2 years since shop fire. tractor PICS

2 years ago today our repair shop burned. Was trying to find pics of the shop but not sure where they are hiding. So heres some pics of our 820 that was in during the fire. My cousins Farmall M was also inside having the motor overhauled at the time. The M has ben up in the hay shed untill a couple months ago when we started to piece it back togeather.

How it looked when we got it.
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After the fire on display at the Dairy Breakfast that we hosted in June after the fire. Still ran like a champ, just needed to be pull started.
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After steam cleaning, starting restoration.
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And finaly the after pic. Turned out to be easier to fix back up than we had planed. Only major work we had to do since was re-soder the filler neck back on to the fuel tank.
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Sure glad you got it fixed up, looks good. But I have to disagree about the fire. I had a 1974 Ford F-150 inside our farm shop when it burned in 1976. It had a load of firewood in the bed. The automatic transmission melted into a puddle on the floor. The carb. melted and dropped inside the intake. The frame melted over the axles.

There are different degrees of fires. When the tires dont melt, then it is just scorched.

Gene

Our neighbor's 60 was parked in a corn crib full of ear corn that burned. Ear corn burns as hot as coal and the tractor actually started to melt. It wasn't a molten blob but the rear axle housings were distorting and sagging. That's a burned tractor!

It's still too bad to hear the shop burned. We all have the fear of that happening in the back of our minds. Jim

I'm with you Gene, back in '58 my Dad and I rebuilt an Allis WD that had been thru a hay barn fire. The tires were burned off, one of the frame rails had a serious "bow" in it and the gas tank still has some serious "ripples" in it; why it didn't blow I'll never know. There was not one single thing in the engine salvagable except the head and block. For some reason, the tranny, and rear end had no damage whatsover and there was still the factory red primer paint on the inside. I guess "scorched" and "burned" are just different degrees of fire damage! LOL