ok, the story:
we had been looking for a woodlot for firewood for a couple years, never quite found what we wanted in the piricepoint, with the accessibility, terrain, and proximity. A couple months ago, this property pops up on Zillow. We had just sold our small business, so we didn’t need a mortgage. Get the lot for a good price. It has a 20x20 shed (see picture for interior shot), which is a plus. And it has a nice level area, with a small branch, so we have a good spot for a Victory Garden. I tell MrsKilroyJC that the Victory Garden would be a lot easier if we had a tractor. We had considered getting a tractor for use at our old business, but just dragged things around with out pickup instead.
mrsKilroyJc likes perusing the local internet buy/sell/swap pages. She spots this Tractor on the page, but it is a little pricey, and after about two days it goes off listing. Oh well.
I guess the deal fell through. Meanwhile, we FINALLY closed on our property, several weeks later than originally scheduled, because seller’s real estate agent promised to complete some tasks that were negotiated in, but by the day of the closing had done ZERO. I guess he figured “Hey, they want the property, they’ll sign, I’ll skate. Ha ha.”
Did I mention we are originally from New Jersey? Yeah, kids from the hood ain’t playing that game...
looked over at our attorney, said “is that a good reason for the check to sit in the drawer?” She said, “Why, yes, it is.” we said, LOCK IT UP and out the door we went.
and so dumb@$$ had to scramble to do all the stuff he was supposed to do, except instead of doing it in clear-but-cold weather, he got to do it in rain and mud.
ha F’ing ha. Don’t mess with Jersey.
so... now we finally get title registered, it’s ours, we go exploring.
in the weeds behind the building are a harrow and plow.
what the heck does a city kid know about plows? Enough to look for a tag. The plow has the tag, Ferguson P-AO-20. Harrow has several layers of different colored paint, no visible tag.
off to the internet. What is a PAO20? Yeah, it looks kinda like that.
what should it have/what is missing? Several posts about leaving them in the weeds if they are missing the tail wheel. I didn’t see a tail wheel.
used a piece of rebar to poke around theough the briar thorns and heard several metallic CLANCKS where the tail wheel should be, so a little digging and poking and yeah, there is a tail wheel. Learned they have a kickstand, too, and when I moved enough dead branches and leaves, it has that, too. It even has the scrapers, which a week ago I had no idea existed or what their purpose was.
Teh InterWebz ain’t ALL bad...
MrsKilroyJC says “Hey, That tractor is back up, and he dropped the price - should we go see it?”
I call the guy, he is less than ten minutes from our house.
long story short, we get the tractor, he includes delivery, we get it delivered a week later, four days later I register here...
today I picked up a 7/8 pin for the top of the plow, and will post more pics when I yank the plow and narrow out of the weeds and dirt. Maybe even video it.
And then we will find out if the discs turn. . .
