[AT] Worn out from looking...

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: [AT] Worn out from looking...


> I have sort of become friends with the fellow that bought and hauled all
> of the scrap that I got rid of so when he got a big scrapping job he 
> called
> me to see if I wanted any of the stuff. I told him that I'm trying to cut
> down...   :-)   but today I went to look again anyway. He has sold several
> tractors including a decent looking F-20 with the engine apart and a fair
> looking Oliver (probably about a 70) on cutoff's. None of these tractors
> run and they are rusty. All probably need 4 tires... Most had been under
> roof but not in a real great environment. He still has a engineless MH
> (model unknown but about like a 30 maybe). There is also a Chicken Roost
> Case probably a DC kind of "eeehh? and a Case VAI with a mid mount sickle
> mower that looks to have possibilities. It is rusty all over except for
> some of the mower. The mower looks better than the tractor but the tractor
> doesn't look that bad. The rust is not that big hole making rust but the
> surface is pitted all over. The sheet metal is basically straight and
> repairable. I could turn the fan but could not tell about the engine. It
> did look complete and I didn't see any broken stuff or block cracks.
> There was another VA Case (tricycle)inside that looked decent but the head
> and radiator were off and the hood was sitting backward to protect the
> engine. I did not see the head but it might have been there. The radiator
> and grill were sitting on the floor behind the tractor. It also looked to
> maybe a reasonably easy restoration but may or may not need 4 tires. The
> light was not too good.
> Remember too that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what I consider
> fairly easy to restore may not look that way to some one else...   :-)   I
> had an example of that just recently. I sold a used Shopsmith jointer on
> ebay. The transaction went OK and the buyer didn't give me negative
> feedback but did complain that I had not mentioned in the description that
> the blades were nicked... I guess that I figured that when you buy a used
> jointer that you understand that the blades are also used... I had been
> using that jointer and they did look nicked a tiny bit in one spot when I
> bought it but I had touched them lightly with a diamond stone while still
> in the jointer. It had been working perfectly (at least in my eyes) and I
> never gave a second thought that some one would expect perfection of
> appearance in the blades of a used tool. I never gave it a thought at all
> when I bought it like that. What we had was "a difference of perception".
> In my mind a cutting tool that cuts properly is OK. Some woodworkers on 
> the
> other hand work endlessly trying to create the perfect cutting edge even
> though that fine fine edge is gone in about 12" of cutting. Now if I had
> said "new blades" or "sharp blades" that would be different. I just
> described the tool as "working good" and it did. I try to be very
> conservative in my descriptions.
> If anyone thinks they might be interested in any of these tractors email
> me and I will give you a phone number for the seller. I won't post it to
> the list. He probably doesn't need any more magazines...   :-)
> These tractors are in Rushville Indiana about 16 miles east of Shelbyville
> and about 30 miles south east of INDY.
> Some moron failed to toss in a camera when he left home...   :-)
> There is a whole herd of old Bolens lawn tractors and some others too.
>
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> Robinson at svs.net
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