[Farmall] The 22-36 Saga continues

[Bob Currie]

>Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:53:17 -0700
>To: Farmall/IHC mailing list <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>From: Bob Currie <tractors at foothill.net>
>Subject: Re: [Farmall] The 22-36 Saga continues
>
>Lane,
>Excellent account. I felt like I was right there with you during the 
>entire drill. It is one that I have gladly done many times with some of 
>the old stuff that has arrived in my shop. Not always with the same 
>results, but great fun never the less. I'm especially proud of you for 
>using the word "cranked" in your story, and the not the words "towed 
>around the yard".. cause as most of us know, real tractors are painted 
>gray, and don't have a battery :) The dyno stuff was very interesting. I 
>don't have any of that kind of equipment, but I would have liked to looked 
>over your shoulder during the tests..Our good friend Karl Olmstead has a 
>great, early 1929 McDeering 22-36, and I'm sure your story will excite him 
>to the point that he'll drop his home remodeling tools, climb down off the 
>ladder, and run out to the back forty to get "Ol Neihart", drag it into 
>his shop area, and start the process..And it also goes without saying, 
>(although I willI), that any good resurrection story isn't complete 
>without some pix. So, thank you for those too.
>
>bobcurrie
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>  Seemed like all should be in order for a test run and believe
>>it or not it started on the first crank.***********