[AT] : Re: Good tractor day

[Indiana Robinson]

>
> When an emergency comes up, regardless of it being your car breaking down or
> a country having to go to war, if there wasn't a budget already established
> for the funding it has to come out of emergency funds by definition.  It's
> only when you decide that it's going to be a continuing operation that you
> put in as a regular budget item.

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I owned that car back in the 1960's...
:-)
A 1961 Ford Falcon I bought in 1963 that showed about 30,000 miles but
must have had about 230,000 miles on it. The high miles didn't show
until you tore something down and looked at wear. The dealer didn't
need any trees for the place to be "shady".
I sort of got my money back in a way when some years later he had a
nice looking full sized 1966 Ford station wagon sitting on the back of
his lot. When I inquired about it he said that they were going to dump
it cheap because his mechanic said that its rough running problem was
just going to be too costly for them to fix. I bought it for a song
and I can't sing. I guess nobody ever told his so-called-mechanic to
"begin at the beginning". It cost me the price of a distributor cap...
Probably under $3 back then. It was great wagon and trouble free while
I owned it. If you listened carefully you could hear the arcing snap
in the old cap as it idled and if you turned on the radio you could
really hear it there.
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I lucked into another deal like that years later when I bought a not
so old 1972 Olds 98 at a yard sale for $200. The owner said that the
whole front end had to be rebuilt and the quote scared him off. He
said that you couldn't hold it on the road over 30 MPH. Then he said
the magic words "it started doing that kind of suddenly"... I bought
it and drove it home and he was right, it jumped all over the place
above 30. The complete cure for that one was to replace the left front
tire that had a broken belt... We drove it for years and then our
oldest daughter drove it a year or so. We changed a few tires but
never did have to put any parts in the front end. Nice car, very
comfortable. Barely fit the garage though.   :-)
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The weather is finally breaking here and I'm kind of chomping at the
bit to get some things done. For all of the global warming it seems to
these old bones that this winter has been really bitter. Lots and lots
of wind. I was moving the last of the round bales last week to sell
them to a regular hay customer and a couple for our horses and I got a
few moved and the cold wind just got to be too much. I stopped and
waited a day for less wind. It "might" hit 50 today and possibly mid
60's in a few days. That sure beats that 10 with high winds a few
nights ago.



-- 
"farmer"

"Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
Morris Moulterd


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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
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