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Paul in Mich
06-26-2004 07:43:33
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Re: My First Tractor 1942 Farmall M in reply to Jamie Stratton, 06-25-2004 08:30:29
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Jamie, It hasn't been that long ago we were discussing your trials and tribulations in getting your tractor running right without missing. It seems that you got through that adventure just fine. As I look at the picture you have posted, you have a few more adventures ahead of you if you keep the tractor. While you, more than once have laid focus on the cut up hood, that is not much of a problem, as anyone with a good wire welder can fix that cut in no time. It then takes a little patience, a hammer, and a little filler and noone would ever notice that it had been cut. Same goes for the grill. It is common for the M grills to split at the bottom. Those too can be repaired, in fact there is a replacement piece available through many sources to replace that strip, as well as replacement inserts. Dents just take time and patience to bump out, but they will bump out. My H had a rather large cave in where someone backed into the grill, but you would never know it now as after bumping here and tapping there and pounding here ane there, it looks like it did from the factory. Gaskets are an easy fix, in fact I buy very few s I make my own because its so much cheaper (I have to watch my pennies too). You could sell this tractor today and for a short time, have some money in your hands that you think you cant do without, but I ccan assure you that even if you dont spend it all at once, the money will flutter out of your hands and unless you get a job, you'll soon be broke again, and this time, without a tractor. At least right now you are broke with a tractor. Impulse or not, think back to how you felt the day you became the proud owner of that Farmall M. You can sell it and later on get another M, but I guarantee that you will never recapture the feeling you had when you bought your first one. Buying anything when you have unlimited funds is never as exciting as when you have to skrimp and save, and juggle your money and wonder if there might have been a better way to spend the money. Thats all part of the adventure. YOu mentioned in your ad that you need the money "real bad", You dont have a wife, so it cant be a sick wife, or a sick child, or it cant be that the electricity is about to be cut off along with the phone, gas, and cable. It cant be your college tuition is due, because you arent there yet. If its that you dont have the money to complete the restoration in the time frame you deem necessary, than join the club, as most of us here are in the same boat. If you put a time frame on restoring a tractor, then, you're missing the point to begin with. If by living in Cecil County, you mean near Elkton, I'm sure there are places near you that you can pick up a P.T.Job. There are also many farming areas not far from you, if you want to do farm work. All you have to do is go down through Kent, Queen Anne and Talbot Counties, and there are farms galore, and I'm sure someone could use a hay stacker, or someone to hoe beans. There are also several Antique tractor clubs in that area. It appears to me that you've gotten your feet wet, and now dont know whether to wade in or jump out. That is your choice, but if it were me, I'd look out at that old M, sitting there, paid for, not costing a dime unless you choose to put a dime into it. How will you feel when you look out and its gone?
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