Great videos and narrative Gator..glad to see it coming back together for you..didnt know about the JIS adapters..valuable information..get some oil in 'er and get it outside and run it around those clutches might just break free!! best of luck

Heres the 420 back in the shop last winter I had replaced the clutches and replaced all bearings and seals. Took it out pushed back the snow in the ditch then in spring I moved a pile off dirt to a low spot then sat rest of the summer and run as I needed. Went put it up for the winter; and grabbed the left clutch and no one was home...pressed plate had collapsed because of rust jacking.

I have a heavy-duty hand truck with a 3/4"axle on it, it gets used to move transformers,motors,safes,refrigerators,etc..for the longest time it has had side play on the axle shaft where the wheels ride,the wheels moving in and out on the shaft,the play was taken up by washers..but not enough,still had some side play enough to drive you crazy while using it-wheels moving side to side,"dunk-dunk-dunk-dunk" while you moved it around..what it needed was a thin shim washer to take up the play,a normal washer was too thick..well it took me about 30minutes of digging crap out of the way today but I used the Gallmeyer surface grinder to grind down a 3/4" flat washer to the proper shim thickness to stop the dunk-dunk noise on the cart..gawd its been years that this has been a when-I-get-to-it fix..
today was the day I had had enough of that!!..check that one off the list

Sunstar gearbox bearing went out and vibration broke the plate is sits in so I had to weld the plate back together and put another gearbox on it til I can get this one fixed----also have another box with the front seal out. need to get another seal and slap in that one then I would have a 48" deck as well as the 60" thats on it now.
cleaned up most of the tree branches in the front yard, still have the orchard to clean up!

I watched a you tube video of a guy up in Canada looks like a fair yield at harvest....

You GOT to be kiddin!!!! WOW!!! ---- LOVE IT!

Pix of the adapter. top link bracket is now a part of the tractor but the bottom arms come out.
short spacer bar welded to the arms to make up the total 1" thickness needed . They work easy and should work for the tiller. I dont plan on using the tractor for anything else for a while.

finished just in time for spring power outages! lol! glad it works good!

made this 3-pt. hitch many years ago for my cub tractor but had to re-adjust it a bit to use my 5' landscape rake on it.
works like a charm .

Ya!, need basket for sure! Gonna suggest that to him! sure worked good setting up the flagpole at our cemetery with the forks. ---tied the top of the pole to forks and held it straight so we could screw the big pipe into the coupling! No other way to hold it very good, a loader wouldnt have worked very good.