altmodisch
Member
I stopped at the little tractor shop in Ky to talk with the Old Man there. The Old guy is very friendly and is very easy to get along with. The Old man only charges $ 22.00 and hour to work on tractors and equipment. When I was there the shop was full and he had some old clunker tractor waiting in line. I watched him make parts for a Woods Bros 1 row corn picker that some one had run a tree limb thru, what a job he did fixing that mess. He is a real old time tinker wrench bender.When I was getting ready to leave a truck rolled in with a 706 on it. The tractor was in boxes, buckets,Jars,the engine was just a block. I asked the man unloading what he was going to do with it. He said he had bought it at sale and was going to have the old man put it togather for him. I said thats going to cost alot, he smiled and said that old man said the labor to rebuild it would be less then $2000.00 and I only paid $ 675.00 for it so its just money! I thought about what a dealer charged me on my Farmall H $85.00 an hour, I spent more then that for just engine and clutch work.
