Picked up rear blade today!

[westofb]

I picked up a new to me blade today, it isn't a cub blade, in fact, I have no idea about who made it, or it's age, but looks to be in nice shape. Here are some picks of it, maybe someone know some info about it, it seems to be pretty heavily built in very good shape.
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I also got a brinly hitch attachment, still had the brinly serial number tag on it. It is slightly sprung and the po had modified it a little, added on some tabs where it attaches to the lower bracket, and welded on tabs on the lift arms, they are the float arms, added tabs to make it rigid arms. The added tabs look to have been done nicely, here is a couple pics of it.
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I also got a stainless receiver hitch plug for my truck, here is a pic of it.
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Got all three items for $250, seemed reasonable enough to me. If anyone has any clue about the blade let me know, thanks for looking over my post!

[westofb]

I don't know why the pics posted like that, had them attached in order....at least they all made it on there!

Looking at the over all pic of the brinly adapter, you can see that it is slightly sprung, the side closest to you in the pic, is not sitting flat on the table top, it is like 1/4" or so above the table top.

[Diz Jr.]

westofb
Nice blade and sleeve hitch adapter

[ACecil]

That's a great looking blade! Looking forward to your action pics!

[westofb]

Originally Posted by ACecil

That's a great looking blade! Looking forward to your action pics!

If I am lucky, may have some action shots by this fall. I have been slowly acquiring attachments (so far I have a brinly 12" plow, single gang disk, cultivator, an IH front snow blade, and this unknown make rear blade) and parts the tractor needs. In the next month or so, I plan to disassemble the tractor (149) and begin the process of a full restore. I have been hitting up the site sponsors, local sources, and evil bay for parts I know that are needed. I just about have everything need on hand or being shipped to me, I still need to order some steering tie rod ends, new tires, the easy steering up grade, and an over haul kit for the motor. The motor as is runs pretty good, but uses oil and has quite a lot of blow by. It also needs a new key way cut in the pto shaft (the old key slot is wallowed out pretty badly, but shaft is still good and I think the best cure is to cut a new one 180* from the old one), I will disassemble the motor and get it to the machine shop prior to ordering the kit to make sure I get what I need. I plan to start a thread on the rebuild of the tractor when I start on it, from disassembly to completion. I am still up in air over paint, was planning on going with oem paint scheme, but saw a thread where someone changed there 149 to red like the 82 series tractors came in, it looks really sharp that way and I am changing the front wheels to the narrow wheels to run a set of tri ribs, and loaded ags on
the rear. Hope to get started next month or maybe will have to wait until May, got to get caught up on my honey do's to keep the wifey happy!

[westofb]

I guess the up right post on the blade behind the pivot mechanism is to hang weights on. I like the looks of the blade, but sure would be nice to know who made it.

The guy I got it from had a brinly plow and disk for sale also, I wish I had snapped some pics of them, the both look to be very old. They both look to have been originally red or orange in color, the plow was tiny, maybe a 6" cut, the disk had wood blocks that surrounded the shafts that the cutting wheels rotated in and was a single gang with 3 cutting disks on each side, maybe 32" in overall width of cut. I probably should have bought those also, never seen such small attachments, they attached to the brinly adapter just like the larger pieces of equipment that I already purchased. I suppose the could have been made for a David Bradley tractor, I am not sure how those implements attach. I could probably get the owner to send me some pics if someone wanted to see them, he is definitely motived to sale them.

[cub cadet people II]

Nice blade even if it isn't IH.

I dig the rear blade That's a good deal on all 3 items. The Brinley looks pretty good too. Looking forward to seeing some pics of the 149 during restoration and good luck