[AT] N-series Fords and TO-series Fergusons

[Brad Gunnells]

Dad got a TO-35 many years ago that had been sitting out along a  
fence row. Supposedly it had been rebuilt not long before?????  
Anyway, drained the water from the crankcase (after it thawed) and  
luckily didn't reach the crank. Took mouse nest out of the clutch and  
lo and behold it ran after pulling it a short distance. Thanks been  
~25 years ago.

We had the head touched up as it was low on compression on a cylinder  
and the rings were stuck. He painted it, but had a few things to  
change and decided he needed to paint it again as he wasn't happy  
with it.

This summer he finally decided to finish it. Anyway all the sheet  
metal is back on and it's a sharp little tractor. And that little  
Continental is such a smooth running motor. You can barely hear it at  
idle as you walk around it. I wish I would have taken photos to  
document it's long process to get to this point as I'm sure he would  
like to look back on it some day. It's given him new enthusiasim to  
start on the JD A he bought a couple years ago.

The problem is now he won't take the Fergy out of the shop and put it  
in the pole shed as it might get dusty. I broke an axle on my skid  
loader and could sure use the shop space to tear it down!

Brad

PS Regarding the skid loader, I forget the list member who is  
knowledgeable with Ford stuff. My skid loader is an Erickson (they  
built the Ford CL40 skid) and I'm looking for part sources.

On Nov 11, 2008, at 8:06 AM, charlie hill wrote:

> Farmer a TO 35 or 135 is about as handy and as my daddy would have  
> said,
> smart,  as any tractor I've ever driven.  You just flat can't beat  
> it for
> doing box blade work and it's hard to beat for 2 row cultivating.   
> Of course
> you already know that.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique- 
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] N-series Fords and TO-series Fergusons
>
>
>> I love the TO-35s and 135s but a decent one is more $$$ than I  
>> want to
>> spend.
>>