With 730 Aug 27

[@42lookc]

Those old 730 & 830 Westerns sure have a great operator's platform and I always loved their full crown fenders. 🙂

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

I do like the blade up front and the bush hog on the back! Most likely the mower slip clutch that you notice slipping.. especially when it's still pretty warm when you parked it. Brush gard looks good!! Thank you Roosty!!

[@roosty6]

Hi Ed. The angled blade pushed rocks and dead trees to the side so the mower misses them (most of the time).

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

@@roosty6 as I said, Like it! You've gotten it on video before 👍

[@goatfarmmb]

almost like a forruner of a Front Three point hitch for that blade that Farm King mower does a nice job thank you for sharing keep em comin' no rain here yet but they are talking about it, the barn swallows are doing there last training flights with their last youngens, the other swallows they were either bank swallows or Northern Rough neck swallows (I think that is what they are called) does have left already.

[@roosty6]

Thanks for the comment Urs. That Leon blade and Farm King mower are two tough pieces of machinery that have survived years of hard use. Yes, you have rain in your forecast too.

[@MrJohndeere3720]

i need that mower :)

[@roosty6]

Definitely. Its ideal for cutting heavy growth and doesn't mind a few rocks and bigger sticks.

[@jeremycherny2041]

Looking good. How long have you had the 730?

[@roosty6]

This 730 was the big tractor on my Uncle Don's farm when he bought it in 1964 and he ran it until 2002. Then it came to work for me. It does not do a lot of work. I'd say its a strong contender for the world's heaviest steering tractor.

[@JDseller1]

Looks like you did a lot of fabricating in your younger days. Looks like it worked well over the years. A lot of our equipment has been modified over the years too. We bought our first wire welder in 1978. It has saved us a lot of money over the years. The Farm King brand made pretty simple durable equipment. It is a shame that the ownership has changed in the last several years. I have several Allied loaders that where made by Farm King/Bulher and parts are hard to come by. As the loader line appears to have been sold off and the new owner is not producing product.

[@roosty6]

Close to 50 years since I burned my first welding rod on the new Smith Roles "Comet" stick welder. In recent years I got a Lincoln wire welder and did some welding with flux core wire but I still like the old Smith Roles 180 amp stick. I've kind of lost track of what has become of Farm King lately but like so many machine companies it seems to have become part of something bigger.

[@JDseller1]

@@roosty6 My Grand Father bought a Smith AC 25-18 welder in the early 1930s. It still works. It is what I learned to weld on. Looks like R2D2. LOL Funny story. He had some friends that worked for the electric company. So they came and wired his shop for 220 volts to run the welder. They did this on a Saturday. His farm was on the edge of a very small town. When they struck the first arc with the welder it blew up the transformer. That transformer supplied all of the electric to the entire town and surrounding farms. No one had electric. This included the local general store. People came into town on Saturday night to listen to the radio and visit in the front of the store. The store's coolers quit. The owner had to give away the ice cream because that cooler was thawing out too fast. He complained about that until he died in the 1970s. LOL