Don't know exactly why I feel the need to own this, but the last one I owned I kicked myself in the butt for selling it!
Real nice 2005 6 x 10" enclosed aluminum trailer...will move almost anything- motorcycles, furniture, camping equipment, mowers, whatever... So its in the playhouse for when I need it!
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
My New Toy
I've been thinking that owning an antique tractor might be kinda fun. I finally got some antique plows bought for yard art in my front yard (just needed 1, sold the other for what I had in it!), and that "primed the pump" so to speak. I started looking online for one and I came across a model just like this a month or so ago up in GayHawk-ville (Lawrence) KS, but dismissed it.
Then last weekend I went to Threshing Days at Goessel, and that re-lit the fire. I had seen another tractor closer to me (in Ark City) that looked very nicely done and not too pricey. I decided that the Funk Family Trust needed to own a tractor for mowing around the playhouse and doing some gravel grading...this little beauty would be/do just what the doctor ordered. So I negotiated with the guy, quickly wired up some lights on my tiltbed trailer, and flew down to Ark City Sunday afternoon, wrote the man a check, and loaded her up. For all you city folks, its a 1950 Allis Chalmers Model B Row Crop model with a 5' Woods belly mower, is about a 20 horsepower tractor and its about 90% restored...I will finish up the rest. It will be used for the above mentioned as well as for grandkid rides and parade duty/antique tractor shows. I think I've fallen in love with her...she's a pretty sweet ride!
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