[AT] Oliver Tractor for sale in MA

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Thu Nov 26 06:43:38 PST 2015


Dean I hope you find your wife much improved and the two of you
are warm in the AZ sun real soon.

Charlie
-----Original Message----- 
From: Dean VP
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:07 PM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver Tractor for sale in MA

Farmer,

I know all too well worrying about the wife's health.  Mine had Spine 
Surgery October 29th which
seemed to go quite well, then about three weeks later all of a sudden a 
whole new health issue popped
up.  Dr's are a bit baffled as to what is going on and have run all sorts of 
tests. Nothing found of
significance so far which is good but on the other hand frustrating due to 
not understanding of what
the @#$%^ is going on.  She was staying at a daughters recovering from her 
spine surgery and then this
has popped up. I'll be seeing her tomorrow for Thanksgiving Dinner.  The 
last few text messages from
her today she is starting to sound like she is getting better.  She is one 
tough cookie but she has
been the one helping out the daughters with their health problems all 
summer.  I guess now is her turn
in the barrel.   We were supposed to be in AZ by now as we usually leave 
around the first week of
November.  Now that schedule is totally up in the air.  And to make things 
worse it is 32 degrees here
and dropping fast. Clear skies and a full moon. But no snow. Do have snow in 
the mountains just East
of us a few miles and the Ski Resorts are open. That means it is really 
going to get cold tonight.
That may not sound cold to you folks but that is cold for us NW WA folks, 
especially those who are
normally in AZ already.  Talked to an old High School Buddy in Southern 
California a few days ago.  He
just had to tell me it was 87 degrees there. That was right after we had 
been without power and heat
for 4 days and was as cold as it is tonight.  Generator did the job but the 
Pellet stove pellet feed
motor went belly up, probably due to lack of use the last 9 years. So was a 
little cold here in 28
degree weather.  I fought it until the 4th day and then gave up and went and 
purchased a bigger
electric space heater. Came home with the new heater to find out the power 
was back on. AHA, next time
I'll go purchase a bigger space heater the first day that power goes out. 
I'm a little slow I guess!

I hope and pray you, your wife and family have a Healthy and Happy 
Thanksgiving. The same to all ATIS
members.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERONE!


Dean VP
Snohomish, WA

If we can employ guards with guns to protect money, we can and should employ 
guards with guns to
protect people. Bernard Goldberg.

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com 
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Gayle Chew
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 5:30 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver Tractor for sale in MA

Very thankful to hear that Diana's test on Monday resulted in good news.
Happy Thanksgiving every one.
Blessings,
Ron & Gayle
On the CASE

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:21 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There's three ways to price old iron.
> >
> > What is it worth to part out or resell?
> >
> > What is it worth to me to do some job I need done?
> >
> > What is it worth to a collector who has been looking for that
> > particular tractor for a while and this is the first one he's found?
> >
> > All three result in different values.
> >
> > At a minimum, assuming it will run and perform reasonably well,
> > consider what you'd have to pay to buy something new that will do the
> > same job and it will probably look like a bargain.
> > I suspect Grant can address this as he runs a large farming operation
> with
> > just such tractors.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
>
> There is another whole tier of old tractor pricing...
> I have a few I would probably sell pretty cheap (Incomplete hulks). A WD
> Allis I have sort of falls there. I'm just holding on to it hoping to find
> a cheap complete one with the the tranny or rear end that was destroyed or
> maybe a bad final drive.
>
> Some I just don't especially care for the way they operate or are 
> difficult
> to climb on and off or something else I don't care for. Those I could be
> arm-twisted into selling for the "right" price (don't read that as cheap).
> My Massey Harris Pony kind of falls in that class. I almost need to be
> hoisted up and lowered into the seat like some of the knights of old... It
> was not designed around an overweight old man.
>
> Some like my Farmall Super-MTA would take some pretty serious arm
> twisting... I'm very fond of that tractor even though it is generally
> bigger than I need these days. For the kind of stuff I do now (when I can)
> for the horses or trying to keep buildings from falling apart I'm
> especially fond of the little TO-20 Ferguson. I have two 8N Fords, one 
> just
> apart and needing to go together and the other a not-stuck non-runner with
> a good Sherman and a roughly "welded" block that may have to wait another
> year. I would be pretty hard to talk out of any of those. The same with my
> 1947 Farmall Cub, its part of the family.
>
> Then I have a Minneapolis Moline R that I restored several years ago that
> belonged to an uncle. That makes it worth more to me even if not to anyone
> else... I need to change a rear tire on it and clean it up some.
> I have a restored Allis C that was bought new in 1946 by a very good older
> family friend who I greatly respected. It has been on this farm since the
> early 1960's. Two of his grandsons have tried several times to buy it from
> me but I will not even listen to offers... It just isn't for sale at any
> price.
>
> What I need the most right now (besides both of us staying away from all 
> of
> the doctors and the hospital) is a building  next to my shop that will 
> hold
> all of the excess crap out of the shop so I can work in it. I'm making 
> slow
> progress on both fronts but I keep running out of places to sit the stuff 
> I
> pick up...
> BTW, Diana had a brain MRI Monday which had me kind of worried but it came
> out as good news. So many tests...
>
> --
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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