Donny and i ran together , I always got stuck with the DIRTY job of playing truck driver . I made the mistake one time telling him that i USE to own my own semi . I first meet him while doing tractor repair for his brother as usually i would get about a full week of work off Bob just before his monthly sales . most work was just making a DOA tractor live again sometimes it would require nothing more then a tune up and a charging system repair and a rebuilt battery . Sometimes a clutch job and sometimes a T/A rebuild . First job for Donny was and engine replacement on his only truck he had at the time and i got him a brand new engine for next to nothing and it started now i had my hands full between my on farm repairs and Bob and Donny . I was down at Donny's working on five or six tractors and had run into a parts shortage on four of them and finishing up on one , Donny was running around like a chicken with his head cut off and stopped and asked how i was coming and i told him that as soon as this one goes out i am done till i get parts and some of them won't be in for a week . I asked him why he was running aroundlikke a mad man and he said i got to get going i am headed out to a sale . I told him that some day i would like to go to one of then thar BIG sales with him and he told me that the plane was leaving at 2:30 . Told him well if your flying that leaves me out . He laughed and said NO i am driving this time ya want to go grab some clothes for three days and lets go , So i finished up and ran home grabbed a bag and went back down to his place and off we went . Took me out to Stylesville and interduced me to the sale and i got my buyers # and started my EDUCATION into the fine art of buying and selling . Also with me along i got the job of finding tractors worth bring home in need of minor repairs . Don't know if Donny ever told ya about his 650 dollar 706 gasser that i turned into one of the top dead weight puller FARM tractors that ever came out of a field and was the top dog in dead weight pulling in like four countys from 8500 lbs up to 14500 lb . Yea i built that one for him First time out it took every class over both night . My self , Mikey his kid and Donny drove both night and we all won our class The people that ran that pull were a little upset and they told us to not bring that tractor back , well we did the next year and did it all over again .A lot of times Donny would go over to Pa and i would go west with the shopping list and do the buying for us both . during the spring of the year it was not uncommon for us to split and hit two sales at the same time . Ya know it's a LOT OF fun spending someone elses money . I also did some buying for Bare Farm Equipment along with going up there to do tractor repair . Spent 25 years doing this . don't see much of Don now days as i just don't go much anymore , see his kid a couple times a year if i happen to go with the wife when she is working down that way when she has night meetings and a chance the roads will get bad i become her driver then. . Last two tractors i bought i bought them off Ed Boar and still have the 806 . I bought it ans a 706 off him when i needed a tractor to finish up my spring work after selling off everything i had and after four sales and never getting a tractor bought Ed had them at the sale and never had a buyer on them and took them back home . Had Donny knew that i was having no luck west he would have snagged them for me . And it was Saturday evening while Donny and were on the phone layen out the game plan for the next week and what needed picked up at what sale so he could get his drivers headed out Sunday evening when he asked how many tractors and i said NONE not ONE Nothing that either one of us could afford . That is when he told me about Ed's two and as soon as i hug up with Donny i called Ed and Bought them . the 806 was a little on the rough side but ran super and it even got hooked to the Sled at the pull and it won the 13500 class beating out A LOT of BIG tractors Come down to me and one of my repair Customers and his 1456 in a MUD bog dead weight pull and the 806 knocked the 1456's socks in to the creek with a full pull whe he only got five feet on two trys.
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