Scrapping and getting some new tractors

Through this past weekend I was able to load The old Dodge Grand caravan onto the deck over trailer.  The van was not loaded in what you would call the conventional way to load a vehicle.  For a bit of a backstory the van has been for the last few years what you would call a field bomb.  We had ripped the rear doors and hatch off from it and have just beaten it around the field driving it however hard you could.  It has been flipped onto its side once before and jumped and crashed.  The very end of the line for the van was the shooting of 2017.

This is the aftermath of our going away party for our dear friend Connor.  There were eight of us with over a dozen guns and 1500 rounds of ammo.  Before the shoot we removed the rear axle so that my father could build a wood trailer on it.  We also removed the fuel tank to avoid any explosions. So by the time we were done there was nothing salvageable left.  So with no rear axle and only one front rim it was tricky to figure out how to load it.  Tipping the van on its side turned out to be the winning way to get it onto the trailer.  Once it was tipped over I drove the trailer next to it and we rolled it back on it's bottom and onto the trailer.

You can see the chains that I had to put on to tie the van to the trailer while my father reset the tractor to finish pushing it on.  The van is going straight to the scrap yard just like the red Ford F-150 that I had parted out.

 You can barely see the old ford as the junk yard owner hauls it off on a pay loader.  

On top of getting rid of some junk I received a few free lawn mowers.  The first is a Craftsman that is not running but has a nice mower deck and a plow.  I have done a little with it and found that it needs a starter and I have already ordered one.

This next tractor is a cute little single blade riding mower that also isn't running but everything seems to turn over and move.  I believe that this one just needs a little cleaning up of the flywheel and coil to give it spark again. 

These two my parents pushed across the road and saved for me because the neighbor was giving them away.  The last came from a friend of ours that dropped it off in the barn dooryard and at the moment I know nothing about it except that it needs a few tire tubes.

 As you can see a lot of the tractors that I end up are pretty beat up and almost every single one of them comes with their own flat tire


 This coming week I would like to think I will have lots of updates but my boss is going to Paris Island to watch Connor graduate from Marine Corps boot camp and it is going to be a busy week.  Nevertheless I still would like to get the Quadractor finished AGAIN and back up and running before the snow flies.  It is looking better for the Quadractor as I am going to replace both cables at the same time and I have figured out how to properly adjust the tires and steering so they will all be straight.

                                                   Until next time - stay tuned!