Re: Grandpa's Tractor

Posted by Larry Larson on February 12, 2007 at 15:10:06 from (209.137.233.170):

In Reply to: Grandpa's Tractor posted by Tanklord on February 12, 2007 at 13:40:16:

My story has a happier ending, I hope yours does someday.
When my grandfather died, his son, my uncle, got the tractor,
and when he died, a cousin of mine bought it from her
stepmother, my uncle's wife. I saw the tractor at her house in
about 1985 (and took a picture of it with my son and daughter
on it). She and her husband divorced, and she told me that the
tractor was in her stepfather's barn and she would let me know
if she decided to sell it. A couple of weeks before Thanksgiving,
a different cousin call me to say that the tractor had been sold to
their stepfather at the time of the divorce (no shame in that, I
know about needing money), and that it had been in his barn for
20 plus years, but that he was selling the barn and having an
auction the next morning to sell a bunch of old implements,
including the tractor. I got the stepfather's number from her and
called him right away, thinking I might need to fly down and bid
at the auction. He and I agreed that he would ask the auctioneer
what he thought the sale price would be, and I could buy it for
that, as long as I came to get it right away. So... I drove 4500
miles with a trailer over thanksgiving weekend (worth every
inch!), and I now own the 8N that my grandfather bought in
1952 and taught me how to drive on shortly thereafter. Now, _I_
get to teach _MY_ grandson how to drive on it. it needs a lot of
cleaning up, but it runs pretty decent, and the hydraulics work
fine, now that I have the texas-style 90 weight (laced with water)
out if it. Film below of the old fluid, and a link to some photos.

• Cold Hydraulic Fluid

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