[AT] Question: IHC UD-4 PU Value?

[Colin M Rush]

Well, from this and other lists I posed this question on, it looks like I
will be going back to get it in the next month or two and bringing this
home.  I would go next weekend, but I do not have the scratch to pay for
it, yet.  If the fellow that had it would have known what the owner
wanted for it at the time, I would have found a way to take it home when
I was there in June.  This will probably get prettied up a bit, get a
generator and a power invertor to fix the power modulation at 60 hertz
and become a variable-speed gen set.  I could put it on a used Ski-Doo
trailer and set it next to my friends' trailers for power at the Binder
Bee and the Steam-Up in Brooks.  

Thank you all for your input.
-Colin Rush

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:00:34 -0400
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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I'm with you Grant,  If I EVER find an AC power unit like that it will
come 
home with me one way or another.  Think back to when you were a kid and
went 
to the county fair.  Most of those rides were run by AC and IH power
units.
 
Charlie
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> Why are you sitting at the computer when you should be on the road
going 
> after this?????????
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <chesnimnus at juno.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:25 PM
> Subject: [AT] Question: IHC UD-4 PU Value?
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>
>>I found a nice International UD-4 power unit a few months ago in
eastern 
>>Oregon, and the owner has finally come up with a price for it.  For
those 
>>that are not sure what this is, it looks like a Farmall but without the

>>tractor attached.  It is complete, with the lettering still pretty 
>>visible, with just thin surface rust from sitting in the sun in the 
>>desert.  The fellow who has it says the owner kept it in a barn for
most 
>>of its life until the last couple years.  It is supposed to run, and
has 
>>no visible damage (cracked block, bullet holes, large dents, missing 
>>parts).  Comes with a support frame, and the side curtains, and
straight 
>>sheet metal, and magneto, and carb and manifold.  I would really like
to 
>>get this.  The owner wants $600 for it.  I will have to spend another
$100 
>>in fuel to go get it.  Is this a good deal, fair deal, or just too much
to 
>>spend for something like this?  The only other one I have seen is in 
>>another state, and will require several hundreds more d!
>> ollars just to get, and I would have no idea what they would even want

>> for that one.  If anyone knows anything, please let me know.
>> -Colin Rush