[AT] Ferguson TO-20 back home

[Stephen Offiler]

farmer -

I'd have been nervous about petty vandalism sitting there outside the
Kroger ight from the get-go.

And winds!  I'm well south of Vermont, in eastern CT on the RI line, and
boy did we get some winds Thursday night.  I heard the gusts topped 60mph
(which of course is from some media source, not necessarily in my back
yard).  We have 15 acres, mostly wooded, and I see a lot of branches down
everywhere, plus the top half of one big white pine (weakest trees known,
to me anyway) probably 30" diameter on the stump came crashing down from
about 40' up.  Missed one of our power poles by about 20 feet.

SO


On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 5:10 AM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We went over to the Super Kroger store south of Indy and picked up my
> TO-20 and our neighbor's AC WD-45 Saturday evening. You may recall that
> they were part of a large fall pumpkin display there for about a month.
> The TO-20 wouldn't fire a lick so I checked the fuel and all was well so I
> glanced at the distributor. I may not be real bright some days but when I
> saw the distributor end of the #2 spark plug wire shoved down in the center
> hole of the distributor cap I had a pretty good idea where to start...  :-)
> The distributor end of the coil wire was in a spark plug wire hole,
> presumably #2.  Swapping those made it start but it still wasn't right. Son
> Scott swapped another wire and it ran "better" but not perfect. It was too
> dang cold and windy to mess with it any more there and it ran well enough
> to drive it on the trailer.
> The WD-45 had a dead battery due it not having a removable key and the
> ignition switch being turned on a couple of times. It started with a
> battery booster pack but just barely. It was really dead and the post
> connections were pretty sad. We dropped the AC off at the neighbor's house
> then the Ferguson at my house. I didn't even look at it when we got it
> home, it was time to eat and you have to get your priorities right.  :-)
> I'll run it in the shop today after lunch and give it a quick checking
> over. I have really missed that tractor. I probably won't do that next year
> or at least not that long or over Halloween.
> .
> The wind is quiet right now (about 5 AM Sunday) but last week some days it
> was almost too windy at times to haul rocks...
> Heard from one of our daughters who lives in northern Vermont (Fairfax)
> and their house was losing some of its wood siding in screaming winds. I
> think that was about Friday.
> I think list member Allen Nadeau (sorry, I know that is likely spelled
> wrong Allen) lives in northern Vermont? I hope all is well there.
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> Central Indiana USA
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