Should have listened to Grandpa. Pull it with a loader until it frees up or comes apart. He would have saved you a lot of time.
Having said that, I would have gone the same route that you did.
We are talking about to different trains of thought here, a couple of generations apart.
Grandpa's generation did not have the romantic attachment to a basic farm implement which kept you dry when it rains, and didn't have the time to fool with such things.
Us, on the other hand, are just the right kind of fools to spend countless hours and all of our precious gold resurrecting these inefficient, uncomfortable, rough riding, obsolete, air polluting death traps.
We do this and scoff at everyone who looks at us as though we have 3 heads. That, my friends, encapsulates what it is to be a Stovebolter.
Carl


1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission