[AT] Long time no see

Sun Jan 31 11:21:44 PST 2016

Amen to that!
The high scrap prices for copper here were feeding the meth addicts.   
Now that they are starving again, they have taken to armed robbery.

Cecil in OKla

On 1/31/2016 11:45 AM, Al Jones wrote:
> I'm afraid we lost a lot of good stuff when scrap was so high.....
>
> Al
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>> Welcome back Al and good luck on the shop..  I was talking to an old
>> contractor friend here in OK yesterday.   He traded me a bull calf for
>> one of my heifers.  He was telling me that we might as well hold on to
>> our scrap machinery.  The scrap yards were only paying $3.00 / ton for
>> good cast iron scrap.    That won't pay for the fuel to haul it....
>>
>> Cecil inOKla
>>
>>
>> On 1/30/2016 8:19 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
>>> When you disappear, you disappear! I tried a couple different folks trying
>>> to find you with no luck. Problem is, that was last fall and I have NO idea
>>> what I wanted to tell you. Anyway, welcome back and no more Houdini acts!
>>>
>>> John Hall
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ATIS
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 8:19 PM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Long time no see
>>>
>>> Congrats from me as well.  Everyone understands on intellectual level that
>>> it must be a lot of work, but until you do it or have a family member that
>>> does it (my daughter in my case) you don't really appreciate how much work
>>> goes into it.
>>>
>>> Way to go.   By the way, we missed you.
>>>
>>> Spencer Yost
>>>
>>>> On Jan 30, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Dave Rotigel <rotigel at me.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> CONGRATS, Dr. Jones!
>>>>      Dave
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 30, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Al Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Lessee, finished my doctorate in fall of '13, moved into our new house
>>>>> that spring. When we moved in  it took me a while to get the new ISP
>>>>> online and one thing just sort of led to another and it's taken me a
>>>>> while to get back.  Now live one county over (Onslow) so I'm closer to
>>>>> school, we really enjoy it, might finish unpacking boxes one
>>>>> day......still into the Farmalls. I took a night auto body repair
>>>>> course last summer/fall at the local community college and repainted
>>>>> my working tractor.  Finished the course at Christmas, am slowly
>>>>> getting it back together.  Need to replace the flywheel ring gear and
>>>>> right brake before I am done.  The course was fun, I learned a lot and
>>>>> am now "dangerous" with a paint gun!  I'm almost finished with my
>>>>> 18x20 "shop," for the first time ever I will soon have my very own
>>>>> concrete slab to work on!  Still want a bigger, taller shop eventually
>>>>> but this is better than what I had.
>>>>>
>>>>> My latest mania is an IH two row corn picker.  I really want to add
>>>>> one to the collection, preferably a 2MH picker with a M or Super M
>>>>> underneath it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Charlie Hill I didn't go to the Trenton sale this year, but I went out
>>>>> there to look around on Friday.  I think high scrap prices have taken
>>>>> their toll!!  There was a nice D-12 Allis there that sold for some
>>>>> over $3000 I heard!  One of my students wanted it, he is in to AC
>>>>> garden tractors.
>>>>>
>>>>> later
>>>>>
>>>>> Al
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Al Jones,
>>>>>> Welcome back; unfortunately we have lost some special
>>>>>> members/participants,
>>>>>> but a lot of them are still here every day or every week or so.  Bring
>>>>>> us up
>>>>>> to date when time permits.
>>>>>> You haven't been gone that long;  I had you in my contacts list which I
>>>>>> lost
>>>>>> approx eight years ago when puter crashed.
>>>>>> Mobile phone   onlsow- 1; duplin- several  ??
>>>>>> Still a farmall Super A enthusiast?  Central KS had more Farmalls than
>>>>>> JDs;
>>>>>> I spent many days on neighbors H's and M's, Dad bought a WFE Super M
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> the time I left home, that was wonderful series tractor.
>>>>>> Herb(GA)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Al Jones
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 2:22 PM
>>>>>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>>>> Subject: [AT] Long time no see
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm back.....anyone still here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Al
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