Put a #17 loader on my WD45

Did this just to recreate a 30 year old picture. The first photo is me, 30 years ago, grandma standing on the drawbar, grandpa loading the trailer and I can just make out the polebarn being built. So the first photo would have been 1995 about.

Grandpa is long gone but Grandma is still alive and well, so this weekend I'm hoping to get her over here.

You all know grandpa's old WD45 by now, but I was going through some photos last year and found one I hadn't seen in years.

We had an old #17 loader on it back then, by the time I was 10 it was long scrapped. This past new years day I bought a WD that happened to have a #17 loader haphazardly slapped on, so I figured what the hey, I could use a little loader tractor around and I really want to recreate that picture, so I painted it up, cut the bulky ugly bull bar off the front just like we had done, (wouldn't fit right anyway with the draw plate I have on thenfront end and the hand crank shaft I refuse to remove) . and after half a dozen trips to TSC for hardware and hoses I had it on and working flawlessly. Just like I remember.

Probably won't use it often but it'll beat a wheel barrel of chicken crap any day lol

Now for pics

AllisFreak MN wrote: You gotta love the old pictures.  There were a lot fewer pics taken back in the old days before cell phones so that makes them even more precious. Good piece of history there and you are honoring your past.  Your Grandpa would be proud.

Cant wait to get the WD tore down and repaired so I can get them both out side by side. This WD45 has always been very sentimental too me. I was on the fence about putting a loader back on it but once I found this photo my mind was made up. Sure will be hand and gives me an excuse to get grandpas tractor out a little more often.

Good memories!