[AT] Still in the M business

[Paul Waugh]

Good looking M. It smelled good and looked good .. right on!!!!!

Paul - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
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Subject: [AT] Still in the M business


> 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
>
>
>
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