I can understand the frustration of what you might have run into, but . . .
I came back into the BN that my grandfather and his father bought new in '47. It's what I learned to drive on. It had got out of the family and left out for a few years when I tracked it down. A wreck with a stuck motor. Motor job is good. New bearings and seals from stem to stern. Stripped to bare metal, and the closest thing in the end to a resotration that my skills could manage.
But the imp in me thumbed my nose at the correct police, and painted and put back some of the bent nails and twisted fence staples that one or another of my forebears had made a field repair with. For all her new clothes, it makes it feel to me like the tractor I knew.
So that's one side. To step back and take your side for a minute . . . The picture is of me at seven years old in the seat of that same tractor, with my little brother in my lap. Notice the tread running backwards on the tires.
What I found when I went to start overhaulin' her (some 40 years after that picture was taken)was that the lugs on one rim had been welded to the wheel. Got it cut apart and found that they must have run too long with a couple of bolts loose, and egged out the holes through the wheels. So they welded her up to finish cultivatin' the beans or corn. At some point they decided to change their row-spacing, but had cut their options for spacing their wheels in half, thus the backwards tread. I did grumble about that one, but I did find a wheel and original rim to put at least that part of it back in order and have the wheel spacing I want.
So I can sympathize with your sentiment, but urge you not to get too spun up about it. As others have said, a lot of those repairs were made of necessity, whether to get the job done ahead of the weather, or just to get the machine back to the front of the farm. If the makeshift repairs held, they stayed where they were. One could argue that if they are still there, they were good repairs. ;8^)
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