[AT] Quiet

[T.W. Cook]

Hi Phil, good to hear from you too. It's about like that around here, the
only thing that still runs is the Super A I use for mowing and stuff. And
the hydraulics have gone flaky on it. I saw Norris at the Temple Show this
fall but otherwise haven't been in touch with anyone else.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:13 PM, <pga2 at basicisp.net> wrote:

> Hi, T.W. Glad to see that you're still around! Hard to believe that Cory
> is 29.
> Time seems to get away faster than it used to. Did you ever get that M-D
> up and running? Seems like all of my "projects"are on the back burner as
> well.
> My A-CB is locked up tighter than Dick's hatband, the A-C RC needs a water
> pump and the Farmalls (M and Cub) both need batteries and there's not any
> free money right now. :o(
>
> Phil in TX
>
> --- tw at farmall-h.com wrote:
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> From: "T.W. Cook" <tw at farmall-h.com>
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Quiet
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:10:18 -0600
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>
> Farmer, hang in there. I think if you were to soak that recliner in diesel
> for a few days it'd sort out the problems with it.
>
> Nice to hear from all of y'all - it has been a while. Trying to thin the
> herd a bit, too many projects that'll never get done. The Regular I never
> got around to dealing with found a new home last week. My son Cory, now 29,
> got his start doing mechanic work helping me restore my grandfather's
> Farmall H back when he was 8. He works for a construction materials company
> now, does mechanic work on the side. A couple of weeks ago someone brought
> an H over for him to fix up and get running. He had fun with it, got it
> running great and sent it on its way.
>
> T.W. Cook
> Georgetown TX
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> I've lost a lot of time this winter... I started feeling bad about 2 weeks
> before Thanksgiving which was annoying because I just had a physical in
> October.
> Not real specific symptoms, just "unwell". Sometimes badly short of breath
> sometimes not. Long periods of brain fog... I would feel bad for a couple
> of weeks then feel better for a few days then back to feeling bad. Gave up
> and made an appointment with our GP a few weeks ago and started feeling
> better the day before the appointment (funny how that works). After another
> physical and an office EKG, a hospital nuclear stress test and a 48 hour
> Holter EKG it appears that I may have been feeling bad...  (shrug)  I have
> an early March appointment with my cardiologist, just a general thing...
> On the upside I have felt better ever since I first made the appointment.
> :-)
> I got thinking about it and I am suspicious of a new recliner I bought
> about a week before I started feeling bad. Like two thirds of what we buy
> now it was made in China. I started looking on line and it seems that China
> is supposedly using a lot of very strange concoctions  for fumigation at
> points of export that nobody really knows for sure what is in them. I saw
> claims that they apparently are among other things inserting little packets
> of some toxic waste byproduct into some leather upholstered furniture to
> prevent mold during shipping. This chair isn't leather but a lot of folks
> are claiming that their Chinese furniture is making them ill. I also saw
> references to US customs often using methyl bromide on this end to fumigate
> containers where they find bugs. I take all of this with a grain of salt
> but I did recall this chair having a strange smell when we opened the
> plastic bags. We also had not taken the chair that was on display since it
> seemed a bit "shop-worn" so we took one still sealed in bags in the box.
> Maybe we should have opened it and hauled it around in the back of the
> truck for a few days...  :-)
>
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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