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Remember the Old Gravely's
On the main forum someone mentioned how the Gravely's used to leak gas all the time. That wasn't all they did. I can remember after a couple of hours running one I couldn't open my fingures for about 15 minutes from the vibration. Got another good story about them. If you remember the exhaust came straight out the side of the engine. Well, if you were riding on the two wheeled seat they made for them back then the exhaust blew right back in your face. I had the great experiance of being over come by the fumes while mowing with the rotary attachement on the front. I passed out and the old Gravely came to rest trying to climb a tree. Thankfully, I fell backwards off the seat and didn't get hurt, except for a heck of a headache for the next couple of days. Some friends of ours bought the old place and we went for a visit last year. Believe it or not, the scar from that experience is still on that old tree after about 40 years.
Always try the easiest thing first.
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- 10+ Years
Brent; I'm a Gravely inthuisest myself and I have a fair amount of experience working on the L models. People either love em or hate em. They can be quite handy for some things, but you got to respect em also. My father in law won't touch one. There always somebody that had or knew someone who had a bad experience while running one just as you had. Earl the machinst loves em and has owned one or several his whole life. He now must have at least 8. He still mows with one I bought him a couple of years ago at Portland. We push snow, gravel, mow, till, and bush hog with them. Plus a couple of customized attaches are used. I think they are quite a neat piece of equipment.
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- Cub Pro
- Posts: 3970
- Joined: Mon Feb 03, 2003 9:54 am
- Zip Code: 16685
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: PA, Todd
A brother-in-law (my lovely wife refers to him as an out-law) brought over a Gravely LI after my Crapsman mower gasped it's last heaving breath. Wow, it was love at first sight! Needless to say, I now have a small collection of Gravelys and attachments.
I primarily use them for grass cutting, snow blowing and scaring new neighbors. No problems with leaking gasoline but they do seep oil. Most mechanical problems stem from neglect or abuse, unless they're just plain worn out. Gravely built nearly 1 million walk behinds and riding tractors all based on the 1937 design, updating and improving the design until Ariens (now the owner of Gravely) decided to discontinue it last year.
Many Gravely owners tend to have Cubs or many Cub owners tend to have Gravelys. They are well designed machines, easy to work on and most parts are readily available - just like the Cub. And there is a fantastic internet group interested in Gravelys - just like the Cub. Most of all, Gravelys are plenty of fun - just like the Cub.
I primarily use them for grass cutting, snow blowing and scaring new neighbors. No problems with leaking gasoline but they do seep oil. Most mechanical problems stem from neglect or abuse, unless they're just plain worn out. Gravely built nearly 1 million walk behinds and riding tractors all based on the 1937 design, updating and improving the design until Ariens (now the owner of Gravely) decided to discontinue it last year.
Many Gravely owners tend to have Cubs or many Cub owners tend to have Gravelys. They are well designed machines, easy to work on and most parts are readily available - just like the Cub. And there is a fantastic internet group interested in Gravelys - just like the Cub. Most of all, Gravelys are plenty of fun - just like the Cub.
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur
"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Louis Pasteur
"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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- 10+ Years
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- Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:21 pm
- Zip Code: 24095
- Tractors Owned: '49 Cub
'49 JD "B"
'79 JD 2040
'50 DB "Garden Tractor"
'52 DB "Super Power"
'56 DB "Big 5"
'62 DB "Super 600"
'37 McCormick Deering "LA" engine - Location: Stewartsville, Virginia
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- 10+ Years
- Posts: 7703
- Joined: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:31 pm
- Zip Code: 10314
- Location: NY Staten Island & Franklin
I have a Gravley with a snow plow, rotary mower, sickle bar and one of those sulkeys Mike fell off of. Any one that wants it the whole kit and caboodle is yours. It is located in central NY town of Franklin. Let me know and next time I am there you can have it.
Bill Sorensen
Bill Sorensen
Bill
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
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- Joined: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:31 pm
- Zip Code: 10314
- Location: NY Staten Island & Franklin
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- Posts: 2575
- Joined: Mon Feb 03, 2003 5:25 am
- Zip Code: 37774
- Tractors Owned: 1948 McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub
152 Disc Plow & Flat Belt Pulley
Brinly #8 Moldboard Plow
1971 JD 112 Garden Tractor
1928 Economy Hit & Miss Engine
1927 David Bradley "Little Wonder" Feed Grinder
1 A.H. Patch Corn Shellers
1 A.H. Patch #1 Grist Mill - Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: TN, Loudon (near Knoxville)
Back in 1956 when ol' Country was a mere pup...my Dad bought a Gravely L with a rotary garden plow...a snow plow and a rotary mower. I can still remember that leather starting belt whippin my knee every time I started it and the way that rotary garden plow whipped up rocks the size of hay bails . Yes...I too remember my hands, white knuckled with the vibrations of that awesome machine . It was the most powerful lawn & garden tractor I ever walked behind . I was so disapointed when Dad traded it all in for a Wheel Horse riding model in 1959 ...plowin snow was never as much fun again!
"Save The Possums...Collect The Whole Set"
"Tennessee Sun-Dried Possum...Heaven In A Can"
"Tennessee Sun-Dried Possum...Heaven In A Can"
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- 10+ Years
- Posts: 243
- Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:51 pm
- Location: Pa,White Haven
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- 10+ Years
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- Joined: Mon Feb 03, 2003 9:54 am
- Zip Code: 16685
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: PA, Todd
http://gravelyinfo.com/
Plenty of links, even a manual server much like Rudi provides for us here. Lots of pictures are available of Gravelys, implements, accessories and user modifications.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gravelyclub/
Very friendly and helpful bunch of guys, pretty much the same as here. Join the group and you'll have access to the photo gallery and more.
Plenty of links, even a manual server much like Rudi provides for us here. Lots of pictures are available of Gravelys, implements, accessories and user modifications.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gravelyclub/
Very friendly and helpful bunch of guys, pretty much the same as here. Join the group and you'll have access to the photo gallery and more.
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur
"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Louis Pasteur
"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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- 10+ Years
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- 10+ Years
- Posts: 7703
- Joined: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:31 pm
- Zip Code: 10314
- Location: NY Staten Island & Franklin
Carl can post some pictures of the one he is picking up from me the middle of the month. I am going to meet him at my place in the country. We finally got a date set. Any one else wants to stop by then is welcome too. He has dibs one one bed room. There is still the one set up like a dorm sleeps 4.
Bill
Bill
Bill
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
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- Cub Pro
- Posts: 1051
- Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:45 am
- Zip Code: 00000
- Location: Finistère Bretagne France
WKPoor wrote:Thanks Lurker- The gravely club of America site seems idle. My google search didn't turn up those sites. Thanks again
Yeah! a bit dry, on the first page, lots of "NO" things to do, none of the welcome come on in, lurk or join, enjoy with us attitude that the best forum on the web has
Pat
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- 10+ Years
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- Joined: Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:17 pm
- Zip Code: 00000
- Tractors Owned: 1957 International Cub Loboy; C-3 finish mower; L-54 blade; L-F194 plow incl coulter and jointer;L-38 disk harrow. Leinbach FH back blade.
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: Canton, Ohio
Hey Brent and guys,
I had an L1 for years. It had DUAL AG Tires on it and was an awesome machine. My senior year at HS, I custom fabbed a 48" snow blade for it in shop class. It was just like all the rest of em I guess....fwd/rev on one side of the handle, and hi/lo on the other. The throttle on those things was interesting to say the least...no governor on mine at least. I got mine (in 1976) for hauling it away ......with all the STUFF !!!!!!! It had the finish mower; the 30" bushhog; sickle bar and rotary hoe. The thing didn't run and had been outside for a spell. Well, got the valves unstuck; changed the oil; overhauled the carb, and one giant spark plug later it breathed life!! ...I also eventually piped the exhaust as far up and out to the front as I thought I could go. I used the sickle bar once! The bushhog some; the finish mower tons. I used the rotary hoe I think only 2 times...that attachment is NOT SAFE !!!!! hehehehe
By the way, mine was "strap start", with the steel grommet at the end. 2 things those gravely's needed.....a governor.....COMPRESSION RELEASE !!!!!!
My funny? gravely story: like I mentioned, I made that snow plow for it, and man would it plow snow!! But, as many a gravely owner knows, one does NOT get himself BETWEEN the handles if'n it's under power right??....so my 1st wife's sister and her hubby move in 3 houses down from us....and he's always seen me using this thing doing whatever...during all seasons....but never ever asks to help or anything of course...so one day I'm down there snowplowing their gravel drive and he wants to try it.....I say naw....I'm 1/2 done anyhow and there's more to it than it really looks like ...blah blah blah.....he's gotta do it....so I give him the crash course which includes telling him 3 times not to get between the handles OR, lock it in reverse. ok he's going going...going up towards the house...gets between the handles...going... going...the right end of the blade hits the edge of the sidewalk, jerks the machine to the left....knocks Jack right on his keyster!!!!...well, it was more like a** over apple cart but who's really keepin track !!!...and the thing is still going mind you....I really shoulda been right behind him but....so it's physically impossible for me to run that fast in all my winter wear before it goes right thru the picket fence into the backyard....gets to the swingset, the blade starts to ride up the pole.....flips to the left into the slide bending it at a right angle to where it should be before I finally reach it to flip the clutch lever!!!!! I killed the motor, meanwhile, Jack's wife is laughing her buns off, Jack is getting the snow out from between his face and his glasses...I'm trying not to join in the laughter (yet ) till I know he's ok, what a hoot !!!!! He had a bruise from where the handle whacked him he said...DUH !!!!
I sold it when we moved into the city with a posage stamp sized lot.
Sure would be nice to have now that I'm back where I belong !!
I had an L1 for years. It had DUAL AG Tires on it and was an awesome machine. My senior year at HS, I custom fabbed a 48" snow blade for it in shop class. It was just like all the rest of em I guess....fwd/rev on one side of the handle, and hi/lo on the other. The throttle on those things was interesting to say the least...no governor on mine at least. I got mine (in 1976) for hauling it away ......with all the STUFF !!!!!!! It had the finish mower; the 30" bushhog; sickle bar and rotary hoe. The thing didn't run and had been outside for a spell. Well, got the valves unstuck; changed the oil; overhauled the carb, and one giant spark plug later it breathed life!! ...I also eventually piped the exhaust as far up and out to the front as I thought I could go. I used the sickle bar once! The bushhog some; the finish mower tons. I used the rotary hoe I think only 2 times...that attachment is NOT SAFE !!!!! hehehehe
By the way, mine was "strap start", with the steel grommet at the end. 2 things those gravely's needed.....a governor.....COMPRESSION RELEASE !!!!!!
My funny? gravely story: like I mentioned, I made that snow plow for it, and man would it plow snow!! But, as many a gravely owner knows, one does NOT get himself BETWEEN the handles if'n it's under power right??....so my 1st wife's sister and her hubby move in 3 houses down from us....and he's always seen me using this thing doing whatever...during all seasons....but never ever asks to help or anything of course...so one day I'm down there snowplowing their gravel drive and he wants to try it.....I say naw....I'm 1/2 done anyhow and there's more to it than it really looks like ...blah blah blah.....he's gotta do it....so I give him the crash course which includes telling him 3 times not to get between the handles OR, lock it in reverse. ok he's going going...going up towards the house...gets between the handles...going... going...the right end of the blade hits the edge of the sidewalk, jerks the machine to the left....knocks Jack right on his keyster!!!!...well, it was more like a** over apple cart but who's really keepin track !!!...and the thing is still going mind you....I really shoulda been right behind him but....so it's physically impossible for me to run that fast in all my winter wear before it goes right thru the picket fence into the backyard....gets to the swingset, the blade starts to ride up the pole.....flips to the left into the slide bending it at a right angle to where it should be before I finally reach it to flip the clutch lever!!!!! I killed the motor, meanwhile, Jack's wife is laughing her buns off, Jack is getting the snow out from between his face and his glasses...I'm trying not to join in the laughter (yet ) till I know he's ok, what a hoot !!!!! He had a bruise from where the handle whacked him he said...DUH !!!!
I sold it when we moved into the city with a posage stamp sized lot.
Sure would be nice to have now that I'm back where I belong !!
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