ultrarunner
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- Tractor
- Cat D3, Deere 110 TLB, Kubota BX23 and L3800 and RTV900 with restored 1948 Deere M, 1949 Farmall Cub, 1953 Ford Jubliee and 1957 Ford 740 Row Crop, Craftsman Mower, Deere 350C Dozer 50 assorted vehicles from 1905 to 2006
It’s been awhile and one of the salvage yards I patronized turned out to be a toxic waste site… 75 years dismantling vehicles on a coupe of acres of dirt…
Antifreeze, oils and fluids overtime…
Not many battery tool options existed in the 80’s like today… a battery sawzall can do a lot…
One of my projects was taking two damaged Model A roadster bodies and making one…
Plus I cut up a few wrecks to fit in my box trailer to take to the scrap yard…
The Roadster was all with oxy-acetylene torch and my friends could not tell where I had joined the bodies…
A lot of these skill sets are fading along with the generations that used them…
Growing up in suburbia there were always dads with home shops… maybe a drill press, air compressor, router and a table saw… a few did welding which made them a great resource for broken bikes and mower repair.
I can’t think of anyone around me with anything more than maybe a cordless drill… they are more 3D printer types and gamers…
I put together a nice set for my nephew on the farm but the folks rightfully raised concern about fire danger and they live in a high fire danger area… so I still have it.
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