A sickening experience

I have a friend who is kinda watching for a B, C, or a CA with a belly mower and I heard about one about an hours drive from me, and as it was 76 degrees here today, I decided to go look at a C a fellow told me about.

I went to a auction about a year ago and it was the same story with a WD45. I called before we went to make sure it was not a piece of junk. The man said it was a straight looking tractor but needed a rear rim and had been sitting in the barn for a wile and did not run. We got there and dad went to get a bid number and I went over to look at the tractor. It was the most wore out WD45 I have seen yet, the wide front end was falling off, hand clutch would move side to side about 6 inches, draw bar snapped in  half, and I don't think the tractor had ever seen a grease gun sense new. The motor oil even had water in it, I looked it over for about 5 minutes and headed for home. 

Edited by R.W - 02 Mar 2012 at 7:53am

It seems sometimes that we forget how old these tractors are and we forget that some of these were the only tractor on the farm at the time of purchase. I speak for myself here to, sometimes hoping for something that is not going to be the case. I think of my Grandfather who bought his first tractor a brand spanking new 1940 model B Allis, my Dad has told me all about this, he said that they ran the tractor 24 hrs a day farming two farms, three boys in the family taking turns 8 hr shifts. First year with lights and starter so the opportunities were endless. At harvest time the next year Grandpa bought a new model 40 AC combine and dad said that after chores at night the local farmers would come over and just beg my Grandpa to harvest their oats etc. My Dad said it didn't take that long maybe two or three years to wear it out to the point of needing a major overhaul. He said the front end was so wore out that when they went to change the bushings in the front spindles they were almost clear through the bushings. We had a Fordson major diesel on the farm when I was in high school that we bought with the farm from the old fellow that was the previous owner and it had been majored at least two times because he also would go out and do work off the farm with it. I know not all did this but there was alot of work going on with these tractors back then. I know my Grand father greased everything really well, mayb some didn't.

SHAME on you Stan.  A Father's love is worth more than that.  It's those things that we have that we WANT to pass down to son's and daughter's.  We are just keeping it for you until you can appreciate it and love it as much as we do.  In one way though, you will take better care of it having paid for it.  Different way to look at it...

Just maybe the father was telling the son not to buy in a quite way. You just never know.

I'm afraid I have to agree with Stan, this was how I felt from the time the girl told me about it, but I wanted to see how you fellas felt.