IHC tools are listed in the handbooks, have you got any for the tractor?So this isn't exactly from a yardsale, but I did have to pay for it. Although I got a great deal.
We are still dealing with my grandfathers estate, and we are at the point where the aunt and uncle have gotten what they want, and everything left belongs to my mom. Well I have been trying to buy this tractor for a while, but she would never come up with a price.
Well today she finally did.
This tractor has been in my family for years and I have tons of memories of riding on it with my grandpa. I always liked it because the seat was offset, so the axle made an awesome passenger seat for a grandson (me).
Anyway, it is a 1940 Farmall B. It needs a good cleaning and new tires. I was fully expecting a struggle to get it going, being a hand crank, something I have never messed with. But all I had to do is drain the sediment bowl of the foul smelling gas, put new fuel in it, and crank her. She fired right up and purred like a kitten. Not bad!
I got some hand tools (some unusual ones as well) and things too, but will have to get a picture tomorrow.
Don't worry about the Stahlwille, it is in good company with my larger Snap on wrenches.
Do you collect screw drivers. You pick up a lot of them. I always enjoy your finds, Jeff.
Their purpose is to distract us from the locks and keys in the background.
I always dig through the pocket clip drivers at sales! I don't know why, but I have love for those little screwdrivers. Maybe because as a Millwright, I found them to be the most useful tool I owned.
Haha!! It's been awhile since the thread has had a glimpse of our founder's voluminous verkshop!
It will hold a lot of pencils of varying sizes.
Hee hee! Yeah it will. It was made for the Etna Company by Alemite Casting & Mfg Co. Not the Stewart-Warner Alemite of grease gun fame, although the guy who started THAT Alemite, who invented grease gun fittings to make his own job filling scuppers in hot dangerous places easier and safer, worked for Alemite Casting, as a greaser, and named his own company making and selling grease guns after his former employer! You can read and see more in the "Show me your drill bit indices" thread down on the VB.
Literally and figuratively!
I figured his car broke down and it cost him close to 800 bucks to fix it..lolLiterally and figuratively!
My guess: it's something valuable but modern that I wouldn't know squat about (such as that rack of impact sockets), or "$800" is missing a decimal point, as perhaps @Old Man Roger was implying?
Oh maybe somebody was envious of 3Jakes and they slashed all his tires. "Be a shame if something happened to that car"-Tony and Guido
cents 50, so it came home
