[AT] How about Tractors. (long)

[Grant Weir]

>     Does anyone else share my feelings?????
>
>                                      Gene Dotson,  DeGraff,


I share your feelings Gene.  While I enjoy "some" O.T. subject matter, I'm 
here for the tractor talk with my tractor buddies.

I do have some tractor news to talk about, but I have to warn you - there 
are no pictures of womens boobs hanging out to stimulate conversation (or 
whatever else...) so you'll just have to fill in those blanks yourselves.  
Ha ha!

I must admit though that she did look pretty good for being over 100 years 
old!  :-)   All kidding aside, I give a big thanks to Guy for sharing so 
many super cool pictures with us.   Good stuff!

Anyway...

I put my John Deere D on hold for this winter while I work on building my 
Wallis "Rat" tractor.   In the fall of last year I bought a pile of scrap 
metal that the seller called "Three Wallis tractors" and have been busy 
trying to put just one together from the whole lot ever since.  What a 
puzzle!  I'm using the engine block from one, the crankshaft from another 
and pistons & cylinders from all three.   One tractor had a mostly complete 
U-frame chassis with all four wheels so it will be the one that gets the 
rebuilt engine and tranny - when the ground thaws enough to get my trailer 
out.  :-)

I made a decision early on in the project that I would not be painting this 
tractor, but instead will try to put it all together into a nice running 
tractor that still looks old and rusty.  It has been quite a challenge!  
When I take something right apart it is very hard for me to NOT clean and 
paint it before puting it back on.  :-)  Also, it is quite difficult to 
assemble an old machine without using shiny new nuts & bolts - lots of extra 
work!  I don't know if I'm doing the right thing with this machine but my 
heart says "yes" so I guess that's good enough.  I keep seeing a picture in 
my head of me and my rusty/trusty Wallis running wide open at the business 
end of the sled at one of our local pulls.  Yeah!


Here are a few pictures to give you an idea of what I'm up to.  I took these 
the day after I stripped the tractors down into parts so there's not too 
much to see but it should give you an idea of the "challenge factor" that 
I'm up against:
http://groups.msn.com/MyWallis/newarrivals.msnw?albumlist=2

I have lots and lots of Wallis parts around now, so if anyone needs anything 
just drop me a line and we'll work something out.  I'm pretty easy to deal 
with.  Heck, I'll probably just give the stuff to you!


My D is still in my garage and still in pieces waiting for a cylinder sleeve 
job.  I've got the sleeves and rings too (thanks Joe!) but am waiting for 
just the right time to do it - like maybe tomorrow or the next day.  heh 
heh!  See the link below for some shots of the old D:

http://groups.msn.com/GrantsOldTractorGoodies/somejohndeerepictures.msnw?albumlist=2



Spring is coming fella's - let's go tractoring!


Grant Weir
Saskatoon, SK.
Canada

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