[AT] Long time no see

Sun Jan 31 14:37:31 PST 2016

No doubt about that Al.  I saw a lot of it on the trucks.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 12:45 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Long time no see

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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