Austin, as in Steve Austin, the 6 million dollar man. “We can rebuild him. Stronger, better, faster”

I'm Pablo, I really admire your work facilities. And above all the tools you use in your work. Good luck.

Day 11 days are my favorite days. Looking forward to the paint scheme reveal. 💪

Great video Neil ! All the best to you and your family in 2023. Keep 'em coming.

What great documentation of an amazing project. I admire you're abilities and creativity to take on and complete such an endeavour. Dave

Never thought I'd be watching tractor vids...or towing and fabrication for that matter! I think it has a lot to do with the personalities of the content creators. Just good people to watch and learn from. Sure wish I'd had teachers like you when I was in school...I might have liked school and been a better student. Anyway, I think you should name the tractor "Brubil".

Loving this series of videos. Im pretty far along myself in the restoration of a 1967 Wheel Horse with a 10 horse Kohler. Started it in 2010 by taking it all apart and then started painting piece parts. Them “life” got in the way and it sat for over 10 years in boxes of parts. Like you, I became determined last winter to get back to it a little at a time. She’s now almost done but for refinishing the hood and seat pan. She even started right up once the engine was back in place. Unfortunately, I decided I should adjust the vales and ended up messing up the timing, so just need ti fix that also. Your videos have me more determined to see it through. Thanks.

Every Garden Tractor should be decked out like a small farm tractor

Enjoyed watching this. I buy and part out numerous 300 and 400 series tractors each year. I have alot of parts so if you need anything please don’t hesitate to reach out. Would enjoy being able to contribute in some way.

Great job- it's exciting to get a swap like that done (or mostly done!) Now for a foot pedal hydro conversion!

My suggestion is Bull. Brings forth the strength of Brutus and keeps most of the name of Bill. Love the series and your channel. Happy new year.

Happy New Year Neil! Love your channel! I hope 2023 brings you and your family health, happiness, and prosperity!

Fun project!

Looks good n why R u there cuz ur a good dad to hang out with ur family keep warm n will watch ur next video

Great video Neil. Who cares about the audio issues, adds more of a human element to the whole production. My vote for his name is Cassius.- Cassius asks Brutus if Brutus can see his own face; Brutus replies that he cannot. Cassius then declares that Brutus is unable to see what everyone else does, namely, that Brutus is widely respected. Noting that no mirror could reveal Brutus’s worthiness to himself, Cassius offers to serve as a human mirror so that Brutus may discover himself and conceive of himself in new ways.

Now I know why I can't find any of these tractors, you have all of them.

Going to a movie to get some sleep - hilarious. Hope it was Avatar so you could sleep for 3 hours! Good progress on the tractor. Keep it up!

This is a fantastic video series your doing 👍 Thank you so much for taking the time to shoot, edit, and share your experiences. Can't wait to see what "Bill" turns out like!

Great video and the little bit each day is clearly working! I see another fan already suggested Steve Austin! That’s my suggestion too for the new tractor too. I run a shopping mall here in Bristol in the UK, so your dad-trip to your local mall made me smile ! 🇬🇧👋🇺🇸

Willie 2.0 is my suggestion, it going to be an awesome build when it's done 👍 as always God bless y'all from Gaffney South Carolina viewer 🙏❤️💯

Never a dull moment with tractors around.

I think Bob Watson’s name idea is pretty darn good, “Steve” or “Austin” , then get a vinyl car wrap mural of the bionic man for the hood

Make it yellow like an industrial tractor!

Cool Honda ATC in the background. I have an 85 250ES Big Red.

Love it.! Maybe one day I can create a Frankenstein of a mower.!

Neil, your channel is awesome! Thanks for investing time and effort to deliver the content. Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2023!

Great work on the project so far. A great armchair watch here in UK. I'll suggest Bucephalus, the name of Alexander the Great's horse for your new hybrid tractor. Bob in UK

BRUT.....the son of Brutus.. great mower.

Great Video 👍. BUT DO NOT EVER RUN HOT WATER THREW YOUR PRESURE WASHER IT BURNS THE PUMP OUT IN THEM VERY QUICKLY !!!!

You should swap the wheels around too. Put Brutus tires on bill

John Deere construction yellow would be a good choice

The "Mike Rowe" of garden tractors. (and many other things) And that is a compliment. Very similar in many ways.

Just a small suggestion, you can get an 1100lb overhead electric hoist from HarborFreight for $145. There is a lot of ways to mount it in the shop. You could have installed the engine by yourself with ease. Great video though

Great project. FYI on the front rims. You can use whatever rims you want just swap out the bearings for the id that matches your tractor. The od on the bearings is the same. I ran into the same problem when I put 420 front rims on my 314. Also for a name Bill Burr or Bill 2.0

"Brill" is coming along nicely. My best friend from high school is into those JD tractors. He's got about 15 or so of them. I do like the bigger ones with the rear lift and all the hydraulics on them. I could see where they would be very handy. Happy New Year my friend.

Very cool build, Neil. My first JD was a 318. I bought a loader for it and loved every minute on it. Now I have a GX335 and 2305, but that 318 was very special to me. What about Buster Boy for a name in the line of naming them starting with B?

318s will always hold a special spot in my heart me and dad worked on a lot of them over the years. I’ve moved to a x720 and a 1025r but would love to have another nice 318 for the daughter to learn on!

If you are down here in the comments please like and subscribe. This so helps Neil and this national treasure of a channel.

I would vote for a blacked out paint scheme. Also, enjoying following this project.

Name him Frank, short for Frankenstein. Great work keeping on it every day! It has motivated me to do the same.

very good job on getting it close getting done

I've never been good with names but as for color I think JD construction yellow like a your backhoe would look cool and different.

Bruno, construction yellow. As always great video. Happy New Year.

This is great to see the process of this project. I myself have a collection of Ford LGT 165s and I have my own "Brutus" someday I'd like to just take the best parts off all the tractors and make one main workhorse tractor with all the best parts

Congratulations on progressing toward your goal. 'Bruno' comes to my mind in names.

hello from the Netherlands Koch Family . thanks for the video Neil . Sincerely Hollandduck

Happy New Year Neil ,Looking forward to your 2023 projects !!

I'm actually going to try your approach, trying working everyday on my backyard brush project. I took a little break from posting on Instagram last few months but now with your last two videos trying to do something each day has got me motivated. Keep up the great work!

Nice job👍

Bill Jr. When I did my 430 I found a gal that did powder coating very reasonable. I never regretted it. I sprayed the hood since it was fiberglass. I like your front tires. When I did mine, I wanted the R ??? that is a combination industrial/AG tire. They didn't make that size. I even thought seriously about some aggressive ATV tires. That I would do for sure if I did it again. When you were taking thoze wheel weights off it looked like a clown car! I would never have guessed all that was in a wheel! You're in the home stretch now!

Nice video, I had a 318 also, bought it cheap and cost me a good chunk of change to keep it running every year. I should have put a new engine in it right away, I think it would have been way reliable. For a gas Onan engine it sounded like an old two stroke Detroit diesel. Best thing was when I upgraded to JD x728. I think you should name your tractor B.O.B. (Is it Bill Or Brutus).

Good morning , God bless you & Happy New Year Neil

Great video, one I was looking forward too! Can’t wait to see the next step

Awesome build! You have almost as many John Deere 318 317 and 316 is my dad.

Great video. Suggestion. Get your red shop rag wet before you use the plasma torch.

I bought one of the HF moving dollies for < $10.00 - I needed the casters for a toolbox that I received missing a few wheels. For less than the price of a single caster, I got 4 new ones, just had to drill out the rivets. Still working to this day, about 5 years later. I might not go crazy and use them as pallet casters for firewood, but they have high weight ratings.

Coming along nicely!! Great job, and Happy New Year🎆👍🇺🇸

It's going to be really slick when your finished. Call it "Slick".

Happy New Year to you and your family,enjoy all the videos, how about Billyus as a new name. 👍🐝🤣

Beatrice comes to mind! I know it's slightly more feminine. I had a truck that I did a motor swap on and that's what I named it. She always gave me small troubles, but it always did what I wanted it to do. Great video I enjoy seeing how far your project has come. Keep up the great work Neil! Happy New Year

I’d second Brill! Very suitable!

You got it one piece at a time. And it took a little time. And now you got a john deere tractor with some neat style.. A new Versje to that old johnny cash song

Happy New Year Neil.nice neat job.i like the color of your truck so i think your tractor would look good painted that way.

Looking good!!!

Bluto for the name. Another fantastic vid. Happy New Year and all the very best to you and the family for 2023.

Wish I could do what you’re doing, Neil! For a name I suggest either Frankendeere or Transplant.

You need to a canopy on the tractor so you got sun shade I have done that to my jd420 and love it

Paint it Blue and Gold in the Subaru WRC racing colors. An homage to Subaru 555 rally car. Besides it would drive Tim (TTWT) nuts seeing a Deere in Subaru blue.

Happy New Year Neil and Family!

Hello Neil, happy new year! Can't wait to see the final result! And about name, maybe Bill it's the perfect name for this tractor! Good luck with the project! P.S. waiting some videos from snow removing after this storm. Here in Romania we have 15° C...no snow yet...

Buster, kind of a mix of Bill and Brutus.

This will be a fantastic machine...I am partial to the 200 series JDs myself, but always nice to see the other GTs getting some love

Neil, do you live in New Jersey? I live in Pa and I got the impression that you were here in PA but looking at the terrain and how the sun falls ....I could be totally wrong. I am working on a Bobcat walk behind that I just found for a great price. The Kawasaki 14 horsepower engine blew up and the former owner bought a Briggs replacement and bolted it to the mower but never put the manifolds on so water got in everything and rusted the cylinder. Its is going to turn out fantastic . I started a small engine repair biz after becoming disillusioned with big Pharma . I got fed up with being a chemical engineer...lol That is one heck of a tractor my friend.

Go for an Eastonmade Tractor...Orange & Blue!

Love it man good work!!!!

This is inspiring me to fix up my 216

Better you than me! I could do half of that job, tear it all apart. I don't think I could ever get it put back together though! Happy New Year to you and your family. 😁👨‍🚒

Been waiting for this series! Even if I’m not a Deere guy. I built my dream GT in 2020 as a covid project starting with a Case 446 and a 2 cylinder Perkins diesel and finished it off with a demonstrator paint job complete with gold decals. Wife thought I was nuts but it turned out awesome. It’s already got some bumps and scrapes but that’s ok as I told myself it wasn’t going to be a garage princess. It plows,tills , mowes, power brushes, and grinds grain as an acreage tractor should. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Love your videos You seem to have the life we should all strive for every time I watch one of you videos I find myself outside taking somthing apart fixing somthing or starting a new project let us know how you get your family outside to help

Happy New year to you and your entire family. 2.51 I hope you slept well LOL.

Not my type of DIY video (I like the no talking ones) but this was fun to watch

Hi Neil! Oddly enough that once you started this series, I also just started marrying two tractors to become one in my garage. It has definitely proved to take more time than expected because of the engines being different brands. As far as a name for the new Bill and staying with the "B" theme, I think Butch sounds fitting. Like another commenter mentioned, a friend of mine in Garrett Indiana is selling an inflatable spray booth that would work perfect for your project. Happy New year!

I believe that this is one of your best if not the best videos you've done I've watched it several times. My family has 3 318's, 2 repowered one vanguard 23hp,one 20hp honda, grandson is original p218 onan. Can't wait to see the next video. Thank you.

That was an excellent video

Happy new year to you and your family I’m really enjoying this rework on your tractors. I’m voting to go with Wild Bill for the tractor as the bones are bill but it’s got a wild heart transplant

You sound like me... "I've got an unfinished project and very little time, so I'll make a video of it too!" :) FYI: if you double up gloves, the outside slides on the inside and they don't tear as easily. Very cool project and nice video 👍

Great video & Happy New Year! Keep up the daily progress. I think it looks good in it’s working clothes. Save the time & $ for another project

Love the video Neil .Like this series keep it up man .

at 26 I love having those harbor freight dollies

Happy New Year from 'Down Under'.

John Deere YELLOW with black and silver decals like the old forklift tractors

Neil there is a inflatable paint booth on market place in Garrett

I have never seen a gravel driveway as nice as yours! How do you keep it that way?

I'd recommend making a set of wheel hubs that allows you to bolt trailer wheels on... that way you can change tires for different conditions or if you get a flat it's easier to repair/replace a tire. Another option is fully converting the front axle spindles to trailer spindles the tapered roller bearings in trailer spindles make a huge difference between the reduced friction and less wear... The easier the front wheels rotate the less likely you'll get stuck and you can use bolt/lug nut on rims. Even if you have ball bearing wheels on the front the trailer hubs and spindles conversion adds more reliability (ball bearings can't handle the side loading) I completely moved away from ball or bushing bearings in any floating hub wheel locations on both tractor steer tires and trailer attachments I use for my garden tractors as the reduced rolling resistance has allowed me to be able to pull heavier weights on rougher terrain while generating the same or less wear on driveline and I go through more mud and snow with only converting the steer spindles and hubs towing a trailer than just the garden tractor with bushed wheels could do by itself. I run a set of loaded rear ag tires year round (80lbs of ballast per tire) and rarely get stuck(if I do get stuck it's usually because I got high centered on a rut or rock.

Nice, I have had tow 318s

Happy New Year Neil to you and your family. Good progress and Bill reborn gonna be nice. Look8mg forward to another year of videos . 👍✊

Super Bill! Happy New Year, hope it is happy, healthy and prosperous

I’m 28 and I agree on the shop dolly being the greatest tool ever! They are awesome for tractor attachments, race at motors, and I even made a set of race car stands out of them

Name it Billiam!

Great video Neil, I really need to do your everyday thing with my 140 project and get it done. I thought the whole video came out fine, but it seem to be cutting out at the end right around when it sounded like you weren't going to paint it green, that must have been a video/sound glitch😯😯😂😂 I think before a name could be had, we may have to see the final project. Looking forward to the rest of this project.