Chalmers and Pile
Yesterday was a top-notch day.
First, we had the ol' ring fingers sized down at Chicago Ed's (or if you prefer ... Chicano Fred's) in downtown Cannon Falls, then painted the new shed door that Bob helped me make (or I should say: "that Bob made while I held stuff for him").
And then -- oh, about 630pm -- Bob comes driving into the yard with an unexpected truckload of mulch (see pile above). We unloaded mulch, put up the shed door (or I should say: "Bob put up the shed door while I held stuff for him").The Allis-Chalmers was then picked up around 830pm. Then, we had some Guinness and Jameson and tipped over around 2am.
Took 'er for a spin this morning. The hydro-static drive, full rollers across the back of the deck, and tight turning radius make this Allis-Chalmers Garden TRACTOR a serious yard-striping machine.
posted by Brent Sigmeth at 6/17/2005 11:30:00 AM
7 Comments:
Nice pile, Bob.
Half of the piston missing would definitely support my diagnosis that it lost compression (haha).
I wonder what Paul's diagnosis does to the value of the TRACTOR? Yikes!
What is the engine in question? The old tractor, or the new tractor?
Glad your crank still works, Bugman. Otherwise you'd need those little blue pills.
I guess that's good enough news ...
FYI Northstar: The old John Deere kacked a few days ago and wouldn't you know it - Bob's awesome neighbor Paul just happens to buy and restore old lawn tractors (his favorite is the Cub Cadet, which I think is sorta slang for "Bear-like Junior Tractor with class", but not as much class as a Cub Colonel or Super Cub Colonel). A purchase of Chalmers and trade-in of John Deere is sorta in the works with Paul.
Good news all around, then.
Yeah... well... it's all about it's orangeness.... and that cute roller that makes the stripes. It looks even cuter parked in our open air shed --- it's little square eyes staring with feverish if patient intent into the oncoming yard. Allis is waiting....
It's been quite a week.... we unloaded a bunch of stuff from our closed shed to someone else's garage sale in Burnsville... plus 4 (count'em FOUR) bicycles off our garage ceiling where they've been hanging like old spiders since we moved here. The shed door is lookin' good and I hauled half that load of mulch w/ my snappy wheelbarrow into the hosta garden over the weekend while Brent mixed Tim's recording in the new Futztuch Studio. We had good food Saturday night and stayed up late w/ Tim talking about stuff. Love that.
Brent was on a tear this week while I was tearing my hair out on the porch trying to make the Sendomatic E-vite program be nice to me. Please let me know how it all turned out. I'm sending in the next 24 hours.
We got ours. Looks perfectly groovy. Thanks for including us.
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