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kmacaoidh posted an update 3 years, 3 months ago
A Conscientious Restoration
20/20 vision was often thrown around as a catchphrase and headline that’s time had come at the very start of this year. There were so many things, that go without saying, that emerged during this year that none of us could have fully foreseen.
One of the less weightier matters that, though it seems like it weighs a tonne, is that I ended up the year having bought a Trusty Tractor! I wasn’t particularly looking for one. I knew of them, but only slightly, and in passing. I was really looking for a 2nd hand plough for my other tractors.
But, browse the for sale pages at your peril. We’ll down the listing, at that point when your scrolling increasingly faster, an assortment of rusted metal caught my eye. The photo wasn’t so much of a Trusty Tractor, more the jumble of dust covered metal, we’re you knew you were looking at more than one piece of equipment. But what we’re they? Turned out they were drill ploughs mounted on the Trusty, disc harrows pushed in on top of them. No plough.
To cut a long story short, I bought them, unseen, due to Covid travel restrictions and organised to get them collected and delivered by courier/freight movers. And by damn, when the machinery was pulled out of it dry resting corner of ten years or more, ready for the courier, what was there but a Greyhound plough! Meant to be, or a consolation prize for what I had taken upon myself.
The full story is more winding than that, but here we are.
Now what to do, savely parked in the garage with all its attachments around about it, Geoff Ravenhalls words, on sering photos of the tractor, ring true ‘you’ve taken on a lot there’, and so it seems.
If any words are to follow these few here, they will almost all be random questions that the ownership of this tractor have thrown up on a dayly, almost hourly, basis!
What will the extent of this restoration be? Are there different types of approachs to restoring these old Survivors? Apart from bad restorations and good ones? These are the parting questions started this year, to be continued long into the year, and years to come.
I may need all your thoughts, answers, questions and inspiration.