Hobert62 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 My dad brought a neat toy home Saturday night. My kids still have a week of school yet (due to teacher strike) which is prob a good thing. They are both very eager to go try it. A 6&8 yr. old my be a little dangerous on this thing. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 neat little toy. i heard of them, but never saw a picture of one. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alex g Posted June 27, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2016 That's where the phrase Keep Hands and Feet inside at all times came from. Sent from my SM-G386W using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 That........is an accident waiting to happen. For your wife's sake, I hope you have a generous amount of life insurance. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 When you sit in it it's kinda like a cockpit. If it rolls your stuck. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
68-f-model Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 You would seriously have to work to roll something that low and on tracks over. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Based on the pedals I'd say a "You have to be this tall to ride this ride" is probably in order. Or if it were me and my buds at that age one of us would do the pedals while the other steered. At least that way we wouldn't run over each other. Probably less dangerous than the mower parked in front of it. 1 Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 What is the lawn tractor in front? Simplicity or Gravely ? 40-50 year old lawn tractors are still running, while today's bargain (Lowes/Home Depot) MTD-produced Deere and Cub Cadets are throwaways. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted June 29, 2016 Author Share Posted June 29, 2016 I don't know the model but its a hydraulic drive case from the mid 60's. He brought that home at the same time. The motor runs a hydraulic pump the is connected with 2 hoses to the rear which has high and low. It's been repainted at some time but seems to be in really good shape. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted June 29, 2016 Author Share Posted June 29, 2016 3 hours ago, fxfymn said: Based on the pedals I'd say a "You have to be this tall to ride this ride" is probably in order. Or if it were me and my buds at that age one of us would do the pedals while the other steered. At least that way we wouldn't run over each other. Probably less dangerous than the mower parked in front of it. Only pedal is the clutch. It's not to far of a reach. I'm not giving my kids any teamwork ideas they come up with enough on there own. Some of the interior doors in our house have the locks that you push the wire key in the center to unlock. One day we found they both made there own keys out of paper clips because they couldn't reach the keys we kept above the doors. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Nice tractor...........Case 130. It's an earlier version, before they squared off the rear fenders and integrated the seat. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-337820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m16ty Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Be careful with the kids. I saw the aftermath of what happened to a guy operating a old Bobcat without a cab. His head somehow got caught in the lift arms while he was lowering it and it decapitated him. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-340795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Zenon Hansen injured by riding mower The Daily Mail (Hagerstown newspaper) / May 31, 1975 Zenon C. R. Hansen, retired board chairman and chief executive of Mack Tracks Inc. was listed in guarded condition at the Sacred Heart Hospital Center in Allentown. Pennsylvania, after being thrown from a riding mower at his home on May 28. Hansen, 65, of Macungie, Pennsylvania, sustained a fractured left wrist and right elbow, and first and second degree burns to both ankles when the steering mechanism on his mowing tractor broke and the machine overturned and caught on fire. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-340796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 I agree with you both. The boys won't get any running seat time on either of these for a long time. I don't like the case at all. It dosent have any type of break just a neutral spot in the hydraulic throttle. If trying to stop and you move the handle just a little to far its going the other way. Then when you correct that its going the other way at the snap of a finger again. Unsafe design in my mind. I don't think my dads going to keep that one around very long. As for the loader it's designed that getting pinched would be difficult but its definay not a toy that's for sure. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-340810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 2 hours ago, Hobert62 said: I agree with you both. The boys won't get any running seat time on either of these for a long time. I don't like the case at all. It dosent have any type of break just a neutral spot in the hydraulic throttle. If trying to stop and you move the handle just a little to far its going the other way. Then when you correct that its going the other way at the snap of a finger again. Unsafe design in my mind. I don't think my dads going to keep that one around very long. As for the loader it's designed that getting pinched would be difficult but its definay not a toy that's for sure. It's not a KIDS TOY but most defiantly a Big Boy Toy. Paul 1 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-340817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason O Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Here's a tractor similar to that Case, with the same "hydriv" pump system and hand valve control. This one has a foot petal that applies a brake, and springs the hydro valve back to center. Case sold off their garden tractor business to Ingersoll in the 80's. Thats my (almost) 4yr old girl driving. It took her a few tries to learn to operate the valve smoothly, but she's got the hang of it now. I let her drive it around on the flat part of our property (closely supervised), but it will be a few years before I let her mow. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-341486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobert62 Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 Someone told my dad they on his model for 2 years Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-341508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Cool mini dozer, struck kit used to sell a kit to build something similar,are they still in business? I have a p.o.s. made by MSD,riding mower that's 15 yrs old refuses to quit! I removed the mower deck and use it to pull my hand fabricated tandem lawn trailer! The big box lawn trailers are such crap,I built my own! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/45796-mead-speedcat/#findComment-345678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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