Info on garden tractor

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I need any information on a leader garden tractor.Thanks in advance.

-- David R . In Tn. (srimmer@earthlink.net), December 11, 2001

Answers

Is "leader" a brand name? Are you asking for brand preferance? Type, style, size, attachments??

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), December 11, 2001.

Mitch, leader is the name brand.I found this old tractor sitting in the weeds by an old shed.Just any information pretaining to it .

-- David R . In Tn. (srimmer@earthlink.net), December 11, 2001.

There is a "Lawn and Garden Tractor Forum" you proabily find through google, I have never heard of that brand. There is a lot of old hands there and they might be familuer with it.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), December 11, 2001.

This post is from a google newsgroup search on leader tractors:

Here is a response to a similar request for information on another newsgroup (Sam writes about old tractors for newspapers and magazines). I understand parts and expertise still exist for the Ohio-built Leader tractors in the Cleveland/Chagrin Falls area. You can see some pictures here: ftp://acrux.astro.indiana.edu/pub/images/tractors/by-make/leader/. Spencer Yost (yostsw@newidea.atis.net), author and owner of the popular Antique Tractor Internet Service, mentioned that someone in his part of the country specializes in restoring Leader tractors. If you email him, I'm sure he'd be glad to help you contact the guy.

-Ken

"The Leader was built in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, from 1948 to about 1952. Jensales has a 20-page operator's manual available for $19.95. You can call them at (800) 443-0625. Alan King also advertises a 12-page operator's manual that includes a fold-out lube & maintenance chart for $2.95. The catalog # is LE-1 and can be ordered from King's Books, P.O. Box 86, Radnor, OH 43066-0086. Include $1.50 for shipping. There was a Leader tractor built at Grand Rapids, MI from 1912 to 1914, while the Leader Tractor Mfg. Co. built the "Rex" tractor in Des Moines from 1918 to about 1921. If you have one of these there's bad news and good news. The bad is that there's no source for manuals and the good is that you've got a rare machine." -Sam Moore

-- David (CNY) (sundance@midtel.net), December 11, 2001.


Thanks for the Info. . I have all I need. I wonder what is in the next patch of weeds!!!!

-- David R . In Tn. (srimmer@earthlink.net), December 11, 2001.


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