[thom]

Anybody know what the heck this is? I see, under the hood, a place for an engine and a plate of some kind on the firewall. I'm waiting for the owner to send me a pic of that plate.
The front bumper makes it look a little like some kind of amusement park ride. A bumper tractor?

 

[thom]

Turns out it is a Strunk Chipmunk.

 

[EricFromPa]

COOOOOL I want one. Imaging that thing pulling a train of carts with the kids or grand kids at the fair or in a local parade. That would be so cool.

Don't think you need the air chuck for those tires lol. I am Not a big fan of the old solid rubber tires. I had an old Craftsman mini tractor with solid rubber tires and the tires kept spinning in the rims. I drilled and put bolts through the rims and it lasted for a while but the tires ended up splitting.

My craftsman was really small. It had a simple gear box with just forward and reverse and a vertical shaft 5hp Briggs engine with a shaft and chain drive sprocket on the side. I mowed my grand mothers lawn with it a for a while when I was younger.

Sadly while I was away for work, it turned up missing out of our old horse stables along with my 3hp Rupp mini bike and my very rare Atlas Deluxe 2 speed big wheel mini bike. I really really miss the old Atlas. It was my paps and that thing still brings back alot of memories of my Pap from my childhood. It had chrome spring suspension front forks with a big chrome headlight and chrome fenders and 4 foot pegs and the longer 2 serson seat and a 5hp briggs with a stator for the headlight.

 

[David Barkey]

Turns out it is a Strunk Chipmunk. View attachment 420640
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Kool , never seen one .
What were they use for ?Kids toy? or did they have a purpose .

 

[4getgto]

Kool , never seen one .
What were they use for ?Kids toy? or did they have a purpose .

Kind of wondering that myself but assume they had a mower deck under there somewhere at one time.

 

[FrankIII]

Yes, it's a Strunk Chipmunk. I think you could get a 24" cut reel mower to pull behind it.

 

[1967Craftsman's]

I beleive you are right Frankill, they had the one in my 2nd picture in Lawn & Garden Tractor Magazine a couple years ago and I believe that's what it said.

 

[thom]

Well, I think the seller was trying to motivate me to hurry up by telling me she had another buyer. Now she says it's still available. I'm going to try to make the 4 hour (each way) drive to get it in a couple of days.

 

[thom]

Picking it up tomorrow.

 

[thom]

I'll be replacing all the wheels & tires. It appears this one was two-cycle powered because the engine mount plate is on an angle. I will reposition the plate and install a B&S.

 

[Frugal_Tinkerer]

Turns out it is a Strunk Chipmunk. View attachment 420640
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I rode something very similar if not the same at a Tractor Show once, the owner said that he would drive it up to the trailer but "I look like a monkey on a football riding that thing!" It was like riding a tricycle that had a 3hp generator engine bolted to it.

 

[thom]

Nothing complicated about this tractor. The idler on the belt tensioner is a skate wheel between 2 flat washers.
The throttle cable is actuated by the RH pedal and the cable is anchored by being routed thru a hole in the frame with a nut screwed on the cable on each side.
This tractor could be duplicated with out much trouble.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

This could be a strange and unusual riding mower thread! I wished I had these!

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[thom]

I decided the plan was to, for the time being, get it operational and take it to this year's shows and do the complete restoration a little later. I have a correct B&S engine.
I have found a pair of front wheels that will work, still trying to find rears.

 

[Frugal_Tinkerer]

I decided the plan was to, for the time being, get it operational and take it to this year's shows and do the complete restoration a little later. I have a correct B&S engine.
I have found a pair of front wheels that will work, still trying to find rears.

The rear tires look like the casters you'd find on a coffee cart, but they have tractor tread?