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Sloroll

09-08-2005 05:16:59

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Running into town after a bit to set my place at the local tractor show. I just tuned up ol Sloroll. Dang I'm excited! I really look forward to this every year. The park is filled with old iron all afternoon with a parade of power (rust) in the evening. Corn on the cob and roast beef sammitches! I'll have pics tonight or tomorrow. Kinda silly for a grown man to get "Christmas time" excited over this stuff aint it? :? )

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Leland

09-08-2005 19:54:11

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Solroll what another old chevy my neighbor is talking about selling his it is a mid 50's I belive.

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Dave Olson

09-08-2005 17:56:31

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Hello Sloroll,

My wife, kids, and employees all tell me I'm Crazy for spending so much time and $ on old trucks n tractors! When your workin on the North side of sixty, ya gotta make every day count!

I just keep tellin my wife, if I go first don't call the Junk man!! These things that you call Junk have real value to others.

Just a couple weeks ago we had a tractor ride and I hauled one of my tractors on my old WB White. Had a Great time. A lot of other fellows liked seein the Old truck too! Oh, its a '46 White WB-22 carrying a '45 H.

Dave Olson - East-Central Illinois

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

09-09-2005 04:53:45

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Dave Olson, 09-08-2005 17:56:31

One summer on a road crew I got the nod to drive the water truck, a '51 White Mustang tandem. What a machine! 20 gears ahead and I could find four of them: one per axle.

Someone had put a big brass plaque in the cab: "If you are too good to keep this truck clean, you are too good to drive it."

Without any instruction at all -- they way they did it back then -- it took me a while to figure out air brakes, but cars don't cut you off in downtown traffic when you're driving one of these babies.

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Island A

09-08-2005 10:23:15

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Aw MANNN that is a nice lookin' truck.

Thumbs up Sloroll!
Dave

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migraine

09-08-2005 09:01:03

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Shucks, Sloroll go for it! There are no guarantees about tomorrow or next year anyway so go enjoy and see the faces of others who get to enjoy your stuff. That to me is half of the purpose of getting these old hunks up and running again. Don't give me a lot of thrill seeing them parked like soldiers in the shed. Say hi to all my friends and relatives in S.E. Iowa. I think a few of them might be coming to the show. Later Migraine

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Mike (WA)

09-08-2005 08:14:26

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

I had a green 'un just about like that in my youth- went to work for the neighbor when I was 14- He had about 240 acres, I think, which was 6 forties in a row along a gravel road. About 13 sets of handline irrigation to change, twice a day, when they were all running. Really too far to walk to change them all, so I asked Dad if I could use the pickup- gravel roads were never patrolled by the sheriff, so he said OK and Mom looked the other way. Between changing the pipes, the owner's kid and I put up hay all day, every day (seldom rains much in the Pacific Northwest after July 1, right on into September- I can't remember the last time we had a thunderstorm- so if you irrigate, you can put up lots of tasty hay). Hard work, but good memories.

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TimV

09-08-2005 08:08:04

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Sloroll--what year is that? I've got a '56 3800 flatbed that I'm thinking of restoring this winter. Any words of wisdom on sources? I know about LMC, but they seem to have gotten kind of high lately.

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Coldiron

09-08-2005 07:33:17

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

I had a lot of fun in a Green Chevy like that when I was a kid.

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09-08-2005 07:07:29

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Sloroll,
What is crazy about it??? I close my shop every year for 4 days on Labor Day weekend, normally hit at least 2, sometimes 3 shows, normally always go to Mt Pleasant, IA, then to Central State threshermans in Pontiac,IL and if time allows, the Argyle show in Colchester, IL. That is my vacation for the year, when you are self employed, you just can't take a couple of weeks for vacation, you got to be here all the time. ya just got to make time. And yes, the week leading up to the Friday before labor day I was as giddy as a school girl, could not wait, now it is over, back to the grind, hard to wait for next year. I do not take my stuff to shows, I just go drool over everyone else's toys and wish.

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Shaggy

09-08-2005 07:52:46

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to JT, 09-08-2005 07:07:29

Did you make it to Pontiac this year?

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09-08-2005 09:23:21

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Shaggy, 09-08-2005 07:52:46

yeah, went there on Sunday. Watched the garden tractor pulls, first time I ever seen the little ones pull.

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Shaggy

09-08-2005 11:33:23

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to JT, 09-08-2005 09:23:21

I left a early Sunday because it was getting a little warm for the Baby. But my Nephew and a few friends we playing on the teedler todder. But I got my Chance at it monday.

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Ken Crisman

09-08-2005 06:14:22

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Hey Slowrol , you have all rights to excitement . I wish this town I'm in would have such activities as that . I'd have to haul into Ohio somewhere to show my tractors off . With gas prices I can't afford too . Have a great day of excitement for me too . Watch the other drivers now . Ken

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Paul in Mich

09-08-2005 06:04:48

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Sloroll, Seems to me that there are are more than a quite a few guys here afflicted with the same symptoms as you. The best remedy for that "Christmas time excitement" is to give in to it and enjoy every moment if it, as life is way too short to fight it. Has it occurred to you that we folks here have stumbled onto something that is way more exciting (to us at least) than a trip to Disney World, and we get to do it over and over and over again. Old iron does have its virtues.

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Galen

09-08-2005 05:51:09

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Kinda looks like my 47 Chevy - even the same color! That was back when Chevy still made real trucks! Mine's been sitting for about 8 years - time for a restore. Looks (and sounds) like you'll be having fun at the show!

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Allan in NE

09-08-2005 05:36:20

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Re: Headin out shortly! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:16:59

Darnit!

You got all the nice toys! :>)

I've found that any excuse fer gettin' outta the office is reason enough for excitement. 'Specially if you were born a county kid. :>)

Allan

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Sloroll

09-08-2005 05:53:19

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G Mornin Allan! in reply to Allan in NE, 09-08-2005 05:36:20

You are right Allan. I have been trapped here way tooooo long. It will be so good to stretch a bit. I do like toys but mine aren't pretty. Least ways they aren't pretty to anyone else. I can sit and stare at my rust hulks all day and see them as they rolled off the factory floor. I guess beauty is in the eye... right? :?)

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Allan in NE

09-08-2005 06:05:07

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Re: G Mornin Allan! in reply to Sloroll, 09-08-2005 05:53:19

Boy, I dunno 'bout that.

I think they are perfect. Paint is okay, I guess, but it sure doesn't show any character or experience.

Later

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KRUSS

09-08-2005 06:46:06

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Re: G Mornin Allan! in reply to Allan in NE, 09-08-2005 06:05:07

my old stuff always looks good to me. yes you're darned right it's silly being excited about an antique show!! now get out there and have a good time being silly!! I'm sure you've earned that privelege.

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