Isn't a NF D17 rare though? Why are so many people turned away by NFs I wonder?

I had a guy tell me once that 2 guys could tip a NF WD over just by pulling/pushing on it. 

Sugarmaker, I was the one who posted the $1500 number. I didn't say it was worth that, I said you'd probably buy it for that. After seeing the pictures thats a nice, straight tractor. I think you may have yourself a nice piece. I sure like mine. 

I put some snow tires into storage today so I even had a few minutes with mine today. It's just begging to get out - but it's early here. 

You'll have no problem at all pulling 3 bottoms either. I pulled 4 with mine with no issues - after I added the front weights. 

Way to go on scoring that D17! 

You'll like it very well once you get used to it. 

My dad set me on one when I was 10 to bale hay while he and Grandpa and a hired hand hauled hay to the barn. 

It went from a narrow front to a wide with power steering after we had it for awhile. 

It appears that you tractor is a 58 vs. a 59 model according to the reference guide on this site with the number that you provided. 

I have 2 out here that are "58's" as they both lack the thumb guards.

Their numbers are 8948 and 15736. 

8948 has the belt arbor but no pulley and I'm looking for one. 

I believe that you'll find a spinner knob handy for one handed steering/turning when you get to really using your tractor. 

Anyway, get ready to have some fun working it once it's up to snuff!

BTW, high 2nd is faster ground speed than low 3rd. 

Side story: 

When we had ours as I was growing up, dad found out that he needed to take an extra set of spark plugs to the field with him when he went to plowing or discing. 

It seems that after light work for quite awhile on haying or planting, after a few rounds with the plow or disc(14', maybe 16'), it'd really work the engine and heat it up which would "knock the plugs out", as dad would say, as they'd go to misfiring. So, he'd stop where ever he was in the field, wait for the engine to cool down, and change the plugs in the middle of the field. He'd gap the plugs with his pocket knife many a time and I watched him do it plenty of times & it ran just fine. 

Please wear hearing protectors when plowing. 

Here's what to do for the head and chest cold:

Liquify 2-3 lemons in a blender half full of water.

Add 1 tblspn of pure maple syrup per lemon

Add 1 tblspn of cream of tartar-it's found in the spice rack at the store unless your wife has some in the cabinet.

Add 1 tsp (or more if you like spicy) of ground red pepper-which is cayenne. 

After it's mixed, fill blender full of water. Mix. 

Pour a 16oz glass and drink it while it's at room temp to assimilate in your body easier and faster. 

Put rest in the fridge and drink a glass every 2-3 hours. 

This will take care of the head cold, sinus infections, bust a fever, ear infection, probably within 2-3 hours depending upon how plugged you are.

Drink plenty of white grapefruit juice to clean the body's lymphatics out in order for the body to eliminate waste toxins from the cells. 

This does to your lymphatics what Drano does to your plugged house plumbing. Cleans it out to the walls for easier drainage. 

You'll have enough when it doesn't taste good. Wait a week and it will again. Add salt to it if it's too tart in the beginning to sweeten it up. 

The lymphatic system is the body's waste system, and if it's plugged, it creates a recycle of the internal cellular waste, thereby getting sick easier with almost everything that comes along. If this is cleaned out, it's a lot harder to catch something. 

The above is our "go to" recipe if we come down with something unexpectedly.  We haven't had the flu for years and years. Or any flu for that matter. 

For the chest cold:

In a 16oz glass, add "about" 1-2 tblspns of Bragg's apple cider vinegar and fill it up with Welch's grape juice. Drink a glass 2-4 times a day. 

Also, whole "bunch" of celery from the store. 

Separate and clean the stalks,(leaves too), and add to blender in a little water,(or can of tomato juice),  and liquify the whole thing.  This will be a home made V8 .

Add a can of tomato juice with or w/o the tomatoes.

1 onion. 

Garlic powder or a garlic section.

Tsp or more of ground red pepper.

Tblspn of Bragg's ACV.

Add in a few taps of tumeric.

Mix and drink a glass every few hours. 

Liquified beets and beet juice will also help clear out the bronchials as well as the above. 

Also, if you have someone in your area that makes Colloidal Silver, see if they can make you some. You supply the distilled(or spring)water and jar, of course. 

If not, I got my Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge and made my own. 

It takes about 3 hours. 

Steve Barwick is the owner. 

It saved my behind 2 yrs in a row when I came down with walking pneumonia. 

1st year was just here for 4 weeks and then a friend sent me some to take. 

I could tell in a day or two of feeling like I want to go do something and not be wore out just from walking in a normal day.

Had the chance to get one after I cleared up as I saw the results. 

We did as an investment to save on dr bills unless absolutely necessary.

Glad that I had it and made my own! 

I was hit unexpectedly again in 2014 and this time I was ready and had it kicked out in about 2 weeks or a little less. 

Steve loads you up on info on all of the things that colloidal silver helps bring relief from. Just get on his email list. 

So, using the above regimens as needed, and a chiropractor visit now and then as needed, (I'm flexible and real limber), we don't have any medical bills to speak of nor prescriptions of any kind. 

I think that you'll find these recipes very helpful once you get going on them. 

There is a junction point of the nerve network under each armpit about an inch or two down to about the 1st or 2nd rib.

There are nerves that go to the lungs there. 

Massage these points like you're giving yourself a good scratch for about 20-30 seconds through the day as you think of it. 

This will stimulate the lungs and loosen the phlegm for you to cough out. 

Whichever side is the most "sore", that's the the lung that's plugged the most. 

Do this until there's nothing being coughed out. 

Seeing as you'll be doing this much you might just as well keep going and do the full re-paint. 

Am I helpful? 

True story; 

My real job is on the road industrial sales. About 20 years ago I needed a new car for work so I sold my plow truck, thinking I'd find a cheap replacement. Winter was coming fast and I hadn't had any luck finding a truck. I was getting desperate and finally took the next thing I could find, a totally rusted out real piece of work '77 F150. It had a 460 literally just setting in the engine bay, the gas tank was an old beer keg setting in the bed of the truck with a rubber hose running under the cab up to the carb. It started life with power steering, there was no PS pump on the truck. 

A buddy of mine gave me a ride to pick it up. I got it home in one piece and kind of wondered what I had gotten myself into when my buddy says..."hey, I have that Kansas cab - I'd donate it if you want to fix that thing up". 

Well...that got the wheels turning and the following Spring it came into the garage and got a full frame-off show quality restoration - all because someone was "helpful". 

My point - I'm not suggesting you to do something I haven't already done myself. 

These things and a kidney stone flush & a gall stone flush is what I learned from my homeopothist chiropractor that I've been with for 28 yrs. 

You can also flush your body with a gallon of orange , cranberry, and apple juice, besides grape and grapefruit to get things moving, which is what you want. 

BTW, if one has a headache that aspirin won't touch, your can drink the white grapefruit juice to relieve it as it's a toxic headache from fumes and such. 

Also, if one has really been doing strenuous work and ends up with sore muscles and body at night, drink Bragg's ACV straight or mix it with water, apple or grape juice as it's a natural pain reliever. 

Watching you work on your D17, I'm wondering if you're moving muscles that haven't been moved for awhile which would lead to them being sore from use.