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Re: Small Saturday Surprises - And they now run!
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:51 pm
by Jim Becker
Reverse was an option on the Big Chief.
Re: Small Saturday Surprises - And they now run!
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:00 am
by Gary Dotson
I can't help any on the "apparent" Big Chief, but I have a Bolens "Power Hoe Deluxe" like that one. It's been a few years since I've run it, though. I had to have one, since we had one when I was a kid.
Re: Small Saturday Surprises - And they now run!
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:19 am
by Barnyard
jwl wrote:I saw some of these on the net and they appear to have been orange in color.
The seller said his step-dad liked to paint things yellow and said this was one of the things he repainted. It was probably orange in it's earlier days.
Re: Small Saturday Surprises - And they now run!
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:32 pm
by larryfoster
I knew I could get some info here.
When I moved back into my parents' place about 5 years ago, my dad had a one wheel cultivator in the chicken coop.
Hadn't run in years and years and I barely remember him ever using it.
It seems he may have used it to hill his potatoes but not sure
I'm embarrassed to say that I needed the chicken coop for chickens and moved this machine out into the weeds.
Stumbled across it yesterday and found a plate.
Great Lakes Tractor Co in Ohio and it says Chief.
As far as I know, it is just a cultivator.
There are 4 or 5 straight times on the back
Not sure what engine it has but the serial number is readable.
Not a lot of stuff online about either Great Lakes or this machine
Looks like some here have some knowledge of it.
Since I'm retiring in a couple months, I was thinking of seeing if I could get it running