We took a trip to Illinois this week to pick up this tractor and implements that Jim bought on an auction. He has an old and rusty John Deere MT that has been adorning our landscape for several years and he wanted to restore it to use as a tractor for our garden. Our neighbor very kindly called Jim's attention to a plow for sale and Jim discovered that there was also a cultivator and a mower on the auction. The cultivator was what he really wanted, so we set a budget and he bid that amount and watched the bidding. Somewhere in that process he decided to try for this tractor, an MT in MUCH better condition than we own, reasoning that the difference in price for the running tractor as opposed to the one needing restored wouldn't be much different. I agreed on the condition that some of his unfinished projects and some of my projects would get done, pronto. This particular auction site continues after the ending time, resetting 5 minutes at a time until no one is bidding on anything. Jim watched for an extra 2 1/2 hours, in case someone came close to outbidding him. So, we went to get them, stopping on the way home at my folks.
When we got home, our neighbor came right over to see Jim's new purchases and revel in the idea of one more Old John Deere tractor in the neighborhood. Jim tried out the plow in the garden this afternoon. He wants to clean up (sandblast, repair and paint) these pieces of equipment for gardening next spring.
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