[AT] The old Case comes home!

[Cecil Bearden]

I will second that old friend returning.
When I got my  old D6 running after it set for over 10 years,  I almost 
cried it sounded so good.   I really did cry when I had to fill up the tank 
on that $2.50 diesel!!!

Cecil in OKla


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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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