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Old 07-30-2020, 10:42 AM
dwillits dwillits is offline
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Greetings and salutations!

My name is David. I live in central IA. I just picked up this guy and I'm planning on new front tires, blast and paint the rims (this year) and redoing the deck and body over the winter. My grandpa had one and I'm not sure where it ended up but I have looked off and on (not very intense searching) for a few years and this one popped up a few weeks back. I'm sure I overpaid but I don't really care. I'm happy to finally have one.

It starts so quickly that you barely have time to let off the key before it's running.

Hoping to enjoy my time here and I will post other photos soon. Cheers!

EDIT: These are the tires I'm planning to get. Thoughts?
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Old 07-30-2020, 10:49 AM
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Welcome to OCC..........

The 782 is a very popular model. I have one also.
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Old 07-30-2020, 11:27 AM
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Welcome to the forum! Lots of knowledge here and nice shape cub there!

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Old 07-30-2020, 02:14 PM
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Welcome to the group.
782's are my favorite, I have 2.
You will have questions and concerns as time goes along.
It looks original,nice to keep it that way as they are only that way once,
tires/seat look original also, a nice unmolested example.
The hubcaps will clean up decent with some chrome cleaner,
also the original series 1 engine in it likes the oil changed regular and live longer if allowed to warm up before opening the throttle up/working it.
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Old 07-30-2020, 10:56 PM
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Welcome to OCC! Good looking tractor. I have to agree with George, if that was mine, I would leave it original.
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Old 07-31-2020, 11:30 AM
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Welcome to OCC..........

The 782 is a very popular model. I have one also.
I would expect nothing less than the administrator to own one.

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Welcome to the forum! Lots of knowledge here and nice shape cub there!
Thank you!

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Welcome to the group.
782's are my favorite, I have 2.
You will have questions and concerns as time goes along.
It looks original,nice to keep it that way as they are only that way once,
tires/seat look original also, a nice unmolested example.
The hubcaps will clean up decent with some chrome cleaner,
also the original series 1 engine in it likes the oil changed regular and live longer if allowed to warm up before opening the throttle up/working it.
Glad to be here sir.

Damnit George. I was already thinking about blasting and painting the cream (forgive me for not knowing the exact name of the color) parts and making them pretty again. Wheels, deck, underframe, etc. Perhaps I shall marinade on this longer.

Tires are most certainly original. So much so that the fronts go flat overnight. Unfortunately, I must get new fronts. If anyone knows where to find OEM-style replacements, I would prefer those. My internetting has bore no fruit thus far in that quest.

George, you can't give me advice on cleaning the chrome after telling me to "keep it that way" in regards to being unmolested, ya crazy old man.

I appreciate the heads up on the engine. I am pretty religious when it comes to regular oil changes. I also always let engines (from lawnmowers to semi trucks) warm up before using and always let things run/idle for a bit before shutting them down.

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Welcome to OCC! Good looking tractor. I have to agree with George, if that was mine, I would leave it original.
Thank you. As mentioned above, I'm not certain what direction I'll take with this but I'd like to clean it up a bit. Time (or lack of time) shall determine a lot of the parameters of this project.
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