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[Don Campbell]

Hi Paul,
Your project is awesome and inspired me to buy the jd 430 a few weeks ago to do this project. Thanks for the cooling tips , I may use it mostly to push snow with in the winter. If I showed it in parades I would just trailer two or three of my half scale future projects so the overheating would not be a problem, but thanks again. One day we could maybe display our tractors side by side.
Don

[daytime dave]

Don, your tractor looks great. You'd never know it was a 430 Garden tractor under there.

[Ron White]

Hello Paul,

Welcome to GTTalk, Nice to see you came over !!

[Don Campbell]

We just returned from D.C. to see our daughter, son in law and grandson , had a great time. Tomorrow I'll get back to working on the mini 4020 and order another set of rear lug tires from Jeds Tire Warehouse and two sets of front rib tires from Miller Tire. Then I should be done buying tires for a while. I'll post more pics this week and a video driving the 4020 out of the shop the first time.

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[olcowhand]

Your Grandson has the right color shirt & tractor, but someone put the wrong hat on the boy! Now who woulda done that Don?

[Don Campbell]

I might own a few jd's but i really do like all the colors , ha,ha. I got my jd 110 engine back today and it cost 80 bucks and it is almost like new again.

[Don Campbell]

We got a new camera and this is the first picture with it. Very Clear !! Deb is getting ready to do a video with it so it should be clear too.

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[Cvans]

Boy now that's a group photo to be proud of!
Put me in your will pleeaassee.

[Don Campbell]

One day I want to take a picture of all 7 of them lined up out back and park the two mini loaders beside them too . there like garden tractors to me too that i love to play in the snow with. Here is a picture from this afternoon after i pulled out the 4020 and pulled in the next two projects. The monkey wards will be a jd 630 narrow front and the Simplithity is going to be a little hot rodish jd looking tractor with my grandsons name on the sides for him with a cool chrome exhaust stack. You got to have a good imagination at this point. Get the video link to you soon of the 4020 first ride .

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[Don Campbell]

Deb just posted the you-tube video of me driving the half scale 4020 for the first time out of the shop. It's not the look i was hoping for with the front wheel assist look but I like it a lot and it looks a little different.

[olcowhand]

Looks & sounds awesome Don!!!!!!

[KennyP]

Great video, Don! That is a fine looking tractor!

[JDBrian]

Wow, It turned out great Don. Thanks for documenting the project for us.

[Don Campbell]

Thanks again for the kind words, I have enjoyed these garden tractor sights for many years and i can finally share a garden tractor project of my own !!!!

[Ron White]

Don,

What a great job, it looks fantastic !!

Boy would I love to have that as my plow tractor