Re: smtad

Posted by dan heim on March 22, 2001 at 20:12:10 from (216.145.147.155):

In Reply to: smtad posted by Dan H on March 22, 2001 at 09:49:57:

Thanks for the compliments, I think sometimes that is part of the reason we do these things, anyway I got a warm and fuzzy from you guys. For all us guys that spend endless hours working on our machines it must be a labor of love, because occasionally our love catches up with us and that is when the real labor begins. I would like to share a little bit of the saga that made all this happen for me. Obviously, I am a Red fan, like most folks it stems from my early life working on the farm with the red machine. That was more years ago than I care to remember. Anyway, I've always wanted my very own farmall and didn't care which one. Anyway my wife and I were driving down a back highway and as she did the driving I did the sight seeing. Ahead I noticed the foundation of a burned down barn surrounded by weeds and a managerie of animals. In the weeds I spotted the tractor. Needless to say in sad condition, however, the real center of attraction was on the tractor where the seat and battery box were rotted, but the part remaining sat a billy goat, and as he sat up on that tractor he was dining on what was left of the plastic of the steering wheel. This was truly a Kodak moment!! I have this pictured in my mind at this moment. That was five years ago. As both of us looked we shared a true laugh. After we moved along I told my wife, that tractor has my name on it. I told my neighbor about it and he said he knew the owner well. After some negoiating one day when I returned from work it was in my yard. I did not work on it for the first year. Too many honey-do jobs. The next year I started. I worked on the tractor in my spare time for four years. Yes, there were times I even asked myself why? But you guys all know why we do it. It is a challenge, its pride, and finally the reward. Push in the starter and hearing it pop and smoke for the first time. Then after you just about get your heart from your throat back to your chest, you look at the beauty of the big red shiny assembly of iron in front of you. Your mind spins of the tractors of your youth and now the idea that you just accomplished a small miracle of completly disassembling. A rust heap and with sweat, black and blue thumb nails, bloody fingers, you cleaned rust, sanded and again ask yourself what am I doing here, I could be fishing!!! Then you come down from the cloud with the biggest grin, and puff out your chest and give yourself the pat on the back you deserve. I know when I look at my Red Machine to this day, I get a real feeling of pride. Now I Know Why I Did It!!! My goal is to see my Red in a magazine for others to see and appreciate the beauty of the older tractors and maybe they will get a warm feeling of what used to be, and bring back a memory for them.

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