This Little Sears Was Built Just 1 Year! 1968 Sears 10XL Garden Tractor

[@mattmortimore4924]

Just got me a 67 and still needs work but already love it even has mower deck

[@silverdote]

My dad bought this very same tractor when he built the house we grew up in and kept it for 50 years before giving it away. Amazing what you’ll find on the internet.

[@BeingMe23]

Everyone relives their childhood. Everyday as a adult in one form or another until they day. As age we all look back to the "good old days with pleasure".

[@Dan-qy1rg]

Hello to Greg, sorry to hear about your dad passing, my dad passed 6 years ago as well. Great looking tractor, you and your grand daughter should be proud of the work that you two did on the Sears 10XL Tractor. Thank you for sharing!

[@CheeseMiser]

RIP.

[@alpine9996]

We had a Sears Custom 6 I believe in 1969. It had no lights and just a pull start. With just 6 hp it was a strong, tough tractor. I mowed a lot of lawns and plowed a lot of driveways with it as a13 year old all over our development and made a lot of money. We had a 2 year warrantee on it. At just about 2 years old it would die under load and Sears offered us a replacement tractor. I asked my father if he could ask Sears to upgrade the tractor for additional money to a 10 hp with lights and electric start. Sears agreed to the upgrade and I became the proud owner of a 10 XL. I wish I still had the tractor today.

[@henrysosebee9241]

Good old tractor thanks for showing I have an 1977 sears tractor still in use

[@tomriddle3995]

I collected sears tractors .it's addictive!! Tuff little buggers too.

[@watchit5985]

I had a Sears lawn tractor as a kid. Good tractors!

[@emoryjiles6411]

Great story. Thanks for sharing it.

[@indianasunsets5738]

Great old Sears lawn tractor and great story!

[@MowerJunkie]

Nice! I collect Sears Custom Tractors. I have a 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and a 71. From 6 hp to 10 hp, all Tecumseh engines. My 68 has the same front end as the one shown in the video. Thanks for the great show, Take care.

[@andymoszynski1137]

I have a ss15 it has no engine. But everything thing else is in tac.are they worth any thing. I like to know.

[@bevis226]

Did you notice that the engine is an earlier Points ignition engine? lol Freeze the video @3:00 and you can see the points cover and the screws. Must have had problems with his original Solid State ignition module. The older points engines are much more dependable.

[@xr7coug]

I have a 71 and I work it hard. Recently had to replace an axle seal and they are readily available. Same for the shifter boot. Great little tractors!

[@nickdial8610]

Unique little tractor ! Never seen one before Enjoyed the video

[@coltscustoms1776]

Really nice tractor, my grandpa got sick with covid this year and my sears ss16 and I thought he would get out and he could help me finsh it, well I guess he had other plans and left me but I still plan to finsh it soon, but the up side is he tested negative for covid before he died, he ended up passing due to sepsis

[@stephenhorton4098]

Sorry for your loss.

[@johnthomson8359]

Nice sears I am restoring a 1970 10xl and have a 1969 also have a 1967 sears suburban 10 restored great tractors

[@americanaxetoolco2076]

Those were great pieces of equipment! Back in the early 70’s we lost our Massey Ferguson dealer! Maynard decided to retire so we had to go to John Deere for needed new equipment! One thing Mom insisted one was a John Deere riding mower, our old Massey worked just fine and I had no allegiance to John Deere as Massey and Farmall is what I was raised on! That Massey lawn tractor out lived the John Deere lawn tractor! In actuality both were good machines, but brand loyalty I learned at a young age!

[@jimsteele7108]

Nice collection. Thanks for sharing!

[@10XAuction]

These little tractors awesome, and intersting! Thx!

[@tommyo8068]

Sweet tractor

[@Farmtractor]

Classic tractor fever. You need to do a show in Sears suburban tractors!

[@meatballs2849]

Very nice!

[@workhardlivefree3818]

I have this tractor though it no longer looks anything like this restored one in the video... Mine now has a Honda motor, and a bunch of mismatch parts from similar craftsman mowers... great to see what it once looked like

[@wadestanion4617]

I have a 1965 Sears Suburban 10 which is also a 1 year tractor with the transmission and body style. My other sears are 2, 64 custom 600's. 68 & 69 Suburban 12's 1978 GT 19.9 I have a gravely 408 i think it is. Also several Bolens tractors as well.

[@CheeseMiser]

I want it so much

[@7viewerlogic670]

Nice!

[@alfredpriestleyjr.6918]

I've got a 1968 just like that one and I have a cub cadet collection of old vintage era we all started with the old one hundred of my dad's and my dad's mother had a 124 CUB CADET BEFORE THAT SHE HAD A SEARS SUBURBAN A GOLD AND BLUE ONE WITH BLUE I'VE GOT FOUR TRACTORS TWO CUB CADETS AND TWO SEARS TRACTORS AND ONE JOHN DEERE SIXTIES ERA AND BETWEEN ME AND MY BROTHERS WE HAVE AROUND TWENTY GARDEN TRACTORS IN OUR COLLECTION

[@harrynavalta514]

I have 2 as well the SS15 and SS16 models

[@swampwolf]

Would like to see a video on the one headlight Wheelhorse.

[@er1073]

Where in Pennsylvania Greg? I am from Fredonia Pa about 70 miles North of Pittsburgh up I-79. Great looking Sears tractor. Ed

[@badencraig7778]

Nice

[@AlfredPriestley-v5y]

I've got one just like that one plus a few cub cadets about fifteen tractors a private collection of the Priestley brothers the three of us each of us have four different tractors each and three divided up the last three he is like me I'm sixty five years old today 7-17-58.. 7-17-23

[@nielkeetola4331]

Kool video of 68 how many years was that model made and I'm thinking about redoing one of those just sort of like a hobby and now another question how many attachments cannot do can it do all all the attachments

[@gregsavage1880]

Very nice KZbin channel a lot of work seems to go into what you do. My favorite tractor of all was my early 60s Pennsylvania meteor with the bench seat I've yet to see anything compared to that machine past or present LOL

[@bevis226]

Those are the coolest looking Sears Custom tractors. Only thing I hate about my 86 is the 4 speed transaxle. They like to pop out of 2nd and reverse gears and the differential gears in them are very noisy. Looks like he has a mid 1960s points ignition Tecumseh HH100 engine in it. The original engine would have had the troublesome and expensive to replace early Tecumseh Solid State ignition module. Freeze the video at @3:00 you can see the ignition points cover and 2 screws just below and to the right of the muffler.

[@FloridaManMason]

Seriously it's these collectors that make these tractors expensive and hard to come by. I just got myself a kinda far gone sears ss16, actually found one for a reasonable price. I have been looking for one of these for 5 almost 6 years now. I saw one when I was 10, and fell in love. Being 15 almost 16 I don't have the deep pockets these collectors have. Im actually ok with this dude cuss he only has 8 that's reasonable I'm talking the people who have like 50, those guys are taking away from people who just want to have one of these tractors and enjoy them. I know there is nothing i can do, but if you are one of those guys who has like 50 of them, please sell off some of the parts tractors, or ones you don't care about as much, you could be making a dream come true, like the collector that sold me mine.

[@ram_diesel_power6039]

I have the exact same tractor. I just need a mowing deck. Anyone have any leads.

[@melchristian8876]

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[@MattMorris481]

Wow $590 in 1968 that’s $4478 with inflation!

[@CheeseMiser]

I could buy a farmall m with a loader for that.

[@Redcamaro51]

The SS14 that’s next to it in the video was just over $1000 in 1970. Add the mower deck, delivery, and taxes, that thing was $1500 for a 14HP lawnmower.

[@ostbob4108]

so what can a completely refurbished Suburban tractor sell for??? is it worth refurbishing?

[@johnirby493]

Head & Shoulders shampoo will take paint out of hair almost instantly.