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8/7/04 - This was the tractor seconds after I got it home. |
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The following
pictures are of the tractor after about an hour of
pressure washing the grease, dirt and grime off of
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History:
This tractor was purchased
new by my Grandmother's first cousin. After he passed
away, the family held an estate sale and I was able to
purchase the tractor and implements on August 7, 2004.
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3/11/05 - Grill was taken off, dents pounded out,
cleaned up, primed, painted and a logo installed. |
3/11/05 - muddy and
dirty from tilling. Dad took care of a couple
of minor repairs. replace a sheared bolt on
the front axel, replace a tire and rim.
Painted the from rims and replaced the pins on the
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3/27/06 - Last fall I bought a truckload of crushed
rock from a cousin. As he pulled into the
barnyard he recognized the old tractor as it was
from his side of the family. Anyway, he said,
"There are a set of forks for the tractor up at
the old homestead behing the skidder." Dad
was playing at a family poker game with the cousin's
dad and mentioned it. He said we should call
another cousin as she was handling all of the estate
that I bought the tractor from. She is the one
I bought the tractor from in the first place.
She said that we were welcome to go up there with
her and if it was there, we could have it.
Sure
enough, it was there, buried in the back of a barn, akwardly shaped, and heavy. I was not gonna
waste the 20 mile drive into the mountains and
determined to get it out of there. Dad and the
cousin were leaning towards coming up on a weekend
and getting the skidder running and out of the way.
It was heavy and none of us needed to blow out a
back so I was just about to give up when I saw an
old rusty bolt. We scrounged up a wrench, some
WD-40, and I got it apart into two pieces. I
am guessing that each half was close to 150 pounds
each. Anyway, got it home, as seen in the
pictures above
5/28/06 - Dad
had worked on replacing the batteries (as well as
all of the battery cables and connectors) on the old IH-606D so it now
fires right up, is easy to get moving, and is handy
to use. I used it to turn a job that literally
would have taken us days with shovels and wheel
barrows, into a couple hour job.
Click here for the project page.
 5/28/09 -
Oops . . . I was hauling piles of dirt from spots around
the gardens to various locations that needed filling in
and the left steering arm snapped in half. As you
can see in the picture, it was cracked about in half for
a
 long
time. I called
Ag-West in Woodburn
(the local IH dealer) and the guy said that they had one
but the cost was $815! I told him that I could
find one new online for between $97 and $147. He
said that he would talk to management and call me back.
He did. $415. So, I just took it up to
Peterkin in Molalla and he said he could fix it for me
and have it done tomorrow.
 Here
are some of the places I found one and what it is supposed
to look like when new:
5/29/09 - As promised,
Peterkin had it all fixed up. He basically copied the
work that had been done to the bottome part of the arm at a
previous time. Maybe this winter, I will pop the right
one off and have him beef it up as well. He charged me
$30.00.
I got home,
wired brushed it up, painted it red with Rustoleum paint,
waited for it to dry, got it installed, dumped the load of
dirt that was in the loader, and parked it for the night.
I used it the rest of the weekend moving dirt piles.
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