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<p>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. <br>
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...<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2019 9:32 AM, HERBERT METZ
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sans-serif;"> Certainly hope you can make the Portland Indiana
August Tractor Show sometime; the evening fireside chats would
be a blast. Herb(GA) <br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> On November 16, 2019 at 8:21 AM Cecil
Bearden <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net"><crbearden@copper.net></a> wrote: <br>
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<p>II can guarantee that a Bois DÁrc tree will try to get
revenge even after it is burned and buried. >snip></p>
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