[AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes

Wed Aug 30 06:49:38 PDT 2006

I am fond of those myself although some of the welding just makes you 
splutter (pun intended).  In fact I sometimes just leave them alone as I am 
"derusting" a project.  One I left was a nail in the steering joint on a a 
Super C.  I know how it got there as a matter of fact.  I was raking hay in 
July 1973 when the roll pin failed and I found a nail in the tool box and 
put it in.  It was Dad's tractor and he owned it for a few more years and it 
then had two other owner before I tracted it down.  That nail and a braze in 
the radiator (tree branch ca 1971) allowed me to know that it was his 
tractor even though it had been paited with a mop as farmer says.  Glad 
neither him nor the two other owners had enough money (or motivation) to 
take out that nail!

Dana
SE PA

>From: Danny Tabor <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Walt
>          I think bungee cords work better than baling
>wire.
>         I was just thinking about all the on the farm
>and out in the field fixes I've seen on tractors.
>         Along the lines of tires and tubes, probably
>the most unique fixes I've seen was on an Oliver 70
>out in Farmersville Equipments salvage yard. The
>farmer, I assume couldn't afford tires on it and so he
>had bolted 6x6 blocks to the inside of the rims and
>steel angle on those for traction. It really intrigued
>me and you know if I owned that tractor I would
>preserve it just that way! Really gave the old tractor
>character and most definitely showed a story of its
>past.
>      That is what this hobby is about, not having a
>showroom of immaculate tractors but preserving the
>past.
>My thoughts anyway
>Danny Tabor
>
>
>
>
>--- DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
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> > Al,
> >   I stand by my statement.  I see all kinds of
> > people who want to  get an old
> > tractor and patch it together with glue and baling
> > wire. After a  while you
> > just get tired of it.
> > Walt
> >
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