden tractor and not knowing what we were doing started fiddling with the carburetor screws. It came to life! Mine had no tines and a t-bar handle with a lever to engage the wheels. We tied the red wagon handle to the to it and sat in the wagon with the t-handle out over the wagon to steer. Gosh, we must have put hundreds of miles on the thing around the property. Neighbor kids would come over with their wagons. For a four wagon train, I found it effective to shove a piece of wood in the front and cantilever a bunch of bricks on the end I found in the garage for added traction. So much fun as a young kid in a small New Hampshire town.
Thanks to you Mustie I fixed my first small engine. A free 1964 Evinrude Yachtwin I found on the side of the road. It needed a carb clean and rebuild, new coils and head gasket, cleaned and adjusted points and now it runs good! Thank you
I actually love that you don't give up on these, you have all the tools and knowledge, so until you have parts missing I'm super happy you explore the options
I inherited my Dad’s Allis-Chalmers B. Engine seized when I got it. 2 cylinders were rusted from the valves being open and sitting in a humid barn basement for 10 years. Very long story short, after using various potions of Mystery Oil, trans fluid and acetone for a month, none of which did much, I filled the cylinders with Evapo-Rust and 24 hours later, the pistons moved for the first time in years. The tractor now runs fine, still has good compression, and the pistons have never been taken out.
"Don't want to get any dirt in there." I almost blew root beer out of my nose when you said that. About 50 years ago a buddy and I found a cultivator almost identical to this one buried in weeds in an abandoned backyard garden. We had to 'gently' persuade the piston free of the cylinder with a hammer and block of wood. Amazingly, it came back to life and we nearly put ourselves in the hospital racing around with a 2-wheeled cart hitched to the back of it. Yee hah!
Mustie, You have the right attitude for doing these projects. Long ago I would have busted my knuckles, skinned my hand and would have been throwing tools!
47:00 You: "Why do you even bother?" Mustie1: "Why not?" Legend! I totally get it, I love restoring old hand tools, like hatchets, hammer hatchets, chisels, etc.
My Dad bought a Planet Jr. Super stuffy 60 +- yrs. Ago still all complete but hasn't run for 50+ yrs. You got my interest up for restoration in near future.
Thank you young man for getting that classic machine out of the weather that make,s me happy to see a machine that is 6 year,s younger than being shown some love i,m 56 what horse power was that tired old briggs & stratton enigen any way R,I,P old girl R,I,P
Actually, with a medium size lathe, he could sleeve it easily. I can't remember the name of the channel, but another fixer pulled an ancient Briggs out of the mammoth bone yard and restored it to full function using a cast iron pipe, braze, and patience.
by the the penetrating oil will have soaked well into the ring land..lol.. water in the crank case was just not a good sign, it's too bad, as they don't make engine castings with that much meat anymore.. personally given the time and energy, I'd consider it for an air compressor head.. but he has enough projects that actually work.. the plate is full..
Wow, I have watched dozens and dozens of your videos and this is the first one that I've seen that the thing you were repairing could not be repaired. On the bright side you now have parts for the next one you find... : )
My father had this same style tiller when I was a kid, he welded bed frames, a universal socket, front wheels, and made me a homemade go-cart. It was slow but fun. Can still remember its 1963 impala steering wheel.
Dear dayyou. Whaaat? I could never fall asleep while watching a great Mustie1 video! Always very interesting and funny stuff. Additionally I definitely don't want to miss any of Mustie1s laughing. ;-) :-) Best regards luck health and wisdom.
I don't believe this was meant in a negative connotation. I love the content on this channel and often use it as relaxing background media to fall asleep. Not being weird or anything, but his voice is soothing and has perfect balance. One to which you can fall asleep.
Dear @@joolwing That's nearly exactly what great Mustie1 does! But instead of sleeping and snoring he fortunately is laughing a lot! ;-) :-) Best regards luck health and wisdom.
Love watching these videos. Reminds me of working on stuff in the garage with pops. We had to fix it so it would work. Still do to this day actually. I learn a lot from these videos. Thanks for sharing
Awe shucks ! and I was waiting to see how you were gonna hone out that cylinder too!. But thanks for taking us that far it was a fun journey. we don't get to see many in-urds of old stuff like that. until Mustie comes along and shows us. thanks again for showing us and better yet for thaking the time to do it. and share.
Sad to see one of those wonderful old Briggs so neglected and ruined. I've got a 70 year old Model 8 that was lightly seized, but got it free. That engine is now completely rebuilt and restored.
honestly, thank you so much for your videos. not this one in particular but all of them. your videos have given me enough knowledge to confidently work on my own equipment and it officially payed off when i went to start my mower today and it didn't work. i managed to get it up and running and that alone boosted my self confidence so much. something so small meant so much to me so thank you.
I have one, original paint and decals, use it every year in the garden. They are pretty quick speed wise, you have to trot behind it :) Gets the job done , starts easily .
OMG...My Pop built one like this in the 60's as well. I thought this was the same one when I first saw your video posted. I scrapped her about 15 years ago. Now I wish I hadn't . Was in that cleaning out the yard mode.
Memories :) My uncle gave me an OLD Planet Jr. when I was a kid, back in about 1965 (I'm 66 now). I think that machine came from the late 40's or very early 50's. Mine came with forward and reverse, 3 speed trans, we thought it was about an 8 hp engine, Attachments : two bottom plow, harrows, cultivator, planter, and a ride on trailer to pull behind it. I took care of everyone's garden in the neighborhood (of course they were all relatives) for years with that great old machine. Keep up the good work on your videos, I look forward to them. Lou
I think it’s the perfect candidate for the little Briggs gear motor you got running on Dec 16 2018. You’ll just have to put a 16 inch diameter drive pulley on that one to get it to go. As an alternate the 1943 Briggs ZZ you resurrected on September 14th 2018 would only slightly over power the Planet Junior. Of course you will need counterweights on the rear if you use the ZZ. LOL You could fab up a homemade muffler for it and be off to the pea patch with it.
Enjoyed, you did your best, I hope you can repower the old cultivator, so it can live on, someone would love to work up their garden spot with that old beast,
When the boats showed up at the end,I thought I was was going to see you throw it off the boat with a rope on it LOLOLOLOL ,good try ,its always interest why it fallen too
Enjoy your videos, keep them coming. Much better than pretty shiny shop videos. I would surmise that this machine sat in a flood at one time on its final life.
Actually this isn't a tiller, it is what is called a garden tractor. My dad sold these way back in his store, I think in the late 40's but not sure about that. This little tractor preceded what we know of today, as a tiller. A tiller, tills the soil using rotating tines where as this little fella actually 'plows'. As you stated, this setup was more of a cultivator with the center plow, second row removed allowed the tractor to straddle the plants planted in a row and the other four plows were adjusted as necessary. I walked many miles behind one very close to this one in looks.
well darn, i was hoping it would come back to life, then again, if every one was a success then the title of *can it be saved* would mean nothing. You gave it your best on this and is an enjoyable video.
I came into a Planet JR (no super anything..) about 45+ yrs ago.. Wood handles.. Cast iron Tecumseh 1 3/4 hp engine.. In my irrational youth, I removed the engine..& in a 70's haze, somehow lost it. I later re-powered it with a Fuji-Robin 5 hp 8:1 reduction (as had the original).. I still have it , have tilled Many gardens with it and it's single furrow & 3 disc harrow attachments. It will D*!! near pull down a house!! One of the most amazingly overbuilt machines I have ever seen!
Planet Jr. Super Tuffy made by S.L. Allen, Pennsylvania. I have one just like it, 6S Briggs came on mine. Planet Jr. was the brand name. The Tuffy version had a 5S engine and ribbed tires. Dude, i hope you didn't scrap it. Just get a replacement motor. Its a yard tractor, not a tiller.
as long as you had fun, why not? i mean, what else are you gonna do on a sunday? you could repower the chassis. the rubber was still there, it has the cultivator attachment. i'm sure it had a plow, and a front blade as options minimum, so it could pull a cart around i'm sure. make it into a retro garden tractor rat rod. it'd be one of a kind, that's for sure.
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I enjoy the fact he acts like we're standing there watching in the shop. Makes it more fun.
The bad part is that after all these years, I'm starting to answer him back! :)
@@rich-bynameonly5325 Hell me too. under my breath usually
Like Dora the Explorer for grown-ups.
@@thenonoman I wouldn't know I've heard of her, of course, but never watched it.
It's part of the Mustie1 experience.
If I popped that head off and found that rusty mess I would have quit. Mustie laughs and gets to work. Legend
me too!
Us regular people would open jp the latest harbor freight ad and see how much the side shaft 5 horse is selling for today....
paige hunt YES!!!
I would be heading to Harbor Fright after popping that engine off and throwing it on the scrap pile. I did that to an old Montgomery Wards tiller. No one would even call on it at first even with a new engine because it was lime green. As soon as I repainted it gloss black, the phone wouldnt stop ringing. I sold it an hour later. Not too shabby.
RC Hobbyist Extreme well done! 👍
Love your videos son..no sales or bad attempts at comedy...just the real deal...when you hit a snag you keep us with you and find your way out...you keep cool with a good attitude....keep em coming...
Oh man, you gave it a good shot. Most guys would have quit long before you did. It was fun to watch.
A little JB Weld to repair that block and you'll have that thing running like new. Just kidding. Thanks for another terrific video.
actually, JB might actually work. For a while.
Holy Crap Project Farm watches Mustie too! My life is complete now. lol
@@BeeABaw yep. Project farm is one of my faves too. I find it fun and sometimes informative. It ain't Sunday Morning without Mustie1 It's become a habit Coffee with Mustie. He works, I watch.. love that. Now I've got to go out and wrench on my junker ride. Always something when you drive 25 year old heaps.
Well he must be watching something while rotating oil on a hot plate.
@@judsonr1 Yes, that should work! I've seen a guy making an entire head out of JB weld! ;)
I hope you have another old motor in the stash. It would be great to see that thing operate again!!!
Thanks for another great upload!
Make a Franken-Planet Jr. with another engine you may have around your shop. In the end someone will love this Planet Jr. walk behind tractor for cultivating their garden after they find a cultivator or make a cultivator themselves.
Finally one old enough, rusty enough, frozen up enough even this one could not be brought back. Everyone once and a while some have to get away no matter how hard you try.
Your use of tools and the manipulation of them is really incredible
Without being repetitive, I’m glad someone knows how to use the impact driver. Please explain fully every time you use it, others might catch on 😁
Paul Lewis use the rattler!
😂
The challenge, even when the engine/car/boat wins, is why I like to watch your videos! Besides, even at nearly 80 years old, I still learn new (to me) techniques!
man....am I nuts or what ...you was rocking that motor back and forth ..faster and faster ....and I started chewing my fruit loops faster and faster...your videos are a must see....your skills are over the top
Dont feel bad Mustie, its not often you fail. Carry on, I enjoyed every minute.
Trying to get some little old ladies yard ornament to run, can be a daunting task. lol, You just know she had it out there with the concrete goose and the garden gnome.
Dont forget the gnomes and bird bath
As someone who restores old cast Iron, it is the bane of my existence how much old and very interesting pieces I find in old ladies yards. Unfortunately most of the time it is too far gone for me to rescue. However the pride of my collection is a old early 1800's 13.7 quart bean pot (Think cowboy cattle trail type). When I found it, I would wager it had another season or two tops before it was too far gone. It took me weeks to restore that thing due to the sheer size.
Don't forget the perfectly good anvil she bought out of the same estate sale that she did up in lead based pink to make it "pretty". LOL
The worse ones I've seen are lathes and mills sitting in someone's front yard as decoration.
Puts the cap on the tank - “Don’t wanna get any dirt in there” 😂
John Uicky ha ha :-D
Indeed
he was just checking to see if any one was paying attention...lol
I LOLed
I think he meant "don't wanna let any the dirt get out of there"
I’m a master technician for Mercedes Benz, and I learn something new every time I come to your channel! You inspired me to take on a Honda 185s three wheeler that sat in the woods for 15 years. I’m having a blast restoring it!
I love the chuckles of frustration every time you uncover more crusted rust frozen gunk!!! Thanks for the history lesson!!!
Clean it, paint it and call it well restored.
Would be a nice museum piece
LOL
Thanks that was a fun watch. I kinda miss the old garage though.
IMHO-I think ANY antique engine is worth the effort in trying to save because they made these things so much better than today! I'll bet this sucker will run!
Man, you are WAY better at what-screw-goes-where than I am!
I actually own one of these. I've pulled it out of the barn multiple time over the course of 30+ years. Most of the time a quick carb clean and new plug did the trick. Last time required new points/condenser/coil. Still runs like a champ. All original internals.
the man that revamped my love for air cooled VW. love ya Mustie!
That block is one of those you spray a bronze color and set it on the mantle next to the baby shoes.
I hope you work over more ancient engines. Was fun (for us) to watch you tear into the thing. If anybody could've breathed new life into this ancient engine, its you my friend.
We enjoyed the journey with Mustie in the Garage, water in a engine not to cool it, could give you a problem? another one bites the dust.CHEERS sir.
When I was a kid (50's & 60's) my dad had a David Bradley walk-behind garden tractor. It was made almost exactly like this machine but it was made so you could change the implements...disc, planter, breaking plow, cultivator ect..... I have many fond memories using it to help raise the one acre garden that fed the family.
My uncle had an east-German one - I think it was a 50cc Schwalbe engine coupled to a 4-speed Wartburg box. In the 80s and early 90s he used it for a lot of things, e.g. digging potatoes. He also had a proper trailer for it that turned the whole thing into an articulated 4-wheeler! I'm fairly sure he still has it but never uses it. Last time I visited for a longer period of time (in 2001) we fired it up and drove laps in the huge farm yard! What a blast!
there is a guy on this You tube that collects them and restores them I was just watching that
I would have loved to hear this run... brought back memories of when I was a 12 yr old kid at a neighbors (Mr Roberts) yard sale and he gave a similar model to me. We kids wore ourselves out pull starting - wrapping the rope - no recoil. Eventually a friends dad helped us run a v belt around the pulley to a garden tractor and not knowing what we were doing started fiddling with the carburetor screws. It came to life! Mine had no tines and a t-bar handle with a lever to engage the wheels. We tied the red wagon handle to the to it and sat in the wagon with the t-handle out over the wagon to steer. Gosh, we must have put hundreds of miles on the thing around the property. Neighbor kids would come over with their wagons. For a four wagon train, I found it effective to shove a piece of wood in the front and cantilever a bunch of bricks on the end I found in the garage for added traction. So much fun as a young kid in a small New Hampshire town.
Thanks to you Mustie I fixed my first small engine. A free 1964 Evinrude Yachtwin I found on the side of the road. It needed a carb clean and rebuild, new coils and head gasket, cleaned and adjusted points and now it runs good! Thank you
I actually love that you don't give up on these, you have all the tools and knowledge, so until you have parts missing I'm super happy you explore the options
aaaw man, that crack hurt a lot =(
I inherited my Dad’s Allis-Chalmers B. Engine seized when I got it. 2 cylinders were rusted from the valves being open and sitting in a humid barn basement for 10 years. Very long story short, after using various potions of Mystery Oil, trans fluid and acetone for a month, none of which did much, I filled the cylinders with Evapo-Rust and 24 hours later, the pistons moved for the first time in years. The tractor now runs fine, still has good compression, and the pistons have never been taken out.
"Don't want to get any dirt in there." I almost blew root beer out of my nose when you said that. About 50 years ago a buddy and I found a cultivator almost identical to this one buried in weeds in an abandoned backyard garden. We had to 'gently' persuade the piston free of the cylinder with a hammer and block of wood. Amazingly, it came back to life and we nearly put ourselves in the hospital racing around with a 2-wheeled cart hitched to the back of it. Yee hah!
JimPeachley been there, it’s great to fire up old motors when we can!
Pat F m
Mustie, You have the right attitude for doing these projects. Long ago I would have busted my knuckles, skinned my hand and would have been throwing tools!
Watched till the end. Sometimes it's not the destination, it's the journey.
That crack find was so heartbreaking, loved the vid.
"Water!" "Just not good for preservation" .. Thanks for the chuckle.
Great job Mustie! if can't fix it , nobody can!
To the old Briggs , Rest In Peace !!! Thanks for the video .
This reminds me of how most of my projects go. Everything's a battle! Thanks for another great video, Mustie.
47:00 You: "Why do you even bother?"
Mustie1: "Why not?"
Legend! I totally get it, I love restoring old hand tools, like hatchets, hammer hatchets, chisels, etc.
My Dad bought a Planet Jr. Super stuffy 60 +- yrs. Ago still all complete but hasn't run for 50+ yrs. You got my interest up for restoration in near future.
Thank you young man for getting that classic machine out of the weather that make,s me happy to see a machine that is 6 year,s younger than being shown some love i,m 56 what horse power was that tired old briggs & stratton enigen any way R,I,P old girl R,I,P
"Lovingly Restore" it, like the marine engine was, and donate it to a museum. Then in another 50 years, Mustie3 can have another go at it .
that's just sadistic,
Don't give him any ideas
Actually, with a medium size lathe, he could sleeve it easily. I can't remember the name of the channel, but another fixer pulled an ancient Briggs out of the mammoth bone yard and restored it to full function using a cast iron pipe, braze, and patience.
@@aserta The problem is getting it to that stage
by the the penetrating oil will have soaked well into the ring land..lol.. water in the crank case was just not a good sign, it's too bad, as they don't make engine castings with that much meat anymore.. personally given the time and energy, I'd consider it for an air compressor head.. but he has enough projects that actually work.. the plate is full..
Mustie1, the Dad everyone wishs they had! Thanks for another great video!
You're "persistence" is admirable.
Wow, I have watched dozens and dozens of your videos and this is the first one that I've seen that the thing you were repairing could not be repaired. On the bright side you now have parts for the next one you find... : )
"Plus your alittle to high, Some of you are anyway" 🤣 I get a kick out of the random wise cracks.
My father had this same style tiller when I was a kid, he welded bed frames, a universal socket, front wheels, and made me a homemade go-cart. It was slow but fun. Can still remember its 1963 impala steering wheel.
Can't win them all, but you can win most of them. Great effort.
It is better to have tried and failed, than not to have tried at all 👍well done mustie .
That was the roughest of the rough ones, Mr. Mustie! You fought well. You deserve some rest for your valiant efforts.
I really love watching you work. You are so determined.
I hung there for the whole hour too bad that it is not gonna make it. Great content. Thanks Mustie for another good one !
Finest example of a boat anchor I have ever seen good luck
The possibility of failure makes the victories sweet. Thanks for the adventure.
4:20 am, perfect time to laydown and fall asleep to a mustie video
Dear dayyou.
Whaaat? I could never fall asleep while watching a great Mustie1 video! Always very interesting and funny stuff. Additionally I definitely don't want to miss any of Mustie1s laughing. ;-) :-)
Best regards luck health and wisdom.
I don't believe this was meant in a negative connotation. I love the content on this channel and often use it as relaxing background media to fall asleep. Not being weird or anything, but his voice is soothing and has perfect balance. One to which you can fall asleep.
l do the same with a couple of podcasts
@@Chr.U.Cas2216 Just imagine after a while having a subconscious abiilty to fix anything rusty in your sleep.......
Dear @@joolwing
That's nearly exactly what great Mustie1 does! But instead of sleeping and snoring he fortunately is laughing a lot! ;-) :-)
Best regards luck health and wisdom.
These are like showing up to your buddies place with some beer and just being thankfull it isnt your mess to work on. Fantastic!
Some projects don't work all the time. Wait for the next one love watching your show.
I was pulling for ya ! I didn't look at the comments till the end. RIP little motor !
I've taken hundreds of motors apart.....someday I'll remember how to put one back together...
Your videos are always Awesome to watch on how you fix them.
Yes a terrific video. I enjoyed it even tho you found that crack around the block. Thank you for sharing this one and I look forward to more of them.
Love watching these videos. Reminds me of working on stuff in the garage with pops. We had to fix it so it would work. Still do to this day actually. I learn a lot from these videos. Thanks for sharing
Great vid, Mustie. Glad you show them regardless of the outcome.
Oh darn! But on the bright side, it's one more day closer to Mustie1 yard sale season!!! Can't wait.
Awe shucks ! and I was waiting to see how you were gonna hone out that cylinder too!. But thanks for taking us that far it was a fun journey. we don't get to see many in-urds of old stuff like that. until Mustie comes along and shows us. thanks again for showing us and better yet for thaking the time to do it. and share.
Sad to see one of those wonderful old Briggs so neglected and ruined. I've got a 70 year old Model 8 that was lightly seized, but got it free. That engine is now completely rebuilt and restored.
honestly, thank you so much for your videos. not this one in particular but all of them. your videos have given me enough knowledge to confidently work on my own equipment and it officially payed off when i went to start my mower today and it didn't work. i managed to get it up and running and that alone boosted my self confidence so much. something so small meant so much to me so thank you.
Great videos! When I'm working on something and a bolt/part falls to the floor, I say, "More room down there anyway!" haha
You and me both!
I enjoyed watching this as much as a success story. Put a "FREE" sign on it & leave it at the roadside.
You need to partner with HandToolRescue, he would make that thing look brand new!
Liked the boat anchor reference at the end 😂
I think he did get a gas powered drill from HandToolRescue a few years ago.
Poor Roadking must've been cringing so hard at the damage that this has taken. Good try at saving it Mustie!
Some can be brought back to life, some are just destined to be boat anchors. You gave it a good shot. 👍
Great video, keep them coming. Thanks
I have one, original paint and decals, use it every year in the garden. They are pretty quick speed wise, you have to trot behind it :) Gets the job done , starts easily .
HEY RIGHT BACK AT YOU COOL OLD CULTAVATOR 😁
That is a nice find. It would make great decoration for a flower garden. Love your work, Mustie
You win some, you lose some, and some gets rained out....Good video much enjoyed...
that is too bad...I wanted so bad to see it fire back to life one more time. Nice job. Keep the Vids coming!
Thank you for the video!!! Keep them coming!!!
OMG...My Pop built one like this in the 60's as well. I thought this was the same one when I first saw your video posted.
I scrapped her about 15 years ago. Now I wish I hadn't .
Was in that cleaning out the yard mode.
Memories :)
My uncle gave me an OLD Planet Jr. when I was a kid, back in about 1965 (I'm 66 now). I think that machine came from the late 40's or very early 50's.
Mine came with forward and reverse, 3 speed trans, we thought it was about an 8 hp engine, Attachments : two bottom plow, harrows, cultivator, planter, and a ride on trailer to pull behind it.
I took care of everyone's garden in the neighborhood (of course they were all relatives) for years with that great old machine.
Keep up the good work on your videos, I look forward to them.
Lou
"We've manage to raise the Titanic and separate its engine from the hull"
Mustie1: "Rusty old boat motor - will it run?"
My granddad had one of those. I used it quite a bit and it was a lousy tiller.
Personalmente trovo il Signore un eccellente meccanico.Riesce sempre a trovare le soluzioni più' incredibili. Belle riprese,bei video. Complimenti !
I don't think anyone who comes to watch you work would ever think "Why are you even bothering?"
We already know - it's a compulsion for you and us.
Re-power it! These little machines are still useful and sought after
I think it’s the perfect candidate for the little Briggs gear motor you got running on Dec 16 2018. You’ll just have to put a 16 inch diameter drive pulley on that one to get it to go.
As an alternate the 1943 Briggs ZZ you resurrected on September 14th 2018 would only slightly over power the Planet Junior. Of course you will need counterweights on the rear if you use the ZZ. LOL You could fab up a homemade muffler for it and be off to the pea patch with it.
Hi Mustie. Thanks for bringing us along on this one 👍🏻 It's not very often something beats Mustie lol 😂 Until the next one cheers Stevie 😎🇬🇧
Enjoyed, you did your best,
I hope you can repower the old cultivator, so it can live on, someone would love to work up their garden spot with that old beast,
When the boats showed up at the end,I thought I was was going to see you throw it off the boat with a rope on it LOLOLOLOL ,good try ,its always interest why it fallen too
If you could get that pulley off the motor you could re-engine the tiller with another Briggs unit, I'm sure you have a spare or two in the hoard.
Or twenty.
no brigs please, unless it too is very old. The modern ones suck.
@@tootall5559 only an old engine would actually fit i think
@@gtb81. you forget what Mustie can do. He could put a VW motor on it if he wanted to, maybe even a V8.
@@tootall5559 true, but i was meaning with the original mounting bracket
Many thanks Mustie1 for yet another superb video.
Enjoy your videos, keep them coming. Much better than pretty shiny shop videos. I would surmise that this machine sat in a flood at one time on its final life.
Actually this isn't a tiller, it is what is called a garden tractor. My dad sold these way back in his store, I think in the late 40's but not sure about that. This little tractor preceded what we know of today, as a tiller. A tiller, tills the soil using rotating tines where as this little fella actually 'plows'. As you stated, this setup was more of a cultivator with the center plow, second row removed allowed the tractor to straddle the plants planted in a row and the other four plows were adjusted as necessary. I walked many miles behind one very close to this one in looks.
well that was a sad ending i was really hoping this would run again dam well thanks mustie for another great vid
I agree but that thing was from the Titanic!
well darn, i was hoping it would come back to life, then again, if every one was a success then the title of *can it be saved* would mean nothing. You gave it your best on this and is an enjoyable video.
I came into a Planet JR (no super anything..) about 45+ yrs ago.. Wood handles.. Cast iron Tecumseh 1 3/4 hp engine.. In my irrational youth, I removed the engine..& in a 70's haze, somehow lost it. I later re-powered it with a Fuji-Robin 5 hp 8:1 reduction (as had the original).. I still have it , have tilled Many gardens with it and it's single furrow & 3 disc harrow attachments. It will D*!! near pull down a house!! One of the most amazingly overbuilt machines I have ever seen!
Planet Jr. Super Tuffy made by S.L. Allen, Pennsylvania. I have one just like it, 6S Briggs came on mine. Planet Jr. was the brand name. The Tuffy version had a 5S engine and ribbed tires. Dude, i hope you didn't scrap it. Just get a replacement motor. Its a yard tractor, not a tiller.
as long as you had fun, why not? i mean, what else are you gonna do on a sunday? you could repower the chassis. the rubber was still there, it has the cultivator attachment. i'm sure it had a plow, and a front blade as options minimum, so it could pull a cart around i'm sure. make it into a retro garden tractor rat rod. it'd be one of a kind, that's for sure.
60 minutes of good entertainment I was thinking you might get it get it... until you opened the valve cover .....great video thanks
Interesting video !! Enjoyed watching !!