Testing the new Bolens HT23
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- After all the work that has been completed on the Bolens HT23 it is time to take it for a test drive and to compare it to our other Bolens HT23.
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Episode 148
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Cameraman gone rogue!! Love your humor! Good looking and running tractor - Had no idea Bolens made such a tractor until I started watching your channel! 👍👍👍
Thanks 👍 Despite living the other side of the pond, we have a number of great US made garden tractors including our Bolens. The build quality is fantastic. Take care
Good day Joseph, I wish that we have your temperature here it is too warm here 🤣😉👍 Very nice field testing tractor parade 😉👍 Great camera shots of your Dad from the other tractor 👍😉🧐 That was also a great tractor tight formation 😉👍 Great video and have a great week at School 👍😉 Cheers 🍻
Thanks. It was good to be driving the tractors for a change rather than working on them. Only two weeks left at school before the summer break. Take care
@@GardenTractorBoy Keep up the great work at school Joseph, you are almost there mon ami 👍😉 Cheers 🍻
Those HT23’s are real monsters. I love the old super garden tractors! Nice looking property :)
Thanks 👍 I love the noise the HT23's make too. They are great machines to have and use around our property. It is good to still be able to use 40+ year old tractors as workhorses. Thanks for watching and commenting, take care
Great job on the HT23 Joseph. It will be a nice addition to the fleet. Have a great week.
Thanks and I hope you have a good week too. It is great to have the new HT23 running well. Take care
Nice to have the mower deck mounted to one, and nice to have the other for pulling or blading. Great to hear the steering is spot on as well ! Great work fellows !
Thanks 👍 You are spot on, that is exactly what we plan to do with these two tractors. It can be a pain to pull trailers with a tractor fitted with a deck and it is good to have a backup tractor that can be used for mowing if needed. Take care
Good day eh!!! The 2 Bolens look good out there Joseph!! It won't take long to mow the yard now, that is if you have a mower for the new HT23!!! Nice job getting this one back in working order. Lots of much needed repairs and attention to little things. It'll be a good addition to your fleet!! Take care!!
Thanks. We do have a deck for the new HT23 but it needs to be rebuilt, another project lol. We hope that by doing all the work on the tractor it will be more reliable. Take care
Great Video. Those are two Beautiful Bolens Tractor and all the Excellent Work You put into them has certainly shown through in watching how wonderful they Perform. After watching Your Videos and Your Dedication to the Great Bolens tractors, which I have enjoyed very much, I wish You lived Closer to me , so I could Gladly GIVE YOU the two old Bolens I have sitting here, fot You to Rescue. I know, one way all the other, Parted out or Completed, You would make Good use of them and Truth is I fear I simple do NOT have the time to give them the attention they need to Bring them back to life . Keep Up the Good Work Young man, I look Forward to Your Future Bolens Projects... Godspeed
Thanks for the kind words. It is interesting that you have two Bolens, what models are they? In the past we have got some very rough looking Bolens working again and I wish you were closer. We would like to do more work on these tractors but for the moment we want to use them and see how well they work. Take care
@@GardenTractorBoy I am refering to the ones You seen and Commented on in my Earlier Videos.
@@MrDanoconnor Ah yes, I remember now
Glad you could get out and ‘stretch their legs’ so to speak. We do call them grease zerks over here 😁 The engine noise sounds a bit different with the different exhaust locations 👍
It was great to be driving the tractors for a change rather than working on them and we were very pleased with the steering. We are still not sure about the exhaust on the new HT23. Take care
They look like stout lawn tractors! Nice big rear wheels! Also nice to see a grease nipple you can get straight on too!! Makes my John Deere machines look like kid’s toys. Nice video bud!!
Thanks. They are great machines and built really well. Most parts are easy to get to but you would not want to change the starter motor as the engine has to come out
Hello Joseph,
Good to see the new HT23 in action... Maybe we need to see a tractor tug of war between the new and old HT23... See you next week.
Take care.
Paul,,
Thanks. A tug of war would be interesting although I suspect the new HT23 would win due to the chevron tyres. Take care
Very enjoyable video! I was watching your hands on the steering wheel. There does not appear to be much slop, if any, in the steering. It was nice and steady. Good job! Thanks for sharing. - Rick
Thanks, we are very pleased with the steering. The steering on the other HT23 is worn but oddly it still drives well. Take care
Looks like all the hard work has paid off! The HT23 is doing great. That was funny when cameraman went for a ride as well. lol Have a good week! See ya!
Thanks 👍 It was great to drive the tractors for a change rather than working on them and the steering on the HT23 is fantastic. I hope you have a good week too, take care
Same weather here in Connecticut but we had 2 days of 100*F temps. It's been too hot or too wet to work outside this week. Nice Pair of HT23s. Now you need to get a front end loader for one of them. Happy Fourth of July. Good Luck, Rick
Thanks, it is great to have two HT23's. A FEL would be fantastic but we would have to look into importing one as they are very rare over here. I hope you had a great 4th July, take care
@@GardenTractorBoy I would bet that your Dad could build an FEL if he had the time. There used to be plans in the GTT Manuals Section. Even a simple one similar to the ones that mount like a front plow and only lift 6" would be fun. Maybe just a bottom and sides onto the plow that you just built. To load a cart with one of those, you have to build a ramp to drive up on, to dump down into the cart. That's how we loaded dump trucks with bulldozers in the Army, many years ago. Good Luck, Rick
@@richardross7219 We have thought about building a FEL and something we may do when we get a bit more time. I will check out the GTT manuals section, thanks
Both Bolens sounded great, they were just puttering 👍🏻, the first one looks a bit bigger 🤔. You also have a nice property Joseph... well I mean your parents 🙂, have a great one 🙂🙋🏼♂️👍🏻
Thanks. It is funny you should mention that as the front of the new HT23 is higher. It is the tyres that are higher even though they are the same size as the other one, very odd. Take care
Any thought of laying the new HT23 muffler horizontal like the other? Your steering on the new HT23 is likely better than most new tractors. Working on my shop today. Is 40c today so I have the water cooler on in the shop to reduce fatigue. I'd like to have a bit of your weather just for a short while. Your labor has paid off quite well. Your cameraman had done a great job keeping up with you! Have a great weekend!
We are not sure about the muffler at the moment and the nuts on the manifold are very rusty. The steering is great., thanks. Our workshop can get very hot in the summer as the roof and outside walls are all black. Take care
Love the content interesting ❤️
Thanks
It's been boiling hot here the last few weeks, but it has cooled down a bit today. In the province of British Columbia on the west coast, they broke all heat records this past week. They recorded a temp of 49c!!!!!.To hot for me Lol. I would need some Big J's prune juice to cool me off. The tractors are running great. Take care
Please John don't do it maaan 🤣 It your radioactive food it will raise the temperature here too like in BC 🤣😉👍
Thanks. We have been following the Canadian weather on the news channel. I think you can keep the Big J's prune juice to yourself no matter how hot it gets LOL. Take care
One lil trick I do when I grease my steering knuckles on my GTs ...I try to jack up the front of the tractors to take the weight off the front wheels. In my opinion it seams to help get grease into the lower thrust washers.
Or maybe it just makes me feel good, but it seams to often allow grease to come out the bottom . I take that as a good sign...
Just a thought
That is a good idea we will give it a try and see what difference it makes. Take care
I absolutely love the Bolens tractors. What are your plans for using them together? Do you have a second mower deck. It would be interesting to see how the new one does pushing snow with the Ag tires on the rear. Thanks for sharing - cheers
We have a second mower deck but it needs to be rebuilt. One will be our main grass cutting machine and the other will be used mainly for towing at the moment but also as a back up mower. Take care