[AT] Visiting ATIS members during 9/18 trip

[charlie hill]

Herb it sounds like you had a great trip.  How do you like your D14 so far?

Charlie
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From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: <AT at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:05 AM
Subject: [AT] Visiting ATIS members during 9/18 trip


Barbara and I certainly enjoyed the hospitality of the Willers and the 
Dotsons during our 9/27-28 trip to Ohio to pick up a D14 bought from an AC 
enthusiast in New York.  He delivered it to the Willers the previous week 
when he attended an AC sale in Indiana.  George had rearranged his shed 
(Allis, Case, Ford, IHC H and M, plus many Cubs) to make room for one more.
Yes, George, our loading was well done.   I never made any adjustments; that 
is saying quite a bit when one travels 690 miles and includes Kentucky 
interstates (they are rough).
After enjoying Marilyns good cooking and a nice overnight stay, we hit the 
road for the Dotsons.  We had toured Georges shops (full line for wookwork 
and full line for metal work and his shed full of tractors) last year when 
we stopped in for Sunday brunch on our return from Canandaigua, NY show. 
Our visit at Gene Dotsons included visiting with Gene, brother Gary and his 
wife Regina and a tour of Genes farm, shed full of Case tractors plus good 
looking Maule airplane, airstrip, White combine and many implements.  Then 
on to brother Larry and wife Barbara Dotsons where we toured their  shed 
full of IHC Cubs, his exceptional restored Cockshut, and several other 
tractors and implements.   Larry has several projects in process including 
an Allis G restoration for some guy way down in GA, and he still works full 
time.
Thank You Barbara for the good written directions for getting back to I-65 
while also avoiding Dayton.  Those directions also took us through West 
Liberty where we noticed a couple sitting out front of a store eating 
icecream cones.  Wooohh!   $1.00 for a huge scoop of delicious icecream. 
(Note to Larry Goss, store was on southwest corner of intersection).
We had gone about five miles when Gene phoned and said Barbara had noticed 
the trailer brake lights were not working when we left their place.  Sure 
enough; I wiggled the plug and they worked ok the rest of the trip.   Thank 
You again Barbara.
The rest of the trip home went well.   However, I did drive on the left side 
of the road through much of KY, because of the right side being so rough. 
I do not like doing that but this was middle of the night and our trailer 
has five lights across the rear.
Time did not permit a visit to Gary and Regina's to tour their collection of 
Leaders and an exceptional restored Cockshut; maybe next year.
Herb
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