[AT] Selling things and hurricanes

[Grant Brians]

Cecil, if that were located here in California I would be jumping on it 
immediately. But and this is a big but, we are a continent away literally. 
The shipping would literally eat me alive on them, so I am looking more 
locally. Unless someone needs to have space occupied on their truck or 
trailer and wants to see Monterey Bay???? Right now I could not even pay the 
shipping from LA I think, sigh.
        Grant Brians
        Hollister, California

Just about busted from the $13 JD lister part! But the weather is GORGEOUS 
and we are planting the tomatoes.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: [AT] Selling things and hurricanes


> I was thinking while having my first cup of coffee this morning
> that the weather here has been unusually great for June. Absolutely
> gorgeous. I played with my tractors yesterday - did some mowing with the
> AC D-14 and sickle bar mower. Then got the D-12 out and hooked up to the
> Kubota tractor rototiller and went over the garden to keep the weeds
> down. We didn't plant anything this year because of my medical condition
> but the weeds came up just the same.
>
> Then as if to jog my memory to remind me things were not always
> so great in June, I noticed on the Weather Channel that Hurricane Agnes
> came ashore on this date in 1972. My wife and the three kids were all
> on vacation in Europe and I was home with the dog. Three days later this
> hurricane made it to New York State and flooded the whole area upstate.
> I severed a disc in my back while helping sandbag along Seneca Lake
> south of Geneva. I was standing in two feet of water when a fireman on
> a truck load of sand tossed me a bag of sand. I was forced to catch it
> as it would have splashed water on everyone around me and caught it just
> the wrong way. I made it thru the summer but in September had to have an
> operation to fix it. Luckily with the disc removed my back healed just
> fine and I have had no trouble since then.
>
> I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I had some things to sell
> before we moved to the new home site. It is hard to believe but as a
> result of my comments, all those things are gone or spoken for. That
> reminds me that I have one more thing that has to go. It is a pair of
> IHC PTO operated one row potato diggers. One of these works just fine
> and the other one is for parts. There are even more bed parts too that
> go with them. I dug my potatoes with the one for a number of years and
> it works very well. Even the little JD 40 tractor handles it with ease.
> If you are not familiar with potato diggers, they scoop up plant and all
> including the potatoes underneath, shake the dirt off as they cross
> the bed of steel rods. The dirt falls thru on to the  ground and the
> potatoes and vines are dropped off the back in a windrow on top of
> the ground. If you use a bush hog or rotary mower like the Woods I use,
> you can mow the vines off and not have to monkey with them when picking
> up the potatoes. It sure is a lot easier picking the potatoes up off
> the ground than trying to dig them by hand. At $300 for both of these
> machines plus the parts, I don't see how anyone could ever go wrong.
> Let me know if you are interested. Mountainville, New York is not
> exactly centrally located to anything but at least there are decent
> roads in the area.
>
> Cecil
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