[AT] New Lawn Tractor

[charlie hill]

Greg a few years back a friend of mine took a chain saw to the home of 
another friend and
asked him to help him get it sawing better.  My other friend told him his 
chain was worn out
to get a new one.  He did and installed the chain himself.  A few days later 
he went back to
my friend and said "I can't get this saw to cut a thing.  Do you want it?" 
My friend says "yeah
I'll take it"  The guys says it's yours and leaves.  My friend took the 
chain off and turned it
around and has been using it ever since.

Another friend, wife of a lawyer, came home one day to find her husband in 
the yard with
the JD dealer with a new lawn tractor on the ground and the guy getting 
ready to load up
the rear engine, pull start Snapper they owned.  She asked what was going 
on.  He said he
couldn't start it and was tired of fooling with it.  The JD dealers driver 
chimed in that he
couldn't get it started either.  She reached down at the front near the 
pedals
and turned the key, pulled the cord once and it purred like a kitten.
She had the driver take the JD back and told her husband to take
care of the lawyering and let her take care of the mowing.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Greg Hass
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:43 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] New Lawn Tractor

A few years ago a local independent hardware owner took in a trade on a
new mower (he sold Simplicity mowers). The trade in was only one year
old (don't know the make) and did not run. He traded it because he was
farming and in a hurry and got mad that a one season old mower won't
run. Obviously, he got very little on the trade as the hardware owner
had no idea what it would cost to repair it. After a month or so the
hardware owner told his sons, who worked with him , that they should
look at the mower and either get it running or scrape it and get it out
of the way. The long and short of it was that being almost out of gas
the farmers wife drove it over to the fuel barrels and filled the mower
with diesel fuel. After draining and flushing the fuel system the
hardware owner made a good profit on the trade-in.
           Greg Hass
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