Can you bronze a tractor ?

[brin]

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Can you believe im only 14!
Nothing runs like a Yanmar " > Happy birthday ! You have got to be 15 by now...right ? Look at all the equipment you are accumulating...Wow !

 

[Tvern13]

I'm really sorry to hear about you and your family having to endure flooding. My home was flooded when Katrina hit and we are just this year finishing the repairs. I wouldn't wish flood damage on my worst enemy. It's a miserable experience trying to sort out your belongings and save what can be saved afterward. I sometimes think it would have been better to have lost everything then to have the misery of clean up afterward. But everything that was damaged or lost can be replaced. Your tractor helped you get the real valuables out of harms way - your family, and it is your family that will sustain you through these hardships. God Bless and good luck.

 

[ninefinger]

Tvern, you are correct about a flood, I look at least 2 or 3 years to recover.
MJP, Litihia Springs is a stone throw away, the Southern Baptist Convention sent a work group to strip out the house. One man brought a bobcat and loaded one dumpster with more material than you could imagine, I figure when it was dumped it came out as a nice rectangle, he was good. And can not say enough nice things about the rest of the crew, they were like a swarm of yellow jackets with one goal in mind. I guess we lost very close to everything but we were well blessed, there were I think 13 familes that lost way more than things. We saved ourselves and all our animals.
careyo63, yeah, Steve is a first class person, as for the news, that made it all the way to CNN. Wanted to hang that sign in the house but my wife just does not have a very positive attitude about that. Looting was a real problem but fortunately "my" looters were not what one could call intellegent life. They did get the trailer pig tail and cut cords off the power tools and got some very nice extendsion cords but left the Lincoln tombstone unmolested as well as 40' of 1/0 welding cable coiled up on the ground. I am glad they did not come back. I spent that night sitting on the front porch with a shotgun accross my lap. By the way, pulled the cover off the Lincoln, cleaned up the connections and have been using it ever since.
MarkV, we are in Austell, my neighbor's house lifted off the foundation, spun 90 degrees and floated about 30' from where it used to be.

 

[Johndeere3720]

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Can you believe im only 14!
Nothing runs like a Yanmar " > Happy birthday ! You have got to be 15 by now...right ? Look at all the equipment you are accumulating...Wow !

I'll be 15 in July. My parents are pretty proud of me for it too. Ive decided my goal purchase this summer would be a FEL for my Yanmar.

 

[deepNdirt]

Quite a story, glad all of you got out safely,sorry for your loss,
and to think we had it bad up here close to Athens with what rain we've had keeping from plowing for a garden and grading for a spring lawn,
Keep the chin up sunshine is on its way :thumbsup:

 

[ninefinger]

I just do not see the time for a garden this year. We have a 2 acre yard that is just ruined, between dragging 3 cars that floated downstream and wound up in the front yard (not my cars), construction traffic, dumpster trucks and yes there is still trash yet to be cleaned up. But I do have most of the fence back up. I still remember all the corn we had frozen and had to throw away, funny how little things like that stick in your mind, do not think of the freezer, just the corn and orka.

 

[yanmars]

Glad to see you got out safely.

 

['Bota Fan]

I look at least 2 or 3 years to recover.

We're your Georgia neighbors, too. It seems like it's been a year at least, not just six months, since your catastrophe. I guess it seems like ten years to you. After the TV news moves on to something else, it's easy to forget that folks still have lots of hard work and a very long time to get back to some sense of normalcy. You're to be commended for having the gumption and presence of mind to use what you had on hand to save your family and protect what you could.

Your thread is a reminder to us that we need to pray for everyone who was affected by that terrible flood.

 

[LBrown59]

Late July of 08 I made good on my desire to have a tractor. In previous threads I have spoke of that experience, what a good dealer Steve of Spaulding Tractors is and the friendship that has developed to the point that he has called and checked on us through the ordeal I am about to relate .

How long have you owned this place ?
Has it ever fooded like this before during the time you have owned it .?

 

[ninefinger]

. You're to be commended for having the gumption and presence of mind to use what you had on hand to save your family and protect what you could.



Bota, when one is in the alligator pond and look around and see dorsal fins you just go in to a mode. The clothes on our backs, our animals and a small bag with very few clothes, my Bible and checkbook was all we had left. There was no escape out the front of the property, by this time the mailbox was under 15' of fast current water. Only way out was through the back, without the tractor we would have lost 2 more vehicles. By the time all was said and done every bit of my 3.5 acres was under water. No presence of mind, I just was not going to lose my family. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.