[AT] a "few" days ago

[tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net]

Only slightly better than a Horse. 

Maybe that is why so many are abandoned under a tree. 

They are kind of cool but look like a tractor manufactured by a steam engine manufacturer. Which they were. :-}


      From: Vaughn Miller <vemiller at gmail.com>
 To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
 Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 12:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [AT] a "few" days ago
   
I always thought those cross motor Cases looked neat, but I don't think I
would want to spend a hot day behind that exhaust manifold.

Vaughn

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:58 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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