well partial success... got home, stuck around a bit to be sure things were OK (they always throw the "if you stop breathing call 911" into the discharge instructions even when I went in for stitches in a cut on my calf the last time but I wasn't "put out" for that) went and got my trailer and stopped at the kid's house for the portable gas powered compressor cuz I knew my snow blower tractor had 2 flats from sitting and the Deere 828D walk behind had 1, came back home to load up John's Cub 1200 (might as well get that outta my way since he's the owner of the farm where I store my junk)
didn't get to take the push mowers, but I gotta go back out there again soon anyway...… and I think I might need them one more time for leaves, especially once I toss the contents of the gutters onto the ground one last time.
I left my tractor with the tiller mounted to it, on the trailer and out in the weather for about the past month, at a tree service storage lot (told him I was gonna have it there a week or so and it was a month.... wow where did that go?) that guy never said anything to me, but I guess he had said something to my kid about it... "quite a long 'weekend' I had it there for")
The tiller tractor, which had last ran just over a month ago, I had a tougher time getting that one to fire due to sticky choke cable, than my snow blower tractor--- which has sat untouched, without a battery, since April or so/// I parked the tiller tractor and swapped battery to the snow blower tractor, it fired right up like I had just shut it off 5 minutes ago....on whatever gas was left in it from last year.... I had parked that one in the middle of an unused corn crib with no doors on either end, when last winter finally ended.
I say partial success, because of what I didn't get to take with me.... and because the Deere had a tire unseated off the rim that I could not get to seal up, it was a pain dragging that thing backwards on a flat tire up the ramps.... gonna tube that one. that is one heavy blower.
and while the snow blower tractor fired right up, the P/S was dead, as was hydro lift and it wouldn't move.... somehow I had to put 3-1/2 quarts of fluid into the trans and belch the air out, in order to get it back among the living. It ran and drove with no issue all last winter and up until I parked it this past spring.... nobody has moved it or touched it since, there was no puddle under it to indicate a leak, and 2 years ago it got all 7 brand new hydraulic hoses, new filter and fluid (twice, as I filled it and then drained it and filled it/changed filter again) once it was within a quart of being full, things started coming back to life. Totally empty this thing takes 5 qts. I put about 3 in it to get it home. I poured out almost 4 quarts but being that I had to make do with a "funnel" made from a Coke bottle I cut the end off of that I found laying within the corn crib, whose opening was slightly bigger than the pipe plug I took out, and every time it belched out more air it bubbled over.....
both of these tractors are Ariens GT19s--- the one with the snowblower has a Series II KT19 and power steering... the tiller tractor is a Series I KT and no P/S. gotta go back to the other site to remind myself of what all I had to do with these 2 machines originally, to revive them....
and gotta put the snow blade and chains back onto the S16H that I still have here, and make room in the garage for that one.
