More of Dove's Antique Machines

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September/October 1997
Hoy D. Dove, jr., and Andrew H. Dove 
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The sickle-bar Yazoo is a nice type bar mower tractor. Not many of them in this area, and in many respects not real well known. I have the King & Baas books and I don't believe either of them mention the Yazoo. I was heartbroken when I didn't get to buy this mower from the antique jobber-peddler one season, but entirely pleased to get it next season at a reduced price. He didn't remember his having it at Berryville the previous season, but I did.

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The J. C. Penney reel mower is a nice little thing to play with. It runs extremely well and does a good enough job cutting grass. Like a number of our restorations, Andy had to do little other than the usual gas, oil, electrical, to get it running. It simply got a little touchup paint around the mower housing.

The small crawler is one that I admired so much as a high school student. It was advertised in Popular Mechanics magazine as an assemble-it-yourself kit or complete unit.

It was produced by the Struck Corporation located in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. They still produce a crawler model which is larger and called Magnatrac. As I recall, the model pictured was called 'Mitie Mite' and was labeled in an oval decal above the leg-foot rests on each front side. I was not successful in corresponding with the Struck Corporation relative to any information on this model. I did, however, receive lots of material on their present one. Often we take pictures before securing decals or doing a completely finished job, as the extras can be added later and- we are eager to free up our shop for needed farm repairs.

You don't see a lot of tractors like the last one the Gibson with the steering wheel a previous owner's added extra which worked so well we didn't have the heart to change it. We even came up with our own extras a nice, neat little dash which is barely visible, and more visible, our silo guard motor/grill guard which swings to the side for easy rope crank starting.

We like pictures because, like all tractor collectors, they don't lie too much, and pictures tell the story so much easier. We have lots of others to share with you. Bless you, till we meet!

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