Posted by Crashfarmer on July 03, 2023 at 09:08:00 from (174.198.65.47):
Hauled this Oliver 1650 more than 100 miles to my house last night. I'm sure not used to putting in hoot owl hours anymore! Years ago I used to have a hard time quitting working on something I hadn't finished so I'd end up doing things like tearing down an engine all night but anymore when a certain time of day comes I don't have a problem putting my tools away and heading for the house but my brother hasn't reached that stage of life yet so when I help him with his projects I miss my bedtime.
When my brother asked me to haul the Oliver home I told him we had to leave in the morning so I could get home before dark to do my chores but I should have known it would run into a day and night operation. I'd told him we should leave by at the latest 10 or 11am but I told my wife we'd be lucky to get left by 1pm.
Yesterday, I went over and hooked up to the trailer that my brother calls The Original . It's the trailer that started out as Dad's lowboy but my brother converted it to a double axle trailer after a wheel bearing went out. I think the 1st time it was used for anything but hauling hay was when I put it into service hauling my stock car to the racetrack hooked to my 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury when it was still a single axle lowboy but it's hauled 100s of cars trucks and tractors since from as far away as Ohio.
My brother was doing some last minute work on the trailer he was pulling to haul a pickup home that he bought at the same auction. He was finishing up some welding and told me he wanted to work on a little bit of wiring before he left. So I waited until almost 2pm before I told my brother that I had to get going and that I had a couple of stops I wanted to make along the way. My brother said he'd finish up and catch up to me. I should have known.
I'd made my stops and gotten almost to the last place I could stop to by anything to eat or drink when my brother called telling me that he was about ready to leave, figures. So I stopped, had a leisurely early supper and called my wife. She wanted me to go, load the Oliver by myself and make tracks for home. I left the restaurant, drove to the auction site, got lined up on the tractor and with everything ready I discovered the steering was totally locked up. I was still messing with it when my brother arrived. It was a big job loading that tractor even with my brother, his wife and his son-in-law working on it.
So my wife ended up having to do my evening chores. It was past my bedtime when we finally headed for home. I'm not moving very fast this morning and there's still one more tractor to haul home but it's a small one and I hope he doesn't need my Super Duty to bring it home.
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