John Deere 70 pics

Hey everyone,

I tried several times to upload a video of the John Deere to youtube without success. I'll try again sometime later. I'm sorry for the huge delay. Hope the amount of pics here will make up for it
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Thats a beautiful mower. Love it. Where did you get those tires in the last few pics. Those ATV tires.

nice looks great

I got mine from the local tire dealer here in BC, but the 2010 Motovan catalog has the tires that I have in there. They're the Duro, knobby, and work well all-around. Here's the link to the catalog. http://www.motovan.com/common/catalog/2010atv_en.html
There's a lot of other tires there too.

Looks sharp, the knobby atv tires seem right at home on it . Still keeping it a mower or mild offroader? Id see about taking that deck bracket off the front for a bit more ground clearance .

dangeroustoys56 wrote:

Looks sharp, the knobby atv tires seem right at home on it . Still keeping it a mower or mild offroader? Id see about taking that deck bracket off the front for a bit more ground clearance .

Yeah, I'm still unsure where I want to go for this. If I can secure a summer job for next year, than this will definitely see more heavy mods but if I can't secure a summer job than I might have to use it for mowing services to make some money. If I do mod it, I might make it road legal with Arild. If we could get it liscenced as a bike, it would be awesome.
If not, than I might swap the tires to the front and get some speed out of the 7hp as a less extreme mod. Although this tractor was free in the same condition as is. The guy just bought a new one and just wanted to get rid of the old one.

i think a v-twin would be cool on that mower plus you could probably get going pretty fast with a v-twin.

Wow, looks awesome, so did you restore this thing or what?
Looks mint!

Chunk wrote:

Wow, looks awesome, so did you restore this thing or what?
Looks mint!

Amazingly enough, I got this tractor in the condition it's in now for free. No restoration, no engine repair, nothing. The guy just bought a new one and didn't need this one anymore.

Dang- thatd never happen here- people want a fortune for em in any kind of shape, running or not.

Dynamarkpickup wrote:

Amazingly enough, I got this tractor in the condition it's in now for free. No restoration, no engine repair, nothing. The guy just bought a new one and didn't need this one anymore.

WOW, looks beautiful. I recently got a 70 & R72, and both need some love. The engine on the 70 ran good before I got it, but I'm not sure on the R72. Did the OM come with it?