Does anyone know if Karl is still around ? Jantz Eng in some-fucking-place Seattle-ish area ? Kind of an odd duck, but he does some pretty amazing stuff machine shop wise. Was a machinist at Boeing for a long time after he left here. Wheeled with him for years when he was on this side of the hill.
I had a PTO Braden on my EB about 10,000 years ago. I managed to run a 1/4-20 nut through the gears, it too was bronze. He was tooled to hobb gears.
A thought, he "could" make you a new one out of steel ?
Having said that.......and doing a shit ton of mobile service on stuff from the stone age. Old is cool, if you want cool. If ALL you want is cool. I have seen a coot, but it was in a field by the gorge and I was not going to go trolling for rattle snakes to look at it. I have also actually had limited experience with an Argo. Again, in that case, older is NOT better. The plow is win or a detriment. They float, they have tiny engines and they use brake steering. At least the old ass stuff I have seen does. Lighter is not better for moving snow.
Don't jump out of the pan into the fire like I always seem to do. Stand back, I'm a professional at dragging crap home that should of just gone to the scrap yard.
If your just going for the "cool" factor, maybe do an upgrade to the coot ?
If you want function, look elsewhere. Not sure if any of that made sense. I seem to always get myself into never ending projects that I always intended to just bring home and use.
Either way, I'm in, it is a good thread.