Vitamin C therapy

Been out in the shop at my Mom's working on the C for the first time since I lost my Dad last August and looking over some of the projects we were working on was a little hard at first but I seem to be finding my groove again. I dug his old cultivator out of the weeds and mounted it on the new C, we havent used it since 82 when the old C died( both C's 1942's old one we got around 1976 new one around 1996) I moved the gangs in a bit and went out and cultivated the pumpkin patch just running down the rows between the hills killing thistle and milkweed. I was bawling like a baby and could barely see where I was going through the tears runnin down my cheek, I guess I have been holding it in for a long time and the memories all came back at once. I finished up the field and backed the tractor in the shed, and started looking over the B gotta get the engine back together because my youngest daughter wants to learn how to drive her uncles tractor, and I better get it back to gether before I forget how I took it apart. I felt a lot better in the truck on the way home I hope Dr. Allis doesn't send me a bill. Thanks for listening T.J.

tj - good to hear from you.  coming next week-end??   alan

Hey Alan, I am planning on going, are you pulling anything? Its good to be back I spent all day today freeing up rusted bolts on the front gangs, we never had all the pieces for them but I picked up a parts tractor and it had what was missing, my dad had a friend make an adaptor for the rear furrowing bar to ad an extra spring tooth to, but it was to much for the brackets to hold 3 springs and one of them snapped. It was a lot the work setting them up but it sure looks evil veth all those teeth hanging off of it looks like a weed shark! Did you know Howard Barnes from Bloomsbury he ran Barnes Farm Repair on Rt.173 He was in a bad motorcycle accident last week and passed away his funeral was yesterday he was such a nice guy and a fantastic wrench its a shame he was 56.T.J.

Charlie and Glenn thanks for your thoughts, The last thing we worked on together was an old #9 disc that we were narrowing down from WD size to B size and I just about have the gangs finished now. I am doing it right no torch work when its done it will look factory except for a few welds. When my dad got sick they gave him 2 months and he fought it like a Marine for 9 months then the Chemo stopped working so they started the radiation and that wiped him out in about 2 weeks but it was all they had left to try. I am the only one of the kids that likes farming and tractors we were partners on everything, but it is hard to decide what I am going to sell and what I am going to keep because I am eventually going to have to move it all to my place, Dad's Morton building would just about cover my whole property house and everything I have attachments to all of it but I am going to have some tough decisions to make soon,I just want to get it done now at my leisure because if my Mom decides to sell it will have to happen a lot quicker, but she seems to enjoy watching me work the fields too . T.J.