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Jim from Kentucky
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A friend dropped this off to me a few days ago. He's having back surgery & won't be able to ever do anything with it. I offered to pay him cash but he wouldn't have it any other way. He hunts across the road from me & we've become friends just coffee & talk from now & then. He remembered me restoring a 12 & thought I would like it to go with it. My friend has had it for a year sitting outside. The PO cut grass with it & it ran well up to the time my friend got it.

It looks to be mostly original except a wrong rear left wheel, the awful flat gray primer & the muffler. The model number places it a 1968 the same year my 12 is. The seat is in bad shape but since it's original I'm taking that off for a pattern to be made later for both this & the 12. The tank is rusty inside so first up will be pulling that off & the fuel bowl to see how bad they are. The oil is black but the right level. Two tires won't hold air & are dry rotted. The deck nose has some rust thru but patchable & all parts are there. If you know the Massey's I have some pluses going for me. The plastic nose piece has only two cracks but is solid all around, the end of the hood & hinge area is not cracked or broken anywhere, it has the chrome muffler plate, & the seat & fender pan are slightly rusted but not thru.

I don't have time to do much to it right now but my curiosity will force me to check out the tank & fuel bowl & get it to run. Looks like another winter project inside by the wood stove & coffee brewing.
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A great gift to receive, just goes to show it pays to be neighborly. I had an elderly couple live just a block south of me that had an old JD 210. I helped keep it running for them, serviced, blades sharpened etc. I would occasionally take my mower down there and finish their 1 acre yard when they didn't get it done or it would get pretty tall. I tried to do that when they were not home, but they knew. They would ask me to mow the yard if they were to be gone for any length of time. He ended up in a nursing home and she got tired of trying to keep it mowed so she asked me to keep things mowed. I let her pay me what she wants, when she wants, if she wants. After a couple of years she gave me the old JD210. She said she felt I was meant to have it because I kept it in shape for them all those years. I take care of her place like it was my own, keep it sprayed, weeds out of the drive, trimmed etc. It has worked out for both of us. The 210 needs work but runs. I will cherish her gift until I can no longer breathe.
 
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