[AT] a "few" days ago

[charlie hill]

First one of those I ever saw was in Maine, sitting in a vacant lot looking 
sad.
It was diagonally across the road from .... what's the name of that place...
the outlet store for the people that make those Maine hunting boots with the
rubber bottom and leather uppers.  Is it LL Bean?  I think so.  That was 
probably
25 years ago.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Hall
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 6:54 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] a "few" days ago

I was digging around in some photos I haven't looked at for possibly
decades. Here is one from 1989 you guys might like. I managed to
"restore" this tractor for less than $650--I bought it when I was 18 for
the sum of $25. It spent close to 30 years under a tree, abandoned
during the Korean war. We cut some corners by today's standards, but
didn't do anything that can't be fixed/corrected. Somehow we did this in
less than a year with no internet, phone calls you had to pay for, Gas
Engine Magazine and Wendells Encylopedia of American Farm Tractors as
our only resource and no other tractor to go look at. I wish it still
looked this nice, but as I titled this thread, it was a "few"days ago.
Somewhere dad has a journal he kept of us working on this one, I think
the recorded hours were 475---lots of wire brushing, no sandblasting.

John Hall






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