[AT] Horsedrawn grader on eBay

[Terry Welch]

I just bought what I believe to be a Russell No2 from a fellow I know. Needs a lot of work. But have wanted one for years. We have a powered Adams grader like this on our show grounds. The former owner claims it was teh first powered Grader they built. It has serial # 1 stamped in the side plate so who knows?

charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net> wrote:  When I was a boy in the 50's the town used a similar grader on the dirt 
streets. By that time they had graduated to pulling it with a tractor. I 
don't know if it was an Adams but it looked very similar.

There are still some of those old "maintainers" scattered around here now. 
Mostly owned by farmers who have a long lane to keep up. Every few years I 
see one somewhere but I never see one that can be bought.

Back then those things were marvelous machines. Now when I look at them in 
detail I see works of mechanical art.

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" 
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Horsedrawn grader on eBay


> Dean Vinson wrote:
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330115645403
>>
>> Wish I had the slightest reason to own one of these... what a cool 
>> machine.
>
> Dean, I have good reason to own one of those but of course distance is a
> factor on this particular one. I have seen similar graders here, not
> sure if they are Adams but they sure look like this one. Farmers pulled
> them behind their tractors in the days before the municipality had a
> motor grader to maintain roads. Actually, in this part of the country
> thats what they referred to these machines as, "maintainers".
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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