Wish I knew of it! Love the antique farm stuff. I've redone 2 early 50's tractors, now looking for a Farmall Super C to restore.
The massive old Fairbanks engine that once ran the ammonia compressor at the ice company at the foot of the hill in L'town sold for less than 2 grand. Still turned free..."easy" to get running again. There were probably 60-70 "stationary" engines, everything from the little Maytag washing machine engines up to that big Fairbanks. Two steam engines too...so much stuff.
There were 2-3 C's at the auction..and tons of "C" parts. Several "A"s as well. But the majority of the tractors were much older. Must have been a dozen McCormick-Deerings, for example.
I had a washing machine motor on one of my past go karts. A little cast iron Briggs with a starter rope cup made of actual steel. That thing ran for a long, long time.
Is this an annual event? If so, I'm going to add it to my calendar.
No... The two brothers that owned and worked that farm had been dragging all that stuff on there for close to 70 years. It took months for the auction company to drag it all out of the acres of woods, the edges of fields, the collapsed and collapsing barns...to get it in rows for the auction. The brothers were the penultimate "antique farm equipment" hoarders.
That's pretty sad to hear. Hopefully the collectors that picked up the rest of the lots will be able to give it the love and restoration it deserves.
So much of it was way beyond saving.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about the 'beyond saving' stuff. He had a friend bring home a 'seized' Allis-Chalmer for $200 and after a quick rebuild of a couple things to restore spark and fuel, had it running smooth same evening. He loves the old stuff and is a natural at restoration.
Awesome! I saw, and messed around with, dozens of the tractors and stationary engines that I could easily tell I could make run again. But there was so much that was beyond saving too.
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From what Gilligan said there may have been one! It started life as a Fordson Model F.
There certainly were a bunch of Fordsons and Fordson parts there.
