Goose, I felt that way about t his old girl for the first five years. At that time I was ready to haul it to the salvage yard. It had been neglected terribly and to make it worse I was very negligent about what to look for when I bought it. I like to do restoration work but not on a machine that only has a few weeks to bring home the bacon, and then to do the restoration while the machine needs to be used. During the winter of season six I put her in the shop and went through everything, removing old shoddy repair jobs and doing it right. For the rest of it's productive life, it would break down once, maybe twice during the season, with caressing and replacing worn parts during the off-season. Like JD stated in a previous post, all parts were replaced with new even if they looked like they might last a little longer . That heavy boat-anchor corn head was another story.
It's funny how we can get so emotionally attached to cold, heartless iron that will maim or kill you in the blink of an eye if you make a mistake. Jim
This post was edited by fixerupper at 12:43:45 04/22/13.
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