1864 # 4
 

1864 # 4 is at is resting place until I go to pick it up this weekend. A Craigslist find with good timing and a pretty good price, made it a no brainer. This will be the 4th 1864 that I have purchased, with the intent of sending it to my in-laws to replace their Deere.

It has just under 600 hours, a gt54 deck, and a 42" snow blade. The guy also gave me a hydro filter and the owners manual. Plastic is in very good shape, with only superficial imperfections on the machine as a whole. Really excited to get this thing home.

I'll post more pix this weekend.

P.s. Sorry to the guy who called the seller about this thing from IOWA.

Wow.. that looks like a sweet tractor.. an 1864 with the 54 inch deck is really hard to beat!:beerchug::beerchug: Keep us posted!!:biggrin2:

Thanks man, here are a few more pix of the machine.

That looks real nice from here! Congrats!! :beerchug:

Congrats on your 4th 1641. Looks like a good worker.

Looks good! I'm sure your in-laws will like this much more than their Deere.

Nice one eye Trent. So what kind of JD do they have currently?

Nice! :beerchug:

Rumor has it that this is your new mower.:ExtremeFunny::ROTF1::ROTF2:
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Thanks guys. They have a box store POS. I ran it once several years back and it suuuuucks. This will be such a huge improvement.

Omg, that's like a cross between something that Keith Carlin would do for the lighting and I would do for the siren

They will definitely like this more. I had two of them, I liked them at first until I got my 147. I never realized what a good tractor was like.

You did well my little hose man,:biggrin2:
I can never find any 1864's around here.

Same here Lew. Great find Trent.:beerchug:

Congrats on the one eyed mowing machine...:beerchug:

That is Hillarious!!!! In a way he did a pretty decent job of what he did there when you understand he pretty much meant the whole thing as an attention getter. Best part is the guy is huge, looks like a clown riding a tricycle!


Rescue, you are a good man to give up that machine. It looks so nice I'd be tempted to keep it for self.

Thanks guys!

The backstory to all of this in short version. My mother-in-law broke her ankle a couple years back and it's never quite healed right. Since their box store deer is foot controlled she hasn't been able to use it since. With my father-in-law working a bunch of hours at the power plant because nppd refuses to hire extra help, he doesn't have much time to mow the grass. Mowing is something my mother-in-law has always enjoyed and when she made the comment to me about wanting something to be able to control without using her ankle the 1864 was a no-brainer.

It's like it was meant to be almost, because like Lou and Todd, 1864 is really don't come for sale around here very often especially in good shape. Those two things are very very seldom ever combined with a good price. The 1864 that I purchased was listed online 4 less than a day from when she told me that she was wanting something she could mow with. So I am purchasing it with the intent to gift it to my in-laws for all the times that my mother-in-law has come down to watch my daughter while we are planting or combining.

My wife's great grandma bought a 782 brand new in Iowa many years ago. My mother-in-law has put lots of hours on that machine as well as my wife. If I could ever find that machine I would pay good money to have it just for their memory sake. But that was my reassurance that she could run this machine because it is essentially a 782.

Well I guess that wasn't a very short story, but I felt it was necessary to put the story with the machine. If they decide that they don't want it I'll probably just keep it for now but was limited shed space I'd probably end up selling it. Hopefully the next time I post on this page will be when I have this 1864 in my possession. Have a good day all!

Great find! I might be a little biased tho' having my 1864 for over 20 yrs! :)

Not too many around here either.

#5 must be right around the corner. :biggrin2:

Yea, #5... Lol nahhhh, well maybe. Came back with a bonus prize from a buddy of mine that actually picked this thing up for me.