Hi y'all-
I've been eyeing this old rig for years as it's sat in the sage brush on a neighboring ranch. They're heading out of state and I got consent from it's owner to fire it up and drive it up the hill.
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side view Heil badge dash controls undercarriage wheels tread It took a couple days of fiddling to get it running, at a hundred feet or so of first gear trolling I dabbed the brake to see how the pedal felt - it went directly to the floor with a sharp whack!
Kept on going anyway, even though there was a curvy and hilly route to my ranch. That years old fuel got me there, with only a bit of sputtering and whining. I landed right where I wanted to put it in a field off our main driveway.
Now I need to figure out how hard to press the owner for consent to keep it. I'm thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand bucks should do the trick...
-John
