[AT] Knowing when to call it a day

[Stephen Offiler]

I hear those Airstreams are in demand by collectors.  Even when in need of
a frame-up restoration.  Might be a good time to part with it, Cecil.

SO

On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 8:30 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> 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>
> <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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