[AT] The old Case comes home!

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Congratulations, Dean! There's nothing like the return of an old friend. :o)

Phil

> This past weekend my son and I visited my folks on the farm, and had a
> great time.  Jordan has always loved helping his granddad with the chores
> and such, and this year he turned 14 so is pretty well able to do some
> real work.  After we'd finished hauling some firewood into storage I gave
> him a short lesson on operating Dad's Allis D-19, which was a lot of fun.
> I'm glad these things are important to him.
>
> And in one of those nice alignments of the planets, my brother happened to
> call with the news that a family friend had decided to sell the 1948 Case
> VAH which my dad had sold him about 20 years ago, and he wanted to see if
> I still wanted it.
>
> Dad originally bought the Case in the late sixties, when I was about 8,
> and for the next ten or fifteen years it was simply "the tractor."  Dad
> eventually moved up to newer and bigger tractors, but the Case was a
> constant and reliable friend.  My brothers and I had learned to drive on
> it, spent countless hours working with it, or loading pumpkins or corn or
> hay or firewood or manure into the wagon behind it, or being pulled by it
> on our sleds at the start of each winter, the frozen gravel driveway doing
> a great job of cleaning rust off the bottom of the runners.  We didn't
> know the tractor was a high-crop; it was just the tractor.
>
> Dad sold it to one of my brother's pals maybe 20 years ago, and he's used
> it on his little place all this time, kept it inside, taken good care of
> it.  But he now has a "new" tractor (Massey TO-30, I think) and needs the
> space.  Maybe 8 or 10 years ago I'd told him to let me know if he ever
> decided to sell it.  Saturday was the day.
>
> So Dad and I drove over to look at it, and it looks pretty good, started
> up easy and sounded good.  I asked for a few days to think about it, since
> all the practical and financial reasons make it clear that I have no
> business buying a tractor right now.  But this is too good an opportunity
> to pass up, so this morning I closed the deal and the VAH is back in the
> family.  Life is good.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
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