It is time this week to say good bye to my first friend at Two Mile Ranch.  That friend is Ol Red, the Farmall 706 that came as part of the property deal when I bought the farm in 2005.
I never called “Ol Red” by name except in this blog, A tractor does not have
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It’s been a quite week in Grand River, Iowa, my home town.  Work continues on that cabin south of town at the Two Mile Ranch.  It’s been a bit of a conversation piece since that fella bought the ground a few years back.  It was fall about a year ago he build a deck, a
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Ol’ Red and I have exchanged words over the last month. I should remember he hasn’t cost me much of anything and I’ve gotten a lot of work out of him, but it’s been a difficult breaking in period. Where to begin?
When we got Ol’ Red started in the first place, the fuel lines were
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Ol’ Red hasn’t been out of the barn for at least 1 year, probably 2 and maybe even three. Ol’ Red is a mid 1960’s IH Farmall 706 tractor with a gas engine. The sellers said the tractor was “for sale” when I looked at the place. As we haggled, I offered to include the
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