My night mare is finnally over
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Topic: My night mare is finnally over
Posted By: gary ny
Subject: My night mare is finnally over
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 8:56am
A friend of mine was doing over an oldJohn deere H and was trying to find some new grills for it along with a hood.Well he found some that were pretty beat .He could not afford to buy new so I stuck my foot in my mouth and said drop off the ones you got and I will see if I can fix them for you.Thats the last time I ever do that without looking first.Liking a good challenge I decided to do them for him .WHAT A PAIN IN THE BUTT they were.The hood was filled with holes ,dents and missing metal.The grills were beat and missing many parts of them.the rightside one was missing 8 inches of the lower portion of it.At first I thought it was joke but no he was serious .He is in his late 70s and has given me many parts for my allises and sold me some tractors a a very good price so I took on the task.I finally got paint on them thursday and he is coming for them today,But wow I can t wait to get those things out of here and I say never again .  
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Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:07am
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Gary, I have a pickup load of hoods and grills, could I drop them off next time I am out your way? please. lol, you sure do good work!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:17am
| well just remember you reap what you sow..........it will all come back to you buddy.........and you did a wonderful job |
Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:17am
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Restoring that grill had to be a ton of work! Nice job. ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:36am
| Good job on that JD grill. I know how you feel as I get projects like that through my shop on a regular basis. If it's for an old friend it's hard to charge him for even a fraction of the hours involved. |
Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:49am
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Wow, nice job! ------------- Charlie '48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 10:15am
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Real nice work>
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 10:25am
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Wonderful workmanship! Even if it is the "wrong color", it's great to see old farm machinery of any brand brought back to like new condition.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: gary ny
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 10:39am
John yes it is the wrong color and I got some green paint on me when I was cleaning my gun out and IT BURNED lol. I hate to see things scraped no matter what color they are .I have an old jd w116 baler that scrapers have been bugging me for for yrs but I can t scrape it .I finally put it on craigs list and a guy from Texas saw it and is coming up for it over the 4th of july.I was hoping that somebody would get it that would restore and enjoy it  
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Posted By: Allen Dilg
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 10:58pm
| Gary We have my son's father-in-law's JD A on stands waiting on paint, blasted it last week, rain, lack of interest, etc. The grill isn't as bad as yours, but! someone cut a hole in the hood for muffler Stiener has a square PATCH, Should be finished this weekend. Then we can get back to ORANGE! |
Posted By: gary ny
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 6:54am
| Allen That square hole in the hood is a very common thing for john deeres of that vintage I have fixed about 5 of them over the yrs.Its nice now they make the repair piece.I use to make my own |
Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 7:22am
| Allen D.: Make sure that the green paint doesn't create a moldy atmosphere for the sterile orange work! Dave. |
Posted By: mlpankey
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 7:25am
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Everyone with kids needs a little h deere . It will make them appreciate the power of a allis. ------------- people if they don't already know it you can't tell them. quote yogi berra |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 8:26am
| Fantastic Job! |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 8:51am
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Hey Big G that looks great! I give you a lot of credit in the patience and artistic tallant department! I think I'd rather eat broken glass than take on that project buddy. Excellent job man! If you were closer, I'd keep ya busy myself with my stuff. And my stuff is in much better shape! lol!
mailto:Steve@B&B - Steve@B&B
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Posted By: gary ny
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 11:28am
| Steve I would not know what to do with ones that were not all twited and bent.It would be like being on Vacation or something lol |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 1:09pm
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Nice work Gary. Now if I could just talk you into straighting out the radiator shell and hoods on a series 1 D17D. They're not that bad, I swear.... ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: gary ny
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 2:23pm
| Brian send me a picture I have more than likely had worst brought in and they are still over there in the shop waiting and it worked perfectly ,the moter went on the tractor and he sold it lol. But he did say when he droped them of if I don t get to them right away don t worry and he did care if they were perfect |