Posted by 60 acre hillside on December 06, 2013 at 17:06:16 from (69.35.211.51):
In Reply to: Sad Observation Today posted by NY 986 on December 06, 2013 at 13:25:52:
When I was a kid there was a Ford tractor agency in town, The shop foreman was my mentor. I really liked him and he gave to me one of my first cigarettes. He really knew tractors and has been the head mechanic at a pretty good IHC dealer. I met up with him several years later and found he was a close friend to the fellow who had become my step dad. My step dad told me he was a heavy drinker and had been fired from the International dealer because of his heavy drinking. By this time he had lost his health and looked whipped. All of his teeth were missing but he still knew tractors. A few years ago they tore down the Ford tractor shop and found about a pickup truck load of empty whiskey bottles. My first tractor was a "B" Farmall he had just overhauled in the Ford shop. My first Tractor mechanic job was at another Ford dealer and I wanted to become like my friend from boyhood less the drinking. This I never accomplished, Ford dealer fired me and I went to Allis Chalmers
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