[AT] 14 questions to ask yourself before you begin a tractor restoration

David Bruce davidbruce at yadtel.net
Tue Jun 19 13:12:30 PDT 2012


Investment or labor of love.  Either works in my view assuming you have 
the $$.
Someday the D-14 will become that labor of love.

David
NW NC

On 6/19/2012 3:18 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Here's the way I look at it.  Do I have the excess cash to buy it?  Is it
> worth more parted out than I have to pay for it?
>
> If the answer to both of those questions is yes then it's an
> investment.......... right?  What I do with it after I drag it
> home is another question all together.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:55 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] 14 questions to ask yourself before you begin a tractor
> restoration
>
> Pretty darn smart to me!
>
> I have two questions I answer - do I want to tackle the job and is the
> destination worth the pain of the ride.  The rest is more or less BS to
> me.  Granted being safe is #1 but sometimes the journey is the
> compelling reason ...
>
> David
> NW NC
>
>
>
> On 6/19/2012 1:58 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> I have never been a fan of stuff like this because not being prepared, not
>> being ready, not being experienced enough is how you get prepared, ready
>> and experienced.  The article says nothing inaccurate, but has a general
>> tone of discouragement.  So  I hope some of the readers answer like this:
>>
>>    1: Heck no. That's why I am doing this
>>    2: Define worthy in a way that doesn't involve opinion or conjecture.
>>    3: No. I stuff it all in my suburban garage and then pull it out on the
>> driveway to work on it in sunny days.   I'll make do.
>>    4: Probably not.   But between work and the kids, I'll be spending slow
>> and can swing it.  See#5
>>    5: Probably not.  Little Jenny needs braces, my boss wants me to work
>> overtime and my wife says she'll ship me back to my mother if I don't
>> paint the shed.  But all these pressures is why I need desperately to work
>> on magneto at 11:30pm when everyone is asleep.
>>    6: Are you kidding?  I'll buy what is available and affordable when I
>> need the part.
>>    7: Probably.  If not, and after I learn the hard way, I'll write the
>> manual.
>>    8: No, but I can beg, borrow or fashion them as I need them.  Plus, yard
>> sale-ing on Saturday morning is marriage enrichment for me and the Mrs.
>> I'll find the tools.
>>    9: They make spray cans don't they?
>> 10: See number 9 and then really ask this question again with a straight
>> face.
>> 11: Old man Brewer  comes by, drinks my beer, laughs at my tractor and
>> then maybe shows me one little thing.  Or not.  Is that a mentor?  If so,
>> I have one.
>>
>> What burns my britches is the one and only valid question is safety.
>> "Are you ready to read labels, talk to suppliers, use googles, etc." is
>> the question I was looking for.  Not all beginners are aware of the risks
>> and this should have been stressed.
>>
>> In short, these are not questions:  they are the talking points of
>> existential angst for every hobbyist.   Approaches to resolve or reconcile
>> them would have been more helpful.  This kind of stuff is why I wrote my
>> books.   Not sure I did better but I at least recognized the problem in
>> our literature and tried to correct it.
>>
>> Just my two cents and worth less than you paid for it. (-:
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:38, Mike Sloane<mikesloane at verizon.net>   wrote:
>>
>>> I found this interesting, although I never actually asked myself these
>>> questions - I just tore into the job and hoped for the best. Some came
>>> out better than others. (I just want to forget the ones that were half
>>> done and sold for parts because I could see that no amount of time and
>>> money were ever going to result in a whole working machine.)
>>>
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