[AT] a "few" days ago

[Phil Auten]

 From the photo, it looks like y'all did a good job!

Phil in TX


On 2/19/2017 5:54 PM, John Hall wrote:
> 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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