Another tractor in the stable a Honda HT3810 mower

[tommartyn]

Hey man, Nice Honda. I really want to get one of these things some day. Its cool how they built a riding mower, the way that companies used to build the serious garden tractors. Because any company can bolt a cheap vertical shaft engine, on a bunch of thin shitty bent up steel with a belt going back to an extremely cheap transaxle, and call it a mower. But honda actually went about it the honorable and right way... Pretty frealking cool :)

[origionaldz]

@tommartyn Yea, and the expensive way too lol. Surprisingly this has a flat head, not the typical honda OHV. Automotive style dry clutch, clutch PTO (not belt slip PTO), shaft drive with a real rear end, an electric fuel pump. I heard these and the twin cylinder models went for some serious dough back in the day, upwards of $3000 to $4000. I got this one running and it threw a rod LOL. I will rebuild it after I get my surgery. Everything works on it.

[tommartyn]

@origionaldz

hahah, expensive, just like bolens used to be. in 1968, my grandfather and grandmother took out a mortgage on the house to get Bolens Husky 850 with a mower deck. it was right at about 900 bucks i think, which was a crazy amount of money back then. But people will pay alot of heavy duty cast iron wisconsin engines, Automotive style clutches, and a differential you can tighten posi. Plus all shaft drive pto accessories.

Keep me updated on that beast!