[AT] Still in the M business

[Dean Vinson]

I'd decided it was time to sell my 1950 Farmall M, which has few
particularly critical tasks here in the suburbs, since I've completed most
of the cleanup and minor repairs and general tinkering that I had in mind
when I bought the tractor three years ago, and because my 17-year-old son is
approaching the purchase of his first car and I could use some extra cash to
help him get something safer and more reliable than he could otherwise
afford on his own.

So yesterday I used the tractor to pull out the stump of a dead sassafras
tree in my back yard (see photo at
http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/M_pulling_stump_Jul09.jpg).  It's not often
that an actual use for the tractor comes along, and I'd been not getting
around to dealing with that dead tree for a while, so after cutting the
trunk down from about five feet up and digging up and cutting the biggest
roots, I hooked up with a chain.  In hindsight I wish I'd left a few more
roots... it would have been more fun if the M had known the stump was back
there.

With that chore done, I started drafting up the description to put on eBay,
and was going to take some more photos today to use in the ad.  Got the
tractor out this morning and went for one more drive around the neighborhood
to get it up to temperature.  Sounded good, felt good, smelled good... so I
came home, put the tractor away, put the camera away, and decided to find
some other way to help my son with a car.  Just too honorable an old machine
to sell.

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio
www.vinsonfarm.net