

We even installed a full size washer and dryer in an even smaller cabin their tops provide additional food preparation space. Trundle beds, and captains beds good beds, as we grow older are needed. And the kind of bunk beds that are full beds on the bottom and twin beds on top, work in any attic space. It is true that the freezer is used less in a vacation home than in a year round home. If there is to be a lot of cooking, I would move any sink to the best view in the house. I would just ask for ones that are level and actually drain towards the sink as in "drainboard." All of this fuss over the kitchen is amusing because I don't cook at the cabin - or anywhere else. I even like the orange countertops, but agree that there are better choices. Nothing should be thrown away, just repurposed. I am so pleased that everyone understands the treasure that this knotty pine cabin provides. I have my own preserver that is the best I could find it fits me and I won't let anyone wear it - even though, or perhaps because, I am the better swimmer. Love the "boat coat" and will implement that with the next generation. We are celebrating our fifty-something anniversary in our family cabin. I think hydrostatic systems have now replaced hydraulic drive systems in all garden tractors, except for this mfr., for efficiency and control reasons. "A typical garden tractor drive uses a variable displacement inline piston pump with a fixed displacement inline piston motor of the same size in an integral installation." They indicate a 10HP gas engine and go into more detail on the system components and their role in the circuit. I think this may be the same unit / system since the Case-Ingersoll design has been around at least that long. When I page thru my old Sperry-Rand Vickers mobile hydraulics manual, Copyright 1967 (I received it way back in college and it was a new edition!) they show a garden tractor hydraulic drive system.

And, the attachments are way up there too since they're hydraulically driven. That's a pile of cash for an air-cooled gas engine powered garden tractor. They're sure built well, but the same basic design since their inception. Sales has really been falling off the last few years and this latest economic crisis may be the final nail. Last I heard they're hanging on by a thread.

#Case 446 hidrive point adjustment series#
The 3000 series is less and not built as large. Just estimating from memory, the 4000 series with power steering is somewhere close to $8K, I think with a mowing deck(?!). How are they ? I would think it would pull like a friggen mule.Īnybody out there know what one of these runs new ? or used ? Or perhaps have one of the Ingersol (or older tractors) tractors. Im sure their are others out there who have done this to some Frankenstein project of theirs? You can just imagine operation as clunky with the hydraulics coupled to it. While the engine was setup to be shifted very nicely. The contraption worked ok - but it kinda removed the "flexibility" that the snowmobile engin/tranny combo provided and replaced it with the feel of a. It just so happens Ive had the pleasure of helping someone convert a 6 wheel swamp buggy (with those balloon tires) from a snowmobile type drive train to a 250 twin motorcycle engine which drove a hydraulic pump and hydraulic motor for buggy. But never knew these units are hydraulically driven. So I was reading through the postings and recently saw mention of Ingersol having a tractor - not being familiar with them, this intrigued me.
