[AT] Old JD

[Dave Ernst]

2 Cylinder magazine had an indebth article about how JD Industrial tractors 
came about a couple of months ago. They are beginning to become around in 
the collectors world just as there is a certain segment of JD nuts that are 
infatuated in finding tractors that were exported and returning them here...
Tell your friend to repaint it the original yellow/orange.
Documentation as to manfacture and delivery is readily available via serial 
number and $12 bucks.
Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Merchant" <nesys_com at ameritech.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:43 AM
Subject: [AT] Old JD


> I'm not on the JD forum, posting this for a friend.
>
> A friend of said friend recently pulled an unstyled JD B out of the woods,
> just before the farmer took a torch to it. Farmer had already cut off + 
> scrapped
> an unspecified implement off the back end. Had a tree thru the back wheel,
> enough that it had raised the tractor off the ground. Fortunately he cut 
> the
> tree above + below, left the part thru the wheel.
>
> Flat spoke cutoffs.
> S/N B384xx
> Kerosene, has remains of the shutters.
>
> It was stuck, but he got the block off it and has it unstuck, expect he'll 
> get it running.
>
> The interesting part is it's orange from the factory, orange under the 
> brass tag.
> I assume it was a highway dept machine, the implement was probably a 
> sickle bar.
> The only green is the cylinder block, painted orange over green, all the 
> rest
> is factory orange to the metal.
>
> He wanted to repaint it green, we're working on talking him out of it.
>
> Question - what is approx value unrestored + restored, left orange or 
> repainted green?
>
> I've already told him to leave the tree trunk, restore it orange, and 
> don't paint under the brass tag.
>
> Any more thoughts?
>
> Dave
>
> Dave Merchant
> kosh at nesys.com
> nesys_com at ameritech.net
>
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