About a month ago I bought a 127 with the intention of fabricating a blade on it to push snow. It had a blown head gasket and was missing part of the pto. When I got it home I put a new head gasket in it and had it running fairly well minus the smoke. After doing some looking into an overhaul kit and new pto, I quickly found out it would be cheeper to get a parts tractor to fix it up right. After posting on craigslist, a guy from Minnesota called me and told me he had a 123 parts tractor, a running 127, IH blade, and snow thrower if I was interested.
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Well after the long haul last weekend to get them, they sat in the garage all week just waiting to get worked on.
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On Saturday, I got the old smoking block out of the 1st 127, changed its front axle with the 123's, put the 123's motor in the 127, got the sucker running, and mounted the blade. I still need to get some lights fabricated for it, but I having a feeling that I'll have plenty of time to get it done before it snows here.
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Future plans are to rebuild the pto from two broken ptos I have and depending on how much snow we get, put the snow thrower on the 2nd 127 who is still on mower duty.
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Classic! :biggrin2:

Mulched some wet leaves and grass with the 1864. Dad cut up the rest of the Maple that was in the rental yard and I hauled it back to the shed.

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Looks good Travis:beerchug: hauls like nothin' was behind it I bet.:bigthink:

Thanks Todd! I am not going to lie, the front was a little light! Time to put that other 50# weight on. I was able to back that cart uphill into the woodshed on wet grass with no problems. :beerchug:

The 1872 had cleanup duty and the 782 did some mowing until smoke started rolling from underneath the mower deck cover. Probably the belt but the bearings got pretty noisy.
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Can't figure out how to add more than one pic from my phone. :BangPC:

I know I am not going to be the most popular guy on here for this, but I did prepare for the "white stuff today." When you and your wife are full time employees and are raising 3 grade school aged boys, you have to take the time to do things when you have the time.

I bought a plow for the "newer" 782 this spring and put it on today. Then also extended the paddles on the 2-stage walk-behind snow blower. Hopefully it won't clog now with the wet stuff.

Then I got to looking at the "older" 782, that will have the dual hyd removed to put on the "newer," and realized the engine on it is actually a Magnum series instead of a series 2 like I had thought. Guess it actually pays to actually look at what you have. But, I think the "older" must be a church go'r because the fender pan and frame are "holey." The PO(s) has/have drilled so many holes in this thing its probably the lightest (weight) 782 in all the Midwest.

Glad the 1872 is doing a good job for you, Adrian!

Did the first lawn sweeping of the season with the 982.

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