[AT] Best of ATIS? ---The D8 story

[charlie hill]

I think you are typical of most of us Cecil.  Age, time, money, health 
problems, etc.  Also, I must confess, with the hard financial times we are 
in and the threat that
things could get worse, I'm spending a lot of my free time re-learning other 
skills, like gardening and canning and my spare money, when there is some, 
goes to
keeping my supply of food and the things we all use everyday stocked up a 
bit because of inflation and the fact that stores now days only have about a 
3 day supply of
anything.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 7:27 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Best of ATIS? ---The D8 story

Charlie:
  Another little factor was WALT !  He got the whole list stirred up
with his cantankerous rantings and then insulted nearly everyone on the
list.  Especially Farmer.  I remember one of his assaults that created a
storm of subject lines with Unsuscribe.   I also think that the economy
has had a lot to do with it.  A lot of folks have had to move into areas
that do not have enough room for a tractor.   With the price of new
automobiles, can you justify to your better half that her car has to sit
outside and your restored tractor sits in the garage????

I am lucky.  I bought a small Morgan shed a couple of years ago and
moved it to my place in Feb.  My wife helped me get it leveled and
anchored, and then I said that we could park her car in one of the
stalls, and since it was a ways from the house, she cold use the 4
wheeler to travel to it, and then not have to scrape ice etc.   She just
told me that we had $40K in one tractor alone, and her car was  $3K, so
put the tractor in the barn.    Now, the Baler is in the shed with the
tractor half way out of the shed.  A crankshaft grinder is still on the
trailer sitting in the middle bay, and a 1 ton with a complete steelcase
office setup loaded on it.  So much for keeping the tractors in the
shed..   I still have to move another building in, just cannot get help
and weather to cooperate..

Personally, I slowed down a bunch due to health issues.  After 18 months
of taking care of my Dad 24/7 prior to his death, I started having all
kinds of health problems.   Then I took on a construction project that
cost about $15K above what the customer paid for the job.  I tore the
miniscus in my left knee, recovered without surgery,  and then tore the
ligaments in my left ankle, recovered again, but the ligaments in my
right ankle have been permanently destroyed.  It has taken 2 years to
get back on my feet ! Literally!  Since I can't afford to hire some
help, I just keep trying to get something done with the help from my
wife and some volunteer neighbors.

Here in Oklahoma, that 115 degree summer last year made working on
anything outside difficult if not impossible.  There just aren't enough
shade trees!!  I need to get my shade tree area cleaned out now, it
already has been over 90 deg here.  With the drought here in OK last
summer, the bagworms were terrible.  They cut the leaves nearly in half
on all the shade trees.  I try to spray them with BT in order to protect
my barn cats.  However the drought last year caused the coyotes to come
closer to the house and my 3 cats that had been here over 7 years
disappeared.  I usually shut them in the barn at night, but with the
heat, it was too hot in the barn/shop, so I left a door up for them to
come and go.  A family of   coons and a family of skunks moved in!!  I
had a coon kit for  a long time.   I think that he is still in there4
eating cat food and hiding.  Too many things are torn up that are bigger
than a cat!!!

Any how, that is my excuse for not having a lot of tractor stories.   I
hauled the 4010, a neighbor's Deutz, a truckster, a small and a large
scraper to an auction that is this morning about 20 miles away.  It took
2 hours and 3 broken cables to winch the bed up on to the semi, then
another 2 hours to hook it back up after unloading...  My folding
gooseneck semi is going to be sold or converted to hydraulic...........

Well gotta get ready for the sale, hope I don't have to bring anything
back that I took....

Cecil in OKla




On 5/4/2012 5:55 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Steve there was one other factor too.  At some point it seemed like we had
> answered all the tractor  questions.  Folks stopped writing to find out
> something they couldn't
> learn elsewhere.  Also, and I might get some flack for this,  I think when
> the list got split up into Farmall and Cub and whatever it hurt the 
> overall
> list.  I guess it was
> necessary but I was sorry to see it.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve W.
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 6:16 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Best of ATIS? ---The D8 story
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> This is a particularly good story but I have to say that in the old days
>> this list was filled with similar stories on a regular basis.  I'm sure
>> others here remember well when we used to get 100 or more messages a day
>> and
>> you felt the need to read every one.  I'd go out of town for a weekend 
>> and
>> come back to 400 or more messages to sort through.  Sometimes it would
>> take
>> half the night to accomplish accomplish the task.  Ah the good old days.
>>
>> Charlie
> Yep I remember those times. Miss many of the folks who told the stories
> as well. Some simply moved on to other things when the tractor hobby
> started going the same way as classic cars with people suddenly thinking
> they had solid gold. Others left when the Lord called them to his side.
> Learned many things from those days, some of which you can even talk
> about in mixed company !!!!
>
>

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