[AT] Knowing when to call it a day

[Cecil Bearden]

I have wanted to go to Portland from the first time I heard about it on 
ATIS.  My wife & I don't travel well.  we used to frive 16 to 17 hrs a 
day when I was on the board of the Association of State Dam Officials.  
The second longest trip was to Boston.  Took Us 3 days from Oklahoma.  
The longest was Hawaii, but I could not find a ferry to take us across 
the big pond to the west.  We flew and rented a car for awhile, but 
trying to fit flea market & swap meet buys in our luggage got to be a 
real hassle so we bought a small used Airstream and I spent 8 weeks 
rebuilding it after work and weekends and we made the quarterly meetings 
and the annual one around the US for about 4 years.  We first started 
out pulling it with a low geared 80's model Dodge 1/2 ton pickup 318 
engine auto and 4.10 rear end.  I had to change out the fan clutch in 
southern Illinois on a trip to Washington DC. We graduated to a suburban 
with a hot rod 350 and 4 spd automatic that I built myself.  I ended up 
with a Ford F350 diesel auto crew cab.  Then the Airstream got parked by 
the barn one week and the horses knocked out the power cord connection 
and the freeqer melted the fruit bars in the freezer.  The rats smelled 
the sugary liquid and ate up the carpet and floor where they had melted 
out of the fridge.  I moved it up by the house and a blackbird crawled 
in the kitchen stove vent and crapped all over the place before he 
died.   The trailer was built in the 60's.  The shell is supported by an 
aluminum angle that fastens on the floor.  The floor is 3/4 inch marine 
plywood.  Problem is the old insulation and the ridiculous window seals 
leak and the plywood rots over time.  ( nearly 60 years).  It needs to 
have the shell pulled off and a complete restoration.  I would love to 
do it, but with 60 head of cattle, 9 tractors 6 that do not run right 
now, and 300 acres of hay to cut, I really don't have time.
I had a friend who is a welder and mechanic build a bucket to replace 
the old one on my JD skid steer I got back in August.  It was at his 
place about 2 months.  I should have just bought a bucket......  I got 
the skid steer home last night.  Started to work with it some this 
morning.  30 minutes of work and blew the hydraulic hoses on the boom 
and now it looks like a 3 hour job to replace the hoses...
Cecil

On 11/16/2019 9:32 AM, HERBERT METZ wrote:
> Cecil,
> Certainly hope you can make the Portland Indiana August Tractor Show 
> sometime; the evening fireside chats would be a blast. Herb(GA)
>
>> On November 16, 2019 at 8:21 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> 
>> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> II can guarantee that a Bois DÁrc tree will try to get revenge even 
>> after it is burned and buried.  >snip>
>>
>
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