[AT] Going to get them.

Thu Aug 3 19:47:13 PDT 2017

Most were built between his retirement and death in 1985, though his
first was in the 1930s, and a couple others may have been earlier as
well. I don't know if anyone knows the exact years, but mid 1970 on. 

The problem with my lights is on the truck end, it has happened before.
Google suggests that the switch fails that way sometimes in those years.
Easy fix, just throw 140 into a new one. Project for later. 

I turned a lot of heads on the way. Most memorable was a family that
passed me and then stopped at the same rest area I did a few miles
later. As I was walking in they asked if they minded them looking. I
think their boy was most interested, he looked about seven. When we
finished they were still there so I went to check the chains (good idea
anyway). My son immediately climbed onto one seat and the boy followed
him while I chatted with the parents. They boys had to sit in all three
seats. 

I left the tractors at the Marshalltown tractor show this weekend.
Saturday I will see if I can get any running. The smallest is most
likely to in my opinion, if there is spark and the varnish in the gas
tank isn't a problem anyway. The titan has a frozen water pump, so even
if it starts I won't be running it long (though that hit and miss engine
wasn't designed with a water pump or radiator so it should be okay if I
remove the belt and don't run long) the big one with the Wisconsin
engine has a dead battery so I have no idea what else it might need. 

I'm home now, need to gather tools and do something to make my wife
happy tomorrow. 

I forgot to mention that the guy I bought these from had a 4th. Somebody
from Oklahoma picked up a  crawler and his wife fell in love with it so
it went too.  This one was half done when he died. It is apparently
finished now. Some sort of railroad engine that can run either way
powers it. If anyone sees this tell the owner I want it. I can't afford
to be in a hurry, but if it goes for sale I'd like to know. 

-- 
  Henry Miller
  hank at millerfarm.com

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017, at 05:13 PM, Mattias Kessén wrote:
> Nice done. Great that your was with you, he'll remember it. When did your
> uncle build them?
> 
> Mattias
> 
> www.rodjagard.n.nu
> 
> 2017-08-03 16:41 GMT+02:00 charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:
> 
> > Henry, I suspect you are back home or close to it now but on the
> > issue with your trailer lights, if they are grounding through the
> > trailer ball or hitch you probably don't always have a good ground.
> > Try running a separate ground wire from your truck frame to the trailer
> > chassis.
> >
> > Great story and adventure for you!  Thanks for sharing.
> > I'm looking forward to more pictures.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henry Miller
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2017 9:39 PM
> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Subject: [AT] Going to get them.
> >
> >
> > I wrote a couple days ago buying some tractors my great uncle built.
> >
> > Yesterday I did a bunch of calling to arrange details. Started with my
> > parents asking if I could spend the night as they live about an hour
> > away from where they were. They said yes, and oh, yesterday our
> > preachers were over for a visit and they had just come from a visit to
> > Roger Anderson who showed them some homemade  tractors he was selling...
> > I had seen him larger church functions over the years and never talked
> > to him. Turns out we go to church with his wife's aunt back in Iowa.
> > Small world we live in.
> >
> > Today I took off work to go get them with my son. First buy an electric
> > tilt trailer (on short notice I'm limited to what is in stock at the
> > dealer it wasn't my first choice, but what I can rent isn't big enough).
> > Get to the dealer and my turn signals are dead. Not a good start, they
> > suddenly started working again as I got into Minnesota. I suspect that
> > the switch is bad, but it is hard to know when everything works in the
> > driveway.
> >
> > Next stop find tie down chains. I didn't trust what tractor supply had
> > so off to fleet farm which had something that looked good.
> >
> > Stop for 10 minutes every hour because my son is just potty trained.
> > Until we get to MN when he took a long nap, right about the time I had
> > to go of course. Stopped to pick up my dad for the last hour, and a mid
> > afternoon snack.
> >
> > Finally got to the tractors at 4:30. They used a fork lift to load them,
> > they hadn't been started in a few years though everything is free. I
> > wish I had known that, but it doesn't matter as these are of sentimental
> > value and I can fix them. Tie everything down and now at my parents
> > house for the night.
> >
> > Pictures are at. I can post to the list if that doesn't work, but that
> > is tricky.
> > https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1637816409563261&id=
> > 100000047543435
> >
> >
> > --
> >   Henry Miller
> >   hank at millerfarm.com
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