You have to be real country to understand that question!.
What a memory puller that is! Fortunately I have the tools and one of the tool boxes still. I wish I still could have had the one off Dad's M farmall. It was a old mailbox thing that was real steel. It was what I sat on between the fender and the left side of his seat. Sitting there backward, I could watch the dirt being worked or the hay being mowed or the road being graded. I had a real love for dirt. (Still do but it is real thin around here!) All this came to and end when he figured if I was going to be in the field anyway I should be driving a tractor so he bought an LA case for me at age 8.
And NO, it was never emptied. He did however have a special old wooden handle screwdriver that I never saw him use for anything but diggin around in the tool box for a need bolt or fence staple or sickle rivet, etc!
The M platform was just big enough to hold all the good stuff which was allowed to rise to the top of the rust and dirt while digging for the treasures.
He bought a new MF180 in 65 and filled the new tool box he bought for it with more of the same which he found in the shop. This box, I still have. When he traded the 180 for the 1100 he took off the box and sat it in the shop and bought a new one for the 1100.
All these boxes were big enough to hold his constant friend, the 18 inch craftsman adjustable wrench. This wrench I inherited and took it to a Sears store in Vegas and got a brand new for it.
Sometimes I wish I had kept the original as it carried 25 plus years of scars. The biggest which was having the handle bent from using it for a hitch pin for something really big.
Mom told him he really could have double wrenches for the tractors so he wouldn't have to move them around. He musta thought it would be wasted money.
Now, when harvest came around, outfitting the combine completely screwed things up.
And,,,,his son still keeps piles and containers of crap,,,just in case!!
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