{"id":23923,"date":"2023-04-30T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2023-04-30T21:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:48:54","slug":"episode-809-1963-farmall-trctor-to-the-rescue-april-30-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=23923","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 809 1963 FARMALL TRCTOR TO THE RESCUE\u2026.APRIL 30, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 809      1963 FARMALL TRACTOR TO THE RESCUE\u2026.APRIL 30, 2023<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
april 30, 2023<\/div>\n

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Sometimes good things happen when least expected.  Who could possibly expect<\/div>\n
a tractor built in 1963, a Farmall Row Crop tractor. would be capable of  rescue in<\/div>\n
 a sea of mud  on a rainy day on April 30, 2023.   The tractor is 60 years old. Long past her prime.<\/div>\n
A large iron bin had been put in place for obsolete equipment.   The scrap man waited.<\/div>\n

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This is a  feel good story.<\/div>\n

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Sequence of events<\/div>\n

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1)  A rain swept day with heavy fog.  Lots of mud at the farm sale of<\/div>\n
Elizabeth Kilner and her husband  at their farm near Ballinafad, Ontario.<\/div>\n

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2)  Among the farm equipment was the Row Crop Farmall Tractor which<\/div>\n
had been repainted sometime in the past.  It looked fine\u2026better than fine.<\/div>\n

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3)  Mechanic Bill Brooks pushed the ignition button and immediately The Farmalll  began to OOMPA OOMPA THEN VAROOM.<\/div>\n
Purred like a kitten.<\/div>\n
“She\u2019s been reliable ever since we bought her back in 1963\u2026.allways starts.  It has a block heater for winter days.\u201d<\/div>\n

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4)  Auctioneer Doug Donaldson opened with his sales pitch.  \u201cRuns perfectly, who will give me $2,000\u2026Start me then, your choice.\u201d<\/div>\n
Someone opened at $500 then the bidding got serious  Jumped in $50 chunks\u2026$100 chunks.   Until finally I could not resist<\/div>\n
and shouted a couple of bids.   I bought her  (You can only guess at the price..I am not telling you.)<\/div>\n

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5)  Marjorie and Elizabeth were not too interested in what happened next.  They talked about <\/div>\n
cats and the forthcoming arrival of kittens.  Woody showed no interest at all.<\/div>\n

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6)  Then, a day later,  Andrew Skeoch arrived to move the Farmall to our farm.  The rain kept coming.  <\/div>\n
The field became a morass of mud in places.<\/div>\n

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7)  Out of the fog and the rain came a farmer who was in trouble.  His truck was stuck in <\/div>\n
the mud.  No one around but us and the Formal.  \u201cCould you drag me to the road.?\u201d<\/div>\n
And that was when the Farmall, at age 60, did an heroic thing by hauling his truck from <\/div>\n
a muddy hole to 32 sideroad..<\/div>\n

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8) After that Andrew and the Farmall headed up the Fifth line  bouncing from pot hole to pot hole.  Rain kept coming but both Andrew and<\/div>\n
the Farmall felt good<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 809      1963 FARMALL TRACTOR TO THE RESCUE\u2026.APRIL 30, 2023 alan skeoch april 30, 2023 Sometimes good things happen when least expected.  Who could possibly expect a tractor built in 1963, a Farmall Row Crop tractor. would be capable of  rescue in  a sea of mud  on a rainy day on April 30, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}