[DeTomaso] Ramblings

[gow2 at rc-tech.net]

Good people!

>
> It seems that, as one gets older, one would not keep making stupid
> mistakes!  My last "call the neighbor to pull my tractor out" was about 3
> months ago!  The first time I called him was in about 1977 - so, is that
> 35 years making the same mistake.  He was the one who came when, in the
> '80's, I was out of town and a thunderstorm came through, and lightening
> hit a tree where 5 cows were standing under it.  Killed the tree and all 5
> cows.  My wife didn't know what to do, so called the neighbor, and he came
> over with his back hoe, dug a trench and buried them all.  As an aside,
> his name is Berry.  His kids are Berry, Jr., Derry, Terry, and Perry.
> Salt of the earth folks.  Love 'em to death.    ---Bill
>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:12:55 -0500
>> From: gow2 at rc-tech.net
>> To: dave4604 at sbcglobal.net
>> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ramblings
>>
>> I don't remember but the ear muffs have a radio in them.
>>
>> That particular incident, I busted the hydraulic hoses on the back hoe.
>> I
>> was done clearing around the lake for the day and was trying to get
>> through the wet ditch/bog. The backhoe dropped in and the tractor was
>> stuck. Since the backhoe was DOA, I couldn't use it to get out.
>>
>> I got the neighbors tractor but it would not budge it. We had a week of
>> torrential rains coming in and I wanted it out. I spent the following
>> day
>> moving it out an inch at a time with the tie down bars. I was moving it
>> like an 2 inches an hour.
>>
>> If you look at the oil can next to the bucket, it was a marker to
>> measure
>> progress.
>>
>> G
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Yeah that is it. But what is the story of the ear muffs hanging on the
>> > tree?
>> > IndyDave
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: gow2 at rc-tech.net [mailto:gow2 at rc-tech.net]
>> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 6:37 PM
>> > To: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
>> > Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ramblings
>> >
>> > Yes but it was not a restore that time. I just swapped engines and I
>> am
>> > not sure about those who built the engine. It's not that I treat these
>> > things that well either.
>> >
>> > Is this the creek your talking about?
>> >
>> > http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/Stuck%203.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Gary,
>> >>
>> >> Is this not the 2nd time around tractor restore?  I remember that
>> >> project a few years ago...
>> >>
>> >> Now you see you made it to nice to drive across the creek.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Larry (life long projects) - Cleveland
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
>> >> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
>> >> On
>> >> Behalf Of gow2 at rc-tech.net
>> >> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:06 PM
>> >> To: detomaso at realbig.com
>> >> Subject: [DeTomaso] Ramblings
>> >>
>> >> As many of you know my Pantera project has been slow. I am
>> progressing
>> >> on the things which have been getting in the way and still making
>> >> progress.
>> >>
>> >> Last Fall/winter I worked on rebuilding the MGB engine and re-working
>> >> the engine bay after a broken oil line hose:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/mg2/cleanup/cleanupf1.jpg
>> >>
>> >> This past spring/summer I have been rebuilding my mowing tractor. It
>> >> started after much dirt work locked the oil rings. An engine re-build
>> >> turned into a tractor restoration but it is almost finished:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/teardown.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/pcparts1.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/pcparts2.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/8Ntog1.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/8ntog4.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/8ntog5.jpg
>> >>
>> >> Webers are done and will be time to fire up the engine again when the
>> >> tractor is done:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/web/Webassembled.jpg
>> >>
>> >> Next will be setting up the distributorless injection as used here:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.thunderv12.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/DSC02373_crop
>> >> _left_
>> >> lightening.141202939_large.jpg
>> >>
>> >> One project I kept putting off is the gas tank which is nearly done
>> now:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/gas/gastank1.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/gas/gastank2.jpg
>> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/gas/gastank3.jpg
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Gary
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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